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I notice "Dr. Fusion" has some live recordings of Mahavishnu: I'll have to wait though to check them out when I get home from work: http://troward.blogspot.com/2008/12/mahavishnu-orchestra-live-at-auditorium.html On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) <emile@foryourhead.com> wrote: > 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). > > > -- > > Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D. > Video Producer and Digital Photographer Image Processing Specialist > Video for your HEAD! Boris FX > http://www.foryourhead.com http://www.borisfx.com > > My photography can be viewed at > http://www.flickr.com/photos/22231918@N06/collections/72157603627170351/ > > My videos can be viewed at > http://www.youtube.com/Tobenfeld > > "Don't make book, if you cannot cover bets." -- Tom Lehrer > > -- Art Simon simart@null.net myspace [dot] com/artsimon