Allan Holdsworth: Letters Of Marque (Frankfurt '86 Experimental Remix)
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- This video is an experimental remix of Allan's performance of "Letters Of Marque" from the Frankfurt '86 jazz festival. The audio and video is sourced from the 2020 release by Manifesto Records, links below. The master tape was taken from the two-channel broadcast version, which has some issues with levels, in particular the drums suffer in the mix. To see what could be done about this, the stereo audio was split into multitrack stems by Spleeter, which uses artificial intelligence to separate instruments. The stems were imported into Cakewalk by Bandlab. Some eq and compression/limiting was applied, and levels were adjusted. The Spleeter software is very impressive, but not perfect yet. Some artifacts can be heard throughout. It does however bring out nuances in the playing which you may enjoy. Let me know what you think!
Allan Holdsworth, guitar
Kei Akagi, keyboards
Gary Husband, drums
Jimmy Johnson, bass
Original audio: • Letters of Marque (Live)
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Here are excerpts of Jimmy Johnson's comments on this gig, taken from the Alembic forum:
JJ: “This particular gig was at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 1986. That's the EU equivalent of our NAMM show here in the States but actually a larger exposition. I don't remember the exact circumstances which brought Kei Akagi into the band on keyboards, but this was his first and only tour with the band. He did an excellent job of dealing with the music but never had the chance to get very comfortable with it. Furthermore, I'm sure Allan and I got together with him in LA for a couple rehearsals but it's possible he had not yet played with Gary Husband until the day of this show.”
JJ: “This was the very first gig of the tour - and likely funded our flight expenses to get to Europe. So we had flown in the day before, then spent almost all of this day jet-lagged and running around the Muskmesse collecting gear which had been offered from various manufacturers for use on the tour. But as I said, that convention is HUGE so picture us trying to find the Mesa Boogie booth (or whatever he was using at the time) on the floor of the show, then finding a handcart to wheel speaker cabinets the 2 miles to the venue, dealing with security to get the gear out of the building, etc... I have the feeling we had to chase down a drum kit that same way. That took all day leaving us precious little time for a soundcheck or a much needed rehearsal with the full band.”
JJ: “So we had done what we could to get set up with the borrowed gear and get the monitors working so we could hear each other. We understood that we were contractually obligated to let the "festival" be recorded for a one-time tv broadcast. What we had NOT anticipated was that as soon as we started playing, 2 or 3 handheld cameramen and their cable wrangling assistants were running back and forth on stage basically in our faces. To the point where they were stepping on our pedals! Complete disregard for us trying to concentrate on the music. It was one of those situations where you needed to completely close your eyes and not see what was happening around you. But then my chorus effect would suddenly turn on. HA!!”
Found here: club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8041.1500
Key Akagi, Allan and Bunny Brunel on bass ( I forgot who was on the drums ) played a concert in the GIT , Los Angeles in 1986 . Key Akagi used to perform with Al Dimeola at that time and with Franck Gambale later in 1988 ...I remember GIT had the video of this concert...
Musicians deal with "Murphy's Law" once again..(if the fans o nly knew)
Steve Hunt told me that if you play fusion you need to be prepared to make tens and tens of dollars lol. He was right.
@@luke125 If you're succesful, you might become a hundredaire!
@@MrTubularBalls Exactly lol
I met Allan countless times. I worked in a bank near to the Bruford rehearsal room in Kingston on Thames. He popped in every week to cash a cheque and we had a chat. This was 1978. Lovely man.
Lovely story..! I wish i was in your place. (R.i.p mr. Allan)
Thats a cool story from so long ago. Its sad, to me at least, that this man is not better known by the masses. A real genius. God rest him.
Thanks for sharing your memories. It's always nice to know that talented people we look up to are also nice people. 👍
Thanks for sharing. Whatever the cheque amount, the dear man was woefully underpaid.
The amount of the check at that time would be the same today... possibly less.
Gary Husband is a brilliant musician.
He is a great compliment to Alan.
Yes, he really is
I dont think that non musicians and even some musicians will be able to understand just how good this really is....its the kinda thing that all us musos can only marvel at and hope to get maybe some where close to maybe some time in the far off future 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
OMG. It is like a higher lifeform explaining the universe to me. I feel smarter, even though I couldn't even begin to comprehend what it told me. Fantastic.
Jeff Holdsworth - the only guitarist I’ve heard friends and read critics comparisons to Frank Zappa. And here just the other day im watching an interview with Frank and he’s asked if and or who his favorite guitarists are. He only had one answer, Jeff Holdsworth. I just loved hearing that!
