Allan Holdsworth performs with bassist Jimmy Johnson & drummer Gary Husband on 2009-10-11 at the Baked Potato in Los Angeles, CA. Posted for pure enjoyment without thought of financial gain. I do not own the copyright in this recording.
I love that Allan looks so happy throughout the whole video. He made a whole hell of a lot of people happy in his lifetime. Thanks so much for posting.
AH is my musical father. Loved and learned so much from this man. Don't play like him at all but have taken many things of his and made them my own. Even though it was very infrequent I loved spending time with him too. Miss him dearly.
I could never understand this bloke's music, now it seems like a logic conclusion to guitar music evolution. I keep coming back, more and more. It's unearthly elegant and stylish. Shame I never got to see him when I had the chance... but I probably wouldn't have liked it back then. Well, thanks for posting it!
Allan llevó a los bateristas al límite...con su guitarra mágica...y tuvo a los más grandes bateros ...es un humano parece ....fue humano y no un anunaki ...un humano puede crear algo infinito ...
Wow! Thanks for this! This indeed rare for us AH fans. Allan had retired the Steinberger before the end of the nineties and went straight to the Bill Depas, Kielsel and Carvin guitars. So, seeing him with one of his older guitars is a treat. I always thought he played better with the Steinberger ( he seemed to grab the notes more here versus when he used the other headless guitars ).
Gary is an "all round" player. always on the brink of creation, as good a keyboardist as a drummer; every "pro" knows that "he is the deal", for so many years, and still so underrated !
eddy71454 It happens when encoding. The CPU tries to multitask & the encoding job loses clock cycles. I’m not a good enough A/V editor to fix it though. Sorry.
So this is a pure bootleg, with no begging cap passed round like in a regular church. to be watched free of charge by all un-sundry free to view at this meeting house called youtube. with disclaimer words to cover the crime, of. I do not own the copyright in this recording. A get out of goal ticket. nothing will be received by the musician or their dependants for their genius when it was stolen right out from in front of there very eyes on that night with the hand of the thief hiding the recording device. so was it ok to do that back then on that night. So is this music no longer exclusive and owned by Allen Holdsworth when it is exhibited here for no profit. i'm sure Allen would give you a nice punch in the teeth for being so generous with his image and property he'd really love you for being so free with his stuff. the copyright will get round to you sometime i expect. i think your defence would be, that, it is an historical document of a true musical genius and needs to be seen by all. But you would be still libel for the admittance fee by all who have been here over the years 20,982 views so far. i have decided not to watch this video past the time stamp 8:39 on that principle of guilty by association and not a label i desire.
If this was the only recording made when the Trio played at the Baked Potato on 2009-10-11, what revenue is Allan Holdsworth's dependents being deprived of? While I couldn't know for sure, I'm willing to wager that more than a few of the 22,740 viewers of this video went on from here to stream a couple of his albums over the next few days. Chances are good that a few visitors had never heard of him or Jimmy Flim Johnson or Gary Husband before landing here. Now they know to seek out more of their performances. That's good for the artists, no doubt. It's true that music streaming, RU-vid, Spotify, Apple Music, etc., does no favors to working musicians, songwriters, or bands these days. And it is surely extremely difficult to make a living performing or recording music. The very nature of intellectual property as it is consumed on the Internet needs to change drastically for the music arts to once again be sustainable [if they ever were]. However, I feel this is a bit different. Allan Holdsworth is a legend who emphatically changed the way the electric guitar is played - the way it sounds and even the way it's listened to. But more than that, he changed music in general in much the same way that Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Boulanger, Enrico Caruso, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, Brubek, Astrud Gilberto, Tito Puente, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Michael Brecker, Chick Corea, Thelonius, Duke, and so many others did. Since Holdsworth's death in 2017, video recordings like this one have become vital archives of lightning in a bottle - of genius striking in real time [albeit in odd time signatures]. I've been a Holdsworth superfan since 1981 when I first heard his work on the UK album with Jobson, Wetton and Bruford. I've listened to most of the sounds he made over his remarkable career. But because I'm culturally landlocked in rural Virginia, I never had the opportunity to see him perform live. And until the advent of sharing sites like RU-vid, I'd never once seen how he did the singular things he did - the legato lines, the lush compound