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Weren't you also involved in producing an album for Allan Holdsworth? | |||
EVH: Yeah. We originally scheduled to go in (to record) when I got off tour but I wasn't exactly sure how long the tour would go. Anyway, Allan didn't want to wait, he was climbing the walls. He would only have to wait a month but he didn't want to, so he produced it himself. I think he made a big mistake because Ted Templeman (also scheduled to work on the project) could have made his ideas reach a lot more people. Allan is a fantastic guitarist but needs direction. Everyone does. I'm not trying to be holier than thou because I need it too. It's easy to get one-sided about something and you need an outside person or persons. | |||
And I think Allan, Donn Landee, Ted and I could have done a great job. I don't know what was involved because I wasn't there. It was between Warner Brothers and Ted. But I do know he was signed because of my interest and Ted's. | |||
Didn't you do some work with G.I.T. (Guitar Institute of Technology)? | |||
EVH: I did a semi-seminar with Allan Holdsworth one day. It was right after I played at the Roxy with Allan. (Van Halen guested on an encore number when Holdsworth played the Roxy, a live music club in Hollywood, some time ago.) He spent the night at my house and the next day he had to do a seminar at G.I.T. so I brought my guitar along and played with Jeff Berlin and Allan and Gary Husband (Holdsworth's drummer). It was a lot of fun considering I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was playing along with Allan's stuff and Jeff Berlin was whispering the chords to me. I ended up playing chromatically the whole time. But I surprised myself. I freaked myself out because I landed on my feet. I love doing that too, just going out and playing in weird keys and stumbling and landing on your feet. It's a great feeling. It's like doing a backward flip off the high dive and landing right. | |||
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/eddie-van-halen/12012 | |||
==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar Player April 1980== | ==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar Player April 1980== | ||
