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Author Message terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1955 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 1:34 pm:    I have re kindled my interest in the above particulary Shakti, I remember the first time I heard the debut album in 1977 and it absolutley blew me away, so much so I became engrossed in the rhythms and the ragas. John McL is indeed a master of this fusion. I had a indian friend who played tabla when I was a teenager and tried to play this stuff - it was very bad but over the past year I have been practicing with my acoustic guitar strung with light gauge strings and with my better understanding of musical theory I am attempting to get a band together but I will never ever be as good as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEExYSRqR4o&feature=relmfu davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10871 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 6:57 pm:    I've watched a lot of the Shakti videos, but I don't think I've seen that one. Such joy in playing! Thanks for posting. darkstar01 Senior Member Username: darkstar01 Post Number: 443 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 7:11 pm:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-IJA9qQao davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10873 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 7:30 pm:    That was nice Austin; thanks! darkstar01 Senior Member Username: darkstar01 Post Number: 444 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 12:59 am:    That band is really great. Zakir Hussain is unbelievable. I've had the pleasure of playing with Eric Harland (who is also amazing) a bit recently, and he just raves about zakir. terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1956 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 10:02 am:    I noticed that intro chords are the same as 'Lila's Dance' from Mahavishnu's 'Visiond of the Emerald Beyond' Nice use of old stuff! edwin Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1255 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 10:40 pm:    Lucky you, Austin! I know I've seen Eric before, but I just can't remember when. Zakir is always amazing. I've seen him numerous times. My favorites were at a small theater at Harvard where the local Indian community held concerts. The crowd was always 99% Indian all dressed up in their best with a smattering of hippies grooving on the music. I did see a couple with Zakir and his dad (Alla Rakha, who played with Ravi Shankar. Dawn and I got to hang with him while he smoked cigarettes between sets a couple of times. Very wonderful man.) playing together at that series, along with an uncle or two. The tamboura player was usually a teenage girl who looked as if she had been pressed into service by her parents against her will. I wonder if they still do that series? My friend, Ty Burhoe, is a student of Zakir and has brought him to Boulder a number of times for concerts. Ty is pretty amazing in his own right and well worth seeing if you live in the Bay Area or here in Colorado. He does a lot of collaborations with interesting instrumental combinations. His recording with flamenco guitars Miguel Espinoza and bassist extraordinaire Kirwan Brown, Curandero, is well worth seeking out. And then there is Indian food.... The thing I miss most about leaving Boston is India Quality Restaurant. Simply stunning food. Their lamb saag with mushrooms would be my last meal if it came to that. terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1957 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2012 - 7:47 am:    Edwin..come to the UK, we have some of the best indian cuisine outside of the country itself! edwin Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1256 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2012 - 12:16 pm:    Yeah, I've been to a few good ones in London. I think a trip over there is getting long overdue! peoplechipper Advanced Member Username: peoplechipper Post Number: 300 Registered: 2-2009 Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2012 - 9:25 pm:    My brother lives there...if anyone's going I'll ask for tips...Tony lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5211 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2012 - 12:21 pm:    One of my favorite Indian tunes: Protective Cover. Enjoy, Bill, tgo peoplechipper Advanced Member Username: peoplechipper Post Number: 302 Registered: 2-2009 Posted on Monday, August 27, 2012 - 12:18 am:    Bill, that was awesome...someone should cover that song!...reminds me of how happy I am to be fixed, that I can ditch the condoms once the partner's health is determined...Tony cozmik_cowboy Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1275 Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Monday, August 27, 2012 - 7:37 pm:    I will be ever thankful that I came up in the Golden Age of Sexuality - after the Pill & before AIDS! Peter richbass939 Senior Member Username: richbass939 Post Number: 1177 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2012 - 9:49 am:    I love the Indian music I've heard and I love Indian food (can't get it where I live, though). The best Indian food I have had was at the Hare Krishna temple in Denver. They seemed to really try to get it exactly right. It was an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for a $5 "suggested donation". Rich sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2622 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2012 - 10:30 am:    Real Indian Classical Music ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArUiFv2FaY slawie Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 436 Registered: 8-2002 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2012 - 3:16 pm:    Wow Rich! The memories came flooding back for me. We would frequent the Hare Krishna temple in Adelaide South Australia in the mid 1970's for the great food in the mornings post gigging. Does anyone know whether the Indian musical scales are the same as western music? slawie sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2624 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2012 - 4:07 pm:    Indian scales can have 22 intervals versus the 12 intervals in western music. I have heard quarter tone composition in western music that would be the exception. Variations could be multiple! http://www.indianmelody.com/musicintro1.htm slawie Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 437 Registered: 8-2002 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2012 - 6:08 pm:    Thanks Wolf. Man I have got to get me some more fingers! slawie sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2625 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2012 - 7:08 pm:    More fingers then that ? LOL , great pic ! Photo shop or biological anomaly ? terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1979 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Monday, September 10, 2012 - 3:38 am:    polydactylia I think it is called mario_farufyno Senior Member Username: mario_farufyno Post Number: 827 Registered: 9-2008 Posted on Monday, September 10, 2012 - 6:40 pm:    Do you know Mynta? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qRyuGeQFng&feature=related davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10885 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Monday, September 10, 2012 - 7:09 pm:    Very nice; thanks Mario.