chords, the furious flurries of notes. To me, getting to see him play like this is a lot like seeing footage of Coltrane live or Miles. Or Gene Krupa. Seeing them perform is the only way to fully understand what went into what they did and what you heard. It's like watching actual footage of the Rapa Nui on Easter Island erecting a 30-foot moai. Meanwhile, it doesn't take more than a cursory glance around RU-vid to see the profound and indelible influence Holdsworth has had on younger guitar players - even kids in their early teens. That's incredible to me. And I'm grateful that there's a place out here where you can get a glimpse of music history like this. I feel it's deeply important to the future of music and the arts. And in some small way, the future of all of us. I respect your concern for the intellectual property rights of the performers here and elsewhere. As a working musician myself, I'm glad there are people who take things like copyright seriously. I'm no legal expert or trademark lawyer. But I can't escape the sense that there is a spectrum in which the arts exist - or perhaps levels of strata [I'm no geologist either]. And I think at some level - at some apex of genius and skill and musicality and artistic grace - a work transcends the realm of rigid ownership and more or less belongs to the ages. The Mona Lisa or Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte or Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans - at some point these works entered your consciousness and mine whether we beheld the original brushstrokes or not, despite our not having paid for the privilege. They became universal and inevitable. Now, I'm not saying Holdsworth was a da Vinci. But I am saying he was a Seurat. And the landscapes he dotted with so many, many notes are unlike any others. I hear your concerns and I don't expect or even want you to change your mind. But I ask you to consider two things: first, how extremely unlikely this video's presence online represents a financial loss for anyone involved in it; and second, how vital a record like this can be to someone who will never get to sit stage-side and watch this master do his thing. If this was instead a bootleg film of Jimi Hendrix performing the Sgt. Pepper album live the first time - something you had never seen before, but was undeniably a historic event now offered posthumously, would you watch it? I surely would. Anyway, peace.
@@chrishenson4450 i agree with you 100% with some of what you have said Alan was remarkable. the musical landscape has altered very little or no at all , some are/ have made vast fortunes while others are in rags so to speak, as you say/or hint at they're still getting the short end of the stick. The jobbing musician with no recognition if just sitting in on a session paid by the hour and nothing more. yes he influenced and is still doing so from his grave. he is the most instantly recognisable element in any band he has been involved in. I first heard him some where back in the early seventies when i was a teenager, he stood out he made me think, what's that! sound is that Hendrix, i was very ignorant at that time and my ear new no difference it was on the radio with no information he was just some crazy sounding guitar or other i didn't know or really care but it was interesting and some what new to me. my musical taste being very primitive and underdeveloped but as he moved through those various bands and his name was becoming known you'd hear his sound here and there and everywhere i was never a direct fan and follower of Alan my taste was elsewhere and not into fusion or guitar orientated music and still isn't i prefer clever guitar or any other instruments with vocal poetry where the instrument gives voice as well as backing to the singer with the focus on the massage of the poem or whatever, i like it when you finally get to a truth that is often not straight away apparent on first listening as it often fly's right over your head on that very first listening. or you miss it's message completely and years later it then shows it's self and it helps one to reflect how you have changed so much to have missed it and now see it, the inner hidden message or find that there are other master musicians greater than Alan or his equal in their own field Julian Bream far and away superior than any in his own high artistic field brilliance in every note played to perfection. the world is full to the brim with magnificent inventive and artistic people and they influence us all directly or indirectly but they are people just like you and i the point is we may never reach to their perfection but it never hurts but to try. I'm reading DH Lawrence at the moment, what an eye opener he is, he paints pictures with words directly in to ones minds eye, brilliant and not pornographic in the slightest if there is pornography you bring it there yourself. I've gone off music and musicians temporarily there are to many things and to little time to spend on any one thing or subject and my little letter was write out of boredom one night with my insomnia making my mind race, was written with no research just with feeling something i get often, must be a symptom of getting old there is an