Allan Holdsworth - Leave Them On 2009

[GreyJazz90]

In my opinion, the best that ever lived to play the guitar.

[Xioaxioa10]

its like i transformed. i remember trying to listen to this guys music awhile ago when i loved hard rock and metal but when i started playing fusion and listening to it more. i gave this guy another shot. its like i was a complete moron to dislike this guy. should of listened to him sooner.

[pobinr]

Allan is one of the few true artists in a world of copies.

Unlike most cliched so called 'jazz musicians', he actually sounds like himself rather than a miniature rubberised replica of his heroes.

[HMEERBEEK]

true inspiration for every guitarplayer alive

can this chords make on my synth

the prashing the feel the tone the legato tone scales

its a mystery and that should music be !

[rapidtranq]

The greatest guitar player since Jimi Hendrix...

[yellowbooze]

now i know what my paintings sound like

[wordauras]

A.H. should stand for Absolutely Horrible...

[BiorythmicDrifter]

@wordauras .....to those who are tone deaf. Say what you will but just read some remarks made about from pretty much every notable player on earth and you might see the light.

[wordauras]

How many hits of acid would you suggest I take? 3 or 4 maybe?

[bensooty1]

@wordauras , in your case, as many as possible...

[bensooty1]

@wordauras , you obviously have no idea how clever and talented this guy is...

[matt89102]

@wordauras Small ears and a small mind is no way to live.

[wordauras]

@matt89102 I hear ya***

[Samsgarden]

I love the fact that Holdsworth videos don't attract the sort of rubbish dialogue some other artists elicit. Not saying you don't get the odd stupid comment here but nothing compared with the "mine is bigger than your" threads, which is interesting because A.H. is extremely technical but has something else to offer apart from technique.

[22fret]

@knucksoff

complex? a blues player? if there is anything, blues is not, it's complex. this here is true complexity, but not that boring blues crap. RT is talented, perhaps - but just like AH? nah, you can't be serious, man...

[satire123456]

@22fret it's more complex to play blues with feeling than just play a song like that with hundreds of strange chords and to play a solo using chromatisms, even tough i like allan holdsworth, but don't insult the blues player, even if blues is easy in theory and to play, i'ts difficult to be great at that !

[22fret]

Yes, you're right. The bigger difficulty in blues is to transport feeling. I didn't mean to insult any blues player, but what I wanted to say is, that blues is - technically speaking - far less complicated. I just find it a bit boring, but that is more or less a question of taste.

[satire123456]

@22fret that's ok

[bigwhitesugar]

the blues can be as complex or as simple as you'd like to make it. Thats what's great about the blues.

[yootoobdotcomlol]

interesting but completely drowning the sound with chorus really puts me off too much to focus on what he's playing.

skinkusmetalicus, you crack me up mate, keep it up.

[patfreecat]

dude, i checked out rhett tyler and yeh he is fantastic i am gonna remeber him and keep listening, but this is holdsworth whole different world of guitar and music.. let it go holdsworth is holdsworth tyler is tyler..

[knucksoff]

Complex and fluent at the same time just like Rhett Tyler

[twotails1967]

great reactions here ! i think this music makes the circle go round. it's technically out of this world although relaxing for the brain for me. the fact that i can never understand this gives me a comfortable feeling. like train rides on tv though landscapes with no narration (landscape channel). perfection meets simplicity and zen-like state of mind.

i feel like i function better on this music :)

[quarktron]

This is one of my favorites. I don't think there is an "official" recording of this one, is there?

[fusionhar]

Allan too has to be played or heard everyday to help make sense of music.

he is THE MAN

[skinkusmetalicus]

Does Allan have any idea how many people he has touched and how deeply and changed everything in their lives. I listen to Holdsworth everyday as I do Bach. Its like food. Without Allan's music life would be meaningless.

Thanks Allan for everything. You saved me from ignorance and crime. Thank you so much. You showed me the truth. Play what's in your heart, If people like great. If not, that's ok too.

[54NT14G0]

Wow nicely said, I agree, I gotta have my Holdsworth dose everyday too!

[gmasixstrings]

That's exactly the way I felt years ago when I discovered Allan and his music, to me it was like listening to classical music... very inspiring, lyrical,..... no words guys...

[gytvon]

in 1983 I was on a bridge in Vilnius. That was night and I listen U.K. with Allan Holdsworth. Then I tell in my heart if this kind of music egsist I want to play it, to live it, to confess it, because it is in my heart to !!! I drop all my "radiophisics" studies and start play guitar. I was 23 years old. After 3 years later I start study jazz guitar in Academy of music. Allan Holdsworth change my life. I am so happy that this happend i my life. Big Big Thanks Allan.

[krma1970]

@gytvon

I'm happy and glad to see we are so many to have been "Allanized" ! He talks directly to our souls, even with uncommon chord progressions. That's one of his strengths. Among so many others... Thank you for beeing yourself.

[loomisC7]

@gytvon why don't you have any videos up?

[BiorythmicDrifter]

@skinkusmetalicus You get it man, I can't tell you the amount of pleasure i get from his music...no one else comes remotely close.

[bensooty1]

@BiorythmicDrifter , alan is the man..i've been into his legato style technique for several years now and he just blows you away.. i met him a few years ago and man, has he got BIG hands.. he shook my hand and his fingers came half way up my arm..!!! thats one of the reasons behind his style of playing, the long finger stretch which enables him to be able to cover a huge span on the fretboard..creating the diminished runs that he plays / augmented patterns etc, etc, he is a wonderful muso..

[BiorythmicDrifter]

@bensooty1 yes I have noticed the hands are the next stage of evolution. Explains why he is often imitated but never equalled. I have yet to see him so it is a goal that I must fullfill before I depart this earth...Glad to know there are others with an equal passion for what he has done for music.

[bensooty1]

@BiorythmicDrifter,  note the reach and span that he gets so effortless,,amazing..

[bensooty1]

@BiorythmicDrifter, note the reach and span that he gets so effortless,,amazing..

[bensooty1]

@BiorythmicDrifter , this guy spans 8 fret spaces without any problem, note 2.25 awesome player...i dont think i've seen anybody that comes remotely close to this guy.. i think alan is just a 1 off..

[matt89102]

Great Clip.

[bensooty1]

@matt89102, its his flawless legato technique that blows me away and the minimal amount of work from his right hand.. you can always recognise holdsworths work with the distinguished sound he has created.. truely awesome..

[matt89102]

@bensooty1 I love his live playing. He just goes for it. He's done so much I mean his musicality and accomplishments are endless. He's really created his own genre.

[bensooty1]

@matt89102, i latched on to holdsworths music a long time ago and the guy was absolutely jaw dropping then..he was'nt very old at that time but his forte / genius in his playing & sound hooked me from day 1 and i've been gob smacked ever since... i dont care what people say, you have to have that natural ability to be able to play long effortless runs like he does incorporating his legato style of playing..you've either got it or you have'nt and MR. HOLDSWORTH has really GOT IT... genius....