If I have to understand how good this is to realize its good... then I would say I dont like it... you should not have to think about music to enjoy it... its just sound with the main objective to be pleasing to the listener or affect him emotionally to where he would like to hear it again... As I can see that AH is proficient with his instrument he fails to connect with me... frankly I dont get what people see in his music especially his style of playing... too each his own I guess
Against Holdsworth you have to hold your own. Kei Akagi did an admirable job here, incredible in fact. Some of those licks he pulled off were on another planet. What an absolutely phenomenal line up of talent.
The unique, incredible talent of Allan Holdsworth. And such a thoroughly nice guy as well, so humble. Rest in peace.
JIMMY JOHNSON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish Kei Akagi played with Allan and the boys for more than one tour, he's so amazing.
His wife used to be a copywriter for an ad agency on West LA and my employer acct was assigned to her. She was every bit as much of an artist with phrases as he.
Holdsworth had good days and bad days like every great musician. This is definitely a good day...
A bad day of his would be a good day for 99% of guitar players
Good days and badder days.
No allan had good days & totally unbelievably amazingly good days
It might be more fair to say that he had days where he felt inspired and excited about what he was playing, and days where he didn't. I think he was always amazing, but his attitude toward his own playing varied a lot.
@@pobinrI have to agree hahaha. A “bad day” for Allan was still light years ahead of anything I could dream of having. And his good days and best days (that I’ve come across recordings of) are completely alien and on a level that I’ve never heard any other musician reach.
No one did it like ALLAN HOLDSWORTH 🖤
He's great.
The best, also a big fan of your playing.
Every player on the stage is at the top of their game. Astounding!
100 years of practice in 15 minutes, everybody sounded amazing!
I saw Alan when he and his band pulled up in a VW bus to my uni commons stage in California in 1980- there were maybe 50 people watching. Paul Williams was on vocals. It absolutely changed my life and my vision of what music could be.
I don't think I've ever seen Allan this animated taking a solo. These guys were on fire that night. Incredible. !!!
gary :D
My god, that keyboardist is a monster!
I was there, in the first row of the public, and was as anoid as Jimmy told, of the stupid camera-men, who were stepping in front us, disturbing the view on our musical heros....but the concert was brilliant ! 1986 I was 26, now I am 62 - I never was tired, to listen to Alans music and hope, to meet him in musicians heaven some day in the future - RiP ( by the way Gary Husband was a killer in this concert ! ) ***
Yes the cameramen were a pain.... But... they gave us this
Now you know what the cameramen were doing there, preserving it for posterity.
The piano solo was sick!
So sick! One of my favorites ever!
Simply astounding
@@davidaltemir1564 sickstounding bros
It's insane!
Yep, probably my favorite part of this performance. It's fantastic!
One monumental improvement!! Wish the DVD sounded like this! 👍😀
Stellar performance Gary!! Bravo!!
Qobuz are selling a 24/48 Hi Res. Nice. My DVD hasn't arrived yet
Gary- you should always be UP in the mix like this! I know Allan would smile and approve of this mix! We met at the Baked Potato. You may recall my name from other comments...Love u Gary!
Yes m brother it' fenomenal guitariste paix a son âme
The OP can't really have much more validation for their work than this. Thank you, Gary. Thank you, Allan, Jimmy and Kei.
The amount of talent sharing the same stage is mind-blowing. Great seeing Allan smile at Gary at the end.
I was just thinking exact same thing. Allan's music is so intense that it seems he's always so concentrating. And to see his smiles of spontaneous surprise throughout that ending, especially at the very end, was really joyous. I could feel it. A stellar band as well. AH, the boss of bosses.
It looks like Husband went into beast mode in that solo and beyond, and Holdsworth cherished it.
@@jambalaya7647 Allan is always so immersed and concentrating, that when you do see him smile, especially when inspired by the drummer as they're playing dissected time signatures all over the place, well... it is just a consummate Musical moment. I'm so grateful I know what that feels like. That all of us here know what that feels like.
@@jambalaya7647 He's an alternate theory: Immediately prior, the cameraman kneels down directly in front of Allan, pointing the camera right up at him. Jimmy Johnson made comments about how ridiculously intrusive the camera crew were at this show. I'm guessing Allan thought it was funny. I would also find it pretty ridiculous and hard to ignore if I were in his position.
Gary Husband is both great on drums and keyboards nowadays.
He wasn't the cleanest drummer, but I just love his ideas. Very organic, and fit well with Alan's style. Wackerman may have eventually been the better choice for his timing, versatility and less cluttered style, but Husband is a great artist.
