The Mark Varney Project (MVP) - Truth in Shredding [full album, 1990] 

this is a vibe tho

Yeah that’s quite an evocative picture, thanks for that

Makes you want to redesign a mall

Great story bro.... I can relate.

Nobody can convince me that strip malls are better than enclosed ones. The latter's diminishing popularity is another sign of American decadence since they are prospering in the rest of the world.

When Frank is in the zone, there's no question that he is top-tier. He and Allan complement each other very well.

It is truly unfair to put any guitar player on the same album as Allan. He makes Gambale seem so lost.

@@paulsimon6544 i wouldn't go so far to say gambale sounds lost, but it is unfair to compare anyone to holdsworth! we can all agree on that. in saying that, however, gambale has great skill and tears it up on this album.

@@brendanm.buckley7082 true on both.

@@paulsimon6544Gambale is on top of every chord here. And ripping. He’s not lost in the slightest.

Insane catalog right there.

***** ...is awesome! :)

+Various Things sorry if I'm stepping on Moose's toes here but it comes in at about 4:05 ...you can tell because of that unmistakable Holdsworth tone :)

ive repeated it 4 times now. completely crazy even for holdsworth.

Impossible to understand that you can play a solo as deep as that.... I'm just amazed and forever will be!!

Repeat this for all Allan Solos, hahahaah too good

SDPickups Cool! What was the inspiration for this artwork in particular?

SDPickups they shredded their arms off 😂

This was Mark Varney's supplied artwork, honestly I didn't think it related to the music at all, but I was told to use it. Its not particularly good and doesn't represent the quality of the music in the CD. The goal of good graphic design and art direction is to grab the attention of a possible record buyer. You have literally 2 seconds to get a message into their brain so they will even look at the CD. This one just kinda screams "Walmart $1 CD bargain bin." I had alot of the same arguments with his brother Mike. If the music is of such high extreme quality as this album was, the cover needs to reflect that, with high quality imaging conceptualizing. I'd say maybe 30% of the work I did for Shrapnel is work I'd be proud to show, the rest were ideas I disagreed with, but did the best I could under the circumstances. Not that this is unusual, most of my career was battles to give the customer something better than they could possibly imagine themselves, but they pay the bills and if they insist you do a bad idea, you do it or don't get paid.

Sounds frustrating! I agree that it looks kinda dull and doesn't really hint to how awesome this album is. The tesseract is kinda cool though, perhaps that could have worked on it's own? Or maybe not, I'm really not a designer haha. Anyways thanks for a nice story.

thats life commercial success or personal satisfaction and intellectual ingenuity Usually the two are oxymoronic tho in higher art like this youd hope for more...love

There are only so many of "us".

He is flipping amazing

Holdsworth DEFINTIELY did.

The truth ,the whole truth ,nothing but the truth ,so help me Allen we've gotta shred some musical stuff to pieces.

Interesting analogy. Very accurate. They are very taste-able.

To fly: the dream of man and flightless bird alike...

Shawn Lane would destroy them both.

@@ivandrago2585 Didn't realize that music was a competition, I thought it was art?

@@ivandrago2585 nahh...

@@ivandrago2585 He's great. But Allan is beyond... way beyond.

paolo-1283 /// EXACTLY

REINCARNAZIONE ! Suonava già da millenni ! È COSÌ . 😊 🤟❤

Real Diaz sounds like great memories. Wish I was around during the late 80s/early 90s

@@foobarbazquux Yeah in the end all we got is memories so make some good ones my friend. Whatever it takes!

Very emotional comment and lovely wiht support from technical know how. Good.

Ha ha ha!! Even McLaughlin said to Allan "if I knew what you were doing....I'd copy it". It's all good. Most of the general public react to this kind of technical playing the way poor math students react to a blackboard full of abstract Algebra. To me, they're all beautiful flowers with different smells and shapes and colors. We're lucky to have such diversity. Enjoy the ride :)

ALLAN , l ' unico AMATO da TUTTI , i GRANDI chitarristi . ALLAN , l ' unico ad ammettere che non amava particolarmente il suono della chitarra . John Mclaughin ha detto : NON SO QUELLO CHE FA E COME DIAVOLO FA A FARLO...A LUI , INVIDIO TUTTO ! ALLAN PER SEMPRE! ❤🤟🤗 Benito Edoardo Cinosi

Plus Allan's amazing tone - from another universe far in the future. Gambale developed superb rock guitar chops - Holdsworth developed amazing music, through which he reinvented the guitar's capabilities beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Superb!