adage (if that is the correct word )about wisdom coming with old age i don't know, sometimes i think yes.. but then i often think my self as nothing but a puddle of mud, that is also a sign of how very stupid an idiot can be and who wants to be an idiot. I'll just lie and say I'm brilliant (liar)or try and look the part though I'm clearly not(brill) but at least i now see, and my ego sits in the backseat it's never going to have the drivers seat as it once used to. As it never helped it always put my mouth in to motion before my mind, and that's where you get judged by others when they see how far your foot is in side you gob. it was kind of you not to be hurtful with your letter we are somewhat the same both of us reasonable and polite and i enjoyed reading it, that letter just the right amount of relevant information to see you as well, i think we both like words and how they can put into the mind with the smallest amount verbiage the whole of your thought and not be vague or vulgar f's an b's it almost like a letter from a pen pal. so best of luck mate. PS I play a little guitar myself and i fully understand where you are coming from and i love the old blues masters from your neck of the woods and that cabin among the pines of Johnny B and the poetry of indifference. and before www and the web we where all so isolated as you say and now we are flooded as if the that mighty Mississippi has flooded on to our homestead we are over come with the abundance and for the most part it is almost completely free with technology advancing in leaps and bounds you can get most anything that was once the exclusive domain of the professional studio. and what is the point, what!! am i' drowning, where before there was very little. where as you hinted at you had to listen very hard for the tune to come to you (at last) oh and how we listened over and over to get that phrase just right only to realise that it doesn't really matter being a copy cat doesn't get you anywhere you might gain a few licks here and there this is my own opinion but i think Alan's system is reasonably easy to see and figure out yes there are charts involved and a vast knowledge of scales and modes need to be understood at heart and that marvellous legato like water but that comes from the set up of the instrument is my thought. but the base and foundation is pretty straight forward and the structure. guitar intro bass and drum short guitar legato after chord build up the bass solo drum solo band fight guitar wins fiery solo to outro end giant improve in the mid sequence of bass and drum with a signal from the drum to go back to main sequence and if you listen very hard the sequence will come to you at last, and that's where it becomes repetitive and stale though very close and tight right on the metronome unlike say muddy waters you sometimes think he's fallen overboard into the river but no he's just having a breather and chilling as he drives the tune to new places guess who's been listening to old muddy. and i haven't got the chops needed for dear Alans wild jazz .I'd rather be back in the early 20s if I was to be honest as there was some great and marvellous music to be had, most is now lost but, what is available to be had is inspirational. And what has been lost i cry at. And especially the so called race music that lead to rock and roll that captured the hearts of so many here in the UK after that war with Hitlers nazi Germany we won but this country was still rationing into the mid to late fifties and people like my Da and Mam heard it, that swing. And that there was colour still in the world and there where people more hard done by than we. we only had four years of it, and everything was changing that is where Alan was from that era he must have been but a little kid when it hit. here ordinary people where not much better than surfs here in Britain, just like some parts of America abused a certain minority we here could understand their hurt as it was a bit like ours our traditional and local folk music is full to the brim with accepted abuse by the Lord and master and the schools here do not teach it it has been white washed and was never spoken of those Lord where nothing more than gentrified Nazi and your country is not much better the land of the free... sorry for this it need to be said: it's been bugging me for a few weeks we are at a precipice today and things you Americans do not hear are available here if you but care to look and you will not escape it you will have a full portion just like everyone else if diplomacy is not administered. we are about to become extinct and no rabid frothing general will save you or us. your neo Nazi's behind the everyday face of your government are toying and daring and i am terrified this is so much worse the the Cuba crisis and i don't think your Mr Biden realises how very dangerous and serious it has become and you the ordinary American citizen is out of the loop you just don't know the truth i shall say no more go figure it out as it's out there the truth. forgive me if i offend i am only human
@@mountainman8775 excuses excuses excuses excuses and warts and all? book burning it is not. a document it is. but such a fine line is theft🤔😶😑🤪☝ a paradox
