What a humble Genius and true Gentleman, With a great sense of humor. I was blessed to have dinner with Allan this Band in 1992 during the Wardencliff Tower Tour. This experience still puts me in a dream state. On top of autographing his catalog for me Allan insisted on paying for my Dinner! This still blows me away. Thanks again to my friend and fellow Bassist the Amazing Jerry Peak for introducing me to Allan that night which made this experience possible
Basically the best player to ever touch the guitar. Absolute insane nutcase of a master. Half of what he’s doing in each phrase is groundbreaking in itself😂
i'm not a guitarrist, so i dont listen to allan to steal any licks, and that makes me free to listen to the music... i love, literally love, allan, he is my favourite musician, very inspiring and very intense..one of the most expressive musicians, one of the most misunderstood genious
I forgot how insane he gets in this version. That line at 1:50 is absolutely ridiculous, and then he throws in that little pause at 2:01 after effortlessly slicing through all those notes. Unreal. I'm always in awe of the fact that he so truly improvised EVERY time he soloed, and that he literally pulled off anything he decided to play. One of a kind and one of the best guitarists- shit, one of the best musicians of all time.
Yes, that was the insane part of it. It was all improvised with the band playing, cameras rolling, audio recording. Knowing that as a musician you would never perform anything that you're 100% sure that you can do, it is even more incredible. I wished that he or someone would have published recordings of him practicing at home, there was some ridiculous stuff that would have come out of that.
@@saucedevourer8858 Of course, art is entirely subjective. But if we pretend for a moment that it is _not,_ then yes, Allan Holdsworth is by far and without question the most profoundly brilliant musician to have ever lived and indeed the *greatest* (at least out of the music that is available to us - there's no telling how many geniuses throughout history never made it out of their bedrooms). God bless his soul.
Allan is phenomenal...absolutely no guitarist ,past, present ,future can cut this guy after hearing Atavachron back in the day playing the "synthaxe"... I was through...I mean done! RIP Allan...sheeesh!
chuck Norris tried to round kick Allan Holdsworth, but Allan grabed him with one hand and cracked all his bones; while playing legato with the left hand
I saw Allan and the boys all through 1989 to the end and every show was fun. Never a huge crowd over 200 people, so it was very intimate and I could always talk to the guys before the show. Skuli gave me a bass lesson meaning sound advice, all the guys signed my ticket stub, good times. Allan was the Nicola Tesla of music ; misunderstood by many but changed the world.
Daniel Ayuch ok...? You know I meant that in a good way because of how god-like holdsworth is, right? It's not like I actually want that part to be illegal, yknow...
yeah Holdsworth stuff is not at all easyy. Those aren't sweeps, he is string skipping with legato. He looks like he sweeps sometimes because I think he rests his pick on his strings to mute...Idk...he cud be be doing anything.. very few actually know what hes doing..
I would love to see him doing some melodic playing for more than 4 bars or so. Im not saying he is not melodic in any way and I fully appreciate the 'outside' playing, but he occasionaly plays some in notes that sound incredible and you want it to go on for a touch longer, but I guess thats just tension and resolution, what fusion is about!!
I know what you mean and agree. But Ruhkukah is a good example of the tension and resolution you mention. The melodic parts hit so much harder because of the chaotic playing that precedes them.
I have 2 of the Lab Series L7 100w Combo amps like the ones Allan was playing through at this time. BB King also uses the same amp. They have a great clean tone. Mine also gets a nice overdriven tone also. When I saw him in 1983 he was using two of the Lab amps on top of two Marshall cabinets with a Marshall head on top of the two Lab amps. The amp head on the left is a Lab Series L11 (same amp as L7 but 200 watts). Maybe he is playing lead through it? They are great amps but hard to find.
I'm aware of how old this comment is and I don't expect an answer, but I'd love to know more about this amp, what speakers does it have? Are there any amps that get a close sound to the lab series? I would love to know since I can't really afford one nor find one, so perhaps I could try to replicate one in a virtual amp. Thanks in advance!
@stargate669 Aside from the fact that Holdsworth has been playing longer than Britney has been alive, the only resembelance i can draw between the two is that Allan has perfected his art and that Britney is perfected through Autotune.
