The Keyboard line Jan plays at 6.34 I have to say it he is still one of the most underrated keyboard players no one played like that on a Rhodes and Never since he was inspired by John so much and this band have never been surpassed the entire energy and the music is unbelievable God had a hand in bringing them together the original line up so special
I wouldn't say He was underrated ,but just didn't get the recognition that more commercial bands got.Yes, He was one of the best during hay day of jazz/rock fusion music.No doubt.Thanks for Your insight.
Flat out, unbelievable band.We will never hear a band like them in our lifetime.I think! but there are groups out there mimicking the stuff.Checkout the Sea Of Tr 13:2anquility with Pete Pardo.
@@robertsullivan6246 It was similar to other shows they did around that time. They played Miles Beyond. Meeting of the Spirits. Lotus on Irish Streams. The Dance of Maya. And the best Noonward Race I’ve heard. I wish I could find the show? Seems strange that they’ve only released the 1 song. So long ago it’s pretty hard to clarify everything. No one can even say if Savoy Brown played! I caught Allmans. Alice Cooper. ELP Mahavishnu. I slept on an off. Cooper was really late which was ok to me. It kinda made the hanging scene feel like a cool moment. I’m so glad ELP and A Cooper finally released their shows. I’d love to see it again. Too bad it wasn’t a big deal. Sabbath was there an didn’t preform! Sad. What I saw was well worth being there
@@326vince I would guess the tapes were lost. With such an amazing NR performance I bet the other tunes were cooking as well. On the Columbia Collection there is an unedited version. th-cam.com/video/oKfw_7O27Ck/w-d-xo.html
Nice , I saw MH at the Spectrum in Philadelphia in 1974 or 75 I forget.Frampton's Camel was the opening act.Half of the arena was curtained off .Not a big draw at that time .This was the second version of MH.Ponty was in that band.Take care.
always if they were playing faster to get off the stage and out of that heat. :) ELP had alot of problems with heat and humidity they had to mute pieces of the moog tracks
They were nuts in a good way.I was too young to appreciate that group like You guys.I'm only 66 years old.I guess Yóu guys are in Your 70's.My older brother turned Me onto this stuff , so disrespect.Just a little bit jealous I could not see them live peace
Insane! You want to play just one MO piece that demonstrates their chops, McLaughlin’s mad compositions, the ensemble’s tightness, and the MO’s absolute uniqueness, it’s this one. My gawd😮
@@alancumming2336 I was wondering aloud about the complete set which will have been recorded. But I am satisfied that this one item from the set may be all we will get.
I’m in that group of people. And being an 11 year old drummer. Yes. I was happy. Cobham. Neal Smith was fantastic rock drummer in Alice Coopers band. Yes. A great time! Easter1972
Amazing that you were there! My sister had this record and I was always floored by what McLaughlin and Cobham could do together. I'm also a HUGE fan of Cooper's original band. Cheers!
this solo and the one in syracuse rate as the best i have ever heard of anybody. love it when he starts sounding like led zeipplin2 ater all these years he makes my heart race. the whole band does.
Remember seeing the 'new' MO in central park. Rainy day. The string quartet and Gayle went away. JM 'There's no place like NY. If you can sit through this (glance at the sky), the least we can do is play for you'. My God did they!!!! Had to be there!
... remembering the thunder claps before the show.. ominous and loud as the band would soon be... and the mid-set downpour, unleashing waterfalls streaming down in front of the performers, off the flimsy clear plastic tarps that they hastily gaffer's-taped up last minute... and the puddles spreading out across the stage, Mahavishnu having to wide-step over them to get from place to place... amidst all that voltage..! Lord of Mercy!... and the cheers of the New Yorkers who just WOULD NOT BE RAINED OUT... maybe the best show ever for this little fiddle.
on this track with MO1, and MO2 with Walden, Armstrong/Moran, JM made surreal psychedelic moments - some that stretched forward seemlessly for 45 minutes, Visions LP doing that for me - but how about when JMs bands let's incl One Truth broke it down to funk? this guitarist was totally comfortable in that American aspect of world music - as he became with Indian, Spanish, Brazilian, French (Debussy to Django) JM becomes other-worldly.
On the re-issue of Columbia's "The Best Of The Mahavishnu Orchestra" a few years ago, they included an unedited version of this performance! It's very hard to find nowadays!
