1979 - John McLaughlin and the 'One Truth Band' in concert - State Theatre, Sydney This concert was a turning point in my life. The experience - and it was an ' experience ' - showed me what I wanted to do in life. In some way - I didn't know quite how - I wanted to recreate the experience that John McLaughlin had provided for us on this night. A quasi- religious experience, although I knew it wasn't religion, but music, the power of music. I knew that John McLaughlin had embraced various Eastern philosophies but that wasn't the answer either. It took many years before I felt I was getting close to articulating the processes by which this experience could be recreated. The answers lay in my own culture - in the performance practices of Western classical music and Abraham Maslow's Humanistic psychology. Left to right - John McLaughlin - Greg Gillett - Guy Le Claire - Peter Inglis The ' One Truth Band ' Guitar - John McLaughlin - Violin - L. Shankar - Bass - Fernando Saunders - Keyboard - Stu Goldberg - Percussion - Alyrio Lima We made our way backstage after the concert and were treated to a long conversation with JM. We asked the usual guitar questions about equipment then he treated us to anecdotes of all night jam sessions with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. Left to right - John McLaughlin - Greg Gillett - Peter Inglis - Greg Spicer
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