John McLaughlin & the One Truth Band
Alexander's Sunset Inn
Browns Mills, New Jersey
April 12 1979

John McLaughlin: guitars & banjo
L. Shankar: Acoustic and Electric Violin
Stu Goldberg: keys
Fernando Saunders: bass
Tony Smith: drums
Alyrio Lima: Percussion

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Disc 1

01 Intro>Tuning>Desire and the Comforter
02 Drum solo Desire Finale
03 Miles Davis
04 Band Intros>Rap about Miles
05 Rowdy Jersey Crowd
06 Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs

Disc 2

01 Love & Understanding
02 crowd noise
03 Two Sisters
04 The Dark Prince
05 Crowd
06 What It Is (from Jan Hammer's Melodies album)
07 Crowd
08 short late 1980's McLaughlin Interview

Really decent recording from this time and place (33 years ago in a rowdy club with exuberant fusion fans talking and screaming "JOHN McLAUGHLIN!!!!!!")). Here they're touring the Electric Dreams album, which in my opinion is a great album with inspired compositions and one of McLaughlin's under-rated gems. I saw this band near this time at Hofstra University on Long Island.
This is in the format that I received it in trade. You can certainly join tracks to link crowd noise to a song, but I kept it this way because you can easily skip the crowd track if you're listening to a cd of the show. For some reason, my copy of this show contains an interview with McLaughlin from Detroit about 10 years later than the date of this show. I kept it as part of the torrent in case anyone might find the interview interesting.
I always found the material and rhythm section with Fernando Saunders and Tony Smith (from the Jan Hammer Group) was far superior to the first incarnation of this band with TM Stevens and Sonship. That band is more widely heard in live One Truth Band recordings , but they were touring the stylistically scattered Johnny McLauglin Electic Guitarist, and didn't seem to have as much direction.
Of course, the Euro tour of this Electric Dreams material involved Jack Bruce and Billy Cobham. McLaughlin soon went acoustic again and relocated to Europe from NY. The Electric Dreams album and this first electric post-Mahavishnu post-Shakti material didn't often get revisited, although he did Electic Guitarist's Unknown Dissident on the 2010 4th Dimension tour.
If you're familiar with the Electic Dreams album, you should really enjoy this show. If there are any other recordings of this material done live, I encourage those of you who have those shows to share more from this overlooked period in McLaughlin's history.
Of course, please continue to support this great musician now by purchasing Now Here This, his terrific new 4th Dimension release. Thanks to all who are sharing the shows from their current European tour.