One of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time

[lurch]

Fascinating thread,,and finally John McLaughlin,,,well okay..howabout,,Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin together doing KING KONG...? Rock and Roll?, Jazz Fusion?..who cares,,If ya haven't heard it..get it and turn up the volume.

[dANdeLION]

Nice video. That's really the best sounding live Cream I've ever heard, too. But, Chris Squire is a totally different player; his use of space and dynamics are second to none, and all his bass lines are carefully crafted, while all Jack's really doing here is flailing away on a short scale bass. I really think a better comparison would be to John Entwhistle, but honestly, John's compositions are also better than Jacks.

If you can expand your musical horizons a bit, try Stanley Clarke.

For the record, I know all about Mr. Clarke and Return To Forever. I'm a bass player, dammit! If you didn't spend all your time in the Tank, you'd probably know that!

[Zarathustra]

I love Mahavishnu Orchestra.

[Menolly]

...ditto...

[Worm of Despite]

Upon looking at this thread, I retract my agreement with Cail that I thought Fripp wasn't expressive as Walsh. Fripp is very expressive, simply moves me more, and he's expressing things in a different way. If he's utterly disciplined and calculated then that's his advantage; he can still play live and be entirely in the "zone" and wowing the audience, and I've seen him play stunning improvisations (it's King Crimson for frick's sake)...

There’s no comparing, really, the two people. They're both going for different pastiches and philosophies (or lack thereof, in Walsh's case), but guitar heroes is such a contentious debate you could make a fighting game out of it...

And yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra: a pleasant surprise. Take King Crimson, remove the power chords and more jazzy.