I was lucky enough to see this band, on the tour for the Road Games album, in Salem MA. One of the first concerts I ever attended, just after I got into playing guitar around age 13. Needless to say I was more than a little blown away. I remember the local promotions for the show included a supposed quote from one Eddie Van Halen calling Allan Holdsworth "The best guitar player I've ever seen". As soon as I saw that, I was in! The music was a little over my head at the time, but I was mesmerized.
@timharney35563 күн бұрын
I spent a whole afternoon with him in a pub in Eccles, Manchester, UK. Then went see him play at Band on the Wall. What a genius musician.
@cortical14 күн бұрын
This is what actually should have been playing in the Star Wars cantina scene if alien life has superior intelligence.
@rosanacianciosi12264 күн бұрын
Uno de los mas talentosos y exquisitos guitarisatas de jazz rock
@JT1996II5 күн бұрын
Just came here to read the comments about Neville
@TheSoteriologist8 күн бұрын
3:24 Sadly, they don't show us Allan until it's too late probably because the idiot director thought that this be a keyboards solo.
@smoovegittar11 күн бұрын
Allan. Right up there with Coltrane. I miss him.
@wpdoyle17 күн бұрын
Has one of the most revolutionary guitar technologies of all time in his hands. Talks about it like a 9th grader giving an oral presentation on the Quartering Act.
@ДимонГриг29 күн бұрын
Нужно срочно восстановить производство, это же находка века, быстрее пока Землю не поработили андроиды!😅 Или уже поработили?😮
@jcjc570229 күн бұрын
whats the name of that song?
@jamesmick8653Ай бұрын
Alan was the GOAT. Beautiful in guitar, beautiful on Synthaxe. Unmatched with chord melodies.
@Taco_RaiderАй бұрын
This guy has the personality of a bag of spoiled turnips
I don’t know who else to ask, so maybe somebody here can help. A few years ago, I saw a great video with Lee Ritenour doing a demo of some new (at the time) computer and MIDI keyboard interface. I don’t remember much else about it but every time I try to find it to watch it again, I keep getting directed back to this video. If anyone knows what I’m talking about and can help, please let me know.
@goodpplz123Ай бұрын
This man is like if the song from the Donkey Kong Country underwater board and Bob Ross had a baby. I could fall asleep to his dulcet tones.
@FreeBrunoPowroznik2 ай бұрын
I love how Holdsworth taps when he wants to play slow 😂
@ThaGoblin2 ай бұрын
My god what an awful noise.
@TheMonkeyNeuron2 ай бұрын
Who the heck is Lee Ritenour
@davedillon13722 ай бұрын
I think it's the new RUSH Tour & LP of the Tour (& maybe w/Bozzio & Chad not unlike the YES Union LP/Tour out of respect for Neil P.
@davedillon13722 ай бұрын
I'd recently bought a UK (1st) LP w/a few nice Autographs by Allan & Wetton on the back in ballpoint that was in need of a good home. Rather than do that I asked Holdsworth (in town w/Chad, J.Johnson I think) later, I was lucky to see the Reunion UK Tour & Eddie was warm so that's 3/4- all I needed was for Wetton to be willing to sign it over/elsewhere to be a real problem of a Fan getting the Artist to redot an 'i' ! We Fans are never going to be happy..
@45asunder12 ай бұрын
Who was this product aimed at?🙁
@TheMonkeyNeuron2 ай бұрын
Lee Ritenhour?
@FreeBrunoPowroznik2 ай бұрын
I didn't meet Allan Holdsworth in 1989. In Leeds, near the corn exchange. Lovely bloke, but there was no sign of him.
@terrypussypower2 ай бұрын
I first heard Holdsworth on the GONG album “Expresso ll” where the first tune called “Heavy Tune” has Allan playing rhythm only! The lead player was Mick Taylor, who plays a blinding blues/rock solo that would melt your face off! The first Holdsworth solo was on the track “Soli” and it’s still one of my favourite Holdsworth solos, the tone alone is a thing of wonder, but combined with his fluid soloing its mind blowing. “Expresso ll” is an amazing record, made even better by Allan Holdsworth!
@beltanetrex2 ай бұрын
13:00 This guy used to come over to our house and use his nose to cut our bread loaves and butter sticks into the most perfect slices as a favor.
