Allan was probably the best guitarist to have ever lived, and Chad is a master in his own right!

@TheMentalblockrock

6 ай бұрын

and what a GREAT SURNAME for a drummer..... WHACKER-MAN, indeed.......

@thishorsenoise

2 күн бұрын

probably?

Chad is one of the most underrated drummers in the world. His ability is astonishing and his musical scope is immense. He's an incredibly accomplish composer as well. Thank you for sharing

Met you, Chad, when you were sitting at the bar with Alan when playing a 3x night gig at the Town Pump in Vancouver 86.

Eddie Jobson took Frank Zappa to listen to the record exec listen of the first UK record which Alan played on. Jobson said Frank made "sounds of approval" the whole time.

I love these insights. It’s great to hear the interactions and thought processes between genuine superstars.

I love all the Chad solo albums. So glad he got Allan to play on a lot of that stuff. .

@miykaelp5284

11 ай бұрын

that was some Alan's best playing too imo, he let loose more

I love Holdsworth, but I also love Zappa and it has been a wonderful life enjoying the music of both with Chad playing drums. Chad is a monster, in my top three goat

One of the best things that my wife and I had happen was when we saw Allan play in Milwaukee twice many years ago. I don't remember who the drummer was on the gig at Shank Hall but the second time we saw him he was performing with Chad at a drum clinic at Casio Music and Jimmy Johnson was on bass. All I can say is WOW!

Wow, Wackerman played w/ Holdsworth for more than 30 years!...wish it could have been even more. It's interesting to see people catching up w/ what Holdsworth was doing. Guys who liked smoking guitar players pretty much only liked the records where he was a hired gun like a really high octane rock guy , (was in this boat for awhile). A.H. will likely never be a household name everywhere, but he certainly expanded the vocabulary of the instrument and influenced thousands of players.

Together with Jaco, Allan was the most impressive musician this world experienced.

@Coynkydynk

8 ай бұрын

Shawn Lane

@FortyHurts

5 ай бұрын

@@Coynkydynk Shawn was a prodigious talent for sure. With respect, there was some depth missing to his music which, over time, he could have evolved into. And that makes his early departure all the more tragic. To have watched him grow into old age as a grandmaster of the instrument would have been sublime.

@Coynkydynk

5 ай бұрын

@@FortyHurts I agree wholeheartedly (and I wish the production values were better on his solo releases), but what I commented on was "the most impressive musician", not "composer". While, I guess, it could be argued that composition skills could, perhaps even should, be included in the "musicianship" category, I believe Shawn belongs in the pantheon on his playing and improvisational skills alone. Just unbelievable (as Zappa exclaimed referring to wunder teens Mats and Morgan joining him on stage once).

@FortyHurts

5 ай бұрын

@@Coynkydynk My comment is in regard to him as a musician.

I’m rediscovering Allan and inspired by every note - and every word said about him. Thank you.

Wonderful chad beautiful career with forward thinking musicians 😀

Legendary!! Love this.❤

magnifico.💣💣💣💣💣💣

Legendary

Made my day. Thank you.

Allíen Holdsworth,vino de otra galaxia,su música, composición,sus armonías,progresión de acordes y lo más relevante para mi que soy guitarrista es su desarrollo en los solos,su sonidos,timbres, alturas,pianissimo,de otro mundo y Chad Wackerman fue uno de los que leyó mejor su música,son increíble,hay un tema de Chad " Tell Me" maravilloso.

awesome

🌹 💞 💞

Two different band leaders with quite a spectrum of what they hear..different work ethics...if you were hired the only demands were what you placed on yourself presumably.....

😸😄

81,84 and 88 Zappa nothing else to say...

@plopcoen6222

Жыл бұрын

1982 as well

deacon chad....!

Allan is in the leagues of Stravinsky and Ravel. To me he is LY ahead of jazz musicians like Colteane etc.

@jimreplicant

8 ай бұрын

Music isn’t a competition? allan wasnt leagues ahead of anyone and certainly not coltrane. This whole business where we think the artist we like is the best is terribly odd don’t you agree?

@lex.cordis

3 ай бұрын

@@jimreplicant Allan surpassed Coltrane in all respects. All due respect. I LOVE Coltrane. But as a soloist, and _especially_ as a composer, Allan's genius was leagues beyond all humans, not only Coltrane.

@jimreplicant

3 ай бұрын

@@lex.cordis Nope, that is just your ill informed opinion. You’re welcome to reduce the arts into a competition all you want but all you’ve done is just create some arbitrary rules based on what you like🤣

@lex.cordis

3 ай бұрын

@@jimreplicant LOL Buddy, you were the one that started out by saying that Allan didn't surpass Coltrane (which is untrue anyway), so you had already started us on the path of "competition." It wasn't me. You already acknowledged, albeit inadvertently, that there is a measurement to compare against. Allan clearly surpassed it. Coltrane had a sphere of music/sound that he fit into and it was relatively familiar to his time. Allan was a universe all his own with no discernible influence, especially compositionally. You cannot say any of that for Coltrane.

@jimreplicant

3 ай бұрын

@@lex.cordis What on earth are you talking about? Go read your ignorant original post where you say allan is LY ahead of every musician or whatever non sense you claimed🤣 Stop accusing me of something your doing that I’m calling you out on… child

Those self imposed demands are probably what drove him to drinking. Poor guy - what a tortured psyche.

I've been around guitar players, including me, all my life. It's the only thing I've ever known. And every single one of 'em/us, everybody's brother, their brother's sister, aunts, and uncles, have an opinion on the subject. Count on it! .. Now, we see Chad Wackernan. What is it about the elaborate construction, and I do mean elaborate, of the drums' set does Chad hear and feel? Are guitar players actually too stupid to know that drums don't have a difficult to acquire tone and sound, just like guitar players don't have, or claim to actually have? What is it in Chad's set up, that he wants? What is it that Chad doesn't like? So many guitar players have driven that issue with our instrument into the ground so many times, I'm way past weary of it all. Why have I neglected the particular intricacies and, more accurately, taken for granted the sound, tone, and feel, that drums have, or can have? Or, what the drummer wants to have? An instrument I've taken for granted my entire life, and an instrument about which I haven't the first clue.