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p.1 #1 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
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We lost another really great musician last week. Allen Holdsworth died in Southern California. He was a guitar player's guitar player. Look up some of his youtube instructional vids and be blown away at his total mastery of the instrument. I shot these around twenty-five years ago, more or less, for Guitar Player Magazine. In both shots he's holding the famous Synthaxe guitar synth and you can see the incredible reach of those fingers allowing him to play chords others can only imagine. These are two that hold up over time. Both shot on RZ67 on Fuji RFP. Drum scanned on a Howtek.
p.1 #3 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Thanks Doug. You're right. There have been about seven in the last year alone. Crazy, but I guess a lot of them are getting to that age, although Allen was only seventy.
p.1 #6 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Thanks guys. And film_4ever, notice too that those frets don't get closer together as they go up the neck. Strings all the same gauge too. Those frets are all individual controller contacts.
p.1 #14 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Thanks. There have been at least half a dozen alone that I've photographed that have gone in the last year and a half. And just last week, Bill Bryson, long time bass player for Chris Hillman died. Not someone who was really well known generally but another super musician, singer and songwriter and generally great guy. He was seventy. I guess we're just getting to the time where a lot of people we've sort of taken for granted for many years are coming to the end of their lives.
p.1 #16 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Peter, those are classic images. I remember the days when I started playing bass and guitar and the likes of Holdsworth, john Scofield, and Clapton were gracing the covers of GP. I still remember being introduced to one Eric Johnson with the cover asking "Who is Eric Johnson? And why is he on our cover?" EJ has been a guitar hero of mine for many years since. I hadn't heard about Holdsworth's passing (too busy with travel baseball). Very nice work and sad that we are losing so many talented artists.
Greg
p.1 #17 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Jas - That's a Synthaxe - a guitar synthesizer that just sort of looks like a guitar. Really, each fret is split into six separate contacts. I think there were around a hundred of them ever made. I think Allan had at least three when I made these photos. I also photographed Lee Ritenour with a Synthaxe as well. There are some great youtube vids of Allan playing that instrument.
Greg - Yeah. Eric Johnson is fabulous as well. I think that Tom Brechtlein, the great L.A. drummer went to Austin years ago to play with Eric - at least that's what my memory is telling me at this point.
p.1 #19 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Wow, am I ever glad that I stumbled upon these images. Great work Peter. I remember seeing the bottom image in GP back in the day. He has always been one of my favorites, and I truly regret not having ever seen him perform live.
p.1 #20 · Allan Holdsworth (guitar player) died last week
Thanks Jim. I can't even remember which images they ran, and after my last dealing with the parent company a year ago when Keith Emerson died, I didn't even bother contacting GP Mag, even though I'm still friends with the AD there.
What I find interesting is that these were just little, almost throw away gigs for me - back in the day - when I was doing two or three of these a week for a few hundred bucks a piece. Now when I go back I often find that it was the images that were never used that are the most interesting. That, in conjunction with have a really great drum scanner in house and fairly advanced Photoshop skills make images that once we might have just tossed quite viable.
I have to go back into Allan's folder and see if there are any others I like enough to scan. I'm already getting calls from around the country from fans wanting prints. I guess Square Space's SEO is working.
