MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA -- Wild Strings -- 1972
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- MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA -- Wild Strings -- 1972 ( Live at Emerson Gymnasium
Cleveland, OH 1972-04-21 )
01 - Meeting Of The Spirits 00:00
02 - You Know You Know 12:51
03 - The Dance Of Maya 25:21
04 - The Noonward Race 40:13
John McLaughlin - guitar
Jerry Goodman - violin
Jan Hammer - keyboards
Rick Laird - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
I was the executive producer of this bootleg way back in 1999,here's how it worked ....I sent the cassette tape one of my scouts found to my Japanese label that pressed on real CD ,not cd-r.
The Japanese label sent the discs off to be pressed in China under a fake name for the band on the disc,while the artwork was done in Japan.
The turn around was maybe 2 weeks ,my Japanese friends would give me 50 to 75 free CDs,I'd wholesale for $10 ,I had them sent us express mail,covers and discs sent separately.
Penalty for importing bootleg CDs I think can be 5 years for 1,000 discs,over my bootleg career I'd say I imported 100,000 CDs ,I should be on death row
If this is originally a cassette, you did a fantastic job. Is the CD, or download if I must, still available ?
@@terryenglish7132 I made this way back in 2001 out of Japan ,I'm sure there are digital copies out there
@@terryenglish7132 It was originally a soundboard recording. A high-quality cassette tape recorder could make a good copy. And you can download this if you like.
This band took on the rock audience melded it with the jazz audience and created something truly awesome (in the original sense of the word). Billy Cobham at this time was not just a drummer he was a force of nature!
He WAS nature.
It is not just about technique, it is the overwhelming emotion in the music demanding the technique.
Greatest band ever absolutely mindblowing musicianship..
Went to five concerts - great sound on this one - can actually hear Rick Laird.
I been listening to this group since 72 I was 12yrs old I'm 60 now this is the greatest group ever funny thing Alan Holdworth was on the other side of England getting started Great,Great life time memories 1-Mahavisnu 2- Return to forever 3-Alan Holdworth solo projects best music ever🙏🏼r.i.p Mr.Holdsworth & Chick Corea bless your souls..
What does Chick Corea have to do with it? Did I miss something?
I saw John with Carlos ,,king crimson golden airing on sunshine I'd say it was around 1973 um fn real woe a jaw dropper one of my top ten shows if not number one
Goodman/laughlin/Cobham....... une tuerie !!!!
I love how the emcee sounds like he's introducing Mr. Rogers and friends and then the band hits the first chord and it's like a bomb goes off. Wonderful contrast!
+aliensporebomb
The first band I ever saw was Grand Funk Railroad. The second was the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I had NO idea.... McLaughlin was all super devout, basically whispering for a moment of silence to contemplate the... you know, the shit you were supposed to contemplate back then. And then - dead silence - McLaughlin had TWO Marshall Major 200watt heads and four stacks. 32 speakers? CRANKED in a 800 seat theater. Gorf.
Ruined for life.
"Some real good music". Ummm, yes?
Where was this and when?
Sounds to me like a hurricane suddenly blows through the window!!!!
That reminds me of John Coltrane "Live at the Half Note". After the band finished setting the stage on fire, the emcee introduced them very proper. Hilarious contrast indeed.
My Music my life changed June 1975 Manchester Free Trade Hall , Billy Cobham !!!!! WOW Jerry Goodman !!!
Mahavishnu !!!!!!!, AWESOME ABSOLUTE !!!!!!!!!!
I am 79. I saw them in Sydney at the Horden in 1972. John demanded a ninutes silence before they would start. Then Billy Cobham soloed and blew everyone away. I found myself making weird noises. Like everyone else. It was magic and I am still entranced. 50 years later.
First time I saw Mahavishnu was in Detroit around 1973. They opened for Zappa. I have not been right since.
McLaughlin and Goodman do several extended synchs that I don't believe have ever been surpasssed for technical pyrotechniques, precision, and intensity.
