Mahavishnu Orchestra changed my life forever... for the better. I always have an escape with MO...takes me to a place where no bullshit can affect me.
The drummer is Billy Cobham, who created the drumming genre we are now listening to. I played with his brother Wayne Cobham who played the trombone...MONSTER musicians...!
Es war die Zeit der Olympischen Spiele 1972 in München. Ich saß zuhause beim Sonntags-Mittagessen mit meinen Eltern und meiner Schwester. Im "Olympia-Kultur-Rahmenprogramm" lief DIESES Konzert live im Fernsehen. Und ich sage Euch: Ich hatte 3 Jahre vorher mit Schlagzeugspielen angefangen, doch bei dem, was Billy Cobham da abgezogen hat, blieb mir das Schnitzel im Mund hängen. Danke, dass es YOUTUBE gibt!
As a HUGE fan of jazz fusion, which was basically, Miles Davis telling the guys who wouldn't go electric to GO ELECTRIC! and the guys already electric to expand their consciousnesses to challenge "unforeseen" horizons.My HS classmates had just returned from Europe and had a Purple colored bootleg of this performance. And it remains a Masterpiece, recorded in Germany. This is where the blues went! and being performed in Germany which was very apprapo. (sp?) QUALITY recording!
I saw them a few times during this period and at the time that they release "Inner Mounting Flame" (still on my playlist). Interesting that another comment mentioned Weather Report. These are musical first cousins to MO. John McLaughlin and Joe Zawinul were together on Miles's "Bitches Brew" (the birth of rock/jazz fusion) and these are all seasoned jazz/fusion musician and they not only know each other, but they often work together and share. I remain a big fan of Mahavishnu.
As a drummer since 1977, I tried but couldn't absorb Billy's "jazz intimidation" style. However it so influenced me that I developed something of an "anti-Cobham" approach to drumming; simplified, staying close to the original rhythm, jumping off at 1 and 3, and always aching to break through! The road I took went in other directions, but I came back to drumming after 20 yrs and got it right away! His set is a musical instrument (not just the sum of it's parts) capable of shaping a lead!
Billy Cobham was known at the time as "God's Rhythm Machine" and you can see why. It's amazing to me how music has regressed instead or progressed from this time. All formulaic and plastic today. I'll take the late 60's and early 70's any damn day!!
@chuckbyf1 , how true beloved. I remember when that transition came about when Reagan was elected or at least that is when I really begin to understood what was happening with the savings and loans. It was only a matter of time before banks would follow. But, with this movement going on now, I think we are going to right all the wrongs put in place by the greedy elitist and the puppet politicians they control. There are enough of us who know about the past are WILL NOT repeat it.
I have to listen periodically to Mahavisnhu to cleanse my ears from all the crap we are bombarded nowadays with. Back from days when musicians and the industry really cared about REAL quality.
Rick Laird is such a great bassist and should get a lot more credit for tying this great band together, otherwise it would have been a bunch of noise.
Starting right around the 4:20 mark Jerry begins constructing yet another of his dazzlingly brilliant solos supercharged by the most powerful fusion band in history.That's what I'm talkin' about.
this is such and awesome track, love it, chilling on it now, nice buzz, good groove, doesn't get better.. Just checked this really awesome track from a new acid jazz guy.. This is a must hear,, truly. search on " Pai Crowd, Jamie Ruben " you are going to dig that for sure!
makes me sad to watch this. I had the same kit as Cobham (minus one bass drum) Fibes Clear - stolen Dec 1979 just loved those drums. The clear snare (which Cobham uses) was more difficult to work than the Fibes deep (6 1/2 x 14) Chrome snare - many thanks for this post.
@revup67 : believe me i know what u mean..i had a"Templo"drm kit(nothing compare to ur's cause mine was cheap)a ZIMGAR(made in Japan)snare drm that meant sooo much to me also a 20"(crash/ride)Zildjian & 13"(German)high-hat cymbals(which my late Grandfather left money to my recent late Grandmother for me to purchase b4 he died c.1972)a few here&there hardware which was stolen out of a church i used to attend many yrs ago & it broke my heart into pieces!..never got over it, but life goes on... =o\
“When I hear new music coming into my head, its mission is integrated into its notes. It basically tells me how it wants to be.” – John McLaughlin. From Page 1 of the book “Follow Your Heart – John McLaughlin song by song.”
@Philburpalooza this drummer is billy cobham dude..but its not only the drummer. jan hammer on keyboards and john mac laughlin (leader)are all great musicians!!
@Philburpalooza this drummer is billy cobham dude..but its not only the drummer. jan hammer on keyboards and john mac laughlin on guitar(leader)are all great musicians!!