@shadowknight132 no nothing to do with bends that "average" players do, I suppose I mean his inside playing, because he spends so much time outside, when he does give you snippets of his diatonic stuff it sounds amazing, not detracting anything from his outside playing of course because it is truly amazing,
Ogni volta che mi imbatto in Funnels mi viene in mente il monologo finale di Roy Batty " «Io ne ho viste cose che voi umani non potreste immaginarvi: navi da combattimento in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di Orione, e ho visto i raggi B balenare nel buio vicino alle porte di Tannhäuser. E tutti quei momenti andranno perduti nel tempo, come lacrime nella pioggia. È tempo di morire.» ...ciao Allan
@Sxrule What you mean by melodic? You mean doing bends that average players do. Allan said he doesn't usually bend the string like that. But he does use a whammy bar for bends.
I've tried some of his chords on the guitar and it's just too much for me. You have to be able to stretch your fingers beyond what average guitar player are capable of. The chords at :38, 3:44 and 5:17 are good examples. And then try to duplicate this solo. It's like all those great classical music players, you have to dedicate your life to it instead of spending time at the computer watching videos on youtube.
@@blueskythinking4745 Well, fret size varies with neck position, but I think in general 7 frets isn't very average. I've been playing for a long time, despite not having particularly large hands. Allan's chords are a serious, slightly painful gymnastic exercise. I'd like to think that I'm not unique in that aspect. Most guitar players do not have hands his size.
If you listen to enough of Holdsworth, you'll acquire his style sonically. It's not something I understood when I first heard him, but more listening helped.
Stunning compositional chord sequences & lead virtuosity. But sometimes the dissonance gets a bit much in the solos. Btw I've been an allan fan of 42 yrs. Just IMHO of course for what it's worth which is pretty much nothing to anyone else 🥴
redhotkido fusion, at its best. well maybe someone could disagree, indeed to be precise allan has created his own genre, however i think the definition i gave above is appropriate. peace! (:
It's just music. You either like it or you don't, what "genre" it is called is irrelevant. All "genre" names are simply marketing segments, and have done more to kill music than musicians themselves who subscribe to, and become willing stereotypes of the "genre" krap.
It is music that only musicians can really understand, and damn few of them can even get it. Near the end of Holdsworth's life, his audiences shrank from the tens of thousands in his heyday, to be so few as to fit in small clubs. His music became so complex when he untethered from any commercial pursuit that a reverse exponential curve in his following occurred. Musicians study him, and he will have an influence on music for centuries, but he is currently a footnoted genius who spent the latter half of his career in a bubble. RIP Allen.
Allan was very self-critical because too much of his playing came from the head. You can see how early years he was quite repetitive, then as he went outer-note with dim and Messiaen he never came back, and his solos became separate from the music. Consequently, he listened less to the backing and relied on his number theory. Also, he was trapped by his own rep. Another thing he never acknowledged due to vanity, and really should have done is that his widespan technique he copied from Ollie Halsall when he saw him at Butlins. Likewise, his trem use came from Ollie. They didn't get on so maybe that was part of it.
That's simply not correct. Halsall was brilliant but Allan's legato style is nothing like Halsall. The only thing that interested Allan about Halsall's playing was his use of the trem. Even then, Allan took it to a whole different level. Sadly Halsall left us all too early due to drugs.
There's a spectrum between emotionality and intelectuallity. Allan was definitely more towards the latter and our society is definitely all the way towards emotionality. That's why 99% of the population can't understand this music.
He knows where every note is on the guitar, technically perfect , music theory maestro, intensely focused, but there is no melody no emotion no heart, just notes on some obscure scale, . . some say playing jazz is the epitome of guitar music, . . I THINK I'LL STICK TO THE BLUES.
great guitar player noooooooooooo digital delay in his lead playing extra clean sweep & a bag of chips kid thats a killer guitar not like alot of digital fakes out there.
What a humble Genius and true Gentleman, With a great sense of humor. I was blessed to have dinner with Allan this Band in 1992 during the Wardencliff Tower Tour. This experience still puts me in a dream state. On top of autographing his catalog for me Allan insisted on paying for my Dinner! This still blows me away. Thanks again to my friend and fellow Bassist the Amazing Jerry Peak for introducing me to Allan that night which made this experience possible
Basically the best player to ever touch the guitar. Absolute insane nutcase of a master. Half of what he’s doing in each phrase is groundbreaking in itself😂
i'm not a guitarrist, so i dont listen to allan to steal any licks, and that makes me free to listen to the music... i love, literally love, allan, he is my favourite musician, very inspiring and very intense..one of the most expressive musicians, one of the most misunderstood genious
The Maestro during his peak years. One of the absolute greatest guitarists and a truly brilliant musician.