This is a great sounding live recording for the time. The ominous opening moments and otherworldly guitar solo of Meeting of the Spirits just kill me every time -- especially the earlier in time the particular performance was. I accompanied my buddies to Emerson Lake & Palmer concert at Winterland SF, I want to say December 1971, because Inner Mounting Flame had just come out. The audience was mildly amused by McLaughlin, all in white, with that unbelievable double-neck, asking for a moment of silence! Then they began, just as here, and I want to tell you that my friends were stunned, and the audience was stunned -- I've never experienced anything like it, before or since. By the time McLaughlin was into his guitar solo, nearly everyone stood up, as though under a spell! My hair stood up. I'm sure San Francisco area record stores showed a big spike in sales for Inner Mounting Flame after that concert.
I was there also. It was in March 1972 (around the 248th I think), and I'm sorry to say that JM did play on his Gibson double neck. He didn't purchase his Rex Bogue "Double Rainbow" until 1973. Other than that, your memories match mine perfectly. Everyone's jaws were on the floor having been totally blown away.
Oops! I meant the 248th of March.
I was at that Winterland concert. and the one the following year...it was unbelievable..i remember thinking the music was not of this earth..it was galactic and unchallenged in skill and complexity...Truly the Kings of Shred..and to be honest..ELP couldn't keep up..Mahavishnu's rule was forever unsurpassed.
I was at that concert. It was unbelievable. I knew of John McLaughlin but not seen him.But I couldn't believe what I was hearing..unbelievable. Emerson Lake and Palmer were on a different level, I believe it was there 2nd world tour.There sound was loud and clean.Had never heard a Moog Synthesizer before only on their recordings. What a night.cherished memories.
I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra perform all of this live at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on Saturday March 25th 1972. I was 17 years old. They were the middle act between the headliner Emerson Lake and Palmer and the opener The Blues Project. I lost my virginity that night...literally! *smiling*
I like Blues Project, but after hearing both bands at sound check, they probably went " oh, shit, why should we even go on"
The real shit in those days and now. The first time I saw McLaughlin live my jaw was stuck in the down position for a week. There has been some great bands before and since but none quite as awesome as these guys. A truly great upload -thank you!
Yes the real thing nothing like the marv these days
me to mate saw them in birmingham england i was spell bound still love his music now
I lived in New Bedford at the time, so we would go hear them in both Boston and Providence when they toured. They along w ELP made you think " how is this even possible?"
Oh my dear Lord...how great to hear this unique band perform live...greatest musical craftmanship and Art ever...never to be topped...🙏👍👍👍
Sometimes it is just wonderful to be completely lost in a forest of dense music, and let go. ;-)
This is the the musical version of the nectar of the gods as far as jazz music is concerned! I loved the 70s and early 80s, when rock and Jazz were fusing...what happened??? John McLaughlin, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorious, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Kazumi Watanabe, Sadao Watanabe, Weather Report, Larry Corryell, Billy Cobham, Al di Meola, Jan Hammer, Steve Gadd...Alphonso Johnson, ....etc...
Kelly John Most still work. Research it!
Kelly John and do NOT forget The Chick Corea electric band and his spanish influeune.
Check out Hiromi's Sonic Bloom from a few years ago.
Bill connors
A Great Concert !!! I was at the Emerson Gym for this show, sitting cross-legged on the floor right center with my pal's Rick Norby, Jay Plent, Vince D'Abate and Tom Chisholm about 30 feet from the low stage...we brought in a mini-bong and had a fab old time! Pink Floyd did their "Meddle" tour at this same gym the fall before...! It was a great day when this concert showed up on the net...the Floyd one is out there too...still have a ton of still and very fluid images in my head from this show - especially Cobham's tree-trunk sized arms keeping that insane beat - the whole thing actually...sheesh! ...It's odd - I have zero memories of anyone else playing from that night...these guys just totally ruled my memory banks I suppose!
Having seen this line-up 3 times, I don't recall hardly anything from the accompanying acts. It's hard to remember the mundane when you've been touched by the Almighty through five out-of-this-world musicians!
What a lucky man you must have been. I´m so jealous after nearly 48 years....merry xmas Frank
Do you have any memories you'd like to share from any of the gigs you saw? Where did you see them and when? I'll understand if the details are a bit hazy ; )
Those were the great old days!