Ah. This was the Festival where the Scorching Sun made Greg Lakes jacket sleeve smoulder. I bet John was cooler in his white shirt and short hair. Jerry Goodman looks Frazzled in the Photo but they Sound Incredible. One of the best versions of Noonward Race ever. Was the rest of their Set recorded I wonder? Mahavishnu must've cut E.L.P.s egos right down to size!
Thanks for the Reply Man.Well I envy you, i guess that was the Golden Age! I first saw John in 88' with Jeff Berlin and Trilock Gurtu ~ and it was tremendous, but seeing film of MO 1 has given me some kind of immersion experience...Back in my mid~teens I met a friendly Record Stall owner who had a Suitcase of Bootleg Cassette Tapes stashed under the Counter.I knew I'd found a like~minded Soul 'cos he was blasting out a Jack Bruce Gig i'd never heard the like of before in the Shop, and we quickly connected over a mutual obsession for the Music of McLaughlin and Jack Bruce in particular. Next time I turned up the shop wasn't very busy so he drags out this Suitcase with about a hundred Cassettes in it...and they were all Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jack Bruce, with a few Van Der Graaf Generator tapes thrown in. The upshot was that he would copy the ones I was interested in and bring them in letting me have them for free. What a Guy... He'd seen John with "Lifetime" playing to 30 people in a small Glasgow Club and MO 1 at the more spacious Kelvin Hall in '72. Other key Gigs included seeing McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Billy Cobham and Stu Goldberg in Germany in '79. Luckily Live Shows proliferate on TH-cam nowdays and it's nice to have a similar conversation with a Mahavishnu Head.Cool to know there's more of us out there.I think Mahavishnu gave us a glimpse of Heaven.Thanks again. Best Wishes. Bye for now.
@@maxinemckenzie5765 Hi Maxine, you've seen some very cool shows, too. Being a bass player myself, I have always been a huge fan of Jack Bruce & just about anything he was involved in. Never saw him play with Johnny Mac, but I DID get to see him live at club shows with some great drummers: in 1976, "The Jack Bruce Band" with a young Simon Phillips playing like, in my words at the time, "a mini-Cobham"; and "Jack Bruce & Friends" in 1980 (with the man himself, Billy Cobham, on drums, along with David Sancious on keys & guitar). Great, great shows. Thank you, Jack, RIP.
he got them after this kit. This was a mish mash of Gretsch and Slingerland drums that were stashed at Pro Percussion that were left over from other drummers. think about this for a second. this was the pre-cursor to Tony Williams having practically the same set up. Single bass, triple floor toms...
The Keyboard line Jan plays at 6.34 I have to say it he is still one of the most underrated keyboard players no one played like that on a Rhodes and Never since he was inspired by John so much and this band have never been surpassed the entire energy and the music is unbelievable God had a hand in bringing them together the original line up so special
I wouldn't say He was underrated ,but just didn't get the recognition that more commercial bands got.Yes, He was one of the best during hay day of jazz/rock fusion music.No doubt.Thanks for Your insight.
Flat out, unbelievable band.We will never hear a band like them in our lifetime.I think! but there are groups out there mimicking the stuff.Checkout the Sea Of Tr 13:2anquility with Pete Pardo.
I was there! believe me. I’ve seen them 4 times all together. This lineup 3. And Mach II a on e. Awsome folks!!!
What other tunes did they play there?
@@robertsullivan6246 It was similar to other shows they did around that time. They played Miles Beyond. Meeting of the Spirits. Lotus on Irish Streams. The Dance of Maya. And the best Noonward Race I’ve heard. I wish I could find the show? Seems strange that they’ve only released the 1 song. So long ago it’s pretty hard to clarify everything. No one can even say if Savoy Brown played! I caught Allmans. Alice Cooper. ELP Mahavishnu. I slept on an off. Cooper was really late which was ok to me. It kinda made the hanging scene feel like a cool moment. I’m so glad ELP and A Cooper finally released their shows. I’d love to see it again. Too bad it wasn’t a big deal. Sabbath was there an didn’t preform! Sad. What I saw was well worth being there
@@326vince I would guess the tapes were lost. With such an amazing NR performance I bet the other tunes were cooking as well. On the Columbia Collection there is an unedited version. th-cam.com/video/oKfw_7O27Ck/w-d-xo.html
Nice , I saw MH at the Spectrum in Philadelphia in 1974 or 75 I forget.Frampton's Camel was the opening act.Half of the arena was curtained off .Not a big draw at that time .This was the second version of MH.Ponty was in that band.Take care.
Shawn Lane fans should hear this.
