This band was just out of this galaxy. Everyone here shines. It's just incredible to see Billy, Jan, John, Rick and Jerry so far out here. Every live show I see from these 2 years 1972-1973 is just totally unique and mind blowing. And I'm listening to them for over 32 years.
Billy Cobham was one of simon phillips favourite drummers and influenced many drummers His style is totaly unique One of the Greatest Drummers of all Time
@@stevenjosephs9Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Gil Evens, Peter Gabriel, etc. He even played for Judas Priest and Toto. I saw him play right after Billy and Lenny in the TAMA drum show at NAMM in 2014, and his sound and playing was superior.
The live stuff from the 70s is magical, it's so raw and energised, but there's nothing pretentious about it, it's just a love of music and wanting to do something expressive and new that blends jazz with the vibe of rock. It's fascinating to watch or listen to.
For those that are not drummers, what you are watching here is a demonstration of one of the greatest modern drummers to have ever lived (and he still plays of course). In some ways, no one has ever come close to what this man can do on a drum set., before or since. His playing is supernatural.
Very perceptive review. This is this greatest fusion band of all time which was not helmed by Miles Davis. [Early Return to Forever is very close.] And although it was John McLauglhin's conception all the way, the most incredible playing is indeed by Billy Cobham.
That is some otherworldly virtuosic playing going on there. It sounds so spontaneous and a lot of time it is and then Jan, Jerry and John lock down on a riff and you see the amount of control and mind blowing musical knowledge and understanding that is behind it all. I used to listen to these guys back in the day. Listening to them again after all that time is sort of a mind explosion.
Billy was and still is a force of nature. I saw them live in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s and was absolutely blown away. He was one of the reasons I ended up with a Fibes drum set.
When you stop and think about this masterpiece. Good God Man!! wasn't it just incredible. 1972 was a monster year for jazz fusion, and prog rock. And to the guy who commented that Cobham is not human. Goodness, you got that RIGHT!! Saw Billy and his band in 1987 at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and my jaw was on the floor the entire night. You're right, he is a MONSTER!!
I was a really good drummer when I saw M.O. at the Whiskey A Go Go. I was 19 years old and I was practicing 3 to 5 hours a day. I had an edge over a lot of guys because I could play Jazz. Back in the day not as many drummers did. Billy Cobham blew me away. He wasn't a Rock, Jazz, Latin, Classical, New Orleans Second Line or Tribal drummer. He was not of this earth. For a half a year I practiced 6-7 hours a day. And then at a certain point I realized I would have to forgo sleep to get anywhere this guys solar system. He was that great. Thanks for the share.
Still here in 2020, I’m only 28 years old but a friend from high school introduced me to Mahavishnu. He was an old soul I guess I am too. This brings me back to a time much simpler.
The synchronicity between the three melodocists and the incredible backing of the rhythm section, here they are at the height og their powers. When I saw them, August 73, what ended up being between nothingness & eternity, they were starting to unravel. You couldn’t tell at the concert but years later to look back at performances like this and compare it to the Central Park show, like I said, they were at the height of their powers in Munich in 72
Saw them many times in the NY metro area when I was in college. The best was at Woolsey Hall, Yale, 1973 . . . it was oversold and they let us sit in the isles. We got up VERY close to the stage and it was the greatest concert experience of my life. They did three encores and JM comes back out, very apologetic, to tell us Billy can't play anymore, he's totally cramped up! Billy was a great football player, and he was ambidextrous which probably helped his drumming. We can debate styles, but for sheer power and speed, nobody comes close to Billy Cobham.
Lax here from Detroit: have seen M.O. 5 times .his "last"U.S.A. performance in AnnArbor 2017.I still hear it in my head everyday... Thank you Mahavishnu.....
Billy showed up for a drum clinic a few years back at the Bath House Cultural Center here in Dallas and I stumbled in to see who was making so much noise - since it was free -and when I saw who was playing I about pee'd my pants because I had been following all of them since back in 72. He didn't break any sticks in the clinic but he did break the drumset after about 45 minutes - much to the chagrin of the dudes throwing the gig. Billy played on anyway. That guy has alot of class.