Haha....and the other forgotten acts were West Bruce and Laing and Procul Harum...
17 June 1973, my first ever gig, Mahavishnu at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester supported by Jackie Whitren ... totally out of this world for a 15 year old guy who had never seen anything like it
Wow, what a recording! Really captures their sound but also their atmosphere!
Opening attack is brutal and e x a c t l y at tempo. WoW ! . This disc seems to be capturing, in miles better sound quality, the same tour that the west coast college gig film with Billy C. in his linebacker gear was captured at - forgot where - with the wind blowing too strong and John in his white suit, lol, and hippies everywhere, and Jan having sound problems! - wowzertron ! The playing here is better and totally savage and exceptional ! The opening 'meeting of the spirits' is mesmerising, and possibly nicer even than the studio cut, allowing more room for solos - and for Jan to get on the joystick .., their happiness collectively is shown by how much they speed up...the whole concept here, live, at the peak of their creativity, better shows how John M. must have imagined the whole violin idea - adding a singing, ethereal quality to his lines, alto and soprano. At 10;48 hear how he brings in the lydian 6/4 insanely precisely picked ostinato ( F#m / GM, all with an open string chime G/F#/C#). You know... is somehow getting toward a funk jam... blah blah ... thanks very much for posting ! I approve of this post !
The Mahavishnu. God Musician. This Band Was Epic!
the mahavishnu orchestra was the definitive zeitgeist.... 'mclaughlin the enigmatic avatar... still is...! thanks for posting greetings from tasmania.
The amazing thing is.... I enjoy this at a different level... Im a classically trained guitarist... into rock and jazz... from Chennai... heart of the Carnatic Indian Classical music, based on which John McLaughlin reached the Mahavishnu levels... the way he has captured the heart of the Carnatic improv and made it a Jazz Rock Hammer of the Gods.. is something exquisite.
How very self centered lol
Propelled into the Infinite ...Intergalactic Ecstatic Orgasmic All Chakras Catch Fire at Once
M.O. played my High School auditorium at about this time, they were the only act. JM did the moment of silence thing then they hit that opening chord, and as a musician....everything changed! Check out the duo of Mclaughlin and Zawinul playing "In a Silent Way" it's on youtube, breathtakingly beautiful.
W O W - the best recording of this band I've ever heard. Amazing.
Mahavisnu did to JazzRock, what Kubrik did to the Cinema with 2001 Odyssee !
They changed everything!
I have liked Mahavishnu's music ever since I heard him and Santana play together on the Love Devotion and Surrender Album.
No one could play like this. He influenced so many jazz fusion players, like Shawn Lane, Larry Coryell, & others.
one of the wonders of the world . the greatest most profound powerful innovative band of all time .
Total Legendary Higher Plain...Each Member of this group!! This is Truly Outerworld!! Mac's Tone here is Amazing!!!!
MusicalManchild77 Yup, best I’ve heard!
i miss this type of jazz
Me too , this became again so Clean polished and controlled .
Mahavishnu was raw and destroyed all the rules
The concert billing was:
West, Bruce and Laing
Procol Harum and
Mahavishnu Orchestra (as the opening act -- imagine that!)
***** I agree Gasp…..except for Jack Bruce, who would have fit quite well into that band. In fact, Jack played for a while in Tony William's Lifetime.
unbelievable!!!!!
peteshelo
Yup. Mahavishnu also opened for Cheech & Chong and the Eagles in the early days, the entire tour itenerary is online if you search for it. They did a bunch of shows with the Eagles and McLaughlin is a big Eagles fan to this day, but only opened for the first night. Henley and Frey told McLaughlin that they would open the rest of the shows. They knew better than to follow these guys and besides most of the audience would have been too deaf after the loudness of a Mahavishnu show to listen to twangy country-rock.
metamorphosis67 Did not know that..but it makes Total Sense...I wouldn't want to follow these guys either..
metamorphosis67 I have to add that the Mahavishnu Orchestra opened several shows for Frank Zappa and the Mothers. Circa "Over-Nite Sensation" which meant the FZ band included George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty.
