Allan Holdsworth Chad Wackerman "Tell Me"

[Spudboy41]

mullets rock hard

[duteros]

You heard the man - buy his CD!!

[greggorypeccary1]

The view is my favorite album of his;however i have not heard the new stuff,

soon i hope...

[funkyyfrank]

This sound reminds me of SEGA's Galaxy Force soundtrack.

[AdzNSV]

All you haters can go on and on all you like and you can bag and waste all of ur energy posting verbal feacies but true genius spend thier time and energy playing technically superior music like this. I'm not one of them but at least I can tell when something is creative art..

[muppy1100]

CONGRAT'S ON YOUR MULLET'S..... GREAT MUSICIAN'S !!!!

[shreddie2101]

AWWWWSSSUUM. ALAN U ROCK

[donottawaguitar]

nice tune

[niltonyukina]

Não sei porque, mas sempre me vem a mente os quadro de Salvador Dalí...

[sacha9646]

@niltonyukina I have no idea what you said nor did i try getting it translated however I am considering watching some quadros of Salvador Dali while listening to Allan... wait a minute I just did, amazingggg

[niltonyukina]

@niltonyukina Eu consegui traduzir a sua lingua tambem. No fundo, nós dois falamos a mesma lingua: a lingua humana!

[samswank]

Keyboard player in the same band as Allan Holdsworth = tits on a bull. (With the exception of UK I guess)

[enos218]

Maybe in the future we will all be schooled in every scale/chord known to man/woman and actually appreciate this stuff but...for now we just like alan shredding 3:27.That keyboard player looks in pain.lol

[alsharpton666]

nothing like a sweet ass mullet to spice up your keyboard playing....

[all4less]

people that criticize this music do so because they are inferior and red around the neck

[doubleuarex]

when the bass line kicks, i sex the air.

[D0nCab]

I appreciate that holdsworth is an amazing guitarist but this fusion nonsense is the faggiest noise a group of humans can make.

[TheMirko2011]

wow

[taoofpete]

All these talented individuals have alot more talent than most of us here. I admire them for the awesome music they create. Please stop insulting these people and what they enjoy doing for a living.

[fulcrum300]

Ohh, terribly good, this.....

[RaymondFRevalee]

horrible solo, sounds like a dying cat again... just because he's worked out a couple of chromatic runs around the neck and keeps doing them for a 5 minute solo doesn't mean it's good. Then he keeps doing that whining puke thing sound with the whammy bar, like a puking drunk, that doesn't sound appealing to me anymore.

[taoofpete]

@RaymondFRevalee Then what would you recommend he do to play to your standards?

[BerserkaViking]

ok, what have you posted ? If he whines and pukes, then I guess you probably screech and shart in pale comparison. You're an f-ing carbuncle.

BerserkaViking

[Blackshayde]

@RaymondFRevalee Well, your opinion goes against the vast majority of the guitar community, which asserts, time and time again, that Holdsworth's legato technique and improvisational prowess makes him, perhaps, the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

I think you need to listen to him a bit more, as it takes a while to adjust your ear to his complicated playing style. Either that our you are not a serious guitar player.

[Guitareben]

@RaymondFRevalee Music is subjective :D Some people (many) like this stuff :D

[Nevigo]

Shawn Lane was very into Holdsworth,and could play almost so it sounded like him.

[jdeasel]

hey wowintosh, that is by far one of the most hilarious things i have ever heard !!!! i laughed until i cried !!! thanks for the laugh

[zazzooz011]

Allan Holdsworth is out of this world!

[MrMyfmyf]

Oh my GOD! First time i've ever listened to Holdsworth. He is very underrated. He glides over the fretboard like it's second nature. Very impressed!

[lowlevelshighstakes]

@MrMyfmyf Fortunately, his peers think he's 'from Outta Space'....

[ApollonianKing]

Too much drums.

[italia10588]

@ApollonianKing Welcome to Fusion bud.

[uncasist]

Ouch! Great players mired in generic, crappy music. NEXT!

[jackmccord13]

Anything Allen and Chad is awsome

[farneyblakeley]

there is someone based in the UK selling this disc and the sequel from this lineup on ebay for about $16 shipped... for anyone interested

[TouchingYou]

@winterchill885 .. No, Steve Vai is bloodless. So is Zappa. I'm talking about Mahavishnu at their best. Maybe RTF at their best too. Ditto maybe Gentle Giant who were sorta jazz rock. This is generic and stereotypical jazz fusion. These guys are too talented for this piece of blandness. SAFE BLANDNESS

[TooMuchGass]

@TouchingYou This is real music. Listen to the good playing! Who can top that?

