Tony Williams: Difference between revisions
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That was great. We had some rough times making it work, but it was a great experience. I enjoyed every minute of it. | That was great. We had some rough times making it work, but it was a great experience. I enjoyed every minute of it. | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth | ==[[Allan Holdsworth: A biography (Atavachron 1994)]]== | ||
1975’s Believe It is still considered by jazz/rock enthusiasts to be one of the greatest albums recorded during the 1970s-its followup, Million Dollar Legs found Williams (likely coerced into) pushing the band into a more commercial mold-and it never met the label’s expectation for sales; management problems ensued and Holdsworth found himself stranded in the U.S. after the group’s final tour without plane fare back to England. "I lived out of a suitcase, sleeping on floors for the better part of five years," he once recounted in an interview about this period, during which his first marriage ended in a divorce. | 1975’s Believe It is still considered by jazz/rock enthusiasts to be one of the greatest albums recorded during the 1970s-its followup, Million Dollar Legs found Williams (likely coerced into) pushing the band into a more commercial mold-and it never met the label’s expectation for sales; management problems ensued and Holdsworth found himself stranded in the U.S. after the group’s final tour without plane fare back to England. "I lived out of a suitcase, sleeping on floors for the better part of five years," he once recounted in an interview about this period, during which his first marriage ended in a divorce. | ||
