Then! (album)

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Allan’s second official live album followed close on the heels of “All Night Wrong”. It was also recorded in Japan, but feature the “Hard Hat Area” band (Gary, Skuli and Steve) touring in 1990, prior to recording that album. The centerpieces of the album are the three improvised “Zones”, that Allan would regularly do in his live sets. Note that this album is credited to the "Allan Holdsworth Group".

http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/09/24-wardenclyffe-tower-1992-and-then.html

Allan did not make many references to this album, but he might have been referring to it here:

On The Level (IM&RW 1991)

IM - I heard rumours of a live album that you were doing or that you had in the can.

"We did do one but I didn’t like it. I’m gonna try another one. We did it in Japan and I was using these little tiny speaker boxes. There is a law of physics, if stuff gets too small it just sounds like that. It sort of interferred with my playing. It was alright but it wasn’t what I wanted out of a live album. I just wanted it to be really happening."