John Mclaughlin SHAKTI le danse du bonheur

[@Dl515]

This album changed my life. I was a stone cold rocker and then I heard this and was blown away. My approach to music took a left turn. My ears finally opened and I really began to listen.

[@duendeguitar]

I saw Shakti on Oct. 30, 1977 (just checked my ticket stub). They opened with this song and it was very special as the version on the lp "Handful of Beauty" did not feature a guitar solo. L.Shankar played his solo on this tune wit such fury that the hairs of his violin bow were flying all over the place...now that's what I call shredding!

[@MrCicciodesellero]

His statement of the melody at the beginning is just breathtakingly gorgeous. His ability to vary his picking dynamics at that speed are really extraordinary.

[@Ahuxley68]

Fantastic. I heard Shakti in my early teen years for the first time, and have been following McLs work since. Thank you for posting.

[@nogoodboyo1921]

Thank you brother or sister for uploading these - watching in January 2020 listening to winter dawn chorus at 7 in morning, bit of snow flecking gently and briefly- tears down cheeks - dancing at the feet of my lord indeed - all is bliss , all is bliss . Simples. Love and peace from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@tokunbo70]

My friend Antonio from Chennai (that time still Madras) sent me this music on an audio cassette 21 years ago - and today i find it here, i feel like crying...

[@fusion-music]

Like it? Love it! We loved it when it was just vinyl, but to see the master and his friends is wonderful. I'm glad Shakti has shaped world-music in many ways. It's broadened the pallet. This is more than hippie music - it has content.

[@RajeshNaik_Consultant]

Amazing music - look at the energy and the fun they are having. And not a single wrong note!

[@wordreet]

Stunning! The performers shine via their instruments! No effects required. Thanks for sharing 5/5 and fave. (and saved to HD ;-) )

[@zetlana]

Wow Yes! I used to have this on vinyl! Lost in the mists of time. I'm going to go out and get the CD now after seeing this. Happy days!

[@apazeia]

timeless beauty, always uplifting, erases the mundane out of life every time I listen to SHAKTI I wish my guitar playing could hit that soul spark once in a while... or just once!

[@MacanGobhain]

Fantastic! I wish that the whole performance was here! I love L. Shankar's playing! Like DI515, this album changed my life! What an opener for the album and my young ears!

[@himanshupathak748]

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[@kvidmaster]

I can't get over how he can *swing* these odd meters!! At one point it sounds like maybe 11/8...and he is swinging! One of my all time favorites, and maybe the best ever...

[@thegerrie19561]

John is the best in playing: acoustic or electric it is nice. He is a good composer too. I have liked his music since I first heard it

[@dnibograh]

What is more beautiful than a composition of music that when you listen to it brings a feeling of joy and relaxed exitement to the perceptive intuition? I love it!

[@aeropilot4419]

Fantastic! Shankar eventually moved on to an electric double neck violin... unbelievable!

[@stringrip]

GUITAR INFO. Guitar shown is one of 2 made drone string guitars built by Abraham Wechter ,then consulting luthier for Gibson. The 1st prototype was non cutaway . This cutaway was delivered to John in mid-1976 . The sring guage for the 6 strings were at first 038 - 009 , later he used 042- 010 . The 7 drone strings were 062 = 023 . 3 tranducers used , one under each bridge. Guitar destroyed when McLaughlin lent it to careless friend.

[@amorin1]

Gotta love KZbin...Seek and you shall find... Thanks for posting this. I got the record in the 70s and it's great seeing the original performers play.

[@uncasist]

More good-high quality original Shakti please PLEASE!!! Thank you for this!!!

[@Ironclad35]

It was indeed a good hour when jazz met Indian traditional music. Shakti.

[@FamousJazzman]

Johnny Mac - always ahead of his time. This must have been from his MTV "Unplugged" performance...

[@flame-sky7148]

Or My Goals Beyond, basically 2 decades before that mainstream show.

[@patalahuea]

AMIGOS !!!!! es un placer escuchar tanto virtuosismo......GRANDE SHAKTI....lo descubrí el año 79....UFFFF

[@Al3x1c0n]

OMG thank you so much for this amazing find, John, Zakir and the others are all sick!!!

[@ridhisharma1715]

I am here from one stop dance just loved it 💛💥❤

[@rajeevjain6644]

Loved watching John playing the guitar in a squatting position 👍

[@DavidRojas-is4bb]

Maestro Jhon 🎸👍⚡️😍

[@pbanders]

hey! I was there, too, it was my 2nd time seeing them. They also had appeared at the Kennedy Center with Weather Report, still have my tix stub. The CD concert was fantastic, just as shown here. Saw Shakti Remembered in Tucson in early 00's for my third chance to hear this great music.

