I would be more partial to billy as well but the little dude dose OK..good hand speed and cow bell? I thought the gong was lite? obviously not drummers..comments..buket thumpers..lol..
maloneyguitars is on to something. A lot of this is on the 'and of' and the scales allow for accidental notes. As impressive as McLaughlin is on RECORD this is yet another very disappointing live performance. John's an amazing talent but this 'composition' is limp as hell.
The easy part about playing this type of music (around 3:13 and on) is that you don't have to look at the fretboard. There are so many accidental notes out of the scale that you can play any notes you want and everybody loves it.
Narada all the way!!!! I prefer Visions Of The Emerald Beyond mahavishnu over earlier stuff. That may sound sac religious, but it's true. The band was fresh and again Narada is flawless on the album...
Johnny Mac's unique. Cobham is awesome, but so is Narada Michael Walden - saw him last year w/ Jeff Beck - he kicked some serious ass. Why doesn't audio match video?
People learn jealousy and hatred so easily. NMW Plays well and most importantly, John McLaughlin hired him and continued to for several sessions. Cobham's a fabulous player but his solos are often plagued by drum corp messes.
@psyoptica Agreed 100% I'm a huge fan of the Visions album. I prefer it front to back over any of the aerlier stuff. I love the Cobham stuff, don't get me wrong, but a fresh bit of air entered when Narada joined up.
I dont want to criticise this epic performance BUT i agree with Skyman that it needs a bit more cowbell !!....& maybe a touch of electric bongo with a little phase&chorus hahahaha
Yup remeber this. I saw this tour in upstate NY. The band members except Mr Ponty played frissbe with us on the lawn before the concert. We shared our pizza with them. We did not know they were the band members untill they stopped playng and said they had to get to work. I loved John's SG
@SuperVerdone Not fake... read the description of the video, he had a hard time matching the video to the sound because he tried to clean up the sound. I agree that he probably should have just done a slideshow or something, but it's definitely not fake.
Great memories of a great band. Like finding a long, lost gem. LOL at 8:38 one of the violinists just puts down his instrument shaking his head. Thanks for posting.
@zonlicht1980 .... it was not easy job replacing billy those times .... michael did his best and was one of the very fews could do , despite he was then young and unknow . Remember we were nearly 40 years ago , few great drummers around ......
Great stuff...Cutting edge music, love John, love fusion music, nice to see them "flipping out". . He was born around the same time the Beatles did but let's be honest he endured much much longer...His new album TO THE ONE is one of his best and he gets better and better. John's music is very important to me.
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@algrand90 I'm not saying that he can, I actually agree with you on that, Mclaughlin is way more technical. i think he has a better all sound than Petrucci.
Does a video exist of Billy playing "Quadrant 4"? Like truartemedia said,(Dual Bass Drums at the speed of a normal snare drum roll),pretty much through the whole song! I couldn't believe it the 1st time I heard it! Played it over and over and over again. 1st song on his 1st solo album.
Michael a daring, beautiful genius to try to follow in the steps of one of the very great drummers of all time, Billy Cobham, the 1st of his generation of speed (dual bass drums at the speed of a normal snare drum roll) metal-jazz-fusion ren
STRANGE JAM SUPERIMPOSED TO MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA II VIDEO
Not a compliment to John et all
NARADA M WALDEN is very excellent as a drummer - thinkd he went into misic production as he had reached the very pinnacle of what a drummer can do - to follow in the steps of Billy Cobham - one of the first speed metal durmmer and one of the best and most powerful was not an easy bill to fill. Bill- set it. Ha Ha
@OneBigRetard I love this guy. He puts up crappy parodies of guitarists and stupid fans are so blinded by the musician's celebrity they still think it's great.
@OneBigRetard Check out forward slash starrex on myspace for more of avs002's bad video parodies since that seems to be your thing. But if you want to hear some of McLaughlin's better work, I would suggest purchasing Extrapolation, My Goals Beyond, and Inner Mounting Flame. You might like The Fall Of Us All by Steve Tibbets too.
@OneBigRetard If this is John McLaughlin and not a parody, my bad. Sorry, but it just sounds like some vague, confused, and aimless rambling to me — a poor facsimile of JM. If this is really Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'd be curious where and when it was actually recorded.
