his majesty was doing it all in the 70s already. string skipping, legato arpeggios, even some sweeping. but people only wanna talk about jimmy page and jimmy hendrix. allan could wipe his ass with those 2 and still need more toilet paper. yea, i said.
@DeadButFeelingBetter Michael Tsarion is the worlds premier conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami, Jordan Maxwell and Alexandre Dumas pere are highly informative as well. p.s. Melting Euphoria is similar to Ozric Tentacles and Gong.
@DeadButFeelingBetter "Today they [i.e., the Jesuits] are stronger in the United States than they ever were in any of the countries of Europe which expelled them as a menace to the government." (1912)
@DeadButFeelingBetter But those Romanists who do not greatly love the Jesuits, and their number is not limited, use the term as indicating that the Black Pope rules the White Pope...even while the former [i.e., the Black Pope] is obligated to make, at least, a show of submission to the latter." (1896)
M.F. Cusack (Ex-nun of Kenmore; author of the book The Black Pope)
@DeadButFeelingBetter "In Roman Catholic circles it is well known that the Black Pope is the term used for the [Superior] General of the Jesuits. As the Pope is always robed in white, and the [Jesuit Superior] General in black, the contrast is obvious.
I was SOooo disappointed when "Bruford" played The Tower in Philly and Holdsworth was NOT with the band, but John Clark played Guitar in his stead. I spent the whole night watching Jeff Berlin play Bass -- though i am a drummer, and you'd expect me, therefore, to have a keen interest in whatever Bill was doing. However, Allan was the Guitarist with (Bill Bruford's) "UK" @ Penn's Landing... so at least I can say "yes, i DID see him play live, back in the day". Zappa had high regard for him too!
Unsurprisingly, this is just a proof of concept...Simply practicing x number of hours per day does not guarantee results no matter how dedicated you are !
@kmsmith49 "The [Jesuit Superior] General is at the head of this black and mute militia, which thinks, wills, acts, obeys -- [as] the passive instrument of his designs. Their whole life must have but one aim -- the advancement of the [Jesuit] Order to which they are attached." (1912)
Jeremiah J. Crowley (Irishman; ex-priest in the Roman Catholic Church; author of the book Romanism: Menace to the Nation)
@kmsmith49 "It is impossible to read Elizabethan history [i.e., the history surrounding Queen Elizabeth I of England; queen: 1558-1603] except in the context of an army of Jesuits, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration, subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope's foes anywhere in the world." (1987)
@kmsmith49 ... 'Nearly all the Kings and Sovereigns of Europe had only Jesuits as directors of their consciences [i.e., as confessor-priests], so that the whole of Europe appeared to be governed by Jesuits only.'" (1927; using a short quote by Jesuit Cordara)
@kmsmith49 "The Jesuit Order at last reached the pinnacle of its power and prestige in the early eighteenth century [i.e., the early 1700s]. It had become more influential and more wealthy than any other organization in the world. It held a position in world affairs that no oath-bound group of men has ever held before or since...
@1m2a3t4t5 It is an expression that people in the music business use sometimes. All the best (most famous) songs are usually not written past the first three frets. Most every chord the typical song would need can be played on or around the third fret.
Point being that true talent sometimes doesn't get the air play it deserves, like Holdsworth.
@skudzer1985 when has life ever been like that? it's always how you look that is why we have eyes. ok wait lol that's not why we have eyes but it does matter that is why we have jimi :) because he is the eyes and ears. i heard a myth that said guitarists bending notes meant they ran out of ideas, do you get that? when you bend a note you're bending an emotion pushing into ideas everyone knows how that feels :)
Allan is VH's hero! There was one time he didn't realize that U.K. (w/ Bruford, Wetton and Eddie Jobson) would open up for them sometime in the 80's. VH was totally floored because his Hero would open up for them!\m/ AWESOME Allan Holdsworth!
@fretbored1974 This passage is from The incredible marquis by Herbert Gorman entitled the soldier of fortune(chapter six) It was natural that Dumas believed implicitly in the magic of somnambulism, in animal magnetism and in chiromancy. No Haitian dancing before his Voodoo altar was more superstitious than Dumas. Home, to Dumas, therefore, was an authentically inspired adept in communicating with unseen world.
@fretbored1974 Between 1555 and 1931 the Jesuit Order was expelled from at least 83 countries, city states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversion plots against the welfare of the state, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute(Thomas J. Campbell).-J.E.C. Shepard
@fretbored1974 "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT owing NO allegiance and acknowledging NO responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today." PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1906
@fretbored1974 "The public is practically unaware of the over wheming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of the two world wars-m a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of vatican and its jesuits."---Edmond paris, The secret history of the Jesuits
This is friggin' intense! Holdsworth had to have popped out of the womb with a guitar in his hand. He is my favorite guitar player of all time! I have loved his music since the first time I heard him in the early 80s.