What a killer recording of a monstrous band at the height of their powers. This should have been the third CD of "Between Nothingness and Eternity". Rarely do boots have this kind of power, heft and clarity. Come on CBS records, release this. I read the comment below about how everyone signed off to let this be released officially.
aliensporebomb, I was at Central Park when they recorded Between Noth & Eternity and this is far better. The band was coming apart by that show. It was good, yes, but history shows that it was coming apart. They never finished their third album. Think it is out as The Lost Session.
Agreed, sound quality is better than every live album they have (on spotify at least)
music and a kind of science combined to produce the most dynamic electric music ever recorded . your senses were overcome with something you couldn't explain , and all you could do was get aboard the wave an go .
Saw them Live at close to the time this was recorded (same set list), being a guitarist.... I had to get up and go outside for air after 30 minutes of this, came back in and finished the show, didn't touch my guitar for a week, and I was a decent player but this was overwhelming.
Where was this?
the audio quality on this is GREAT!
Besides a great performance, the sound is pretty good considering it was recorded in a gym in Cleveland, they should have considered officially releasing this show.
I believe that this was going to be officially released. Columbia even had the liner notes written . Apparently a couple members of MO nixed it's release. One had issues with his playing and the other had a financial issue. It's a shame for sure.
@@wizardofoz1937 Sounds like Goodman and Cobham.
I was at this Show!!!!!!!!
First Note.. It's Over Nuff Said. God Spoke Through These 5 SUPER Musicians!
MusicalManchild77 He speaks through us all...not all listen....
what need have I for this what need have I for yhat we are dancung at the feet if my Lord all is Bliss...All is Bliss
They did have supernatural ability thats for sure .
One of the best performances of You Know You Know that I've heard.
yeh..that howling controlled feedback right at the end. Even the equipment was feeling the magic that night :) Don't you also love this version of Noonward Race? Jan Hammer's perverse Rhodes choosing all the wonderfully "wrong" notes in the intro, and his completely off-the-map Moog solo. Nice playing from Rick Laird too, using some nice expressive vibrato on sustained notes.
Everything was in place, Mclaughlin was feeling it.
One of the things I always play on my guitar. Play the little riff, do anything, play the little riff. Its amazing how so few notes create a sonic space.
What a solo on meeting of the spirits !
Mahavishnu and Zappa, my heroes!
Standa ! SBB or Collegium Musicum are the same music level as Mahavishnu ! Blue Effect too !
very true
Standa...Funny enough,,Zappa was blown away with Mahavishnu Orchestra. No wonder Frank composed Echidna's Arf ( on the Roxy album ) Brilliant band..
@@bobbymars403 And I'm glad Zappa lend toward that direction though I think he was going that in his own way.
I have to agree with you. NO ONE did what John & Frank did. Thanks, agreement does have a flavor.
very great musicians and music of another times but tremendously actual. GREAT!
Hard to believe they could be anymore “out of the box” than the studio album, but this is unbelievable. JM is so far out at points, but pulls it right back in whenever he chooses. JG is in excellent form.
He had the best music teacher in the world (miles davis) who told him to go form a band ..and he did !
@@petermaxwell2965
Yes he did. The fact that Miles brought so many young cats together and gave them the experience is IMO his greatest legacy. Among many!
the guitar on this sounds amazing, shit, the whole thing is amazing- I listened to their live album that came out in 73 and this is so much more defined. damn! its funny with these speedy metal dudes over the last 20 years -they should hear this !!!!!
Damn this is excellent! I have the studio version of all of these tracks on vinyl, but this is sooooo good and rich!
I'm sure the MC,following acts and large portion of the audience
we're permanently damaged and taken to hospital after this! Celestial Terrestrial Inner Mounting Tour....Billy on single Bass drum and the Boy's on Volcanic merciless demon slaying fire! Super Sound Board recording and example of what I was so Blessed to have witnessed five times! Gratitude....AUM
i loved this band of jazz-rock genius
One of the best, if not the best, live performance of Meeting Of the Spirits I heard. Cool, relaxed, not rushed. This concert was quite near Inner Mounting Flame's release so everything sounds really like the the album (ex.:Hammer weren't using MiniMoog yet). Great performance. Who from M.O. doesn't want to release that? Come on…
I remember reading that the record company wasn't interested.