@OneBigRetard If this is John McLaughlin and not a parody, my bad. Sorry, but it just sounds like some vague, confused, and aimless rambling to me — a poor facsimile of JM. If this is really Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'd be curious where and when it was actually recorded.
@OneBigRetard If this is John McLaughlin and not a parody, my bad. Sorry, but it just sounds like some vague, confused, and aimless rambling to me — a poor facsimile of JM. If this is really Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'd be curious where and when it was actually recorded.
@OneBigRetard Sorry but that's not Narada Michael Walden on drums or John McLaughlin on guitar. I suggest doing a search on YouTube for "John Mclaughlin mahavishnu Orchestra 1974" if you want to hear JM and the real band.
I listened again and am now inclined to agree. But the way the rhythm section sounds is so similar to bootlegs I have. Fair play to the faker for getting the tone and recording so accurate.
@OneBigRetard Don't feel bad. He's faked out legitimate music critics too. I assume he's actually a good guitarist in order to pull it off. What's amazing to me is that I've heard some intentionally terrible parodies by him and people still leave comments about how great the performance is, just because it's a famous guitarist in the video. Just goes to show that people are blinded by celebrity.
I'll come right out and say I prefer Walden over Cobham anyday! So there!!! Visions of the emerald beyond IMO is by far the best Mahavishnu there is! I love them all, but by far the best all the way through.
I think we can all agree there is the audio.... and the video doesn't always fit. OK!! I would also add that Gale Morin is a sad replacement for Jan Hammer... just my opine... almost an insult.
Saw him about a week ago, more refined and precise then ever and the improvisions were just as good or better then anytime in his carrer. Also liked the use of the tremolo haven't heard him use it so much before.
Personally i like the old mahavishnu better than the newer. Billy and John grooved so well together, also i liked jan's playing so so much. Not that Walden isn't good, i just personally like Billy better.
michael walden énergie cosmique! et jean luc ponty très grand monsieur! mahavishnu2! dommage que le son soit saturé! mais bon...document...didier d'agostino batteur sur youtube!daily motion,myspace.
This version of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the INNER WORLDS tour. was one of the most incredible shows I ever saw. Narada, Armstrong, Golberg and Maha JM. Total improv on the fly jamming at break neck tempo and rock volume. I have 5 bootlegs from this tour and they are all amazing. I hope someday they release some of this live stuff. What a band.....
This version of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the INNER WORLDS tour. was one of the most incredible shows I ever saw. Narada, Armstrong, Golberg and Maha JM. Total improv on the fly jamming at break neck tempo and rock volume. I have 5 bootlegs from this tour and they are all amazing. I hope someday they release some of this live stuff. What a band.....
@Samsgarden wrong answer. the sound is "syncronized". just because it is an a way so that you cannot grasp it doesn't mean you should criticise their religion....
Cool, but with Ponty instead of Goodman, I have to disagree with calling it the "maddest moment". Ponty is good, but Goodman has ten times the aggressiveness and intensity, as well as much cooler sounds-makes Ponty sound tame and "smooth" by comparison.
This instrument is a beautiful work of art, and somebody else should be playing it. Someone able to make connection with it. Someone like Ritchie Blackmore for example. Ritchie is able to get a full and unique sound out of his Stratocasters without any pedals or other crap. If Ritchie could lay his hands on this guitar, than it would sound the way it looks. Listening to John's playing I believe he is rather tense and complicated person who is not at peace with himself
This is definately the Rex Bouge double neck. I know because I worked with Rex and on the guitar. The guitar was built at Ren Ferguson Guitar Company in Venice, Ca. Ren Ferguson made a large contribution in building the guitar including designing and the cutting of the inlays and the wood carvings. Hope this clears up any questions regarding the double neck in the video.
My guess is the Mahavishnu Orchestra 1975-10-16 Providence RI gig which can be found on the JazzFusion TV website. Click the "more info" link above to see the musicians on this track.
The guitar was not damaged falling of a work table at a show. It was killed when John's upstairs sprung a water leak, and the ceiling fell in on his studio below. Don't ask me how I know that, I would have to kill you after I told you.