He was already a monster of unreal abilities, as well as having a totally unique voice-not nearly as advanced and refined as now, but phenomenal nonetheless. Since he took up guitar at the age of 18, the speed of his progress is amazing-he looks pretty young here.
G R E A T . . .! ! !
puntostilocoupe 16 hours ago
\m/
MrJETCITY 2 days ago
his majesty was doing it all in the 70s already. string skipping, legato arpeggios, even some sweeping. but people only wanna talk about jimmy page and jimmy hendrix. allan could wipe his ass with those 2 and still need more toilet paper. yea, i said.
southflvitilla 4 days ago
@southflvitilla You must be joking.
clangerlover 16 hours ago
Allan Holdsworth, the only man in history to be done for speeding (on the fret board)
DeadButFeelingBetter 1 week ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@DeadButFeelingBetter Michael Tsarion is the worlds premier conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami, Jordan Maxwell and Alexandre Dumas pere are highly informative as well. p.s. Melting Euphoria is similar to Ozric Tentacles and Gong.
countdumas 4 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@DeadButFeelingBetter "Today they [i.e., the Jesuits] are stronger in the United States than they ever were in any of the countries of Europe which expelled them as a menace to the government." (1912)
Jeremiah J. Crowley
countdumas 4 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@DeadButFeelingBetter But those Romanists who do not greatly love the Jesuits, and their number is not limited, use the term as indicating that the Black Pope rules the White Pope...even while the former [i.e., the Black Pope] is obligated to make, at least, a show of submission to the latter." (1896)
M.F. Cusack (Ex-nun of Kenmore; author of the book The Black Pope)
countdumas 4 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@DeadButFeelingBetter "In Roman Catholic circles it is well known that the Black Pope is the term used for the [Superior] General of the Jesuits. As the Pope is always robed in white, and the [Jesuit Superior] General in black, the contrast is obvious.
countdumas 4 days ago
I was SOooo disappointed when "Bruford" played The Tower in Philly and Holdsworth was NOT with the band, but John Clark played Guitar in his stead. I spent the whole night watching Jeff Berlin play Bass -- though i am a drummer, and you'd expect me, therefore, to have a keen interest in whatever Bill was doing. However, Allan was the Guitarist with (Bill Bruford's) "UK" @ Penn's Landing... so at least I can say "yes, i DID see him play live, back in the day". Zappa had high regard for him too!
manofthecloth613 2 weeks ago
Unsurprisingly, this is just a proof of concept...Simply practicing x number of hours per day does not guarantee results no matter how dedicated you are !
spidpower 2 weeks ago
his pinky is the almost as long as my arm!
rowdysuzuk 2 weeks ago
His technical facility is simply mind blowing - even back then.
kmsmith49 2 weeks ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@kmsmith49 "The [Jesuit Superior] General is at the head of this black and mute militia, which thinks, wills, acts, obeys -- [as] the passive instrument of his designs. Their whole life must have but one aim -- the advancement of the [Jesuit] Order to which they are attached." (1912)
Jeremiah J. Crowley (Irishman; ex-priest in the Roman Catholic Church; author of the book Romanism: Menace to the Nation)
countdumas 4 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@kmsmith49 "It is impossible to read Elizabethan history [i.e., the history surrounding Queen Elizabeth I of England; queen: 1558-1603] except in the context of an army of Jesuits, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration, subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope's foes anywhere in the world." (1987)
J.E.C. Shepherd (Canadian historian)
countdumas 4 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@kmsmith49 ... 'Nearly all the Kings and Sovereigns of Europe had only Jesuits as directors of their consciences [i.e., as confessor-priests], so that the whole of Europe appeared to be governed by Jesuits only.'" (1927; using a short quote by Jesuit Cordara)
Boyd Barrett (Ex-Jesuit)
countdumas 4 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@kmsmith49 "The Jesuit Order at last reached the pinnacle of its power and prestige in the early eighteenth century [i.e., the early 1700s]. It had become more influential and more wealthy than any other organization in the world. It held a position in world affairs that no oath-bound group of men has ever held before or since...
countdumas 4 days ago
Holdsworth...what a fruitcake
12inchvertical 3 weeks ago
i had never heard allan play something that would have sounded like a guitar :)
what an outstanding musician!
tonydjangolopez 4 weeks ago
If you really thing that's something... You should hear me play that on kazoo...
YManCyberDude 1 month ago
Mmm nice !
MrJuno6 1 month ago
Great !
zeguitarman 1 month ago
that is what I meant
JohnnyD50 1 month ago
silly yeah I was listening to zepplin and he was playing like this
JohnnyD50 1 month ago
@JohnnyD50
Translate: To bad I (you) were listening to Zeppelin when Holdsworth was playing guitar like this. Is that what you meant?
