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Wong Notes

John McLaughlin Is Full of Wonder

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The guitar legend reminisces about his time as a session player, playing with Miles Davis and Jaco, leading Shakti, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the 4th Dimension, and shares how he stays creatively charged.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. Today on the show, we have a

0:08.3

insane guest. Why? Because he's one of my favorite guitar players for years. When I was a kid,

0:15.1

I grew up listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra in the car because my dad had that stuff blaring all the time.

0:21.6

My dad was a huge fusion nut and whatnot and rock and all that other stuff.

0:26.2

But he made sure that when I started playing guitar, I got hip cats like John McLaughlin.

0:33.2

He is my guest today.

0:35.2

Super stoked about that.

0:37.4

Incredible player.

0:38.4

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shaqti, his own music, played with Miles Davis.

0:44.4

Again, I keep saying this.

0:45.4

I always bring up when anybody who I interview has played with Miles because it carries so much weight.

0:53.0

Seriously, John McLaughlin is an incredible guitar player, incredible artist, musician, thinker,

1:00.4

and I am so stoked to have him on my podcast today.

1:03.2

So you know what?

1:04.1

You probably already know who John McLaughlin is.

1:06.3

You clicked on this podcast.

1:08.3

So you know that he's here.

1:09.7

I'm not going to talk anymore. Let's hit it.

1:16.2

This season of Wongnodes podcast is brought to you by Distro Kid. If you're not familiar with

1:22.1

Distro Kid, it's who I use to upload my music and whatnot to the internet. So I put out an album, Distro Kid will

1:30.6

send it to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon. With other services, sometimes they charge you

1:35.7

buy the album per year. So like you have five albums out, they'll charge you for each album

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