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2	Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitar player and jazz fusion musician. Easily one of the first players to break out of the box of traditional guitar technique, Holdsworth had a very progressive sound, and could be identified by his eccentric legato playing and his complex chordal melodies.
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4	Holdsworth was born into a musical family, and wanted to be a horn player as a kid. Unfortunately for him, his uncle bought him a guitar. Unenthusiastic at first, Holdsworth toyed around on the guitar, trying his utmost to make it not sound like a guitar. It worked, and Holdsworth quickly found his technique growing at an alarming rate. Saxophone player Music/JohnColtrane was one of his biggest influences, and Holdsworth's "outside" legato playing can be attributed to his emulation of saxophone players.
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6	Holdsworth was a pioneer of melodic guitar playing, and has influenced such successes in the genre as Music/SteveVai, Music/JoeSatriani, Music/VanHalen, and [[Music/DreamTheater John Petrucci]].
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8	'''Discography:'''
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10	* 1976: ''Velvet Darkness'' [[note]] Velvet Darkness was not an official release in Holdsworth's eyes. It was made using tapes of backstage rehearsals. More information on Velvet Darkness can be found on [[Website/TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]]. [[/note]]
11	* 1982: ''I.O.U.''
12	* 1983: ''Road Games (EP)''
13	* 1985: ''Metal Fatigue''
14	* 1986: ''Atavachron''
15	* 1987: ''Sand''
16	* 1989: ''Secrets''
17	* 1992: ''Wardenclyffe Tower''
18	* 1993: ''Hard Hat Area''
19	* 1996: ''None Too Soon''
20	* 1999: ''The Sixteen Men of Tain''
21	* 2001: ''Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie''
22	* 2005: ''The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock (compilation)''
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25	!!Allan Holdsworth provides examples of:
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27	* BeyondTheImpossible - Guitar players have adopted the term "Holdsworthian chord" for chords that are seemingly impossible to play.
28	* CoverVersion - His entire album ''None Too Soon'' is full of covers of jazz standards.
29	* IconicItem - Holdsworth made the [=SynthAxe=] cool. At least, he made it as cool as an obscure, heavy piece of machinery costing over $10,000 can be.
30	* {{Improv}} - The guy improvised an entire concert tour. Easily one of the best improvisers out there.
31	* {{Instrumentals}} - Most of his work.
32	* InsufferableGenius - Holdsworth is such a stickler for tone that he refuses to let the sound guys set up his equipment. He has even yelled at recording engineers for not knowing how to mic his setup[[note]]though to be fair, at the time, what he wanted wasn't really possible with the then available technology.[[/note]]
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