{"id":1045,"date":"2005-02-20T00:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T00:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2020-08-22T00:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:13:45","slug":"essential-holdsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2005\/02\/20\/essential-holdsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Holdsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although it isn&#8217;t true, it appears to me as though&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealallanholdsworth.com\/\">Allan Holdsworth<\/a>&#8216;s talent sprung fully-formed from the forehead of the music god. I&#8217;ve been listening to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000060OTU\/qid=1109889816\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-3424583-6879145\">Road Games<\/a>&nbsp;and, man, that&#8217;s one of the best unreleased albums I&#8217;ve heard recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been attempting to channel A.H. for many years &#8211; not to be a total clone, just to try and expand my guitar skills a smidgeon. On the peice I&#8217;m currently working on &#8211; Painting Abstracts &#8211; I think I got close to something reminiscent of his inflection and tone. I told Lisa about it and she said she hadn&#8217;t heard enough of his music to know what to listen for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I made up a compilation CD of what I think are some of Holdsworth&#8217;s essential tracks, ostensibly for Lisa to listen to, but I&#8217;m enjoying it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it isn&#8217;t true, it appears to me as though&nbsp;Allan Holdsworth&#8216;s talent sprung fully-formed from the forehead of the music god. I&#8217;ve been listening to&nbsp;Road Games&nbsp;and, man, that&#8217;s one of the best unreleased albums I&#8217;ve heard recently. I&#8217;ve been attempting to channel A.H. for many years &#8211; not to be a total clone, just to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}