[TouchingYou]

Yeah... WHO composed this? It SUCKS! generic jazz fusion. Crap like this gave jazz rock a bad name.

[Xioaxioa10]

allen must piss keyboardists off. "shit he can play just like me but better !!!" lol

[MrMeist]

intro - zeppelin's wanton song?

[Holdsworthy]

Great albums by wackerman. I can actually play allan's rhythm parts, the songs last for 5 hours though getting my fingers fixed for those chords.

[BarriosGroupie]

hahahahhaa

man, what a load of repetitive crap

[applehat32]

mullets......everywhere....

[127quinn]

@applehat32 hahahaha

[matmoose]

This is what I like about Allan Holdsworth and Chad Wackerman: They've always had sensible haircuts. Even in the 80s.

[ExtremeBogom]

@matmoose

I wish I could say the same about Wackerman's glasses lol!

[TreyRoque]

@TeesByTruthSurge And your physics degree majored in...?

;-P

[xwarx1000]

music like this makes me proud to be growing up in the 80's

[Samsgarden]

This is a bit dated, like most of his synthaxe stuff.

Holdsworth sounds so much better with these guys

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[Westlie]

i think this tune is great...love it...

[feelee15]

begining sounds and is the same as the wonton song by led zeppelin

[beeroosterm]

Once...just once...could fucking Holdsworth use a stomp box and play a solo in using a major scale?!!!!!!!!!!

[gitarmats]

@beeroosterm

Do you have a urge to talk shit about Holdsworth or what? Every video of him there is a negative comment from you...

I'd recommend to focus on the things you like instead of just pissing about complaining about what you don't like.

Are you a internet-troll? Do you enjoy complaining? Are you jealous? What drives you to focus so much on things you don't like?

[beeroosterm]

@gitarmats Yes, I have an urge to talk shit about Holdsworth. No, I'm not a troll. I do not enjoy complaining. I am not jealous. My profound depression and unhappiness is what "motivates" me. Satisfied?

[gitarmats]

@beeroosterm

Haha yes!

[chuckinator13]

@beeroosterm

Don't hold your breath cause it ain't going to happen

[rina9199]

最高！

[dridetube]

This is a tune from Chad Wackerman's CD Forty Reasons '91. I purchased it when it came out. Great playing on it!!

[beeroosterm]

Cannot deal with Holdsworth. He is the best guitar player on the planet who cannot seem to play a simple melody. He follows his muse, but she leads him nowhere musically. Perhaps he should score movies...

[chuckinator13]

@beeroosterm Uncomprehendable to simpletons like yourself.....TARD

[WoWintosh]

Introducing the Allan Holdsworth Band, featuring Obi-Wan on keyboard!

[Alejandro4891]

@WoWintosh hey he's got the same name as obi-wan kenobi! =p

[Centigonos]

@WoWintosh You, Sir, made my day! :D

[JCS1Cor517]

The mullets in this video. Just fabulous.

[adewolf]

This really is not elevator music. Understated complexity. Go check out Hatfield and The North or the 1970's English band Egg.

[reideinc]

if you can play this stuff, you can play anything ever written for guitar . period .

[agentsteell]

this must be the ultimate nerd band!! ...i mean it in a good way :)

[tonytoy1776]

Holdsworth has the neatest tone in outer space

[Lydianshadow]

bass player looks like a watered down Michael Anthony.

[alembicbassguy]

@Lydianshadow One night Michael Anthony actually dreamt he could play bass like this - then woke up & apologised lol!

[tall32guy]

@Lydianshadow Skuli Sverisson, he's from Iceland. He's actually a very good bassist as well as a composer that makes some pretty good music!

[nobodady1]

The 80's. I saw this ensemble in about '85. Mullets in the audience as well. LOL

[powderedtoastman2112]

Steinberger guitars ftw...

[summitthescale]

I hate his guitar so much! But goddamn do I love him. Great music, great band, and a great mullet or two.

[AzWeThInKwEizZ]

Can anyone tell me the time signature of this piece? I'm desperately trying to learn music theory and I find rhythm the hardest part to cover.

[modificaz]

@AzWeThInKwEizZ @AzWeThInKwEizZ You won't believe it, but this is a straight 4/4 tune. No weird time signatures, yet ear candy is at maximum! Only the snare intro is a 2/4

[AzWeThInKwEizZ]

@modificaz Thanks! I have difficulty counting time signatures, especially in jazz fusion pieces where it's almost expected to have compound meters.

