kennywtelejazz
Alan has used a lot of different guitars over the years ...
Ibanez even did an Alan Holdsworth  Guitar in the early 80's...
To this day I still regret not buying an AH10 when I had the chance ..
some info
http://www.theguitarcolumn.com/2009/07/ibanez-ah10-allan-holdsworth-signature.html
 
Bringing  this back to the Synth Axe ,

FWIW, My personal preferences lean toward, 
I liked Alan's playing the best when he was playing with Tony Williams When he was using a Gibson SG
 
Kenny

Kenny,

Agreed on some of Holdsworth's best playing being with Tony Williams.

In fact, Emergency from Tony Williams Lifetime with John McLaughlin and Believe It with Holdsworth are both on my list of top ten desert island albums!

batsbrew,
 
Thanks for that little time capsule montage!
I forgot about Holdsworths playing with The Soft Machine. I was fortunate enough to see Holdsworth live with Bruford on the One of a Kind Tour at another great NYC institution, The Bottom Line, which is now sadly no longer. I forgot how many great bands and musicians I saw at that place. And before the concert, you hung out at Tower Records just up the block...
Here's another great clip of Holdsworth playing live with Bruford (also have to mention Dave Stewart on keyboards and the superb Jeff Berlin on bass) - 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYgD8x12kfE
 
p.s. How do you post the actual YouTube clip instead of a link?
 
Regards,
Steve

Steve, just delete the "s" out of https and put the link between:
 
[tube] link [/tube]
 
 
Ps.
no spaces between the two [tube]'s

truegrit....yes, the olde rock goes to college.....
 
i've seen all of that concert!
 
ok, posting the utoob thing...
go to the 'full version'....
 
on the far right there is a button called SPECIAL PGDCode
 
hit that, use the 'youtube' selection,  [tube][/tube]
post your link in the middle of that, 
but remove the 's' from the 'https:'
so it only reads 'http'

woops, mesh beat me to it!