Danny Thompson Trio (John McLaughlin) 1967 BBC (stereo HiQ)

[thewordofgord]

Yikes! What a discovery! thank you for taking the time to post with such appropriate imagery.

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[eelalien]

This is obviously John McLaughlin...

[drummiedan]

Wonderful tone from Danny Thompson as ever...

[tallismaryward]

I met his cousin in the mid 70's. He said even in his teens Johnny was chucking in so many chords that people (other guitarists) had NO IDEA where they came from. He said where one guitarist on a chord sequence would have 6 chords to jump to JM would have 36. I saw him at the City Hall in Newcastle in 76'ish. and at Norwich in 2010 loved every note.

[april20th2010]

I love that visualizaiotn. it's stunning. And with the msuic it's just crinedible . Thank you so mch for posting this. Incredible. ESpecially that it's perfmromed laive. Thanks.

[ThePmfan]

It is indeed Johnny Mac. Nobody else played quite like this back then. If you listen to his stuff from Extrapolation and that slightly later era you can hear a very similar style.

[dizzytones]

Thanks. Yeah, great! Did this trio ever record? Tony Roberts sounds great too.

Shame Danny didn't get to do Extrapolation. Plus a very early version of Spectrum!

[metamorphosis67]

@dizzytones Yeah, there's a CD on Amazon. It's out of print and about 40 dollars from used dealers. This whole group is great. They don't miss a drummer one bit. 

[echo680]

hadn't heard this before - stunning - thank you for posting

[rubyeyednewt]

This really is great. What a wonderful version of "Spectrum". Thanks!!

[antzen7]

this is a very good stuf.fantastic jazz

[dorian411]

What a great song and superb pre-Extrapolation solo from JM. Beegeebus his is soooo outstanding.

[OneBigRetard]

Defo. Beautiful

[Robokiller80]

Definitely sounds like johnny mac, it's great to hear him play some straight modal stuff

[CaptainCoconut87]

Thanks for the upload, I love this stuff... Extrapolation being my favorite album of all time I can say late 60's early 70's is my favorite era of Mclaughlin.

Where might I acquire this for listening?

[oceanview1937]

Thanks so much. John is so special.

[StrangeShadesOfBlack]

Is that really john mclaughlin?

[avs002]

Oh no, NOT AGAIN!! Actually, that's why I like posting Johnny's clips - the "old hippie" forces us to change our image of him.

And some people don't want to do it! The "3 Acoustic Songs" video (the response here) was deliberately (and successfully) provocative in this area.

[StrangeShadesOfBlack]

I liked the song and i didnt doubt the fact that it was J-Mac,it was more like an expression of surpise.And since Jmac is my favourite and have listened tons,i found it weird that i couldnt really identify his playing.BTW thanks for the great uploads,keep em coming

[kliff10]

Mclaughlin sounds great.....really nicely produced sound....Thanks...Excellent posting!

[gphilamp]

wooooow so great!!

[avs002]

I know. "Johnny" is just "Mr. Joe f'íng 'Kind of Blue for breakfast' McCool" here!