ALLAN HOLDSWORTH California 1984 rare live dvd

[palipao]

Yes, I think it's Young Tom :) Amazing isn't it...

[tcmdrumz]

Tom Brechtlein on drums...??



[matt89102]

Awesome footage. I got to see Allan and Kei Akagi oncce at the Coach House for Atavachron or Sand Tour.

[17017919]

Awesome video!

[TheZyAzZ]

C'est Hulk!!!

So good!!

[tacomadc]

I saw Holdsworth TWICE with his Jeff Berlin band, and I can't wonder for the life of me why a definitive live recording of this amazing band has never been released!

[semiprecioustones]

So great . It's wonderful to see different shades and eras of his ever rippingness

[alexbruce9]

All the musicians are on Fire!!!! Keyboard on the Rhodes, Bass player, drummer. This piece sounds like it inspired Return to Forever, another amazing group of musicians. I had the good fortune of seeng live in the beggining, what a show!!!

[alexbruce9]

One of my favorite guitar palyers from back in "the day" 70's and still today I have him in my top 20... of all time great guitar players.

[spektor88]

Who's on bass?

[bassweld]

@spektor88 That's Bunny Brunel on bass. He's got his own Carvin model bass. I had no idea he and Allan played together. COOOL!!!

[drkam6]

This is the most intense Holdsworth performance I've ever seen! Young, bold and playing his Ibanez AH-10!

[beeroux]

Uhh, that's Tommy Brechtlein!

[TheWacky46]

Whoever posted this, IT'S NOT 1984. It has to be after March of '85 because I was was at GIT all through '84 and he never visited at all during that year. HOWEVER, I saw him play 2 killer shows in LA in early '85. First one was a concert at NAMM '85 in Anaheim and the 2nd at the Beverly Hills Theater. Both shows were 3 weeks apart.

Also, Holdsworth was not playing those signature Ibanez axes until '85.

[paulj0557]

@TheWacky46 Yes he did, I was at GIT in fall of 84' and this is the old actors stage room. I started reading this before I looked at the video to make sure I was right. Yep- that Asian keyboard player was on the left. It could have been in early 85' as i started in the Fall 84', but this is the old GIT without a doubt. I'm much younger, but over there on the left. You won't remember me, I was probably the least on-fire guitar player at the school- never wanted to be. Picked up theater organ- 96'

[funkeemon]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????

[Bflatest]

what scale is he using here I want to learn this????

[lidesnowi]

@Bflatest Are you serious? LOL

[ConspireToConspire]

@Bflatest all of them. haha.

[Modes9]

The trading between Kei and Allan at the end were worth watching the whole thing.

[racecar06]

@mranamtip :\ it's an Ibanez  AH-10, very different to the roadstar series.

These guitars are hollow chamber built. The roadstar are solid body guitars.

[ntesslafan]

I can't see clearly, but i wonder if the keyboard player is Kei Akagi? It does look like a young Chad Wackerman. Great clip. Thanks for posting. I never tire of watching/listening to Allan do his thing.

[Eflatmajor7sharp11]

Is that a 10 year-old Chad Wackerman?

[mranamtip]

I'll be damned. An Ibanez Roadstar!

[spider62able]

I saw Holdsworth in 1992 Ft Lauderdale and he was amazing! Me and three friends got to see him soundcheck before the show(we were the only one's there) too cool. By the way the guitar he playing in the video is the short lived signature Ibanez. 

[hallmanjon]

anyone know who is playing keys here? His comping is really pushing Allan, which is really awesome to see.

[durtmagert]

It's the Sheets of sound thing that gets the whole Coltrane/Holdsworth comparison going. Other than that, the music is different. No one was playing the guitar this way before Holdsworth. Just like Trane, he elevated his art to another level all together. Allan did/does love Trane, he definitely was influenced by him coming in the 60's, how could you not be!!!

[durtmagert]

too bad the audio quality sucks here, cant here Allan too well

[funkeemon]

This band is smoking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wellbourne1]

How can such an immense talent bore the pants of me in the manner that this fellow does?

