Allan Holdsworth & Soft Machine ~ Floating World Bundles

[sepulchre10]

Reminds me a little of Mahavishnu Orchestra.

[usergently]

@sepulchre10 And Shadowfax.

[CusterFlux]

WARNING: Prolonged Exposure time travels one back to a false wood paneled basement, with a camel hair couch & waterbed: one black light poster will be added for each additional minute. ( fear not: eventually somebody trips over the bong-hose & breaks the spell ).

Don't believe me? How else do you think these guys got so good?

( they kept going back )

Any minute now ;)

[aeroglifo]

dat shirt

[redneckblacklabel]

that poor SG.

take it away from this ponce and give it to Tony Iommi. then it'd be like your wife getting hammered all night by a black pornstar on 200mg of Viagra and an 8th of blow.

which is what she really wants anyway.

[loknloll]

Iommi would make that little white SG his bitch.

best comment ever, redneckblacklabel

[sludgefingers]

@redneckblacklabel I don't like to knock Tony Iommi - any guitarist who makes his own fingertips and glues them on is OK by me - but this video is among the best piece of electric guitar playing you will ever see anywhere. (BTW my wife's getting bored of all that stuff).

[loknloll]

@sludgefingers i'm sorry man. but most of us wouldn't even call that guitar playing where i come from. he might as well be playing a triangle for all i care.

[b16bubu]

@loknloll with all respect for your opinion, maybe you should check Allan Holdsworth playing with the band UK " In the dead of night " and listen to the solo combined with the magic sound of Bill Bruford and Co, and maybe you'll realise that you cannot compare Tony Iommi whom I love anyway to a totally different musician like Allan. Explore my friend and maybe you'll like what you hear.

[redneckblacklabel]

@b16bubu oh, you holdsworth fans are all so darned polite! my provoking and belittling and trolling gets me nowhere with you people!!

[Adamboms]

@redneckblacklabel ya sorry about that, try trolling Metallica videos, those guys get PISSED

[Listendudeok]

@redneckblacklabel You're a dumbass ordinary, vulgar person, that's all. Plus, you seem to lack of sexual knowledge, quite embarrassing for you, isn't it? Why must we always read about sexual crap, especially when Holdsworth is concerned? Why dont you just go hear your goddamn Tony Iommy why watching porn, but for fuck's sake, don't be vulgar and ordinary in public, when Holdsworth is concerned.

[sasquatchgeoff]

Nobody, I mean nobody rips a scale like Holdsworth.

[sasquatchgeoff]

Robert Wyatt, percussionist.

[taoart71]

wow whos the drummer??? a master piece¡¡¡¡¡

[TSEVAR]

@taoart71 john marshall

[SeerTrulth]

Crazy taping team on this. It's a masterpiece of good video practices.

[SeerTrulth]

I like the sounds that sweep-picking gives my ear, but I don't endorse the trick. Play a gut note instead.

[drj602]

I love it.....there are moments here and there that remind me of Jan Akkermann. I love the more lightly dressed tones of this period. Thank you for posting this; it's gold GOLD !

[Sparkles713]

Oh my word- Allan Holdsworth on vocals- that is gold

[jazzpsalti]

lotta hipsters dressing like these guys, but we all know nobody today is as cool as these guys

[oddfellowfloyd]

@jazzpsalti: Haha, definitely nowhere NEAR as awesome as these gentlemen! ;)

[jazzpsalti]

@oddfellowfloyd yeah back then you had to be talented to dress like that

[oddfellowfloyd]

@jazzpsalti: This video inspired me to go hunting for a vintage '70's shirt, haha :P If I manage to find one, I hope it'll go with my dark grey/green Ibanez RG7620 or my 7-string acoustic, hehe!

[jas123ke2]

I know that what Allan is doing here is fast legato, and that itself is much more than just shredding on guitar, but seeing as though this footage was done around about 1974, would this be considered the earliest early Shred Guitar?

I already know that Uli Roth, Blackmore and Al Di Meola contributed to Shred in the 70's...

[Kingding6]

@jas123ke2 lifeson was shreddin in 74

[keo774]

@jas123ke2 @Kingding6 guys, mclaughlin started shredding with tony willliams and miles davis in the late 60's!!!

[jas123ke2]

@keo774 Ah, interesting to hear! Will check them out later.

[keo774]

@jas123ke2 check out these miles davis albums: bitches brew and in a silent way... they are fucking masterpieces :D

[Samsgarden]

Pre-dates shredding by twenty years and still manages to sound melodic.

[ZeppelinRules]

I just love his facial expressions.  You can tell he means every single note.

[MrEasymac5]

i have watched this video 20+ times and i still get goosebumps when it goes past 5:00

[swingmanu]

what an excellent playing!!! He was far ahead at the time... excelent technique of course, but a complex melodic style that could still be followed... I must admit I don't enjoy his more recent playing, since the 80's

[mahajohn]

The combination of his fluidity and the SG give him a bit of a McLaughlin sound here. One this is for certain: I should have been practicing my Paganini and Charlie Parker and John Coltrane solos when I was learning guitar as a kid!

