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The Atavachron FAQ v2.1: Miscellaneous
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Last Updated 6/26/96
Please send corrections, additions and comments to :
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If a tour itinerary is available, you can get it by
following this link.
The most recent tour (Spring/Summer 1995), the band has been Steve Hunt,
keyboards; Skuli Sverrisson, bass; and Chad Wackerman, drums. Gary Husband frequently
plays drums, also. Allan has expressed an interest in touring with Gordon Beck,
Gary Willis and Kirk Covington (the line-up on None Too Soon), but no plans have
been announced. If a tour has been announced, you can check the
tour itinerary to see who will be playing on those
dates.
The following firms generally have all of Allan's domestic
(U.S.) releases, and usually have the Bruford, U.K., Gong,
Jean-Luc Ponty, etc. CDs as well. If you don't have a CD
player, you may have trouble finding other formats; these
firms deal in CD format only, to my knowledge.
I haven't a chance to update the sources in quite some time; you will undoubtedly find
a more comprehensive and current listing of sources at Adam Levin's
Progressive Rock Home Page.
Note: Neither ADdimension, Inc., nor Jeff Preston
make any claim as to the quality of service or of merchandise
offered by any of the following firms; the fact that they are
listed here should not be construed as an endorsement. As always, caveat
emptor -- let the buyer beware.
- COMPACT DISC CONNECTION
- 1016 E. El Camino #322
- Sunnyvale, CA 94087 (USA)
- Modem: +1 408 730 9015
- Voice & Fax: +1 408 733 0801
- Telnet: cdconnection.com (or 199.35.15.2)
- Features: Online database of over 80,000 domestic (U.S.) and
- import releases. Shipping charge is $3.50 within contiguous 48
- states for orders under $100 -- free shipping on orders over
- $100.
- NOTEWORTHY
MUSIC
- 17 Airport Road
- Nashua, NH 03063 (USA)
- Orders only: +1 800 648 7972 [8:30am-6:00pm EST]
- (fax +1 603 833 9220)
- Customer Service: +1 603 881 5729 [9:00am-4:00pm EST]
- New Release Hotline: +1 603 883 1914
- Features: Good selection of domestic (U.S.) releases.
- CDNOW!
- 1440 Joel Drive
- Ambler, PA 19002 (USA)
- Phone: +1 215 646 6125
- Fax: +1 215 646 7087
- E-mail: manager@cdnow.com
- Telnet: cdnow.com
The following two sources are supposedly a good source for
some of the harder-to-find CDs (again, apply disclaimer above):
- RANJIT PADMANABHAN
- E-mail: ranjit@synopsys.com
- (fax +1 408 255 6077)
- 566 Crystalberry Terrace
- San Jose, CA 95129 (USA)
- WAYSIDE
- PO Box 6517
- Wheaton, MD 20906-0517 (USA)
For Allan's books, you might try:
- Music Dispatch
- P.O. Box 13920
- Milwaukee, WI 53213
- USA
In an informal poll conducted on Atavachron in August, 1992
(which predated the release of Wardenclyffe Tower,
Hard Hat Area, and None Too Soon ), the solo albums ranked as
follows (from highest to lowest):
- Metal Fatigue
- Atavachron
- I.O.U.
- Road Games
- Secrets
- Sand
Of all the CDs on which Allan has appeared, the top twenty
rankings given in the August, 1992 survey were as follows
(highest to lowest):
- Metal Fatigue
- One of a Kind (Bruford)
- U.K. (U.K.)
- Gazeuse! (Pierre Moerlen's Gong)
- Atavachron
- Forty Reasons (Chad Wackerman)
- I.O.U.
- Road Games
- Feels Good To Me (Bruford)
- Master Strokes (Bruford)
- Secrets
- Enigmatic Ocean (Jean-Luc Ponty)
- Sand
- With A Heart In My Song (A.H. & Gordon Beck)
- Individual Choice (Jean-Luc Ponty)
- Expresso II (Pierre Moerlen's Gong)
- MVP: Truth In Shredding (Frank Gambale and A.H.)
- Guaranteed (Level 42)
- If This Bass Could Only Talk (Stanley Clarke)
- Velvet Darkness
Yes, thanks entirely to Mark Oswald <oswald@transarc.com>;
he has assembled the following list of articles and interviews from
his personal collection:
Guitar Player
- December 1980
- Interview - "British Free-Form Progressive Rocker"
- December 1982
- Interview - "A Style Apart"
- February 1985
- Transcription - solo from "Devil Take the Hindmost"
- March 1990
- Interview - "Allan Holdsworth's Untold Secrets"
- Transcription - solo from "Joshua"
- August 1990
- Lesson/Transciption - "Finding the Uncommon Chord - the Voicings of Allan
Holdsworth"
- excerpts from "Devil Take the Hindmost", "The Things You See", "Material
Real", "Metal Fatigue", "Panic Station", "Atavachron"
Guitar
- April 1987
- Transcription - "Three Sheets to the Wind", "White Line", "Road Games"
- March 1989
- Lesson/Transcription - "The Early Years"
- excerpts from "Fred", "In the Dead of Night", "Hells Bells", etc.
Guitar World
- May 1989
- Interview - "The Unreachable Star"
- Transcription - solo from "City Nights"
1993 Whole Guitar Book (Musician Magazine)
- Interview - "Unparalleled Lines (Joe Satriani Meets Allan Holdsworth)"
Yes; Chris Hoard's
excellent interview conducted February 12th,
1994, is available on this Website.
You can access the available pictures by following this
link.
No sound files are available at present, but we're working on it (mainly
waiting to find out the legal ramifications regarding licensing/royalties as
relate to putting the samples on the Web server); suggestions and submissions are
always welcome!
As of August 11th, 1995, the only way to access the archives is through the Website, sorry.
Through his manager, Akira Yada. His address is:
- Allan Holdsworth
- c/o Mr. Akira Yada
- Arrow Field Productions, Inc.
- 14206 Leadwell St.
- Van Nuys, CA 91405
Photo contributed by M.P. Hughes
|
Yes; he and his family have had e-mail access to the Internet
since August, 1993. They are not, however, subscribed to
Atavachron. |
A fantastic resource with regards to the progressive rock genre can be found at
the Progressive Rock Home Page
maintained by Adam Levin.
Another great Web site for anyone wanting information on jazz is the WNUR-FM JazzWeb maintained by Joe
Germuska.
For those of you with access to USENET, you might find the
following newsgroups of interest:
- alt.guitar
- alt.music.progressive
- rec.music.bluenote
- rec.music.makers.guitar
- rec.music.progressive
For a more-or-less complete list of all the music
mailing lists available, follow this link.
Other links of interest
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