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! Writer(s)
! Length
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| 1.
! style="text-align:left;" | No.
| "Golden Lakes"
! style="text-align:left;" | Track title
| Allan Holdsworth
! style="text-align:left;" | Composer
| 4:48
! style="text-align:left;" | Length
! style="text-align:left;" | Comments
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| 1
| "Hell's Bells"
| Dave Stewart, Alan Gowen
| 3:32
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| 2
| "One of a Kind, Pt. 1"
| Bill Bruford
| 2:20
| Guitar solo 0.41-1.23
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| 3
| "One of a Kind, Pt. 2"
| Bruford, Stewart
| 4:00
| Guitar solo 0.48-2.34
|-
| 4
| "Travels with Myself – And Someone Else"
| Bruford
| 6:10
| Guitar solo 5.00-6.10
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|-
| 2.
| 5
| "Stop Fiddlin'"
| "Fainting in Coils"
| Gordon Beck
| Bruford
| 2:56
| 6:33
| Guitar solos 1.06-1.46, 3.25-4.36
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|-
| 3.
| 6
| "The Things You See (When You Haven't Got Your Gun)"
| "Five G"
| Holdsworth
| Jeff Berlin, Bruford, Stewart
| 4:32
| 4:41
| Guitar solos throughout
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|-
| 4.
| 7
| "Diminished Responsibility"
| "The Abingdon Chasp"
| Holdsworth
| Allan Holdsworth
| 8:17
| 4:50
| Guitar solos throughout
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|-
| 5.
| 8
| "She's Lookin', I'm Cookin'"
| "Forever Until Sunday"
| Beck
| Bruford
| 11:58
| 5:46
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| 6.
| 9
| "At the Edge"
| "The Sahara of Snow, Pt. 1"
| Holdsworth
| Bruford
| 3:18
| 5:18
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| 7.
| 10
| "Up Country"
| "The Sahara of Snow, Pt. 2"
| Beck
| Bruford, Eddie Jobson
| 3:43
| 3:23
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"The Things You See" is a duo album by [[Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck]], released in 1980(81?). The album features originals by Allan and Gordon. They play a version of "Golden Lakes" recorded by [[Igginbottom]], and the songs "At The Edge" and "The Things You See" would later be reworked into one song named after the latter on "I.O.U.".
The second Bruford album features the same core band as the first, but sounds tighter and a little more organic. Allan is featured plenty, playing melody lines and solos, and has a composition, “The Abingdon Chasp”, with some majestic multitracked guitar parts, and even a short acoustic interlude.
 
http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/07/12-bruford-one-of-kind-1979.html
 
==[[Allan Holdsworth (Guitar Player 1980)]]==
 
How did you happen to play with Bill Bruford?

Bill asked me if I would play on his album, '''Feels Good To Me'''. Afterwards, I started to really get sick of soloing. I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I just killed myself with alcohol. When Bill asked me to work on his second album, '''One Of A Kind''', I expected things to be different, especially since he had Jeff Berlin on bass. Jeff’s a very good player.
 
Didn’t you feel that your declining interest would be detrimental to the group?

Well, some musicians are very efficient in that they can wade through things and not get upset. Unfortunately, I can’t do that. As soon as something like that starts to affect me, I lose all heart. And once I’ve lost the heart of it, I don’t even try anymore. It’s wrong; it’s a bad thing. But because I just couldn’t fight it, I left. I started complaining a lot and as a result, on Bill’s '''One Of A Kind''' I was able to play quite a few of the solos live. I really liked the solo at the end of "In Five G."
 
==[[Allan Holdsworth Remembers:"In The Dead Of Night" (Guitar and guitar shop 1999)]]==
 
But as Holdsworth remembers, his gear for the recording of that album and its groundbreaking solo is somewhat pared down compared to the equipment he uses today. "I was using only a single 50-watt Marshall and two 4xl2 cabinets," he mused. "Occasionally, I used a Vox AC30, but not on the UK album-1 used that on Bill’s record, '''One Of A Kind'''.


This intimate duet album feature Allan on an acoustic-sounding guitar, while Gordon plays both acoustic and electric piano. Sometimes they overdub. The material is varied: swinging jazz on “She’s lookin’...”, experimental on “Diminished…” and melancholic on “At The Edge”, where Allan does an early version of what would be joined with “The Things You See…” on IOU. Still, it’s cohesive sounding, and very listenable.
==[[The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever (Guitar Player 2008)]]==


By all accounts, Allan used an [[Ibanez L5]] copy for the recording of the album.
Upon exiting U.K. in 1979, Holdsworth and Bruford resumed working together for a few months, performing live (Bruford’s BBC: Rock Goes to College provides a taste, and showcases the guitarist’s improvisational prowess), and recording Bruford’s '''One Of A Kind'''.
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==[[L’hommage de Jean-Marie Salhani à Allan Holdsworth (Guitaremag 2017)]]==
==Stephen Tayler on recording "One Of A Kind"==
- So after this “Sunbird” experience, for it was that first album which led to your first encounter, there was another record which became a reference, a duo with Gordon Beck, which you produced.
In the August 2021 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine, recording engineer Stephen Tayler reminisces about the recording of "One Of A Kind":


- Absolutely, I produced this one, it's a duo. The relationship between Gordon Beck and Allan Holdsworth is a very special one, they were fascinated by each other. One by his inner and outer magic, a guitar player who compared to no one else but himself, with a singular originality and fluidity.
"Allan was quite the character,” Tayler remembers. “I first experienced his work on the Gong album Gazeuse, which I mixed, then I worked with him on Feels Good to Me and the U.K. album. He was extremely focused and critical of his contribution, but very insecure about his playing, and never that happy about a performance. He wanted to keep doing things over, so we had to encourage him and finally tell him we'd captured it!”