Jerry wasn't happy with his performance and Billy wasn't happy with the royalty rate.
I like these instrumental works and guitar, has been a fan for yrs
The first and at the same time the last formation of outstanding musicians which has been classified with: SUPERGROUP!
the first?
@@mrheem44 Which formation do like you to name a `Supergroup´. I know multible great musicians, but formations on this level: None.
Seen them 3 times.... Mind blowing on all levels. Most intense Band I ever seen. They where the GOAT.
Mindegyik lemez ütős, de ez talán a legsikerültebb, tiszta, évekig és most is válalható mínőség
Legendary one of the best 👌 ahead of its its time thank you 😊
Bought this in a cd shop out in the Village before the youtubey days. Great performance & thanks for sharing this cosmic gem.
Robert Lisboa bleeker bob’s?
Johnny Mclaughlin electric guitarist (GOAT)
Billy Cobham on You know you know is insane !!!!!!!
My Favorite Guitarist Ever..And This Band!!! Best Ever!! In a Way Different Time than We live in Today...Grab THIS!!!! And Return To IT!!!
I saw them in Indianapolis, Ind. 1971,2 or 3 , anyway I saw there all the crazy people dancing. Later in p.alegre,rs, brazil, I, danced lotus feet in theaters holding contemporary dancing presentations. They`ve done it, bring the orient to rock, progressive rock. I am 73 years old now, looking for the free world.
It's a fact, JMs early ventures in the UK was with the " Graham Bond Organisation " featuring Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, no less.. this was the crucible of that which was to follow. And now "You know, you know" ❤❤
A phenomenal set - worthy of a commercial release. A great treadmill experience although Dance of maya is in either 7/4 or 10/8...watch you dont trip!!
Amazing how this has an improvisational feel to it, even though it pretty much follows the studio version exactly. Just raw and full of vital energy even though it's fully composed
Best of the best.
Спасибо Джон👏
Wow that's amazing forever!!!!!!!GRACIAS GRACIAS
Absolutely remarkable - I'm totally knocked out - pure musical dynamite!!! Thank you so much for sharing it :-)
Awesome shit man. I was at this show. THANKS!
forgot how great these guys were, wow
First time I saw John’s band was in early eighties in Carnegie Hall in NYC. After the concert the faces of the concert goers including mine was of total shock and awe. Why did something this beautiful had to end People we’re asking each other without talking...
I miss the words to explain this band. Thx for uploading this!
jemp1965 When I first heard and saw them on one of the late night Rock shows, after coming home nicely buzzed, and my musical life changed forever. Am extremely diverse in taste and genres, but my T-Shirt says it all- In a circle, around the OM sign it says Mahavishnu Orchestra The Greatest Band That Ever Was
power, passion and beauty
that noted Monte Carlo small businessman Mr John McLaughlin was miles ahead in delivery of live audio - drum and guitar tone always, with the help of a guy named Greg DiGiovine and everybody who worked with two and half versions of this band in the 70's - amazing mix really.
Magnificent.
This is the sound of the electric atomic age, the cusp of rounding the fold from this to that and that of this, an arcing yawning chasm crossings floating thither, wearing the weather, it is an architecture- it is where we are lost amidst these pillars from which this monument emerges from it's muiltiplicities and simmering dynamics.
Damnit Jannet - what a live performance!
I'm sure the MC,following acts and large portion of the audience
we're permanently damaged and taken to hospital after this! Celestial Terrestrial Inner Mounting Tour....Billy on single Bass drum and the Boy's on Volcanic merciless demon slaying fire! Super Sound Board recording and example of what I was so Blessed to have witnessed five times! Gratitude....AUM
Billy shortly Opted for double bass drums after this '
Hmmm....I'm thinking.......
What a groundbreaking era, I appreciate the digital remaster of this live show!