@gerriepieters90332 ай бұрын
The greatest inspiration ever...Allan Holdsworth..r.i.p.🎶🎶🎸🙏🏿🪔
@gerriepieters90332 ай бұрын
18.9.2024...Listen to vinyl lp BUNDLES Soft Machine with Allan Holdsworth on guitar...listen to long solo Hazard Profile part 1
@poopyloopy72363 ай бұрын
holdsworth is a guitar player who wished he was playing any other instrument
@beltanetrex3 ай бұрын
Neville doesn't have to squeeze his poop out, he just coaxes it out through gentle suggestion.
@ZER0--3 ай бұрын
This guy sucks...
@filippotosciri81983 ай бұрын
Holdsworth un maestro come al solito, grande band e live eccezionale; ma il regista è imbarazzante, mentre H. parla si inquadra K.A,. che al momento si limita ad accompagnare. Mah! Avrà capito il giusto!
@bigkdog50913 ай бұрын
He said "electronic wang arm..." pfffft 😂😂😂😂...Ok, is it just me?
@arnewoodman3 ай бұрын
Admired AH since discovering him in (unfortunately brief) period with Gong. Much later I discovered he was a major influence on another wonderful guitarist, Mikio Fujioka, now also sadly passed away after a horrible accident.
@alexstucky3 ай бұрын
05:45 Sir, we're going on 6 minutes now...
@charlesharper72923 ай бұрын
I remember when these came out. I was mesmerized. I still want one.
@ZER0--3 ай бұрын
No guitar player is the best.
@2hug3 ай бұрын
I love this track!
@micahfoley95723 ай бұрын
It looks like a roomba with an erection.
@espacofactory3 ай бұрын
masterpiece
@stevetownsend65563 ай бұрын
Dang, this just popped up in my feed. This album, metal fatigue,was my favorite when I found it in ‘86. Amazing to see it performed live.
@brucenator3 ай бұрын
When you're the world's greatest solo guitarist, but everything you write is a bunch of dissonant chords, essentially indistinguishable from the last tune you wrote, and you play it on a terrible-sounding SynthAxe.
@jackbotsford86882 ай бұрын
accurate
@DavidorathalАй бұрын
Nah. It's not just "dissonant chords" but really well thought out intervals which you have to appreciate instead of just believing everything needs to be your same three chords from every pop tune. It's very clearly not just pop rock so why expect it
@jackbotsford8688Ай бұрын
@Davidorathal I'm a fusion musician. I agree that holdsworth's chord change choices are extremely interesting, being derived from his system of altered scales. But that being said, holdsworth is a genuinely bad songwriter imo. If he was a good songwriter, he would be able to use those super interesting and complex harmonies to create songs that sound effectively different and unique from each other. Instead, he often just seems to choose a tempo and general rhythm, make a head, and have a solo section like any jazz standard. To me, that's pretty damn boring. The changes fly by super fast in essentially every song he makes, which can obviously sound super cool at times, but he ONLY does this. he never decides to let the complexities of his unique harmony resonate for more than like 4 bars tops. He almost never alters the general jazz-based instrumentation throughout a song or across most of his albums either. Don't get me wrong, I literally think he's probably the most proficient guitarist to touch the instrument, and I listen to him for his incredible soloing capabilities. But when it comes to his own personal songwriting, you've heard one you've heard most.
@Davidorathal29 күн бұрын
@jackbotsford8688 fair, it's definitely not for everyone. Thanks for actually writing a good response though
@jackbotsford868829 күн бұрын
@Davidorathal hey for sure, I really just love talking about music
@ericcalame91543 ай бұрын
Allan , so allien, so human, with exellent musicians. The first word that come to me is peace.
@myclocktowermansion3 ай бұрын
It's like they made a sleep aid into a man and named it Neville Martin.
@cougar20133 ай бұрын
If it looks this …. yawn …. awesome in my….mmmm….hands, then you can……zzzzzzzz 😂
@chasinguitars4 ай бұрын
I got drunk with him at dred zeppelin show 1987 my girlfriend was bartender got us drunk for free he gave her and I front row at show next night. Fort Lauderdale beach..lol. man I'm old..no one knew who he was..it was awesome..great guy..funny
@4carnage44 ай бұрын
lol playing for over 15 years now, but i still can;t recognized one single chord of him 😆
@Hologhoul4 ай бұрын
A humble, mellow, thoroughly likeable person with an extraordinary talent.
@alessandrorossini87044 ай бұрын
Allan had giant hands, he was capable to reach chords' positions that are cruelly* forbidden to 99,9% of guitarists, no matter their mastery... * 😁
@RStevenPage4 ай бұрын
I heard a lot about him. Thought I'd check him out. Meh .. He's not my cup of tea.
@BasedPhilosophyMom4 ай бұрын
I love that it lists a phone # and address at the end......