Mahavishnu, John McLaughlin, just gave one of the most universal explanations of what the hell is going on here on earth in just a couple of minutes. Not only is he a great master on the guitar, as we all know, he's a great spiritual master as well. God bless you, John McLaughlin, and thank you so much, Vinnie Colaiuta, for doing this interview. It's been amazing listening to you two great musicians have a conversation. Hope everyone else is enjoying it too.
I was introduced to John McLaughlin by my older brother...I seem to remember it was the John McLaughlin/ Carlos Santana album Love Devotion Surrender. Then I discovered the Mahavishnu Orchestra. My mind was blown 🤯 John plays on a totally different plane.
This was a really informative, inspiring, entertaining interview. Besides the musical part of it, which was amazing, the social/ political part was very appreciated because this dark time that we are going through is killing the optimistic part of me. You and John give hope in a revival of a humanitarian society where we all care and help each other, rather than fight and hate. Grazie!!! Much Love!!
I am a singer and harmonica player, but not at the same time. When I left high school in 1970 I listened to Jeff Beck and John Mayall. At 73 I still play harmonica and love jazz and blues. John McLoughlin and Vinnie Coluita are both great musicians. Keep on keeping on for the long haul. Thanks for the memories!
What a story teller JM is, Miles saying "is that a fact" had me reeling. Such a recall & memory for details. And the forming of Mavihashnu, after a bad gig, "John it's time you formed your own band", Vinnie was cracking up. Brilliant.
I feel so privileged and touched to see you guys connect with love and admiration. Thank you for including us in this beautiful Koinonia, like when I see you guy play, I feel like I’m really part of the venue. Thanks Mr. Colaiuta, with affection, Bernard...
the Five Peace Band album opened my eyes to Fusion. Period. I was 15 and i’ll never forget that car ride with my parents, unfolding this album for the first time 🤯
I just discovered Belo Horizonte about 6 months ago and I think your right. I also really love Music Spoken Here. Another one that's very different but blew me away is Thieves and Poets! I mostly knew John from his work with Al Di Meola. I've been a fan since the 80's but for some reason never took time to listen to Johns other music till recently and It's been a blast!
Belo horizonte, Shakti, music spoken here, time remembered. While I love the old mahavishnu orchestra records, I find most of his more current electric recordings sterile and boring.
Superb interview between two of the greatest musicians alive today. I love John imitating the way Miles used to speak and he's got so many interesting anecdotes from the past So much mutual respect between John and Vinnie. The philosophy section at the end was just so illuminating and thought provoking. The film was so uplifting that I'll be watching it again and again. Thanks Vinnie and I've now subscribed.
Vinnie, you are the greatest. From the greatest depths of experience, you reach for the highest highs just by talking. I've never heard most of the stuff John said here. It's amazing what you bring out of every conversation. What an absolute goldmine.
I saw McLauglin live recently (last year or the year before) as a gift to my guitarist jazz playing son . I was very positively surprised . It reminded me of Crimson but with more groove . MBappe was impressive on bass and the rest was great too. I will rank it with Prince and Funcadelice and Culture (The Reggea band) as the greatest live experience ever , for me.
I'm confused... This and the Bruford interview (always excellent to see/hear Bill speak) appear to have been done during/just after Covid - and Liberation Time was released in 2021...yet the channel seems to be fairly newly launched... Did it take you this long to get this all together and just recently decide to start this channel? I've been a "fan" of yours (you were secretly my Mentor since Berklee!), and I actually travelled from Boston to LA to audition for Zappa - when I heard you were leaving the band... Chad got the gig - but I was of the caliber to be in the running - because of your influence .... Thank You Sir!!
JM is a great. i saw mahavishnu 4 times in the 70's and even bought the album 'devotion' when it came out (even though that album freaked me out and gave me nightmares). i'm more into rock, but mahavishnu crossed-over to be a fusion milestone. and now he's got this new yauk accent! thanks for the nice interview!
"The promise" is one of my favorite albums and the first time I was exposed to Vinnies sound. What a pleasure to discover you also have a great voice and a very interesting podcast.
Must be one of the coolest and most talented people alive. This interview is from the pandemic years before Jeff Beck’s passing. Would love to see a sequel interview. Saw him and Billy Cobham in separate groups as a double bill in 1978 in Morristown, NJ.
Thanks Vin (and guests conversations😏), you are still a truly great inspiration musically, rhythmckly, Human- insightful..I love the "nostalgic" expertise thaaanks👌👌👍🎶✌️🙏☯️
Vinnie your the only one that questioned the whole thing cov machine and seems like no one in show business had or still have the balls to question things. The gulag always seems to rule, it sickens me still. I’m a drummer rethinking my entire life at the moment,well for the past 4 years and I’m in no way near your league. Stick with being you cus really it’s All we know yet the hardest thing to be is yourself. I hate the way things have gone and the things people have been able to do to us. Anyways keep being you we all look up to you so much. Thanks always
@@breakfastwithvinnie7228 glad to know my brother. Thank you so much for saying hello I greatly appreciate that. Continue being you, and being such a great listener to the music, and the people…great moment to be reminded of our inner voice, no matter all the flood of insecurities or the amount of outside noise, it’s that important to go with our gut instinct. You wouldn’t be vinnie otherwise. ♥️
Another wonderful and insightful conversation between two groundbreaking musicians. While many of these musicians are winding down their careers etc.. I do believe that reflection is as equally important and compelling as the origins of inspiration. Thank you gentleman....