Les débuts du jazz/rock! une sacrée époque! j'écoutais à l'époque le jazz et la pop music et le rock progressif(emerson lake and palmer,génésis,yes king crimson) et là pour moi ce fut une suite logique, la première fois que j'ai entendu mahavishnu et BILLY COBHAM ,j'ai flashé grave! avec sa magnifique batterie "fibes" en plastique! quel son! quelle technique! et super groove,même aujourd'hui je ne m'en lasse pas.BILLY restera pour moi un de mes maîtres en matière de batterie! DIDIER D'AGOSTINO
No other band of the 70's effected music the way THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA did. I was playing in rock bands, one of my good friends from college turned me onto John Mac Laughlin and the Orchestra god my ears would never hear the same, I was classically trained, bread on Johhny Winter, Humble Pie. Mountain but this took me to another relm. When you were in the audience it was very spiritual I felt like I was floating and that was not from smoking the weed, these guys transcended, eclipsed it all!
@Deaconblue2u I went to this concert tour in 1972 and saw this band in Manchester England. I have been a Mahavishnu fan ever since. As I approach the golden year of 60, my enthusiasm for the band has only grown. I have met Billy C and Jerry G, and emailed John M. He kindly replyed. I couldn't believe the arrival of the email. I was on a high for a week. You Tube has done the impossible and given us the greatest band on the planet again. May Mahavishnu reign forever.
@Deaconblue2u thats all very true.. but no band influnced music in the 70s more than mahanishnu orchestra ? come on thats just a much. lets not get carried away
@Deaconblue2u How about Weather Report or Return to Forever? I'm not saying the MO wasn't important. Far from it. But, I think it's a bit short-sighted to say that "No other band" effected music like they did.
@Deaconblue2u The first time I saw them was at The Beacon Theater in NYC. They were a TBA act following Steve Miller and Cannonball Adderly. One of their earliest shows, I think it was pre Inner Mounting Flame. By the end of the set, everyone left, as the dawn was coming up, knowing they had seen something very, very special.
I saw them play at the old Guthrie Theater in Mpls and Colbam pounded the drums so hard someoone had to keep coming out during the show to put them back in place and try to brace them...just awesome stuff!!
@FamousJazzman ...Good Question...I Grew Up Listening To This Band And RTF Thanks To My Dad And Uncles And To This Day I Still Listen To Them Today And I'm Only 43 So Glad They Played Good Music Cause Im A Huge Fan
mindblowing to be able to see what I use to hear a lot in the days of my youth. Hard to find anyone play like this now days so this is great to hear some serious jamming going on
This music is probably one of my all time favourite finds on the Internet...Mr. Cobham gives out one amazing piece of drum inspiration..\m/ I saw him live back in the nineties and he was absolutely volcanic...he came on, played with his hands then played with hand towels then four sticks then two, he put on the most amazing master class..
Guitarist Carl Orr: "I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Follow Your Heart - John McLaughlin song by song.” The descriptions of the music are great, and I particularly enjoy those inspired moments when the author abandons literal description and describes the music in vivid, sometimes surreal imagery."
Chops, music, technique, I've listened and played enough music to know/feel when technique gets in the way of the feeling and when technique moves the feeling to other levels. This group is a beautiful example of transparent technique. It takes a phenomenal amount of work to get to that point and it makes judgments absolutely irrelevant.
@TBAGSHAW I was thinking the same thing.I saw Chick Corea's ensemble at the time 1973 "Return to Forever" which was great,Billy Cobham played drums.Santana I've always loved but when he was sucked up by this M.O. he was playing chops.Jerry Goodman I've loved since 1968,here are chops.No soul in John McLaughlin's music.
@RasMajnouni damn that's harsh. chops have no soul? you really dont hear any architecture and movement as the song progresses? no emotion? NO SOUL? lol
@solargestureActually,you make sense.I was just trying to understand why I've loved Jerry Goodman &Santana wildly since 1968& Chick Corea with all his bands since 1974.But Johnny Mac leaves me cold as the others burn me up.Truth is I don't know jack about music except one thing: around 175,000 hours of my life(1/3) were light up bright by music.
@RasMajnouni - As Jimmie Vaughan put it perfectly, 'There's only two kinds of music- the music you like and the music you don't.' So if some music or musician doesn't connect, no worries, go with what you love.
@TBAGSHAW The melody lines are classical and classical Indian influenced, along with blues, and jazz, No soul? Boy, someone needs to listen some more. These guys are generating a new form of music which unique and difficult to understand. It takes time to really appreciate what these guys are doing. If you get the songbook, it explains the songwriting and the amount of experimentation being used, John is pure genius.
there is a bootleg vinyl record of this show...it might be kind of rare, I'm not sure when it was pressed. Has a yellow circle with Mayan type shapes on the front. Sound is decent about even with this video, maybe a bit worse in places.
Actually, to be honest, this is insulting to serious muscians everywhere. Why the undualtions and gripping expressions on Hammer's face? Is he having a bowel movement?
the best electric guitar player of that period..of course now..it would be George Bellas and Jeff Loomis..things have come very far since 72..I love John though
I was fortunate to see this amazing group 3 times in New York city including their last concert at Lincoln Center and the live Between Nothingness and Eternity concert in Central park. Billy Cobham and Jerry Goodman shines on this video but it is the full Mahavishnu orchestra that pushed the musical boundries to the zenith.
