There is chops......then there is Holdsworth in the early eighties....... without peer...

Wow - if people wanted to hear what the Holdsworth fuss was all about I'd point them to this - totally on fire and the band is equally inspiring. So tight and blasting holes in the clouds. Wish we had a soundboard recording of this show - wow!

Allan was the proof of extra terrestrial form of life

Even to this day this music is still ahead of its time…Allan is unbelievable on this.

'Home' a year before it appeared on metal fatigue. I recall seeing the IOU material live before album was released. Then later in mid 80s atavacron material a year or so before it came out. Feel it was a privilege really.

Allan's monstrous solos are simply breathtaking and horrifying at the same time... Just wow! He is simply ripping out. 🎸 🔥 ⚡ 🎶 🙏 (r.i.p...)

MY GOD!!! AMAZING KILLER SHOW! LETTERS OF MARQUE ALLAN´S SOLO IS OUT OF THIS WORLD, ALWAYS AHEAD OF EVERYONE! IMPPOSIBLE TO BELIEVE! ALLAN...COME BACK AGAIN PLEASE!

The beginning of AH/JJ, and his bass note choices that stunned the world!

so amazing. This man has hundreds of chords & weaves them perfectly through improvision. It's his world & he's the sorcerer that bends his own reality for us all.

I was at this show, just mind-blowing. I think this was when he played the Synth Axe on stage.

0:00 Shallow Sea 7:32 Tokyo Dream 14:21 Road Games 18:45 White Line 25:53 Panic Station 30:26 Letters Of Marque 41:35 Home 48:00 Devil Take the Hindmost 54:23 Material Reel 1:02:34 Metal Fatigue 1:08:55 Stop Fiddlin’ / Gas Lamp Blues

Allan is absolutely on fire the entire show, but my goodness that Letters of Marquee solo is beyond insane. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to witness it live.

Disneyland really was the happiest place on earth when Allan holdsworth played there.

The audience sounds at the beginning of 'Home' match the studio version haha

This is gold!!!..priceless if there's video. Thanks for sharing. Long live the maestro!

Thanks so much for sharing these! AH&IOU shows from 1984 are pretty hard to come by, I'm more than happy with any quality. A unique feature of this gig: For the intro to 'Material Real', Allan liked to improvise orchestral chords using heavy delay and volume pedal. In this show, he begins with the motif from the song they had just finished, 'Devil Take The Hindmost' (@54:24) A typical feature of the beginning of most Holdsworth gigs: To test his clean guitar sound, he almost always played that E Maj7 (add 2nd). From lowest to highest strings, that would be E-B-F#-G#-D#-E. I've lost count of how many audience recordings from this era begin with that chord.

Love the audience reactions, they're INTO it!!! Allan sounds really great here, sounds like they were having a fun time!

Fascinating.

What a great groove performance. Thank you for sharing!

This is stunning for all the obvious reasons, but I particularly love it because it matches in fidelity a boot my brother taped at a Philadelphia gig of this tour at the Chestnut Cabaret (except the crowd is far less boisterous, shouting stuff like, " NO VAN HAELN TONIGHT!"). I know every second of that show, and this gig gives me the same sort of goosebumps.

A rare performance of "Home". Wow!

Brilliant

God Bless you for sharing this. Sublime

This is pure gold and nectar from the Holdsworthian treasure trove. Love the IOU era Rockin' vibes and JJ/Wackerman is my favorite lineup as well. So many goosebumps from this... The wailing solo on White Line is just outrageous! Haven't heard such on any other version. Thank you to the uploader!

This is the best!!!❤

Still my favorite lineup. RIP Allan and Paul, dearly missed. Top of their game on this set. This music is timeless and limitless.

what an extremely nice concert!! mindblowing..... what a start!! so cool! think is the best I have ever heard and will ever hear.

holy shit, that white line solo.

Fabulous performance!

thanks for this one

Damn. Is this good. No words. And the audience…beautiful! Thanks for sharing this Gem 💎 Mike (again)!

Sweet AH setlist!

Incredible. Maybe the best version of DTTH I’ve ever heard. Thank you.

This is superb. Thank you so much for uploading.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thanks so much for the post. My favorite lineup for sure. We miss you Alan.

I was there 😎

Thanks for uploading this!

Un fuckin believe able ❤

Wow. Just wow.

Grandmaster Allan on 🔥

This is incredible! Great post!

Amazing

Are there any recordings of Allan and Gary or Chad and Jimmy and Sculli and Steve at the Jazz Cafe in Camden in the early 90's please. Being an Englander,I saw all his gigs there,and they were all MAGNIFICENT TO SAY THE LEAST

Or 29/03/1984 for everyone living outside of the USA...

Was this recorded during winter NAMM?

Читал несколько интервью AH. То ли сам Маэстро немногословен и скромен, то ли журналисты не залезли к нему в душу - почему распался первый состав U.K., кто там кого обидел, что они не поделили? Почему? Зачем??? Нет ответа. И Bill Bruford об этом ни слова. Ужас. Тайна покрытая мраком. Главное, даже если провести тщательное расследование, кто посужил причиной крушения такого монстра, двоих участников ужк нет - они на небесах

Do you have any recordings from the Golden Bear in the ‘81-‘84 time period?

ughhhh

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Una falta de respeto la gente hablando mientras los músicos tocan.

Obnoxious American audience/crowd. As Allan would have said , " we made tens and tens of dollars on that gig..."

Highlights were Shallow sea,(especially @ 4:05) Letters of Margue and DTTH.