Jon McLaughlin - The Truth Lyrics

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JEEZ.....You people!!!!!!
Photographs that DO NOT coincide with the actual recording are posted ALL THE TIME!!!!!
Get over it

I saw this tour @ The Pasadena Civic Auditorium CA. in '78. It's DEFINITELY Sonship on drums, NOT Tony Smith.
Although.......I saw the Jan Hammer Group 3 x's in the late 70's, and T. Smith was a frickin' monster on the traps!!!!!!!

Gran recuerdo me trae escuchar esto. En el año 1979 vinieron al Luna Pack .el primer musico internacional que veia .para escucharlo tranquilo como en otras epocas

The late Mr. Woodrow "Sonship" Theus has been one of the most greatest drummers.

absolutely! Saw him with the One Truth Band in Central park in 78, and I'm still blown away.

Another too-reserved Montreux crowd - unless they're blown to inner worlds, and I was, by this band. But I also knew that I observed the height of psychedelia & of world music all at once
Yes the fusion is technically with jazz and rock but with raga , karnakal, funk, to hardbop - really everything Coltrane or Hendrix could, would, or might have done, had we not lost one in 67 and the other incredibly just 3 years later. PS I heard nothing in MSM about 50th anniversary of Coltrane death - nor any now on 50th anniversary of death of Jack Kerouac. He's the pivot. A major reason we got hippie cultrue & bands like Mahavishnu or One Truth or a Woodtsock

I was at his concert and one of the best in my life. Right on the stage. And the best part was when the guy besides me (who happens to be a member of Irakere acuban band whomplayed the night after) decided to jump on the stage to jam with McLaughlin and Shankar) And then Rick Wickman joined and play keyboard and then Billy Cobham and his band came on with Claude Nobbs who played harmonica. Amd the played late into the night.

Das ultimative Mega-Konzert.

Saw these guys in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1979...absolutely brilliant...life changing

I love Jerry Goodman work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, but listening to Shankar playing these songs is truly a different experience!

when Stu brings the Hammond sound it recalls Lifetime so really we need to ignore this cat's band names from Spaces/Devotion on forward - unless its acoustic or all-star

What, exactly is your point!!??

JM in the building so, bet the house - go for broke.
Very much like a Mahavishnu IV programme might have been, given the funkiness and that Stu Goldberg is back in there - anyway can't believe I saw this group - who would care today, or mind, if the ticket stub did say, Mahavishnu Orchestra

What a nice quality recording.

of course it's official rease part of mc laughling boxset in montreux release in the 90 s

One of the best bands from John, for me together with Shakti the best indian/west fusion!

Saw this band October 28 1978 in London the famous Rainbow Theatre I recall. I had never seen playing like this before or since. Seen John's bands many times since. Never ceased to amaze with the beatiful music. Astonishing changes of rhythm the tunes were hard to start with.

John had nowhere else to go but India, where John is just a player not a superstar in the midst of equals.. Trilok, Shakti ..musicans who can lift John beyond. In doing so, you also gain a new audience, those who can keep up with the music .As a musician myself https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClODf7yR41gkAMO1dUD_98w you really can't worry about who can follow you or not. You just play what you feel like playing, and as George Clinton says, " their a$$ will follow" . And what if some of your audience can't ..follow your music anymore???, well, let them wait 50 years and their @$$ will catch up . Peace !

We are not flying through a vacuum on a spinning ball, sorry.

OMG this is mad - JM you are the UK master of African American musical expresssion, and IMO became a builder of it, an added to it, far beyond any question of appropriation
Beauty is African-American and -Canadian players I have had the pleasure to meet and work for do not regard this anything but welcome
Choice microsecond here is the final drum fill under Shankar's karnakal start - unreal

Fantastic! Thanks for uploading this. I'll get the audio and see what I can do with modern mastering at my studio. Woo!

NO way getting audio and remastering it's official relase part of the mc laughlin box set at montreux released inthe 90 s

The ending is so sublime!

So this is the band with Sunship and TM?

@Oneness100 : hence my question.

@Nick Costa The photo in the video is definitely Tony Smith. That's what's kind of misleading. I think the band, after another listen to it, sounds like TM Stevens and Sonship.

Oneness100 : Tony Smith is in the photo, but Sunship and TM are on this recording. If you look at the credits on JM’s Montreux CD series, you will see that Sunship and TM played this date. Tony Smith and Fernando were in Brazil in September 1978.

@Nick Costa Except they were in place and fully rehearsed (I think) by October in Paris & London when I saw them - is that quick a changeover possible - and why would TM and Sonship start the tour at all? Seems almost they were sent home.
Anyway IMO this sounds exactly they way Smith plays Meeting on the other bootlegs; bass could be Fender and as I recall TM did not play one - Fernando killed with his.
Saunders & Smith wound up with Lou Reed within about 2 years. And if m Shrieve did not play every track on Welcome, as involved as he was in the jazz content, it would be news to me

andrew gillis : Take a look at this. https://youtu.be/fsLkmrgQkgE. That is Sunship on Drums, not Tony Smith.

HOLY FUCK

this why we got in, 45 years ago - this is why we stayed - here as he did in '75 JM applied funkiest backbeat ever to a world or fusion music show - at the end of this tour Tony Smith kicked his drums over and off the riser like Keiith Moon - definitely was Fernando on bass not TM

T. M. Stevens actually :-)

Are you sure Walter? The photo looks like Tony Smith and I know Tony and Fernando played on the album and live. Didn't Sunship and TM Stevens come after Smith and Saunders?

I know what the credits say, but the photo is of Tony Smith..

@Oneness100 : There is a video elsewhere on YT of this tune, and it's clearly TM and Sonship. Here is a clip of Friendship: https://youtu.be/WdNV9jBWVGg. IT's quite clearly TM and Sonship, with several Paiste China type cymbals.

@Nick Costa The video you posted says CLEARLY Tony Smith and Fernando Saunders.
The photo in this video that we are commenting on, the drummer is DEFINITELY Tony Smith.

Tony plays Paiste, and has several China type cymbals. Back when Tony played with One Truth, he plays a Black Ludwig kit with single headed drums, like the photo in this video.

The other video you posted the link to is DEFINITELY Tony and Fernando. Fernando always wore that colorful scarf around his head like that. TM Stevens had long dreads (still does) and is much, much taller than Fernando.

I was only referring to the credit. And of course T.M. Stevens is a bassist. :-) @Oneness100

@Oneness100 wrong!! I saw this tour in '78. Sonship is on drums. Screw the photograph. Mclaughlin announced the band membets 1 by 1. AND HE SAID
" SONSHIP"

McLaughlin's first band was "The Mahavishnu orchestra", and the second was the Shakti, and after he had a lot of formation.
I think he was the MOST INCREDIBLE/IMPORTANT MUSICAN for the european music. And it's really funny beacause I think, that in India he just a good musician, but not more. After when I heard his albums I was faced with my old favourites... and them seems too easy. (Thanks for uploading! I don't know that before!)

Listening to him here, I cant help but wonder if the master is hitting the very pinnacle of his youthful Mahavishnu era mastery right here. The 335 doesn’t hurt. I saw them in Santa Barbara, I was disappointed...because I said that he didn’t play enough lol! but I have to admit, It was because I wanted HIM to take ALL of the solos! Lol!!! But none of that mattered after Ray Gomez ‘ripped my head off’

: D Mastery, and Mystery.

Mind-blowing musicianship!

outstanding show love too much !!