This is THE best version of this song that I have ever heard!
always if they were playing faster to get off the stage and out of that heat. :) ELP had alot of problems with heat and humidity they had to mute pieces of the moog tracks
Yes that's very much true
Still , not bad.
Good info.
The song and band that turned my musical world upside down !!!
Best band I know... nothing compares to them.
They were nuts in a good way.I was too young to appreciate that group like You guys.I'm only 66 years old.I guess Yóu guys are in Your 70's.My older brother turned Me onto this stuff , so disrespect.Just a little bit jealous I could not see them live peace
That was a great version of Noonward Race👏🏿
Insane! You want to play just one MO piece that demonstrates their chops, McLaughlin’s mad compositions, the ensemble’s tightness, and the MO’s absolute uniqueness, it’s this one. My gawd😮
Orchestrated madness.Wow.
McLaughlin and Cobham: like the intricate interplay of tabla and sitar...at 130 decibels.
Goodness Gracious! The Greatest Band of All Time!
Probably.jazz/rock fusion on.
It's the best version I've heard and probably the best track on the Mar Y Sol album.
And where is the rest of the Mahavishnu set?
@@deepindercheema How would I know that? This was the only track on the album.
@@alancumming2336 I was wondering aloud about the complete set which will have been recorded. But I am satisfied that this one item from the set may be all we will get.
Amazing.
I grew up as a schoolboy listening to this. Lucky me.
Incredible, the second most cosmic force in electric music.
Is the first one Sun Ra?
@@fuzzballzz36 jimi baby
@@louiskremer2000 fair enough!
Boy,it's nice to here non vocal music.Just instruments kicking ass.John Mclaughin.He is the master of that. ucking love it!
I’m in that group of people. And being an 11 year old drummer. Yes. I was happy. Cobham. Neal Smith was fantastic rock drummer in Alice Coopers band. Yes. A great time! Easter1972
Amazing that you were there! My sister had this record and I was always floored by what McLaughlin and Cobham could do together. I'm also a HUGE fan of Cooper's original band. Cheers!
@@rkb2092 Carl Palmer was also there. And incredible. I loved Tarkus. I was so floored.
@@326vince Carl is my other favorite. Love Tarkus!
@@rkb2092 I can’t believe I lucked into this festival. Was a great time. th-cam.com/video/tomMmkYzNgk/w-d-xo.html
1:19 shows what an absolute beast McLaughlin was on guitar. (I know, and about a hundred other parts LOL. But that ascending line, holy *#*!)
Possessed, by some spirit.
simply impossible!! :-)
Billy was untouchable!
Damn. I was there. It still amazes me. More each time
With all the living legends in this band, I need to shine some love on Rick Laird on bass...who else could give the chaos a foundation to stand upon!
John on this f__king guitar.Nobody can do this,but Him.Ask Jeff Beck.And He ain't no slouch either.BillyC.also amazing.
LA PERFECCION TOTAL INSUPERABLE
10:35 Billy and John get deep into the groove -can't get enough of it since 50 years!
this solo and the one in syracuse rate as the best i have ever heard of anybody. love it when he starts sounding like led zeipplin2 ater all these years he makes my heart race. the whole band does.
Where are the videos of this incredible show???? ELP , Allman Brothers, etc..... played there
Best version of that piece !!!
Remember seeing the 'new' MO in central park. Rainy day. The string quartet and Gayle went away. JM 'There's no place like NY. If you can sit through this (glance at the sky), the least we can do is play for you'. My God did they!!!! Had to be there!
was there too.. on stage... what a day.!
Ladies and Gentlemen. Steve Kindler is in the house. Much respect Sir.
... remembering the thunder claps before the show.. ominous and loud as the band would soon be... and the mid-set downpour, unleashing waterfalls streaming down in front of the performers, off the flimsy clear plastic tarps that they hastily gaffer's-taped up last minute... and the puddles spreading out across the stage, Mahavishnu having to wide-step over them to get from place to place... amidst all that voltage..! Lord of Mercy!... and the cheers of the New Yorkers who just WOULD NOT BE RAINED OUT... maybe the best show ever for this little fiddle.
Blessings to You Mr Kindler. Love Your playing with Mahavishnu, Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer. 🕉 .
