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Shakti 03/09/1976

SHOWID 463473

Set I

La Danse Du Bonheur (The Dance Of Happiness)
Talk And Band Introductions
Lady L (raga)
What Need Have I For This, What Need Have I For That, I Am Sitting At The Feet Of My Lord, All Is Bliss, All Is Bliss (also a raga)

Set II

 

Set III

 

Comment

John McLaughlin- acoustic guitar
Lakshminarayanan (L) Shankar - Violin
Zakir Hussain- tabla
Thetakudi Harihara (T.H.) "Vikku" Vinayakaram - Ghatam
Cheryl and Lynette- sruti boxes

Collectors With This Show

User (active/rating) Media / # Show Sound Details DB Source User Source
Joe (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   audience tape of unknown lineage
Jack Warner (5/5) FLAC / 1 View   MAT>?>CD
Carlos (5/5) cdr / 1 A+ B+ View  
Notes: ?
john s (2/5) cd / 1 View  
Aaron Montalvo (2/2) CD / 1 A+ A View   Unknown Audience
Notes: The exact date for this show is unknown. It doesn't really matter it's an amazing show. Mclaughlin and Hussein never fail to impress. Here's the argument as to what the actual date is I am somewhat in doubt of the date of this recording, because there is nothing here heard on the current at this time Shakti album Natural Elements,their 3rd and last with the 70's group. there is heard here, the far too rarely heard Lady L, (released in studio form on A Handful of Beauty.) which I think ends just as the recording of it does, probably for a tape flip. The final track easily grabs honors (?) for having the longest title in a glasnostrd19 upload. It's a long song too, so long that the recording runs out just as it goes into the T.H. and Zakir percussion duet. So it's quite incomplete account of the show but the recording sounds pretty nice and the music is that of the greatest acoustic music band I've ever heard. It sounds like earlier than 77 to me but I know it's not the live released show from N.Y. because that's Shakti's 1st album, recorded July 5, 1975 at Southampton College, on Long Island, N.Y. and John introduces T4 here as being on their 1st smash album (Shakti live- now that takes guts, a debut album from a band recorded in concert! It's very nice. All 3 officially released Shakti albums are excellent). This is just before the second one came out (A Handful of Beauty, 1st studio Shakti album), but there is no mention of the 3rd one that I noticed. It does sound like a nice performance, and any Shakti recording is worth hearing if not crummy sound. I don't know the lineage of this or who recorded it (tape trade) but is sounds quite enjoyable to my ears. This was introduced by John as Zakir Hussain's birthday, and Zakir was born on March 9th (according to wikipedia). The recording I got of this said it was from N.Y.C. Nov. 7, 77. That is obviously wrong. Nov. 7th was Shakti's final show of the 70's era and it was in Pennsylvania. by then handful of beauty was over a year old. Here AHOB is mentioned as an album coming out soon. It sounds like the band introductions are complete so I listed everyone who was introduced. I did not see Shakti in 1977 (got sold out in Nov, and cancelled out in March) so I don't know what the lineup was then, I think they added another player in 77 at some time, and the sruti box players were different. This sounds like the lineup I saw in April 76 in Boston opening for Weather Report.