@gotrottin there's a thread at ibanezcollectors site discussing the fate of the double rainbow where it was found that the guitar was auctioned at Sothebys for about $8000 in the last decade or two and it's apparently quite intact. Very interesting. The supposed story was that it was pushed face forward onto a concrete sidewalk from a park bench. I wonder.
This guitar is the Rex Bogue Double Rainbow....an ornately decorated stunning piece of craftsmanship....Rex Bogue built this one of a kind guitar for McLaughlin....sadly, it was damaged beyond repair after falling off a work table backstage at a show.....The Ibanez was based on the Double Rainbow though not a true copy
@romaneberle A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165
This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.
@romaneberle I'll say one of the best. There are SOOO many. But bands like this in there day were from outer space no doubt. There have been sum amazing groups in every genera but.... People don't make music like this anymore...they sample the shit.
@oatstao ...umm.. nope... These guys are called "professionals".. they aren't the kids you hear playing at woodstock '69 who like to get fucked up and go on stage; these guys are serious and could not play with the intensity and skillful articulation they did if they were tripping.
@drummerman558 UHMMM YEP. .. holy where were you in the 60's?? do you not know the BIO of these musicians? Sorry to smash your silkscreen that holds your values in depth, but ahem, Drugs are, were, and always will be an integral part of music, professional or not. You are deluding yourself to think otherwise. I'm not speaking of the fucking woodstock fiasco. That's a joke and a ploy. Do you even know who the "free spirits" were? All you jazz heros..ON DRUGS. YES. PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING.
@drummerman558 and your mythos is old and basically misguided censorship about one of the key aspects of creating new sounds. Psychedelics have and will always be a key part of that. Don't fool yourself or others. You should actually read up on John Mclaughlin. Did you know what he was doing when he was recording on Douglas? I DO. Do you know how much ACID he consumed. how much peyote? Mushrooms..no joke sir. don't delude the comments by rhetoric please. Since when is this non-professional?
@DiamondDogZ I must agree that although well intentioned having Video over the original Audio, personally, confuses and detracts my senses. I am greatful to hear the Audio, thanks.
... this one is for all the Mahavishnu "train-spotters" out there, who think they've heard everything... (and it;s a nice update on "Best Ever Guitar Playing")
Check out the violinist at 8:36. He's just like wtf?!
zenvoodoodoc 1 week ago
I would be more partial to billy as well but the little dude dose OK..good hand speed and cow bell? I thought the gong was lite? obviously not drummers..comments..buket thumpers..lol..
seahorsesaddlesore54 1 week ago in playlist MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA~JOHN McLAUGHLIN~BILLY COBHAM
Cobham or GTFO
durrr123 2 weeks ago
maloneyguitars is on to something. A lot of this is on the 'and of' and the scales allow for accidental notes. As impressive as McLaughlin is on RECORD this is yet another very disappointing live performance. John's an amazing talent but this 'composition' is limp as hell.
caesarcerf 1 month ago
The easy part about playing this type of music (around 3:13 and on) is that you don't have to look at the fretboard. There are so many accidental notes out of the scale that you can play any notes you want and everybody loves it.
MaloneyGuitars 1 month ago
wat een kut geluid nice vid anyway
synthesizer301 1 month ago
Narada all the way!!!! I prefer Visions Of The Emerald Beyond mahavishnu over earlier stuff. That may sound sac religious, but it's true. The band was fresh and again Narada is flawless on the album...
MrJro2 1 month ago
ROFL the dude on cowbell
Walls1441 1 month ago
Johnny Mac's unique. Cobham is awesome, but so is Narada Michael Walden - saw him last year w/ Jeff Beck - he kicked some serious ass. Why doesn't audio match video?
egyptianminor 1 month ago
@egyptianminor because there is no video for this show, even though the title says video it really should say "1974 audio" or added video
shadowmalik009 1 month ago
Damn that guitars has a beautiful fretboard
nelson3300 2 months ago
where is the vol knob!!!
54taqiyya 2 months ago
Looks like Gail Moran on keyboards.
