Maybe I’m the only one who has just only noticed but he’s on Jamie Cullen’s show.
And later, on Later with Jools, Joanne Shaw Taylor along with Paul Rodgers. I might break my 5 year fast from watching.
As you were.
John McLaughlin – Radio 2 Tuesday Night
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Here’s a full set from a few weeks ago. He does have a strange tone these days, but what a fabulous (Jeff Beck-like) opening tune.
When all had long hair, he had short. That was and looked good. Now he has this ridiculous hair. I know it has been this way for a while, but it suddenly hit me why I find him annoying.
I know what you mean.
He looks like an American news anchorman.
He’s interviewed in this month’s Guitar & Bass magazine too, with lots of interesting stuff about his early years.
How long before someone makes a lame comment about “long songs”?
Like this?
No, that wasn’t lame at all. Quite witty, in fact. Preferably it has to come from someone who has never listened to the MO.
There’s singing?
If I was his age and had flowing locks, heck if I was my age and had flowing locks like that , I’d let my locks flow.
At the start of the clip he looks like he’s recently taken a cycle helmet off.
That’d be a cycle of fifths, played in 17/11 time.
I think JM looks quite distinguished these days. Like a hipper George Martin.
I mentioned this on another thread, but it clearly went through to the keeper. So here it is again. That live show Colin recently posted is interesting in so many ways. Not only does it contain fabulous music by possibly the best band there has ever been (MO MKI) but McLaughlan’s speaking voice at that time (1972) was a thing of great strangeness. His between song announcements make the Yorkshire born guitarist sound part east-European, part-American and part blissed-out Hare Krishna.
When I saw him last year, he didn’t speak like that at all.
I wonder what voice he’ll use on Jamie C’s show tonight?
BTW, JC, would you mind emailing me a scan of the bits of the Guitar & Bass interview you mentioned that contain early years stuff?
There might be the odd nugget that’s new. I’m musing on making the eBook bonus chapters of BIL available in a physical form, and I’d include a brief update/addendum of info on the early days that escaped me in the main book (just a handful of things, like JMcL being considered as a member of the Rendell-Carr Quintet at one point, etc).
I’m on it Colin. It is a little heavy on the guitar detail, but interesting for all that.
Yeah, Col, right. You’re checking no uncredited lifts from the tome!!
🙂
(Fair play)
Honest Retro – I’ve never gone looking for that sort of thing. I chanced upon a lift from my BJ book in The Independent many years ago (a mini feature ‘interview’ on a song, where the entire ‘interview’ came from quotes from my book, with no credit and someone else’s byline) but for some reason never got around to making a complaint about it.
The whole point about my books is to increase and share knowledge. I’d hope that people interviewing JMcL DID read the book and that it informed their questions. I suspect the Guitar & Bass interviewer did so – it doesn’t matter that (if he did) he didn’t mention the book.
Just had a chance to read the Guitar & Bass interview JC – very interesting!
It’s rare that JMcL goes into much detail on the 50s/60s these days – a lot of his interviews (understandably, having given interviews for over 45 years and being of a mind-set to constantly look forward) feature a lot of very familiar lines summarising this or that band/situation in the past, as if he’s compressed whole eras into generalised soundbites. (Jazzwise seem to do more of less the same interview with him every 18 months.)
But there are a few new slivers of information here about several things. It’s only the third time he’s mentioned Big Pete Deuchar in an interview, and the previous two times have been one line. So well done that G&B interviewer!
Oh, I missed that. Can you point me at the MO 72 show please? I have a copy of Syracuse 72 and various things from Wolfgangs Vault. Was this a new find Colin?
It was in the Big Sam thread (where else?)
Thanks. Trust Colin to get the MO into a thread about a football manager
Edith: ah, I see it was you JC who was responsible for diverting the thread heavily in the MO direction.
And of course I have the Wild Strings recording. Amazing
Interesting comment from JM about the recording of In A Silent Way. It’s your first session with Miles and the great man asks you how you’d like to direct the track. No pressure then!