Allan Holdsworth Solo In Tokyo (1984)

[jjmora05]

Chad is a beast!

[matsou10]

haha he looks so incredibly British!

[funkeemon]

Beautiful music !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you dont understand it just close your eyes and listen.

[TheIzkool]

Is Alan sweepicking at 5:30-5:34?

[zaherell]

Just love the bass playin' on this vid

[Bflatest]

his playing is awesome but in its simplest form its ...

Two cats meet and lick a little on each other then a fight breaks out then they calm down and try again but to no avail

[kmurrell1001]

CRAZIEST PART OF THIS VIDEO: ALLAN HOLDSWORTH ISN'T WEARING A STRAP.

[kmurrell1001]

@kmurrell1001 wait, the strap button is just on the back of his guitar. my bad.

[romienomie]

he's obviously incredible but his music makes no sense to me. Sorry just my opinion. Yes, I know they call it jazz fusion.

[Paiste01]

@romienomie Its too complex for most to grasp..

[Betasaur]

At 3:10 to 3:20, HOLY BLEEP!!!

[moodlifter]

Chad Wackerman is on drums.

[MrAske]

who's on drums?

[hoskammer2012]

Allen....your allways the best ! and my favorite...And Jimmy J ....I went to west with you,and all the cats are really proud of you mano! MPLS OWN with the master....WOWWWWW

[cerpintaxt92]

Holdsworth is God .

3:10 = just great

[Easleytee]

@cerpintaxt92

I love + admire Holdsworth. However, Lane was superior.

[Paiste01]

@Easleytee maybe technically but not so much from a composer point of view (in my opinion)

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[MicroJugs]

I believe his shirt says 'Allan Holdsworth Road Games.'

[ExtremeBogom]

Is it me, or were a lot of NTSC cameras very blurry and saturated in the 80's?

[sprinkler5802]

i didnt know dana carvey played drums

[C861986]

@sprinkler5802 Are you serious?

[sprinkler5802]

@C861986 uhhh... yea

[VanHalenPinkFloyd]

I gotta admit though, when I first started listening to jazz fusion, or just jazz in general; I thought it sounded like crap lol. But after you listen to it a bunch, and really study the theory behind it, it all makes sense somehow. Of course now I love jazz. So for those blues guitarists( which I love blues, and play it a lot) don't hate on jazz just because you don't "understand" it.

[VanHalenPinkFloyd]

The only thing more amazing than his epic "ear" for music, is his sense of keeping time. Where mere mortals would get stuck in 5th gear going 500 mph, he goes 500 mph, but stays with the beat, and lands solidly on a beat. I think that is so amazing :D

[Xioaxioa10]

if theres any dislikes on AH vids its him himself because he hates anything he plays. hes one of those people who always finds something wrong in his own music. but we as the other musicians know he is a genius!!!!

[alexgorenoise]

simplemente el mejor guitarrista.



[Kzastle]

the one dislike is probably allan holdsworth himself because he played this more than two years ago.

[Laurenan69]

@Kzastle hahaha exactly dude !

[Paiste01]

@Kzastle lol :)

[chilirich]

i've been listening to this dude since 1978 and I still  can't understand or figure him out....

[cjjguitarbass117]

It's hard to describe what I'm feeling when I hear Allan Holdsworth's 1984 live in Japan version of "White Line". His solo conveys a sense of loss, recovery, confusion then madness, then he brings it home with enormous melodic power at the end. This guy is incredible

[ExtremeBogom]

The japs always get a good mix in their live recordings.

[Samsgarden]

@ExtremeBogom

Great recording. I dare say, better than Live at Yoshi's. While thelatter is a state of the art recording, something is lost in the digital purity.

[ExtremeBogom]

@Samsgarden

Yeah I know exactly what you mean.

I feel the same way about older movies filmed with 8 or 16mm camcorders. The new HD ones lack something. Could say the same about Vinyl as well :P.

[Samsgarden]

@ExtremeBogom

I agree but I can't put my finger on it. One thing is for certain though, digital media will never have nostalgia because it doesn't bear the limitations of the epoch *insert artificial grain*. At the same time, some of A.H's albums could have benefited from improved engineered.

[janecroft]

Stop at 2:09 and laugh. :-)

[chrissteppe]

@janecroft  totally did and it was awesome

[jocovo84]

Wow...this is very unique and awesome music!

[jocovo84]

Chad is wearing THE coolest glasses of all time!!!!!

[Toporaq]

I get to see him this upcoming tuesday i cant wait

[jocovo84]

@Toporaq I see him tonight!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[jpkayfabe83]

Is this an actually tune of his or is he just improvising?

[BelieveIntheBucket]

@jpkayfabe83 both! haha

[jpkayfabe83]

@BelieveIntheBucket oh of course its letters of marque i know

[Paiste01]

@jpkayfabe83 tune

[matsukazuhiro]

His eyes are very pure.

[dwilmer7]

@matsukazuhiro dude wtf does that mean?? lol

i wouldnt care if he was blind , AH smokes!!!!!!

[13guitard00d]

Thank you very much for uploading this video on Youtube,the old one was removed.

Thanks to that video I heard Allan's playing for the first time in my life.Thanks once again :).

[yukihodayo]

さすが大先生です

[AWSH17]

2:09....wtf? did he just die for a second?

[Phrygian12]

@AWSH17 oh that? he said the word "Difficult" he had to stop for a second and think what it meant.

[Phrygian12]

@AWSH17 oh that? he said the word "Difficult" he had to stop for a second and think what it meant.

[Phrygian12]

@AWSH17 oh that? he said the word "Difficult" he had to stop for a second and think what it meant.



[CherokeeMusic]

What is on his t-shirt?! That has been bugging me for years!

[mensreaman]

in my opinion.. there isn't a better example of purely genius musicianship in the universe. i LIVE by these words and this line-up of musicians. as a result of chance, this version of 'letters of marque' caught some brilliant moments. long live improv!!!

[ExtremeBogom]

Thanks for upping this man. The other one just...vanished.

[mensreaman]

i know right!!!!! i've been searching for this one for a long time now.

[44SuperShredder]

@ExtremeBogom

Noshit! I was looking everywhere ubtil I found this.

[AchillesStandsOn]

2:09 = the greatest moment in interview history

[ben666wraith]

Fucking Awesome, thanks for uploading this, long live the king of Jazz Fusion