NevrSURRENDER 2 months ago
This BANGS!
yeedbush 2 months ago
Why so much hate for Narada Michael Walden? He's drumming his ass off here.
psyoptica 2 months ago 2
@psyoptica
People learn jealousy and hatred so easily. NMW Plays well and most importantly, John McLaughlin hired him and continued to for several sessions. Cobham's a fabulous player but his solos are often plagued by drum corp messes.
ArtistsPoetsDancers 1 month ago
@psyoptica Agreed 100% I'm a huge fan of the Visions album. I prefer it front to back over any of the aerlier stuff. I love the Cobham stuff, don't get me wrong, but a fresh bit of air entered when Narada joined up.
MrJro2 1 month ago
I dont want to criticise this epic performance BUT i agree with Skyman that it needs a bit more cowbell !!....& maybe a touch of electric bongo with a little phase&chorus hahahaha
paulchristo1 2 months ago
Needs more cowbell.
SkymanBrother 2 months ago 8
Image and sound not in synch is this my computer??
musicmedias 2 months ago
This video got nothing to do with the sound. It only serves as a visual.
conqa 2 months ago
More than excellent puts everyone else to shame...
musicmedias 2 months ago
I can't watch this.
ufjir 2 months ago
whoever "synched" the audio with the video was big time into psychedelics
mosilflutil10 2 months ago
Yup remeber this. I saw this tour in upstate NY. The band members except Mr Ponty played frissbe with us on the lawn before the concert. We shared our pizza with them. We did not know they were the band members untill they stopped playng and said they had to get to work. I loved John's SG
123kitl 3 months ago
It's disconcerting watching the video with the non-corresponding music
goodless 3 months ago
@goodless i so very much agree i hate that feeling.
ALDEMP 3 months ago
@SuperVerdone Not fake... read the description of the video, he had a hard time matching the video to the sound because he tried to clean up the sound. I agree that he probably should have just done a slideshow or something, but it's definitely not fake.
drummerman558 3 months ago
This music does not go with the video...
TheNewSelection 3 months ago
Walden has more endurance.
musicmedias 3 months ago
AMAZING...blows away anything else.
musicmedias 3 months ago
Jesus Christ is the Most High Almighty God. this isnt 'musical heights'.
dominicarmijo 3 months ago
This is crap. The pictures don´t show the music that is played.
Trendmunger 4 months ago
Thanks for cleaning up and posting this.
kjchoenyi 4 months ago
@1:00, why no sound?
oatstao 4 months ago
It's Mahavishnu's Disco ! Nice groove for dancing mixed with some abstract flair. Gotta love john's fucking beautiful fret board..!
oatstao 4 months ago
It is ,Before Santana he was in a Band,with John ,and Alex Ligertwood is still in a Band-
69MC97gc 4 months ago
Great memories of a great band. Like finding a long, lost gem. LOL at 8:38 one of the violinists just puts down his instrument shaking his head. Thanks for posting.
garyji 5 months ago
Great memories of a great band. Like finding a long, lost gem. Thanks for posting.
garyji 5 months ago
I prefer Billy Cobham on drums...
zonlicht1980 5 months ago 11
@zonlicht1980 talk about dynamic and innovative
oatstao 4 months ago
@zonlicht1980 .... it was not easy job replacing billy those times .... michael did his best and was one of the very fews could do , despite he was then young and unknow . Remember we were nearly 40 years ago , few great drummers around ......
isivip1 1 month ago
great stuff.and to answer the authors question yes that is the rex bouge double neck.he had an 1275 before this
74choppzilla 5 months ago
Great stuff...Cutting edge music, love John, love fusion music, nice to see them "flipping out". . He was born around the same time the Beatles did but let's be honest he endured much much longer...His new album TO THE ONE is one of his best and he gets better and better. John's music is very important to me.
shavshav123 6 months ago
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'I do not like the reappearance of The Jesuits ... If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religous toleration to offer them an asylum.' John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.A
uriahheep108 6 months ago
John's guitar synth at this time was six MiniMoogs, one for each guitar string. A bitch to keep in tune.
PragueFanity 6 months ago
Dream Theater are typists. MO are groundbreaking, genre inventing musicians.
