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Not quite the same, but my band the Madeira covers Paco De
Lucia's "Almoraima". He's still one of my favorite guitarists. I
used to like Al DiMeola, but haven't listened to him in many years
now. John McLaughlin always played way too many notes and not enough
melodies...
Incidentally, here's a bit of trivia: in 1961 the Shadows original
drummer Tony Meehan left the band, to be followed next year by the
original bass player Jet Harris. Jet released a couple of singles on
his own, and then hooked up with Tony for a couple of singles
together, Diamonds and Scarlett O'Hara being the notable ones. The
songs were big hits, and the two of them started touring, backed by a
band of mostly young jazz-influenced players, including John Paul
Jones on bass (later from Led Zeppelin) and, yes, John McLaughlin on
guitar! In fact, there's a funny story by another guitarist in the
band who saw McLaughlin crying his eyes out one day while on tour
with either Jet and Tony or just Tony. He asked him what was the
matter, and McLaughlin told him that he's terribly depressed playing
this insipid music (Shadows-style instros), and that he feels like
he's getting nowhere in his career! Ain't that funny??
Ivan
--- In , "red_thundr" <red_thundr@y...>
wrote:
>
> Heck, I'd love to hear 'Fantasia Suite' from "Friday Night in San
> Francisco" (Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia, and John McLaughlin) done up
> surf style. Just the 2nd half from about 3:40 on, LOL. Get an
> intense 3 way sparring contest going.
>
>
> --- In , pwrose@j... wrote:
> > In the spirit of seeking new and unusual
> > strains of music, I was wondering if any
> > of our intrepid musicians might consider
> > putting the surf twang onto a challenging
> > little number that was put out by Al DiMeola
> > on the Elegant Gypsy album....
> > "Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway".
> >
> > Has anybody already done this?
> > Any takers?
> > Les, are you listening? :>)
> >
> > Oh, I just listened to it again. Maybe it's
> > too many notes to be "Surfed". ;^P
> >
> > He He
> >
> > Bill
> > The indentured Surf
