Got to see these guys in a club in Chicago, the old Quiet Knight and they just blew us away!! We were so awestruck that we went back and saw them all five nights they were there.
I used to listen to heavy metal and death metal but one day a friend told me about fusion i gave it a try..since that day i have been practicing jazz fusion for 3 hours a day everyday.I'm simply shocked that this isn't appreciated at all, "old people music" ? does that make sense to you ! FUCK ! i'm sorry for typing this high.
@ThePoopingHex I still listen to heavy metal, and love this kind of music too, I used to only listen to heavy metal and nothing else, now I have like 45 different frank zappa cds now haha. I just ordered this mahavishnu orchestra one, I should get birds of fire too.
Never, ever missed the chance to see these guys when they played in Chicago. Got to see them in a club, the old "Quiet Knight" and was totally blown away by the music. In a club setting these guys were just devestating. Goodman went to school with my cousins, good Chicago boy!!
Annjeelyn said "The first ten chords of this album introduced a new era in music that i believe may never be equaled - quite by accident mo changed the way all popular musicians approached music rock jazz or pop." I say, "very nicely put!"
Makes me wonder what in the heavens was aligned in the early 70's. There was so much great music and a blossoming superhuman musicians. I remember it as a time when it was so exciting to go to the local "record store" to find the next great gem. I remember having this album along with King Crimson: In the Court of, Yes: Fragile, Deep Purple: Machine Head, on heavy rotation back then. It was heaven!
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing these guys live in Chicago a number of times and they just blew me away each and every time. I'm a bass player and they really opened my eyes and ears to a lot more possibilities.
My brother loaned me this album and this song made my head explode the first time I heard it. I've never been the same since. Prior to this experience I was more into Cream and all the other blues based improvisational rock bands. Not that I don't still appreciate the blues but I thrive on more fusion oriented instrumental rock these days.
actually my impression of hearing this piece again after a long time (I picked this LP up when it was first issued) is that to me know it sounds like Santana on crack. I won't even touch the subject of other guitarists that I like, and I make that statement lovingly. somehow the energy and intensity f the music on this album now make me think of Carlos Santana's first record and some of the places he was going with rock guitar at the time. McLaughlin evolved out of a jazz background though.
Hey everyone. I've posted some video lessons on how to play this tune. I've got most of the videos posted, and I'm planning on completing the last one tomorrow. Have fun!
the first ten chords of this album introduced a new era in music that i believe may never be equalled - quite by accident mo changed the way all popular musicians approached music rock jazz or pop
@EyMeng. In terms of dirty with respect to sound, nothing beat Gary Burton's classic fusion 'Vibrafinger'. That fuzz-box sustain, intermodulation distortion on the vibes tore the universe's constituent elementary particles into tiny little bleeding shreds.
Not on youTube, unfortunately. But there's Mahavishnu, and that's good.
I find it funny that on every classic rock/jazz video, someone has to bring up Justin Bieber or argue over what "type" of sound it has. Can't we just enjoy it, people?
Calling John Mclaughlin a technician is so far from the truth. If this song doesn't do anything for you, your mother was an icecube and you're a freezer.
this was it for the hardest acid fusion bamnd ever waz.. this album has to be the pinnacle rise of with Midearstern indfluences and harrrd core fusion..Melts down into manta of harmonies like none other..
@Dennissays Oh yeah, even if they don't know it (which I'm sure they do). Many consider them the first "jam band," even though that obviously doesn't capture the extent of what they're doing by any means.
i am mostly a hard rock guy, but i love all things guitar... when i bought this album and birds of fire in the 70's when i was in hi skool, i was absolutely blown away....
@chfsfan Very cool. My high school bandmates went to this same saturday Winterland concert and brought back the Word. After our rehearsal, on Monday, I rode my 10-speed to Wherehouse Records and bought this vinyl. Went to my room, smoked a joint and upon listening to "MotS" saw the world anew. This album is nirvanic and I have never been the same.
Bless John McLaughlin, a true avatar of musical virtuosity, integrity and Hope.