@oregonbobv - you are one lucky guy....God I would loved to have seen the original band (saw MK 2). I worked with an engineer/producer who recorded Between Nothingness and Eternity. He said it was a huge challenge to capture what they were doing with the equipment they had then. It was so powerful. Billy Cobham's performance on Nothingness is one of the great instrumental achievements of all time IMHO
@InnAb109 The concert was at Wollman rink and it cost only $2.00! Jerry Goodman was amzing that night and reall ripped and rocked the violin. Your friend who engineered the recording did a good job. On the record, John Mclauglin is really captured well. Also , Rick Laird did his bass solo in One word filtered through the mini-moog.
@oregonbobv - Jerry was the unsung genius of the band, totally unique musician, as they all were, what made it so remarkable. Funny mix on the record, at least by mordern standards. I think McLaughlin must have been in there with his channel nailed full up. I only worked with the engineer/producer once, many years ago, but he's not a friend. Haven't seen him since. His name is Ken Scott, also worked with Bowie and a ton of others. It was great just to be able to pick his brains for a day or so.
Rick Laird is great, perfect for this group, but in the others, you had four of the most original musicians of all time. Shame it was so short lived (little over two years). Cobham and McLaughlin are incredible together. This footage is brilliant, thanks for sharing.
Tremendous!!! It doesnt get any better than this. I saw an interview with ruth underwood(Frank Zappa) here on youtube, it was a show hosted by Chad Smith or Terry Bozzio(Zappa), can't recall, but she was telling a story of the mothers of invention being on tour with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1973. She said they were extremely loud, intensely different, and that they influenced Zappa, and subsequently, his music, in dramatic ways.
Only just now 50?? Wow! Most audiophiles I know who are familiar with this music are older than I. (52) I introduce younger generations to this stuff all the time....and w/o fail...they are amazed.
Most people who are familar with this music are 50 years old or older ? ? . Hmmm .. Not so sure , when I bought the CD reissue of Inner Mounting Flame the person at the cash register looked about 21 years old . Before scanning it he looked at it and exclaimed - " I,ve got this album , thats wicked ! ".
@cenfy57 Yes, I am 57 now, followed Mahavishnu in 1972 first album, saw them 5 times live including the Central Park 1973 live recording. Most people at this time could not get into what was being played I loved it!!!!!!!!!
Mahavishnu Orchestra changed my life forever... for the better. I always have an escape with MO...takes me to a place where no bullshit can affect me.
Janitor989 2 days ago
The drummer is Billy Cobham, who created the drumming genre we are now listening to. I played with his brother Wayne Cobham who played the trombone...MONSTER musicians...!
DrNalani 2 days ago
I would scarcely say this is Mahavishnu's best moment! Nor there most musical composition.
caesarcerf 5 days ago
i see now, who influenced steve vai
08mrRandom 1 week ago
Es war die Zeit der Olympischen Spiele 1972 in München. Ich saß zuhause beim Sonntags-Mittagessen mit meinen Eltern und meiner Schwester. Im "Olympia-Kultur-Rahmenprogramm" lief DIESES Konzert live im Fernsehen. Und ich sage Euch: Ich hatte 3 Jahre vorher mit Schlagzeugspielen angefangen, doch bei dem, was Billy Cobham da abgezogen hat, blieb mir das Schnitzel im Mund hängen. Danke, dass es YOUTUBE gibt!
JeckenKlaaf 2 weeks ago
John McLaughlin - chitarra
Jan Hammer - tastiere
Jerry Goodman - violino
Rick Laird - basso
Billy Cobham - batteria
PINOSCOGNA 2 weeks ago
As a HUGE fan of jazz fusion, which was basically, Miles Davis telling the guys who wouldn't go electric to GO ELECTRIC! and the guys already electric to expand their consciousnesses to challenge "unforeseen" horizons.My HS classmates had just returned from Europe and had a Purple colored bootleg of this performance. And it remains a Masterpiece, recorded in Germany. This is where the blues went! and being performed in Germany which was very apprapo. (sp?) QUALITY recording!
anthropomorphicide 2 weeks ago
I saw them a few times during this period and at the time that they release "Inner Mounting Flame" (still on my playlist). Interesting that another comment mentioned Weather Report. These are musical first cousins to MO. John McLaughlin and Joe Zawinul were together on Miles's "Bitches Brew" (the birth of rock/jazz fusion) and these are all seasoned jazz/fusion musician and they not only know each other, but they often work together and share. I remain a big fan of Mahavishnu.
Geoffrei 3 weeks ago
Superb quality, all around. Thanks to the poster.
heartattack0vine 4 weeks ago
Absolutely transporting. Despair of ever winkling out live music like this nowadays.
scandalinbohemia 1 month ago
i was a fan since "the flock" of goodman. before MO.
54taqiyya 1 month ago
Johnny you rosin up yer bow and play yer fiddle hard.......chicken in the bread patch pickin out dough... :-) hehehe
itsstillfriday 1 month ago
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Had the pleasure of seeing them 1973-07-21- Lenox, MA. Brilliant!
