I use to think Jimi Hendrix was the best guitar player of all time until I found John McLaughlin/Shakti and Al Di Meola/romantic warrior. Different in style, but what mastery.
This is the real deal! Probably my favorite of Johnny Mac's material. Saw Shakti at the Bottom Line in NYC doing the Handful of Beauty album. "India" is an amazing tune, with a beautiful melody, and has one of the funkiest vibes, ever, during the Shankar solo! One could not help, but jump to up and down! Of course, John's playing goes to the next level, both here and on the record. The stuff is timeless...That's what you want, and could ever hope for!
I saw this performed in Lancaster, Pa. in 1976, right after my return from India. I never grow tired of hearing it. I don't think their more recent work is as good.
Guitarist Carl Orr: "I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Follow Your Heart - John McLaughlin song by song.” The descriptions of the music are great, and I particularly enjoy those inspired moments when the author abandons literal description and describes the music in vivid, sometimes surreal imagery."
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pure horse shit...these people are geeks...they bite heads off chickens and snakes...ANYONE that likes this shit is a fucking moron and masterbates in the bathroom much to much....
@Theliberalssuck1 anyone that thinks gun toting republicans are going to help the world is a fucking moron and masterbates in the bathroom much to much....
Shakti is like a taster of heaven (...if only i believed in it!) ....ok.... shakti is heaven on earth! Great to see such awesome musicians zoneing out like this! (maybe to harmoniumnista is zoneing out a litlle bit too much!)
This a truly a gem. Thanks for sharing. I only wish they made music videos back then. One of my favorite albums is "Natural Elements". I had to purchase 4 copies, because I wore them all out. 2 cassetes, 1 vinyl, and 1 CD...I haven't worn the last one out - yet.
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John McLaughlin's playing style irritates my sensibilities. I keep watching this videos of him until I feel something resembling emotional expression. All I hear are interesting possibilities.
fucking unreal!!!!...how many albums did these guys make? & what are they called??..its time i updated my collection of music to loose your wig too..thanks 4 posting!!
Wow. I'll try not to let my bias show too much but . . . brilliant.
The guitar also needs to get get some mention: 13 string (7 drones across the soundhole) custom Gibson J200 w/ rosewood back & sides, scalloped ebony fingerboard built by Abe Wechter who also built quite a few of John's later acoustics.
The scales that John is using are mostly pentatonic. The ragas are inferred with the glissando on the strings, via sliding and more importantly, bending. That is what the scalloped fret board lets him do with much more ease. Thus invoking the quarter tone and eighth tone variations. Also when the diminished scale is used it implies Harmonic minor. or variations of melodic minor, ascending. Very beautiful stuff. I have been listening to Shakti since the 70's. I still love it.
Man the violin in here is so amazing, I have the album shakti with Zakir Hussein, McL and L Shankar. The whole album is amazing but that is some of my favorite violin playing. Indian scale really allows the fretless stringed instruments to shine IMO. Wow, this is why youtube is amazing.
many years ago i read an interview with jeff beck. the journalist asked him if he was interested in recording more acoustic guitar (he played 'greensleeves' on an acoustic). jeff said something about how john mc. had pretty much sewed that field up. shankar's violin is tuned AEAE, a tuning also used by appalachian fiddlers. there was another interview with john and yngwie that asked why they preferred scalloped fingerboards. they agreed that it permitted a better 'grasp' of the string.
Shakti Rocks! I once had the pleasure to meet Vikku Vinayakram ji, what great musicians and so down to earth. They are all excellent musicians and beautiful people.
@gtr1359 This is brilliant music, it doesn't get more interesting than this music. And we are on an internet site where (I just looked this up) a Lady Gaga video has 202 MILLION hits, and this one has 238 THOUSAND.I suppose eight folks who enjoy silly music accidentally listened to this, and perhaps they couldn't even hear it . Maybe the vibration went right past them. Be happy that you can hear it!
When I saw shankar's solo, around 9 years ago, I was so devistated I was in college at that time and I don't think I went to class that particular day.
