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Re: Mahavishnu Orchestra: seminal recordings was: one guitarist one drummer

The Mahavishnu Project, Phase 2 is a 2 disk live recording by a 
tribute band led by the jazz drummer Greg Bendian. It captures the 
feel of a live Mahavishnu show at its prime (I attended quite a few) 
better than any disk by the original band.


At 11:05 PM -0800 12/18/08, Rick Walker wrote:
>Stephen Goodman wrote:
>"Woof, yes please.  I wore out two lp's of "Inner Mounting Flame" 
>before CDs came out. Post Fripp's CGT and GC works, a listen to that 
>album also holds lovely bits of quiet."
>
>
>A friend of mine in college (right as I was just becoming intrigued 
>by jazz but new nothing about it
>except what our father played---Bruebeck, some Miles, Big Band)
>recommended that we go early to an Emerson, Lake and Palmer concert 
>at Winterland which we had
>tickets for because there was this famous British Jazz guitarist, 
>John MCGlafflin (how he pronounced it)
>who had played with Miles on "In a Silent Way".
>
>Dutifully I convinced my brother to go early enough to watch this 
>opening act, called
>The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
>
>They came out and Cobham opened the show with the fastest drum roll 
>I'd ever heard in my life
>as McLaughlin ripped into Inner Mounting Flame on his double necked 
>gibson 6/12 string electric.
>
>One of the most amazing shows of my life and when we ran to the 
>record store to buy it the next week
>we found out that it had not even been released yet.
>
>We had to wait two weeks and I, too, have worn out two vinyl copies 
>of that beautiful  and completely
>life changing record for me.
>
>We were jazz fusion fanatics from that point on until the juice ran 
>out of the scene and
>the whole KOOL jazz thing coopted it all.
>
>Yeah,  great fucking record.
>
>If you are young on this list and haven't heard that record, or it's 
>follow up ,  "Birds of Fire"
>do yourself a favor and listen to some absolutely blistering and 
>passionate music.
>
>It was when fusion was brand new and everyone was taking huge chances.
>It has the rawness of punk rock and it's palpable to this day 
>(whereas a lot of later fusion
>classics have lost a lot of their charm).


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