@EyMeng Doesn't sound particularly "dirty" to me but I get what you mean. You see when you say "clean" I immediately think you're referring to playing accurately, and without messing up especially in the original context. But it does make more sense now.
@KingCrimson776 "Above all I have learned from the Jesuits. And so did Lenin too, as far as I recall. The world has never known anything quite so splendid as the hierarchical structure of the [Roman] Catholic Church. There were quite a few things I simply appropriated from the Jesuits for the use of the [Nazi] Party.
@KingCrimson776 "In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands."
@KingCrimson776 "In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands."
@KingCrimson776 Love the name, my favorite band too. I agree except technicality is always a valid plus. Never good when your compositional boundaries are limited by inability; and as you say never good when your compositional creativity is limited by showing off all day long : )
This song was playing then by accident some kid rode this bike in front of my friends car killing him. I alway thought it would be like the song you'd hear going up to glory. Never froget that V Sad day
@FakeFlourescentSkies im milwaukee WI it is tune into 88.9 radio milwaukee or 91.7 wmse milwaukee its on the net and they play great stuff like this alll DAY
@benabz This absolutely "blew my mind" when I first heard it in 1971. He's yet to put out anything less than stellar! I've had the great pleasure or seeing him twice in the past 25 years.
This was the first jazz-fusion album I ever bought. I still have no idea what suddenly made me buy this; if I was religious, I would say it was an act of God. This completely changed my idea of music. It's hard liking this sort of music when I'm 13 and everybody else is infected with disgusting, factory-made plastic sound they are bombarded with by the media, but I'm glad I found it now rather than later.
Try listening to any Beetles track after this and hear how utterly basic it sounds. Don't get me wrong i love the Beetles too, they were master song writers as much as MO were master musicians; each catered for different audiences. I'm just saying listen to the difference. It's bizarre.
@tarkus1971 TRY STICKING YOUR HEAD IN AN OVEN OR A BLENDER I KMOW THET'RE TOO WAY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CAN KILL YOUR BASIC MISUNDERSTANDING OF POP AND AVANT GARD,
Mahavishnu in indian is the one who smiles, and at this album not only he smiles but also he rocks the place around!!! Listen to the whole album, you wont regret it.....................
JM is absolutely the most naturally gifted guitarists I have ever seen or heard...he could make an accomplished guitarist drop his and take up fire watching....
@clyde8her actually, there's a guy who can compare to him...in some circles they call him "New Mahavishnu", because JM. His name is Paul Masvidal, he made a band called Cynic, they played extreme metal in the early 90' (with a lot of influences in his songs from JM), an then he tried to do different stuff, going through Fusion, Indie, Prog. and some self learning. Now, Cynic reunited and they released two albums, Traced in Air and Re-Traced...
@clyde8her i can recomend to you Textures, King of Those Who Know, Uroboric Forms, Wheels Within Wheels, Veil of Maya, The unknown Guest, The Space for This...just to start, the next step it's up to you...=)
Obscura brought me here... pretty AWESOME stuff
Zyborggian 3 weeks ago
Why didn't I go across this when I was 15... Oh yeah!, the internet didn't exist yet... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Hayacafrita 3 weeks ago in playlist Inner Mounting Flame
Still the best after all these years.
joeforte109 3 weeks ago
Who today can compare to this?
All these kids and their "shredding"?
Can't hold a candle to these guys.
Got to see these guys in a club in Chicago, the old Quiet Knight and they just blew us away!! We were so awestruck that we went back and saw them all five nights they were there.
bigbadfitter1 1 month ago
I used to listen to heavy metal and death metal but one day a friend told me about fusion i gave it a try..since that day i have been practicing jazz fusion for 3 hours a day everyday.I'm simply shocked that this isn't appreciated at all, "old people music" ? does that make sense to you ! FUCK ! i'm sorry for typing this high.
ThePoopingHex 1 month ago
@ThePoopingHex check out the band Obscura- Velocity and fast forward to 3:12...than listen to this song lol
pvenice87 1 month ago
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Can you play half okay fusion jazz on guitar now?
