Paco...pure Spanish of all aspects, JM... phenomanal UK pioneer guitarist , Al ... the powerful mighty stallion as i have been listening his performances more than 30 years ..ago . All are Extraordinary level.... The Three Masters !
I accidentally had seen these guys play during the San Francisco tour. my bother had two tickets and his friend couldn't go. Unfortunately, I was ready to go. He told me we were seeing some acoustic guitar players. I asked him what band was playing. He said there is no band and that they were playing without any backup at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. I asked him how three guitarists will manage to play an entire concert without backup. He stated wait and see. So, I waited. They started by one guy tapping his foot. I have heard Return to Forever play and knew about Al Dimeola but not the other guitarists. I was totally amazed at what I was hearing. There was no percussion, but I could clearly hear it throughout every song. How were they keeping rhythm? It was amazing. It was like their was a huge metronome sitting in center stage and they were playing to it. I became I huge fan after that concert. It is so easy for Paco to play Spanish style guitar because he is playing with four picks at the same time. Al and John need to play four times as fast to play the same passages
Magnifico! Impressionante! Fascinante! Admirável! este trio conseguiu mesclar estilos, tradições, criatividade, de uma maneira muito especial. John MacLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucia, simplesmente gênios!!!
00:00 When Love Is Far Away (McLaughlin) 06:30 Paco Solo (Mi Mini Curro) (Lucia) 15:00 Frevo Rasgado (Gismonti) 23:45 David (McLaughlin) 40:20 Zyriab (Lucia) 1:00:31 Beyond The Mirage (Meola) 1:08:38 Mediterranean Sundance (Meola) 1:21:48 Orient Blue Suite? (Meola) 1:26:00 Azzurra (Lucia) 1:30:00 Manha De Carnaval 1:37:15 Spain (Corea)
I discovered Al Di Meola because of Chick Corea and John Petrucci... Always hepls as a drummer to find new sounds, other possibilities... RIP Paco, as Jaco, as Chick, great treasure still to discover...
Musical composition on the spot, on the spur of the moment, is the Hallmark of a seasoned Virtuoso musician. Bravo Maestros of Fussion Guitar music. Improvisations of pure essense.
Es incomparable tocar la guitarra con los dedos , como hacen los españoles , a tocarla usando una púa . Al tocarla con los dedos , el sonido sale limpio.y ademas hay un margen de arpegios mucho mas amplio que cuando se toca con púa . Cuando tocas con los dedos , puedes hacer tambien los bajos con el dedo pulgar y tiene un sinfin de combinaciones más . Tanto la guitarra clasica o española , como la guitarra flamenca , que tiene unas caracteristicas propias , enriquecen mucho mas el sonido , porque se tocan usando los dedos ,como en España. A fin de cuentas , la guitarra , es un instrumento español por antonomasia.
how is called the song that starts at 40.22 and ends at 59.18? i can't find it from nowhere, and if it is only an improvvisation, someone know where is can find a better record of this?
huntikis it's a new jam that incorporates an A melodic minor vamp, then Aspan section transposed from key of A to B (paco did this on his own tune called Caña de Azucar) which is a 6 bar vamp, then they add on a new progression of chords for the turn around (Am-D, Cm-F, Ebm-Ab, Ebm-F, Cm-D, Am-B, back to Aspan)
JM's opening is brilliant, passion and grace!!! His next tune w/Paco is also playful, lots of smiling and mutual love going on, incredible interweaving...lots of good vibes....until Al steps out...then the smiles fade, and they barely acknowledge him....maybe this is the tour where Al was pissed at them for "fooling around", Paco barely looks at Al...2nd half is better, maybe a different night
Gretschomatic same night but broken up order. Yes this was the tour where there were issues, actually this show was not so much with serious faces as one other I have seen. They got over it and were pros about it. The order I believe was John, Paco, then Al solo piece, next Al switch guitars and Mclaughlin joins for Black Orpheus. Then Al leaves and Paco joins Mc for Frevo. Then John leaves and Al and returns with Paco for Mediterranean Sundance. They bow and there is an intermission. The return for trio tunes, Beyond the Mirage, David, Zyryab ends. Spain is the encore. They probably did another encore but it's not filmed here.
What were the issues exactly? Fooling around meaning what? I saw them play in London and shook their hands as they left the venue. Paco had a very strong handshake! Absolutely fantastic concert and memory.
@@AbstractMan23 AL playing too loud and overpowering the other two. He was forced to sign a contract agreeing not to touch the volume knob on his guitar. And J and P not wanting to play one of AL 's pieces because they felt it was too long and meandering. Probably other issues as well.
En el Mediterranean Soundance sentí que fue una verdadera lucha entre ambos, en donde el gran Paco hizo que Al sacara lo mejor de sí. No sé si había algún tipo de disputa o no entre ambos en ese concierto, o algún desacuerdo, pero se notó un ambiente diferente en esa canción, de hecho, el final que hizo Al fue muy extraño y no parece haberle agradado a Paco.
Most peeps like the first showy disc, but to me they just got better. 1980->1983->1996. MY SONG: Beyond the Mirage, at 1:00:49 - fuckin' A! That's why god made fingers. And while anyone can admit there are quite a few notes here - they maybe even got them ALL in - it is also a clinic of the finest RHYTHM GUITAR ever in the entire history of noise. Mc and De are eminently playful, to the point of utter cross-rhythmic lunacy, even cracking each other up. Dis-Honest John & Wacko Packo.... of COURSE there's eleventy-zillion offbeats in every measure of poor abused nearly-whacked-to-death 4/4 time. And the best DiMeola you'll ever hear here, scared him into making SENSE again. 1:18 on, there oughta be a law!
