Allan Holdsworth- Human?
Here is a video of Allan Holdsworth playing with Soft Machine, at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974.
There is a long, spacey, psychedelic intro (it was 1974, after all), the song actually begins at 3:35.
I could write all night and not convey the magnitude of this guy’s talent -just watch the video.
Interesting Holdsworth facts:
He didn’t really care for guitar when he was a kid. He loved jazz saxophone, like Charlie Parker. Sax was too expensive, so his dad bought him a cheap guitar. Allan only played around with it out of boredom, and developed his unique harmonic and melodic style trying to mimic sax music. He is still the gold standard for legato playing in the guitar universe.
He loves to ride his bicycle around SoCal.
He loves drinking and brewing beer.