John McLaughlin

the ultimate guitarist, just throwing that out there

Favorite bands come in waves, currently it is Amon Duul II, but Mahavishnu Orchestra has just been constantly been playing, over and over.  I have worked myself back in McLaughlin's work.  I just listened to Extrapolation twice and was going for the threepeat, but decided to put on Devotion, which is fantastic as well. 

What else do I get from him in later years, or earlier.

I have these albums


Devotion
Extrapolation
Inner Mtn Flame  through Visions
the first Shakti, and I plan to get the rest, at least of the earlier years, how are the Shakti revisted albums come off
I also have some album with him and a few other dudes playing weird jazz rock, it's okay, the album cover is a rainbow, it's sort of gay looking
oh and i have On the Corner and Bitches Brew, what i mean to say is, if he contributed to albums, i would like to know about them as well

in addition, anything good from the other guys would be good too, mostly just interested with the original line up though,

don't get me wrong, i absolutely love Visions and Apocalypse.  I wouldn't have gotten into the band without Visions.


peace


Edited by Aaron - March 18 2007 at 08:27

From his solo albums, make sure you get The Promise. and also After the Rain. and The Heart of Things. and Thieves and Poets. and also get at least one of his three flamenco albums with di Meola and de Lucia. And the Shakti albums can easily be mistaken for something of divine origin - that's how good they are. Oh, what the heck? just track them down and get them all. It doesn't get much better than McLaughlin and, generally speaking, every album touched by him turns gold. It's good to know that before asking yourself exactly what you should expect or look for; then you just have to enjoy the music as it comes.

Edited by Uroboros - March 18 2007 at 19:57

'My Goals Beyond' is a lovely McLaughlin solo record with Goodman and Cobham on hand, 'Passion, Grace and Fire' the best of the Flamenco projects. And you may also like John Abercrombie; 'Timeless', 'Gateway', 'Speak of the Devil'.

Arrrghus wrote: Atavachron wrote: 'My Goals Beyond' is a lovely McLaughlin solo record with Goodman and Cobham on hand, 'Passion, Grace and Fire' the best of the Flamenco projects. And you may also like John Abercrombie; 'Timeless', 'Gateway', 'Speak of the Devil'. He MIGHT like Abercrombie. However, he's very spacy and not as fiery as McLaughlin. He's very... ambient. He still can be fast, but he's not as fiery and intense as McLaughlin. I think he'd like Al Di Meola a lot more.

Mmm.. really depends. Abercrombie and McLaughlin are much closer to each other in style, tone and approach. Di Meola sounds nothing like either and only began experimenting outside of fusion later in his career.

dwill123 wrote: "Mahavishnu" is a very good album to have.  Billy Cobham and Bill Evans (sax) joined forces w\John McLaughlin to recreate the energy of the original Mahavishnu Orchestra but with a different slightly more jazzy sound.

Dick Heath wrote: Personally I think Jonas can do very little wrong (although I can think of one stinker with his name on it)