Dueling Guitars
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucía - Saturday Night In San Francisco [0217243EMU DEU 2022 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Friday Night In San Francisco by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucía is widely accepted as one of the finest live albums of the last fifty years. Recorded with multiple microphones at The Warfield Theatre in December 1980 to capture the full atmosphere of the event, what wasn't known until recently was that the same mobile recording team had also captured the following night's performance to tape. Now comes the intriguing part... if you read the current marketing from quality label Impex Records, you will be told that the label baked and transferred the tapes found Al Di Meola's basement at Skywalker Studios and asked Bernie Grundman to cut an all analogue lacquer for a new release. On the very same release day, Ear Music Records in Germany released a different mix (by Di Meola) of the album cut and pressed at Optimal Media in Germany. Th...