[vetmusician]

@wellbourne1 you need a pretty advanced set of ears harmonically, i went through the same thing you did, ........only i was 9 when i first heard him, and i thought it was alien music.........lol, i grew to understand what was going on, now i cant get enough........lol, i think allan broke my brain....lol

[casanovajako]

@vetmusician I second that. Also went through this stage while I just could not grasp all the modulations, tritone, dissonances, passing notes, etc. Having said that Holdsworth instrumental music is still very "shreddy" and close to freestyle, so is at times is not gonna be easy to digest.

[BluePRSDude]

I grew up with Shawn Lane. We saw Holdsworth with UK at the Orpheum in Memphis with opening act Larry Raspberry & The High Steppers. After seeing Holdsworth, Shawn went home and totally changed his approach to guitar. I'm just sad that he didn't live long enough to see things like this. He would have loved this stuff.

[playguitarlars]

nice jeans old man...

[jiveturkeynjunk]

his pants are too tight

[mancini2468]

@IcolossusPSN Listen to what guys like John McLaughlin and others who've created amazing music for many years have said about Allan. Nothing wrong with Coltrane at all, but you are perfectly incorrect. Allan is very unique, has created an astounding body of work and is somehow humble enough to not think all that much of his own playing.

[carcassgrindcorpsesc]

who is the drummer? he is fantastic

[namklak6]

Is that Kei Akagi on keys? Oops, reading below it probably is...

Shame on me - I never heard of Brunel untli CAB.

I don't think it's bad that Coltrane was in influence on AH.

[fusioniskey]

WOW NEVER SAW THIS,, THANK YOU DUDE !!!!!! YOU THE MAN

[guitarran]

@IcolossusPSN If you're going to criticize you ought to focus more on constructive remarks rather than slinging insults. Coltrane compositions, really? 1982 I.O.U. record? Had anyone heard chordal work like that before? No! Holdsworth created a guitar style uniquely his own, and everyone from Frank Zappa to Neal Schon has attested to that. You know, those important people that other people actually pay attention too. Sounds to me that opinion isn't the only thing your full of.

[pobinr]

@guitarran Agree this on Holdsworth plays Coltrane licks is BS. He's his own man. Like you said I never heard chords like that on iOU from Cotrane nor from any other jazz cliche merchant either & that's what most jazzers are. They just play cliches. Holdsworth's a breath of fresh air !

As he himself once said. He's the true improviser. Heck if you just play cliches as most jazzers do, then your not really improvising 

[guitarran]

@pobinr Thanks for chiming in pobinr, I really don't get the negative reactions of some people about most things, if they don't like it fine, but no reason to be insulting. If you go to this persons channel you would think it odd that they would use a Coltrane reference. I heard a person say to Allan that they thought him to be a modern day Coltrane,and he took that as a compliment. I find it most likely this person wasn't even born at the time of the I.O.U. release. A case of youthful folly?

[OceanderTethyseus]

what is up with his crotch at 0:33 ???

it looks like a severely deformed cameltoe.

[Raibeign]

@OceanderTethyseus THE 80'S HAPPENED!

[OceanderTethyseus]

he is the same color as the incredible hulk

[biologicalmachine]

great video!!!!

[StromboliKicks]

thanks!

[matt89102]

Great Vid, I got to see Allan with Kei Akagi at The Coachhouse for the Sand or Atavachon Tour. 

[PhuckHue2]

GREAT!

[tyrannicoystercult]

keyboardist goes mad at 7:10!!! nice to hear the guys go all out

[mireguitarsolo]

Thanx 4 this vid. Never saw Allan so alive.Super!

[durtmagert]

His love of Coltrane is readily apparent!!! I used to have one of those AH10 Ibanez guitars too, nice guitar!!!

[nylonsteel]

Love holdsworths style of "naa I wont play no stinking D penta" ;)

[metalfatigue217]

Wow. He's killing it here. Great stuff!