Pagmiester 1 month ago
Had the pleasure of seeing them 1973-07-21- Lenox, MA. Brilliant!
Pagmiester 1 month ago
everyone wearing white.....Goodman in jeans.....cool.
cabinfeverish 1 month ago
everyone in white.....Goodman in jeans.....cool.
cabinfeverish 1 month ago
Billy Cobham apparently played D-line for the Buckeyes before starting his music career...
bodast67 1 month ago
As a drummer since 1977, I tried but couldn't absorb Billy's "jazz intimidation" style. However it so influenced me that I developed something of an "anti-Cobham" approach to drumming; simplified, staying close to the original rhythm, jumping off at 1 and 3, and always aching to break through! The road I took went in other directions, but I came back to drumming after 20 yrs and got it right away! His set is a musical instrument (not just the sum of it's parts) capable of shaping a lead!
RycheOfAll 1 month ago
There will never be another John McLaughlin, Bill Cobham or Jerry Goodman. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was a band from a totally different planet. Mike
guddoym 3 months ago 2
@guddoym Mahavishnu Orch released one of the most beautiful piece of music ever: Apocalypse. The third track is the emotion sounding free....
marianchez 1 month ago
This tune is called "You know, you know".
OliverOhly 3 months ago
Billy Cobham was known at the time as "God's Rhythm Machine" and you can see why. It's amazing to me how music has regressed instead or progressed from this time. All formulaic and plastic today. I'll take the late 60's and early 70's any damn day!!
bigbadfitter 3 months ago
@bigbadfitter , it is a shame isn't it. I was listening to Mahuvishnu as a teen back then. Everything was peace Big. What happened?
nubonyx 3 months ago
@nubonyx Peace died when money became God.
chuckbyf1 3 months ago
@chuckbyf1 , how true beloved. I remember when that transition came about when Reagan was elected or at least that is when I really begin to understood what was happening with the savings and loans. It was only a matter of time before banks would follow. But, with this movement going on now, I think we are going to right all the wrongs put in place by the greedy elitist and the puppet politicians they control. There are enough of us who know about the past are WILL NOT repeat it.
nubonyx 3 months ago
this drummer is Billy Cobham-end of story !
MrEigelstone 4 months ago
As someone said..."and Jesus Christ on violin", LOL...
TheSRalston 4 months ago
I have to listen periodically to Mahavisnhu to cleanse my ears from all the crap we are bombarded nowadays with. Back from days when musicians and the industry really cared about REAL quality.
TheSRalston 4 months ago
Rick Laird is such a great bassist and should get a lot more credit for tying this great band together, otherwise it would have been a bunch of noise.
tacomadc 4 months ago
Well of course, because he is Billy Cobham. He stood alone back then and influenced what was then to come. Deedwerksmatters
Chiliplease 4 months ago
:-)
vistvan62 4 months ago
Starting right around the 4:20 mark Jerry begins constructing yet another of his dazzlingly brilliant solos supercharged by the most powerful fusion band in history.That's what I'm talkin' about.
bluesborn 5 months ago
I love this era and this formation of the band-deep in the heart of the inner mounting flame.
bluesborn 5 months ago
jon theodore precurser. this shit reeks of volta.
misfitsmhm 5 months ago
Classic ,it was the start of Jazz ,rock Fusion. I love it.
swhatley725 5 months ago
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this is such and awesome track, love it, chilling on it now, nice buzz, good groove, doesn't get better.. Just checked this really awesome track from a new acid jazz guy.. This is a must hear,, truly. search on " Pai Crowd, Jamie Ruben " you are going to dig that for sure!
victorgregson1973 5 months ago
makes me sad to watch this. I had the same kit as Cobham (minus one bass drum) Fibes Clear - stolen Dec 1979 just loved those drums. The clear snare (which Cobham uses) was more difficult to work than the Fibes deep (6 1/2 x 14) Chrome snare - many thanks for this post.
revup67 5 months ago
@revup67 : believe me i know what u mean..i had a"Templo"drm kit(nothing compare to ur's cause mine was cheap)a ZIMGAR(made in Japan)snare drm that meant sooo much to me also a 20"(crash/ride)Zildjian & 13"(German)high-hat cymbals(which my late Grandfather left money to my recent late Grandmother for me to purchase b4 he died c.1972)a few here&there hardware which was stolen out of a church i used to attend many yrs ago & it broke my heart into pieces!..never got over it, but life goes on... =o\
tornmask 5 months ago
@tornmask yes life goes on - and as Johnny Thunders once said "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory"
revup67 5 months ago
@revup67 : absolutely! :0/
tornmask 5 months ago
lol
6 min: Mclaughlin to Goodman: "Hey cut it out"
Goodman: "watch this assface"
tlz12345 6 months ago
my god...this is hypnotic
Edshread 6 months ago
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“When I hear new music coming into my head, its mission is integrated into its notes. It basically tells me how it wants to be.” – John McLaughlin. From Page 1 of the book “Follow Your Heart – John McLaughlin song by song.”
walterkolosky1 6 months ago
nice find.., waited 40 years .., never seen this version of the band in this hi quality.
