Alan Holdsworth solo on "Letters of marque" tune

[Samsgarden]

Interesting sound he was getting there in the 80's

[souricetteism]

Certainement un artiste mais son jeu metallique, coupant, manque d'harmonie etne laisse passer aucune émotion !

[NikDanger98]

Who accidentally hit the dislike button?

[MrGuitarguy1986]

The best there ever was/will be

[2short2q]

Steve Vai is the guy featured in the Zappa video "Frank spanks Stevie" this is not to say that Vai is not excellent but there is a very long list of excellent and real musicans don't really consider their art a competition.

[xTjPx]

who's steve vai?

[TheBitterWeed]

Holdsworth has been so fucking good for so long it's a crime he isn't on US Billboards

[amierdolo]

OMFG... SPEECHLESS

[NOTEWORKER007]

Wait one minute dude! I damn well your are not refering to Steve Vai! I don't give shit what allan of frank can do, and i love everything they do, but i love Steve vai to death and he is one of the most gofted and tecnicaly perfect guitarist ever to be. Don't you dare say shit about steve vai dude, thats Blasfemy

[doubts]

Youtube comments on music vids are hilarious. Its always the same ..

either about whos the best or this or that guys a racist. Makes me laugh my tits off.

This guy is world class and has worked with hundreds of black musicians.

There is no best in music. I love em all and just steal there licks coz i aint good enough to come up with new ones... though i try.

Enjoy the music!!!

[ZomBLord]

All hail Jazz.

[TheOneAndOnlyMiltos]

alan tears it up in this solo

[Aserikoth]

this guy is racist

[magirecords2004]

He wrote Red Alert with Tony Williams.

How is he racist? The King of Fusion guitar.

[DaddyFrogLiam]

beautiful and insane

[cornolio69]

WOW !! :O)

[priest1989]

Godbless Allan!! , i think he is one of the best guitar players.

But guitar players like Joe Satriani or Steve Vai are so good players too, they went to the music college too and they just play another style with a different way to play.

[gsxr7operator]

is that just a standard distortion on the guitar?

[Bass5el]

Jimmy Johnson is just sublime!

[stratoleft]

There is absolutely NOTHING on guitar or anything else like Allan Holdsworth. His approach alone is absolutely spectacular.

[chrisharvey9]

im going to be sick, someone said this guy is better then steve vai, i prefered the bass solo to this pompous crap

[JazzzRockFuzion]

Well when Steve Vai HIMSELF says that listening to Allan puts him into a "blissful state of surrender," I think that about sums it up. Please remember, there's more to life than pentatonic licks and whammy bar tricks.....Go study some harmony, man.....

[chrisharvey9]

im suprised steve said something that gay

[JazzzRockFuzion]

You'd be surprised.....go locate the April 2008 issue of Guitar Player magazine, where players such as VAI, JOE SATRIANI, EDDIE VAN HALEN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and ADRIAN BELEW all shower Holdsworth with praise and admiration.

Calling someone's comments "gay" doesn't change the fact that you're an ignorant noob. Get your head out of your ass and learn something about MUSIC, not pentatonic boxes.

[NOTEWORKER007]

@JazzzRockFuzion What one minute dude! I damn well your are not refering to Steve Vai! I don't give shit what allan of frank can do, and i love everything they do, but i love Steve vai to death and he is one of the most gofted and tecnicaly perfect guitarist ever to be. Don't you dare say shit about steve vai dude, thats Blasfemy!

[JazzzRockFuzion]

@NOTEWORKER007 I didn't talk any "shit" about Steve Vai...I was QUOTING HIM. Go ahead and look up the April 2008 issue of Guitar Player magazine. Vai says that listening to Holdsworth puts him in a "blissful state of surrender".

By the way, it's "blasphemy", not Blasfemy.

[JazzzRockFuzion]

@NOTEWORKER007 I didn't talk any "shit" about Steve Vai...I was QUOTING HIM. Go ahead and look up the April 2008 issue of Guitar Player magazine. Vai says that listening to Holdsworth puts him in a "blissful state of surrender".

By the way, it's "blasphemy", not Blasfemy.

[petar870602]

steve vai is just a noob like every commercial guitarist got lucky!

[fralando]

I met him twice late seventies, he had a couple beers, saw both concerts ALL the solo's were completely different!

[fralando]

Picking exercise????? PLEASE!!!!

[thechangee]

Sorry AH fans, but he sounds like a picking exercise... he has no sense of what a melody should be. To many drugs in the 70s.

[Zappacho]

He loves beer, no drugs -_-

[drummerguy920]

Man, please make you sure you know what you're talking about before you go around saying stuff like that. First of all he didn't abuse drugs, you just made some random assumption because you thought he sounded really weird. Secondly, you say he has no sense of melody? Listen to Devil Take The Hindmost or The Sixteen Men of Tain. You don't have to like it, but come on, what you said is completely outrageous.

[osensei2987]

His melodic ideas are great for the style of music he plays noob! Just like a blues melody is different from a bebop melody! This is jazz fusion noob and it's modern by definition.

Go listen to his Alans synthaxe solo at the end of Bill Evan's composition, Very Early.

[MrHistorian123]

@thechangee

There are many types of guitarist. There's the melodic geniuses - such as Latimer, Hackett, Gilmour, Rothery. There's the technical geniuses - such as Vai, Satriani, Petrucci, Batio. There's the metal/hard rock geniuses - like Blackmore, Iommi, Slash. Then there's the fusion geniuses - Santana, Di Meola and Holdsworth. They're all great at what they do but they're different. Which you like best is just personal preference. (And I've missed out some fantastic players, I know!)

[ShrimpScampiChampion]

i cant believe i'll be watching allan play one week from tonight,should be a real treat

[freedok]

Ahhh yes, JJ on bass. I could listen to this all night!

[winwoodking]

Thank God for youtube. AH fans would never see this stuff otherwise, it is priceless!! Thanks so much for posting this.

[jenniedrums]

A real treat!!

Thanks so much for uploading !

[number1covers]

I saw them for first time in the mid 80's with singer instead of keys - it was great. I think this was the drummer can anyone confirm?

AH fans, check out "jazzfusiontv" (google search) and find AH London '77. Wonderful jazz set with upright bass and acoustic piano. For now, I'm likin' it better than the fusion stuff.

[Listendudeok]

Hahaha...going to see em next week, Holdsworth, Wackerman, Johnson, you know what I mean ?!?!?!??

Thanks for the vid, nice

[fralando]

Love holdsworth but cannot help listening to Husband... fantastic

[tacomadc]

Gary manages to solo brilliantly, while still being more a solid "root" player and hold down the bottom end better than Jeff did (also brilliant though). Nice clip!

[jonascohonas69]

Allan Holdsworth is just the best Guitarist ever!!

[54NT14G0]

Dude, Gary Husband is sick.

[NotYourTypicalNegro]

Gary Husband is "sick" on the keys, too.

[KenGrew]

Unbelievable. What a fantastic gig this was. You are a superstar for uploading these clips.

[54NT14G0]

What the fuck?! this is awesome. Thanks for uploading.