[@robst247]

Brilliant musical synergy from, arguably, the greatest band ever to have graced a stage: John McLaughlin - cross-string, scalloped-fretboard guitar L Shankar - 5-string Carnatic violin Zakir Hussein - tabla Vikku Vinayakram - ghatam

[@TheSecondNature]

John plays with precision and melodic, harmonic and rhythmic intelligence.

[@WWare16]

I've always regretted missing a concert in Boston with Shakti and Weather Report- thank you KZbin- marvel of the modern world.

[@giovannoniperry]

It's known as a drone acoustic.Along with the shortened "DRONE" strings that run through the sound hole, it has a scalloped fretboard which is essentially like playing a fretless!!!!One of a kind.

[@kpbdrums]

JAYSUS! Fantastic music. I'm chomping at the bit here waiting for the next part of this particularly L.Shankar's solo

[@llafutaal]

Shankar´s solo on the album is very very beautiful. John off the map? I´ll try upload the rest of the vid but I have problems with uploading! I´m trying it.

[@pritamlaskar]

Dude you still there? KZbin needs more shakti

[@jerryvivanco4898]

SERIOUSLY?????!!!!!!! WWHHOOOOO!!! OUTSTANDING!!!!!

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

Pheeeew...i just HAD to come and see some Shakti to get some RHYTHMS in my ears again.Rock can give on so much,as metal and all that stuff. Ths is stuff had actual MELODIES,RHYTHMS BEYOND THE CENTURIES and LOVE AND HUMOR( i mean,look at Zakirs face at 2:18),whats not to like? Shalom :)

[@TheSecondNature]

does anybody know if the guitar that john used in 70's with shakti was a unique guitar that his personal liouter did specifically for him? if not, it could be a dream to have such an incredible guitar...

[@TheMindOrchestra]

Yes he had it made specially with the sympathetic strings , was damaged when travelling and then he never played it again :(

[@Bongofury361]

Fucking incredible! What-the-hell kind of guitar is Mclaughlin playing? I've never seen or heard anything like it! It looks like a guitar but SOUNDS like a sitar! Wow, he is fast, and the percussionists are amazing! I've always liked and wanted to learn how to play tabla...I think my technique would be perfect for that instrument. I definitely need to explore this band and Mahavishnu Orchestra, more! Awesome stuff!

[@SourabhGoho]

greatest jam ever...thnx

[@Bongofury361]

@Morpheusneon Thank you for the translation! I was trying to find out what 'bonheur' meant using wikipedia, but I kept getting French! Being Canadian, I should know this already...(sheesh!) Awesome piece of music...I wish I could have been jamming with them!

[@pedrolimatube]

I like it a lot!! Thanx for post!

[@nouveaudjango]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[@MrSupabob]

how f**kin good is that....raw energy

[@mianadi8262]

superbe album avec john

[@CookTheBruce]

Saw them in 1978 at UofW. Didn't touch my guitar for six months. When I did, I wrote a Six String Raga.Best thing I ever wrote... brashki99

[@lmark1337]

Clapton? Allman? Stevie Ray Vaughan? Page? Beck?… etc. John McLaughlin!!!

[@3Ellipse]

amazing players ! the best period for big mac

[@LodoGrdzak]

Thanks for post llafutaal. Love it a ton!!!!!

[@bigfatgreek]

It's Konnakol. A way of vocal rhythm. Pretty cool stuff, I want to learn how to do it haha.

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

* Pheeeew...i just HAD to come and see some Shakti to get some RHYTHM in my ears again.Rock can give ONLY so much,as metal and all that stuff. Ths is stuff HAS actual MELODIES,RHYTHMS BEYOND THE CENTURIES and LOVE AND HUMOR( i mean,look at Zakirs face at 2:18),whats not to like? Shalom :) PS:hi from typocentral :D

[@syn707]

Excellence in music.

[@realobama1100]

“Tin tin takadon tin takadon tin tin takadon takado tin tin tin tin takadon” - Shakti Band

[@theMarsFusion]

@Bongofury361 That is the customized "Shakti guitar" made by Abraham Wetcher, another supra mega ultra guitar that only McLughlin got, like the Double Rainbow, you can hear it on "between nothingness and eternity" of Mahavishnu to "visions of esmerald beyond".

