Country Artist Reacts to Progressive Jazz Guitarist Allan Holdsworth - Amazing!

Country Artist Reacts to Progressive Jazz Guitarist Allan Holdsworth - Amazing!
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[@guyhommeNYC]

I've seen Allan live a half dozen times in the last 40 years of his career. Starting in 1976, with the New Tony Williams Lifetime . Then in Germany a few times, on the 1986 tour which has a live album. Then, with Stanley Clarke in an explosive performance in an old bombed out Nazi bunker that happened to have great acoustics, with the roof blown off... I know...insane. The band was staying at a hotel near my office, a group of friends drank and dined with them all night long. 10 years later, i saw Allan for the last time, and he remembered the whole thing. Such a sweet and humble man. You could discuss anything with him. I cried when learning of his death.

[@TheOhiowolf]

100 years from now, on a spaceship, when almost all our music is gone and forgotten. They will still be studying Holdsworth and ruining their hands trying to do those stretches and incredible long runs.

[@lex.cordis]

Man, it's unfortunate that this is the video that always is people's go-to for "reacting" to Allan's music. It's just not the best example, but what can you do. Honestly, The 4.15 Bradford Executive or Joshua would be better examples.

[@michaelshifflett76]

I can see why Eddie Van Halen loved this guy so much!!

[@jamesalllan7806]

Its why everybody loved him so much.

[@michaelstrong4956]

If you listen to the Fair Warning album, you can hear Holdsworth's influence on Edward...especially on the guitar the solo from "Push Comes To Shove."

[@HarveyMushman888]

He said he had a hard time stealing anything from Allan...lol

[@robinfereday6562]

Zappa, Van Halen,Hendrix,Joe Satriani, Brian May, and many others rated Allen as an all time great if not the greatest But Rolling Stone magazine don’t rate him in the top 250 greatest guitarist 😂😂😂

[@Had2Listen]

What an injustice to Alan and more so to the world! Shame on them !

[@FelipeV3444]

Normies didn't know about Allan! Lol

[@AutisticVaxtard]

Or Yngwie. He wasn't on that 250 list either

[@bennievargas2673]

Pretty sure Hendrix never had any idea about

[@EccentricAuntWanda1]

Holdsworth was particularly awesome on the Bruford albums. He was a long time Carvin guitar guy and is playing a signature model here.

[@lawrencedick2336]

Allan played on one album with Bruford in the amazing band called U.K., with Eddie Jobson on keys and electric violin; (U.K. released 2 other great albums with Terry Bozzio, from Zappa's band, on drums, but sadly without Allan); and most beautifully with French prog/fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty on some of JLP's best albums. Allan has been in my top 3 guitarists since the late 1970s. Also the number-1 musician who I never managed to see live. The older I get, the closer AH comes to being my favorite recording artist ever. (Well, except for Karen Carpenter.)

[@milesdust3465]

Hmm. He was particularly awesome in general according to me.

[@andrewwilson888]

@@milesdust3465 I second that. Always amazing.

[@caprise-music6722]

His playing on the Tony Williams records is also absolutely sensational

[@williamortner1202]

One of a kind is my all time favorite

[@Gee-no]

You really did speak about how freaking amazing Allan Holdsworth is!! That solo was un-F@ing-believable. I grew up listto Allan when I learned guitar at 13. Even tho I was a metalhead I wanted to be a Holdsworth jazz metalhead. Did you hear those glassy close chords in the intro? I used to actually tears in my eyes from that stuff (still do). So sad he passed away a few years ago. He will truly be missed. The bassist and drummer are tops in the industry too and no slouches. Lol.

[@ElrondHubbard_1]

I think this is my favorite version here, maybe you'll like it if you don't know it already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKKphKZ9m5V0a5Im

[@Gee-no]

@@ElrondHubbard_1 I'll listen right now. Thanks.👍🏻

[@Joeh1154]

I had the distinct pleasure to have heard Holdsworth in the mid 1980's at NYC's "Bottom Line" venue. The line up was Jimmy Johnson, Chad Wackerman and Alan Pasqua. The only tunes I had heard prior were the songs "Road Games' and "Metal Fatigue.' Seeing the band live was a life changing experience. There was just so much musicianship happening on that stage and it was staggering. The catalogue of music he left behind will have players scratching their heads in wonderment for quite a while. A truly unique spirit who went his own way musically, fame and money be damned. We are all the better for it. RIP to the master, Allan Holdsworth.