Hey, look how Mclaughlin looks at Shankar after he gets doen playing that Guardian Angels riff. Shankar looks back at him and nods. It's like there in a telepathic zone!! That's art!
You will never get this in the mainstream America nonmusic industry.
i agree , but sometimes it is not a matter of the number of notes but how you play them, in a violin solo or piano solo musicians play a lot of notes and nobody says nothing, is the kind of instrument you play.
I don't think all violin players and piano players play a lot of notes... but I do agree with you in that it's all about the balance of not a lot and then a lot of notes. With music I'd say the ultimate goal is to get a yin and yang effect in your playing. That's mine at least dynamic and speed wise
Joe, you must be living in the U.S. Here in Europe there's a station out of France called Mezzo, they play many pieces at this level of musicianship. No doubt this piece as played here is orgasmic if you will.
dustyflair man, it has nothing to do with any drugs ...did you know cobain took his first heroin shot after recording nevermind with butch vig? really just good friends bottle of wine and this 76 shakti album is going right thru your brain no chemicals needed
@Zeonoid based on my own experience musician dont need synthetic or any other kind of drugs to produce quality music. Its only amateurs or admirers myth that they undergoing kind of sacrifice by consuming drugs and producing good music (jimi hendrix, kurt cobain etc) I have to say its all bullshit. Kurt took his first doses of heroin just AFTER recording nevermind. So the nevermind genius is not coming from the drugs. He didnt even smoke much thru recording. Drugs-GoodMusic MYTH
@Zeonoid I agree with you but remember that above all the drug is especially bad because the society in which we live is. There's no spirituality in a world like this, there's just the burning desire to consume ourselves. In art, some drugs were sometimes used to push the bondaries of the spirit. When it comes to huge sucess with people like hendrix, is drug "popularity-illness", "creation help", "a consequence of postmodern pathology"? Hendrix himself might have answered : "Who knows?"
I love their albums from 76 and 79, this one is 76 Ithink... When I hear song called TwoSisters sometimes I cry.. No I`m serious... and Iplay in a punk band
When I was a kid my dad kept telling me I'd be good at Tabla, and I should learn it. But NO, I had to be "cool" and learn the drums instead!! What a DOUCHE I was, DAAMN!!
Just got the original album yesterday! Cool stuff indeed....although it does vex me somewhat to hear the sheer speed of Mclaughlin's playing. I wonder whetehr he uses a particularly light set of strings to help him cut through em so fast...
Actually, everything I've said applies to the Shakti 1977 concert from Paris, which I selected inadvertantly. Check it out also on Jazz Fusion TV. Not sure about the gauge of strings for this guitar. Hopefully someone will post a more knowledgeable comment about it. In my opinion this concert offers everything a guitar and music lover wants - passion, imagination, creativity, joy, incredible interplay, just enough unpredictability in the soloing runs, energy, speed, and technical mastery.
A scalloped fretboard and bags of practice helps. Utterly mind-boggling playing, I just can't get over how fast, fluent and tasteful Mclaughlin's playing is.
John never used scalloped fretboards, at least not in the seventies :) I'm not so sure though what he used in the eigthies^^ his les paul that he used on the two 'mahavishnu' releases from the mid-eighties is defnenitly not scalloped^^
His acoustic Shakti guitar definitely is scalloped, he has mentioned it himself many times. The idea was to mimic sitar and allow truly insane bends. This is the trademark sound of John on any Shakti recording, and is allowed by the custom made scalloped guitar he used.
ah,therefore I must have missed it,I was always more interrested in John's electric work. I did some resaerch : That 'shakti' guitar has also 7 sympathic strings, like a Sitar, that's where the sound comes from,the scalloping is a.f.a. I know only helpfull by certain playing techniques(bends), although it makes playing chords with correct intonation harder.
You are correct - by removing the wood, the friction between the string and the board becomes much smaller and helps naturally with bends, allowing them to become vastly "bigger" in a sense. You can hear this by listening to John's playing, most of the time he is totally going out with bends, easily bending the note over two/three whole notes up from the original point. But because there's more room to push the string, the correct intonation is indeed more difficult to achieve.
