Tony Williams Lifetime - John McLaughlin , Jack Bruce , Larry Young , 1970 Newcastle

[@patsmith431]

Newcastle Town Hall,i was there.I was 17 and had driven up from Worcester for the Newcastle Rag.There was s problem with getting admitted so went down the town and saw Lifetime,Greatest Show on Earth and Trapeze.Great gig.Did not appreciate who i was watching.Snowed badly at Scots Corner on the drive back ,wind screen wipers were fuckrd on my old Ford Anglia. 70 now they were great days😊

[@soctrang]

41 years later (today) they would still had been at the highest level with this performance. There is nothing like this still today. Just great musicians!

[@NeilNileMusician]

I saw this line-up at Hull University and didn't understand how they could play such complex music (for me at the time, at least) without some charts. Tony's yellow(?) Gretsch kit was front of stage, John played a Les Paul junior with an added humbucker at the neck, and dressed in sweater and slacks, whereas Jack was in full Rock regalia. Larry...was Larry - can't remember anything apart from his great playing. I was still 16 I guess, but starting out on guitar, so some details just really struck me. What a great era for music! Well done for the clip.

[@gutterdandy9173]

Larry was a mystic. Love him on Santana and McLaughlin's Love, Devotion, Surrender album as well as Love Cry Love. Ginger has some funny stories about Jack and his love of "rock star garb" in his autobiography.

[@bodhiheeren]

just amazing and adventurous. Four great improvisers at their visionary best!

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

I saw this group live at Newport. They were amazing! Still nothing out there like it, like the man says!

[@bobanbu]

me TOO! as John started playing through that LP Jr to Marshall, the Jazz Nazis fled like the mice they are! LOL! we ran up to the FRONT ROW and BASKED in the innovation! a true golden memory! nice to share it w you!

[@xylosforkids5357]

This needs to be part of a Vincent Price marathon on TCM in October! Such beautiful madness!

[@chipstern]

You can hear elements which presage :Meetiin Of The Spirits" in the drone, but when they go off and jam, it's what became "Dragon Song" on McLaughlin's DEVOTION (with Larry Young and Buddy Miles).

[@Riddim4]

Chip Stern : Dragon Song was receded in February 1970. This gig was from November 1970.

[@geraldhitchens8130]

Was a big fan of JB at the time ,so got into Lifetime,saw them 3 times travelling miles by bus and train to where they were playin

[@Exileonbackroad]

In an interview Jack Bruce singled out Larry Young, of all the people he played with, as "not playing music, he just *was* music."

[@gutterdandy9173]

Larry Young WAS a mystic. Check him on Santana/McLaughlin's Love Devotion Surrender album!

[@jibsmokestack1]

Larry Young!!!!!!!!!!

[@68blues]

Saw these guys in Dunfermline (1970) The big attraction was Jack Bruce for obvious reasons. What they played was totally above me.....pity.

[@merrillb]

And in the authorized biography (by Harry Shapiro) Jack Bruce again singles out Larry Young as "the most musical" person he ever played with.

[@musikaudios]

Perfect.

[@68blues]

Bruce, Clapton and Baker hadn't long split. McLaughlin and Williams weren't as high profile. The crowd were calling for Cream songs, obviously we didn't get what was happening. Bruce was first and foremost a jazzer. Hope that clears it up jazzman.

[@gutterdandy9173]

Ginger Baker was also a jazzer who wrote music and has won awards for his recent jazz efforts like Coward of the County. All of these guys were on another realm musically. Ginger had the respect of Elvin Jones and Max Roach, which is good enough for me.

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

Amen!

[@68blues]

Yes it was along time ago but there were some seriously good gigs at the Kinema in those days. Taste, Family, Yes to name a few. The upstairs bar lol, 2/6 for a pint of lager, 8 pints to the £.i could only manage four pints then downstairs to the lavy vomiting. Fucking great days, long gone. 1969, Elgin Street disco, some of the best crumpet in the world. Good times all gone, along with my hair. Ha ha ha

[@seltzerman69]

so sorry to see the days gone where a bonnafide rock star would join, record and tour with a band as experimental and forward thinking as this one was

[@Rich6Brew]

I saw this lineup at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens in November, 1970. Unfortunately, they were unbelievably loud, and John McLaughlin was all but inaudible.

[@jimandlizhudson2501]

I saw them in a small hall in Manchester. I agree....great, but i couldn't hear anything but a high pitched whine for two days after I left the concert. The loudest thing I have ever been subjected to.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Not surprised. Sounds pretty much the same here.

[@wadsmitter511]

The secuence until 1:35 would later become "Meeting of The spirits" by Mahavishnu

[@dix0nc0unty]

could someone please tell me the song name

[@rdisalvo5544]

What are the obvious reasons?