I remember seeing them in the beginning at the Cafe au go go, in the village. Years before at the same place I saw the 1st gigs of Cream and Hendrix. Well when I saw Mahavisnu I was already playing the drumzz about 12 years and I thought I knew what i was doing. Tell you what I almost gave up the instrument, i was so totally ashamed at what little I knew,Billy Cobham rearranged my thought process, much in the same way, Buddy Rich did, and Ginger Baker did. The whole band made me realize you can never not excel to a higher level of musicianship. Cobham took the drumzz to another level at that time. I'm still playing today and still learning thanks to Buddy,Ginger,Billy.
Peter Eisenberg first time I saw them, my ‘gang’ was literally paralyzed. The audience didn’t ask for more....we had already seen and heard enough. Ended up seeing the lineup 5x before they broke up.
this is like a miracle, a rare anomaly in music. 43 years later this is like a new musical universe, fresh born; a display of total musical (and spiritual?) mastery.
Yea for sure Jerry’s in the pocket on this one. He’s always 1000 times better than any of us humans but this ones a highlight for him I think. On the contrary I think Jan is a big more out of sync that usual on this one
All my life I've been a fan of the mahavishnu orchestras and forevermore Always a player and drummer & Bass is all I do and Guitar and this and Pago deluxe 😅
Experiencing the album "Inner Mounting Flame" while on LSD is still one of the most memorable and thrilling events in my almost 50 years of listening to music. I opened the album, put it on then wound up playing both sides continuously over and over all through the night. I've never stopped coming back to visit that amazing soundscape.
Oh, I can definitely relate to that! It's after 2:30am and here I am disappearing down the mind-frying musical rabbit hole instead of getting my sorry posterior in bed! What a drug this is!
The Super Band! The most incredible music you willl ever hear now and forever! This is the way we played and practiced back then and today. Meeting of the Spirits my favorite. I listen everyday. I thank you very much. Brooklyn, NY, USA
Newton Sgobbi, exactly.....one of the great bands at the birth of jazz rock fusion.....saw all the greats.....Weather Report, Return to Forever, No Mystery tour with Al Dimeola. The 11th house with Larry Coryell.....
Groundbreaking stuff. The greatest jazz fusion rock band of all time. I'll never forget seeing them in 72 on ABC. They did birds of fire I was blown away at 14 years old. I couldn't believe what I was seeing
bought my first mahavihnu orchestra record 'the inner mounting flame' when i was 14 years old (1978) and it is still one of my fave. this music is indescribably... my music gods!
Far beyond their time!! I practiced until my mother threw me out of the house!! I eventually got it!! It took me six year at three hours a day!! Billy was my hero. He was John's right side appendage.
A truly unique band! For a few short years we got to hear "music of the gods", as a melody maker writer once quoted. The MO had the lot: great virtuosity, rock star charisma, formidable technique and dramatic presence. A great upload!
Through amazing clips like this we "youngsters" get chances to appreciate how unbelievable the real thing was. I read an article in a magazine about Mahavishnu Orchestra around 1974. It caught my interest. Then I found and bought a cassette of Birds of fire next year. Didn't really get it together when I listened at home ( first side) that night.But... Next day was a different story! One word with the historical drumsolo. I was absolutely hypnotized. Listened to the entire cassette every day for a year or so. So this is kind of a fundament for me as a musician and percussion teacher.
WOW...Nice upload...I've been seeing sections of this for years on YT...This is a great upload...I like how they concentrate on Billy C. a lot...:)...Best lineup, with Jan, Laird and of course Billy...
This is one of the best 5 piece ensembles that THESE humans happen to produce by hooking up with each other to play this music. They jammed and played the tuti figures so well together. Their dynamics are perfect. Goodman's solo in You Know You topped this concert off. They're very solid with the tunes and have settled in with jamming ideas becoming parts of their performance.NO BODIES sound like these guys...together. 😂 😊😊😊
Saw them live around 1972 or 1973. I was a Buddy Rich/Bobby Colomby fan and had never seen anything like the powerhouse Billy Cobham was before. Amazing concert!
Some of the most monsterous music ever composed..I saw the one truth band and in a solo McLaughlin's eyes fell in opposite directions as his head tilted back, I had a balcony seat looking down on the stage.
My first concert was during the "Birds of Fire" tour and at 15 went to see them open for ELP at the Long Beach Auditorium and let's just say my mind was already blown but the live concert split my right down my center and love for music just spilt on the floor !