If anyone wants to hear 1977 concert of Shakti where they do an extended version of this song , go to JAZZ FUSION TV , (do google search on those words to find it , comes up 1 st result). Click onto AUDIO BOOTLES , lots of fusion concert recordings , and you can find 1977 San Diego concrt of Shakti. Good sound quality.
Thanks sky40 for posting this. There can be no denying the fact that these guys are one of the greatest living legends of music in this generation... music that has become uniquely identifiable to the mahavishnu orchestra... "maniac4mahavishnu" hits the nail on the head... "No one will ever begin to touch what this band created!" Maybe not in this lifetime anyway...
i love these guys. as great as mclaughlin is, man, shankar's solos are just as outstanding. i wish there were more youtube clips that included shankar's solos the way that this one does!!
I saw this concert in Cincinnati, OH at the age of 15. I sat first row and met John before the concert (still have his autograph). No one will ever begin to touch what this band created!
Wow. Does this piece have a name?
ericLross 2 months ago
@ericLross It's called 'India'.
bazonics 1 month ago
I am so happy-for this .I have had the pleasure of seeing SHAKTI live.Stockholm,Concert Hall.
69MC97gc 2 months ago
I am so glad that someone explored this fusion, a gift to the world and to history.
dfougeres 3 months ago
I am mesmerized!
OldSchooLoverBoy 3 months ago
John you great,Mahavishnu
narikbaku 4 months ago
Mind blowing
ruffbizness 4 months ago
I use to think Jimi Hendrix was the best guitar player of all time until I found John McLaughlin/Shakti and Al Di Meola/romantic warrior. Different in style, but what mastery.
runnaway20 5 months ago in playlist John McLaughlin
I CANT HEAR ANYTHING.
tradecycles 5 months ago
Really searched for the button up there called, "Orgasm"
Holdsyfan 5 months ago
This is the real deal! Probably my favorite of Johnny Mac's material. Saw Shakti at the Bottom Line in NYC doing the Handful of Beauty album. "India" is an amazing tune, with a beautiful melody, and has one of the funkiest vibes, ever, during the Shankar solo! One could not help, but jump to up and down! Of course, John's playing goes to the next level, both here and on the record. The stuff is timeless...That's what you want, and could ever hope for!
racketlauncher 5 months ago
Holy shit this is indescribable I would do any to be as good as these guys
Skidblanar 7 months ago
I saw this performed in Lancaster, Pa. in 1976, right after my return from India. I never grow tired of hearing it. I don't think their more recent work is as good.
slawoffice 7 months ago
Where the button for 'LOVE'?
TreyRoque 7 months ago
Brilliant! Enough said
dhruvsodha 7 months ago
wow... this is just utterly amazing. literally i'm speechless.
dethmetalderique 7 months ago
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I've just reached nirvana watching this video
MorenNoise 8 months ago
I just reached the Nirvana with this piece
MorenNoise 8 months ago
please listen my upload also
esraretin 8 months ago
i love this song!
luciad4e 8 months ago
Brilliant posting - thanks
KITCHENOFDISTINCTION 9 months ago
Don't they owe royalties to Nickleback for playing their song?
owlandtree 9 months ago 8
at least some of his lyrics would have been more straightforward :)
Zeonoid 10 months ago
McLaughlin was just on fucking fire with Shakti. That first album will forever hold up. It's like they have telepathy!
unclemeat1977 10 months ago
McLaughlin was just on fucking fire with Shakti. That first album will forever hold up.
unclemeat1977 10 months ago
the violin is insanely brilliant! anyone know his name?
brachisaurous 1 year ago
@brachisaurous L.Shankar plays the violin
Mamsahaari 1 year ago 3
@brachisaurous His name is Mark Violin. His uncle was a banjo, but gave birth to a violin, so named his son Mark Violin.
jamboliboli 9 months ago
fuck everybody who doesn't lke this... shakti must be the greatest thing of all times!
keo774 1 year ago 3
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Pure shit.
