title: The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock
text: # The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock
  
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  The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock is a double compilation album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released on 17 May 2005 through Universal Music (Japan), Alternity Records (US) and JMS–Cream Records (Europe). The second disc contains predominantly SynthAxe-based compositions, which formed the basis of much of Holdsworth's recordings in the late 1980s and 1990s.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Allan Holdsworth – guitar, SynthAxe, spoken vocals (track 9), production
  * Naomi Star – vocals (track 17)
  * Rowanne Mark – vocals (tracks 19, 22)
  * Steve Hunt – keyboard (tracks 2–4, 21)
  * Chad Wackerman – keyboard (track 9), drums (tracks 1, 7–9, 16, 22, 25), production
  * Alan Pasqua – keyboard (tracks 11, 13)
  * William Edward Childs – keyboard (track 12)
  * Gordon Beck – digital piano (tracks 5, 6)
  * Gary Husband – drums (tracks 2–4, 11, 13, 21
  * Kirk Covington – drums (tracks 5, 6)
  * Gary Novak – drums (tracks 10, 23)
  * Tony Williams – drums (track 12)
  * Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (tracks 14, 17, 19)
  * Jimmy Johnson – bass (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 11–14, 17, 19, 22, 25)
  * Skúli Sverrisson – bass (tracks 3, 4, 21)
  * Gary Willis – bass (tracks 5, 6)
  * Bob Wackerman – bass (track 9)
  * Dave Carpenter – bass (tracks 10, 18, 20, 23)
  * Biff Vincent – Roland Octapad (track 16)
  * Claire Holdsworth – spoken vocals (track 9)
  * Jeffrey Ocheltree – sound effects (track 9)
  * John England – sound effects (track 16)
  * Derek Wilson – executive production
  * Christopher Hoard – executive production
  