Allan Holdsworth

Van Halen riff.

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[Viren4Pre0]

His playing is so smooth, it hardly looks like he is moving.

[AbbathGS]

Van Halen is so outmatched here it's embarassing for him...

Then again, Holdsworth is on another planet...in another dimension.

[ozmium71]

I don't like this type of music, but you must admire the talent on show, Allan Holdsworth is of course fantastic, and I thought EVH did a great job considering he is right out of his element here.

[valkour22]

This is about the worst recording ever made. I got to wonder does Allan and Edddie think this is good?? No pattern or structure at all just random notes strung together . What a joke !!!

[311superfly]

PLAY IT BETTER OR SHUT THE FUK UP .........THIS IS ALAN HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHH ENJOY THEN LISTEN TO YNGWIE!

[twst1]

can't say i care for this too much...but you won't catch me putting it down like some of the commenters here. 

[3shiftgtr]

@lazur1 As I know the story, EVH tried to help AH and got him in touch with Warners. Allan began recording what eventually became Road Games, and when EVH found out that he started without him at the helm as producer, he flagged the project with corporate and asked AH to wait until he was done with the tour. AH didn't want EVH's stamp on his music, so he stopped and they released what was already in the can as an "EP". EVH was disappointed but no hard feelings.

[3shiftgtr]

@IcolossusPSN Puh leeze....so you have transcribed some Holdsworth and some Coltrane and you can point to the same harmonic and melodic conceptualization? Explain in theory detail please......

[MrFretDoctor]

@NLPresultsnow What's amusing is that you think there is some universal "truth" to music, that some how you know "your" idea of good music is better than someone else's. That you fail to understand there's no "truth" when it comes to discussing music or any other art form just show's that you're not nearly as intelligent as you think you are! Look at all the comments here and see how many people hated this garbage. At least I qualified my remarks. Must have hit a nerve... ha ha!

[NLPresultsnow]

@MrFretDoctor always interesting to see how some people are incapable of hearing the deepest most intense emotion of some of the finest music and yet give them some basic hip hop crap and they will love it. Very amusing that every word you said is the exact opposite of the truth.

[viper1991]

I love how this shows you that even though Holdsworth's playing sounds like mindless noodling on the surface, it works perfectly with the music. Just listen to when Van Halen plays in the beginning and is obviously lost and noodling and then listen to Holdsworth's solo start at 1:55.