1m2a3t4t5 1 month ago
@ThePoopingHex It's more appreciated than you think atheist covered a song by this band on tour.
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@ThePoopingHex I still listen to heavy metal, and love this kind of music too, I used to only listen to heavy metal and nothing else, now I have like 45 different frank zappa cds now haha. I just ordered this mahavishnu orchestra one, I should get birds of fire too.
robinzhooded 1 month ago
Listening to this, who'd have thought forty years ago that music going into 2012 would be so pointless?
MoabMadness2011 2 months ago
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I think in times of revolutionary music people only imaginined how much it was going to progress and get better in the future.
1m2a3t4t5 1 month ago
great song-great album--everybody played their asses off-esp Billy Cobham
gmorton731 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
Just awesome. Been my face band since I was 10, 30 now
PAPPABIATCH 2 months ago
to think, all of this led to jan hammer writing the greatest music of all time, the music to miami vice
ggalexhutchings 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Mahavishnu Orchestra
@ggalexhutchings How can you say miami vice is the greatest music of all time while listening to this masterpiece?
1banez 2 months ago
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How he made the transition from playing allout fusion, to funk in the late 70's, to miami vice synthpop in the mid 80's is just remarkable
fsol13 1 month ago
When I need some inspiration, this album never fails me..it's as close to spirituality as I'll ever get..it never gets tired..wtf were those guys on?
fatanky 3 months ago
@fatanky Fire. :p
thetwentyfourth 3 months ago
Saw the "Birds Of Fire" tour, Long Beach Arena. Unbelievable!
arklat 3 months ago
ahhh 6:10 ... !
Romichouu 3 months ago
A MONSTER of a tune...!
Cobham is incredible....!
John McLaughlin (guitar), Jan Hammer (keyboards),
Jerry Goodman (violin), Rick Laird (bass guitar), Billy Cobham (drums)
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Composed by John McLaughlin
. Recorded: New York, August 1971
mrprogjazzgto 3 months ago 2
This Album changed my life in 1971
bjorn860 4 months ago
@bjorn860 me too
lestergass55 3 months ago in playlist More videos from luidge3445
*cleans brain particles off floor, walls, headphones and various peices of furnature*
LEFTINCOMPANY 4 months ago
Never, ever missed the chance to see these guys when they played in Chicago. Got to see them in a club, the old "Quiet Knight" and was totally blown away by the music. In a club setting these guys were just devestating. Goodman went to school with my cousins, good Chicago boy!!
bigbadfitter 4 months ago
3 people did not meet the spirits.
MrJockeekcoj 5 months ago
Captain Obvious reporting in:
poil
pommepatate4 5 months ago
the bend at 2:53 makes me tingle. the fact it goes over only makes it better x)
sslukel 5 months ago
I love the keyboard solo at 3:39, it's beautiful
Sythofin 5 months ago
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Annjeelyn said "The first ten chords of this album introduced a new era in music that i believe may never be equaled - quite by accident mo changed the way all popular musicians approached music rock jazz or pop." I say, "very nicely put!"
walterkolosky1 5 months ago
definitely hearing where Steve Vai got some inspiration from
thabudmaster 5 months ago 3
So Gooooooddddddddd
emperor262626 5 months ago
Makes me wonder what in the heavens was aligned in the early 70's. There was so much great music and a blossoming superhuman musicians. I remember it as a time when it was so exciting to go to the local "record store" to find the next great gem. I remember having this album along with King Crimson: In the Court of, Yes: Fragile, Deep Purple: Machine Head, on heavy rotation back then. It was heaven!
univibe23 5 months ago 3
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing these guys live in Chicago a number of times and they just blew me away each and every time. I'm a bass player and they really opened my eyes and ears to a lot more possibilities.
bigbadfitter 6 months ago
the most incredible thing is that john mcalughlin shredded his guitar 15 years before malmsteen and co did but no one noticed that
algrand90 6 months ago
@algrand90 Because McLaughlin made music/art and Malmsteen is fucking awful.
metalcore929 5 months ago 13
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Vai is good though.