I forgot how insane he gets in this version. That line at 1:50 is absolutely ridiculous, and then he throws in that little pause at 2:01 after effortlessly slicing through all those notes. Unreal.
I'm always in awe of the fact that he so truly improvised EVERY time he soloed, and that he literally pulled off anything he decided to play. One of a kind and one of the best guitarists- shit, one of the best musicians of all time.
Yes, that was the insane part of it. It was all improvised with the band playing, cameras rolling, audio recording. Knowing that as a musician you would never perform anything that you're 100% sure that you can do, it is even more incredible. I wished that he or someone would have published recordings of him practicing at home, there was some ridiculous stuff that would have come out of that.
In my opinion, no doubt the greatest musician of all time. The tone, the colors, the solos, everything.
I think Allan Holdsworth is truly the greatest musician in recorded history
@@saucedevourer8858 Of course, art is entirely subjective. But if we pretend for a moment that it is _not,_ then yes, Allan Holdsworth is by far and without question the most profoundly brilliant musician to have ever lived and indeed the *greatest* (at least out of the music that is available to us - there's no telling how many geniuses throughout history never made it out of their bedrooms). God bless his soul.
Holdsworth at his very prime time, at the same period when "Hard Hat Area" came out.
Allan is phenomenal...absolutely no guitarist ,past, present ,future can cut
this guy after hearing Atavachron back in the day playing the "synthaxe"...
I was through...I mean done! RIP Allan...sheeesh!
"Alan is the greatest" - Shawn Lane.
Shawn who??
- Allan Holdsworth
Tetasha allan knew about shawn lane, there’s a video on youtube showing when they met. both the greatest to me
"There will never be another Shawn Lane" - Guthrie Govan
@@Ahtnagarp " Nadie, ninguno de nosotros sonará como Robben Ford " - Guthrie Govan.
"No he isnt't" - me
chuck Norris tried to round kick Allan Holdsworth, but Allan grabed him with one hand and cracked all his bones; while playing legato with the left hand
Seriously underrated comment... 🙏
Bruce lee was smiling since he’s his guitar tech 😂
A reminder here that Holdsworth is a superb composer too
Best fretting hand in the business.
Love it. Funnels is my license plate...in tribute to Allan and that song. :-)
R.I.P. Allan, you will be missed by all of us 'mere mortals'...
I saw Allan and the boys all through 1989 to the end and every show was fun. Never a huge crowd over 200 people, so it was very intimate and I could always talk to the guys before the show. Skuli gave me a bass lesson meaning sound advice, all the guys signed my ticket stub, good times. Allan was the Nicola Tesla of music ; misunderstood by many but changed the world.
SUch a great tune! Those chords and never a cliche in sight!! He will be missed
RIP Mr Holdsworth. You were a true genius.
Thank you so much to share this beautiful tune. Allan Holdsworth played guitar like nobody.
Bloody genious! He was from another dimension, just passing through here on planet Earth...
TEARS OF JOY - THANKS ALLAN
this is the most beautiful music
Beautiful, artful and technical. Truly amazing.
Classic Holdsworth - brilliant track - lovely harmonies.
2:36-2:49 is the some of the most insane licks ever.
Ah, the transcendental, intergalactic Holdsworth...
Holdsworth is the future... like jazz and fusion in, let's say the year 3789.
You nailed it big time
2:41 it should be flat out illegal to be that good. Holy shit.
thanks sir, you are right now im calling to the music police to report mr holdsworth, you have done a great service to the youtube music nation (?)
+mistabimbims that lick is a pain on the fingers lolzz
Daniel Ayuch ok...? You know I meant that in a good way because of how god-like holdsworth is, right? It's not like I actually want that part to be illegal, yknow...
username342 the sweeps, right? I think they're sweeps, anyway. But at any rate, like 90% of what holdsworth plays is a pain on the fingers lol
yeah Holdsworth stuff is not at all easyy.
Those aren't sweeps, he is string skipping with legato. He looks like he sweeps sometimes because I think he rests his pick on his strings to mute...Idk...he cud be be doing anything.. very few actually know what hes doing..
Allan was so far advanced its like he was from the future
1:38 - 1:42 My head goes totally crazy every time watchin that lick..