Theliberalssuck1 1 year ago
@Theliberalssuck1 ahahahhahaahahha. that must be a joke!
keo774 10 months ago
John is my boy but Shankar's solo is so wild!
Darota529 1 year ago 5
This is sooo amazing!!!
I wish I could tell the person the same thing who told me bout it.......
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Guitarist Carl Orr: "I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Follow Your Heart - John McLaughlin song by song.” The descriptions of the music are great, and I particularly enjoy those inspired moments when the author abandons literal description and describes the music in vivid, sometimes surreal imagery."
walterkolosky1 1 year ago
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pure horse shit...these people are geeks...they bite heads off chickens and snakes...ANYONE that likes this shit is a fucking moron and masterbates in the bathroom much to much....
Theliberalssuck1 1 year ago
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@Theliberalssuck1 anyone that thinks gun toting republicans are going to help the world is a fucking moron and masterbates in the bathroom much to much....
andnowyourott 1 year ago
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@Theliberalssuck1 go fuck your mom biyatch!!!!!!!
abhirup619 1 year ago
@Theliberalssuck1 Wow. I'm so sad for you. You need some serious help.
aavelino88 1 year ago
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@Theliberalssuck1 Wow! I feel so sad for you. You need some serious help.
aavelino88 1 year ago
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@Theliberalssuck1 Wow!! I feel so sad for you. You need some serious help.
aavelino88 1 year ago
Who is that woman? at 4:30
Skeeterhaxxorz 1 year ago
@Skeeterhaxxorz she is known as tripping alice, i think the rest explains itself.
Monkopalooza 1 year ago
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This is noise...not music...."my friends!"
Theliberalssuck1 1 year ago
@Theliberalssuck1
obviously you have very little music sense
timross98 1 year ago
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@Theliberalssuck1 obviously you have very little music ability or sense
timross98 1 year ago
@Theliberalssuck1 Try taking Rush Limbaugh's cock out of your mouth and clean his splooge out of your ears.
martytron56k 1 year ago
Shankar had a way with the violin. I've heard few other violinists coax such mystery and ambiguity. What's he do now?
uncasist 1 year ago
@uncasist
check out L. Subramaniam
timross98 1 year ago
omg, the violin solo part is divine!
minimalizam006 1 year ago
Shakti is like a taster of heaven (...if only i believed in it!) ....ok.... shakti is heaven on earth! Great to see such awesome musicians zoneing out like this! (maybe to harmoniumnista is zoneing out a litlle bit too much!)
deotisdale 1 year ago
an era of fusion music!thanks to this awesome group!!just spellbound performance!
onlyabhishek08 1 year ago
This a truly a gem. Thanks for sharing. I only wish they made music videos back then. One of my favorite albums is "Natural Elements". I had to purchase 4 copies, because I wore them all out. 2 cassetes, 1 vinyl, and 1 CD...I haven't worn the last one out - yet.
picoattofemto 1 year ago
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With you there. I thought Natural Elements was a perfect fusion of recording/technique and music/art.
kithrup 1 year ago
adamlar taa ozamanlar ohooooooo.....önemli insanlar
petrucci8282 1 year ago
genius !!!!
Bettoguittar 1 year ago
This is some of the coolest guitar work I've ever heard period! John... you're the best and thank you for making those instructional DVD"s.
MrJohntube12 1 year ago 2
Beautiful. Thank you.
plezurhounds 1 year ago
Good stuff.
AfroZen 1 year ago
Does anyone else think that the whole violin solo is just sick?
MechanicalCrowds 1 year ago
@MechanicalCrowds .yep.....It makes me sick all right...knowing that I wouldn't be able to play like that
drakesha 1 year ago
saw these guys round that time. great memories
MsFrenchPetal 1 year ago
this is sweeettt
CyWebb 1 year ago
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John McLaughlin's playing style irritates my sensibilities. I keep watching this videos of him until I feel something resembling emotional expression. All I hear are interesting possibilities.
surfmcgoogler 1 year ago
Keep listening. It will come. He leaves many ideas as soon as he finds them and leaves you to finish, or it revolves around.