The tune that made my mind switch onto McLaughlin has to be the track "Go Ahead John" on the fabulous Miles Davis LP Big Fun. What a fu*king top tune. It cruises down that runway and takes off and fly's, I do believe that John McLaughlin is far superior than the great Jimi Hendrix and I really mean that, no joke..
It's also, "Go ahead, Steve - you take the first solo, but you Dave, you stay where you are" Only joking, yes John & Jack are both on fire here - beautifully edited by Teo Macero!
I'll never forget going on a summer-long road trip with two friends when we graduated high school in 1975. I brought "Visions of the Emerald Beyond". I listened to it constantly. I think my friends thought I was crazy. John's music INSPIRED me to no end. I saw that tour and the One Truth Band live. Amazing.
Wow, I found your new channel totally by accident, I am obsessed with drummers, and while a lot of folk say that Neil (RIP) was the best, and I have seen Buddy Rich 5 times, I rank you higher (apart from Buddy - that would be sacrilege). It turns out that a LOT of my favourite music over the years had you on drums.. I had no idea at the time who you were, but with your Sting, Joni and Zappa work, I discovered my favourite drummer. The Ronnie Scott's gig is on my regular music playlist, thanks Vinnie for everything. I only wanted to say how much I love your work.
I believe - based on the conversation - it was around the beginning of 2021... He said the LP was coming out in July - and it was released in 2021... So before then at least...
Thanks Vinnie! This was great!! I'd have breakfast with you any day, and then jam for the rest of the day! I will call you as soon as I can get myself out of bed before noon!!!🤪😜
John, I do disagree with you on your philosophy. Most children learn the word "MINE" at a vary early age. We are both loving, but with a selfish nature. We must learn to change our thinking and our hearts and our actions. Align with our creator and become truly human. Our nature is flawed, but we can be changed and change ourselves into something better.
my first album was Argus. then budgie never turn your back on a freand. casino. then burds of fire. got a lot of johns music. thing is the old record shops wear cool. i got Argus for the cover and casino. just hapend to be great music. the old hippy dude behind the counter always wid node his head when you pickt a far out album. from the dark place in the shop wear they smoked the funny cicarets. as i was only 18. but then i read in a music paper that john listend to mils davis. i was thinking a trumpit band thats not what i call rock and roll. got in a silant way and jack jhonson. wow thats when the light came on kinda blue is a meditation for me and what 50 somthing years later it still is. mist the glasgow gig in the 1980s wated 30 years for the usher hall gig in edinburgh for the 4th dimension it was a tripp. i wasent supost to listen to this music back then in the 1970s top 40 maybe but lifting burds of fire way back then, none of my freands dug it i never gave a thout about picking up a guitar there was no one musical in my famaly one day i went to a freands house and there was a strat 1963 and a gibson amp i askt if i mite try it. that was the start of the guitar jurney 10 years after burds of fire i got my first axe. so thank you mistro JM for the spiritual jurney and the musical one.
Vinnie., as a drummer, did you always used to say to yourself that you could be as good as any other drummer in the world? Not saying that you had to think that you're better than anyone else, but just if you felt deeply that you could be as good as any other drummer ? (while also wanting to retain your own approach of course )
It couldn't have been Al Foster on drums at the Lennie's On The Turnpike gig that John Mclaughlin refers to here because Keith Jarrett never was in a Miles Davis lineup with Al Foster; they missed each other by just under a year between the time Jarrett leaves Miles and Al Foster joins in 1972 for the "On The Corner" sessions. The drummer on that LOTT gig was almost definitely Jack DeJohnette. Basically it was still the lineup from the "Cellar Door" sessions; Miles, Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett, Michael Henderson, Jack DeJohnette, Airto, and McLaughlin as a featured guest occasionally. Or to look at it from another perspective chronologically speaking, if it was in fact Al Foster on drums, then it was definitely not with Keith Jarrett on keys. It could be that John McLaughlin is not remembering accurately the exact personnel because it is so long ago which is understandable. Simply said, if it was Al Foster on drums it was almost definitely very very late 1971 or more likely 1972, and that would have been a very different MILES DAVIS lineup at that point from the "Cellar Door" lineup with Jarrett, Dejohnette, and Bartz. Lastly, it was almost definitely not 1972 because the Mahavishnu Orchestra was already putting out Birds of Fire by then, so McLaughlin would have been two albums into the MO by then. Tiki Fulwood, drummer most known for his playing in Parliament-Funkadelic, quit P-Funk in 1972 and actually played for one week in March 1972 with Miles Davis's band at Lennie's On The Turnpike. He was fired during that stint with Miles at LOTT in 1972 because he was obliterated on drugs and passed out on his drums during the gig.
@@jmarshall-w3u Exactly, however "embellishes" isn't exactly the right word. I honestly think McLaughlin simply just doesn't remember accurately in many cases.
