Dearest friends and Music Lovers,
Please allow me to send a collective note of gratitude to you for your blessings, kind thoughts and heartwarming Birthday Greetings.
I am a most fortunate person to have been born and raised by a musician mother. I give thanks to her, and subsequently to all of you,
who have enriched my life since the beginning of my life’s adventure in music.
Many years ago, the ‘Muse” came to me in a a wonderful dream, and whispered in my ear, “I love you”, she knows of course,
that I adore her since I was a young boy, and I realised that without us musicians, music can never come to earth and be heard.
But a musician without a listener is in the same boat… Therefore I thank you, the listener, the lover of music, from the depths of my heart:
without you I am nothing.
with love, john
All the best, John!
Dear John. Belated Happy Birthday to you! Who knew that the man who changed my life with « Visions of the Emerald Beyond » would continue to rock my world with his sincere desire to help Palestine. All the best to you and yours.
You have enriched all our lives, a gandharva who appeared in Yorkshire, in 1942, who would have thought? Have a great 2016!
Dear John,
I am deeply touched by your post. Have been listening to your music for more than four decades and have experienced the emptiness/sunyata of musician and listener in the universe of (your) music. Very grateful. As a late birthday present I just added a bit to the Al Mada project.
Blessings, Friedrich
Merci cher John. Votre musique m’a accompagné dès l’âge de 17 ans et je ne manque jamais vos enregistrements. J’ai eu la chance de vous entendre plusieurs fois en public (Sète en 78, Toulouse plus récemment, et plusieurs fois à Guidel, à Lorient…) et là aussi votre générosité est à la hauteur de la formidable énergie qui anime votre musique. A chacun de vos enregistrements vous gravissez une marche vers Shabda ! Mon épouse est décédée en 2010 et appréciait tout particulièrement « To The One » qu’elle me demandait de lui passer. Elle trouvait votre finesse de jeu incomparable. Elle est partie « to the one » et tout comme votre musique, elle est toujours présente dans ma vie et dans mon coeur.
J’ai loupé votre date anniversaire cette année mais je vous souhaite une belle année de bonheurs, petits et grands.
Philippe
I’m your very loyalty listener from Beijing. Music, no distance, no borders!! Mediterranean Sun Dance, I have listened hundred times.
Hello John. I was working as a room service waiter at the Ponchartrain Hotel in Detroit the night of your last show with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Masonic Temple on 12/30/1973. I had been to every show before this one, but I couldn’t get off work and was very upset(it was also my birthday). Later that evening I was walking toward one of the elevators when I noticed you and Billy Cobham heading into same elevator that I was. Once we were all in and I regained my composure(I’m a huge fan), I asked you how the show went. You replied, »Oh, it was a bit low, » with a grin, which meant of course that it was epic. You then gave me a cookie and chatted with me until you got off on your floor. I was stunned by how cool of a person you were and looking back, how much that meant to me at that time in my life. Thanks so much for that memory. My subjective experience of your music indicates to me that your music is a genre onto itself and is an original invention of your vision that when experienced, evokes the most dynamic and complete emotional response of any music to date. By the way, do I hear a little bit of « Green Dolphin Street » in the head of « The Dance Of Maya? »
Love your music, bro, thank you )
Human beings do not realise the gift of being on the planet, the same time as John.His music continually evolves…each project full of beauty.
A shining light in the Universe filled with Darkness,self centered activity, greed and confusion….