The description to this video says the drums suffered in the mix when the levels were taken into consideration in making the recording , which in my opinion had something to do with the fact that Gary Husband is smashing the living hell out of those drums , i mean this would have to be the loudest fricken jazz drumming i have ever heard , has he just had a line bf going on stage and rolled his t shirt sleeves up like he's going into battle or what ?!
I wasn't in the mood for an Allan Holdsworth video... but once you start watching, how can you look away?
First time I was exposed to Allan Holdsworth was in 1975, when I stood in front of the stage, where he played with Soft Machine the material of their Bundles album. Ever since then I´ve been an Allan Holdsworth addict. I shout it out to the world: ALLAN HOLDSWORTH was his name!!!
Wonderful, Kei Akagi is a great compliment to AH in my honest opinion
If you wish to experience what extreme musicianship is beyond countless hours of practicing.....just hit replay! Thank you for posting this treasure, Gary Husband is a fucking monster on drums and keyboards, amazing! Lets appreciate and support him and all others who have played with Allan. Peace from Detroit MI.
Insane masters of their instrument.
Holy crap, the pianist is amazing!
Fantastic music and fantastic musicians!!! i never heard or saw Kei Akagi before, his solo was really great, Allan Holdsworth, Jimmy Johnson and Gary Husband are icons!!! this video is a bliss!!!
Kei was the last regular keyboard player of Miles Davis band.
To be living on this planet together with such legendary musicians is already a great blessing for me. Thank you God.
Allan's lines come directly from his soul.
I mean...it is endless noodling. If you cant remember it and hum it, it is just wankery.
@@jhrdrake7205 Interesting that I remember the phrases from practically all of his solos by heart, and can whistle along to it (save for the parts that I just can't due to the physical limitations of the mouth and tongue). If you can't perceive the melody and emotion, perhaps the sad truth is that you just don't have ears. Sucks for you.
@@lex.cordis2 Dude, I would LOVE to hear that and request that you post a vid on TH-cam please! While not pleasant to the vast majority of people myself included hearing you whistling scattershot chromatic scales and pointless noodling would be spectacular to hear! Melody and emotion are Mark Knopfler, Chet Atkins and Dave Gilmour, not Allan. Allan was a spectacular technician no doubt but unlistenable to the vast majority of the population. Playing this kind of music will get you a room full of guitar geeks...all male and that sir..sucks for you! ;)
@@jhrdrake7205 Genius wouldn't be genius if the masses were capable of appreciating it. That's just how it goes.
@@lex.cordis2 The masses appreciate Gilmour, Knopfler, SRV, Chet Atkins. The masses dont appreciate stuff like this because it is inaccessible tedious noodling in key but if it makes you happy then more power to you!
Allan's playing is ferocious! Beyond words really. Keyboardist Kai's solo piano is pretty astounding as well, as is Jimmy's bass playing. The entire band is top-notch! Sounds fantastic!
Imagine being asked to stand in for Allan on this gig?!? I'd be like, "ok guys, shall we start with Johnny b Goode" ;)
@@chopholtz4950 GOT IT ! THANKS..( the sound of me running off to grab my axe to apply your jeti knight knowledge !!!
First off
LOUIE LOUIE !! 😆
Gary Husband is also an accomplished keyboard player! Amazing! 🥁🎹
I. O. U. no no...We O. U. master Allan.
Gary Husband is a brilliant musician!!!! 😉👍🏻♥️🙏🏻🎼🎶🥁🇺🇲🫡
I was there !! And for me it was one of the BEST concert of a drummer I saw in my life. Chapeaux and obeisance Gary !!!!! .....and I was TRUE! You played a Tama.....
Every note this man played was a gem.
Yeah, i kinda doubt that.
Always that one hater. Just stay away from what you don't like. Easy.
@@svenjansen2134 I think i have the right to critique what seems like garbage to me. Run to your safe space if you don't like it. Maybe being online is not your thing.
You arrive at a website and hear music you don't understand and you don't leave but start to read comments? And then you even react on one of them? Don't you have anything to do? And the logic of it, which one is that?
@@RaulVeldhuizen I presume you were aiming this at MeandTheBoys rather than me? And I agree, he is a dick.
Transcendent, so incredible. Enountered Allan one time in Southampton England in the 90s. He struck me then as one of the greatest guitarists of this genre, and now almost 30 years later so glad to reencounter this genius, playing straight from soul to strings! Thank you!
