Philly '77 Shakti show changed my life..sitting near the stage and watching the blissed out look on ALL the musicians. I think I was transported to another dimension that evening. I went home to the Jersey shore and walked the beach 'til dawn , high AF
Same lineup.......I think.........at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 77.........or so. All I know is that I was there and it was incredible.
Good lord! These musicians are super human. Shankar plays beyond imagination; lightning fast, and the most beautiful phrasing with slurring the notes in the Indian fashion. McLaughlin is so incredible, as is Zakir. We are blessed to witness this majesty.
gods among men. L.Shankar's playing is ridiculously beautiful. he gives the melodic instruments its soul in this group. And having both a northern drummer and southern is just amazing. A real testament to music being a universal language.
Lakshminarayana Shankar is and always will be one of the most amazing Violinists I have ever seen. No one in the west can improvise with such liberated joy. Greetings !
I was working at a downtown club in NYC called the Cavern in 81 and 82. I had just finished mic'ing everything, and as I was heading off the stage who do I see but L. Shankar! If I remember correctly a friend said he should check out the band that night, because at that time North Moore st. in Tribeca was way off the beaten path. He and I spoke for a good twenty minutes that night, and he was one of the nicest people that I have ever met. A true gentleman, with such a kind spirit. His music reflects all of that, and more!
John McLaughlin said that he had a premonition that they should record the next concert they were about to play as he felt something special was about to happen. If you listen to that first record, you will feel it, especially on this track. Joy indeed. Great to hear this version.
I saw Shakti, (this line-up) in 1977, at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Detroit. It is still the BEST concert I have ever been to. Amazing show! The audience gave them a standing ovation at the end, that seemed to go on forever.
I attended shakti's live concert in Bruxelles 1976 and I discovered that music is rithm. Unique experience. Unique period/people. I will try to convey to my teenager child.
Shakti: the gods of sheer freedom, exuberance, and the manifestation of being transparent to transcendence and in being the vehicle for the great spirit to speak to you, and through you. Wow!
The absolute peak of spiritual guitar playing and how to empathise and integrate with other musicians..the perfect blend of rhythm and melody. This transcends categories, defies logic. amazes and humbles me
saw them in Chicago when they released 'a handful of beauty' and the cat was tossing that sucker up in the air & catching it pete townsend-style. one of the best concerts i ever saw...right up there with the 'birds of fire' tour w/ the original mahavishnu orchestra
True living legends and the original Rockstars...sadly unrecognized in our own country and unfortunately a dying Indian breed... :( ....Shenkar's violin just gives u a high, Zakhir and Vikku just awesme ...Vikku's inhibition in dressing marks his love n respect to our culture:) ..U rock
John opened me up to a whole new school of rhythm called shakti. Watching videos of the children at school able to connect so deeply and so in tune spiritually on that rhythmic level totally changed my perspective on life.
+trevor Carlisle Shakti is essentially divine energy, meaning empowerment, loosely. What you're talking about in terms of a rhythmic system is called konnakol.
A brilliant performance! It was my first year at Loyola in Montreal.One of my best friends,Dan Keating, asked me if I could join him and a bunch of Hingston Hall friends for a concert at McGill University. And that musical evening remains etched in my memory forever. Such a seamless fusion of four great artists oozing with wonderful energy of joy. What a collection Shakti has been.
First heard this sweet pea of a peace in England......pure love fractal, every time it plays.Enjoy yourself everybody it's getting better all the time.........cheers too the millennium !!!
Danté André-Kahan I play tabla and have studied with zakir students and pandit swapan chaudhuri so i know what a good tabla is, and the one zakir is playing is a subpar instrument. It was much more difficult to obtain a good instrument in the 70s but compared to the caliber of tabla he plays today it is less than quality. But he still makes it sing.
