Learn Allan Holdsworth - 1997 I.O.U. Live

I.O.U. Live is a alive album past times guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released inwards 1997 through Cleopatra Records. According to Holdsworth, the tracks were taken from video footage of a 1984 concert inwards Japan, which after became a bootleg circulating nether the get upwardly of Tokyo Dream: Allan Holdsworth inwards Japan. He hence considered it an unauthorised liberate as well as non part of his discography.

Released inwards 1997 on Purple Pyramid Records. Catalog Number: CLP 9970-2 This recording was taken from the "Tokyo Dream" video concert. Recorded alive at Yubinchokin Hall-Tokyo, Nihon 5/14/84.

This is the alone alive IOU. Recorded inwards Nihon inwards 1984. Magic. My re-create was released thru Purple Pyramid records 1997. Highly recommended. All of the Allan Holdsworth recordings are worthy. There are bootlegs out at that topographic point which cause got dropouts as well as who's audio lineament is really uneven but this is non ane of those past times whatsoever stretch of your musical imagination.

This album, recorded for a Japanese television set show, as well as released against Allan's wishes, is all the same inwards my opinion, his nearly accessible locomote ever. Gone are the keyboards on this date, as well as so every depository fiscal establishment notation that's non vocal, drum or bass, is Holdsworth himself. When yous realize this, your jaw volition drib open.

Allmusic review of Holdsworth's I.O.U. studio album:

After the train-wreck disaster of Holdsworth's kickoff solo release, the infamous Velvet Darkness, it wasn't until 3 years after that he reconsidered doing a existent solo liberate versus the before ripoff of an authorized studio mishmash production he suffered. So inwards 1979 he recorded I.O.U. on a fly as well as a prayer as well as loans (ergo, an IOU recording project). With his really successful stints alongside other groups inwards the intervening fourth dimension period, such every bit UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as Bill Bruford, Holdsworth's guitar prowess as well as get upwardly were clearly on the map. Holdsworth straightaway needed to hold upwardly the leader he clearly was as well as thus liberate an official solo record. The existent Allan Holdsworth unleashed is at concluding revealed on I.O.U. inwards his master compositions as well as well-crafted soloing, versus beingness exactly part of a grouping as well as forced to rest inside sure as shooting boundaries of other bandmates' design. I.O.U., every bit a solo release, is high-quality jazz fusion interplay, offering emotive compositions, ethereal guitar atmospherics, complex chordal progressions, as well as intense legato explosions of guitar that laid upwardly the criterion for many guitarists to come. There is no acoustic guitar this time, but a wee chip of Holdsworth on violin appears inwards ane song.

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R.I.P. Allan Holdsworth

Track listing:

All tracks written past times Allan Holdsworth, except where noted.

1. "Road Games" 4:25
2. "White Line" (Holdsworth, Gerry Brown) 7:02
3. "Panic Station" (lyrics past times Paul Williams) 4:14
4. "Letters of Marque" 6:41
5. "Material Real" 7:30
6. "Metal Fatigue" (lyrics past times Williams) 5:10
7. "Where Is One?" 8:02
8. "The Things You See" 7:01
9. "Was There (Something)" 6:58

Total length: 57:03

Personnel:

Allan Holdsworth – guitar
Jimmy Johnson – bass
Republic of Chad Wackerman – drums
Paul Williams – vocals