Yet his miserable experience working with a major label for that release led to his opting for working with new indie label, Enigma Records, for his 1985 release, Metal Fatigue, the last to include the I.O.U.
By 1984, Holdsworth had garnered a Grammy nomination for Rood Games. adding vocalist Paul Williams, who’d worked with Holdsworth early in his career with the prog-rock band, Tempest. The band began in England with drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband, and launched in the U.S. Wackerman had been recommended to Holdsworth by Frank Zappa, and after Jeff Berlin’s departure, Wackerman suggested Johnson, who was already one of LA’s most renowned and gifted session players and leader of his own group, Flim and the BBs. With a young, new rhythm section recruited locally after his permanent move to Southern California, Holdsworth continued with the core of this band as a power trio featuring drummer Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Johnson. It’s his first posthumous release approved by his family estate.Herein is the closing live set of Holdsworth’s “I.O.U.” band, featuring live versions of material from his first three studio releases starting with Allan Holdsworth, I.O.U., and followed by the Grammy-nominated Rood Games. Скачать с: Live In Japan 1984 marks an end-point in the first phase of Allan Holdsworth’s touring career as group leader.