J'écoute John dans les différentes musiques qu'il joue depuis Mahavishnu Orchestra et même avant (un album avec Graham Bond édité en Angleterre bref) mais comment passer de la musique occidentale avec réussite à une musique organisée avec des ragas et autres formules rythmiques différentes impressionnant en étant toujours envoûtante à écouter et surtout à percevoir
J'aime énormément la musique indienne traditionnelle ainsi que John Mc Laughlin. Et j'ai beaucoup écouté Shakti et Remember Shakti...La seule chose qui me gêne un peu, c'est que c'est trop basé sur la virtuosité au détriment d'une musique s'adressant plus à l'âme. On dirait que chaque musicien veut surpasser l'autre en montrant que lui aussi, il peut "tricoter" avec son instrument. Mais il faut aussi reconnaitre qu'à l'époque, peu de musiciens occidentaux osaient s'aventurer dans les contrées de la musique indienne. Mc Laughlin a été une sorte de défricheur, ce qui est tout à son honneur...
+Sritanshu Sinha Hey, I don't know if you're still trying to figure it out or not, but John McLaughlin and L. Shankar are both basically just playing E Phrygian Dominant without the 6th. Try it! It sounds wonderful.
Its a building process if the violin was playing more it would compromise the song structure via acoustic percussion growing until the treble picks up. LISTEN TO DJANGO REINDHEART.
Philly '77 Shakti show changed my life..sitting near the stage and watching the blissed out look on ALL the musicians. I think I was transported to another dimension that evening. I went home to the Jersey shore and walked the beach 'til dawn , high AF
Saw Shakti the same year in NYC at the Beacon. Alice Coltrane opened. I was transported as well. I will NEVER forget that evening.
i was at that show too! wow!!!
Same lineup.......I think.........at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 77.........or so. All I know is that I was there and it was incredible.
when I'm finished building my time machine----this will be one of my stops
Haaa brilliant comment!
Please take me with you
mine is ready .. i am back in the past ... 7 years at time of that comment :) cheers from brsussels out of space and time ;)
take me with you again
Good lord! These musicians are super human. Shankar plays beyond imagination; lightning fast, and the most beautiful phrasing with slurring the notes in the Indian fashion. McLaughlin is so incredible, as is Zakir.
We are blessed to witness this majesty.
And they just started their 50th Anniversary tour. I can't wait to see Shakti in Nashville in August!!!
I feel so blessed just to see this.
gods among men. L.Shankar's playing is ridiculously beautiful. he gives the melodic instruments its soul in this group. And having both a northern drummer and southern is just amazing. A real testament to music being a universal language.
Lakshminarayana Shankar is and always will be one of the most amazing Violinists I have ever seen. No one in the west can improvise with such liberated joy. Greetings !
You forgot his brother L subramaniam and his nephew Ambi .. legends!
Abhishek Ramanuja yes! Tell me their names, I cannot forget them as well. I just didn’t know them by name forgive me. His brother and his cousin ?
Also Vikku Vinayakaram the player on the Ghatam (Pot) is a Legend. (The grammy was honored by him).
ruclips.net/video/DYEh5uXrL4w/видео.html
I was working at a downtown club in NYC called the Cavern in 81 and 82. I had just finished mic'ing everything, and as I was heading off the stage who do I see but L. Shankar! If I remember correctly a friend said he should check out the band that night, because at that time North Moore st. in Tribeca was way off the beaten path. He and I spoke for a good twenty minutes that night, and he was one of the nicest people that I have ever met. A true gentleman, with such a kind spirit. His music reflects all of that, and more!
John McLaughlin said that he had a premonition that they should record the next concert they were about to play as he felt something special was about to happen. If you listen to that first record, you will feel it, especially on this track. Joy indeed. Great to hear this version.
I saw Shakti, (this line-up) in 1977, at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Detroit. It is still the BEST concert I have ever been to. Amazing show! The audience gave them a standing ovation at the end, that seemed to go on forever.
I attended shakti's live concert in Bruxelles 1976 and I discovered that music is rithm. Unique experience. Unique period/people. I will try to convey to my teenager child.
I saw this concert live, in 1979, goosebumps!
Shakti represents some of the best music ever recorded.
Totally agree
With you too!
amazing to see current comments.
loved this music then... tears of joy to hear it again now.
LONG LIVE FUSION JAZZ!
Shakti: the gods of sheer freedom, exuberance, and the manifestation of being transparent to transcendence and in being the vehicle for the great spirit to speak to you, and through you. Wow!