Allan was from another planet
Akagi sounds super in the groove and having fun
Gary such a huge influence on my playing......He is a freak
We take it as read that Allan will play an amazing solo but Gary Husband’s drum solo is a proper piece of work too. Great musicians can always get other great musicians to play with them and Allan certainly did that.
This is absolutely transcending...I've never seen anything quite like this. His playing is on another plane. From 5:00 to 6:40 I can't stop replaying. There's no "in key" or notes when he's playing, it's just a perfect string of order and chaos, words flowing down a stream into a word soup that translates into universe juice!
I've read Allan say something similar about how he felt listening to Coltrane solos, and Allan's playing makes me feel that way today. Like he's plugged into some cosmic channel, some elemental force where pure expression is flowing through him.
Lol, juice you say that sound about right
He’s playing the changes deffo, it’s incredible playing.
Rewatching this again! Lol. I love how Gary pushes Allan and then Allan pushes Gary till they are both just cooking up a storm , a twister of intertwined poly rhythms and notes....
If anybody had doubts about Jimmy and Gary's playing deserving same treatment as Allan's well here is the proof lads.... what a wonderful rendition man..
Wow look at Akagi go!!! Definitely will be looking up more of his work!!!
As much I can't stand Fusion there is no denying Alan's approach to guitar was just on a different level!
whats wrong with fusion
@@progfox As much direction as a baby pissing into a nappy.
@@progfox nothing really. It got a bad name within a generation of people who were committed metal heads/rockers who didn't like the competition as musicians is the distillation I've found.
@@colinburroughs9871 a large amount of metalheads also enjoy fusion so idk what you mean by that
@@progfox ok
also have been impressed by gary husbands utter reluctance to play a beat. sounds beautiful
Thank You for all the years of your unique and beautiful music Allan Holdsworth 🎼🙇♂️ You are a blessing to the guitar world. Rest In Peace 🙏
The piano solo is fucking tremendous !!!!! 😮
I got to see Allan countless time living within a mile of the Baked Potato. Jimmy is my favorite foil for Allan.
WoW, wish I could have seen this lineup just once.
Saw this line up in 1986 at the Bass Clef club London. Steve Topping sat in on guitar too. Allan was using Synthaxe by then also. It was the first time I saw him and I had been playing guitar for about 7 years. It just floored me. There was another guitarist there (Mo Nazam) in the audience who I know. We just kept looking at each other in disbelief. I have some great photos of the gig. There is a bootleg out there to download on blogspot of the bass clef gig which was originally recorded by a geography teacher named Murry! (a Zappa enthusiast). Great memories.
Wow. I was at that gig too. Phenomenal! Would love to see photos or hear the bootleg 🤘
@@em-dashman4404 Post your e mail and I will send to you. Can we personal message on youtube?
Hi, I have just posted the 1986 Allan Holdsworth Bass Clef Club gig (with photos)
th-cam.com/video/Um89YYsQ4Sw/w-d-xo.html
Enjoy
BTW, The third time I saw Allan was when I was living in Aberdeen (Scotland) in 1994 at the Aberdeen Arts Centre. The recording of that gig has been posted here by gliss bliss
th-cam.com/video/NN6gKVDDDqo/w-d-xo.html
it was amazing.
Wow... Gary has amazing phrasing on the drums and the piano... What a player❤️
The keyboard player Kei Akagi is excellent here !
Honestly, the camera and editing in this video is outstanding!
Well, the camera crew stepped all over Jimmy Johnson's pedals...
@@aharchives At 14:20, you can see Allan trying not to laugh as the cameraman is crouching down directly in front of him pointing the camera up at him.
I think Alan improvised his own hair cuts. Truly one of a kind.
You can see why FZ respected this man so much.
I was thinking the same thing.
Most of the 80s shredders did too. At the end of Drop Dead Legs by Van Halen. Eddie draws inspiration from Holdsworth.
@@markusantonio4866yes, i remember catching that also.
Allan Holdsworth R.I.P.
凄い🎉エディヴァンヘイレンに凄く影響を与えた天才ですね🎉
Gary Husband is a giant ❤
Insane drummer
The dvd has less clarity compared to this mix. This mix pops with a higher brightness. Good job!
Fenomenal! Love this song and the album IOU since I start playing a long time ago. Really nice to see them permorming alive. Gary, thank`s man! You have influenced a lot of drummers aroud the world.
Only saw Allan once. Tempest at the Whisky. It was amazing.
About 13 years ago I saw Holdsworth at the "Baked Potato" with Jimmy Johnson and Chad Wackerman. Aside from a few gray hairs, Jimmy looked identical to this video with I presume is the same bass and ... glasses!