PragueFanity 6 months ago
I never imagined i would ever see this show :). I still think i am faster then john :)
jazzynet1 6 months ago
is this on delay
agrippa9 6 months ago
dream theater would torch these guys
mediblue9 7 months ago
@mediblue9 Ohh god you're going to raise shitstorm. Here, take my flameshield. You better be trolling.
DoubleEdgedSword12 6 months ago
@mediblue9 Dream Theater is Progressive Metal... not even the same genre...
morbidgod 6 months ago
@morbidgod
looooooooool i love you're joke hahahahaha your fucking petrucci cant hold a candle to mister jogn mclaughlin in terms of technique and musicianship
algrand90 5 months ago
@algrand90 I'm not saying that he can, I actually agree with you on that, Mclaughlin is way more technical. i think he has a better all sound than Petrucci.
morbidgod 5 months ago
The audio and video of this mess are COMPLETELY effed -up out-of-sync... I mean, C'MON!
eelalien 7 months ago
@eelalien Dude, C'MON — it's a parody :-p
LorenzoNW 7 months ago
@1Eu4ic Check out the stuff walden just did with Jeff Beck on tour. AWESOME. he has still got it
phillipians 8 months ago
Where's Cobham ? :(
FunkySkunk90 8 months ago
Is there a name for that sweet riff thing at 0:12? :B
Tengent 8 months ago
Does a video exist of Billy playing "Quadrant 4"? Like truartemedia said,(Dual Bass Drums at the speed of a normal snare drum roll),pretty much through the whole song! I couldn't believe it the 1st time I heard it! Played it over and over and over again. 1st song on his 1st solo album.
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waynedanberry 11 months ago
you said that right romaneberle This is super extra terrestial stuff no band can come close this is art
TheKdotsey 11 months ago
What sync,where?
VaiRoth 1 year ago
Video/audio Frankenstein paste job
- is that even Maha in the audio part
Michael a daring, beautiful genius to try to follow in the steps of one of the very great drummers of all time, Billy Cobham, the 1st of his generation of speed (dual bass drums at the speed of a normal snare drum roll) metal-jazz-fusion ren
truartemedia 1 year ago
STRANGE JAM SUPERIMPOSED TO MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA II VIDEO
Not a compliment to John et all
NARADA M WALDEN is very excellent as a drummer - thinkd he went into misic production as he had reached the very pinnacle of what a drummer can do - to follow in the steps of Billy Cobham - one of the first speed metal durmmer and one of the best and most powerful was not an easy bill to fill. Bill- set it. Ha Ha
truartemedia 1 year ago
STRANGE JAM SUPERIMPOSED TO MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA II VIDEO
Not a compliment to John et all
truartemedia 1 year ago
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OneBigRetard 1 year ago
@OneBigRetard I love this guy. He puts up crappy parodies of guitarists and stupid fans are so blinded by the musician's celebrity they still think it's great.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
@LorenzoNW
Sorry, who is the stupid fa and what is the parody?
OneBigRetard 10 months ago
@OneBigRetard Research "Santeri Ojala StSanders".
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
@LorenzoNW
Done. But this is no parody. If it is, I'd pay to see it. It's fucking awesome.
Or perhaps I am but a stupid fan. Thanks for the reply though. Enjoyed following that up.
OneBigRetard 10 months ago
@OneBigRetard Check out forward slash starrex on myspace for more of avs002's bad video parodies since that seems to be your thing. But if you want to hear some of McLaughlin's better work, I would suggest purchasing Extrapolation, My Goals Beyond, and Inner Mounting Flame. You might like The Fall Of Us All by Steve Tibbets too.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
@LorenzoNW
I have all the above.
OneBigRetard 10 months ago
@LorenzoNW
I have all the above.
That groove is MO, that is their rhythm section for sure.
