#chris mclaughlin

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Slow sun stops · Mason Lindahl · Angel Deradoorian · Chris McLaughlin

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u ever see a man so hot & so fine that ur just left speechless, u stutter over ur words, u can’t even finish ur sentences

[in-love-with-movies]

The Nanny Diaries (2007)

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I Will Follow - Chris Tomlin

Wonderhole Edition

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Merry Little Batman - Official Trailer

Poster

Synopsis

This Christmas, Damian Wayne wants to be a Super Hero like his dad—the one and only Batman. When Damian is left home alone while Batman takes on Gotham's worst Super-Villains on Christmas Eve, he stumbles upon a villainous plot to steal Christmas and leaps at the chance to save the day.

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scott mclaughlin | indy 500 practice 2023

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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i watched the friday video late bc i was busy all weekend but i just need to get something off my chest

somebody get the triplets on gmm RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD

[dustedmagazine]

Chris Forsyth — Plays Love Devotion Surrender (Bandcamp, 2024)

The golden anniversary of John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana’s 1973 record Love Surrender Devotion passed last year without much fanfare: no deluxe reissue or archival release from a short-lived supergroup of sorts. It instead remains one of the lesser explored chapters of McLaughlin’s long career.

Which isn’t to say it’s overlooked or under appreciated. The jam-heavy album of hard driving fusion has found fans over the decades, most notably guitar hero Chris Forsyth. At last fall’s Philly Music Fest, Forsyth headed a band that replayed the album in full for a packed crowd at Solar Myth. He was joined by guitarist Nick Millevoi, a rhythm section of Douglas McCombs, Mikel Patrick Avery and Ryan Jewell, plus Brent Cordero on electric organ. And not too long ago he made this set available for purchase on his Bandcamp.

Throughout Love Devotion Surrender, Forsyth and company don’t stray too far from the original. It’s the same material, roughly in the same order: the last two tracks are flipped, but it works to give this record a bombastic finale instead of the muted coda on the original.

It opens with John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” and a burst of sound before the band settles into Coltrane's familiar intro. Forsyth’s guitar has a sharp tone that squeals and sounds like he’s pushing his amp to its limit. His playing is fluid and moves between longer notes and quick little flurries — a departure from McLaughlin’s machine gun-spray of notes on the original. Meanwhile Millevoi chugs along on rhythm guitar behind him with a choppy, wah-heavy tone. After a while they trade off and Millevoi steps up for a solo of his own, the two of them building up into a frenzy of dueling leads playing off each other. After about ten minutes the pace slows down a bit and they both settle into playing the iconic Coltrane riff. It’s an effective way to open the record, grabbing your attention and setting the mood of a night of guitar frenzy.

The band then moves into “Niama,” another Coltrane number. But this is the first step away from the record: where McLaughlin and Santana played this acoustically, with a bit of a Latin tinge, this band plays it a slow electric blues. The guitars draw the emotion out of this one as Cordero’s organ gives them a bed of sound to work on top of. It segues nicely into McLaughlin’s “A Love Divine” which builds up slowly from Cordero’s droning organ and bursts of percussion from Avery and Jewell. Both the guitarists slowly work their way into this one but before long they’re playing a flurry of notes as the rhythm section builds up the tension by playing the beat faster and faster. The whole band works itself up into a lather, finishing this one with blasts of cymbals and squealing guitars while McCombs keeps them on track with his bass.

Next comes the second wrinkle of the night: the band swaps the order of “Meditation” and “Let Us Now Enter the House of the Lord” while also changing the first to another slow electric blues from a sparse acoustic theme. With Cordero’s organ and McCombs bass holding the groove down, both Forsyth and Millevoi take their time to play around the chorus and trade off short solos. It’s actually one of the set’s more approachable moments and wouldn’t feel out of place on a Solar Motel record.

