Jeff Watson/Allan Holdsworth - Forest of Feeling

3rd Track from the "Lone Ranger" album Jeff trades solo's with none other than Allan Holdsworth to great effect, mixing his tapping licks and some wicked speed picking to keep up with Allan's usual otherwordly legato stylings.

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• Jeff
• Watson
• Tapping
• Allan
• Holdsworth
• Shred

[CherokeeMusic]

On Allan's website, he says he regretted recording this. I can see why. I like Jeff Watson, but Holdsworth's playing reflects how. . . 'not at home' he felt. Not that it doesn't sound good. . . He probably didn't want people calling him a shredder. This is just like Eric Johnson performing on John 5's last album. Weird.

[MercutioUK2006]

Absolutely!

Jeff's production didn't seem to help and this isn't the best collaboration with a shredder Allan ever made.

[giantrobot9000]

Also my favorite track on the album, mostly because of Holdsworth's contribution. He just tears into the solo like usual, but this time the backing is a little more "standard" so the effect is pretty awesome, hearing him playing over that kind of stuff. Watson himself is a beast, and this album is an underrated classic, in my opinion. Definitely one of the best rock guitar instrumental albums of that era.

Still trying to nail the Don't Tell Me You Love Me lick at his speed. Damn.

[MercutioUK2006]

Absolutely Sir :)

Jeff is such an great player and for someone with the track record he's had there's suprisingly little out there in terms of hard information on his style. I think that the contrasts between himself and Allan are quite stark and that really does add a depth to the track without descending into a competition.

I'm trying to track down "Rodo Lana" (Play that funky music) which was another collaboration of theirs.

[SweeetPicker]

Jeff Watson Unicorn attack !

[johnnyrocksable]

They both sounded great on this cut. Allan due to his high level of creativity was always 2nd guessing his work at a later date. He hated lyrics in his songs but the producers wanted it to sell more albums. I read in an article that Allan once said he hated the sound of the guitar and would never play one again. I think they are 2 very talented guitarists. One more than the other. One day when Allan is gone people will look back and be glad this recording was made.

[stefanakisguitar]

@ShredReviews yes, you're absolutely right. Please note I didn't say that the man is bad.

[ShredReviews]

@stefanakisguitar

Better than badly-executed classic rock clichés :)

[stefanakisguitar]

boring. boring. boring

[jimmessina]

that intro sound exactly like van halen's Top Jimmy

[pebberbrown]

Holdsworth has a much wider and deeper pallette of notes he can use and color a solo than ANY metal shred guy - way more patterns (and some of them are very very different and difficult for ANY guitar player to play) - Its like doing a math test on SPOCK - you have no idea how far his actual knowledge and skill go!!! AT least Jeff Watson got him to do it! Thats pretty cool of Allan to agree to it - maybe he likes Watson.

[CallistoAshus]

Holdsworth's playing is really strange here... which makes it more typical

[SevenCircles]

@CherokeeMusic

Sounds great to me but I think a lot of Allan´s albums are too jazzy.

[YngtchieMusic]

This recording makes Allan sound human. And not in a good way.