I used to zone out to this way back. try to play it this song, good song to jam to
mirekkrejci03 6 months ago
I could listen to that riff over and over and over and over...
SousSherpa 7 months ago
for real.. drummer is fab !
ketcs2005 8 months ago
This drummer is fantastic!!
Philburpalooza 8 months ago 12
@Philburpalooza
It´s Billy Cobham in case you want to know :)
kirwelouis 7 months ago
@Philburpalooza It's Billy Cobham nan! Check out his solo : Spectrum,another gem.
caryzia 6 months ago
@Philburpalooza Cobham is one of the best, if not the best!
bigbadbob58 5 months ago
@Philburpalooza this drummer is billy cobham dude..but its not only the drummer. jan hammer on keyboards and john mac laughlin (leader)are all great musicians!!
okatsarolas 5 months ago
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@Philburpalooza this drummer is billy cobham dude..but its not only the drummer. jan hammer on keyboards and john mac laughlin on guitar(leader)are all great musicians!!
okatsarolas 5 months ago
@Philburpalooza the drummer is Billy Cobbham, a moster. His last times assembled the drum simetrically, waw!! what a drummer!!
marianchez 1 month ago
@Philburpalooza -- that's Billy Cobham and you are right. Try Spectrum, his tour de force solo album from 1973.
dougcabot 1 month ago
more like a slideshow than a video
LSDpeasantry 8 months ago
BEST SONG EVER MADE!!!
YoursTruelyMe2 8 months ago
Les débuts du jazz/rock! une sacrée époque! j'écoutais à l'époque le jazz et la pop music et le rock progressif(emerson lake and palmer,génésis,yes king crimson) et là pour moi ce fut une suite logique, la première fois que j'ai entendu mahavishnu et BILLY COBHAM ,j'ai flashé grave! avec sa magnifique batterie "fibes" en plastique! quel son! quelle technique! et super groove,même aujourd'hui je ne m'en lasse pas.BILLY restera pour moi un de mes maîtres en matière de batterie! DIDIER D'AGOSTINO
dagostinoification 8 months ago
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violin + cry baby pedal = bad ass.
maxcohen13 8 months ago
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maxcohen13 8 months ago
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA (;ﾟДﾟ)!
blackandtanful 9 months ago
No other band of the 70's effected music the way THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA did. I was playing in rock bands, one of my good friends from college turned me onto John Mac Laughlin and the Orchestra god my ears would never hear the same, I was classically trained, bread on Johhny Winter, Humble Pie. Mountain but this took me to another relm. When you were in the audience it was very spiritual I felt like I was floating and that was not from smoking the weed, these guys transcended, eclipsed it all!
Deaconblue2u 9 months ago 18
@Deaconblue2u I went to this concert tour in 1972 and saw this band in Manchester England. I have been a Mahavishnu fan ever since. As I approach the golden year of 60, my enthusiasm for the band has only grown. I have met Billy C and Jerry G, and emailed John M. He kindly replyed. I couldn't believe the arrival of the email. I was on a high for a week. You Tube has done the impossible and given us the greatest band on the planet again. May Mahavishnu reign forever.
DaveyL1954 4 months ago
@Deaconblue2u thats all very true.. but no band influnced music in the 70s more than mahanishnu orchestra ? come on thats just a much. lets not get carried away
yootesa1515 3 months ago
@Deaconblue2u How about Weather Report or Return to Forever? I'm not saying the MO wasn't important. Far from it. But, I think it's a bit short-sighted to say that "No other band" effected music like they did.
hecbiz75 1 month ago
@Deaconblue2u The first time I saw them was at The Beacon Theater in NYC. They were a TBA act following Steve Miller and Cannonball Adderly. One of their earliest shows, I think it was pre Inner Mounting Flame. By the end of the set, everyone left, as the dawn was coming up, knowing they had seen something very, very special.
ktchnman 1 month ago
Remember when composition mattered? Thank you for posting!
dantean 9 months ago
I saw them play at the old Guthrie Theater in Mpls and Colbam pounded the drums so hard someoone had to keep coming out during the show to put them back in place and try to brace them...just awesome stuff!!
2buckyboy 10 months ago
Why is it after 40 years no one has come along and topped these guys?
FamousJazzman 10 months ago
@FamousJazzman ...Good Question...I Grew Up Listening To This Band And RTF Thanks To My Dad And Uncles And To This Day I Still Listen To Them Today And I'm Only 43 So Glad They Played Good Music Cause Im A Huge Fan
trufuzionshow 9 months ago
Listen to this Orchestra. Great!
thegerrie19561 10 months ago
mindblowing to be able to see what I use to hear a lot in the days of my youth. Hard to find anyone play like this now days so this is great to hear some serious jamming going on
oldmusiclover25 10 months ago
@smagnon you are correct Lenny White is the drummer for RTF. B.C. Never subbed for them
ddrums001 10 months ago
I should say that Mr. McLaughlin is the best guitarist and music arranger
dennyrachmat1 10 months ago
Love the Fibes kit Cobham used. Sonor did a simiar thing recently with Thomas Lang with a transparent Acrylic kit
Taikomaniac 10 months ago
Thank you!