Wow! Well said dear friend.
The absolute peak of spiritual guitar playing and how to empathise and integrate with other musicians..the perfect blend of rhythm and melody. This transcends categories, defies logic. amazes and humbles me
Very well said...I agree in full
L. Shankar is King!😊
One of the most talented and joyfully committed lineups in the history of music. Hail John, Shankar, Vikku and esp. Zakir! you are my gods!
Some of the most phenomenal ensemble playing I've encountered. And man, does that cat wail on a clay pot!
saw them in Chicago when they released 'a handful of beauty' and the cat was tossing that sucker up in the air & catching it pete townsend-style. one of the best concerts i ever saw...right up there with the 'birds of fire' tour w/ the original mahavishnu orchestra
That is a Ghatam.
Marty Paule
The Ghatam player is Shri 'Vikku' VinayakRam, recipient of Padma Shri, Fourth Highest Civilian award by Hon'ble Government of Indian.
Wow! What memories. I saw this band at a university gig back in the 70s. They were awesome! Thank you for this wonderful upload.
You lucky swine.
True living legends and the original Rockstars...sadly unrecognized in our own country and unfortunately a dying Indian breed... :( ....Shenkar's violin just gives u a high, Zakhir and Vikku just awesme ...Vikku's inhibition in dressing marks his love n respect to our culture:) ..U rock
These movements are straight from their feelings. Those are the feelings. So real, so true. Thanks.
I would not be astonished of this will be recognized in near future as a first manifestation of a higher intelligence ;-)
simply I love most is the violinist.... Thank you
John opened me up to a whole new school of rhythm called shakti. Watching videos of the children at school able to connect so deeply and so in tune spiritually on that rhythmic level totally changed my perspective on life.
+trevor Carlisle Shakti is essentially divine energy, meaning empowerment, loosely. What you're talking about in terms of a rhythmic system is called
konnakol.
There was only one other HD posting of this video, but it was removed from you tube. Cheers to this one!
Excellent.................................Thank You..... Met John once a long time ago. In Jamaica, Queens with Sri Chimnoy........Excellent
What a privilege to be able to see them live. Incredible musicians. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
Good god almighty these people are extraordinary. Like jazz, but so much further.
Classic Lineup.
Nobody can replace them
A brilliant performance!
It was my first year at Loyola in Montreal.One of my best friends,Dan Keating, asked me if I could join him and a bunch of Hingston Hall friends for a concert at McGill University. And that musical evening remains etched in my memory forever. Such a seamless fusion of four great artists oozing with wonderful energy of joy. What a collection Shakti has been.
9:15 crazyyy high notes!!!
First heard this sweet pea of a peace in England......pure love fractal, every time it plays.Enjoy yourself everybody it's getting better all the time.........cheers too the millennium !!!
Glad to find this. Has been a long while without Shakti
Four maestros, creating own magics, making it divine in unison.
O’ Time, take me to this live concert, in person.
Ronnie Milsap and Stevie Wonder directed this video. Jose Feliciano's fav clip on youtube
John blew them all away when he played at the Jeff Beck Tribute...He played Jeff's "Strata" WOW! John Mc kicks A$$
Holy cripes. Shankar is a beast.
Thank you! not just music...a spiritual revelation.
L.shankar sir, you look better without lengthy hair
So many great times enjoying this great song....
Explosion of Joy. That's what this is.
Just amazing!
+Doug Shaggy Smith Yes...and never matched by anyone.
Indebted to whoever shared this video
Thanks Our Stupid Reactions for giving me this piece of Gold...❤️
hell yeah .. that's music
Wow, Amazing! Thanks for uploading this piece of video "eduzappa18" - A big namaskaram ( salute) to you!
Unbelievably well played.
Master of the sonic universe. Zen
thanks for uploading, were looking for an HD version. one love, shakti!
Unreal!
Hypnotique! 👍
Fantastic composition and control ...
that certainly fuses the pleasure synapses in a wonderful way
the guys are so incredible, I have no words to describe how what I am hearing touches.
...then don't describe it... just listen :-)
Jam session of the gods.