[@pteradactyle]

this is so much better than the remember shakti version.............

[@ReMarietti]

Saw them in concert by this time ( 70’s ) , went directly to buy the record next day 😳

[@japanesesen]

YES, I LIKE IT..

[@RhymesandRythmns]

this is exactly what music is.

[@TheNguyenGiap]

when you reach the next level it´s actually fun, for us mere mortals, it´s hard training every day :)

[@jacs91]

Oh thank you so fucking much. I've been looking for Shakti videos.

[@gaurav731985]

JUST AWESOME!!!!!!

[@Morpheusneon]

It's la danse du bonheur, not "le danse du bonheur" In french "danse" is feminine :D translation: "The Dance of Hapiness"^^ very nice song, I love it!!

[@TheSecondNature]

of course I like it John is the best

[@ultimategurumusic]

wow fantastic. is that zakir hussain on tabla? also who is on the ghatam? thanks for posting this !!

[@pietroanania]

great performance with 13 strings guitar!

[@stringrip]

If anyone wants to hear a 1977 concert of the original line up of Shakti , go to JAZZ FUSION TV (do google search on those words , it come up 1st result) . Click onto AUDIO BOOTLEGS , there are hundreds of hours of fusion concerts . You can find a Shakti cncert recorded SA DIEGO 1977 . About one hour and 40 minutes worth . Concert starts with extended version of "la Danse du Bonheur"

[@Vishu95100]

He was a great guitarist. And I am so sad to say that he is dead.

[@varunvishwanathan8681]

Who tf is dead

[@llafutaal]

I´m tring it!

[@donvalleydon]

Excellent!

[@DxBlackDevilxD]

Amazing! Can someone tell me how you call the singing at the beginning?

[@archytypex]

It's called konnakol or verbal percussion.

[@WearySisyphus]

Can you locate and date that concert ? Thanks for posting.

[@malavika9784]

LOVE IT!!!!

[@umaghoshalsaha8918]

wonderful

[@philipbenner]

Can’t tell if there’s an audio issue or if something’s wrong with the guitar, doesn’t side right kind of thin and “tinny?”.

[@slackologist]

i would love to know where i can buy the entire recording of this if there is more.

[@flame-sky7148]

When you know you're too good 2:13

[@mouthmusic5035]

I wish John and Shankar would play together again.

[@beabow64]

GENIUS

[@stevec4899]

magic !

[@krimson100]

love it !!!!

[@ramjeesaradi]

Where do I learn to play Guitar like this?

[@llafutaal]

HE is vikku! fantastic player!

[@TheSecondNature]

@jbmadhouse imho he's the best guitarist ever

[@accidentalfilms]

Post more-for the love of all things holy!

[@undershaft]

Amen.

[@Thephyguy]

Can someone please tell me if they are and if they are what they are speaking in this song at the beginning? The beboxing kinda rythmicy stuff.

[@ajaydotcom]

i love the way they are having fun at 5:00

[@jaizyo]

@Thephyguy they are saying the rhythm patterns, what you say you play.

[@corinnep142]

J'adore !

[@thegerrie19561]

Indiajazz, give us more

[@Cabirus]

JayLough is a fucking wizard on the guitar. Awesome!

[@mikebott6940]

wow... being only 27 i never though i'd get to witness the original line-up. does anyone know what the hindi at very begining means ? i'm geussing that it's a count down

[@Crapweeds]

John McLaughlin is amazing, but in my opinion until Julian Bream is dead he has the crown. But then it's just an opinion, and it doesn't matter, I'm just glad to hear them play.

[@PeterPunk73]

sale hasta el Cifu, que grande!

[@MrCicciodesellero]

@CrimsonCleff it's just john mclaughlin's kind of music.... anyway, he was on of the first musicans to mix two kinds of music, so he created what we call "world music"-

[@accidentalfilms]

WHY CANT WE BUY THESE ON DVD??? ITS A CRIME!

[@flame-sky7148]

Because America and their music industry sold people crap instead of real music.

[@TheSecondNature]

@dschager yesterday i read on a book that it was made by gibson for him. I think it's the most beautiful guitar in the world. it is a dream for me

[@leeberry4388]

estupendo!

[@vutEwa]

wild! and fun

[@mrmott44]

Reminds me a Bela Fleck tune

[@adeadolfo]

Dice: "Es una forma de decir 'increible' en indio. Sube más videos de shakti si tienes, te adoraré si lo haces xD"

[@dody031]

trop foooort