Return to Forever
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Sep 25, 2026
Steve VaiGUEST
You, you want them?" Uh, to my friend, and I'm like, "What?" And my...
Steve VaiGUEST
We went, so that was my first con- my very first con- well, my first concert was, uh, Return to Forever at the Hofstra Playhouse, but the next one was Led Zeppelin, but the- they both had quite an impact.
Buzz KnightHOST
Oh, man.
Buzz KnightHOST
That's a, those are great ones.
Laurence JuberGUEST
Other than, you know, kind of the stuff that I'd heard on the radio.
Laurence JuberGUEST
I mean, my mus- my musical, um, listening was really, you know, much more geared towards, like, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and, you know-
Jimmy LeslieHOST
Huge
Laurence JuberGUEST
... players like, and, and the, the LA studio players like Larry Carlton, um, and, you know, and so on.
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Also had a guest verse on Blackstreet's Grammy Award winning song, No Diggity.
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Bill Connors was born in 1949, played acoustic and electric guitar as an early member of Chick Corea's pioneering jazz fusion band, Return to Forever.
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Jay Hoggard was born a 1957 jazz vibraphonist who combined African music elements with modern avant-garde jazz.
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Wayne Henderson was born in 1939, founding jazz trombonist and producer for the soul jazz group the Crusaders.
Mark KingGUEST
But these were the guys.
Mark KingGUEST
Then Buddy Rich and then the Mahavishnu Orchestra, I discovered, and then Return to Forever.
Mark KingGUEST
So, you know, and I remember reading John McLaughlin said, you know, the thing is about music teachers is that – Really, you want to see your teacher play, and then you should think, oh, yeah, I can do that.
Mark KingGUEST
I understand that.
Al Di MeolaGUEST
It was the Latin version of the band, Latin jazz version.
Al Di MeolaGUEST
And so I told him, yeah, he said, Michael, I just saw Return to Forever with Earl Klug.
Al Di MeolaGUEST
It was kind of strange, because Earl's a great player, but not in that context.
Al Di MeolaGUEST
I said, boy, I'd give anything to play with that band.
Rob CassHOST
Yeah, I would definitely find that.
Rob CassHOST
So you're in the band, it's amazing.
Rob CassHOST
Obviously you're in Return to Forever, everything's going incredibly well.
Rob CassHOST
Obviously there's a turning point with you and Chick in the sense of, I mean, from the research I've done, so Chick was also a Scientologist, wasn't he? He was into Scientology.
Richard SyrettGUEST
During that period...
Jimmy ChurchHOST
uh everybody we'll get back to some paranormal talk here in just a second but um during that period for me i went to a really bizarre frank zappa and jeff beck and santana phase where all the other stuff the heavy metal things that drove me were there But Return to Forever, Chick Corea, Casino, Stanley Clark.
Jimmy ChurchHOST
Dude, I drove off the road.
Jimmy ChurchHOST
I really drove off the road.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Little jazz fusion in the mix.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
That's music from Return to Forever.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
And that's the title track of their 1975 album called No Mystery.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Return to Forever.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Chick Corea on electric piano.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
And we have Stanley Clark on acoustic bass.
Laurence JuberGUEST
who was just that busy.
Laurence JuberGUEST
And so I borrowed some Wings LPs from my brother over the weekend because my record collection was Return to Forever, Weather Report, Crusaders, Steely Dan.
Laurence JuberGUEST
It was all, you know, it was much of John McLaughlin.
Laurence JuberGUEST
It was a lot of prog stuff.
Justin BrownGUEST
And, you know, they were listening to secular music, what they would say, you know, then.
Justin BrownGUEST
But they were listening to Sly and the Family Stone and George Clinton and... you know, George Duke and Return Forever, you know, they had a vast amount of information, you know, within, you know, drums and music.
Justin BrownGUEST
And within that in church, growing up in church, the main thing is that, like, you realize this musical thing is for bringing in a higher presence, you know? It's a spiritual ritual for Jesus Christ, God our Savior.
Stacey HoodHOST
I mean, anybody that goes, it's
Nate MercereauGUEST
I love Mahavishnu.
Nate MercereauGUEST
I love Return to Forever.
Nate MercereauGUEST
Like, th- those classic bands, you know?
Ryan RichterHOST
Mm-hmm.
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