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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 15:00
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 15:11
Sad news. RIP Allan. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 15:38
Very sad---one of my top 10 favs----so original-----a real artist----RIP
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 15:45
Very sad news,... really lamentable.... rest in peace great musician !
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 15:49
Shocked Shocked to say the least, that is sad news.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 18:10
Allan was the very reason this L.A. Californian guitarist was asked to work,tour and record in a well-known Vertigo Records signed Swiss progrock band Flame Dream.Flame Dream always loved my Holdsworth influence playing.
I recently talked with Allan again at a NAMM17 afterparty,and he enjoyed always living in my warm golden sunshine state;a true always dear gent dudeson
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-holdsworth-obit-20170416-story.html
“If you fall in love with a woman,there's this unknown thing that gives you a force and energy,and music is like that, too.If I lived to be 2000,I'd never know anything about music.And that's great. ... I think the guy who tells you he knows about music is really dumb,or he's lying to himself".-Allan Holdsworth

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 20:20
RIP Allan....I was fortunate to see him with UK on their first tour (he blew the doors off!) and much later, in a small club as "IOU" with the amazing Jeff Berlin and Chad Wackerman.  

Truly a one-of-a-kind, I cannot think of many imitators of his legato guitar style.  Amazing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 21:43
Sad news indeed. A great and true innovator on the guitar. May he rest in peace.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 22:27
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2017 at 22:59
Really sad news....always impressed by his playing and am glad that he was at least respected verbally, his music was probably too good for enough people to be able to pay him what he was worth. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 00:13
More dreadful news. RIP AH. Tremendous guitarist.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 01:40
Great guitarist, great Yorkshireman. RIP.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 02:06
RIP, of course.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 02:10
I was fortunate to see him with Pierre Moerlen's Gong in 1976, remarkably a sound-recording of that performance exists:


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 02:33
very sad news indeed Unhappy
last time I saw him was in 2008 together with Chad Wackerman.
always loved his collaborations with Soft Machine and Tony Williams ...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 04:03
A sad farewell to another one of my prog icons. Very underappreciated except by those in the know. RIP.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 07:23
The man was quite prolific with his collaborations. He played with Krokus?!!! Really? LOL


Discography[edit]

Solo albums[edit]

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Collaborations
Compilations

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'Igginbottom
Nucleus
  • 1972: Belladonna (released as a solo album by Ian Carr)
Tempest
Soft Machine
The New Tony Williams Lifetime
Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Jean-Luc Ponty
Bruford
U.K.
Krokus
Stanley Clarke
Chad Wackerman
Level 42
Derek Sherinian
  • 2005: Book of the Dead

Videos[edit]

  • 1992: REH Video: Allan Holdsworth (VHS, reissued on DVD in 2007)
  • 2002: Live at the Galaxy Theatre (DVD)
  • 2007: Live at Yoshi's (DVD)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 09:49
This news really saddened me - more than usual, maybe because it was so unexpected? I can't imagine how his family feels. 

Some of my favorite stuff is his work with Soft Machine, Gong and UK - cool to hear that some people here actually saw that stuff performed live!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 13:33
Sad to see another legend pass, but such is life. R.I.P. I really enjoyed his work with Gong and Soft Machine, he was an incredibly gifted player.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2017 at 15:42
And not too far behind John Wetton's passing. I'd hate to think of who is next. R.I.P., Mr. Holdsworth.
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