This a hot and smart group at their hottest and smartest. McLaughlin was at the inception of jazz-rock fusion while with Miles Davis. But that music did not have the sizzle and dizzying complexity of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Few groups can improvise on tough charts and at the speed of light. McLaughlin plays some of his most searing and adventurous solos on this date. This rapport with drummer Billy Cobham is sublime. Cobham, whose athleticism has never been rivaled, is in his best form: fast, funky, responsive, impossible. He was not using his two base drum set up for this gig.
I have only two minor complaints. Rick Laird somehow kept the group grounded even through the hair-raising changes and long improvisations. However, he not infrequently plays out of tune, while accompanying and in his one solo. Jerry Goodman broke new ground in jazz-rock violin (with a sound entirely different from Jean-Luc-Ponty), but misses notes more than any other band member.
I could go on, but as one who has listened to this group since about 1972 and who as many of their recordings as possible, I judge this as one of their best live dates. The audio quality is high. There is no distortion, the balance is right, and their are few glitches. It was, apparently, recorded from the sound board.
Enjoy a pioneering group in rare form. You will never heard the likes of this again.
This music was never about perfect execution, it's passionate. So you're going to hear musicians reaching for the skies and there are always bumps along the way. It was the same with Hendrix for example. With MO, and especially during the unison fast musical passages, they'd rarely get it "exact" but that's what creates the excitement.
I loved Laird's playing on this version of Noonward Race. There's a section where he hits these long sustaining notes and applies vibrato, getting the notes to hover and waver. Really expressive and interesting. McLaughlin rates this as his favourite MO gig of all time.
It's great to hear this band recorded live in good quality audio. If you check out Concert Vaults there are a good number of gigs recorded well, in particular the Avery Fisher Hall gig. The best quality I've heard is the collection of previously unreleased material from the Between Nothingness And Eternity event at Central Park.
Never saw MO live (though I did see JM many yrs later with Dennis Chambers & Joey DeFrancesco). Live music is always fraught with peril - missed notes, instruments going out of tune, etc. I saw Larry Coryell & Al Dimeola perform together, and while Dimeola never missed a note, he never ventured from shore, either. It was Coryell's solos I anticipated, and he missed a few notes - but it didn't matter, because I heard the notes he'd aimed at, not the ones he hit.
mclaughlin is out of tune in places as well, but that didn't bother you?
No they are God invoked!
@@lesnyk255 My thoughts exactly. The greater they are the more notes they "miss". And that is perfectly OK, they never rewalk the treaded path, they venture out to do something new. Just listen to Joe Pass say it. He was known - aside from his huge virtuosism - to get into tight places, from where he extracted himself in genius ways.
Absolutely crazed. I like it like that.
Total innovators back then..! (Love the misspelling on the front cover!)
Live in Clveland 1972...LOL..
Bravo Bravo < Many Thanks !
el mejor recital de la maha por lejos, increible de comienzo a fin
I'm filled with shame that I am just now truly discovering this....
Ha ha don't worry about it. There are a sadly small number of studio albums to enjoy, and a wealth of fairly well recorded live gigs. There were 2 line-ups. This was the 1st, begun in '71. Then there was the 2nd line-up from '74 to '75. It's John McLaughlin's band (guitarist). Check out all the albums, ideally in order, beginning with Inner Mounting Flame. The official live album Between Nothingness And Eternity is incredible too.
Omar Kenney No worries man...you got here.
all things in their time. This is your time.
Omar Kenney
it is not when you make discovery that you control...but why and what you do from here on...
My friend time not the escense in discovering the greatest group ever sit back enjoy the most amazing music ever this cannot will not be duplicated 👊
Los rockeros de ese tiempo quedaron totalmente opacados con esa fusion totalmente nueva jazz..indu..rock etc ...mahavisnhu orchestra innovadores ..a la fecha nadie como ellos...mclaughlin ..laird...goodman..cobham y hammer de otro planeta...
Geweldig, " Mahovusnu Orchestra " !
Unbelievable this, I wish iI could have seen this Live. I have seen Mc Laughlin play live a couple of times but not like this great!
The best of Mac Laughlin.
