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| ==[[The Unreachable Star (Guitar World 1989)]]== | | ==[[The Unreachable Star (Guitar World 1989)]]== |
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| GW: I can anticipate your response, but in retrospect, which among your recorded solos have you been most happy with?
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| HOLDSWORTH: I’m not really happy with any of them. I mean, I just think that they were okay at the time, because that’s all you can ever hope for, unfortunately. Because I started playing late, it’s only in the last five years or so that I’ve started to feel I’ve made any progress as a musician, out-side of just waffling around on guitar. I feel like, I don’t know that I haven’t done anything yet. There are certain things I almost like. Like that solo on "Distance Versus Desire" [Sand]. In a way that was the closest I ever got to attaining the kind of sound I hear. People say, "You know I like the guitar sound you get, it’s really expressive," or whatever all these things are that one tries to attain, but to me, it isn’t anywhere near as expressive as what I think I’m going to be able to get out of the SynthAxe. I didn’t think the sound was so great on that particular track, but I would never have believed that you could get that degree of control over a synthesize r. But people perceive things really differently. And it’s almost like I’ve been living all this time just to get that instrument and I never even should have gotten a guitar. But then again, if I hadn’t gotten started on the guitar, I wouldn’t really be able to deal with the SynthAxe. You know I wish now more than ever that I’d been a horn player, because there’s all these new little wind instruments coming out for synthesizer control; God, it makes me want to try again with one of those.
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| GW: A genuine sense of yearning, similar to that of "Distance Versus Desire," is apparent in some of the newer tunes, "Endomorph" in particular. | | GW: A genuine sense of yearning, similar to that of "Distance Versus Desire," is apparent in some of the newer tunes, "Endomorph" in particular. |