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algrand90 6 months ago
My brother loaned me this album and this song made my head explode the first time I heard it. I've never been the same since. Prior to this experience I was more into Cream and all the other blues based improvisational rock bands. Not that I don't still appreciate the blues but I thrive on more fusion oriented instrumental rock these days.
myrg450 6 months ago
john mclaughlin=hero.
cosmicrider287 6 months ago
I don't think it can get any better than this in the genre of fusion. Not for my taste at least.
BuzzmFrog 6 months ago
actually my impression of hearing this piece again after a long time (I picked this LP up when it was first issued) is that to me know it sounds like Santana on crack. I won't even touch the subject of other guitarists that I like, and I make that statement lovingly. somehow the energy and intensity f the music on this album now make me think of Carlos Santana's first record and some of the places he was going with rock guitar at the time. McLaughlin evolved out of a jazz background though.
DougPearsall 6 months ago
Forgot how good this was.
AuT0maTe1 6 months ago
Hey everyone. I've posted some video lessons on how to play this tune. I've got most of the videos posted, and I'm planning on completing the last one tomorrow. Have fun!
daschwarjazz 7 months ago
the first ten chords of this album introduced a new era in music that i believe may never be equalled - quite by accident mo changed the way all popular musicians approached music rock jazz or pop
annjeelynn 7 months ago
Very nicely put!
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@EyMeng. In terms of dirty with respect to sound, nothing beat Gary Burton's classic fusion 'Vibrafinger'. That fuzz-box sustain, intermodulation distortion on the vibes tore the universe's constituent elementary particles into tiny little bleeding shreds.
Not on youTube, unfortunately. But there's Mahavishnu, and that's good.
Tubeistdan 7 months ago
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Tubeistdan 7 months ago
I find it funny that on every classic rock/jazz video, someone has to bring up Justin Bieber or argue over what "type" of sound it has. Can't we just enjoy it, people?
MoviManATL 7 months ago
Calling John Mclaughlin a technician is so far from the truth. If this song doesn't do anything for you, your mother was an icecube and you're a freezer.
DejonArmani 7 months ago
@DejonArmani dude, is your refrigerator running?
chillindilin 7 months ago
this is what I call modern music.
fabianidhesona 7 months ago
It annoys me when people say he is just a technician. I find this emotionally mind blowing.
fidomusic 8 months ago 3
this was it for the hardest acid fusion bamnd ever waz.. this album has to be the pinnacle rise of with Midearstern indfluences and harrrd core fusion..Melts down into manta of harmonies like none other..
djphilharmonic 8 months ago
damn stoned damn stoned i am..tripping on brother!
mindtrippp 9 months ago
I've heard McLaughlin riffs in Kerry King's and Jeff Hanneman's guitar playing of all places...so good.
ThePunkmar77 9 months ago
Best Jazz fusion album ever conceived
SocraticRaver 9 months ago 2
@SocraticRaver Amen brother.
bazonics 8 months ago
Kisten to Kansas' "Magnum Opus", and tell me they weren't inspired by the mahavishnu Orchestra. About midway through, it's pretty blatant.
EvilEyeGypsy 9 months ago
Great!
fromPld1 9 months ago
woah! this is amazing!
KLightfoot100 9 months ago
i wish bands had the talent to play like this today. john mclaughlin was/ is the master of the guitar. the 12 string shredder he is haha
btevoxboy6835 9 months ago
hundreds of hours have I listened to this music, and hundreds more to come!
trigjeeeh 9 months ago
@trigjeeeh u got that right my man hows it goin,love this wether
loislombardo 9 months ago
One idiot. There is always one.
triplettam 9 months ago
@triplettam alwats atleast one lol
loislombardo 9 months ago
Fucking incredible!
triplettam 9 months ago
@triplettam yes it is i love it thanks
loislombardo 9 months ago
barang bagus nih Mr Lu :)
MARCHBALI 10 months ago
The Mars Volta had to have been heavily influenced by this band, and this genre.