69MC97gc 11 months ago
Jan Akkerman on violin!
kloostf1 11 months ago
@kloostf1 you're joking, right ? jerry goodman= violin
smagnon 10 months ago
@smagnon I was joking.....Magnificant violin player he is.
kloostf1 10 months ago
@smagnon I was joking..Jerry is one of or is the best (like JLPonty a lot too though)
kloostf1 10 months ago
Habe die Band in München gehört ... das war 1972 eine Eröffnung!
BrainstormSongs 11 months ago
As the Brits say, just fucking brilliant!!
retroolschool 11 months ago
if thats stereo ill kiss your ass chump this footage has been around for some time
groovymusicman 11 months ago
This band was at the center of the universe every time they played.
jayscott49 11 months ago
PURE ALCHEMY. PHILOSOPHAL STONE IN ACTION. UNIVERSAL LOVE HERE.
cookaboorra 1 year ago 2
just love it.
qwertyqwertyatbehigh 1 year ago
nice vid too bad it plays in slow motion...lame..
ambush77 1 year ago
Forza TWGF !!!!
tabutu1 1 year ago
Jan Hammer shines on this tune (You know You Know) w the Rhodes n ring modulator.
partidoalto1 1 year ago
This music is probably one of my all time favourite finds on the Internet...Mr. Cobham gives out one amazing piece of drum inspiration..\m/ I saw him live back in the nineties and he was absolutely volcanic...he came on, played with his hands then played with hand towels then four sticks then two, he put on the most amazing master class..
mellowchatter 1 year ago
billy cobham beats fusion over the head brick in hand, son.
cinnabin 1 year ago
Mclaughlin es uno de los mejores guitarristas de todos los tiempos un tipo que va por delante de casi todo el mundo desde hace mas de 30 años.
seria genial volver a formar esta banda y salir de gira.en Madrid lo esperamos con los brazos abiertos.
VirgyBonn 1 year ago
Najlepszy (the best) band XX wieku.
darominu 1 year ago
Guitarist Carl Orr: "I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Follow Your Heart - John McLaughlin song by song.” The descriptions of the music are great, and I particularly enjoy those inspired moments when the author abandons literal description and describes the music in vivid, sometimes surreal imagery."
walterkolosky1 1 year ago
Chops, music, technique, I've listened and played enough music to know/feel when technique gets in the way of the feeling and when technique moves the feeling to other levels. This group is a beautiful example of transparent technique. It takes a phenomenal amount of work to get to that point and it makes judgments absolutely irrelevant.
uncasist 1 year ago
@Philipingemann I'd have to disagree, respectfully.
blotoid 1 year ago
GEE my cat would love this
RJiminez51 1 year ago
For some crazy reason I hear Dave Mathews Band in the main lick.
csw3604 1 year ago
I saw McLaughlin live with Chick Corea once. awesome concert. these guys deeply touched me with their music. kudos to Brian Blade!
GabouHendrix 1 year ago
Man the Mars Volta TOTALLY ripped these guys off
KingSandwell 1 year ago 2
FANTASTIC!
kottisha 1 year ago
CHOPS CHOPS AND MORE CHOPS WHERE IS THE MUSIC ????
TBAGSHAW 1 year ago
@TBAGSHAW
Music is everywhere. In chops & among them. In every breath of these heniuses.
DM1956x 1 year ago
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@TBAGSHAW
Music is everywhere. In chops & among them. In every breath of these geniuses.
DM1956x 1 year ago
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HolyRollerTV 1 year ago
@TBAGSHAW
do u understand anything about musical expression, no i didn't think so!!
HolyRollerTV 1 year ago
@TBAGSHAW I was thinking the same thing.I saw Chick Corea's ensemble at the time 1973 "Return to Forever" which was great,Billy Cobham played drums.Santana I've always loved but when he was sucked up by this M.O. he was playing chops.Jerry Goodman I've loved since 1968,here are chops.No soul in John McLaughlin's music.
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
@RasMajnouni damn that's harsh. chops have no soul? you really dont hear any architecture and movement as the song progresses? no emotion? NO SOUL? lol
solargesture 1 year ago
@solargestureActually,you make sense.I was just trying to understand why I've loved Jerry Goodman &Santana wildly since 1968& Chick Corea with all his bands since 1974.But Johnny Mac leaves me cold as the others burn me up.Truth is I don't know jack about music except one thing: around 175,000 hours of my life(1/3) were light up bright by music.
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
@RasMajnouni - As Jimmie Vaughan put it perfectly, 'There's only two kinds of music- the music you like and the music you don't.' So if some music or musician doesn't connect, no worries, go with what you love.
jayscott49 11 months ago
@jayscott49 That sounds like true music Jayscott !