[@guyhommeNYC]

I've seen Allan live a half dozen times in the last 40 years of his career. Starting in 1976, with the New Tony Williams Lifetime . Then in Germany a few times, on that 1986 tour you see in the video. Then, with Stanley Clarke in an explosive performance in an old bombed out Nazi bunker that happened to have great acoustics, with the roof blown off... I know...insane. the band was staying at a hotel near my office, a group of friends drank and dined with them all night. 10 years later, I saw Allan for the last time, and he remembered the whole thing. Such a sweet and humble man. You could discuss anything with him. I cried when learning of his death.

[@efficientguitar]

Awesome! There is an old video of Allan playing with Soft Machine with his white SG that he said he lost, he was playing like a demon already in the late 60s before many of the heroes we love. Well, even Zappa regarded him as the best in the universe, which is... totally accurate.

[@kevfreeman5482]

I remember that guitar well, and that video, from the late seventies I think! unfortunately I haven't been able to find that video! Do you have any links?

[@efficientguitar]

@@kevfreeman5482 yes, I had my dates wrong, I was referring to the 1974 video with soft machine. Although, i´ve just found an older recording of him, from 1966 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqGoepp9htahhKs . The soft machine video is this one, even though there are a couple more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6fbqKqFq8mgla8&pp=ygUUYnVuZGxlcyBzb2Z0IG1hY2hpbmU%3D

[@kevfreeman5482]

@@efficientguitar Brilliant! Thanks so much for that my friend!!🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍😊

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

@@kevfreeman5482 As a 16-year-old I saw and heard him play it with Pierre Moerlen's Gong at the 1976 Reading Festival. I used to follow him around the London jazz circuit in the late 70s and early 80s, by which time he'd moved on to Strats.

[@kevfreeman5482]

@@Khayyam-vg9fw Gong! Wow, that takes me back! Did you ever see Gong with Steve Hillage?

[@wesworach7441]

Allan was in his own musical heaven & improvisational world impossible to copy or even come close to his Mastery !!!

[@BringerOfBloood]

I love how you just watch in awe. That's the best reaction one can have to Allan

[@captainsnarky6949]

Thanks for not constantly interrupting the flow of the video with random pauses like every other Reacts channel.

[@rafanj824]

This video of "Looking Glass" live was my first Allan Holdsworth experience. His playing and the incredible performance of the band blew my mind completely, never heard nothing like that before. Now listen to "Tokyo Dream" in the Eidolon album and be warned: the solo is like a journey to a strange, but strikingly beautiful planet, an out of this world experience!!!

[@stephanodsilva]

That is so cool that you looked at this music with an open heart and mind. Breaking barriers right there.

[@bottleforty1]

You didn't just ease in. You went directly to the master. Every guitar player in the know, knows of Allen Holdsworth. The first time I heard him was with The Tony Williams Lifetime. That was in 1976. I was blown away.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

I first heard him on Soft Machine's "Bundles" in 1975. I'd never heard anyone play like that before, at least, not on guitar. You can hear the influence of John Coltrane, of course, but I suspect that Allan had listened to Tubby Hayes, too.

[@caprise-music6722]

His work on Lifetime is insane

[@guyhommeNYC]

Yeah! I saw that tour in 1976, after wearing out the groves in that Tony Williams album!

[@andrewmcgee1001]

'The Abingdon Chasp' song by AH on a Bill Bruford album is so hauntingly beautiful. Also 'City Nights' and 'Devil take the Hindmost'..there's really so much to explore. Thanks so much for your analysis.

[@casey570]

Allan has so much great stuff, both on his own and with others. Try "Devil Take the Hindmost" from Allan's album Metal Fatigue. Also, any of these cuts from the album Believe It from The New Tony Williams Lifetime : Mr Spock, Red Alert, Fred, Proto-Cosmos.

[@elox32]

His music is not random, chaotic, or crazy. That’s just a reflection of some listeners perspective and experience with his music. Listen to more diverse music and you’ll see!

