Al Di Meola - Race With Devil On Spanish Highway/Jumpin' Jack Flash 

I was given my first Al Di Meola album when I was 8. My mom is a badass.

Incredible performance.. that's what they did back in the 70's.. Real musicians doing it for real.. live... no b.s.! At that time Al was becoming the leader of the pack in the guitar world...He had just left Return to Forever and was assuming Guitar God status!

the guy is a badass on so many levels - flared out pants, metal rimmed glasses, beard - and he was a prodigious musician too. Looks 40 here, when in fact he was only 24!

omg this is unreal...all the young guys learning to play should be going back and listening to this...jaws will drop

Fire in the Day. Epic Then. Iconic Now.

Di Meola back in the day. He looks straight off the album cover. He plays with a really youthful charisma here.

This always was my favorite Al Di Meola tune. Specifically the first part of his solo right after the fast intro.

Di Meola Invented shredding himself, he has also won more awards than any other guitar player in the world. My ultimate favorite!!

I remember, I borrowed my bother's vinyl record of Al DiMeola and kept it for a long time. He finally got it back and I missed it so much I went and got my own. Heavy rock-jazz fusion like this was so rarely as well done as this guy right here. Yeah Yngwie came along later, and van halen, and satriani. But this guy came from the Jazz world and it all was sooo musically interesting while it shreds because the other musicians were talents in their own right.

I have introduced many friends to Al Dimeola’s magic. I love watching their face as they listen the first time.

He knows how to have fun onstage..

Al Di Meola, a style all in his own. Amazing!

man al is the best by far you can hear it the command on the guitar wow hes incontrol of it all

Al has amazing precision

I couldn't stop smiling the whole time.

Love this stuff dude I'm FoH engineer when I was a young man this is was what I listen to every day because the studio mixes was all about Tone and the players. Showed me how to mix. So it is part of my DNA. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

IMHO Al Di Meola's Race is the best guitar instrumental ever

Saw Al with RTF in 1979 and still have this di meola LP in great shape .

What a sound!This just shows again that old amps and guitars sounds better then modern gear.

Awesome. I knew Di Meola was great from listening to him, but watching him play takes it to another level.

Just saw Al play in Natick, Massachusetts with World Sinfonia, if you can believe it. It was a tiny arts club that I never even heard of. Absolutely amazing. I brought my kids. All they could say was "Oh My GOD!"

really very cool, great guitarist, I knew his name but have never heard him, great!

AMAZING

Name an '80s shredder who could pull this off.

as i stated on the other video. al and this band are off the hook. amazing

the keyboardist is amazing

this is BEAST

Al = Music = Our Soul

phenomenal!

I didn't know Bill Hicks was so good at guitar.

My fav Al era is this early music all the way until Kiss My Axe, after that he's very hit and miss for me, but those first 4 albums and up to axe are amazing.

Al DiMeola is LEGEND!

Just the best!

absolutly awesome. love the bell bottoms and the way al turns into a keith richards for a few seconds after rwtdonash....brillient

Amazing!

My main and most important influence, gracias Al!!♫♫☼☺

One of the main godfathers of shred, if not the most important for the 80s movement, lots of guys tried to copy his killer picked runs. And not only Al, the entire band is off the charts, Tim Landers on bass slays, and love Robbie Gonzalez on drums. Brought to you by a good dose of excellent 70s cocaine of course.😁

Definitely one of his best!

el mejor al di meola!!!! una pieza de el jazz fusion de la humanidad

band line-up is wrong for 1978 - on May 5th in New York, it was: Steve Gadd - drums Anthony Jackson - bass Barry Miles - keyboards Mingo Lewis - percussion Eddie Colon - percussion . . . so I suspect the date listed for this performance is later than April 1978.

Shredd King..!

thanks for sharing... amazing

he looks so different here..surely 70s..nice..

Best Al Di Meola Song

Kids, If you play live remember to wear your earplugs

Nice transition from guitar to drums. Amazing playing.

Al Di Meola, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Ritchie Blackmore and Steve Morse, the original shredders with soul, before evh yngwie and Randy Rhoads

Al's best tune I think. I also think this is a prelude to hearing Dream Theater later.

Great stuff here! I also saw the Chick Corea/Stanley Clarke with Al that you liked, I like that even better. I guess we have a little more work to do with our version of Jumpin Jack Flash!