OneBigRetard 10 months ago
@OneBigRetard If this is John McLaughlin and not a parody, my bad. Sorry, but it just sounds like some vague, confused, and aimless rambling to me — a poor facsimile of JM. If this is really Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'd be curious where and when it was actually recorded.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
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@OneBigRetard If this is John McLaughlin and not a parody, my bad. Sorry, but it just sounds like some vague, confused, and aimless rambling to me — a poor facsimile of JM. If this is really Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'd be curious where and when it was actually recorded.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
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@OneBigRetard If this is John McLaughlin and not a parody, my bad. Sorry, but it just sounds like some vague, confused, and aimless rambling to me — a poor facsimile of JM. If this is really Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'd be curious where and when it was actually recorded.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
@OneBigRetard Sorry but that's not Narada Michael Walden on drums or John McLaughlin on guitar. I suggest doing a search on YouTube for "John Mclaughlin mahavishnu Orchestra 1974" if you want to hear JM and the real band.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
@LorenzoNW
Have the DVD. This sounds just like other MO bootlegs I have.
OneBigRetard 10 months ago
@LorenzoNW
I listened again and am now inclined to agree. But the way the rhythm section sounds is so similar to bootlegs I have. Fair play to the faker for getting the tone and recording so accurate.
OneBigRetard 10 months ago
@OneBigRetard Don't feel bad. He's faked out legitimate music critics too. I assume he's actually a good guitarist in order to pull it off. What's amazing to me is that I've heard some intentionally terrible parodies by him and people still leave comments about how great the performance is, just because it's a famous guitarist in the video. Just goes to show that people are blinded by celebrity.
LorenzoNW 10 months ago
I'll come right out and say I prefer Walden over Cobham anyday! So there!!! Visions of the emerald beyond IMO is by far the best Mahavishnu there is! I love them all, but by far the best all the way through.
MrJro2 1 year ago
I think we can all agree there is the audio.... and the video doesn't always fit. OK!! I would also add that Gale Morin is a sad replacement for Jan Hammer... just my opine... almost an insult.
beelzabubba 1 year ago
@1Eu4ic So you didnt notice that this is a fake? The audio doesnt match the video.
MegaLotusEater 1 year ago
Love Mahavishnu.....but without Cobham, Hammer, Laird and Goodman....it just lacks that fire....
Walden is the weakest (soundwise) drummer.....Just not made for this high intensity music....glad he lapsed back into disco where he belonged......
7Beyonder 1 year ago
Saw him about a week ago, more refined and precise then ever and the improvisions were just as good or better then anytime in his carrer. Also liked the use of the tremolo haven't heard him use it so much before.
raydar46 1 year ago
Personally i like the old mahavishnu better than the newer. Billy and John grooved so well together, also i liked jan's playing so so much. Not that Walden isn't good, i just personally like Billy better.
drummerman558 1 year ago
michael walden énergie cosmique! et jean luc ponty très grand monsieur! mahavishnu2! dommage que le son soit saturé! mais bon...document...didier d'agostino batteur sur youtube!daily motion,myspace.
dagostinoification 1 year ago
This sounds like crap! If your a Mahavishnu fan why even post something like this?
spercoco 1 year ago
Thank God this was filmed.
darkmagus64 1 year ago
@darkmagus64So you didnt notice that this is a fake? The audio doesnt match the video.
MegaLotusEater 1 year ago
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This version of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the INNER WORLDS tour. was one of the most incredible shows I ever saw. Narada, Armstrong, Golberg and Maha JM. Total improv on the fly jamming at break neck tempo and rock volume. I have 5 bootlegs from this tour and they are all amazing. I hope someday they release some of this live stuff. What a band.....
skinboneybud 1 year ago
This version of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the INNER WORLDS tour. was one of the most incredible shows I ever saw. Narada, Armstrong, Golberg and Maha JM. Total improv on the fly jamming at break neck tempo and rock volume. I have 5 bootlegs from this tour and they are all amazing. I hope someday they release some of this live stuff. What a band.....
skinboneybud 1 year ago
this is the later 4 pc band with stu goldberg on keys,micheal walden on drums and ralphe armstrong on bass...no ponty....
asinwhat 1 year ago
You might want to synchronize the sound.
All I can see is JM and MW in their crazy hippy guru days accompanied by noise.
Samsgarden 1 year ago
@Samsgarden wrong answer. the sound is "syncronized". just because it is an a way so that you cannot grasp it doesn't mean you should criticise their religion....
drummerman558 1 year ago
One word-which is not what he is playing.Please....To have seen and heard all in stockholm live ...I am blissed.