Happy Birthday,Big John McLaughlin,none like him
on this track with MO1, and MO2 with Walden, Armstrong/Moran, JM made surreal psychedelic moments - some that stretched forward seemlessly for 45 minutes, Visions LP doing that for me - but how about when JMs bands let's incl One Truth broke it down to funk?
this guitarist was totally comfortable in that American aspect of world music - as he became with Indian, Spanish, Brazilian, French (Debussy to Django)
JM becomes other-worldly.
seamlessly
On the re-issue of Columbia's "The Best Of The Mahavishnu Orchestra" a few years ago, they included an unedited version of this performance!
It's very hard to find nowadays!
Thanks - just ordered a used copy through discogs.
😮😮😮😮😮pure energy in Puerto Rico
Geñios ,iluminados,marcaròn un antes y un despues,los Beatles de la fuziòn,Yazz, progresiva,sinfonica.....etc!!!!🎼🎸🥁🙆♂️🙌🏼❤
FIRE!
I bought this record from a cutout bin way back when. Good use of two dollars.
Me too. Listening to it again now, 50yrs on.
Classic
I believe The Mahavishnu Orchestra only performed this one piece as did the other performers that day.
There was entire koncert , now I can't find it, many songs
Oh my Gaaaaaawd !.
Thanks you 🙌🏻🙏🏼☸️
good pics
That snare at 9:24 is Heavenly!
これは、凄すぎる
Pretty damn hot. Thanks!
On fire.
50yrs ago 😳
Ah. This was the Festival where the Scorching Sun made Greg Lakes jacket sleeve smoulder. I bet John was cooler in his white shirt and short hair. Jerry Goodman looks Frazzled in the Photo but they Sound Incredible. One of the best versions of Noonward Race ever. Was the rest of their Set recorded I wonder? Mahavishnu must've cut E.L.P.s egos right down to size!
Maxine McKenzie THE best version of "TNR" that I have a recording of. Saw the original band 5 times. Mind blown every time.
Thanks for the Reply Man.Well I envy you, i guess that was the Golden Age! I first saw John in 88' with Jeff Berlin and Trilock Gurtu ~ and it was tremendous, but seeing film of MO 1 has given me some kind of immersion experience...Back in my mid~teens I met a friendly Record Stall owner who had a Suitcase of Bootleg Cassette Tapes stashed under the Counter.I knew I'd found a like~minded Soul 'cos he was blasting out a Jack Bruce Gig i'd never heard the like of before in the Shop, and we quickly connected over a mutual obsession for the Music of McLaughlin and Jack Bruce in particular. Next time I turned up the shop wasn't very busy so he drags out this Suitcase with about a hundred Cassettes in it...and they were all Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jack Bruce, with a few Van Der Graaf Generator tapes thrown in. The upshot was that he would copy the ones I was interested in and bring them in letting me have them for free. What a Guy... He'd seen John with "Lifetime" playing to 30 people in a small Glasgow Club and MO 1 at the more spacious Kelvin Hall in '72. Other key Gigs included seeing McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Billy Cobham and Stu Goldberg in Germany in '79. Luckily Live Shows proliferate on TH-cam nowdays and it's nice to have a similar conversation with a Mahavishnu Head.Cool to know there's more of us out there.I think Mahavishnu gave us a glimpse of Heaven.Thanks again. Best Wishes. Bye for now.
@@maxinemckenzie5765 Hi Maxine, you've seen some very cool shows, too. Being a bass player myself, I have always been a huge fan of Jack Bruce & just about anything he was involved in. Never saw him play with Johnny Mac, but I DID get to see him live at club shows with some great drummers: in 1976, "The Jack Bruce Band" with a young Simon Phillips playing like, in my words at the time, "a mini-Cobham"; and "Jack Bruce & Friends" in 1980 (with the man himself, Billy Cobham, on drums, along with David Sancious on keys & guitar). Great, great shows. Thank you, Jack, RIP.
ELP had no problem playing there... or anywhere. I want to see the full video of this concert.!!
It's the record label that chooses which tracks make it to the album. The album was released under Atlantic. Mahavishnu was with Columbia records. :-)
I mean autobahn,sorry for the misspelling.
Holy fuk!
Noorward Race? Noor in Arabic is "light", so that works pretty well.
Is this the version that they used for the bonus track on the inner mountain flame re-release?
Where are the Clear
Fibes ?
he got them after this kit. This was a mish mash of Gretsch and Slingerland drums that were stashed at Pro Percussion that were left over from other drummers. think about this for a second. this was the pre-cursor to Tony Williams having practically the same set up. Single bass, triple floor toms...
Rental?
Is it just me? Extraordinary musicianship but the guitar never sounds like it's quite in tune.