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



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).
>
>
> --
>
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