Friday Night in San Francisco
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Enhanced, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho
- Short Tales Of The Black Forest
- Frevo Rasgado
- Fantasia Suite
- Guardian Angel
Free Music Notes for Friday Night in San Francisco
Free Music Review: Over the top but that's the point
Hit: 5 Stars
Those who whine about this being too break-neck obviously can't let their minds (and guts) go to that place. Not everything needs to be perfectly paced and full of musical chiaroscuro. Sometimes you just want to rock!
I have various bootlegs from this tour and they are all incredible for the ferocity and passion the trio brings to this music. This is definitiely the best night that I've heard; we're lucky to have it in such perfect sound quality.
The highlight is definitely Sundance, where Paco's feel and touch makes DiMeloa's oft-emotionless palm-muted runs at 200 miles an hour take on much more heart. Paco keeps up and then some; Al needed a pick to blaze this hard, Paco did not!
McLaughlin is no slouch either, and there's really no dull moment here.
It is indeed a master class for guitarists; I'll never forget hearing it for the first time at age 19 and realizing that acoustic git can wail just as hard as electric. It's also just plain exciting for any pair of ears, musician's or not! Like a strong cup of coffee on a windy mountain side at 5 am, this will get the juices flowing.
These guys know each other's styles so well and mesh so perfectly; for that alone this is five stars. Add the sonic insanity of this many notes played with this much flawless technique and you've got something truly unique and magical. Not a ballad album, nor was it meant to be. The trio has other albums that address that issue; this one is all about amazement and joy.
Still unmatched almost 30 years later.
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This live recording from 1980 matched fusion guitar heavyweights Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin with Spanish guitar whiz Paco DeLucia. The result, a dazzling technical display, also earned jeers as the international summit of world-class finger-wigglers by critics who felt it was long on chops and short on heart. John McLaughlin's importance to the development of the jazz fusion scene can't be overestimated: as the guitarist on Miles Davis's seminal Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson, he was the first significant guitarist of the electric jazz era; on his own, he brought power rock, spiritualism, and lush orchestration to the scene via his Mahavishnu Orchestra. DiMeola, the most commercially successful next-generation fusion guitarist, achieved stardom with Chick Corea's group Return to Forever and on his own records. DeLucia, virtually unknown in the U.S., is a fine flamenco guitarist, and it is that orientation more than anything that colors Friday Night: even when playing straightforward non-flamenco compositions, the phrasing and sensibility lurks behind every note. Still, the passion of the music is frequently marred by the participants' inability to play at anything but the most breakneck pace. --Fred GoodmanInternational Music CDs
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