Great recording. So nice to have professional audio and video on You Tube. What's up with the bass player's gloves? He's a fine player but just curious about the "bass-ball" gloves.
@Gregorypeckory None taken - I phrased it badly - what I originally meant was "distorted but not in the usual pleasant way"! On listening to this vid again, I think the problem is one of clipping, either at the mixing desk level (input set too high) or into the camcorder or whatever (likewise). Which the musicians would not have been aware of. There is one instance of his tone I didn't like, and that was when he was playing his Mike Sabre guitar (see Crossroads 2004)
@filtecuk Okay, no insult intended, but you used the phrase "horribly distorted", so I didn't know you meant you found this particular flavor of distortion displeasing. I thought you meant you were an old school jazzer who didn't like distortion. It isn't my favorite tone, but I wouldn't call it horrible-still sounds pretty good to me. Funny how emphatic we get about tone preferences, but it's all good.
Fantastic, deep, moving, thoughtful and yet empty, zen like music expression.
Jambodhi 7 hours ago
The quality is absolutly amazing here, and the fact that it's John McLaughlin is even better!
callumcartymusic 15 hours ago
@jwklbm326 The gloves are probably to soften the sound of the bass.
Vierotchka 2 weeks ago
Great recording. So nice to have professional audio and video on You Tube. What's up with the bass player's gloves? He's a fine player but just curious about the "bass-ball" gloves.
jwklbm326 3 weeks ago
@SimsulatedId Not exactly a cheap guitar. John amongst others plays Godin guitars - like in this clip.
q2w3bn876 1 month ago
@elionen ??!?!?!!?!
keo774 2 months ago
A tiny touch of reverb on that guitar wouldn't hurt in my opinion.
This band sounds amazing anyway!
EquinoxParadox91 2 months ago
wow am I glad I ran into this!
TheAcidHairball 2 months ago
@Gregorypeckory None taken - I phrased it badly - what I originally meant was "distorted but not in the usual pleasant way"! On listening to this vid again, I think the problem is one of clipping, either at the mixing desk level (input set too high) or into the camcorder or whatever (likewise). Which the musicians would not have been aware of. There is one instance of his tone I didn't like, and that was when he was playing his Mike Sabre guitar (see Crossroads 2004)
filtecuk 3 months ago
@filtecuk Okay, no insult intended, but you used the phrase "horribly distorted", so I didn't know you meant you found this particular flavor of distortion displeasing. I thought you meant you were an old school jazzer who didn't like distortion. It isn't my favorite tone, but I wouldn't call it horrible-still sounds pretty good to me. Funny how emphatic we get about tone preferences, but it's all good.
Gregorypeckory 3 months ago