[@JamieAllan]

i only saw Allan play once, when he was for a short time in the band UK with Bruford,Wetton and Jobson, all awesome musicians. They were superb, I'd have loved to have seen what else they could have done. Inevitably the constraints of rock pushed him back to jazz. I talked to Bill Bruford about him many years later, but before he passed and he said Allan was a lovely guy and a gracious musician. He's missed.

[@brucec8348]

Love the look on Travis' face while Alan got into his section ... like "whaaat the f@@@ck" ... 😅. Yep..that's Holdsworth.

[@jibsmokestack1]

Instant subscription! One for reacting to Allan, 2 for the analysis!

[@Slumbert]

Zappa called him the best. David Gilmour Maybe a little better composer. Goodsall is also up there...

[@AlvaroLL23]

gilmour doesn't even come close to allan's incredible compositions, listen to the solos of 415 bradford executive, tokyo dream, the sixteen men of tain… He was also incredible in his progressive rock bands like UK, Soft Machine… He created his own musical language, there will be no one else like him

[@danieltroch2296]

Although it has become a very popular item to watch people listening to music while they pull al kinds of faces and say words as “insane, mindblowing” e.d. , you’re face stays normal but your commentary is much more interesting and contemplative. I always was a great guitar - lover, but when I heard A.H. play guitar for the first time it was a complete new experience for me and he still amazes me with his music. First time was his solo in Jean-Luc Ponty’s song Nostalgia … I suggest to try to listen to this song.

[@ElrondHubbard_1]

Have you heard Ponty's Point of No Return w/ Allan from just a few years ago? Up there with the Individual Choice tracks, in my opinion.

[@NeilRaouf]

Allan is a creative Icon

[@nickdavies1457]

Thanks for this reaction and review. I have played guitar for 48 years and will never come close to this guy. I can play just about anyone else. He is the absolute master. Fred and Devil take the Hindmost are great go to tracks with a more sophisticated, rounded tone. Thanks again

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

Allan Holdsworth was a supreme guitarist but he was something more than that: he was an all-round musical genius.

[@hybrydsanity5857]

great interpretation !!! especially from someone from such a different musical world , being open minded expands our ideas no matter what genre we choose and love to play. I loved Holdsworth but don't play anything like him for the most part lol.

[@roydaviescoleman1]

Dali's Rainy Taxi. Allan's baritone there is sublime.

[@ianstaines4395]

i had the pleasure of seeing allan Holdsworth playing for level 42 back in the 90's in London, , truly amazing!

[@timgrady4630]

Astounding virtuosity , in every respect . Holdsworth is so highly esteemed by all the finest , for self evident reasons . Gorgeous tune , on top of that . Gary Novak - at the drumkit - is on any serious Short List .

[@allanmakela3011]

Nice commentary on this genius,met him once,congenial,and softspoken,his song on live in tokyo dvd called Metal Fatigue would be a great choice for revue,he had a musical world of his own making,very rare attribute

[@thebullgoose6099]

Creme de la Alan? His tune, "Fred" is the way to go: beautiful; deceptively simple; takes you on a trip and brings you home stunned, but all the better for it. His solo lures you in quietly then makes its way up through the gears to give you a sustained and increasingly brutal yet enjoyable spanking. There aren't all that many true originals, but I know Alan was one.

[@planetpjr]

check out "Joshua" from the Secrets album. Use good headphones and play it loud.

[@inksterrabbit2898]

Haha! Everyone that tries to do a reaction to AH can just watch in amazement. They definitely don’t have the first-ever explanation of how he plays.

[@ProspectorAl]

Check out Jean-Luc Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean. Allan plays a bunch on that and Daryl Stuermer as well. Gret combo!

[@guyhommeNYC]

And Patrice Rushen! Edit; sorry, she was on the album before,,,called AURORA.

[@StefanHeaton-u2m]

You may be cool, you will never be "that's me playing drums with Allan F. Holdsworth" cool

[@slimsantilli4476]

Another disciple of Holdsworth is Chris Poland, formally of Megadeth. Incredible player.

[@TM-jo4wz]

Well there was structure I heard the changes. Bass and drums are great. Of course Alan H.