I was just thinking of ELP, after viewing this mind blowness. ELP, at its best, was really amazing live, but they didn't have this much "cylinders" in their engine.
ohmygodallah: what a blessing: after 43 years to watch this again: i was a visitor at the Kongresshalle Deutsches Museum, right gallery, the cheapest sits. THANKS FROM MY SOUL malik
They played a show at my uncles high school in Santa Clara CA the year I was born (1972)...when I was 12 or so he turned me onto Inner Mounting Flame. When I was 8 my Dad played the Jeff Lorber Fusions Wizard Island album constantly, that was my intro into fusion.
'72 at the "pavillon" montreux, I saw them "life". it was not from this earth. on the way home, I could'n't talk with my friends. it had blown me away. the concert with the highest energy-level ever for me. and the gig 73' in "kongresshaus" zurich was the loudest ... oh my god!
Sadly missed this lineup but caught the 2nd incarnation when they toured the U.K.. This bands canon 🔥should be part of the curriculum of every high school music course, if only to show that what should be impossible is possible and that music can be this amazing. WOW!! It’s hard to believe but John went on to produce an acoustic band ...Shakti who,in their way, were just as good.
Correct. There are several good vids of them, and watching them, and this one, gives me chills every time I listen to it. This is the greatest gathering of genius jazz rock folks that has ever existed. It is surreal to watch and listen to this. Also, BC is not from this Earth. There is not a single drummer before or since (and I know of most) that can combine his complete mastery of stick control, finger control, open-handed playing, pure speed and power, poly-rythyms, odd time sigs, and utterly insane taste no matter what. He is in league by himself.
Guitfiddlejase, never say never. Have you seen the Trio Project? Hiromi Uehara? These guys were doing their thing after Cream where all the members had played blues and jazz. Go listen to Cream live. They would go off on tangents into the stratosphere
it's impossible how right you are. EX: MO was hyper-influential... yet NOT influential at all! (EX: all the jazz rock bands who followed were POLITE and SMOOTH, and didn't have any of the RAW POWER of MO, argh!)
@@ThePeanutButterCup13 Yeah, there ARE a few bands out there doing insane, intense, skilled, GREAT music! (The just don't make radio or rolling stone, sadly.)
Vinicius Zenatti Amazement to the ears has no boundries especiallywhen it comes to age...the development of musical absorption at a young age is one lifes truest beauty's...happy listening to you!!
Zena I was 14 when I saw them in a live concert prog’ on U.K. TV in 1972. Changed my perception of sound/music. Didn’t understand it / know what it was ....but knew it was “something else”😀If you haven’t heard Shakti ....1977 give their 3 albums a listen. Incredible.
Bellissimo start early fuck modern music most sounds like a Hollywood super capitalist producer put their digital hands all over it sounds like a operating room sanitized and sterile NO FUCKING SOUL
Gande Mahavishon Orquestra..... foi com essa formação com o Billy Cobama, que eu conheci o meu som favorito!!!! Oh, meus 12 aninhos, que saudade!! Amoooooo
That music obviously is created around Bill Cobhams drumming with all members listening closely to that musical tempest. One of the greatest musicians ever. On par with Armstrong, Parker, Reinhard, Coltrane. A creator of a distinctive style of dealing with a musical instrument. McLaughlin also belongs to that realm.
Saw them live in NYC 1972. Steve Miller acoustic set then these guys showed up . What a mind blower . Went out and bought their Devotion album that week .
Anything so unique so technical so different is timeless and absolutely fantastic and great, I thank god that some how they found each other and created music that sounds different every time I hear it… Thank you for sharing such beauty
This is what it means group music when each player listens to each of the players in awe of what each is doing and total respect and deep love for the artistic result.
Saw them walked in, they started playing and I forgot to sit down - the most powerful band I’ve ever seen! Also saw them open for Zappa... he seemed pissed off and didn’t talk much/ after the power of Maha the Zappa vibe was so hard to get into! Ty Uploader
W......O....W... THIS WHOLE BAND SHOULD BE IN THE "MUSIC" HALL OF FAME BOTH TOGETHER AND SEPARATELY...AMAZING JOHN McLAUGHLIN,BILLY COBHAM,JAN HAMMER ALL IN THE SAME BAND AT ONE POINT...THAT'S LIKE MAGIC,KAREEM,WORTHY...
I love those Fibes drums Billy Cobham plays. Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull) and Chris Slade (Manfred Mann) also used them around this time. Great sound.