They finish the evening off with “Let Us Now…” which is a fitting bookend with “A Love Supreme.” They’re both lengthy performances where the guitars trade off riffs and are played something like spiritual jazz fusion opening with flurries of notes and drum rolls. It evolves into a vaguely Latin groove for the two guitars to solo over and eventually to jam in unison together.

The thing about a record like this is that for all the guitar heroics it doesn’t quite have the same spark as the original. There, both Santana and McLaughlin were going for a spiritual vibe, playing hard and fast like they were trying to lose themselves in the music and push into something spiritual. Indeed, bootlegs of this band on their short tour show them regularly pushing songs past the 20-minute mark. That was a group reaching for ecstasy.

By contrast, you never get the same feeling from Forsyth and company here. As good as their playing is, you know they’re playing tribute to a record instead of trying to catch the same religious feeling. It’s not really a bad thing, it just means they’re playing it a little safer and closer to the vest even when they work themselves up into a frenzy.

As far as tributes go, Plays Love Devotion Surrender doesn't mess with the gospel and anybody who loves guitar-heavy jamming will enjoy this. While it might not completely work for people unfamiliar with the original record or those without the patience to sit through long guitar workouts, fans with worn out copies of the original will have a lot here to chew on.

Roz Milner

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How am I supposed to get experience when you won't give me a shot?

Boston Strangler, Matt Ruskin (2023)

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Bad movie I have Super Fly 1972

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26/5/24

amazing journey - the who

weird of hermiston - jack bruce

break out - julie driscoll

something in the air - thunderclap newman

extrapolation - john mclaughlin

can't believe it's true - rory gallagher

no tree will grow on too high a mountain - supersister

sunrise in the third system - tangerine dream

prelude - nightmare / fire poem / fire - the crazy world of arthur brown

how does it feel to feel - the creation

feelin' reelin' squealin' - soft machine

it's alright ma it's only witchcraft - fairport convention

the people you were going to - van der graaf generator

dogs - the who

grandma's lawn - caravan

reality - second hand

naked eye - the who

there's a forest - jack bruce

meadow meal - faust

hocus pocus - focus

(spirit of joy: tales from the polydor underground 1967-1974)

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New Book Range Launches with Titles From Doctor Who Authors (And Proofed by the DWC's Editor)

New Book Range Launches with Titles From #DoctorWho Authors (And Proofed by the DWC's Editor)

Two Doctor Who authors have written books for another much-loved TV franchise, The Raccoons. Fans will instantly recognise John Peel, whose Cry Wolf! launches the brand-new Raccoons range, just as his Timewyrm: Genesys launched the Virgin New Adventures line of Doctor Who fiction in 1991. Similarly, Iain McLaughlin’s contributions to the Whoniverse are extensive, taking into account a wealth of…

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✍️ LTE: Independents Stand w/ Christopher Haley, Dana Guarino, & Sarah McLaughlin

Dear Reading Residents,  As a State and Local Tax practitioner, it is my job to implement and ensure tax compliance from taxpayers, regardless of political interests or policy. Tax is an exciting field in that sense. We may have a personal opinion on tax matters. We may agree with what we are preparing or disagree. And yet, as tax professionals, we continue to uphold the utmost diligence to the…

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Trailing 6-8 in the home game, Colorado, propelled by Tyson Gibson’s three goals in the third quarter, turned the game around to lead 12-9, laying the foundation for a comeback   Colorado Mammoth, Eli McLaughlin / photo by Gooddaysports   (Denver = Won Jeong) The Colorado Mammoth hosted the New York Riptide for an NLL regular-season game.   Colorado and New York engaged in a tight battle until…

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Giant-Size Dracula #2 ‘Call Them Triad... Call Them Death!’ (1974) by Chris Claremont, Don Heck, Frank McLaughlin and Linda Lessmann. Edited by Roy Thomas. Cover by Pablo Marcos.

Giant-Size Dracula #2, September 1974, cover by Pablo Marcos