Three guitar legends, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola team up live in this video performance of Mediterranean Sun Dance. Di Meola and McLaughlin show off their amazing speed, as does De Lucia -- sans pick.
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Just beautiful. Thank you so much!
Loved it.
Paco at his best....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zM9pZzt0U
Not sure if the three are at the top of their genre or are simply a path to a grand mal seizure. I've tried over the years to "like" DiMeola and even purchased several albums, but just can't get into his music (A lot like a feel about Johnny Winter). A phrase I HATE but seems to me to be appropriate is "The songs all sound the same"... I "get" the nuance, but the manic picking is just well-practiced filler IMHO.
I guess everyone has their own spark.
I've found a way to break the like them / don't like them curse.
And that is to relate to the lifestyle that they're presenting in order to get away from the analysis of the musicians own style.
I had a job years ago where a co-worker would be very good at hating the studio session musicians songs that were on the office radio. Whenever they'd get played, he'd always have a two minute gripe.
Before then, I had a family member that would go to a music store that would be playing or featuring a new album and like it so much that they'd buy the album before it played all the way through. When they'd get home, they'd put the album on and figure that the artist "wasn't that good" and the album would quickly gather dust.
It's not the music most of the time, it's the audience. So in your case I'd recommend not trying so hard to "get into" the music. That's the musicians job.
One of my favs in that category is Extremes song Hole Hearted from the album Pornograffitti.
I worked at a music store when that came out and people would come in after hearing that song on the air and just have to have the album.
I would try to let them know the whole album (a damn fine example of technical rock I might add) in no way was represented by that song.
They would have none of it, buy the album and then the next day I would see them in again returning it and very mad that they had been mislead into buying this piece of hair rock trash.
Too funny!
I personally thought Hole Hearted was the weakest piece on an otherwise fine album.
As for Di Meola, he is hit and miss.
On every album there is something I absolutely love, and on every album there is something that makes me cringe.
His technical ability is beyond question though, and that fast picking hand might be a problem if all he did was some sort of harmonic minor run replay on every solo ala Yngwie Malmsteen.
But his runs are sufficiently different on each tune to keep it interesting.
At least that's my opinion of it.
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior or No Mystery
Me thinks you'll likey.
Passion, Grace & Fire off of Electric Rendezvous.
One of my favourites and it has Paco playing as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np3Qr4SKlJU
I went to the first show that reunited Return to Forever brought to Minneapolis. It was my introduction to Al Dimeola. He seemed disinterested, and really wasn't playing the quality that friends had built him up as. I've bought his albums, and wondered why I didn't get to see his music this way. Anyway, maybe it's Minneapolis, though Chick Corea said they all had friends in the audience. This performance definitely helps me respect Dimeola more.
So many notes, so few of them played beautifully.
"Afro Blue"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKA7Jm8BB_w
thanx!
I'd like to pair these guys with SMV.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I love it. Thanks for reminding me that it's out there. I have a version on one of my CDs that I haven't played for a while, so I'll get it back out.
I love this song. The music just transports me to a different time and place and mood.
Thanks!
Majestic Dance
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Juvenal
Ah, NOW you've done it! That's probably my favorite fusion record of all time.
"Night of the Living Dregs," particularly the live selections recorded at Montreux, is a very close second.
Here's an amazing video of the Dixie Dregs performing "The Bash" at Montreux. Steve Morse SLAYS on this tune.
anytime he plays.
When I saw the above concert in SF Steve Morse was the special guest.
F ckin aye.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
I played the NEEDLE through that DiMeola/De Lucia/McLaughlin LP back in High School. None of them have lost a step (or a 64th note) since then, it seems.
DiMeola is wonderful at comping in this style, something for which he gets far too little credit. McLaughlin's speed is astonishing, but I don't really care for his musical sensibility. De Lucia is terrifying, especially for someone who so strongly resembles the late David Carradine (RIP, Bill).
