Yeah, Holdsworth was playing the most incredible stuff even around 1974. I remember buying "Road Games" in the 80's and playing the solo's on there to other guitarists and most couldn't really understand it and the response was "Is he just playing anything" or "It's so unemotional" and that's how original his style was back then. I remember also buying an American guitar magazine "Guitar world" and Allan was on the front cover and it had a really great interview and a look at at his style and I knew then that he was going to be one of the greats. Yes, but like you said back then we only heard about the names of these players from the magazines and then we had to go out and search for records, tapes or cd's because that was the only way to hear them. Having said it was a magical time👍

Hi Shane, Yeah, it really takes you back, magical times!👍

Yeah, I first saw him on a tv show called the tube and nobody had ever seen anything like it before, I mean me and my mate who also played guitar were speechless! it was like , "Oh we have to learn guitar all over again" lol, and I went out and bought the album "Magic touch" straight away. 👍

Thanks Richard!👍

Yeah, a trip down memory lane. Everything seemed so new and exciting back then. The guitars, the players, and the albums, magical times👍

Yeah, after Van Halen and the Kramer Baretta guitar everything changed and seemed to be changing every week. It was great! ....In the old days the only way to get information and learn the stuff was either from the American guitar magazines or the American Hot licks type videos or cassettes with the little work books with them. Nowadays, everything can be learnt very quickly as there is an overload of content available online with google/youtube etc. Also, nowadays it can all be had for free.....But, the 80's guitar world felt special and there really was an air of excitement about every new player or guitar or album, great days!. 👍

Yeah, it all came from hours of live playing I would imagine. Also, the albums were made really quickly especially the Mike Varney ones. I think in a lot of cases the guitarist or group flew out to LA and literally got off the plane and recorded whole albums in 2 days. But that's definitely what made it great because it was expressive, raw and you could really feel that live in the moment vibe to it . I also like Gary Moore in the "Colessium" [War Dance] days. 👍

​@@CliffordMartinOnline a bit ike the way you'd record jazz lol

Yeah, that's it! I used to love those, they were quite diverse. It's how I got to hear all the new players of the time from Danny Gatton to Eliot Fisk to Frank Gambale for the first time.👍

@@CliffordMartinOnline My friend Todd in Minneapolis has a set of pretty much all of them.

@@Wizardofgosz Hey, that's great!..I wish I kept all of mine and the magazines but they all got lost when I moved in the early 2000's. 👍

@@CliffordMartinOnline I had a weird linear tracking turntable that made it difficult to play those. The player automatically was set to remove the tone arm in the needle for records like 45s and be sound pages made the tonearm move even closer to the center of the turntable than 45s would. Mine turntable just automatically ejected towards the end and I never got to hear the end of them.

@@CliffordMartinOnline somebody must have the master tapes to all this stuff. And wonder if guitar player or anybody else transferred them to digital and posted them somewhere.