Al Di Meola Project - Live at Montreal Jazz Festival 1988 

Awesomeness 8:50

From my favorite album Tiramisu.

@@lexly87 And from my favorite album Where Have I Known You Before (Return to Forever) ;)

Al’s cowbell playing is tight, too! So surprised to see him playing that nasty part.

Lee Aubel Could he please have it run to the store and get me some beer? 😉

except sweep pick... which is fine with me.

What year was that show? Was it at Alverno College?

Dude...I saw that Al/Paco/John show in about 1985. Another realm, indeed!

Gerald Wright I didn't realize until very recently, though, that there was so much tension between Al and John. I knew there was some, it was evident in the latter tour of the early 90's and not so much in the one of the late 70's early 80's. Just recently someone else on YT linked Al's facebook page and he's talking about that riff and how he had Ovation put in a custom, secret volume control button near the strap button because McLaughlin insisted Al sign a contract that he wouldn't reach over to the standard volume control with his right hand and raise the volume since his Ovation was plugged in and Paco and John were only miced up with their nylons. Imagine that!? The way Al talks about John you can clearly see there's no love lost there and this thing with John is well known with other musicians as well. Al calls him "disrespectful". Too bad, but most of the really good stuff is between Paco and Al while McLaughlin's stuff never interested me as much TBH.

GoMiGman That's interesting... I have heard that Al can be very egotistical himself. Hes the bomb and his acclaim is well deserved, but I do think he likes to steal the show a bit sometimes... He's insanely good, better than Paco and John imo, but John and Paco are still amazing in their own right. At the end of the day they're all probably quite into themselves and such conflicts will always arise in such realms of artistic expression.

Ravi Maharaj Ravi, you are spot on with every single thing you said. Imagine 3 of the best being put together to perform. At least this isn't sports where the competitive nature take over completely and one must be the eventual victor. At least this is subjective in so many ways but there is still this tremendous, inner competitive drive that forces these behaviors. Frankly, if I was Al, I would've done nothing less even though I love Paco and so did he, but screw McLaughlin let him eat shit for l are and go for being the best and loudest and the most heard! The only way to do it and if the others done like it? Well, eat me! :)

I will never forget that time a friend of my dad took me to a Al di Meola show when i was 16... time sure flies :)

SO jealous. Would have been great to be there at the time.

you were truly blessed to be there - long time DiMeola fan - I celebrate your being there

..you was blessed

Al Di Memola...

Dániel Almási First one is ciello e terra and a few others.

Maraba one of my favorites.

..de pleno acordo, amigo..Ze Renato foi uma das estrelas deste fantástico show.. os canadenses foram abençoados..

Анжела Пасниченко очень правильно !!

Amazing song. Saw it live in Oslo in 95. Great concert

Chick Corea ;)

Ovation

+Stanko Aksentijevic Is this not Gumbi Ortiz?

+Jim E Just opened up the menu. Sorry, but thanks for posting!

Exactly!

well...sure..there's worse 'labels' for it!

a total departure from his early electric career in 1985, (cielo e terra) he did all tracks himself--a masterpiece! i was a relatively new fan in 1985,and it took about 3 listens to sort of let it sink in...and it's powerful stuff! he's playin' this verbatim! amazing!

Ari Yuniarto w

He's not spanish

Vocalist is Brazilian.

He and Tommy are interchangable in the Chick community. ;)