Al Di Meola presents sequel to Friday Night in San Fransisco

 

Via Al Di Meola's Facebook we learn that there was a “Saturday Night in San Francisco" the night after “Friday Night In San Francisco” at the same Warfield theater from December 1980 with the trio Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco De Lucia.

The Friday's show was released on the famous album pictured above.

"The tapes had been stored at Al’s studio vault room for 40 years. Now finally after restoring the tapes they will be brought out for release in June or Sept 2021 in the states on the IMPEX - SONY label  and in Europe on EAR MUSIC label . The live recording will feature compositions of John’s “Meeting of the Spirits”, Paco’s “El Panuelo” , Al’s “Splendido Sundance”, Luis Bonfa’s “Black Orpheus”, and each player’s unaccompanied individual solo spot."

John McLaughlin - a funny guy too

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter runs an interesting interview with the equilibristic British guitar player John McLaughlin where he shows that he also has a lot of humour.
McLaughlin plays a gig in Uppsala, Sweden tonight (May 8) and the newspaper has called him up for an interview. He talks about humour in music and mentions the special features section on a dvd box released five or six years ago, featuring bloopers from the shootings: "At the same time as I'm a teacher in master class I'm also a silly, incomplete person. Me and my wife watched all those bloopers and we doubled up with laughter."
He also talks about the 70's when a band like Mahavishnu Orchestra could be on the bill with anything from heavy metal bands like Aerosmith to comedy acts: "Ever heard of Cheech & Chong? Totally dope humour, but since I'm an old hippie I found them very funny."

Practise your Swedish: http://www.pastan.nu/konsert/stjarnan-som-garna-bjuder-pa-sina-misstag-1.1089706