Trust me, more exposure and one day it will just click.
OneBigRetard 1 year ago
Thanks so much for posting this. Sheer genius.Blew me away then. Blows me away now.
andyshuttleworth 1 year ago 2
i saw this version of shakti at park west in chi town. seeing this again makes me vibrate. thnx for the post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ommmm
wilhoitsux 2 years ago
fucking unreal!!!!...how many albums did these guys make? & what are they called??..its time i updated my collection of music to loose your wig too..thanks 4 posting!!
omly85 2 years ago 3
@omly85 A Handful of Beauty is a very good album!
douzilles 2 years ago 2
sick jam
jw2113 2 years ago
Wow. I'll try not to let my bias show too much but . . . brilliant.
The guitar also needs to get get some mention: 13 string (7 drones across the soundhole) custom Gibson J200 w/ rosewood back & sides, scalloped ebony fingerboard built by Abe Wechter who also built quite a few of John's later acoustics.
ckaski 2 years ago 4
The scales that John is using are mostly pentatonic. The ragas are inferred with the glissando on the strings, via sliding and more importantly, bending. That is what the scalloped fret board lets him do with much more ease. Thus invoking the quarter tone and eighth tone variations. Also when the diminished scale is used it implies Harmonic minor. or variations of melodic minor, ascending. Very beautiful stuff. I have been listening to Shakti since the 70's. I still love it.
brwnhornet59 2 years ago 3
When I bought the 1st Shakti album, I was enraptured. L Shankar
369711623 2 years ago
Any idea on the name of the song with the L Shankar solo?
MechanicalCrowds 2 years ago
"Happiness is being together"
its a nice track,...i have it on best of shakti..but i guess he has solos in a lot of other songs...
bhedaviral 1 year ago
Zakir is just working John......
loverools 2 years ago
I would still prefer a Lalgudi Jayaraman ... a true genius :) John.. I got no words to say...
psrinivasan1 2 years ago
This was the music I grew up with. True fusion.
mikegodinho 2 years ago 4
i wish i was alive to witness firsthand the beautiful music of Shakti.
vikrampinto 2 years ago
Man the violin in here is so amazing, I have the album shakti with Zakir Hussein, McL and L Shankar. The whole album is amazing but that is some of my favorite violin playing. Indian scale really allows the fretless stringed instruments to shine IMO. Wow, this is why youtube is amazing.
darkbluesoul 2 years ago 16
legends together...this is priceless vid. thnx
regards
sourabh
sourabhnayan 2 years ago 2
holy fuck this melts my fucking brain!!!!! amazing!!!!! just aazing
yannis5 2 years ago 4
many years ago i read an interview with jeff beck. the journalist asked him if he was interested in recording more acoustic guitar (he played 'greensleeves' on an acoustic). jeff said something about how john mc. had pretty much sewed that field up. shankar's violin is tuned AEAE, a tuning also used by appalachian fiddlers. there was another interview with john and yngwie that asked why they preferred scalloped fingerboards. they agreed that it permitted a better 'grasp' of the string.
papaskip 2 years ago 2
Thank you for sharing!Thank you !
69MC97gc 2 years ago 2
Legends togethr
deathwagon94 2 years ago
Sweet mother of God.
Oops! I meant: "Sweet Mother Of God!"
Amazing. I don't know how they managed to get all those balls through customs!
ronkopald 2 years ago 2
I love the whole clip, but the harmony they had going on in the first 30 seconds is particularly good.
realshiznit 2 years ago 2
This is priceless
riflepoet 2 years ago 2
Ooooh yeah! Shankar is playing is heart out!
AfroZen 2 years ago 7
what a mad crazy performance !!!
ZAkir hussain on tabla.