2019
This is beautiful. Thank you, eduzappa18.
This is magical!! So damn amazing!!
Is there any more of this concert on RUclips? Good god, the shivers up and down my spine are continuous.
Forget the Sitar boys, lets go Acoustic
Guitarist- John Mclaughlin ?
Yes
simply amazing...
Sheer Bliss !
Love this!
Unbelievable.
waah ,so nice, great
I play this when I bathe. Damn energy!
THANKS A LOT! Shakti unique!
don´t you have more vids of Shakti'
I told my kids these are the real Monsters Inc. Got black stares but in time they will understand. I know.
Not of this Earth.
Phenomenal
This is a testament of a master, seeing Zakir play so well on such crappy beat up tabla.
wiremessiah It simply looks well-played to me.
Danté André-Kahan Did i not just say that?
wiremessiah Sorry I thought you meant they were bad instruments, but that was my fault. I agree with you otherwise.
Danté André-Kahan I play tabla and have studied with zakir students and pandit swapan chaudhuri so i know what a good tabla is, and the one zakir is playing is a subpar instrument. It was much more difficult to obtain a good instrument in the 70s but compared to the caliber of tabla he plays today it is less than quality. But he still makes it sing.
Improvisation at its best.....one of my old time favorites. Out of this world.....I call this music
Nice.
Genius!
Insane. Where is the complete Montreaux show?
Holy %&#@... unbelievable. Great!
This stuff is great, but I am sure he still wanted to expand into fusion as well.
Music maagic
from Montreux '76 I think
+stratomaster136 0:00
good call
Dedicate to Mahatma Zen ....
WHATS TO SAY
Joy....
Grace.........
Forse qui sono l'unico Italiano!!
J'écoute John dans les différentes musiques qu'il joue
depuis Mahavishnu Orchestra et même avant
(un album avec Graham Bond édité en Angleterre bref)
mais comment passer de la musique occidentale
avec réussite à une musique organisée
avec des ragas et autres formules rythmiques différentes
impressionnant en étant toujours envoûtante à écouter
et surtout à percevoir
J'aime énormément la musique indienne traditionnelle ainsi que John Mc Laughlin. Et j'ai beaucoup écouté Shakti et Remember Shakti...La seule chose qui me gêne un peu, c'est que c'est trop basé sur la virtuosité au détriment d'une musique s'adressant plus à l'âme. On dirait que chaque musicien veut surpasser l'autre en montrant que lui aussi, il peut "tricoter" avec son instrument. Mais il faut aussi reconnaitre qu'à l'époque, peu de musiciens occidentaux osaient s'aventurer dans les contrées de la musique indienne. Mc Laughlin a été une sorte de défricheur, ce qui est tout à son honneur...
en travaillant ! c est un bosseur ( et un surdoué) ...
Oui...mais il sait aussi s'entourer d'excellents zicos, dont Zakir Hussain...
Zakir's tabla has been attack by living flying beetles, must be a good story there
What scale is McLaughlin playing?
"maaaa, seher se bhaiya ki chithi aayihai" scale :P
+Sritanshu Sinha Hey, I don't know if you're still trying to figure it out or not, but John McLaughlin and L. Shankar are both basically just playing E Phrygian Dominant without the 6th. Try it! It sounds wonderful.
fantastic .... no words
Who were the artists in this video? Can anyone recommend please?
John Mclaughlin - Guitar,
Zakir Hussain - Tabla
L Shankar - Violin
Vikku - Gharak
L shankar
Its a building process if the violin was playing more it would compromise the song structure via acoustic percussion growing until the treble picks up. LISTEN TO DJANGO REINDHEART.
Got them artists …. Sorry didn’t notice remarks
🙂🙂🙂
and three downthumb trolls...
Typo...blank stares.
Rajesh Kuthrapalli on the Tabla! XD
*I‘m with you on my ghat onthe Seine before Paris in France ,you send a lot of good vib‘s 🍄🥣🦋*
sounds very similar to an Anoushka Shankar composition!
Maybe one day she will reach their level!
This was before miss shankar was born !!
3:30
9:43 :p
They really like phrygian!