RasMajnouni 11 months ago
@RasMajnouni ; I have never heard of billy playing with RTF. I think you are incorrect. Lenny white was the RTF drummer. was billy subbing?
smagnon 10 months ago
@TBAGSHAW The melody lines are classical and classical Indian influenced, along with blues, and jazz, No soul? Boy, someone needs to listen some more. These guys are generating a new form of music which unique and difficult to understand. It takes time to really appreciate what these guys are doing. If you get the songbook, it explains the songwriting and the amount of experimentation being used, John is pure genius.
Oneness100 1 year ago
@TBAGSHAW lol u mad bro?
AriocKaichi 1 year ago
Heard them in munich ... until today ... breath away!
BrainstormSongs 1 year ago
I suppose the pinnacle is a floating average.
I love this band, but was born to late to see them.
gakerty 1 year ago
love the font !!!
mattski421 1 year ago
The first creator of true fusion Jazz music!
bassiclogic 1 year ago
I wonder if they played any Dave Matthews
Quikfingers 1 year ago
This can happen under the influence of Yoga.
Its wonderful how Jerry plays his violin like John his guitar.
I begun loving this sound when i got the Album "Inner mounting flame" by Toto Blanke.
Thank you for this gift and for your love, Toto.
Eduard Jolmes
EduardHeinrichAlfons 1 year ago
there is a bootleg vinyl record of this show...it might be kind of rare, I'm not sure when it was pressed. Has a yellow circle with Mayan type shapes on the front. Sound is decent about even with this video, maybe a bit worse in places.
hotlanta71 1 year ago
What a band, what can one say? 4 geniuses and 1 very good bass player + the times = amazing music that I never tire of.
jlevinson6 1 year ago 2
Is this all they ever play?
Actually, to be honest, this is insulting to serious muscians everywhere. Why the undualtions and gripping expressions on Hammer's face? Is he having a bowel movement?
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange really????, please explain.
Dannymusic1999 1 year ago
Billy just smiling all the time... so great....
chh5555 1 year ago 2
thi sis is Art. billy cobham is a feckin leg end.
mutoid1 1 year ago
whats the name of this song???
jorgetokesalot 1 year ago
@jorgetokesalot you know you know off of inner mounting flame
josephgfowler 1 year ago
@josephgfowler ahh thank you brotha!!
jorgetokesalot 1 year ago
"BRAINS ARE LIKE PARACHUTES, THEY ONLY WORK WHEN THEY ARE OPEN".
TheArbiter74 1 year ago
am i crazy or does jan hammer look like RICHARD NIXON
omg
tw145 1 year ago
@tw145 - Jan Hammer is not a crook! (*_~)
logansGT 1 year ago
I loved the Album "Birds of Fire", some of the music really scared me although I enjoyed listening to it, ...
soulbrette 1 year ago
amazing.
the art of sound.
vxv543 1 year ago
men in white suits have come to take me away
nobodady1 1 year ago
Very nice...very moody...
designermite 1 year ago
please let the music speak, let the music and video be in sync,
69MC97gc 1 year ago
Kool...3/4 time ending. Had to count that out. Couldnt watlz to it tho. heh heh
MrClaydough 1 year ago
This I where I thought music was going. Maybe even Jimi's next trip. For sure!
Saw Cobham/Jon Luc Ponty/Mahavishnu together and apart.
Man...I had no idea. Music from another world. W/out intervention of 'Sales exec'.
Pure.
When I saw Mahavishnu at 'Hollywood Bowl', few months after Hendrix', I was basically fucked. ^ years of retail down the drain.
FUCK THIS IS GOOD.....
When they played 'stage was on fire'.
MrClaydough 1 year ago
the best electric guitar player of that period..of course now..it would be George Bellas and Jeff Loomis..things have come very far since 72..I love John though
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 year ago
They could reform someday, we can hope.
Ganjamancer 1 year ago
I was fortunate to see this amazing group 3 times in New York city including their last concert at Lincoln Center and the live Between Nothingness and Eternity concert in Central park. Billy Cobham and Jerry Goodman shines on this video but it is the full Mahavishnu orchestra that pushed the musical boundries to the zenith.
oregonbobv 1 year ago
@oregonbobv - you are one lucky guy....God I would loved to have seen the original band (saw MK 2). I worked with an engineer/producer who recorded Between Nothingness and Eternity. He said it was a huge challenge to capture what they were doing with the equipment they had then. It was so powerful. Billy Cobham's performance on Nothingness is one of the great instrumental achievements of all time IMHO
InnAb109 1 year ago
@InnAb109 The concert was at Wollman rink and it cost only $2.00! Jerry Goodman was amzing that night and reall ripped and rocked the violin. Your friend who engineered the recording did a good job. On the record, John Mclauglin is really captured well. Also , Rick Laird did his bass solo in One word filtered through the mini-moog.
oregonbobv 1 year ago
@oregonbobv - Jerry was the unsung genius of the band, totally unique musician, as they all were, what made it so remarkable. Funny mix on the record, at least by mordern standards. I think McLaughlin must have been in there with his channel nailed full up. I only worked with the engineer/producer once, many years ago, but he's not a friend. Haven't seen him since. His name is Ken Scott, also worked with Bowie and a ton of others. It was great just to be able to pick his brains for a day or so.