L shankar on violin
Vikku Vinaykram on ghatam
agitator1 2 years ago 3
superb classic !!
agitator1 2 years ago 2
woah 7:10, what a cool interval to play on the violin. haha this is so enjoyable.
cambethell 2 years ago 3
Shakti Rocks! I once had the pleasure to meet Vikku Vinayakram ji, what great musicians and so down to earth. They are all excellent musicians and beautiful people.
rogeredtabbit 2 years ago 2
excelente material
martinfilas 2 years ago
in fact, the excess of the occident and the exotic of the orient
Guareznake 2 years ago
does anyone know what the scale he's playing in is called?
thevividdream 3 years ago
I don't know the specifics, but he's playing ragas, in time with the the percussion.
Were we both to study classical Indian music, we'd get a better idea!
Good luck!
emann1066 2 years ago 2
Most of it is Am pentatonic in the first song, A Dorian in the second, A Dorian n the third one.
farmduck2762 2 years ago
Malmsteen should watch this, and think....
kalssian 3 years ago 6
Yeah i know! Malmsteen could never grasp this stuff. No Comparison.
GDarkstar74 2 years ago 28
@GDarkstar74 what fuckin' Malmsteen? :)))
AbramelinBG 1 year ago
@GDarkstar74 malmsteen? why the fuck would even bring him up?
loudrussell 1 year ago
@loudrussell Why the fuck do you ask? I'm not the one who brought it up.
GDarkstar74 1 year ago
@GDarkstar74 true, only because it doesn't have dminished and harmonic minor throughout every single bar of every single piece of music he plays.
jamboliboli 9 months ago
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dude, Malsmteen excels in his genre.
deathwagon94 2 years ago
why has this got negative feedback?
gtr1359 2 years ago 2
Because his genre is so poop that the statement is a waste .
OneBigRetard 1 year ago
@gtr1359 This is brilliant music, it doesn't get more interesting than this music. And we are on an internet site where (I just looked this up) a Lady Gaga video has 202 MILLION hits, and this one has 238 THOUSAND.I suppose eight folks who enjoy silly music accidentally listened to this, and perhaps they couldn't even hear it . Maybe the vibration went right past them. Be happy that you can hear it!
marinman39 1 year ago
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McLoughlin doesn't wank.
T3hRuski 2 years ago
When I saw shankar's solo, around 9 years ago, I was so devistated I was in college at that time and I don't think I went to class that particular day.
triofdoom 3 years ago
Hey, look how Mclaughlin looks at Shankar after he gets doen playing that Guardian Angels riff. Shankar looks back at him and nods. It's like there in a telepathic zone!! That's art!
You will never get this in the mainstream America nonmusic industry.
triofdoom 3 years ago 7
lol! "Non music industry."
patrissimo 3 years ago
yea, it's funny but sad at the same time. thanks
triofdoom 3 years ago
yo im from trinidad and im a Hindu so i know about this guy and the shiv shakti dancers
avatarcollides2day 3 years ago
技術と情念が一体となった濃厚な音楽。
higessk 3 years ago
Notice how the best parts are when McLaughlin plays fewer notes.
cartoontortoise 3 years ago
i agree , but sometimes it is not a matter of the number of notes but how you play them, in a violin solo or piano solo musicians play a lot of notes and nobody says nothing, is the kind of instrument you play.
mastrofell 3 years ago
I don't think all violin players and piano players play a lot of notes... but I do agree with you in that it's all about the balance of not a lot and then a lot of notes. With music I'd say the ultimate goal is to get a yin and yang effect in your playing. That's mine at least dynamic and speed wise
jaydude214 3 years ago 2
Sure, the excess of the occident and the simplicity of the orient
zokotilinazo 3 years ago
Joe, you must be living in the U.S. Here in Europe there's a station out of France called Mezzo, they play many pieces at this level of musicianship. No doubt this piece as played here is orgasmic if you will.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
such good music... wow...
drummerman558 3 years ago 3
I saw them in SF. Great show.
ipings 3 years ago
i just can tell mclaughlin is one of the very best fucking geniuous in the fussion.
introspecsion 3 years ago 5
I saw them live in concert in Santa Monica many years ago. Shakti was incredible.
SamPaiKenpo 3 years ago 2
tanks 4 post!!!
serralheiro 3 years ago
wow, thats awesome. john mclaughlin is amazing.
drummerman558 3 years ago 4
beautiful music
astronome1144 3 years ago
This is the single best piece of art I have ever experienced.
