What a quote, David. 😅

He didn't sound anything like him

@@faustinogiancola9814it’s kind of like with Clapton. Ed sounded nothing like Slow Hand but was so inspired by him. Same thing with Holdsworth.

Holdsworth was the master. Shreds of moods. The notes flowed so easily out of his guitar like a waterfall. Pure emotion, along with stunning technique. He wanted to play sax originally. He incorporated the sound into his guitar technique in such a beautiful way as we know.

I know that he put so much effort into something that he didn’t really like, to the point of becoming the monster musician he was, ti think about that is mind boggling!

@@ChromaticHarp I chalk that sentiment of his up to his cultural and intellectual perspective. being that he was so virtuosic in all aspects of music, he would have some contempt directed towards the limitations of his instrument based on that.

its more how he felt before headless guitars.. he just doesnt want to discourage young players who couldnt get one

I completely get it. Guitar sucks. But it’s great too.

He was from Bradford in West Yorkshire so he had the accent.

I remember the store, I used to go there in the 90’s

Other worldly, as many have described him!

I think that’s Chad Wackerman

​@@leeroyjenkees4795It certainly is! Also a graduate of the Frank Zappa school of music. 😂

HEY you're young. Looking at Allan. Very lucky. Get on with it. Good luck. Don't worry.

Allan didn't even start playing until he was 17. You are light-years ahead of most. PRACTICE! I was doing at 17 what I am doing (practice wise) at 32. You're at a prime age to make incredible progress.

Wait what? No way. Whats the benefit of doing that to the beer? Im genuinely interested as, i am a beer drinking guitarist lol

@@Aerlioz i don’t know what the benefit is, to me it was warm, kind of flat beer. Alan was known as a beer guy, he brewed his own beer and his home recording studio was called ‘the Brewery’ ….one if his books had a chapter on beer…so I wasn’t surprised he talked to me about beer! Try the Torpedo thing I wrote about, you may like it! Keep playing your Guitar and never stop! Dave Hart

So true! He was absolutely in his own space, brilliant!

Thank God his dad didn’t buy him a saxophone…

he was a genius. he was the one.

Robert glasper

He couldn't even read/write staff notation with much speed or facility, he just played structures he liked the sound of and then came up with his own systems to build and categorise them. It's outstanding, and academia is only beginning to catch up - there are a small handful of masters dissertations and one PhD on his music so far.

@@reubennb2859 i suspect the no one will ever fully grasp what he was doing. He was from another galaxy.

People asked him theory questions at clinics before and he's just like "I don't know, I just try to noodle around and make melody with the thing." I mean, he understood "theory," but he just didn't care to think about it once he learned it. He was all intuition and deep emotion. I always cringe when people with no ears say he just plays "random notes" or without emotion. Allan was deeper than the ocean, as far as emotion goes.

@@lex.cordis gahhhh!! I hate that too. Like these tasteless fanatics who think that anything other than recycled Eric Clapton licks is “soulless.” I mean I love the blues too but there’s other avenues to explore ya know.

Yes! Maybe what’s most incredible to me is how he improvises over those chords. He weaves in and out of them in a way I’ve never heard another guitarist do. And the way he would substitute chords live sometimes to slightly alter the feel of a certain section of a song. And his sense of rhythm/pocket is unreal. The more I listened to his music, the more I realized just how incredible he was at modulating the rhythm during solo lines while still creating melodic leads and resolving them exactly where it they work best. Allan never played on top of the music he wrote, he played inside of it. He understood it in a way that nobody else does. Unlike many “technical” guitarists, Allan’s technique never compromised the music itself, it was always tasteful and always soulful. The Bach comparisons you made is completely accurate. Allan is one of the greatest musicians of all time 😁

And nothing else...

Not only did he die broke but his hometown Bradford doesn't even know who he is.

It wasn’t really that unusual. Committed artists never make money while they’re alive.

me too!

lightyears ahead. but great quote nonetheless 😊

@@NeilRaoufIf he’s back on his home planet, I hope to be abducted one day, so he can finally explain all of this madness.❤

Hubiera sido encima de lo demás!

How so?

de nada senior

Wack Chaderman and Bundt Loopglass

LOL @Stumpchunkman226 ... On bass is Skuli Sverrisson, and Steve Hunt is the keyboardist. :)

@@ChromaticHarp learn my dick first bitch

It's a Steinberg i believe

Seems like a Steinberger model M, from the 80's, when it was still owned by Ned Steinberger himself. It is only a shadow of its former self now since Gibson bought it.

Actually🤓 the guitar he has in this video is complete custom made Bill Delap guitar for himself. An amazing musical machine. He was only seen playing the L series steinberger which today, costs an unbelievable price pre-“music yo”

@@Aerlioz Thaks for the correction. I'll look up this guitar.

@@kaioocarvalho Alex Machacek who is also an inovator in the world guitar enthusiast in the world of jazz was deeply inspired by Allan and also had one those guitars. Check him out!

I have searched and searched for what he was talking about there. The only thing I could come up with was: Messiaen's modes of limited transposition

He shows lydian dim Aka lydian b3 or Melodic minor #4 I like to think of it as Dorian #4 natural 7 It's the 4th mode of harmonic major 12345b67 Mode 2 Dorian b5 Mode 3 phrygian b4 Mode 4 lydian b3 Mode 5 mixolydian b2 Mode 6 aeolian b1 (lydian Aug #9) Mode 7 locrian bb7

what is advance for you buddy?

Im just joking daniel.

@@purpleskunk6327 I know youre jokin..anyways😜

😂

get yourself a ken smith and be sculi sverrison lol

looks like Skuli is playing an old Tobias here. on an active bass, favor the bridge pickup - maybe not all the way but 75% or so - cut your highs, crank the lows and mids. pluck near the bridge

I’ll help you - it’s trash. Welcome!

this is a horrible performance from allan and his band, and i'm a fan. he's admitted to being nervous, and hence overplays when filmed. his best work is as a guest since most of his songs are barely songs and more tone poems, but yeah, he does lots of chromatic noodling nonsense in this video, chad is often awesome but he's poinding the shit out of the drums in the most unmusical way. steve's lead tones are really boring . skuli is the best part of the video, worth a minute of time, but the music is so chaotic. @@Stumpchunkman226

Hahahaha! This guy....