Dennissays 10 months ago
@Dennissays Oh yeah, even if they don't know it (which I'm sure they do). Many consider them the first "jam band," even though that obviously doesn't capture the extent of what they're doing by any means.
thetopface 10 months ago
@Dennissays I agree! :)
dandiaz19934 9 months ago
this is old. i was 20 when this came out. i liked john mclaughlin with shakti.
JackSchytt 10 months ago
this is what I grew listening to! maybe thats whats wrong me??
bigheadwop 10 months ago
Lol. a lot of people reminiscing here. I'm 17 and loving this. It's somewhere between cynic and weather report.
personman48 11 months ago
Loved this L P at 16 and still think its ground breaking now im an oldie in my mid fifties !
1955pigot 11 months ago
i am mostly a hard rock guy, but i love all things guitar... when i bought this album and birds of fire in the 70's when i was in hi skool, i was absolutely blown away....
milesneedham 11 months ago
Yup this album changed everything in the way i viewd music forever i agree chsfan G
GaryOhlson 11 months ago
I saw these dudes in 1972 with ELP at Winterland in SF...my mind is still reeling! LOFL.
chfsfan 11 months ago
@chfsfan One of my friends saw Mahavishnu back in '73...he said it was the loudest concert he ever saw.
truck2112yes 10 months ago
I saw these dudes in 1972 with ELP at Winterland in SF...my mind is still reeling! LOFL
chfsfan 11 months ago
@chfsfan Very cool. My high school bandmates went to this same saturday Winterland concert and brought back the Word. After our rehearsal, on Monday, I rode my 10-speed to Wherehouse Records and bought this vinyl. Went to my room, smoked a joint and upon listening to "MotS" saw the world anew. This album is nirvanic and I have never been the same.
Bless John McLaughlin, a true avatar of musical virtuosity, integrity and Hope.
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@dorian411 Yup this album changed everything in the way i viewd music forever i agree chsfan
GaryOhlson 11 months ago
back when "technical" didn't mean "clean". so good
EyMeng 11 months ago 28
@EyMeng yeah!
luidge3445 11 months ago 2
@EyMeng But this is very clean playing I don't get your point.
Whackooyzero 8 months ago
@Whackooyzero I mean the production. The sounds of the instruments aren't "glossy"
EyMeng 8 months ago
@Whackooyzero don't use the word clean, man.
EyMeng 8 months ago
@EyMeng What the heck are you talking about? How is "clean" negative?
Whackooyzero 8 months ago
@Whackooyzero because clean has become a term that means "slick" and smooth, like shitty modern fusion. this stuff here is dirty.
EyMeng 8 months ago 2
@EyMeng Doesn't sound particularly "dirty" to me but I get what you mean. You see when you say "clean" I immediately think you're referring to playing accurately, and without messing up especially in the original context. But it does make more sense now.
Whackooyzero 8 months ago
@EyMeng More like when it was about "music" and not "technicality".
"Modern guitar has more in common with sports than music" - Frank Zappa
KingCrimson776 4 months ago 28
@KingCrimson776 Never knew Zappa said that!! I've always said Music is not a sport!
hejafish 1 month ago
@hejafish I love your username.
Lucifermorningstar21 1 month ago
@KingCrimson776
Love quoting stuff from Zappa.
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@KingCrimson776 "Above all I have learned from the Jesuits. And so did Lenin too, as far as I recall. The world has never known anything quite so splendid as the hierarchical structure of the [Roman] Catholic Church. There were quite a few things I simply appropriated from the Jesuits for the use of the [Nazi] Party.
Adolph Hitler
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@KingCrimson776 "In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands."
John Daniel
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@KingCrimson776 "In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands."
John Daniel
countdumas 2 weeks ago in playlist Weather Report Live
@KingCrimson776 Love the name, my favorite band too. I agree except technicality is always a valid plus. Never good when your compositional boundaries are limited by inability; and as you say never good when your compositional creativity is limited by showing off all day long : )
asteriskcolon 1 week ago
As far as I'm concerned, these guys and Weather Report have a lock on what would later be called Fusion music...such raw power, just so compelling.