Just love "Meeting of the Spirits" - a heavy kind of fusion... (maybe not far from a variant of the Phil Spector wall of sound - but in a fusion way).
la continuacion y con nuevas ideas del gran mclaughlin de la obra e miles davis, espectacular
Es verdad el puente del jazz hacia el futuro ......particularmente en la bateria billy y tony williams lo hicieron segun el maestro colaiuta
Totally blows my mind.
Йома-йо, я никогда не слышал этого бутлега, хотя inner mounting flame попал мне на разделку в том же 1972. Почему на обложке нет лиц главных героев - самого оркестра?
Впрочем, в окружении своей великолепной команды этот мафваленок вполне сгодился. Шикарный концерт. Который уже раз снимаю шляпу перед Mahavishnu With Cobham, Goodman, Hammer and McLaughlin
Un live pazzesco!!!!!!!!!
mclaughlin in the best guitar heroe of all times in any field of music. The intensity and interplay of this mahavishnu is only comparable with the king crimson of the era 73-75
Holy Crap!!! Thanks For Posting!!!
Played in my hometown!
Where can this iconic recording be ordered? Wonderful performance by the Mahavishnu Orchestra really!
Just google it, it goes by name of Wild Strings. And yes, McLaughlin says it's one of his favourite concerts they did. If no luck with "Wild Strings" then search Live in Cleveland 21st April 1972. It's bound to be on the excellent website Concert Vaults where you can order many other good quality MO gigs
Thank you philip
Seen this lineup nin Pitt pa Stanley Theatre bout '74 .. plus couple female back up / lead vocals.. awestruck jack to this day..I've seen miles dizzy Herbie wr rtf 11th house yellow jackets..hell jack McDuff tower of power shit u name them I've probably seen them don't care what format these guys will be always b best show
G.J. I saw the M.O. the first time they played Pittsburgh at the Soldiers and Sailers Memorial Hall. It was 72 or 73. To this day I say it was the most powerful musical experience I've ever had. John was on fire that night, playing at an intensity I've never heard before. I've told many of my friends they were far tighter and better than what is on the live album. Some have told me that being there made it seem more powerful, but I say no. I wish I could have seen the Stanley Theatre show, but was at college. I've seen you comment on other M.O. performances, so I know they moved you also. Not only McLaughlin was outstanding when I saw them, the whole band played like the best musicians in the world, which they were. We are both fortunate to see John McLaughlin at his best.
Fucking Awesome. I got onto John Mac & Maha, back in 1974, JMac is the Greatest electric guitarist & pioneer of "Jazz" fusion, not the same as Prog metal of today, no offense to Prog metal, but ,IMO , there was a lot more musically & technically going on, in the Mahavishnu days. Great stuff. John's chops we're unreal back then.
Que som incrível.
I prefer McLaughlin's lead tone on this recording to the studio recordings. Perhaps the lower quality of the live setting... He usually has a very warm sound, but something just makes me like this sound a lot more than other times.
Me Parece que ese es John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra en el Festival Internacional"MAR Y SOL" Én Vega Baja,Puerto Rico;Celebrado el 1,2,3 de Abril de 1972...!Estube Todo el Festival de Rock,Jazz y Los Grupos Más Pegados dél Mundo Entero;Como"Emerson,Lake & Palmer","Osibisa","Cactus","Alice Cooper",Nitziger","BB King"-Y-Muchos Mas;Como Díje a Estuve allí viendo ese Concierto de John McLaughlin And The Mahavishnu én Vivo y tocaron esas mismas Canciones"Metting the Spirits","You Know,You Know","Dance of Maya","The Noonward Race" y Fué en Abril 4 de 1972,Como pudieron estar a la Vez en 2 Sitios Diferentes,Ademas dieron conciertos en la Isla con Siri Chimoy Su Gurú Musico...(Estuvieron en La Isla como un Mes pues tuvieron problemas con La Pága del Festival como muchos otros grupos sin"Paga y sin Pasaje"Igual Los Americanos que vinieron por un Acuerdo de Pasaje,Estadia y Entradas al Festival;El Americano no cumplió,se Fué huyendo y los dejó en el Aereopuerto de Isla Verde!!Wao¡¡
+Angel Olmos Gracias por las referencias!
I love it !