Allan Holdsworth- Low Levels, High Stakes REACTION & REVIEW
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I can never get enough of some Alan Holdsworth.
Allan Holdsworth - once heard, forever recognisable.
Surely that applies to countless guitarists!
@@Owlstretchingtime78 Not too many guitarists have such a distinctive sound.
Well dang, I need to listen to more Allan Holdsworth. This was amazing
Please, do that!! You won't regret it!
Yes!
“Blues for Tony”
Superb fluid playing. Good choice.
Allan's guitar solo is so emotionally charged and moves me to tears every time! 😥
I thought I had this album but no. Sounds like I need to remedy that.
I feel so fortunate to have seen Allan, love his unique playing that influenced so many. Nick, you picked a goodn. Enjoyed the mashup.
Gary Husband was part of Holdsworth's band in the early 1980's. Lately he has been part of John McLaughlin's band, playing mostly keyboards. If the guitar sound you were referring to was the part starting at 7:32, I think the sound was just the dissonance of 2 notes a semi-tone apart (C# + D) being played simultaneously with a distorted tone. Then he adds a G# to the mix. He uses the same effect later at 9:07. Because of the size of his hands, he could access many unusual combinations of notes. He had a guitar book in the 80's called "Reaching For The Uncommon Chord".
In my opinion, this is the greatest solo he ever recorded. Pure soul and emotion.
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Darned clever those Yorkshiremen! Who smoother than this cat?
Only one I can think of is another Yorkshireman, John McLaughlin. That lad from Wakefield, Bill Nelson springs to mind as well. Must be summat in't water.
Great reaction JP. Gétting more into Holdsworth myself recently. Nice accessible song and loved your commentary. New sub here. 👍
Appreciate you stopping in Eagle🦅
I really need to listen to a lot more of Alan Holdsworth. Great tune!
Great appraisal of a jazz environment with co-operative sensibilities.
Masterful all around, indeed. And oh, Holdsworth - that's easily some of the best guitar work I've ever heard, and you can say that about so much of his output that it's not funny. Without a doubt one of the greatest guitar geniuses of any time. I adore everything he did in a proggy idiom - this is just too jazz dominant to be something I would ever put on myself, but I'm very glad I heard it, and it shines oh so brightly for what it is. A real gem.
The intro, and the synthlike washes behind the bass solo etc., was Allan playing the synthaxe, so he was playing that until the guitar came in. Google the synthaxe to see what a strange looking instrument it is. Sometimes he would play it by using the breath controller tube. When he was a kid he wanted to play the sax, but a guitar was all they could afford.
I did see Allan live, very unpretentious, a great player.
The synth sound you hear is Alan on guitar or Synthaxe.
Comes in at 5:40
A great choice for a sad day. Thank you for this one.
My knowledge of Holdsworth was first with U.K., where the guys in my brothers band at the time were going on and on about him. Specifically, his left hand. Then I heard him with Bruford, which was phenomenal, along with some of his performances with Soft Machine that I saw on RUclips, and finally with his pink guitar where his solo just blew my mind, from the track called Tokyo Dream. Nick knows way more about Allan than I do, but I've seen some random videos by him here and there. I'll never know how people can get so skilled on an instrument, but there are tons of great guitar players, so it's obviously very achievable. I just wish Allan was willing to play his music more often than he did, but he hated playing the same music. He just wanted to improvise all the time, so he did, which is why he could never stay with any group. I think that's kind of sad.
Gary Husband also played with Gary Moore, whose guitar playing I find more to my liking, although I'm sure Gary Moore, like many other guitar players, picked up an idea or two from Allan Holdsworth.
Amazeballs!
No, no, he was there from the very beginning. You can hear his sounds from the synthaxe or whatever guitar Synthezizer he has used here underlaying the intro of the other musicians. When AH invites you to be part of a recording you know what's on stake and you will give nothing but a blistering performance. Your seagull comparison made it for me! From now on it will be the seagull whenever I hear it. I am an AH fan ever since BB introduced him to me and I have seen him playing three or four times live in Vienna.
Ahhhh, gotcha. I had a feeling, but qasnt quite sure lol
It is guitar for guitarists.
I'm not sure what that's meant to mean when people say that. Do you mean it can't be enjoyed otherwise, or it holds no value to anyone else?
@@latheofheaven1017 It isn't meant as a dig. It is good. I just thin,k generally, guitarists get more from it than people who are because the guitarist is going to appreciate the aspects that others miss. There are a lot of performers I like who are like that. Not popular with the public but those who know know.
So glad you’re getting into Allan’s solo albums, they really are amazing and literally life changing for musicians…he is cited as the best musician ever, up there with Coltrane…he is so important in the musical realm. There’s so many great albums but I would suggest Sand, it’s my favourite. Just 6 tracks but has so much going on and so much inventiveness. He’s using his Synthaxe a lot on this album but it just gives Allan more sounds to work with. Just listen to the title track and imagine you’re in the middle of the Sahara.
To me this was Allan's best band. Skuli [pronounced "school-ey"] Sverrisson on bass. Steve Hunt on keys. The great Gary Husband on drums (who is also amazing on keys).