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7:10 you know you know
16:24 The Dance of Maya
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John McLaughlin Billy Cobham and Jan Hammer were most notable but Jerry Goodman I never realized how important he was he’s great
This band was just out of this galaxy. Everyone here shines. It's just incredible to see Billy, Jan, John, Rick and Jerry so far out here. Every live show I see from these 2 years 1972-1973 is just totally unique and mind blowing. And I'm listening to them for over 32 years.
I just read that Rick Laird, the Irishman in the group, passed in July 2021. Rest in peace mate.
Billy Cobham was one of simon phillips favourite drummers and influenced many drummers
His style is totaly unique
One of the Greatest Drummers of all Time
Simon Philips ? The Police ?
@@stevenjosephs9Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Gil Evens, Peter Gabriel, etc. He even played for Judas Priest and Toto. I saw him play right after Billy and Lenny in the TAMA drum show at NAMM in 2014, and his sound and playing was superior.
@@RicardoMarlowFlamencowell if he's good enough for Priest he's good enough for me.
The live stuff from the 70s is magical, it's so raw and energised, but there's nothing pretentious about it, it's just a love of music and wanting to do something expressive and new that blends jazz with the vibe of rock. It's fascinating to watch or listen to.
I bought their first album and I am still blown away by the sheer virtuosity.
For those that are not drummers, what you are watching here is a demonstration of one of the greatest modern drummers to have ever lived (and he still plays of course). In some ways, no one has ever come close to what this man can do on a drum set., before or since. His playing is supernatural.
Very perceptive review. This is this greatest fusion band of all time which was not helmed by Miles Davis. [Early Return to Forever is very close.] And although it was John McLauglhin's conception all the way, the most incredible playing is indeed by Billy Cobham.
Absolutely spot on at last someone who knows what there talking about !!
And he is the only man to defeat GODZILLA in open handed combat, that one time in TOKYO.
And that is an understatement, !!!!!!
Are you kidding, Ringo would beat him like snare drum .
Good Lord, Billy. I've never before heard him play live at this level, changing rhythms spontaneously, so precise.
That is some otherworldly virtuosic playing going on there. It sounds so spontaneous and a lot of time it is and then Jan, Jerry and John lock down on a riff and you see the amount of control and mind blowing musical knowledge and understanding that is behind it all. I used to listen to these guys back in the day. Listening to them again after all that time is sort of a mind explosion.
I am a huge MO fan, falling in love again with Billy Cobham's drumming. One Word: untouchable.
Tho I was familiar with a couple of the individuals, I am Just finding out about this group. 100% Cobham is out of this world.
Billy was and still is a force of nature. I saw them live in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s and was absolutely blown away. He was one of the reasons I ended up with a Fibes drum set.
No mad light show, no nothing, just amazing musicians playing some of the most intense music on the fucking planet!
When you stop and think about this masterpiece. Good God Man!! wasn't it just incredible. 1972 was a monster year for jazz fusion, and prog rock. And to the guy who commented that Cobham is not human. Goodness, you got that RIGHT!! Saw Billy and his band in 1987 at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and my jaw was on the floor the entire night. You're right, he is a MONSTER!!
CttE, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Octopus, etc. 1972, my favorite year of music.
I was a really good drummer when I saw M.O. at the Whiskey A Go Go. I was 19 years old and I was practicing 3 to 5 hours a day. I had an edge over a lot of guys because I could play Jazz. Back in the day not as many drummers did. Billy Cobham blew me away. He wasn't a Rock, Jazz, Latin, Classical, New Orleans Second Line or Tribal drummer. He was not of this earth. For a half a year I practiced 6-7 hours a day. And then at a certain point I realized I would have to forgo sleep to get anywhere this guys solar system. He was that great. Thanks for the share.
+Scott Colomby Were you double bass drumming back then?
Some people are godly
+Scott Colomby "He was not of this earth"
Are you related to Bobby Colomby by chance?
Billy Cobham is a virtuoso who puts a smile on my face...he's so fucking good it's actually funny
Greatest drummer in the world playing with the greatest jazz fusion violinist in the world ..... way beyond my pay grade .
Still here in 2020, I’m only 28 years old but a friend from high school introduced me to Mahavishnu. He was an old soul I guess I am too. This brings me back to a time much simpler.
You missed the 2nd Renaissance my friend.