Yeah, Jimmy seems to have found the fountain of youth!
great. sound is very good, lots of details and seperation
this is it. this is the best holdsworth video. other comments are saying that this sounds much better than the DVD, so thanks for doing that work dude!
Gary and Allan...just the best team ever for me...and Jimmy such a perfect flow ...I feel so lucky to have witnessed this band 3 tims in one week in 1989...with Steve Hunt on keys...never matched musically for me on any live gig.
Bless the camera operators and production crew. The shots are incredible. Exactly what my mind wants to see. It's perfect.
Keyboards are fab! Rock on Alan u were the best!
Brilliant and miles away! He is so inspiring, damn! I didn’t get into him till much later, and I now listen to him and it’s a profound sound. Just amazing and in awe
Allan was the best guitar player ever.
Alan eres uno de los mejores guitarristas de Jazz que tengo el placer de ver y escuchar.
I like a nice tune to whistle along too ,me...
c'mon, everybody together: whiddlyey whiddley runa runarunrun whiddley doodoodoodood gwiddygwiddylakitalakita burdiliburdilifoodilidigidbilik!
@@jimmythebold589 That`s easy for you to say, Jimmy.....
Drummer absolutely smokes !!!
Hello..welcome to the world as a Gary Husband fan.....at the Roxy gig.. the one eddie VH put together..I was sitting right in front of the kit..I seriously had to pull my chair back ...
When a keyboard player take off his watch to hit a solo,
it gonna be insane.
Fantastic musicians playing fantastic music, craftsmanship of the highest quality. There are no words to describe the feeling in the subject of the game. Great musicians with knowledge and experience.
I've seen pictures of him with that guitar, but this is the 1st I've ever seen him playing that Ibanez.
The Ibanez that wasn't an Ibanez... Look up my website for more on that :-)
Kei Akagi is criminally unknown...
Agree 1000%
If I am not mistaken, Eddie Van Halen was a big Holdsworth fan. I can hear his influence on the “1984” album especially.
Holdsworth was a big influence on EVH.
Yes that’s correct! Have you heard the live performance of Eddie and Allan at The Roxy in Hollywood, California?
@@ericaward702 I’m not familiar with it. I will check it out. Thanks!
I saw Allan in Vancouver with Jimmy Johnson , Chad Wackerman and a guy playing Rhodes
sounding a lot like Holdsworth's note choices . I was very grateful for Jimmy holding down the
fort and keeping things somewhat close to home ...... good god man shit can get wayyyyy out there .
Thanks for all this amazing content, please keep it coming. Can never get enough of the master!
The great Allan holdsworth is the greatest guitarist the world has ever know, the john Coltrane of the guitar. He has never played a wrong note in his entire career,and yet he struggled to get record deals,that in it self is a travisty! This genius changed the way the guitar is played forever, he also introduced the synthaxe which is a impossible instrument to master, yet this glorious musician did.even after his death still doesn't get the credit he rightfully deserves. He is just as important as bird, Coltrane, monk,armstrong,Ellington and roach. There really needs to be a monument erected in honor of this wonderful genius. Thank you Allan for all your genius.
The pianist is sensational.
He’s back on his planet right now.❤
May be the most creative guitarist of all time. Totally blew up the scene back then. With Flim, no less...
Needs more cow bell. I bought an A Holdsworth signature git in the 80’s. Promptly followed by tendinitis. That was that.
What a wonderful video and what a wonderful job you've done! I enjoyed every second! Thanks for investing you time into making this legendary performance sound more distinct and perfect. And thanks to great Allan and the musicians for their talend! Allan is my latest discovery - and I fail to find anything and anybody close to him yet.
Shredding in Jazz Fusion terms would give most people a bad trip but a selected few a REALLY good trip
This is the highest level of musicianship
amazing sounds , truly amazing performance energy . .
This beyond ethereal… fabulous…
Incredible performance!
I hate to say it, but I'm so grateful for those camera men getting right up in the players crotch! The shot of their hands playing is amazing! And bless those players for putting up with those invasive German camera men!
What a face melter, bravo.
so beautiful!!!! impossible ! i can't believe this!!!
Not from this world, I think- marvellous!!! 👍👍👍
Best thing I've watched all year
Fantastic remix. Sounds as if I'm there in the moment, even on my phone.
My favorite bass player. If you guys haven't heard what JJ did with Wayne Johnson's band, do yourself a favor. Fantastic stuff.
gary. my fav drummer