One of the most technically proficient electric guitarists in the realm of progressive rock/fusion and an avowed perfectionist, Allan Holdsworth worked as a guitar hero for hire with many of the 1970s leading jazz fusion artists including Nucleus, Soft Machine, Gong, U.K., Bill Bruford, Jean-Luc Ponty and Tony Williams Lifetime. Holdsworth never stuck around long…
The group finally gets a guitarist, and what a guitarist they got. Woodchuck.
Everything you thought you knew about the electric guitar is about to be challenged by Allan.
This is probably what U.K. would have sounded like if Holdsworth were in charge of the band rather than a hired hand.
This is what happens when you filter an electric guitar through a synthesizer and then filter them both through a calculus textbook.
Kronomyth 17.0: SYNTHPHONY IN A FLAT. In the cacophony of guitar gods small and sinister there is no shortage of aggravating and imaginary soundtracks, most the product of febrile minds trapped in small places with too much alcohol and a nasty propensity to tinker. A category under which, you might think, an album such as…
Kronomyth 20.0: AHMOK TIME. You are about to enter another dimension; a dimension not only of guitars, bass, drums and keyboards, but of some weird device called the SynthAxe. The “A” in Synthaxe may or may not be capitalized; it’s not really important right now. You’re going on a journey into a wondrous land of…