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Essential. Video quality: 3/10. Musical transcendence: 11/10. If you find a clean copy of the original DVD, buy it. Until then, let the ghost in the machine play on. -DVD-RIP- - Allan Holdsworth - Live At Yoshi--s
Recorded in 2000 at the legendary Yoshi’s jazz club in Oakland, California, this performance is the definitive document of a guitarist who many believe was not entirely human. Now, stripped from its plastic casing and reduced to bits and bytes, the DVD-RIP of this concert has taken on a second life—as a ghost story, a guitar lesson, and a testament to impossible technique. By 2000, Yoshi’s was already hallowed ground. It was a space where the wood panels seemed to absorb decades of genius. For Allan Holdsworth—a man who famously hated the sound of the electric guitar (preferring the saxophone or violin)—the intimate acoustics of Yoshi’s were a necessary cage. The DVD captures him not as a rock star, but as a scientist peering into a microscope. Here’s a feature-style piece developed around the query