John McLaughlin / The Mahavishnu Orchestra

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN (born January 4, 1942, in Yorkshire, England) is a truly amazing guitarist on his own, but his band, THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, in my opinion (along with Chick Corea's RETURN TO FOREVER) defines "fusion."

"I love the sound of acoustic guitar. It's something I can't be without for too long. I don't know what it is, it's just so...evocative. It's an antique sound. And it makes some very different resonances inside of you...your heart or your soul, your subconscious or whatever you want to call it. But it touches another part of you. And it has this kind of pathos built into it that electric guitar doesn't have. It's got its own thing."

THE INCREDIBLY RIDICULOUS MTV-ROLLING STONE'S 100 TOP SONGS (1963-2000): 19. VOGUE, MADONNA (1990) (Some people have no musical taste whatsoever.) 83. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, FOREIGNER (1984) (It's not even their best song, but none of them belong on the list.) MY TOP 100 SONGS: BIRDS OF FIRE, THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA

POSTSCRIPT "The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice." ANDRES SEGOVIA

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