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Friday Night in San Francisco | 
| Artist: John Mclaughlin, And Paco De Lucia Al Di Meola
Label: Sony Jazz
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 4179
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099748900722
ASIN: B000024VCK
Release Date: October 20, 1997
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From Amazon.com
This live recording from 1980 matched U.S. 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 Goodman
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh aaaaahhh ha aaaaaaaaaaahhh aaaaaaaahhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
My head!!!! Its going to friggin explode!!!!
Haven't felt goospimples like this after listening to an album for years!
Wooooaaaah!
Intense!!
This is the sh@t!! Dont miss out on this one! Buy it now!!
If you want artistic breakdown - look at the other reviews! - mine's pure emotional reflex to listening to it.
Genius!
Tis v. good June 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's not much i can say that hasn't already been said by my fellow reviewers.
To put it simply, if you like guitar, you will like this. Whether you be a fan of Eric Clapton or Wes Montgomery, Eddie Van Halen or Slash, Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix, the music produced by these three players with BLOW YOUR MIND.
The music is a jazz-flamenco fusion, all acoustic.
The first 4 tracks are live (with great atmosphere). The last track is a studio recording, but it's still damn entertaining.
You don't have to be a jazz fan to like it!
There is one draw back however, if you are a guitar player, this will not boost your confidence. No matter how good you are this recording will stun you.
Your acoustic-guitar-collection could start here! June 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As time goes by this may be a milestone for the acoustic jazz-guitar. Starting with the weak point; it's not that musical; three guitarists at the peak of their powers at boiling points bring millions of notes in just a few tracks.
On the other hand this is one the most sensational live-recordings ever! DiMeola is flashing and elegant in his rapid-firing playing of scals, McLaughlin is passionate, loud and angry, DeLucia is fiery and emotional in his playing.
Sound-wise (there's a Polygram-cd-version around too) this is the best one; it's remastered and has good liner-notes. Like my fellow-reviewer remarked before; this is not the complete story of that night; it's time the other solo-, duo- and trio-recordings were released too! Especially the solo-spot of DeLucia that evening was hair-raising!
Oh my.... April 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the kind of recording that guitar players fear and love in equal amounts. In one moment you want to hang up your guitar for good, in the next you practice until your fingers bleed to be able to quote one or two phrases from it. "Friday Night in San Francisco" is quite simply an astonishing testament to three individuals absolute mastery of instrumental guitar. There is a finesse, passion, grace and humour in these 5 pieces that you'll be hard pressed to locate elsewhere. As a musician and avid collector of guitar music, I have to say that this is, in my humblest of opinions, one of the finest guitar recordings ever made. My only question is "Where is the rest of the concert?" If ever there was an album in need of an expanded re-issue its this one.
PS
There are no explicit lyrics to be found on this album as mentioned in some of the Amazon captions, but when you play it there'll be a few tripping off your tongue!
dont be put off May 3, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dont be put off by words like virtuoso, technical prowess or even jazz.
If you have even the most remotely open mind when it comes to music you will find the playing and the pieces on this CD breathtaking in their accessibility, humour, warmth, virtuosity (yes), beauty and musicality.
Lots of it has a flamenco feel and its the often hypnotic rythmn of that genre that ensured this would never have become (as far as non jazz fans are concerned) a bit of a jazz-geek love-in.
Its one of THOSE albums, where you put it on the best stereo, crank up the speakers, turn off the lights, close your eyes and lose yourself, over and over again, hearing new things every time.
The audience appreciation adds to the pleasure of listening to what was obviously an incredible night, listen to this and you will, like me, wish you'd been there.
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