Stanley was and still is one of my most favorite bassists along with Jacob ..in the very early 70s I bought all Return to forever albums and weather report albums Mahavishnu Orchestra ,Brand X ,UK featuring Alan Holdsworth incredible Guitarist.. Great time for jazz /fusion Prog music I remember Stanley playing Alembic Basses ...they were awesome Basses butiful woods and sounded incredible... Wish they were still around the fell playing them was awesome Nick and Lex you do a great job and service by enlightening a new generation to who were the masters of their instruments phenoms at bare minimum if not virtuosos as well ...introducing them to this era of massive growth in music history is just wonderful ...The killer thing . .I got to see almost all of the greats live .. and that's the true test of just how awesome musicians were and we have a good amount today as well Keep up the Great work you both do ...many of us won't be around much longer but man was I glad to be growing up in that era as it made me a better musician singer and performer and has giving me a lifetime of music to live on day after day 👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯♥️♥️♥️🙏✝️☮️🎸🎻🥁🎺🎹🎤🪘🎹
Wonderful Nick. Hey Holdsworthian is a genre of itself as is Zappa.. nuff said 😮❤😅. Haters will always fear the unknown. I'm so glad your still broadcasting etc. Allan Holdsworth
Thanks B Mac, this was an absolute treat. Stanley Clarke and Allan Holdsworth! Nick, I am gradually beginning to understand Allan's playing. As a big Level 42 fan in the 80's I was intrigued when you mentioned previously that he played with them for a short while. So finally tonight I listened to the five tracks he played the solos on their album Guaranteed. I thought his tone sounded similar to the Stanley Clarke reaction tonight. Very cool, I shall continue to listen to more of his music.
Great to hear this song again, it’s been a minute since I’ve heard it. I never had this album my friend had it and I never knew that was Holdsworth. Awesome guitar very elegant riffs combined with pregnant pauses. I remember that Wayne Shorter was on this album 🤔 and also Stewart Copeland. I think that might be Stewart Copeland on drums on this track? Great request keep digging for the lost Holdsworth song Bmac. A worthy cause if ever there was one. Great track and reaction Nick. I’m delighted you replayed the guitar solo. 👍👍
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Holdsworth was so unique in his playing that it is beyond what most people can grasp hearing him for the first time. For me it was quite the opposite. When i heard him for the first time he got straight into my soul! It was his playing on the records of Jean Luc Ponty (Enigmatic Ocean) and Gong (Gazeuse). From there i went to his playing on Soft Machine, Tony Williams, Bill Bruford etc... and followed him ever since. What a unique and unbelievable musician!
Stanley and Stewart are great but Holdsworth took this tune to another dimension, especially during the final bars of his solo. I come back to this tune just for that!
You MUST Listen to this whole album of Stanley Clarke's from 1974 - Amazing! Here's the first track... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-421azd0vfuk.html
Great show. Great explanation of Holdsworth's playing. He was definitely influenced by Mclaughlin and Fusion but his own expression of feelings and soulfulness. Makes him unique. It's hard to be unique now a days. My favorite Holdsworth cut :"Bruford"- "Forever until Sunday"...Wow
Influenced by mc Laughlin? Mc Laughlin once said in an interview togehter with Allan: "If i know what you are doing i would steal it! " Mc laughlin is only 4 years older, Allan realy had his own background and unique way of improvising and looking at harmony in general. Two great but totaly different players.
Great request bmac. I haven't heard this album in 10 or so years. So good. Time to relisten and maybe some Victor Wooten as well. Love listening to Nick talk about Holdsworth. Not super familiar with 90's Holdsworth. Will take a dive on it. I am one of those Soft Machine guys. Loved it.👍
So ,i saw Return to Forever in 1975,it was the best concert i ever saw for years until i saw Paul McCartney in 2017. I love Jazz Fusion,big Clark fan . Excellenta guitar playing, always liked this song.Great pick from your station... Holdsworth was so good and different from the " Mainstream"... Kudo's to you for checking it out.
John McLaughlin told Allan that if he knew what he was doing that he would steal it! If Allan's playing didn't have feeling or heart, I don't think John would have told Allan that.
OH YEAH! Stanley Clarke is awesome! Loved his bass playing with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. His solo works are great too. This tune is Fantastic! Love it!
Do you have anything to say about the song besides a history of Holdsworth? If this is a good example of later Holdsworth, I get the criticism you hated. I didn't particularly like the solo. Because it didn't do anything for me, all I heard was technique. Maybe if you can't feel the solo, you can't feel the feel. I've longvfelt that way anout Vai.
I wouldn't this is an example about his later playing. Usually his solos are 3 - 5 min long not this 50 second example. It wasn't about the song because we all know that Stanley is Amazing. It was about the solo. Vai and Holdsworth are a very strange comparison. Vai plays Instrumental Rock and Metal Music whilst Holdsworth plays improvised jazz fusion music with scales most guitar players would never dare to touch. I am sorry it didn't do anything for you. I can appreciate Holdsworth the same way I can appreciate Beck, Gilmour, Hendrix, Townshend, Malmsteen etc. Complexity and speed don't push me away. As a player I need this to become more aware of musical possibilities. Cheers!
@@NicknLex Fair about Stanley. You can play completely different styles and still be compared. I wasn't saying Holdsworth abd Via both play similarly, but that in this, and most of the VAI songs I've heard, I hear a lot of technique, but I'm not moved by feeling from them. I had the first G3 live album, and I much preferred Satriani and Johnson as both used technique to deliver emotions. Vai felt like technique to deliver technique. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Vai is clearly exceedingly talented. I love Satriani, Hendrix, Gilmore, Townshend, and to an extent Malmsteen and own massive chunks of their catalogs (I only have Malmsteen's Rising Force on cassette - the album with "I Am a Viking" on it.) Part of the issue is jazz and jazz fusion. I have a couple Coltrane albums, 9 Miles Davis Albums from the early 1950s through Bitches' Brew & Jack Johnson, and an album by Ornette Coleman. Plus a few Snarky Puppy albums and Time Out by Dave Brubeck. (I have one Metheny CD -letter From Home, but have yet to get to it, so I have no opinion.) I'm not a fan of more free form jazz. Here, I felt Holdsworth was playing almost random stuff. He's not, but it feels all over the place.