I didnt.. Thank God
Not only is Billy cobham a great drummer but the music and the band is amazingly fantastic
The synchronicity between the three melodocists and the incredible backing of the rhythm section, here they are at the height og their powers. When I saw them, August 73, what ended up being between nothingness & eternity, they were starting to unravel. You couldn’t tell at the concert but years later to look back at performances like this and compare it to the Central Park show, like I said, they were at the height of their powers in Munich in 72
Billy was my hero when I was 11 and got my first snare drum. 50 years later and he is still my hero.
Never knew drumming was a sport. Incredible!
No, it's not. In this case, especially, it is a force of nature and art.
Saw them many times in the NY metro area when I was in college. The best was at Woolsey Hall, Yale, 1973 . . . it was oversold and they let us sit in the isles. We got up VERY close to the stage and it was the greatest concert experience of my life. They did three encores and JM comes back out, very apologetic, to tell us Billy can't play anymore, he's totally cramped up! Billy was a great football player, and he was ambidextrous which probably helped his drumming. We can debate styles, but for sheer power and speed, nobody comes close to Billy Cobham.
I agree! Cobham one of the best ever... Tony Williams too and Jack DeJohnette, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, and Dennis Chambers.
This is an experience, not just music...
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan says exactly that In This interviewth-cam.com/video/5zFH0Rk4WFI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1vT9Nv34BRZOJXBt
19:00: The way Jerry Goodman plays his violin! I have never seen anything like this before!
one of the best drummers ever
Lax here from Detroit: have seen M.O. 5 times .his "last"U.S.A. performance in AnnArbor 2017.I still hear it in my head everyday... Thank you Mahavishnu.....
Music was soooo Great back in the 1970's.. Glad we have youtube to enjoy this at our fingertips..!! Rock on BIlly and John
Billy Cobham...what a monster. Wow...
Billy showed up for a drum clinic a few years back at the Bath House Cultural Center here in Dallas and I stumbled in to see who was making so much noise - since it was free -and when I saw who was playing I about pee'd my pants because I had been following all of them since back in 72. He didn't break any sticks in the clinic but he did break the drumset after about 45 minutes - much to the chagrin of the dudes throwing the gig. Billy played on anyway. That guy has alot of class.
Are you kidding me?!?! I would have loved to see that! Do you know if he'll be coming here again?
@@terryp3034 No Joke. He busted the Hi Hat. He tried not to laugh about it. That would have been rude.
I remember seeing them in the beginning at the Cafe au go go, in the village. Years before at the same place I saw the 1st gigs of Cream and Hendrix. Well when I saw Mahavisnu I was already playing the drumzz about 12 years and I thought I knew what i was doing. Tell you what I almost gave up the instrument, i was so totally ashamed at what little I knew,Billy Cobham rearranged my thought process, much in the same way, Buddy Rich did, and Ginger Baker did. The whole band made me realize you can never not excel to a higher level of musicianship. Cobham took the drumzz to another level at that time. I'm still playing today and still learning thanks to Buddy,Ginger,Billy.
yep. all there is to it, just don't ever fucking stop.
These guys are monsters. So much power with improvised music. Truly amazing.
Peter Eisenberg first time I saw them, my ‘gang’ was literally paralyzed. The audience didn’t ask for more....we had already seen and heard enough. Ended up seeing the lineup 5x before they broke up.
@@jdekalb did you ever see them play Birds of Fire? Tracking down live performances of that masterpiece is almost impossible.
this is like a miracle, a rare anomaly in music. 43 years later this is like a new musical universe, fresh born; a display of total musical (and spiritual?) mastery.
The best band EVER live, saw them many times, thanks
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!GRACIAS GRACIAS
Me too
I was there at Circus Krone, 48 yrs ago.....OMG Still stunning....
Prima zehr gut!
Jerry Goodman is killin' it on this too!
The forgotten maestro!!!
Yea for sure Jerry’s in the pocket on this one. He’s always 1000 times better than any of us humans but this ones a highlight for him I think. On the contrary I think Jan is a big more out of sync that usual on this one
@@nathanielrhysdavis nonsense
All my life I've been a fan of the mahavishnu orchestras and forevermore Always a player and drummer & Bass is all I do and Guitar and this and Pago deluxe 😅
Experiencing the album "Inner Mounting Flame" while on LSD is still one of the most memorable and thrilling events in my almost 50 years of listening to music. I opened the album, put it on then wound up playing both sides continuously over and over all through the night. I've never stopped coming back to visit that amazing soundscape.