JoeMarklin 3 years ago 5
dustyflair man, it has nothing to do with any drugs ...did you know cobain took his first heroin shot after recording nevermind with butch vig? really just good friends bottle of wine and this 76 shakti album is going right thru your brain no chemicals needed
Zeonoid 3 years ago 2
@Zeonoid a bottle of wine is chemicals. your mind is chemicals.
thew 1 year ago
@thew strange chemicals in unusual doses was what I meant
Zeonoid 1 year ago
@Zeonoid based on my own experience musician dont need synthetic or any other kind of drugs to produce quality music. Its only amateurs or admirers myth that they undergoing kind of sacrifice by consuming drugs and producing good music (jimi hendrix, kurt cobain etc) I have to say its all bullshit. Kurt took his first doses of heroin just AFTER recording nevermind. So the nevermind genius is not coming from the drugs. He didnt even smoke much thru recording. Drugs-GoodMusic MYTH
Zeonoid 1 year ago
@Zeonoid hello
abhirup619 1 year ago
@Zeonoid I agree with you but remember that above all the drug is especially bad because the society in which we live is. There's no spirituality in a world like this, there's just the burning desire to consume ourselves. In art, some drugs were sometimes used to push the bondaries of the spirit. When it comes to huge sucess with people like hendrix, is drug "popularity-illness", "creation help", "a consequence of postmodern pathology"? Hendrix himself might have answered : "Who knows?"
Harvesterofmetal 10 months ago
I love their albums from 76 and 79, this one is 76 Ithink... When I hear song called TwoSisters sometimes I cry.. No I`m serious... and Iplay in a punk band
Zeonoid 3 years ago
I agree, Zeonoid. Awesome musicians. Couldn't be better, and flat out amazing. Best!
Doggy1066 3 years ago
this is music my friends!
djsewell 3 years ago 18
So damn beautiful...I love this!!
MafaRu 3 years ago 7
LOVE SHAKTI
such a great band.
I would like to see them one day in Belgium
KOALAsounds 3 years ago 2
ahh what a band!!!
goldijun 3 years ago 2
When I was a kid my dad kept telling me I'd be good at Tabla, and I should learn it. But NO, I had to be "cool" and learn the drums instead!! What a DOUCHE I was, DAAMN!!
nikhiljo 3 years ago 6
haha, nice. i play the drums o.0
drummerman558 3 years ago
I followed stringrip's suggestion. You've got to hear the Shakti concert from 1977. I've never heard guitar like that. Never.
lfitomshi 3 years ago 3
Just got the original album yesterday! Cool stuff indeed....although it does vex me somewhat to hear the sheer speed of Mclaughlin's playing. I wonder whetehr he uses a particularly light set of strings to help him cut through em so fast...
BakedWalnut 3 years ago
Actually, everything I've said applies to the Shakti 1977 concert from Paris, which I selected inadvertantly. Check it out also on Jazz Fusion TV. Not sure about the gauge of strings for this guitar. Hopefully someone will post a more knowledgeable comment about it. In my opinion this concert offers everything a guitar and music lover wants - passion, imagination, creativity, joy, incredible interplay, just enough unpredictability in the soloing runs, energy, speed, and technical mastery.
lfitomshi 3 years ago 2
Whats the album called?
(I need more)
BakedWalnut 3 years ago
On Jazz Fusion TV, select Shakti 1977-04-10 Paris. You can download from there. It's awesome. Also, Shakti 1977-05-12 is quite nice.
lfitomshi 3 years ago
A scalloped fretboard and bags of practice helps. Utterly mind-boggling playing, I just can't get over how fast, fluent and tasteful Mclaughlin's playing is.
orientalnegro 3 years ago 2
John never used scalloped fretboards, at least not in the seventies :) I'm not so sure though what he used in the eigthies^^ his les paul that he used on the two 'mahavishnu' releases from the mid-eighties is defnenitly not scalloped^^
AndiLui 3 years ago
His acoustic Shakti guitar definitely is scalloped, he has mentioned it himself many times. The idea was to mimic sitar and allow truly insane bends. This is the trademark sound of John on any Shakti recording, and is allowed by the custom made scalloped guitar he used.