[SublordUtilax123]

the amount of mullet in this video is disgraceful

[Rotoplooker2000]

@SublordUtilax123

Pardon? The amount of mullet in this video is AWESOME.

[SublordUtilax123]

@Rotoplooker2000 best reply ever

[achneinCH]

saw this combination in USA 1991-2 or so. was great. the band declined to finish some Belgium Orval beers, so accepted one. kept that a while, until undrinkable. Was a great show; friend has his car broken into during it. Not the band's fault I don't think

[MeangitarMingoMango]

Just listen...

[Simona050]

Love this piece. Just the finest, creative fusion soloist around.

[ilcongia]

could someone explain me the music, emotional, concept behind this? I really can't find nothing of interesting. The only thing that it seems it's difficult and complicated to me. ok coltrane and bepop movement--- it was cool, but this...with mullet included....:-)argh

[vgraham44]

listen, the keyboard player is simply creating a spatial atmosphere. a backdrop if you will. like a crimson sun descending beyond distant snow covered mountains. in other words, just drop about 8 hits of acid,grab a budwiesser,roll a fuckin bone, and enjoy.who cares if classically trained musicians could figure this out in their sleep.

[vgraham44]

use the music to transport your consciousness to another higher plane of existence beyond the egos identity. elevator music, thats very clever. not press the button and get off on a higher floor genuiss.

[vgraham44]

met allan recently @ the turning point in piermont.got to play his steinberger after the gig.yes i played guitar for allan.had dinner with the band. chad the drummer just had eye surgery.allan pasqua & the bass player were the nicest fuckin blokes youd ever want to meet. allan h, seemed somewhat depressed as usual.pasqua told me that allan thinks he sucks as a guitar player. imagine that. if he sucks as a guitar player, were the fuck does that leave the rest of us.

[virtuosow]

Allan is the greatest in the universe!!! Nobody even comes close! Not even EJ (although I love him too).....Enjoy

[twotails1967]

goosebumps with this one ! yesterday i saw him with Bozzio. Levin and Masteletto. muscially very challanging stuff . spare soloing. more dreamisch chords with volume pedal. can't say i was impressed by it.

[tubbkidd]

@twotails1967

can't say i was impressed by it.?

can you play like he can?

[twotails1967]

@tubbkidd

i was talking about the bozzio levin holdswort mastt..gig.

[bensooty1]

the chording he uses is tremendous.. he blew me away when he was with tony williams lifetime..

[fatfrankblack]

I'm sure the guy's a stellar guitar player - on another planet and all that, but why do these guys surround themselves with such awful elevator music. that horrible, horrible 'keyboard'. I recently eventually got round to hearing shawn lane and I honestly thought it was a joke - like those 'shreds' videos

[Axeman89]

@fatfrankblack In that case this is the finest elevator music ever, I wish I could hear it when I go in an elevator :( must not be commercial enough..

[BodhiSvaha]

@Axeman89 LOL

[tubbkidd]

@Axeman89

It's music for musicians. You have to have a knowledge of music to understand this stuff.

[Axeman89]

@tubbkidd Lol I know full well, man I'm a professional musician my family don't understand half the stuff i listen to. Whatever happens no one can account for taste, everyone enjoys different music and you just gotta learn to tolerate them. This happens to be my favourite music! :D

[SimulacronX]

@tubbkidd Bullshit. You don't have to acquire theoretical knowledge to enjoy music or not. Plus, "Tell me" is quite a simple tune. I find it a bit boring, but wtf. I got everything with Allan Holdsworth on it.

[beaverliqour]

4:05-4:10 listen how he addresses that line ...amazing! so melodic and fast too but mostly melody

[bonuzround]

gotta love it

[bigwhitesugar]

Allan looks pissed during his solo here. He was too self-critical, always trying to outdo himself. My favorite musician, ever ever.

[bensooty1]

@bigwhitesugar , mine to, awesome player...

[bensooty1]

@bigwhitesugar , alan always looks like that when he is playing..

[wordauras]

This song doesn't suck to bad...cool.

[Lightmane321]

8 hours a day huh?

hmmm.... never heard of him. lol

[Lightmane321]

what alien or god do I have to go visit in order to get the gene that enables you to be able to play guitar like this?

[MaximusDowns]

@Lightmane321 that would be the god Practice 8 Hours A Day, a lesser known but wise god

[porkyo123]

Never mind the bs where else can we hear dis.