Awsome stage presence! Dat white boy got groove!

al di meola rocks almost as much as the bass players boots

this fucking song......I love it, this is the only video on youtube with no dislikes...who can dislike this????

This guy is truly an impact on what you can do on guitar along with his various genre fusions, Imo I've always thought Malmsteen to be a tad overrated.

awesome... great job on the vid itself too !

The must be the Spledido Hotel Tour and band. Awesome!

I like his flare pants.

@hartles99him Damn must have been awesome, I wasn't even a thought yet haha

This is fuking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's spend it on s vacation then fly back to depart from Amsterdam where we bought the van . Deal. Garret us from Amsterdam holland. Has a country rick band . Live songs guitar.back to Toronto spring late .

2:45 - 2:47. Ah, so that's where Malmsteen got that lick :)

I Love Marina With all My Heart !!!! 10 days I get on a jet to be with the Love of my Life

Al di is god.

The guitar playing is rock solid and the band is tight all round. BUT, I don't know about you guys, but I would kill to hear Al play the solo right at the end in it's unadulterated / studio version form.

I SOOOOOO AGREE with ALL the Comments about AL ! But I've seen much better, from Big D.

mr al destroyer

@nowandzen7 so true!!!!

At 6:48 the riff was stolen by Paul Gilbert ;-)

@boyboyduff Jersey, he's from Jersey.

EAR-GASM......😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@boyboyduff Actually, he's from New Jersey.

awesome video, anyone know where i can find a live performance of land of the midnight sun?

wow Al and the boyz were scorching that night. not sure about jumpin jack interlude @ end though

Arthur? Man's man felipe .

Endless al demeola Spain I loved the 🖤 clothes and malaga minstrels one birthday dinner yaya malaga Spain Ray The bull fight that hat red rose in the hat Madrid Gibraltar to mirricci by ship with my van to casa blanca fez the harem where I want to live I dress like that for al demeola Felipe flores enjoy ed this 200 percent love te quiero mi amor al Jane gypswine caves in Spain I ordered my ticket from mexico to Spain they said no miami Jane we must transfer in Miami. Te wuiero

I feel like If iwas on drugs I would appreciate the camera effcts so much more AHH the seventies

copacetic kerfuffle. ftw!

@boyboyduff Who cares lets just enjoy the music. Deal?

最後ジャンピングジャックフラッシュやってるじゃん！

come on cameraman, find the keyboard. . . .

6:44.... the *one* freakin' part every guitarist watching this wants to see, and what's the camera man doing? focusing the camera on DiMeola's face. Big FAIL to the cameraman. On a lighter note - DiMeola rocks!

just found out he picks every note,not legato superb player.

@MikeMzeski Spanish he's Spanish

Palma de Majorca two weeks hotel rent a car after selling the van in London cash for new engine installed in bamberg getmsny

@bej144 ....yngwie, vai, satriani....van halen for that matter..they are all great, so who cares?al is certainly in a class all his own, but 90% of the world listens to crap music,so how about picking on them instead of the 80's shredders..who for the most part are pretty great too My top 10 guitarists are... (NOT ranked in order, just the top ten) Al Dimeola Allan Holdsworth Frank Zappa Steve Vai John Petrucci Jeff Loomis Yngwie Malmsteen Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Myself

what's the bass players name?

A LITTLE PRESUMPTUOUS. TOO MUCH NOTES, TOO MUCH SPEED, TOO MUCH PYROTECHNICS, TOO MUCH EVERYTHING, EXCEPT MUSIC. I DON´T HATE AL DI MEOLA, BUT I PREFER MUSICIANS LIKE BILL FRISELL, JOHN ABERCROMBIE, TERJE RYPDAL AND OTHERS, FAR. ME GUSTABA AL DI MEOLA CUANDO YO TENÍA 15, PERO AHORA... NO ES MALO, POR FAVOR, PERO ES UN POCO COMO PORNOGRAFÍA MUSICAL, A VER CUÁNTAS NOTAS PUEDO TOCAR POR SEGUNDO. BIEN PARA CLASES DE GUITARRA, PERO LIGERAMENTE CARENTE DE PROFUNDIDAD O EXPRESIVIDAD.