That's a nice letter from Dweezil Zappa, Chula.
"I'm sorry you had to hear that."
Yes, rostasi, you're right about the constant line-up changes in Soft Machine, and their sound shifted gears again and again: but I'm sure
Bundles was the first time they had any extended electric guitar soloing. It was certainly quite a surprise to me; first time I heard the album I thought, "Well, now they just sound like everybody else!" But then, my musical appreciation is not what you'd call perceptive. I couldn't tell you, for instance, what this bit from Dweezil's letter means:
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His ability to effortlessly move through rhythmic contours with harmonic variety....
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Originally Posted by rostasi
I play that Gazeuse! album (or later, Expresso) often in Plug. Nice example of Holdsworth in a more worthy setting.
One of the other nice things about this album, from a Holdsworth perspective, is that it occurs during the 4 or so years
of his acoustic period in the late '70s which you can hear being played in the last segment of "Shadows Of"
(the improved, re-worked version of the tune "Velvet Darkness") and the cut dedicated to Mireille Bauer, "Mireille."
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^ And I play it often in my car!
, with
Percolations being my favourite track. The acoustic guitar parts work very well on that album because they provide a welcome change, from intensity to intimacy, or that's how it seems to me.
And thanks for the upload and the stats on AH's acoustic performances btw.
( Anyone who posts "Stop being a d*ck" should stop being a d*ck. oops)