Twelve CD box set collection featuring all of Allan Holdsworth’s solo albums from 1982-2003. That title is no hyperbole-it was a proclamation that ran on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine in 2008, and is a feeling shared by fans and guitarists all around the world. Still, though, Holdsworth remains largely under-rated; many who admire his most famous work have overlooked dozens of fascinating finds to be made on his decades of recordings. This collection is a treasure trove of such discoveries, as it brings you all 11 of his albums as a solo artist, producer and group leader since 1980 plus the live-in-Tokyo album Then! And a 40-page booklet full of liner notes and archival photos. You also get previously unreleased bonus tracks, and all these albums have been newly remastered from the original tapes: I.O.U. (1982), Road Games (1983), Metal Fatigue (1985), Atavachron (1986), Sand (1987), Secrets (1989), Wardenclyffe Tower (1992), Hard Hat Area (1993), None Too Soon (1996), The Sixteen Men Of Tain (2000), Flat Tire (2001) and Then! (2003). These albums, many of which have been out of print and very hard to find for years, include one intriguing composition, ethereal track, dazzling fusion rocker and daredevil guitar passage after another
Track Listing
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Disc 11. The Things You See, 2. Where Is One, 3. Checking Out, 4. Letters of Marque, 5. Out From Under, 6. Temporary Fault, 7. Shallow Sea, 8. White Line
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Disc 21. Three Sheets to the Wind, 2. Road Games, 3. Pt. 2 Water on the Brain, 4. Tokyo Dream, 5. Was There?, 6. Material Real
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Disc 31. Metal Fatigue, 2. Home, 3. Devil Take the Hindmost, 4. Panic Station, 5. The (In Loving Memory of My Father) Un-Merry Go Round, 6. In the Mystery
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Disc 41. Non-Brewed Condiment, 2. Funnels, 3. The Dominant Plague, 4. Atavachron, 5. Looking Glass, 6. Mr. Berwell, 7. All Our Yesterdays
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Disc 51. Sand, 2. Distance vs. Desire, 3. Pud Wud, 4. Clown, 5. The 4:15 Bradford Executive, 6. Mac Man
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Disc 61. City Nights, 2. Secrets, 3. 54 Duncan Terrace (Dedicated to Pat Smythe), 4. Joshua, 5. Spokes, 6. Maid Marion, 7. Peril Premonition, 8. Endomorph (Dedicated to My Parents)
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Disc 71. 5 to 10, 2. Sphere of Innocence, 3. Wardenclyffe Tower, 4. Dodgy Boat, 5. Zarabeth, 6. Against the Clock, 7. Questions, 8. Oneiric Moor, 9. Tokyo Dream, 10. Pt. 4, The Un-Merry Go Round, 11. Pt. 5, The Un-Merry Go Round
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Disc 81. Prelude, 2. Ruhkukah, 3. High Stakes Low Levels, 4. Hard Hat Area, 5. Tullio, 6. House of Mirrors, 7. Postlude
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Disc 91. Countdown, 2. Nuages, 3. How Deep Is the Ocean, 4. Isotope, 5. Pt. 1/Interlude/None Too Soon, Pt. 2 None Too Soon, 6. Norwegian Wood, 7. Very Early, 8. San Marcos, 9. Inner Urge
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Disc 101. San Onofre, 2. 0274, 3. The Sixteen Men of Tain, 4. Above and Below, 5. The Drums Were Yellow, 6. Texas, 7. Downside Up, 8. Eidolon, 9. Above and Below (Reprise), 10. Material Unreal
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Disc 111. The (Intro) Duplicate Man, 2. The Duplicate Man, 3. Eeny Meeny, 4. Please Hold On, 5. Snow Moon, 6. Curves, 7. So Long, 8. Bo Peep, 9. Don’t You Know
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Disc 121. Pt. 1 Zone, 2. Proto-Cosmos, 3. White Line, 4. Atavachron, 5. Pt. 2 Zone, 6. Pud Wud, 7. House of Mirrors, 8. Non-Brewed Condiment, 9. Pt. 3 Zone, 10. Funnels
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