Allan Holdsworth playing 'Red Alert' encore

[Samsgarden]

a chick in the audience. I bet her partner told her we're going to see rihanna ;-)

[quantumartists]

Great to hear some great fusion!!! Check out Tony Newton's new release "Thunderfunkfusion" which has remakes of Snake Oil and Red Alert

[bluebunny61]

I wonder why people dis so much on Alan, he has talent no doubt, sometimes i assume people might be jealous, it's kinda sad sometimes.

[KABRIS1]

@bluebunny61 It's because he's better than all of them.

[questions613]

husband is tearing it up

[CribNotes]

I've never heard Holdsworth repeat a single lick! It's always different - a true free-styling improviser.

[boludovick]

is this in 4/5?

[lezerpiramis]

@boludovick

No, it's in 4/4

[ilikememusic]

@boludovick yea its definitely in that non-existent meter

[charlezurich]

@boludovick lol

[stillphil]

wow you got to hang with Holdsworth and just be regular? That's the coolest thing I've heard all week, even tho it was 20 years ago I'm sure it makes you smile. Made me smile just now. A Baritone !? No THAT is something I'd really love to hear !

I love baritone guitars. Man thanks for sharing. Holdsworth!

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@stillphil i've hung out with allan 3 times, he's really down to earth and affable, chilin' with a wine and a cig between sets, i like that he talks to fans! good solo on this one!

[stillphil]

@jamesedwardtheobald ^ nice.

[wordauras]

sucks big time! wtf!

[stratoleft]

I wonder how Allan first thought of how such a sound was possible to come from a guitar? It never ceases to amaze me.

[nortuber]

Damn, wish I was there :) For my own bootleg recording from Oslo get the SFd torrent..

[siskokidd]

I saw Holdsworth, Wackerman and Berlin play at a Denver, CO club in '82 and it was the most exhausting musical experience of my then life. I was overwhelmed by all that I heard and saw. It was a good thing.

[largesam72]

chad wackermann is the man!

[22fret]

I am no Drummer. Can anybody please explain what is wrong with Wackerman? I personally like his sound, his exactness and the tightness. To my mind, he's one of the best, AH has ever been playing with...

[Gregorypeckory]

"Oh sorry about that" I'm sure we all wish to shine a tenth as bright as what Allan is sorry for. LOL

[yrrepzepol]

Is that chad yourwackman? Guitar masturbation, is all it is. 99.9% guys in the audience too.

[stevensancho]

Chad Wackerman should not be mentioned in the same sentence asBill Bruford, Gary Novak, and especially not Vinnie Colaiuta! He's really good, but he's not really great.

[yrrepzepol]

wow, can you say name dropper??? Did you forget anyone??

[pianodog81]

After more than 30 years, he is still in a league of his own - true genius!

[mugametal]

Ya the first thing i noticed too was the bored girlfriends. Also, the guy chicken bopping his head..he is on the virg of forming a pit

[DuncanDonuts3]

Unbeknowest to most, Alan is a great proponent of moshing, feeling it symbolizes the disparate attempts to formalize the Nietzschesque Angst of existence in prototypical creative impulse manifestatory creationalism.

[yrrepzepol]

Hey donuts your a big fish in a small fucking drum pond! Putz!!

[stargate669]

dude you need the sacred enaema of truth to get rid of the dictionary you've swallowed.

[viper1991]

all those big words yet you managed to spell Allan's first name incorrectly even though it was in the title of the video. Kudos.

[stillphil]

LoL @ the bored girlfriends in the crowd!

Props to the girls that support even when they "kinda don't get it".

Would love to see Alan brag...ONCE !

But he's the man humility and all.

[oddtones001]

@stillphil That is what makes Allan so cool. A totally innovative style that has influenced many and is still humble enough to talk shop and have a few beers with some fans. I met him and talked him to death back in '90 or '91. What a cool and polite guy. I was still buzzing from when he peeled back my cap with a baritone Steinberger. I had never seen such a long neck on a guitar before. I think it was a Steinberger. Chad was there and Steve Hunt too. Great show.

[beanabus77]

Great trio. Saw them at the Jazz Cafe

[godlessbob]

Amazing footage! Thanks for posting this one!!

[Modes9]

The guys who can't relate to Holdsworth haven't heard enough Trane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy , or Jackie McLean.

[SolBeing]

thers defently one guy in that crowd whom is fucked up stoned not knowing what the hell is going on because holdsworth is not from this planet lol

[mesnuria]

Chad Wackerman was good enough for Zappa and to make drum duet albums with Terry Bozzio. Holdsworth is everywhere on the jazz rock scene in the seventies. Brilliant.

[CharleeVee]

I much prefer Gary Novak on drums in this band. Chad's a bit limited musically.

[beanabus77]

Yeah Chad's not so much to my taste. He is a monster tho.

[pbanders]

Yeah, Chad's really limited. That must be why Zappa hired him out of about a thousand drummers who didn't last 15 seconds before hearing "next!".

[jocovo84]

@pbanders lol....yea, Chad is one of the most diverse drummers of all time...without a doubt.

[jocovo84]

@CharleeVee Are you high or something? Chad Wackerman is one of the greatest drummers of all time, bar none.

[pngilman]

i adore the way he says "sorry 'bout that" at the ends of songs - the self-effacing genius at work - no matter how great it is, it's never good enough for him...

[peaceonearth777]

He thought himself a not so great guitarist at the time he wrote this with Tony (75). He apologized for that too. Goofy genius!

[Sigynnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

I quote :"If I knew what you were doing, I'd steal everything, but i dont know what you are doing" (John McLaughlin to Allan - 1990)

[djseasons]

Awesome Video!!!!!!

[OldVillain]

All credit to Allan, Chad, Jimmy and my Sony DSC-W90!

[igorwillcox]

this is really awesome!

[KingTabor]

he´s an alien! long live to the best player ever!!

[Modes9]

That's a bit of a reach but he's definitely consistently great and world-class.

[zombywoof101]

i was here!!!!! omg that's meeee in the crowd :O

[OldVillain]

Which one?