This is from my favourite album of Allan's. He had got to the perfect place for me of jazziness with harmony that I can understand. It conjures up moods and dynamics that later got a little lost, I think - when he was exploring his own unique, dissonant harmony. Ruhkukah and House of Mirrors are also highlights from this album for me.
I gifted you a CD / DVD combo... Might not know about it including the DVD as it looks like a CD size wise... Extra special to see him perform live. I hope you get to check it out one day if you have not already. All the best!
Keep up the great work!
A Remark you Made live by Weather Report has always made sense to me. This made me Yearn for it.
Oh yeah.......
It is pieces like this one that influenced greatly, if not solely, my decision to once and and for all quit music and stop learning. It is from the moment I heard this and similar musical pieces that my guitar became nothing but a useless piece of furrniture in the corner of the room (and I even removed strings from it). Because it is then when I realised that there is absolutely, totally no way I would be able to learn to play the guitar (or any other instrument for that matter) to play such complicated pieces, with strange/complex chord and equally strange/complex rhythm patterns, or even if I did learn it, I would be 70 or 80 years of age because that is how long it might take to learn it. Simply put, there are Master Professors of music, and there are kindergarten kids who may never be able - or willing, or have the talent - to follow the enormously arduous and lengthy learning path to become Professors themselves. Or, in other words, one needs to know their place. I could never compare to The Masters, simply.
There were many times when I was first learning to play the guitar, particularly after seeing a live concert, I would feel like giving up. But I never quite did. And I'm glad for that. I'll never be able to play at a world-class level, but the thing about guitar is you can enjoy playing at any level.
I'll never be able to improvise a solo like, for instance, Ritchie Blackmore's solos on Lazy. But I can now play them, and it's great fun. Holdsworth will forever be way beyond me, but it doesn't matter. I can enjoy playing at the level I'm at, and if I can be disciplined enough to keep working at it, I will be better next month than I am today.
@@latheofheaven1017 I gave up the guitar some 25 years ago so I have neither the strength nor the time nor the willingness to learn now again - I would have to learn from scratch and due to may family/personal/health situation practicing for even two hours a day (and I am sure Holdsworth ractices for much longer than that to achieve the master level) is out of the question. Not to mention the fact that (I'm saying it half-seriously and half-jokingly) I am now much more drwn to learning the bass guitar. ;-)
It has the opposite effect on me even though this isn't a style of music I can really relate to or aspire to emulate. It can still inspire me to pick up a guitar and create something of my own.
Well, I like the first three minutes, which set the mood and hint at something more melodic, but I must admit that after that it descends into endless convoluted solos. Allan Holdsworth may be brilliant, and his playing unique, but it often struggles to hold my attention over the length of a piece.
The bass solo was convoluted ?
@@tszirmay The whole stuff.
I can understand that- if it twas a little shorter do you think you would've enjoyed it more?
@@JustJP Maybe because I like the general atmosphere more than the actual content, I don't know if I'm making myself clear.
@@FURDOG1961 I know that, it's The New Tony Williams Lifetime, and I have both albums.😉
Great recommendation, great channels, great conversation.
I can't say something like you took to each other like ducks to water, since then there would be confusion about who are the ducks and what's the water, or when is this one or that one being water, and when, being a duck. And then even if I escaped from that self-made duck trap somehow, you know I'd go and ruin it by posting a link to The Duck and Roger the Horse (being a song about a duck and a horse - but they're toys in a cupboard - but now I'm getting lost ... ).
Ah Ha! You're ducks on the same _Pond_ ! (By accident did this cunning come to me.)
(Forgot to mention this, because I got stuck on some or other little hobby horse of mine halfway through.)
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@@JustJP If it strides nobly like a duck, and if it sings beautifully like a duck, then for all practical purposes it _is_ duck. A strange guy called Guido said something like that, once. I forget the exact wording.
@@sicko_the_ew sounds about right to me🤭
Jazz-rock. Great guitar playing. I prefer Brand X, more melodic.
However technically excellent the musicianship is, it does nothing for me if it appears to be just showing off with no emotional centre or hook. This leaves me cold.
More jazz fusion! And I have to beg to differ re the 'greatly coherent' bit. We know they're brillian musso's but would've been nice if they'd taken the time to come up with a tune. 9 mins of random, and largely directionless (if high level) noodling. These days it just leaves me a little flat.
Absolutely. As somebody else said it's music for guitarists!
I hear ya. Sometimes I like noodles, sometimes it leaves me feeling a bit bloated. Today, the ziti was properly baked 🍝😉
@@JustJP I have, and still do to a degree, worship at the alter of top noodlers. In this case though if felt a little meandering, and lacking in emotion. And for me, emotionless noodling is at the lower level of the noodling scale 🙂
Nonsense., fergs.3202. The playing is full of direction, with each soloist paying attention to the chords/harmony they're playing over. Coherent is exactly the right word.
@@latheofheaven1017 the bass wasn't bad, but A.H. may as well have just been practicing scales.