1m2a3t4t5 1 month ago
That's the only problem with music. I love Holdsworths' playing but unfortunately it is true....There is no money past the third fret.
joeyguitarlo 1 month ago
@joeyguitarlo
What do you mean?
1m2a3t4t5 1 month ago
Comment removed
joeyguitarlo 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@1m2a3t4t5 It is an expression that people in the music business use sometimes. All the best (most famous) songs are usually not written past the first three frets. Most every chord the typical song would need can be played on or around the third fret.
Point being that true talent sometimes doesn't get the air play it deserves, like Holdsworth.
joeyguitarlo 1 month ago
Ahh the days when music was about how you sounded and not how you looked.
skudzer1985 1 month ago 3
@skudzer1985 when has life ever been like that? it's always how you look that is why we have eyes. ok wait lol that's not why we have eyes but it does matter that is why we have jimi :) because he is the eyes and ears. i heard a myth that said guitarists bending notes meant they ran out of ideas, do you get that? when you bend a note you're bending an emotion pushing into ideas everyone knows how that feels :)
Campestral 1 month ago
1komanche's mom's haircut!
Vestu 2 months ago
Seriously what the hell is going on here... dat technique o.O
JoakimFritz 2 months ago
Those locks and those licks make for a fantastic combination.
kibijit 2 months ago
There´s a Minnie sticker in this SG.
souzabluesplayer 2 months ago
Gotta love those eyebrows!
mindlesspup 3 months ago
Allan is VH's hero! There was one time he didn't realize that U.K. (w/ Bruford, Wetton and Eddie Jobson) would open up for them sometime in the 80's. VH was totally floored because his Hero would open up for them!\m/ AWESOME Allan Holdsworth!
fretbored1974 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@fretbored1974 This passage is from The incredible marquis by Herbert Gorman entitled the soldier of fortune(chapter six) It was natural that Dumas believed implicitly in the magic of somnambulism, in animal magnetism and in chiromancy. No Haitian dancing before his Voodoo altar was more superstitious than Dumas. Home, to Dumas, therefore, was an authentically inspired adept in communicating with unseen world.
uriahheep108 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@fretbored1974 Between 1555 and 1931 the Jesuit Order was expelled from at least 83 countries, city states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversion plots against the welfare of the state, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute(Thomas J. Campbell).-J.E.C. Shepard
uriahheep108 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@fretbored1974 "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT owing NO allegiance and acknowledging NO responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today." PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1906
uriahheep108 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@fretbored1974 "The public is practically unaware of the over wheming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of the two world wars-m a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of vatican and its jesuits."---Edmond paris, The secret history of the Jesuits
uriahheep108 1 month ago
This is friggin' intense! Holdsworth had to have popped out of the womb with a guitar in his hand. He is my favorite guitar player of all time! I have loved his music since the first time I heard him in the early 80s.
OZRIC1985 3 months ago
He was already a monster of unreal abilities, as well as having a totally unique voice-not nearly as advanced and refined as now, but phenomenal nonetheless. Since he took up guitar at the age of 18, the speed of his progress is amazing-he looks pretty young here.
Gregorypeckory 3 months ago
指長過ぎやで～～！
jeffyuuta 4 months ago
This is the most I've seen Allan play along with his face!
nivlafarts 4 months ago
Love the hair, the SG, AND the shirt!
mranamtip 4 months ago 8
@mranamtip totally agree a mi tambien me gusta este tema
malmstump2009 4 months ago 2
@mranamtip Me too. Great look did Allan had here.
fanqueen 1 day ago
he looks a bil ike jason becker here. man his skills are unbelievable
EmotionalShredd 4 months ago
wow look at thier hair
LarxeneSP 8 months ago
Wow Holdsworth playin an SG !! That was better than sex !!
This is So special !!!
Wonderin wot year this was ?
andrewbroughton65 9 months ago
@andrewbroughton65 ..........1974 i believe, way before van halen!......lol
vetmusician 5 months ago
@vetmusician not way before...only 4 years prior to their first album. Besides VH started their circuit in 1974.
ShivaTheAuspicious 4 months ago
:o this exactly the kind of inspiration i needed
TheSuperiorJam 10 months ago
Total fluidity!
StanleyKu 1 year ago
only god can play like that and have my moms haircut at the same time.
1komanche 1 year ago 41
@1komanche one of very few laugh out louds when reading youtube comments. V Funny comment!
DougPirhana 3 months ago
@1komanche I don't think much of God, but if he plays like that I think even less of him.
clangerlover 16 hours ago
brilliant
capth00k 1 year ago
super
AlexGuitarDj 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
yes playing scales with little feeling, check please!!
Crustmuncher12 1 year ago
Now that is some playing!
SilentlySuffocating 1 year ago 2