I would love to see him doing some melodic playing for more than 4 bars or so. Im not saying he is not melodic in any way and I fully appreciate the 'outside' playing, but he occasionaly plays some in notes that sound incredible and you want it to go on for a touch longer, but I guess thats just tension and resolution, what fusion is about!!
Listen to his track titled Endomorph.
I know what you mean and agree. But Ruhkukah is a good example of the tension and resolution you mention. The melodic parts hit so much harder because of the chaotic playing that precedes them.
sooo relaxing to listen to. great summer music.
One of my favorite examples of bitonality
Gis melody on his chord structures are eerily beautiful
Nadie se ha acercado al maestro. Y por mucho tiempo se le acercaran. El es la prueba de lo imposible hecho posible, por decirlo de alguna manera.
Truly the king of left hand legato!
I have 2 of the Lab Series L7 100w Combo amps like the ones Allan was playing through at this time. BB King also uses the same amp. They have a great clean tone. Mine also gets a nice overdriven tone also. When I saw him in 1983 he was using two of the Lab amps on top of two Marshall cabinets with a Marshall head on top of the two Lab amps. The amp head on the left is a Lab Series L11 (same amp as L7 but 200 watts). Maybe he is playing lead through it? They are great amps but hard to find.
I'm aware of how old this comment is and I don't expect an answer, but I'd love to know more about this amp, what speakers does it have? Are there any amps that get a close sound to the lab series? I would love to know since I can't really afford one nor find one, so perhaps I could try to replicate one in a virtual amp. Thanks in advance!
Thank god for the slow down function
@stargate669 Aside from the fact that Holdsworth has been playing longer than Britney has been alive, the only resembelance i can draw between the two is that Allan has perfected his art and that Britney is perfected through Autotune.
So great
@shadowknight132 no nothing to do with bends that "average" players do, I suppose I mean his inside playing, because he spends so much time outside, when he does give you snippets of his diatonic stuff it sounds amazing, not detracting anything from his outside playing of course because it is truly amazing,
Allan was beyond belief!
RIP!
🙄🙄🙄
allen holdsworth is the darth vader of fusion..........i fucking love this guy!
Chuck Norris tried to punch Holdsworth once but couldn't get through his arpeggiated force field.
God of the gods of the guitar
@MrGoneHollywood
Holdsworth is the reason Vader can't breathe.
He was just connected with the secret languages of the deep cosmos 😮
Genio
Marcelo Vc por fin alguien no malgastando la palabra!
glorious
OWNAGE MAN! OWNAGE!!!!
Ogni volta che mi imbatto in Funnels mi viene in mente il monologo finale di Roy Batty " «Io ne ho viste cose che voi umani non potreste immaginarvi:
navi da combattimento in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di Orione,
e ho visto i raggi B balenare nel buio vicino alle porte di Tannhäuser.
E tutti quei momenti andranno perduti nel tempo,
come lacrime nella pioggia.
È tempo di morire.» ...ciao Allan
wackerman is no slouch either...amazing players.
@Listendudeok ha ha Allan is the future since the 70's :P
Refugee listener from other forms - this astonishing dexterity seems so easy for him to deliver and so incredibly difficult for me to listen to !
Allan is not for everyone.
can see why zappa liked him
Nice.
A legend¡
0:12 Yeah, I taught him that chord.
haha best "how do you" related response.. ever
This dude's a virtuoso.
Best Fucking Fusion song ever......
Ben
@Fjord76 Yeah, you are exactly right.
@Sxrule
What you mean by melodic? You mean doing bends that average players do. Allan said he doesn't usually bend the string like that. But he does use a whammy bar for bends.
I LOVE shawn lane but you can't compare ANYBODY to Holdsworth. Holdsworth is kind of a guitar buddha. He is a musician who has reached enlightenment.
Exactly, he has ascended like a departed Jedi who can still help you musically if you call on him
@MrRmjjmr oh you were being serious. Well each to their own I guess... merry Christmas to you too :) (and ribs?!?!? haha)
Wtf is that at 1:52?
I've tried some of his chords on the guitar and it's just too much for me. You have to be able to stretch your fingers beyond what average guitar player are capable of. The chords at :38, 3:44 and 5:17 are good examples. And then try to duplicate this solo. It's like all those great classical music players, you have to dedicate your life to it instead of spending time at the computer watching videos on youtube.
What's average? The most I can stretch is 7 frets. Allan's chords aren't that much of a challenge for me.
