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Allan Holdsworth Part 4 Robben Ford: the "John Coltrane of the guitar,"
1st studio recording:
Who says a jazz guitarist can't play rock? Pentatonic? No Problemo!
and live with 2nd guitarist... listening it's clear which guitarist is which...
w/Soft Machine
Velvet Darkness a rehearsal recorded and released w/out Allan's OK. *He HATED this album
personally I see it as his bridge to the next level...
w/Tony Williams
w/John Stevens ~ mellow
w/GONG
w/Jean Luc Ponty
w/ Bill Bruford
w/UK (Allan "phoned in" his parts)
w/Chad Wackerman
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kHYYBECpmRBmBYi5jbcOr6tLKKvO6PWYk
w/ Level 42 "Guaranteed"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi-Y73aIHeoMqWTjyVxcZV1iu1YhUFdFI
Fat Tire Music for a Non-existent Movie
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6BJDwjHtzCrTgAQgVms-u18RTlUVaz1U
w/Planet X
Other stuff:
Allan playing SynthAxe
Allan playing with Zappa
Steve Vai talks about meeting Allan
Whew (!) Well it's obviously not complete, however I feel I have given the reader/listener
a good grounding in Allan's eclectic recordings over the span of his career. As a semi-pro guitarist
of 60+ years I still revere his work. I did get to see him play twice. The 2nd time was in 2008;
got to shake his hand and thank him for the soundtrack of my life...he had BIG hands, I still can't
play some of his damn chords!
unfortunately I had spent my last pennies (I did say I was a musician didn't I?)
for gas to get to the concert so I couldn't invite him to a pub for an ale
Maybe if Allan had moved to Europe he could have found his audience like the jazz horn players of the 50's
and black blues guitarists of the 60's (think Buddy Guy! "Stone Free"
Enjoy!
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