[ivanodbsatch]

can someone tell me what's the amps Allan usually uses?

[lvanhalen]

I think Yamaha DG

[lvanhalen]

@ivanodbsatch Yamaha DG80 112 and endorses hughesKettner

[NreeKelBastardos]

What a melodic solo by Alan.... some really tasty lines in there... love his phrasing.

[sportsportsport]

fucking epic drummer! nice vid... great live music!... can't beat it.

[brecker02]

at the risk of sounding like a prat - Holsworth presents shards of astonishing brilliance unparalleled....one of the most astonishing guitar solos for me. Basic composition is OK but AH technique is astonishing. A definite Favourite for me.

[knucksoff]

Allan H. is a force of nature. And Rhett Tyler is a hurricane.

[Owlbatross]

There is none better in fusion anywhere ... f u c k i n g historical forever medicine for the soul !!!

[artartart]

now you know that Allan Holdsworth has the Matrix of Leadership in his chest.

[ashitaro311]

awesome shit, thanks for posting this. chad is fucking amazing.

[rier420]

the guitar solo was fucking amazing, really mind blowing, but the rest of the song made me wish I were dead. I love jazz but this elevator fusion shit drives me nuts.

[TheTaoistdragon]

Elevator Fusion????

LOL!

Nice.

[theelfman]

@rier420 Agreed, i drifted of into comatose there for a while, the solo snapped me out of it though

[petecellar]

@rier420 you will never hear drumming like this in elevator jazz. But yeah, the inflections and particularly the keyboard sounds are what makes people NOT know how great Holdsworth is.

[melodicdestruction]

@petecellar the point is, the song sounded prrty boring and monotonous until the solo...which made up for the entire thing. haha

[dchisey]

@rier420 couldn't have said it any better.

[funkagent]

@rier420 Uh I'm pretty sure there aint an elevator in the world that you would hear this shit on.

[ShredFever92]

@funkagent if there was, id totally ride that elevator.

[ognibandyrrah]

@funkagent ...Brilliant!, but if you do find one, ill make it my holiday destination!...

[aleksandersucharski]

@funkagent but you gotta admit. that'd be a very interesting elevator :)

[weischamp]

@funkagent i´d love to get stuck in such an elevator!!

[jakehawthorn]

@funkagent If there was, I would ride it all day.

[ReidanatorGaming]

@funkagent Only if!

[shailenkarur]

@funkagent your perspicacity must be 'fessing' with your mind, I'm sure!

[funkagent]

@rier420 Uh i'm pretty sure there aint an elevator in the world that you would hear this stuff on.

[zazeify]

@rier420 yeah, it's not one of Allan's better-composed tunes. I.O.U. has some much better-penned stuff.

[jonannlou]

@zazeify its a chad wackerman song isn't it? I remember AH announced it was at the gig I saw many moons ago!

[zazeify]

@jonannlou dunno, but if so, then it makes sense. Allan's compositions are real wonders.

[19FLA69]

@rier420 ....agree, I like the solo too and Wackerman does a good job at breakin' up the elevator-muzak fusion feel, but the thing that kills me is the squeek of the DX7. The thought of allowing that sound to be generated is mind-blowing. Am I the only one that thinks that sound is atrocious x 10? ....and these are Grade A musicians - not one of them told Hunt, "that sound you're getting outta that "thing" blows!" ....that's the amazing thing for me. Just a casual observation.

[TreyRoque]

@19FLA69 Dude, this was the 80s. Very DX territory - you needed a physics degree just to get a sound out of it. So we had a tolerance for it - much as we did for flares and mullets back in the 70s....

[Moog167]

Music like this makes me proud to be born in the 90's

[chickendancelex]

@Moog167

so cool for you to say that,since this was composed earlier and the hole style of holdsworth was more of the 70's and 80's check out his record all night wrong,It will blow your mind..my girlfriend is 19 and she loves this guy,was also raised in a family were they listen to jazz/fusion

[modificaz]

Love this version, over the studio one. Allan's solo comes from another universe. Steve Hunt delivers nice chops too. Chad @ his best (it's his tune!). Maybe Sverrisson sounds a bit constrained IMHO, but, still, this tune really rocks.

[zzzra86]

This is SOOOO early 90's, awesome!

[krang07]

Wackerman rules!!!

almost invisible here but when the spotlight is on him he never disappoints

[ironz18]

Check out the mullet of Wackerman and the keyboard player. Gotta love the 80s.

