http://jazzbonotes.com/reviews/electric-dreams-john-mclaughlin/ Fri, 18 May 2012 16:13:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://jazzbonotes.com/reviews/electric-dreams-john-mclaughlin/#comment-2508 Hans Henrik Bay Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:20:12 +0000 http://jazzbonotes.com/?p=295#comment-2508 This record has some very nice tunes, great grooves and some very good guitar solos. L. Shankars fantastic violin does'nt always fit in, but the good things are so strong that it doesn't matter. This record has some very nice tunes, great grooves and some very good guitar solos. L. Shankars fantastic violin does’nt always fit in, but the good things are so strong that it doesn’t matter.

]]> http://jazzbonotes.com/reviews/electric-dreams-john-mclaughlin/#comment-2503 vyv hope-scott Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:52:35 +0000 http://jazzbonotes.com/?p=295#comment-2503 I bought this LP when it first came out, played it to death and am listening now after 25 years. As a keyboard player I still think some of it is sublime, mercifully lacking the usual OTT McLaughlin high-speed guitar wankness, apart from - er - Dark Prince (sorry). But it's down to taste and the moment I suppose, and you're right Love and Understanding is truly awful. The title track's 11/8 groove with the bluesy licks on top still does it for me. I bought this LP when it first came out, played it to death and am listening now after 25 years. As a keyboard player I still think some of it is sublime, mercifully lacking the usual OTT McLaughlin high-speed guitar wankness, apart from - er - Dark Prince (sorry). But it’s down to taste and the moment I suppose, and you’re right Love and Understanding is truly awful. The title track’s 11/8 groove with the bluesy licks on top still does it for me.

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