69MC97gc 1 year ago
Does anyone ot there want to buy my guitar.. it's time to throw in the towel
wilmaman 1 year ago
too bad the tone sucks...John is such an experienced guitar god though....
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 year ago
thanks for sharing this.....a jazz orgy, this
pittapitta 1 year ago
interesting
adric137 1 year ago
His fingers don't move with the phrases. I'll be humming this catchy tune all day
iconoclast911 1 year ago
Cool, but with Ponty instead of Goodman, I have to disagree with calling it the "maddest moment". Ponty is good, but Goodman has ten times the aggressiveness and intensity, as well as much cooler sounds-makes Ponty sound tame and "smooth" by comparison.
Gregorypeckory 1 year ago
why would you post something with such awful sound quality?
bootryfly 1 year ago
Good question...
Sahira1963 1 year ago
This instrument is a beautiful work of art, and somebody else should be playing it. Someone able to make connection with it. Someone like Ritchie Blackmore for example. Ritchie is able to get a full and unique sound out of his Stratocasters without any pedals or other crap. If Ritchie could lay his hands on this guitar, than it would sound the way it looks. Listening to John's playing I believe he is rather tense and complicated person who is not at peace with himself
tonythetemplar 2 years ago
Blackmore sucks... not even in the same universe as John
bootryfly 1 year ago
@tonythetemplar You're quite an insightful person! Just kidding.
Gregorypeckory 1 year ago
This is definately the Rex Bouge double neck. I know because I worked with Rex and on the guitar. The guitar was built at Ren Ferguson Guitar Company in Venice, Ca. Ren Ferguson made a large contribution in building the guitar including designing and the cutting of the inlays and the wood carvings. Hope this clears up any questions regarding the double neck in the video.
jmad1981 2 years ago
Looks like Rodney Trotter on percussion
timbojones23 2 years ago
Be nice if one could hear any guitar--a little in spots but frustrating at best
raiphdude7 2 years ago
My guess is the Mahavishnu Orchestra 1975-10-16 Providence RI gig which can be found on the JazzFusion TV website. Click the "more info" link above to see the musicians on this track.
komyt 2 years ago
Is that Jan Hammer on Drums?
urophilia 2 years ago
Where was this at???? This sounds as intense as the original MO, IMO
triofdoom 2 years ago
Looks like Jon Luc Ponty on violin
and is That one of the Lambec sisters on keyboard?
I never even heard of this line up of MO
I was lucky to see the original line up a few times
They were mind blowing incredble
gbtayc 2 years ago
I beleive its Gayle Moran
who later married Chic Corea.
Loved her singing "Smile of the Beyond"
at SanFranciscos' Winterland, Nov '74
telemacherT2 2 years ago
The guitar was not damaged falling of a work table at a show. It was killed when John's upstairs sprung a water leak, and the ceiling fell in on his studio below. Don't ask me how I know that, I would have to kill you after I told you.
gotrottin 2 years ago
@gotrottin there's a thread at ibanezcollectors site discussing the fate of the double rainbow where it was found that the guitar was auctioned at Sothebys for about $8000 in the last decade or two and it's apparently quite intact. Very interesting. The supposed story was that it was pushed face forward onto a concrete sidewalk from a park bench. I wonder.
aliensporebomb 1 year ago
This guitar is the Rex Bogue Double Rainbow....an ornately decorated stunning piece of craftsmanship....Rex Bogue built this one of a kind guitar for McLaughlin....sadly, it was damaged beyond repair after falling off a work table backstage at a show.....The Ibanez was based on the Double Rainbow though not a true copy
wingman1962 2 years ago
something is out of sync
raiphdude7 2 years ago
Hilariously so!
dizzytones 2 years ago
NOT the 335 Scallop. That was black.
xzizx77 2 years ago
no just extra terrest
bouyou59 2 years ago
Narada: man or machine?
gianca60 2 years ago
I know its a man there but he executes like a drum machine on steroids..
wilmaman 2 years ago
Maybe "spiritual" steroids?
