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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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
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.
My friend worked at Flipside Records and we went to dozens of shows last minute when he could get free tickets. Saw them at the Park West in Chicago and was mind blowing.
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 !!!
I stop my timemachine also there, JOY was my first Vinylalbum and I hear this today yet in special moments. Deep THX for posting eduzappa for this neverseen vid! :-)
10/29/16 L SHANKAR INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT REVIEW "The stage was set with a platform shrouded in rugs, on which the musicians sat. Another massive rug hung like a tapestry on the back wall, delivering a wide spectrum of colors to the otherwise bare wooden Crowell stage. The musicians sat with legs crossed, playing a total of six songs. Every track delivered unique emotional resonance........Skankar, with his five-and-a-half octave vocal range, engrossed audiences with his unparalleled vocal ability over a skillful series of plucks and bends on his 10-string stereophonic double violin....." see complete review below wesleyanargus.com/2016/10/31/world-music-legend-shankar-74-receives-warm-welcome-at-navaratri-festival-performance/
Speaking as an admittedly crappy guitar player, Lenny's playing makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. He's like watching a great painter paint with a guitar. I get lost in his improvisations.
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...
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
Om Shanti! Zakir. 😢 Sunday, Dec 15, 2024. Your music will live on.
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).
ua-cam.com/video/DYEh5uXrL4w/v-deo.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!
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.
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
I saw this concert live, in 1979, goosebumps!
Shakti represents some of the best music ever recorded.
Totally agree
With you too!
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!
Mahavishnu John always barrier shattering...
amazing to see current comments.
loved this music then... tears of joy to hear it again now.
LONG LIVE FUSION JAZZ!
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
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.
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.
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.
I feel so blessed just to see this.
These movements are straight from their feelings. Those are the feelings. So real, so true. Thanks.
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
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 would not be astonished of this will be recognized in near future as a first manifestation of a higher intelligence ;-)
There was only one other HD posting of this video, but it was removed from you tube. Cheers to this one!
My friend worked at Flipside Records and we went to dozens of shows last minute when he could get free tickets. Saw them at the Park West in Chicago and was mind blowing.
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.
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.
simply I love most is the violinist.... Thank you
Good god almighty these people are extraordinary. Like jazz, but so much further.
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.
Is there any more of this concert on UA-cam? Good god, the shivers up and down my spine are continuous.
Never was a title more apt, this is Joy incarnate
John blew them all away when he played at the Jeff Beck Tribute...He played Jeff's "Strata" WOW! John Mc kicks A$$
Classic Lineup.
Nobody can replace them
9:15 crazyyy high notes!!!
Love the nod of approval by Shankar at 4:11
Glad to find this. Has been a long while without Shakti
!!!!!AMAZING!!! Melodic and spiritually uplifting.....
Four maestros, creating own magics, making it divine in unison.
Wow, Amazing! Thanks for uploading this piece of video "eduzappa18" - A big namaskaram ( salute) to you!
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 !!!
Staggering. Never ceases to amaze me.
OMG,I'm having another one of those 'all stages of JML's career' youtube nights.
Saw them perform at Calcutta. Awesome experience.
I stop my timemachine also there, JOY was my first Vinylalbum and I hear this today yet in special moments. Deep THX for posting eduzappa for this neverseen vid! :-)
O’ Time, take me to this live concert, in person.
Thank you! not just music...a spiritual revelation.
Superb quality. Nice to see the full cut also. Thanks.
Ronnie Milsap and Stevie Wonder directed this video. Jose Feliciano's fav clip on youtube
Explosion of Joy. That's what this is.
Astounding. Mesmerizing. Beautiful. Magical. Breathless.
thanks for uploading, were looking for an HD version. one love, shakti!
Thanks Our Stupid Reactions for giving me this piece of Gold...❤️
Holy cripes. Shankar is a beast.
wonderfull, titanic the best music of the world thanks Shakti
Bravo John!
L. Shankar is King!😊
Une sage folie de jouer cette musique
avec une osmose parfaite pour tout les musiciens
et John imprégné joue comme il se doit
comme un fou mais sage
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 :-)
So many great times enjoying this great song....
This is beautiful. Thank you, eduzappa18.
stunning!
Master of the sonic universe. Zen
Unbelievably well played.
Just amazing!
+Doug Shaggy Smith Yes...and never matched by anyone.
Fantastic composition and control ...
😵 que onda con L. Shankar que no se cansa?
An apt song title. Great Music!
Unreal!
hell yeah .. that's music
Hypnotique! 👍
L.shankar sir, you look better without lengthy hair
so great, i love this "masterpiece"!!!
10/29/16
L SHANKAR
INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT REVIEW
"The stage was set with a platform shrouded in rugs, on which the musicians sat. Another massive rug hung like a tapestry on the back wall, delivering a wide spectrum of colors to the otherwise bare wooden Crowell stage. The musicians sat with legs crossed, playing a total of six songs. Every track delivered unique emotional resonance........Skankar, with his five-and-a-half octave vocal range, engrossed audiences with his unparalleled vocal ability over a skillful series of plucks and bends on his 10-string stereophonic double violin....."
see complete review below
wesleyanargus.com/2016/10/31/world-music-legend-shankar-74-receives-warm-welcome-at-navaratri-festival-performance/
music at its best!!!
7:46 tf is that !? 🤯
This is magical!! So damn amazing!!
THANKS A LOT! Shakti unique!
don´t you have more vids of Shakti'
Shakti forever❣
Genial música y al mismo tiempo simple !
Simple?!?!😂 haha
Jam session of the gods.
Speaking as an admittedly crappy guitar player, Lenny's playing makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. He's like watching a great painter paint with a guitar. I get lost in his improvisations.
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...
Insane. Where is the complete Montreaux show?
Love this!
Indebted to whoever shared this video
fantastic
great post friend !
simply amazing...
Ahh!Only 14 minutes 24 seconds :(
This is a testament of a master, seeing Zakir play so well on such crappy beat up tabla.
Danté André-Kahan Did i not just say that?
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
Sheer Bliss !
2019
I play this when I bathe. Damn energy!
Amazing
Holy %&#@... unbelievable. Great!
waah ,so nice, great
Cool !!!!!!
Unbelievable.
Life changing