Dude are you my spirit animal? The django thumbnail you have is my phone background and shakti with JML is the best modern spiritual music of all time.
This guy is another level. I bought all the Mahavishnu Orchestra albums and tried to learn a few songs but only ever managed a few phrases (and maybe not so well). Awesome player.
+Gretschomatic LOL! Yes, he should have worn it in this style back in the MaHa O. days. He will always remain one of my favorites. He dazzles constantly year after year.
He's simply the Best... Yeah, Miles was right! And so sweet when he's relaxed and enjoying his music 🎶 Love you John since 43 years and forever ❣️ thanks for your music, your spiritual inspiration and just for being you 🙏
This is pure Indian classical music he is playing in guitar..Indian classical Raga..sometimes his guitar sounds like Sitar,one Indian classical instrument.
Yes!!!! John McLaughlin is and always will be my favorite guitar player hands down! Well actually I have to say in my top three or four depending on styles. Very few move me as much as John does. No this isn't classical but he's always incorporated elements of classical, jazz, Indian, fusion, and more. And I gotta agree with someone else below..the camera angles ridiculously linger on his face and from far away. Anyone watching John mainly wants to see his fingers working his magic! Can't wait to see him again in December with Chick Corea, Lenny White and Victor Wooten doing Mahavishnu and Return to forever. I'm beyond thrilled!!
John McLaughlin is one of my favourite guitarists and a huge influence. As a classical, jazz & rock player myself at professional level, I can assure you that this is not classical guitar in any sense. It's a bluesy/jazzy improvisation (with some elements of the Indian fusion John has pioneered over the years) played on a nylon string guitar with a pick, accompanied by a guitar synthesiser. The closest I have ever heard him come to Classical music is his Mediterranean Concerto, worth checking out. But as always, his playing rather defies categorisation.
The perfect marriage of awesome technique, taste, musicality and emotion. Puts today’s bedroom virtuosos to absolute shame. Music is about connecting with people, in a live environment. Thank you, John.
John is number one under all this kind of music players. His extraorinary art of improvisation has not find or copy.Music from an other star! played on great nylonstring guitar.
A notable thing about J McL is that he plays without needing to see. His eyes were closed for nearly all of that performance, but his left hand travelled freely over the guitar fretboard, all over. Makes me wonder if he deliberately trained himself by practicing blindfolded.
*SWEET* ! Been rollin with JM ever since Miles' phenomenal "Bitches Brew" dropped in 1970. Saw Shakti & MO in Seattle back in the day. G.O.A.T. status! Changed my life. One of the main reasons I picked up a guitar, as well as put it back down lol. Thnx. All hail the living legend!
Such a palpable connection between the tonality and the aspiration for transcendence ! It's the amalgam of imagination with the strictures of the instrument ! A true marvel. Thank you John, for exposing the creative process in all its splendor !
For me,John McLaughlin is THE ULTIMATE guitar player ever …: jazz ,rock,indian ,spanish Classic ,electric,Acoustic,etc He even recorded his Mediterranean concerto I’ve seen him many times live EVEN with the legendary formation with Paco de Lucia and Al di Meola,live here in my Country,Chile IDOL !!!
I saw him perform with orchestra at the Dorthy Chandler Pavilion. Miles Davis was in 3 rows in front of me. It was a wonderful concert. I hear John is retiring this year.
McLaughlin is something mystically meditatively transcendental in music! India really breathed into him the energy of the creative cosmic principle and he successfully implements it, delighting his listeners! this is my favorite musician of all!!!
He was playing a lot of nylon string guitar back then (late 80's)...he did tour the U.S. in 1989 playing with the local symphony orchestras. The piece was his Mediterranean Concerto (in honor of Rodrigo). Here in Detroit he played it with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...summer of '89. I remember it well...got to meet both him and Katia Lebeque, his significant other at the time.
Énormissime.. il s’arrête cette année, 75 ans, l’Ovni de la guitare. Les autres ont fondé ou créé un style ou l’ont assis au Panthéon de la guitare (Hendrix, B.B. King, Santana, Clapton, ...) lui a tout transcendé, absorbé, rendu, assimilé depuis ses années d’apprentissage en Inde qui ont fait de lui ce musicien à la sonorité et au phrasé, aux harmoniques si uniques, sans parler de sa technique légendaire. Même Paco est attaché à un “style”. Je trouve que John s’est construit une nébuleuse musicale incernable. Pour moi c’est Lui.
The father d the fusion guitar. I think John started it with Miles Davis wh said John was the greatest jazz guitarist of all-times. Nobody's done more.
Yes,I can: I guess Holdsworth is the even faster technician, but if you know the whole work as a composer, inventor of many styles never heard before, you cannot say they are equals. John is a giant, like Miles and some rare others. Alan is a gifted musician and incredible, almost unbeatable guitar player in the category of a Steve Vai or some few others. Butcreating new musical worlds is a higher category. (Think on Shakti i.e.)
Daniel A. Meyer Well I am afraid I'm going to have to disagree with at least part of that statement. Comparing Allan Holdsworth to Steve Vai is completely illogical. Steve Vai is a virtuoso shredder, he has a large toolbelt of acrobatic tricks but basically he's made no innovations in guitar in terms of composition. Allan Holdsworth's chordal vocabulary and voicings, as well as his approach to interpreting harmony when soloing over changes, is above and beyond what any other guitar player has accomplished. Completely disregarding Allan being the "faster" player, some of his most innovative playing is actually his slower, more chord oriented work. John Mclaughlin himself said of Allan "I would steal everything he does if I had any idea what he was playing".
He's pretty damn happy with himself here. I can see why, because this some very fluid jazzy McLaughlin shredding. Probably some of the coolest I've ever heard him do
After hearing what zakk wylde always said he was really great I thought I would check it out...man no wonder he likes him so much! John is amazing guitar player!!
No wonder anyone likes John; the greatest living guitarist. But that is an odd one; you sure can't hear a trace of John's influence. Funny how that works sometimes, like the bass player from Metallica having a major role in producing the recent documentary about the late great Jaco Pastorious, though his own playing (what I've heard of it) has no hint of Jaco at all.
Not only the playing, but playing on a guitar with the potentially deadly Florentine cutaway. It can cut a guitarists hand clean off if he shifts with too much pressure and speed at the wrong moment.
the aficionado will not need the reminder...but those who aren't and who like the acoustic side of JML may want to listen to his Bill Evans tribute with the Aighetta Guitar Quartett...outstanding