gianca60 2 years ago
lol. that groove part (3:50) is almost Prodigy/Chemical Brother big beat stuff.
insane. from outta space. deeper space, in fact.
mahavishnu is the best band ever possible. period.
romaneberle 2 years ago 11
@romaneberle A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165
This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.
uriahheep108 6 months ago
@romaneberle I'll say one of the best. There are SOOO many. But bands like this in there day were from outer space no doubt. There have been sum amazing groups in every genera but.... People don't make music like this anymore...they sample the shit.
peace
Ducatiboy73 5 months ago
@Ducatiboy73 the magic ingredient is LSD.
oatstao 4 months ago
@oatstao ...umm.. nope... These guys are called "professionals".. they aren't the kids you hear playing at woodstock '69 who like to get fucked up and go on stage; these guys are serious and could not play with the intensity and skillful articulation they did if they were tripping.
drummerman558 3 months ago
@drummerman558 UHMMM YEP. .. holy where were you in the 60's?? do you not know the BIO of these musicians? Sorry to smash your silkscreen that holds your values in depth, but ahem, Drugs are, were, and always will be an integral part of music, professional or not. You are deluding yourself to think otherwise. I'm not speaking of the fucking woodstock fiasco. That's a joke and a ploy. Do you even know who the "free spirits" were? All you jazz heros..ON DRUGS. YES. PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING.
goatstaog 3 months ago
@drummerman558 and your mythos is old and basically misguided censorship about one of the key aspects of creating new sounds. Psychedelics have and will always be a key part of that. Don't fool yourself or others. You should actually read up on John Mclaughlin. Did you know what he was doing when he was recording on Douglas? I DO. Do you know how much ACID he consumed. how much peyote? Mushrooms..no joke sir. don't delude the comments by rhetoric please. Since when is this non-professional?
goatstaog 3 months ago
Respond to this video... THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!
AMAZING!!!!
Ducatiboy73 5 months ago
:03.. rockin' the cowbell!!!!!
ThreeLeggedMongoose 2 years ago
I tried to put a link on here but it wouldn't post. So if you want to hear whats playing on the video go to...bazonics channel, wings of karma pt 2.
partgas 2 years ago
Guys, come on... :-D are you real fans or not???? lol
1) The video and audio are NOT the same. Audio is a bootleg. And video is the montreux performance of 1974.
2) John uses the Gibson doubleneck at the beginning of MO. Later came the Rex Bogue Double Rainbow, as you can see on the video.
;-))
DiamondDogZ 2 years ago 18
yes you are correct but he used a les paul custom before the sg doubleneck
sidhrtha 2 years ago
@DiamondDogZ I must agree that although well intentioned having Video over the original Audio, personally, confuses and detracts my senses. I am greatful to hear the Audio, thanks.
Bruce097 1 year ago
@DiamondDogZ yeah, you're right there. it's a weird trip to see them superimposed.
11Frodo11 9 months ago
All the video is without synchrony..... Fuck!! I Love that but the video and the music is totaly out of timing....
Corilo91 2 years ago
AUTHOR: Hold on... is this the Rex Bogue (used before), or the scallop-necked Gibson 335 (used after)? Does anyone know for sure?
avs002 2 years ago
@avs002: this guitars is an IBANEZ doubleneck
fretlessfrizz 2 years ago
@fretlessfrizz: If you'll gently excuse, im afraid that is a Rex Bogue guitar, my friend.
rhxt1002 2 years ago
@rhxt1002 I think it's the original Ibanez 2670 ?
fretlessfrizz 2 years ago
@avs002
rex bouge double rainbow ;)
ritualfunk 1 year ago
@avs002
I thought that the double-neck seen in this video was made by Ibanez.
captainsurfcaster 1 year ago
@avs002
Yeah, this is the custom before it fell and split in half.
OneBigRetard 1 year ago
... this one is for all the Mahavishnu "train-spotters" out there, who think they've heard everything... (and it;s a nice update on "Best Ever Guitar Playing")
avs002 2 years ago
Nice groove! However I find myself wanting to hear what he is actually playing in the film.
Thanks for all the great Mahavishnu and other stuff on your channel!
wdgeo 2 years ago