Rest In Peace A.H. I saw you at the Great American Music Hall back in the day with Chad Wackerman. But as to this song and album, lets give a shout out to Jeff Berlin on bass = he gets allot of flack these for being mega-opinionated but damn....he laid down some perfectly complimentary bass here.
One of the TOP TOP TOP GENIES of ALL Times ..His Music is not from This World ...The Best Guitarist and Modern Jazz Musician the World has seen and Lost (R.I.P. Allan )What a Music , so UNBELIEVABLE Beautiful
This was the breakthrough album where he had truly become an alien. The transformation started with UK and his work with JLPonty. But here - we hear his majestic and absolute other-worldly mastery. Flow. Connection. He had reduced the chromatic ideas to a bare minimum by this point and opened up - nay - obliterated - the fretboard. I took lessons from a session player in Chicago back in 79 and 80. He told me he had jumped a plane the year or 2 before to do a pilgrimage and find Allan in London. Through guitar connections - he did. Something I have never heard anyone - or Allan - talk about - was that he told my instructor, Bill, That he had forced big batteries down to the base of his fingers to open his already long reach. This made it possible to stretch for those uncommon chords - and of course - those magnificent and juxtaposed legato solo ideas. He went beyond Coltrane. Coltrane was an inspiration. Allan was the real deal. No one took things as far as Allan did. It may be centuries before anyone else does.
I love the bands "Wormed" and "Defeated Sanity", then I branch off to "Arthur Verocai" and Allan Holdsworth. This man was beyond all limitations, extremely emotional passage.
This genius all day long. Where do all the years go, and to think that Allan was that brilliant way back then. Who the hell comes in with a solo like that other than Allan? R.I.P.