Music

August, 1976

John McLaughlin, founder and former lead guitarist of the defunct Mahavishnu Orchestra, is now playing a curiously constructed acoustic guitar in an otherwise all-Indian band called Shakti. It has something to do, he explains, with Ganesa, the god Siva's elephant-faced son.But if Ganesa indicates McLaughlin's new musical and spiritual direction, the reasons behind the breakup of his very successful orchestra are slightly more earth-bound. "My wife called me one day last summer while I was t...