Allan Holdsworth - Looking Glass

[johnnyrocksable]

If Allan Holdsworth doesn't "Free Your Mind" nothing will. All notes are possible in Allans world. I've seen people try to copy his style and although they are all good guitar players none of them are like Allan. It's hard to copy a Genius.

[BlikeNave]

This music is fantastic.

[Samsgarden]

nice solo

[sturoc0]

Anyone have or know of the bass parts notated for this fine track ?

[jamesedwardtheobald]

one of his most poignant solos and melodies!

[boertush]

Not only is this my favorite Holdsworth track it is also accompanied by my favorite drummer!

[freeagora]

hey upload the dominant plague please!!!

[gebass6]

My all time favorite Holdsworth tune.

[dwilmer7]

he is a f-ing musical genius and it pisses me off that he often gets marginalized, --just because his music if so "out there". He is the Amadeus Mozart of the electric guitar.

[zazzooz011]

@dwilmer7 Nevermind, this stuff of genius can only be appreciated by a select few.

[dwilmer7]

(12 notes to an octave, the thirteenth being a repeat of the first, but an octave higher [double frequency?]), he did this for four, five, six, all the way up to nine-note scales, and filed them all away. He then went back through them and eliminated all the ones that had more than four semitones (half-steps) in a row. He also stopped with 9-note scales. These may have the same root reason if you limit yourself to no more than four semitones in a row within an octave,

[dwilmer7]

Allan Holdsworth is known to have learned about scales through a personal application of mathematics. He sought all the possible permutations of tone interval sequences (not just different orders of a given set of notes, that is, a given set of spaces between notes. Only working within the 12-note (even-tempered) system of intervals...

[chype]

By 3:37 I was literally crying. This song like many of Allan's really touches me every time I hear it.

[lvanhalen]

@chype I really thought I was the only one that felt like that man I was wrong Allan touches everyone nice

[shadowknight132]

You know there's a Star Trek episode called Through The Looking Glass. They should have used this song.

[dwilmer7]

@shadowknight132 Whole album is based on three (i think) episodes of star trek, original series,all to do with aberrations of time. Also, Holdsworth dressed as a redshirt must mean something interesting, but i dont know what.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@dwilmer7 wouldn't that make him an engineer. scotty also wore red...

[dwilmer7]

@jamesedwardtheobald yup thats true but i think all the security guys wore red.. in fact i think it was running joke on trek that the redshirts always die first...all that aside though, this album cover is one of my favs; the badly rendered insert of the boy with turntable is one of the discs that the atavachron reads from.. so, holdsworth is in mid stride entering the machine gateway , with his synthaxe about to go back to his own childhood. As you can see i just totally DIG this album.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@dwilmer7 hah, yeah, this album was a major revelation to me when i was a teen. as most albums during that time were; IOU, Road Games, Metal Fatigue, etc

[Bawookles]

Tony Williams on drums! RIP

[AbbathGS]

@Bawookles

Pretty sure it's Gary Husband on this album. But I echo your sentiments...RIP Tony Williams.

[MrFusionGuitar]

@AbbathGS Tony Williams came in to play Looking Glass. The rest was Gary Husband, however.

[zazzooz011]

@MrFusionGuitar 30 years ago i read somewhere that Tony Williams plays "pulse" instead of "time", i think his drumming on this tune illustrates that concept, i love this music!

[80sAcademy]

@MrFusionGuitar Actually, Chad Wackerman played on "All Our Yesterdays" and "The Dominant Plague"

[AbbathGS]

I absolutely love the drumming on this track. The solo is also so well built.

[shpilk]

Buy the album .. support the artist