They don’t call Allan the best ever for nothing!

The rhythm section in the first song sounds like old Nintendo background music. Think I heard a little Mario kart in there. Shits tight

Edward Cox Allan’s strength was his cool legato lines but musically he is doing nothing special just noodling over chord changes. no great music conservatory is teaching holdsworth composition.

Vanguard Peaceful Protestor I suppose nobody is interested in Coltrane either?

so true! He's today still amazing..

I don't feel he's been declining ever since.

Yeah that's really well said. Holds worth was a space ship in a world full of biplanes.

@@lucrebrazzi4069 well spoken if you don't mind i 'm a musician to in PROGRESS TO BECOME A WORLD KNOWN MASTER IN EVOLUTION OF COMPOSING gUiTar musically nobody can do this the way i can just listen and tell me

Yeah would have been cool to hear Allan and Shawn duel it out... Allan's like liquid and Shawns fire

Centrifugal funk is close... FG and SL participated. Great album.

Don't forget about Brett Garsed, a fusion mønster in his own right. The interpretation of Tokyo Blue is my favorite track in that album

Alan is the first solo or the 2nd on Not Ethiopia?

@@thejazzmatazz9331The first is Holdsworth, then the sax solo, and then Gambale last. 😁

Me too! Never knew of its existence. I feel like I've just found the "Holy Grail" or something! This is amazing!

Same here Ms Donut."Donut",that's cute!That's really cute!Donut!Aw gee whiz.

@@griiseknoen Try to find some MVP featuring Bret Garsed.

Hahaha! "Alice Donut"! Great!

Lane was string-skipping the arpeggios though, like Paul Gilbert (who borrowed those licks exactly from Gambale at GIT), he never liked sweeps. I don't either, but if there's one player that can turn sweeps into magic is absolutely Frank Gambale.

@@zombielandakausa7468 I know MH since years. I like his sweep/hybrid picking technique, although i prefer alternate-picking for straight thunderous shredding, PG style.

@@livingbeing1113Shawn did sweep, but very very rarely. I think I’ve only seen like two recordings where he’s done it. I would definitely agree though, I think he talked about it in an interview or a guitar clinic, that he wasn’t a fan of the resonance of the notes from sweep picking, similar to how Holdsworth didn’t like pull offs in his legato

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AGREED

Absolutely true konosxatz!

Metheny-Holdsworth-Malmsteen the triad of that instrument

Holdsworth is Holdsworth!

anyone knows if the first solo on Ana maría (at 40:00) is a keyboard or a synth guitar? with Holdsworth I really can't tell

I think Frank played his flame-throwing solos live in the studio with the band and Holdsworth overdubbed his space-age solos at a later date at The Brewery, his home studio. They didn't even see each other !! :O

@@BebopHardRock they mixed the album together

D Nelski no it's not sad, it's rather childish in a good way.

+D Nelski pick a guitar and play holdsworth lines, trust me, it's more fun than air ;)

+shipper66 I find Holdsworth lines very painful to play for my tiny hands, so I'll stick to air guitar, thanks

as long as you like it and feel the same exitement while hearing every single note ....you`re OK believe me

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG GO AHEAD \m/

Insert a random Uranus joke here.

Different solar system possibly universe

Frank is Chick Corea’s favorite guitar player. I was fortunate to see them back in 1985

All these guys know a thing or two about phrasing....thank you Alexis big time.

Allan's phrasing is on par with Scott for sure. Sorry Pat can't hang with these two...especially phrasing.

@@ShivaKumar-gs7nb Scott, like most great guitarists who do have amazing musical phrasing, knows that Holdsworth was the only guitarist to reach the peak he did, of impossibly great playing in every aspect, with beautiful phrasing the most important ingredient, but also obviously, mastery of subtle expressions of slight to dramatically wide pitch variations adding a rich dimension to the music, uncanny timing, fat butter smooth tone, wide intervallic lines in contrast to lots of chromatic passing tones a few seconds prior or after, and everything else that goes into being the greatest player. Holdsworth was the only person that had that genius combination of ideas and the skills to put them across that we were incredibly lucky to see. He simply set the highest bar ever for guitar, and I doubt anyone will reach it again in my life; once is ridiculously lucky already.

@@Gregorypeckory absolutely. As far l'm concerned McLaughlin and Holdsworth are top dogs !!

@@ShivaKumar-gs7nb Pat Metheny can tell a story and is second to none,well maybe to Frank.

..you should be,...now do an insane reharminination of with lots of inverted sweeps.🤘🎸🎵💝

enjoy buddy