Gordon was fascinated by this unusual character, and Allan was fascinated by Gordon Beck because Gordon represented the culture of jazz, he had the knowledge of jazz. It was fascinating for Allan who wasn't a jazzman to begin with, he discovered it and was impregnated by it, but not in a scholarly way. He didn't really learn jazz, he explored it in his own way.
“For overdubs, we started to have Allan play in the control room while feeding his signal to the studio floor. I usually recorded one microphone close to his cabinet, then I'd set up another at some distance to pick up the room sound to a separate track so I could create a balance. I remember recording Allan playing his Strat in the control room as we monitored really loudly so he could control tone and feedback.”


When Gordon convinced Allan to make a duo album he asked me my perspective, and I said, it's simple, it has to be an acoustic record. "Allan, do you agree to play acoustic guitar?" It was some kind of a challenge for him, he had never done a record with an acoustic and he said "okay, I'll play acoustic guitar". He prepared himself, and came with an Ibanez at the studio. He also had an electric one, but barely used it.


What they recorded is, in my view, one of a kind, absolutely outstanding. What you hear in that record is most of the time one take, very little editing. All tracks have at least two takes, but it was always the first one which was taken into account. The testimony was the first take. Maybe just one track had a couple of edits, but the rest came spontaneously and immediately.
Read the whole article at  


I must confess that there are at least two tracks on that album, “Golden Lakes” and “Diminished Responsibility”, both composed by Allan, which are absolutely astonishing and wonderful. I must have listened to them hundred or two hundred times, at least! Each time is a rediscovery, absolutely magical. The two of them together is something that works.
https://cloud.3dissue.com/196659/197012/230687/VGMAUG2021zyktgi7673D/?page=52
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Revision as of 21:13, 2 October 2023

Bruford: One Of A Kind
No. Track title Composer Length Comments
1 "Hell's Bells" Dave Stewart, Alan Gowen 3:32
2 "One of a Kind, Pt. 1" Bill Bruford 2:20 Guitar solo 0.41-1.23
3 "One of a Kind, Pt. 2" Bruford, Stewart 4:00 Guitar solo 0.48-2.34
4 "Travels with Myself – And Someone Else" Bruford 6:10 Guitar solo 5.00-6.10
5 "Fainting in Coils" Bruford 6:33 Guitar solos 1.06-1.46, 3.25-4.36
6 "Five G" Jeff Berlin, Bruford, Stewart 4:41 Guitar solos throughout
7 "The Abingdon Chasp" Allan Holdsworth 4:50 Guitar solos throughout
8 "Forever Until Sunday" Bruford 5:46
9 "The Sahara of Snow, Pt. 1" Bruford 5:18
10 "The Sahara of Snow, Pt. 2" Bruford, Eddie Jobson 3:23


The second Bruford album features the same core band as the first, but sounds tighter and a little more organic. Allan is featured plenty, playing melody lines and solos, and has a composition, “The Abingdon Chasp”, with some majestic multitracked guitar parts, and even a short acoustic interlude.

http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/07/12-bruford-one-of-kind-1979.html

Allan Holdsworth (Guitar Player 1980)

How did you happen to play with Bill Bruford?

Bill asked me if I would play on his album, Feels Good To Me. Afterwards, I started to really get sick of soloing. I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I just killed myself with alcohol. When Bill asked me to work on his second album, One Of A Kind, I expected things to be different, especially since he had Jeff Berlin on bass. Jeff’s a very good player.

Didn’t you feel that your declining interest would be detrimental to the group?

Well, some musicians are very efficient in that they can wade through things and not get upset. Unfortunately, I can’t do that. As soon as something like that starts to affect me, I lose all heart. And once I’ve lost the heart of it, I don’t even try anymore. It’s wrong; it’s a bad thing. But because I just couldn’t fight it, I left. I started complaining a lot and as a result, on Bill’s One Of A Kind I was able to play quite a few of the solos live. I really liked the solo at the end of "In Five G."

Allan Holdsworth Remembers:"In The Dead Of Night" (Guitar and guitar shop 1999)

But as Holdsworth remembers, his gear for the recording of that album and its groundbreaking solo is somewhat pared down compared to the equipment he uses today. "I was using only a single 50-watt Marshall and two 4xl2 cabinets," he mused. "Occasionally, I used a Vox AC30, but not on the UK album-1 used that on Bill’s record, One Of A Kind.

The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever (Guitar Player 2008)

Upon exiting U.K. in 1979, Holdsworth and Bruford resumed working together for a few months, performing live (Bruford’s BBC: Rock Goes to College provides a taste, and showcases the guitarist’s improvisational prowess), and recording Bruford’s One Of A Kind.


Stephen Tayler on recording "One Of A Kind"

In the August 2021 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine, recording engineer Stephen Tayler reminisces about the recording of "One Of A Kind":

"Allan was quite the character,” Tayler remembers. “I first experienced his work on the Gong album Gazeuse, which I mixed, then I worked with him on Feels Good to Me and the U.K. album. He was extremely focused and critical of his contribution, but very insecure about his playing, and never that happy about a performance. He wanted to keep doing things over, so we had to encourage him and finally tell him we'd captured it!”

“For overdubs, we started to have Allan play in the control room while feeding his signal to the studio floor. I usually recorded one microphone close to his cabinet, then I'd set up another at some distance to pick up the room sound to a separate track so I could create a balance. I remember recording Allan playing his Strat in the control room as we monitored really loudly so he could control tone and feedback.”


Read the whole article at

https://cloud.3dissue.com/196659/197012/230687/VGMAUG2021zyktgi7673D/?page=52

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