Scott Matheson hahaha that's awesome!!!! How old were you ??
Gonna do this soon. Heard it high but not 'high, y'know.
This is probably the greatest drummer of all time and I completely understand the weight of that statement. Take this in and then respond. Incredible!
Damn, I gotta go to bed sometime.But I can't stop watching.
Oh, I can definitely relate to that! It's after 2:30am and here I am disappearing down the mind-frying musical rabbit hole instead of getting my sorry posterior in bed! What a drug this is!
The Super Band! The most incredible music you willl ever hear now and forever! This is the way we played and practiced back then and today. Meeting of the Spirits my favorite. I listen everyday. I thank you very much. Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wow, a violin and piano blues riff duel.
One of the best fusion / jazz-rock / rock line-ups on stage.
Each one is a master on his own instrument.
Thanks for posting.
Pooh
Newton Sgobbi, exactly.....one of the great bands at the birth of jazz rock fusion.....saw all the greats.....Weather Report, Return to Forever, No Mystery tour with Al Dimeola. The 11th house with Larry Coryell.....
Bellissimo
Laird is moderate
Groundbreaking stuff. The greatest jazz fusion rock band of all time. I'll never forget seeing them in 72 on ABC. They did birds of fire I was blown away at 14 years old. I couldn't believe what I was seeing
or hearing. "Birds of Fire" is my all-time favourite of theirs; "Sanctuary" my all-time favourite piece.
@@KitLaughlin you got good taste my friend
Me too
@@johnstewart7025 right on..
The days when many great gods roamed the earth......
We were lucky.......
The members of MO were all soooo fantastic musicians and together one of timeless best bands of all time! 🙏🙏🙏
bought my first mahavihnu orchestra record 'the inner mounting flame' when i was 14 years old (1978) and it is still one of my fave. this music is indescribably... my music gods!
I'm with you, brother.. The upcoming tour (12/2017 in SF) is a seminal moment in my musical life.
Far beyond their time!! I practiced until my mother threw me out of the house!! I eventually got it!! It took me six year at three hours a day!! Billy was my hero. He was John's right side appendage.
A truly unique band! For a few short years we got to hear "music of the gods", as a melody maker writer once quoted. The MO had the lot: great virtuosity, rock star charisma, formidable technique and dramatic presence. A great upload!
Billy cobham greatest drummer of all times
Cobham is playing supernatural, a living legend.
+Tony Barber Played with Tommy Bolin
yes
Fuck yeah
Not Better than Bonzo or Bill Bruford
Through amazing clips like this we "youngsters" get chances to appreciate how unbelievable the real thing was. I read an article in a magazine about Mahavishnu Orchestra around 1974. It caught my interest. Then I found and bought a cassette of Birds of fire next year. Didn't really get it together when I listened at home ( first side) that night.But... Next day was a different story! One word with the historical drumsolo. I was absolutely hypnotized. Listened to the entire cassette every day for a year or so. So this is kind of a fundament for me as a musician and percussion teacher.
Almost brought tears to my eyes. Seriously.
DOES bring tears to my eyes.
This band was MAGICAL.
Still hasn't been surpassed!
It's like they use a different set of notes and time signatures not yet introduced to this side of the galaxy. Mind Blowing!!!
As somebody says before this is not just music, this is an experience!!
WOW...Nice upload...I've been seeing sections of this for years on YT...This is a great upload...I like how they concentrate on Billy C. a lot...:)...Best lineup, with Jan, Laird and of course Billy...
This is one of the best 5 piece ensembles that THESE humans happen to produce by hooking up with each other to play this music.
They jammed and played the tuti figures so well together. Their dynamics are perfect.
Goodman's solo in You Know You topped this concert off. They're very solid with the tunes and have settled in with jamming ideas becoming parts of their performance.NO BODIES sound like these guys...together.
😂 😊😊😊
Billy Cobham... hardest working drummer in show business.
You got That Right!!! ;-) 👍👍
Still have my lp's.
Birds of fire
Inner Mounting Flame and
Apocalypse.
Got the Birds of Fire in 1973.
I still have all those too; They were so exciting and still sound magnificent!
