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NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN ON WORKING WITH ALLAN | NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN ON WORKING WITH ALLAN | ||
Recently, drummer Narada Michael Walden was a guest on Questlove’s podcast, “Questlove Supreme”. The podcast | Recently, drummer Narada Michael Walden was a guest on Questlove’s podcast, “Questlove Supreme”. The podcast was published on April 10, 2024. As you may know, Narada played drums on Allan’s solo album “Velvet Darkness” that came out in 1976. In the podcast, Narada sheds a light on what happened during those sessions. In most ways, he actually confirms what Allan has said: The band met in the studio, and were rehearsing the songs while the engineer was recording, and that’s what we hear on the album. | ||
Narada does not share Allan’s misgivings about the album, though: He got paid to do the session, and is proud to say he worked with Allan Holdsworth. | Narada does not share Allan’s misgivings about the album, though: He got paid to do the session, and is proud to say he worked with Allan Holdsworth. | ||
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But Creed Taylor and Rudy van Gelder, the great engineer, they were loving it and that was what they wanted to get: that live, fresh, raw vibe and then they wanted to put it out...and Allan wanted to do more; do more takes and whatever he wanted to do, you know. So it’s some discrepancy between his concept and maybe what theirs was. But I was just doing what I was asked to do and being paid to do whatever it was. So that was the album. It came out and I'm proud of it. I'm proud to say I worked with Allan Holdsworth. | But Creed Taylor and Rudy van Gelder, the great engineer, they were loving it and that was what they wanted to get: that live, fresh, raw vibe and then they wanted to put it out...and Allan wanted to do more; do more takes and whatever he wanted to do, you know. So it’s some discrepancy between his concept and maybe what theirs was. But I was just doing what I was asked to do and being paid to do whatever it was. So that was the album. It came out and I'm proud of it. I'm proud to say I worked with Allan Holdsworth. | ||
=ALLAN ON NARADA= | =ALLAN ON NARADA= | ||