@@blueskythinking4745 Well, fret size varies with neck position, but I think in general 7 frets isn't very average. I've been playing for a long time, despite not having particularly large hands. Allan's chords are a serious, slightly painful gymnastic exercise. I'd like to think that I'm not unique in that aspect. Most guitar players do not have hands his size.
I get the technical skill... but to me his music just sounds like a bunch of exotic scales strung together.
If you listen to enough of Holdsworth, you'll acquire his style sonically. It's not something I understood when I first heard him, but more listening helped.
50 listens are required.
Musically, this is more akin to gymnastics than dance.
a shit ton of them
Stunning compositional chord sequences & lead virtuosity. But sometimes the dissonance gets a bit much in the solos.
Btw I've been an allan fan of 42 yrs. Just IMHO of course for what it's worth which is pretty much nothing to anyone else 🥴
Wht genre of music is this???
redhotkido fusion, at its best. well maybe someone could disagree, indeed to be precise allan has created his own genre, however i think the definition i gave above is appropriate. peace! (:
+seifer1980
yeah its fusion, i honestly prefer that sax/synth kinda lead sound for the genre..
It's complex modern classical harmonies with jazz improvisation and rock rhythm. The most advanced form of fusion I've heard.
Something between Progressive rock andjazz rock fusion.
It's just music.
You either like it or you don't, what "genre" it is called is irrelevant.
All "genre" names are simply marketing segments, and have done more to kill music than musicians themselves who subscribe to, and become willing stereotypes of the "genre" krap.
who's on keyboard synth??
DarthClam Steve hunt. Skuli on bass, chad on drums. This is from Allan’s REH video.
steve vai half holdsworth half zappa
i don't say that this music is bad, but it's hard to me to try to follow the rythm of this song :c
You have to listen to a lot of Holdsworth, it's an acquired taste.
It's definitely an acquired taste. If you have background in music including production and music theory, you can definitely get off this.
It is music that only musicians can really understand, and damn few of them can even get it. Near the end of Holdsworth's life, his audiences shrank from the tens of thousands in his heyday, to be so few as to fit in small clubs. His music became so complex when he untethered from any commercial pursuit that a reverse exponential curve in his following occurred. Musicians study him, and he will have an influence on music for centuries, but he is currently a footnoted genius who spent the latter half of his career in a bubble. RIP Allen.
You mean it is challenging what you know! I see that as an opportunity to grow and be exposed to something different!
HI Doug. Didn't know you liked AH. You on Facebook? It would be great to get back in touch. Message me if you like.
@lucancherby
Nah-ah! I can already play this on 'EASY' and I don't even use the Blue Button!
ariel pink's haunted graffiti
You can burn your guitar safely after watching this.
@h3adbanger95 '
well no shit
@MrRmjjmr trollz gonna troll
Fusion overkill, run for your life!
WWDT (What would Django think?)
Allan was very self-critical because too much of his playing came from
the head. You can see how early years he was quite repetitive, then as
he went outer-note with dim and Messiaen he never came back, and his
solos became separate from the music. Consequently, he listened less to
the backing and relied on his number theory. Also, he was trapped by his
own rep. Another thing he never acknowledged due to vanity, and really
should have done is that his widespan technique he copied from Ollie
Halsall when he saw him at Butlins. Likewise, his trem use came from
Ollie. They didn't get on so maybe that was part of it.
That's simply not correct. Halsall was brilliant but Allan's legato style is nothing like Halsall. The only thing that interested Allan about Halsall's playing was his use of the trem. Even then, Allan took it to a whole different level. Sadly Halsall left us all too early due to drugs.
There's a spectrum between emotionality and intelectuallity. Allan was definitely more towards the latter and our society is definitely all the way towards emotionality. That's why 99% of the population can't understand this music.
He knows where every note is on the guitar, technically perfect , music theory maestro, intensely focused, but there is no melody no emotion no heart, just notes on some obscure scale, . . some say playing jazz is the epitome of guitar music, . . I THINK I'LL STICK TO THE BLUES.
It's good that there's something for everybody. Blues make me fall asleep
You are funny, man...now get !
great guitar player noooooooooooo digital delay in his lead playing extra clean sweep & a bag of chips kid thats a killer guitar not like alot of digital fakes out there.
There's nowt "funnel" about this. He needs to get back to Coronation Street where he truly belongs.
Man könnte sich als halbbegabter Gitarrist glatt die Finger abbeißen . . .
compared to holdsworth the keyboardist sounds like a child.