Greg Vinson, I played his vinyl to death. Sounds ok but....thank God for TH-cam
clearly the best concert of The Mahavishnu Orchestra on youtube. you can see they were really working, found a groove, and TOOK OFF!
Ben W. At the height of their powers and singularity of purpose
Jerry playing that violin like a guitar. Head to head shred. Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman. Cool.
Wow that's music!!!!!!!!!!!!GRACIAS GRACIAS
A Singularity, happening on Earth, incredible! These Unisono parts are out of this world! Magical sounds...
2019 as good as it gets..grateful for my mentor who at a young age taught me about music
I have been following jazz since the early 70s i saw many great bands one that stands out is RTF !
Twenty plus years from the internet yet this music sounds like it's reaching every comer of the Globe simultaneously.
Saw them live around 1972 or 1973. I was a Buddy Rich/Bobby Colomby fan and had never seen anything like the powerhouse Billy Cobham was before. Amazing concert!
I love how they swing!
They are jazzers after all.
I was 16 years old and I began playing drums. I couldn't believe what I saw: BILLY COBHAM!
Some of the most monsterous music ever composed..I saw the one truth band and in a solo McLaughlin's eyes fell in opposite directions as his head tilted back, I had a balcony seat looking down on the stage.
ladies and gentlemen.....Mr. Billy Cobham !!!!!!
My first concert was during the "Birds of Fire" tour and at 15 went to see them open for ELP at the Long Beach Auditorium and let's just say my mind was already blown but the live concert split my right down my center and love for music just spilt on the floor !
I was just thinking of ELP, after viewing this mind blowness. ELP, at its best, was really amazing live, but they didn't have this much "cylinders" in their engine.
ohmygodallah: what a blessing: after 43 years to watch this again:
i was a visitor at the Kongresshalle Deutsches Museum, right gallery, the cheapest sits.
THANKS FROM MY SOUL
malik
sorry, the seats have been on the LEFT side, of course
Thanks, i live in Munich , and i was wondering in which hall this was recorded...
my first concert ever. 1973 princeton university. i was a freshman in high school.blown away
They played a show at my uncles high school in Santa Clara CA the year I was born (1972)...when I was 12 or so he turned me onto Inner Mounting Flame. When I was 8 my Dad played the Jeff Lorber Fusions Wizard Island album constantly, that was my intro into fusion.
'72 at the "pavillon" montreux, I saw them "life". it was not from this earth.
on the way home, I could'n't talk with my friends. it had blown me away.
the concert with the highest energy-level ever for me.
and the gig 73' in "kongresshaus" zurich was the loudest ... oh my god!
I remember seeing them in 72 at a small venue in Houston and had never heard of them before. Left that night blown away by them all.
Nothing like it to this day ! Straight Flames 🔥
in 1974 we helped the mahavishu band sent up at albany state university in new york for their concert it was unreal they at that time off the charts
The Guitar of course and the drums...but sweet Jesus the bass is so fantastic here...the tone is killer.
Sadly missed this lineup but caught the 2nd incarnation when they toured the U.K.. This bands canon 🔥should be part of the curriculum of every high school music course, if only to show that what should be impossible is possible and that music can be this amazing. WOW!!
It’s hard to believe but John went on to produce an acoustic band ...Shakti who,in their way, were just as good.
Through out Billy does so fancy flipping off drum sticks between 11:00 and 11:10 you can notice from close up.... amazing
We will never see anything like this ever again..
Correct. There are several good vids of them, and watching them, and this one, gives me chills every time I listen to it. This is the greatest gathering of genius jazz rock folks that has ever existed. It is surreal to watch and listen to this. Also, BC is not from this Earth. There is not a single drummer before or since (and I know of most) that can combine his complete mastery of stick control, finger control, open-handed playing, pure speed and power, poly-rythyms, odd time sigs, and utterly insane taste no matter what. He is in league by himself.
I want to accomplish something like this. Currently studying, just need to master technique first. Then anything is possible.
Guitfiddlejase, never say never. Have you seen the Trio Project? Hiromi Uehara? These guys were doing their thing after Cream where all the members had played blues and jazz. Go listen to Cream live. They would go off on tangents into the stratosphere
it's impossible how right you are.
EX:
MO was hyper-influential... yet NOT influential at all! (EX: all the jazz rock bands who followed were POLITE and SMOOTH, and didn't have any of the RAW POWER of MO, argh!)