Dendog 11 months ago
so good,love it.....
48perkins 11 months ago
this is amazing, absolutely awesome
ninthreaver 11 months ago
Psychedelic fUSiOn at its best!!!
Taikomaniac 11 months ago
@cosmicolor91 theres the Czech Jan Hammer too:)
xlapj001 11 months ago
gooooood!!!!!!
Thejohnjackjoe 1 year ago
fiuawgipwhdew9idybew9p0abcyaew9pbfxyewp0afbawe9pdbfw9aeph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS FUCKIN ORGASMIC!
413Kristianna 1 year ago
This song was playing then by accident some kid rode this bike in front of my friends car killing him. I alway thought it would be like the song you'd hear going up to glory. Never froget that V Sad day
wsilver58 1 year ago
John McLoughlan is the real jesus.
substantialscout45 1 year ago
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John McLoughlan is the real jesus
substantialscout45 1 year ago
John McLoughlan is the real jesus
substantialscout45 1 year ago
This flame keeps on burning for ever.
thegerrie19561 1 year ago
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Changed my life. And everyone's around me.
JohnJWinnicki 1 year ago
Changed my life. And everyones around me.
JohnJWinnicki 1 year ago
John mclaughlin is a genius
armanyoo 1 year ago
hausum
TOWLIBAN32123 1 year ago
Total as vacuum of modern physics, can be Spirit expressed better????????
xlapj001 1 year ago
this song is brilliant :D and I love looking at the comments, I see no hate only people with good music tastes :D
blindrock1 1 year ago
4.21- 4.48 what is this?! japierdole!
trawamaciej 1 year ago
1 person died while listening to this song
suburbpirate 1 year ago 10
The studio needed new drywall after that. Cobham kicked some ass.
thatguyknowsit 1 year ago
the intensity is so appealing, i love it
MrBassmanbongo 1 year ago
what you mean?
beroth77 1 year ago
cavalera is like Mr. Jonh.....
flaviogyps 1 year ago
in a perfect world this would be radio music
FakeFlourescentSkies 1 year ago 62
@FakeFlourescentSkies so fucking true hahahaha
metallifan84 1 year ago
@FakeFlourescentSkies Yes. Just yes.
predatorx687 1 year ago
@FakeFlourescentSkies i couldnt agree more. :P
KillingLies1 7 months ago
@FakeFlourescentSkies SO TRUE!!!
EndoQuickness 7 months ago
@FakeFlourescentSkies im milwaukee WI it is tune into 88.9 radio milwaukee or 91.7 wmse milwaukee its on the net and they play great stuff like this alll DAY
72fordmaverick 6 months ago
I know now where that main riff sounds familiar. I think it might have shown up in freedom of speech by liquid tesion experiment.
bren6977 1 year ago
@bren6977 Liquid Tension Experiment. The only band in the last 15 years that does something like approach the awesome of 60's and 70's jazz fusion.
FictionaryMusic 1 year ago
@bren6977 Sounds like it :D
ryder187mac 1 year ago
goddam, this song is like the particles from a thousand planets melted down into one pool of bubbling lava
benabz 1 year ago 57
@benabz yeah, buddy
videostan 1 year ago
@benabz and then the LSD wore off
d1versify 1 year ago
@benabz This absolutely "blew my mind" when I first heard it in 1971. He's yet to put out anything less than stellar!
dafypduke 1 year ago
@benabz This absolutely "blew my mind" when I first heard it in 1971. He's yet to put out anything less than stellar! I've had the great pleasure or seeing him twice in the past 25 years.
dafypduke 1 year ago
@benabz one pool of spirit:)
xlapj001 11 months ago
@benabz holy crap! your comment is awesome!
wilhoitsux 10 months ago
it really is flame-like in its intensity
eamonosu 1 year ago
This was the first jazz-fusion album I ever bought. I still have no idea what suddenly made me buy this; if I was religious, I would say it was an act of God. This completely changed my idea of music. It's hard liking this sort of music when I'm 13 and everybody else is infected with disgusting, factory-made plastic sound they are bombarded with by the media, but I'm glad I found it now rather than later.