[@shredfactor7]

My first experience with Allan was his Metal Fatigue album. It just blew me away!! He was such a fine player. I suggest checking out that album for some great musicianship!

[@ElrondHubbard_1]

My friends and I walked into Sound Warehouse and saw Metal Fatigue with some kind of "ED Van Halen says HELL YEAH!" sticker on it and a couple of lifelong fans were born that day.

[@HarveyMushman888]

He had that WTF look in his eyes like everyone who hears an Allan Holdsworth solo for the first time...

[@stevenewcomer8837]

Have you ever thought about being an auctioneer? 🙂 Man you talk fast. 😮

[@KBH27]

Not sure of his name, but the drummer was killing it.

[@xjamesxreedx]

Gary Novak on drums

[@yoba6037]

Nice if you to film yourself watching an actual good video tbh

[@Samsgarden]

Naturally you ceased playing country after this.

[@andresmarino2788]

From this concert I would have chosen Letters of Marque

[@radkon67]

Good onya for checking it out, bruv. #_#

[@rogersingleton9462]

Devil Take the Hindmost

[@normanshute7162]

Hey Travis glad you found Alan , he’s one of those guys if you were to add some different effects to his guitar he’d be considered a shredder with those improvised runs of his. 😊

[@virgilrobertsjr7870]

I saw Allan Holdsworth twice. First, with Tony Williams and Lifetime at the Childe Harold in Washington DC in the mid to late 70's, and they were supreme! The 2nd time I saw him and his group at the Birchmere in Virginia, and they were sensational as well! Not sure of the time frame? ☆☆☆☆☆ 💯

[@NIGHTFRIGHT2011]

Possibly the only time I've heard Allan make a mistake(1.32) and 10 seconds later he gives a wry smile and shake of the head to his bandmates.Incidentally, Tony Williams played drums on the original track from the Atavachron album.

[@ElrondHubbard_1]

This is like 96 or 97 not the 80s. I'd have picked a different live performance. Probably this, for Looking Glass: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKKphKZ9m5V0a5Im

[@michaellewchuk8272]

I hope people watching understand how unique and insane this guy is on guitar.

[@Alix777.]

I love the studio version, sounds more sci-fi

[@DavidKRoebuck]

Thanks for your insight, amazing reaction..

[@CitizenKang]

Glad you appreciate this kind of music!

[@GCKelloch]

Judging by his sig Carvin guitar, and his looks, this clip must be in the '00s, or even '10s, and I think the alcohol was already affecting his ideas and ability by then. He was even better than this in the '80s and '90s. I was an early Holdsworth fanatic. Man, do I miss him.

[@davidgerlach1132]

Excellent video. I love Allen.

[@thehairygull]

Big Influence on Meshuggah

[@ErikShen2907]

NON BREWED CONDIMENT!!!

[@vbassone]

This is 1997.

[@Wizardofgosz]

Definitely not the 80s. He wasn't playing his Carvin signature model then because they didn't exist. And he wouldn't have made any mistakes in the 80s. As he got older and the drinking took hold his technique suffered. This was 1997.

[@tracyanderson4304]

They don’t somehow meld together … these songs are woven together with precision … very little if anything is left to chance….

[@gaggle57]

What percentage of people who excessively rave about a 30 second clip of Allan Holdsworth go home and listen to MORE than 30 seconds of Holdsworth music? 🤣🤣

[@fusionfan6883]

I do and have done all my life since I bought his first album in 1969. Also, increasingly we are seeing so many young guitarists embracing Allan's music, over time he will be the preeminent influence for improvising guitarists, if he isn't already.

[@lex.cordis]

Since I discovered Holdsworth about 5 years ago, I have barely listened to _anything_ else. Seriously. His music brings me to tears. Not everybody has ears, man. Just stick to blues licks.

[@michaelgaboardi9817]

I’ve listened to his music almost everyday for years- just cus you don’t get it doesn’t mean others don’t

[@michaelgaboardi9817]

@@lex.cordis I feel exactly the same way. Listening to tunes like Eidolon, Home, Above and Below, spheres of innocence and many others never fail to make me teary eyed.

[@sixslinger9951]

he bores me to tears. i appreciate his talent but God the guitar wankery gets on my nerves after a couple minutes.