As far as pure fretboard dexterity coupled with manic musical inventiveness is concerned, I'm hard-pressed to think of anybody who is in the same league as Bireli LaGrene, seen here performing with Hungarian-born Florin Nicalescu. Not since Django and Grappelli....
most musical gravitas, to be sure. The other two are first and foremost musical virtuosos, no small achievement itself. But I'm always more wowed by their technique than moved by their music.
without the violin... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJjymEDxt8&fe...
There sure lots of talented people out there, huh?! Thank gawd for music!!!
...find the version on "Friday Night". It's 4:38 longer than the clip (11:28), and quite a bit better than this performance of the song (which I certainly do appreciate for its historical value, don't get me wrong). The themes are better developed, the interplay more extensive and complex, and the finale is absolutely breathtaking. After all these years, it still lives on in my 'favorites' folder, and it's still as stunning as the first time I heard it.
Regarding Di Meola, my favorite of his is 'The Wizard', from 'Land of the Midnight Sun' (1976) - I'm a sucker for 'to-the-edge-and-back' epics. It's right here for ya...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzttzQyUD5o
Yer welcome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMp2bKtgsc&fe...
Beautiful!!
"Dark Eyes" ...takes me right back to the 50's when I was taking piano lessons.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
if you were a fan of the many bands that came out of los angeles in the late 70's early 80's, you may want to listen to this radio program by henry rollins dedicated to brendan mullen, the man behind the club that promoted them, masque. he recently passed away.
http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2...
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John Williams/Julian Bream
"Together" and "Together again".
Recorded in the early 70's.
Give those 2 recordings a whirl. Can't be beat.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
I was turned on to these guys 25 years ago, way to go.
Ok, you elitest Democrats, I am gonna throw 1 up here to energize your music thread tonight. This is my coming out, I am coming down HARD soon of this local governement around here, liar Lawyers, local corupt cops and idiot prominent familys. My heart and soul is on FIRE! They tried to get me today.
I do want to give props to a local female PA State police officer tonight, she is human unlike the others.
skazi - Anarchy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2JMBCEIYGs&fe...
this thread is for when you grow up
I am 36. That's computer generated clasical music of today.
Russian Rave in Forest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VrogNec03Y
But "clasical [sic] music of today?" That's not really true, is it? Are you familiar with John Adams or Einojuhani Rautavaara? That's contemporary classical music. I'm sure you'd like it just as much as this (I enjoy raves too, BTW).
Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior or Live Stock
Bill Bruford - One of a kind
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Ponty
I could go on :D
Is this how it originally sounds? Paco is on the right channel while John is on the left, but they aren't in that order on stage (unless it's mixed to sound like it would to the artists on the stage).
That's just weird. Are you sure the channels aren't reversed?
at the louis B Davie's Symphany hall.
5th row.
1982 or 3ish.
Kick ass.
Thanks for posting this Logan.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
Three of the masters of the guitar. There are plenty of good electric guitarists but these guys have mastered all types of guitar and are the best of the best! C&L really outdid itself tonight with this excellent selection. My contribution is an interview with the guys for the release of the album guitar trio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW481h-nJVc&fe...
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
Since it's fast guitar players, and O.K. to be off topic,this guy's amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYBIxQgMDZ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ET1b0ymZs
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Longtime lurker, longer time Al Di Meola fan, jus wanted to thank ya'll for the awesome tunes over the years. Seen Al almost a dozen times from fusion days to acoustic and back again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P25itL5ZfE
Good stuff!!!
...legends indeed!
... how does the right hand knows what the left hand is doing?
Same for piano and others
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the same way a skateboarder knows which foot is push and which is roll just before a jump.
Mellows me up for all the bad news to follow, and serves up a gray-haired stud for the delectation of all of us horny old gals.
De Lucia and company will be the high point of my day. Wowww...
Not a huge fan of all his music but DiMeola can tear it up.
What a freakin' treat!
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