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Carl's Collection

Shakti   04/??/1977

Bussoladomani Theatre, Viareggio, Italy
Source see notes
Media DVD+R   1 disc
Notes chapters 1 > 4

Shakti in Viareggio Italy late April 1977 B&W video 28 mins is a mix of
A quality and B quality VHS tapes, the better quality video from a later
broadcast during the songs (India & Get Down and Sruti) was overlaid over
the B quality.
The first chapter is the band tuning up with an italian commentator talking so
I made it a seperate chapter the B quality video is last third of "India" all
of "Peace of Mind" and a very short middle section of "Get Down and Sruti"

chapter 5
John McLaughlin & L Shankar filmed in John's New York apartment in 1977
for a UK TV program the song is "Two Sisters" and John is also interviewed

chapter 6
John McLaughlin & Larry Coryell play the Shakti song "Lotus Feet" in
Martinique, Fort-de-France in the Caribbean in December 1980

chapter 7
John McLaughlin on the Paris TV show 'Le Grand Echiquier'
Sept 19, 1984 with Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussein and Katia & Marielle
Labeque perform "When Blue Turns Gold" (Zakir has said this is the only time
they ever played the song live)

chapter 8 -- Music Without Boundries --
in 1997 as part of India's 50th anniversary of independence of British rule
John was asked to reform Shakti but both Shakti guitars had damaged necks
and L Shankar was not available, John on electric guitar played 4 concerts
in England (and possibly also a couple in europe) with Hariprasad Chaurasia and
Zakir Hussein and Vikku Vinayakram I think the group was billed as John McLaughlin
with special guests.
Later they were also asked to play in India and they added Benedik Hofseth
they played a concert in Oslo Norway some of it was a FM broadcast and the
working title of the group was 'Music Without Boundries' in Bombay india
December 1997 they handed out some xassette tapes at the concert of a rehearsal.

in the video you can see on the wall a banner with their 'Music Without Boundries'
title on it the video only has snippets of the concert and short interviews and a
longer interview by TV sjow host Sanjna Kapoor with John McLaughlin,
it's not known if this line up played any more concerts

chapter 9 -- Peshkar --
Larry Coryell with 3 original Shakti members formed Peshkar in 1987 but it only
lasted for a short time they play the song "Sally" on unknown UK TV show while
on tour in England in December 1987 Anthony Hindson sat in with the group
Trades Allowed Yes
Owned by Carl · Last Updated May 23, 2023