How to play like Allan Holdsworth” by Lindsey Boullt, Guitar Player Magazine, June 2004.
This article was included in the 2007 publication of “The GuitarPlayerBook 40 Years, a “best-of collection from the magazine’s four-decade history.” Jude Gold (JeffersonStarship/former Sr. Editor GP mag) and I met in 2001-02. Jude asked me to write an article for the mag. So I wrote about the ‘great one’ Allan Holdsworth. The article made the June 2004 issue. In 2005, I met Allan.
In 2007, Jude included my article in Guitar Player magazine’s 40 Years book. Over the next few years, Allan and I spoke and crossed paths several times. I was able to tell him what he meant to all of us—that he was not only the most beautiful player, but the greatest guitarist and innovator of our lifetime. No doubt he had heard those words many times before. For guitar players back then, we waited with great anticipation for the next Holdsworth album. He gave hope to, and for, innovation itself.
Library of Congress Link https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007036787.html
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