concernedanonymous 1 year ago
@concernedanonymous I know exactly how you feel. Those same people still don't get it these many years later.
videostan 1 year ago
GAWD! I LUV THIS SONG!!!!
ralexnicholas 1 year ago
GAWD I LUV THIS SONG!!!!!
ralexnicholas 1 year ago
oops. I must be mistaken.
henrimoon 1 year ago
jean luc is probably my favorite musician on this album.
he is great with frank zappa.
henrimoon 1 year ago
@henrimoon
Too bad he doesn't play on that album. Jerry Goodman is on the violin.
TheUnwisePhilosopher 1 year ago
@henrimoon Jerry Goodman, actually. From 'The Flock." Check them out.
triplettam 1 year ago
The player on the violin is mr. Jerry Goodman. Jean Luc Ponty was a member of MO., but not on this album.
thegerrie19561 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this timeless classic. Every track on this LP is outstanding.
fidomusic 1 year ago
This is the type of music that makes all other sound like nothing more than dubious white noise!!! How can you not love it?
subseatech 1 year ago
I swear I heard the guitar riff somewhere else...
ryder187mac 1 year ago
@ryder187mac Well they had it first.
Dashizz327 1 year ago
@Dashizz327 Yeah, I was just trying really hard to remember where else I heard it...
ryder187mac 1 year ago
@ryder187mac which riff btw?
Dashizz327 1 year ago
@Dashizz327 The one that starts at 0:42
ryder187mac 1 year ago
i consumed for months my birds of fire cd.. i didn't suppose their first album was even better, now i know.. i'm impressed! o_O
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ISHARAMALIKA 1 year ago
When I first heard this album, I was totally blown away. It was just what I was looking for, and I didn't even know it
viidiot 1 year ago
Try listening to any Beetles track after this and hear how utterly basic it sounds. Don't get me wrong i love the Beetles too, they were master song writers as much as MO were master musicians; each catered for different audiences. I'm just saying listen to the difference. It's bizarre.
tarkus1971 1 year ago
@tarkus1971 TRY STICKING YOUR HEAD IN AN OVEN OR A BLENDER I KMOW THET'RE TOO WAY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CAN KILL YOUR BASIC MISUNDERSTANDING OF POP AND AVANT GARD,
leftfootlouie 1 year ago
The greatest fusion band of all time.
dallaskenn 1 year ago
@dallaskenn Definitely, them and Return to Forever.
Gizmondo23 1 year ago
Mahavishnu in indian is the one who smiles, and at this album not only he smiles but also he rocks the place around!!! Listen to the whole album, you wont regret it.....................
Thejohnjackjoe 1 year ago
THIS IS SO METAL!
Power2theFlyingV 1 year ago
JM is absolutely the most naturally gifted guitarists I have ever seen or heard...he could make an accomplished guitarist drop his and take up fire watching....
clyde8her 1 year ago 2
@clyde8her actually, there's a guy who can compare to him...in some circles they call him "New Mahavishnu", because JM. His name is Paul Masvidal, he made a band called Cynic, they played extreme metal in the early 90' (with a lot of influences in his songs from JM), an then he tried to do different stuff, going through Fusion, Indie, Prog. and some self learning. Now, Cynic reunited and they released two albums, Traced in Air and Re-Traced...
Psycopatologic 1 year ago
@clyde8her i can recomend to you Textures, King of Those Who Know, Uroboric Forms, Wheels Within Wheels, Veil of Maya, The unknown Guest, The Space for This...just to start, the next step it's up to you...=)
Psycopatologic 1 year ago
listened to this when i was 15, absolutely timeless and unsurpassed.
slippingontheslide 1 year ago
de calidad
sizrcco1 1 year ago
this is one of those records that changed my playing.
outjazzer 1 year ago
This is amazing. No arguments there.
meganismonster 1 year ago