Maugister 3 years ago 5
ah,therefore I must have missed it,I was always more interrested in John's electric work. I did some resaerch : That 'shakti' guitar has also 7 sympathic strings, like a Sitar, that's where the sound comes from,the scalloping is a.f.a. I know only helpfull by certain playing techniques(bends), although it makes playing chords with correct intonation harder.
AndiLui 3 years ago
You are correct - by removing the wood, the friction between the string and the board becomes much smaller and helps naturally with bends, allowing them to become vastly "bigger" in a sense. You can hear this by listening to John's playing, most of the time he is totally going out with bends, easily bending the note over two/three whole notes up from the original point. But because there's more room to push the string, the correct intonation is indeed more difficult to achieve.
Maugister 3 years ago
Does anyone have the mp3 version of this please?
zinah1388 3 years ago
If anyone wants to hear 1977 concert of Shakti where they do an extended version of this song , go to JAZZ FUSION TV , (do google search on those words to find it , comes up 1 st result). Click onto AUDIO BOOTLES , lots of fusion concert recordings , and you can find 1977 San Diego concrt of Shakti. Good sound quality.
stringrip 3 years ago 3
great video.. i have to say i enjoyed it, and the violin player gets so sick at teh end
laphammer 3 years ago
mütiş üstadlar saygılar hala yakından takip ediyorum ve hayranlıkla peşinizdeyim
dormevan65 4 years ago
hem türk olup yada türkiyeli olup hemde shakti yi seven az insana rastlıyorum...saygılar...
insanatomystic 3 years ago
müzisyenlerin dışında zor zaten seven,anlayan birine rastlamak;)
SnEiRmTeAtC 3 years ago
davvero grande
lugioste 4 years ago
Who needs a whammy bar when you have scalloped frets?
prasiddha 4 years ago 2
Indian Classical music and fusion gives something which no other genre has given ...
supportindianrock 4 years ago 8
yes this in a piece from the song 'India'
pratopathak 4 years ago
My mistake, sorry, thanks for intel,
Crapweeds 4 years ago
the song's called "India"
from "A Handful of Beauty" album
mardgi 4 years ago 2
Lady L is the name of the song me thinks
Crapweeds 4 years ago
actually the song's title is "India"
"Lady L" sounds close to this one, though.
peace
mardgi 4 years ago
What's this tune called?
Clint313 4 years ago
Lady L
Crapweeds 4 years ago
Thanks, I appreciate it. It sounds phenomenal. John McLaughlin is so versatile in his styles of playing. Excellent!
Clint313 4 years ago 3
Excellent stuff, I love the Shakti & John McLaughlin album.
Haz657 4 years ago
this is truely bad ass
Medium0Rare 4 years ago
Thanks sky40 for posting this. There can be no denying the fact that these guys are one of the greatest living legends of music in this generation... music that has become uniquely identifiable to the mahavishnu orchestra... "maniac4mahavishnu" hits the nail on the head... "No one will ever begin to touch what this band created!" Maybe not in this lifetime anyway...
bobsierex 4 years ago 3
Cool!
AMAZINGPROSTATE 4 years ago
i love these guys. as great as mclaughlin is, man, shankar's solos are just as outstanding. i wish there were more youtube clips that included shankar's solos the way that this one does!!
umawwi 4 years ago 2
incredible shakti
have you guys eard of samay
is wicked band check it out...
07859975 4 years ago
this put me in my young age i feel great ty ty ty for this great video
musicpure 4 years ago
can any desis or music theory folks tell me if the carnatic violin is tuned the same way as the western one ?
mikebott 4 years ago
I saw this concert in Cincinnati, OH at the age of 15. I sat first row and met John before the concert (still have his autograph). No one will ever begin to touch what this band created!
maniac4mahavishnu 4 years ago 4
thanks for posting!!
kikoperes1 4 years ago