InnAb109 1 year ago
@oregonbobv-- I was also at both the wolman rink and the LC shows-- what a band! $2.00!! HA!
smagnon 10 months ago
@InnAb109 Yeah...no biggie. I got to see him with Chick Corea a few times. heh heh
Man...you didnt need no funny lookin cigarettes...but they seemed to fit perfectly. I never inhaled or breathed.
Stanley Clarke!!!!! That was Jimis next bass player.
Al Dimeola...saw 3/4 times.
This song gettin me high. bye bye
MrClaydough 1 year ago
thanks to jerry for this great share! peace2u! eric
no2hate 1 year ago
Rick Laird is great, perfect for this group, but in the others, you had four of the most original musicians of all time. Shame it was so short lived (little over two years). Cobham and McLaughlin are incredible together. This footage is brilliant, thanks for sharing.
InnAb109 1 year ago
Thanks to the ever relilable Germans that at least they have captured this outpourings in good quality.
gillan5 1 year ago
Who is on bass?
MaxOrbit 1 year ago
@MaxOrbit bassist is rick laird
thekilo23 1 year ago
Tremendous!!! It doesnt get any better than this. I saw an interview with ruth underwood(Frank Zappa) here on youtube, it was a show hosted by Chad Smith or Terry Bozzio(Zappa), can't recall, but she was telling a story of the mothers of invention being on tour with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1973. She said they were extremely loud, intensely different, and that they influenced Zappa, and subsequently, his music, in dramatic ways.
TheArbiter74 1 year ago
This is just too outta control!
Tezman82 1 year ago
awesome group!
0977luck 1 year ago
That's Jan Hammer too.
wow. Never saw dese guys, hoid 'em plenty.
Jeff Beck talks about J McLaughlin as a huge influence, Blow by Blow, in the ronnie scott's dvd. saw it here at the tube first.
AmberDelta 1 year ago
This definitely got added to my Mahavishnu playlist.
jax1moi8 1 year ago
Only just now 50?? Wow! Most audiophiles I know who are familiar with this music are older than I. (52) I introduce younger generations to this stuff all the time....and w/o fail...they are amazed.
dugdad58 1 year ago
Most people who are familar with this music are 50 years old or older ? ? . Hmmm .. Not so sure , when I bought the CD reissue of Inner Mounting Flame the person at the cash register looked about 21 years old . Before scanning it he looked at it and exclaimed - " I,ve got this album , thats wicked ! ".
cenfy57 1 year ago
@cenfy57 Yes, I am 57 now, followed Mahavishnu in 1972 first album, saw them 5 times live including the Central Park 1973 live recording. Most people at this time could not get into what was being played I loved it!!!!!!!!!
FillmoreFreak 1 year ago
You're right! I'm 28, and this blew my mind!
Tezman82 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this - and BTW - HAPPY 50th Birthday! (yes I read your mySpace blog)
unclebobscabin 1 year ago
Brilliant, Outstanding, i felt the heat , just dont hv words to express....sth out of this world
meindenim 1 year ago
oh my dear...i'm so greatful for this upload: TY!
patpongrecords 2 years ago
great vibe!!!!! awesome !!!!!!!!!
jp009guitfuzz 2 years ago
Danke Schoen!!!!
telemacherT2 2 years ago
...how can you get better than that
jimmyc4321 2 years ago
Beyond Brilliant, Fantastic, LadY Ga GA! The original Mahavishnu Orchestra at @its pinnacle !!!!!!!!!!!! Wicked Fucking Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vtripaldi 2 years ago
...What's that bout Lady GaGa?
raccoonlord 2 years ago
more confirmation of the fact that this was the greatest band on earth at that time, irrespective of genre.
digimaton 2 years ago
yes!
rodoendo 2 years ago
Super-annoying titles, dude.
slimturnpike 2 years ago
lol the audience should've known it wasn't over at 3:53.
ThePrinnyGod 2 years ago
brilliant ,its like being 17 again.
bastardtubeuser 2 years ago
what's the keyboardist's name?
blahman178 2 years ago
Jan (pronounced Yan) hammer
lowgrowl5 2 years ago
@blahman178 jan hamer
robbymadore 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this avs002..!!
Keep mixing/remixing and posting these incredible videos..!
Thank you........@^@
mrprogjazzgto 2 years ago
Billy is amazing here..showing his sense of time and making it look so natural..his knowledge of melody is showing here..i think
royrand 2 years ago 6
2:16
yeah, Billy!
immortalx50 2 years ago
It's a shame this wonderful style of music isn't alive and well today. So ahead of it's time.
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