https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxsce9sBLCM
And with the Tony Williams Lifetime, about 35 years earlier:
LATER
Defines FLUID. 5-G is a mind blowing piece of work. I’ll look for a link. RIP. To this master guitarist. Sigh
Had a couple of ales with him after a Birchmere show back in the late 90’s. Nice fellow. Great show.
I also ventured up to the Baked Potato north of San Diego and caught him. It too on was yet another great show.
There are a number of good vids up on YouTube.
Easily my favorite guitarist. Defined smooth, innovative effortless-sounding leads. It’s sad to say goodbye to this era one by one.. RIP, Alan.
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Oh my. Absolutely one of a very rarified class of true guitar innovators...Django, Charlie Christian, Lennie Breau (not so much influence) Wes Montgomery, McLaughlin, Hendrix, Van Halen.....Holdsworth.
Each of these may not have been the absolute first to play in their particular style, but they both became the masters of those styles and undeniably influenced or at least inspired countless guitar players.
Holdsworth could be tough to listen to. I actually walked out on one of the three times I saw him. “Heard enough, already”.
Holdsworth's contribution in UK's "In the Dead of Night" is still one of most amazingly beautiful guitar solos I have ever heard.
I saw him with UK in late 1970s. Amazing guitarist. Really sad to lose him at a relatively young age.
Another Great has passed from this earth.
RIP.