@@ThePeanutButterCup13 Yeah, there ARE a few bands out there doing insane, intense, skilled, GREAT music! (The just don't make radio or rolling stone, sadly.)
this is how it is, when you dont just play music but you become the music
Like this great insight to their music..
I'm 14 and I believe I'm the only teenager listening to this masterpiece
Vinicius Zenatti Amazement to the ears has no boundries especiallywhen it comes to age...the development of musical absorption at a young age is one lifes truest beauty's...happy listening to you!!
Vinicius Zenatti you probably are lol
U aren't
Zena I was 14 when I saw them in a live concert prog’ on U.K. TV in 1972. Changed my perception of sound/music. Didn’t understand it / know what it was ....but knew it was “something else”😀If you haven’t heard Shakti ....1977 give their 3 albums a listen. Incredible.
Bellissimo start early fuck modern music most sounds like a Hollywood super capitalist producer put their digital hands all over it sounds like a operating room sanitized and sterile NO FUCKING SOUL
GRACIAS !! John McLaughlin por toda su música y también a todos los excelentes músicos que subieron a un escenario con usted .
Bellissimo, Que Bueno
RIP Rick Laird!!
Gande Mahavishon Orquestra..... foi com essa formação com o Billy Cobama, que eu conheci o meu som favorito!!!! Oh, meus 12 aninhos, que saudade!! Amoooooo
This drummer owns his own solar system
That music obviously is created around Bill Cobhams drumming with all members listening closely to that musical tempest. One of the greatest musicians ever. On par with Armstrong, Parker, Reinhard, Coltrane. A creator of a distinctive style of dealing with a musical instrument. McLaughlin also belongs to that realm.
Yes!!!!
Add Miles Davis and you have THE LIST.
@@KitLaughlin Absolutely.
I think he may be the Greatest of all time
Agree. I'll put Billy Cobham up against ANYBODY: Neil Peart Buddy Rich Vinnie colaiuta whoever.....
As others commented he's from another planet
Free Palestine!! 🇵🇸
Thank you for sharing this beautiful live performance from one of the most talented music groups this world has ever heard
This is pure gold...
Saw them live in NYC 1972. Steve Miller acoustic set then these guys showed up . What a mind blower . Went out and bought their Devotion album that week .
Stunning! Thanks so much for this.
Thanks for the comment. I love Mahavishnu.
+Júlio Pimentel I love Mahavihnu. Everybody loves Mahavishnu.. Peace
Anything so unique so technical so different is timeless and absolutely fantastic and great, I thank god that some how they found each other and created music that sounds different every time I hear it… Thank you for sharing such beauty
Wow... i missed them... was playing on that same stage, but 10 years later lol
This is what it means group music when each player listens to each of the players in awe of what each is doing and total respect and deep love for the artistic result.
Cannot fathom how good this is. The only other drummer that is as good as billy living today is Vinny C. Two best ever in my opinion.
Saw them walked in, they started playing and I forgot to sit down - the most powerful band I’ve ever seen! Also saw them open for Zappa...
he seemed pissed off and didn’t talk much/ after the power of Maha the Zappa vibe was so hard to get into! Ty Uploader
11:06 Goodman's violin solo is amazing.
Gregory Jewell Probably one of the finest violinist's ever to my ears...to date!!
I've never seen violin played that way before! Amazing guy! And Jan Hammer another virtuoso!
This band just tore everyone in their wake.
amazing! seminal! shows a combination of skill, passion, and improvisation that is, sadly, rarely seen today in this kind of sonic context.
classic jams here, brothers & sisters
Golden times
W......O....W...
THIS WHOLE BAND SHOULD BE IN THE "MUSIC" HALL OF FAME BOTH TOGETHER AND SEPARATELY...AMAZING
JOHN McLAUGHLIN,BILLY COBHAM,JAN HAMMER ALL IN THE SAME BAND AT ONE POINT...THAT'S LIKE MAGIC,KAREEM,WORTHY...
No, do not wish that on them.
I love those Fibes drums Billy Cobham plays. Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull) and Chris Slade (Manfred Mann) also used them around this time. Great sound.
Trinitarian BB used a blue acrylic Ludwig!
'' HE told me he used to do 250 to 300 sit ups before every show ( '' maybe that will tell you something '' )
No way! When did he tell you this?