Allan Holdsworth - Interview 2
Here is the cleaned-up transcript from the Allan Holdsworth interview:
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- Allan Holdsworth:** It was really nice to get an opportunity to come back and play, you know, because it's been so difficult for us to do that. Really, it's pretty much like that all over. We don't really get booked at jazz festivals usually, because the music falls into the cracks, you know, between categories.
So it's very difficult trying to do this and get any kind of larger... yeah. Even when we play places for the first time, usually it's very difficult for us to get booked anywhere. It's only because we've got such a good, loyal following—which I have to thank all of those people for, you know? They've been coming for years, because if it wasn't for them, we'd never even be able to come back again.
So when we play somewhere the first time, we can usually come back a second time because the reaction was good, which obviously we were amazed by. So it makes it a little bit easier for us to call whoever it is and get an opportunity to come back.
- Interviewer:** Where are you getting inspiration these days? Do you...
- Allan Holdsworth:** You know, really just from life, I think. Just from living, you know. I think music—all music, or most music for me anyway—is geographical. It's so much to do with what you learned and what you grew up with as a child, because it's like an emotional thing. It's not just a studious thing, you know?
Some people, they just sit down and figure something out, or learn how to do something parrot-fashion, you know? They just play what they've read, basically, or what they've learned from someone else. And it's... I mean, I don't really do that, you know? I just try and draw everything that I am, or everything I want to do with the music, from my experiences as some sort of a human, you know?
