Latest about John McLaughlin
“John McLaughlin scared the hell out of me.” Narada Michael Walden on his 1970s adventures with Mahavishnu, Robert Fripp and Carlos Santana
The drummer and producer for Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin recalls the intimidating moment he first jammed with the Mahavishnu Orchestra leader
Miles Davis gave him a cryptic instruction. The result was jazz-fusion’s foundational album
John McLaughlin was shaking when the recording began. By the time it finished, he had made history
The night John McLaughlin broke his guitar — and changed Jeff Beck forever
When his double-neck was destroyed on tour, McLaughlin turned to Beck for help — and repaid him with a white Stratocaster that reshaped Beck’s sound.
“Come on, get a move on!” John McLaughlin recalls the night Ginger Baker started throwing drumsticks at Jack Bruce
Before forming Cream with Eric Clapton, the volatile duo were already clashing nightly onstage.
John McLaughlin on his “disaster” jam session with Jimi Hendrix
The pair jammed into the small hours, with McLaughlin playing a less-than-ideal guitar for the spot
The short and tumultuous reign of the Trio of Doom, as told by John McLaughlin
They could have been the world’s greatest jazz-fusion trio, but Jaco's undiagnosed bipolar disorder brought things to an end almost as soon as they started
"He brought the elements of expression that a voice has: sliding, bending and the best vibrato anyone had heard in 1966. Guitar was NOT built to do that!" What Jimi Hendrix means to me – by some of the world's greatest guitar players
Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942. Here, Eric Gales, Paul Gilbert, Jennifer Batten, Joe Bonamassa, Kirk Fletcher, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani and more talk about his enduring legacy
“Paul Reed Smith chooses wood like Stradivari, who used to walk around the Dolomites in Italy tapping on trees, saying, ‘I’ll take that one, not that one.’ He’s a maniac”: John McLaughlin on reuniting with Shakti, his bad year, and his signature PRS
As he reunites his Indo-jazz supergroup Shakti, John McLaughlin talks harmony, rhythm and good wood