[Kraeezeu]

nin4lifeshit can go sucking some dicks..because he doesn't understand music and thinks he has to convince me that he's right

[nin4lifefan]

sorry but my brother said that i dont listen to this kind of music so uhh dont take it serious k

[FusionBidaum]

Allan HoldsFusion o/, Great mysterious sound !

[Kzastle]

you can barely hear allan's fucking guitar. synth just fucking overpowers it all the time. so much genius put to waste by idiocy in mixing.

[pownjhell]

I think it's more that they have a very similar tone due to the amount of chorus holdsworth uses. They combine and compliment each other, rather than one overpowering the other.

[blackfire5432112]

How olds Wackerman in this video??

[mrgone78]

the most important thing to remember about this video is that it is a mullet festival!

[d3tach3d]

indeed ;)

[TICETOCAR]

@mrgone78 the mullets on the festival were only in this band; Allan put up an ad in some local supermarkets.. "mullets wanted to form a fusion band for fusionmusic festivals" signed, Allan, guitarist.

[MarcoMinnemann]

@mrgone78 yea ^^ only holdsworth keeps his old fashioned hair cut :p

[palfrensis]

@mrgone78 That made me chuckle.

[Phill6KOA6]

What a nice mullet xD

[Nisstyre56]

BTW, this is really friggin awesome.

[brecker02]

I think Holdsworth's solo (excellent) will stand the text of time. the underlying sound not so sure....

[KingOfTheCretins]

Harmonically interesting, but unfortunately it has that cheesey 80's timbre. I find Bill Connors more interesting for this kind of fusion.

[ackerlaw2004]

I think this is a valid critique. For a more modern sound check out "Nebula" by David Hines (2006) - fantastic bass player. Holdsworth plays on 2 tracks and Steve Hunt (the keyboardist in this video) shows his chops can keep up with the times quite well.

Bill Conners makes wonderful music. "Step It" with Dave Weckl and Tom Kennedy is one of my favs.

[globalistbrat]

Hines' stuff sounds like a Fatburger/Scofield hybrid.

[ackerlaw2004]

...not sure I am familiar with Fatburger, although I spent some energy trying to find them on both YouTube and Google. Unfortunately, I could not find anything on YTube (besides the 9th grade MiddleSchool jazz band - which I am almost certain wasn't your intended reference). The clips I heard on Amazon seemed a bit more "smooth jazz" than anything I remember hearing on the Hines CD.

[ackerlaw2004]

hmm...Scofield has covered so much ground in his career, I guess one could argue that practically anything sounds at least a little like one of Scofield's bands to a certain degree. Sco is a hub in the distribution of funk paradigm.

I suppose I hear some of the 'Pick Hits' / Dennis Chambers-era Scofield in Hine's great album.

[stargate669]

no comparison between Scofield and Holdsworth.

[globalistbrat]

That's exactly it. There is lots of the lush "smooth jazz" texture and Scofield's much more cranial stuff--:)

[roylevestajones43]

Oh yea man for sure, they are smooth jazz 100%. Most likely the reason you couldn't find much stuff on them, they spell their name with two T's, Fattburger. Neway man, ttyl and gl.

[Apolyion]

It has that '80's timbre because that's when it was concieved....lol. The song was released in '92. ;)

Great stuff imo, I can listen to this all day.

[MrBlack125]

I wanna see a guy like Steve Vai jam Holdsworth,

[osensei2987]

Oh SHIT! Steve Vai can't even do Hendrix let alone Holdsworth! Get outta here with that solo transcribing mofo!

[Nisstyre56]

lolwut

[Power2theFlyingV]

what is that thing where the neck pickup should be? is that a sustainer?

[ackerlaw2004]

I'm really not sure. I see what you reference right where the neck is attached to the body. Perhaps it has some sonic role or other engineering significance. As someone pointed out earlier (making fun of the headless design), this guitar is really not a guitar. I think it is made of graphite? I'm no authority and guitar technicalities nor design (fuck I barely know how to play the thing).

[DarkRattlehead]

The neck is indeed made of graphite. It comes from an old Steinberger, as well as the tremolo bridge on the guitar, the body was built by a luthier.

[subjulio]

Allan's guitar is totally made of wood, a beautiful Bill Delap guitar with Steinberger hardware and custom made Seymour Duncan pickups.

[reaperofgenocide]

lol

[tambian89]

Lots of mullets here. Maybe it's the key to being a musical genius.