[swingmanu]

@mahajohn sorry to say it but neither Coltrane nor Paganini have much to do with this style. Still you may learn a few new things that'll make you sound different...

[binky69]

@swingmanu holdsworth has said himself many times he doesn't like the gutiar and would of rather played a horn growing up and can attune most of his style to trying to make the guitar sound like a horn player. he listened to alot of coltrane and other horn players growing up

[swingmanu]

@binky69 he doesn't sound like a horn though!

[binky69]

@swingmanu umm a guitar isn't gonna sound like a horn silly.. but his note choice when soloing has a very distinctive horn vibe about it... most jazz soloist try to immitate horn and sax lines when soloing... by note choice .. not to have the same tamber as a horn

[captainsurfcaster]

@binky69

The sound he uses these days has a very soft attack and is fairly muted - very similar to a horn. I've read many interviews with him in which he says that he has been trying over the years to get his guitar to sound more like a sax - which was his instrument before guitar. How close to a horn a guitar can ever get is debatable, but A.H. is trying. And what you say about note choice is spot-on.

[binky69]

@captainsurfcaster haha thanks man. i was mearly trying to get swingmanu to understand its about note choice mostly .. not tambre

[binky69]

@swingmanu holdsworth has said himself many times he doesn't like the gutiar and would of rather played a horn growing up and can attune most of his style to trying to make the guitar sound like a horn player. he listened to alot of coltrane and other horn players growing up, holdsworth is also very fond of the violin

[sludgefingers]

@binky69 Yeah he bought a violin in Sunderland when he was in a Mecca band, little red one from a second-hand shop, got to pro standard in about 6 months but eventually dropped it. I think he played it on Velvet Darkness.

[benaberry]

they guy can sing!!! you kidding me......awe, complete awe!

[djentlekat]

i dont hear any guitar i dont hear any keys i dont hear drums i dont hear any vocals nor do i hear any instrument, i just can hear one thing and that is music, pure beautiful music.

[chatelet55]

@djentlekat plus 1 dildo whistling in the audience

[djentlekat]

@chatelet55 : i thought i had tinitus

[ambientgreg]

So this is where Tortoise came from..

[watchyourmusic1]

truely ahead of his time.....this must be just before he joined TEMPEST-

For a short time a band that featured both Holdsworth AND Hallsall.

Now that video would be amazing to see!

[gtr1359]

@watchyourmusic1 temoest was 1972-this is 76 i believe

[gtr1359]

@watchyourmusic1 temoest was 1972-this is 76 i believe-ollie jpoined after holdsworth left

[Biambu]

I 1st saw Allan in 1982..I was in 8th grade. I took a bus up to Cotati to see this guitar player who seemed to play things that at the time seemed impossible. Allan, Chad and Jimmy proceeded to change the way I heard, played and felt music. Many have told me that Holdsworth's soloing is just to many notes..and I get it, but I've always felt that he just feels what he plays and be it 1 note or many his eyes are closed and he's letting himself express..and to me that's what music is all about.

[Billerd21]

Ahahaha only one person is clapping at 10:18!

[Kuzalias]

5:18 O_O

[rarch1968]

Although his tone these days is beyond belief, I love hearing holdsworth's early tones...they're a bit more guitaristic as opposed to the airy, fluid tones he uses now. You'd never hear him using this sort of tone now...he'd probably think it of it as a crass, unrefined tone limited by the technology of the day!

[dontillman]

@rarch1968 He has worked profoundly hard to make his guitar sound horn-like. The other part of it is that he is BIG on legato which is a challenge playing-wise and effect-wise. Cheers!

[SmelOdies]

@rarch1968 You could say the same for Jerry Garcia and the way he "developed" his tone over the years.

[rarch1968]

@SmelOdies Definitely, as do all the greats!

[sasquatchgeoff]

@rarch1968 I look at it as his "tonal journey" - his massive talent had to be contained in that thick, ballsy jazzy motif so that he could literally explore his chops without tearing something up. Like climbing the tonal mountain to a plateau. On the way up, he encountered Tony Williams and the rest is history.

[tanngard]

@rarch1968 May be he cant play it anymore?he he?

[mikio158cm]

化け物。

[ArpeggioBear]

Allan and Wes are one of my jazz inspiration

[LukeSniper]

It's insane that his technique was this well developed back then.

[GerardRebours]

Allan's playing precision is quite amazing. The drummer is not bad, too !

[szelidrocker]

Yngwie Malmsteen? Kirk Hammet? Slash? Angus Young? Forget it! 

[theripper013ok]

@szelidrocker yngwie still can do amazing things

[Easleytee]

@szelidrocker

Shawn Lane.

Done.

[jbankens5150]

@szelidrocker For real!

[Falcon191172]

I have the Bundles Album = In my Opnion one of the most important jazz fusion records of all time !

[jm31563]

One of my guitar heros!

[sam31]

god