John McLaughlin: My Goal's Beyond
Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, November 1971
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN has been around: gigging with Graham Bond in 1966, Jack Bruce in 68 and intermittently with Miles Davis since then, he has cut a swath through the music of our time wider and more far-reaching than any guitarist since Eric Clapton.
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