'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
“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.”
Jam Band...Hardly. When my wife and I saw and listened to them at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton Ohio in the late 70's (early 80's?), this song was basically the same...note by note. Then again, maybe they were a little looser than I give them credit for. But they musically destroyed the place and from the raves, it was apparent that their performance super impressed everyone.
@djphilharmonic 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.
you ought to be able to sync it using a fancy video editing program. YOu can export the audio and then mute it then re-import it and drag to the exact right time ... I think
1970 + sat in the Birmingham Town Hall....watching this band.....jaw on the floor.....eyes bugging out.....all digestive functions faulty......breathing all to pot.....they were pretty good weren't they?
Instrumental virtuosos and musical visionaries, the Mahavishnu Orchestra was a band that soared to new heights and burned out much too soon. I would love to see new fusion bands playing this style of music with the intensity and passion of MO. Recently I have seen two bands that are taking this material to task: one is New York’s Mahavishnu Project and the other is New England’s Birds of Flame. Both have great players and a love and feel for this music.
@Tengent Not true. That's what I thought in "70 (?) -went w/ drummer to see him (Them) fail to live up 2 studio recording. Was blown away & shocked by collective & individual musicianship! All arrangemnents were the same. All the "Heads" were in place (LOL). Solo & ensemble playing were awesome. 25 yrs later saw John Mc again, got to meet him & tell my little tale. He laughed. To this day that remains the single most impressive concert I've ever heard! Glad I had a chance 2 tell him! JTL/OSU
@wedamammynuns Why? Mahavishnu spent the majority of their time jamming over cool progressions. What I love about them is that they have great compositional elements too.
@Tengent I was mostly joking man. 'Jam band' is kind of a dirty word. It implies that you are putting them in the same category as garbage like the disco biscuits or moe or whatever the hell else. Umphreys Mcgee...blech.
I like Mahavishnu very very but in fact in my opinion the best fusion concert group in XX century was SBB, more attractive, more magic, although some were saying SBB was similar to Mahavishnu.
I have admired the Mahavishnu Orchestra and John McLaughlin in particular for many years, but it wasn't until I saw this video that I realised just how exceptionally brilliant were Jerry Goodman and then Billy Cobham. Thanks for sharing this video. This is what YouTube should be about.
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."
As far as technical ability, Improv. ability, writing ability, timing, take you on a journey you'll not forget this is " The Greatest Band That Ever Was". Check out the Bio by this name and read how many famous musicians were completely mind fried upon hearing this band for the first time !
@cobrasclange - what do you mean I'm 'following' you? You're not gitschlangen are you? That would explain a great deal!
Your stupidity has EVERYTHING to do with the conversation! If you choose to post uneducated opinionated nonsense on You Tube do not expect it to go unchallenged.
So I'm a 'Zionist troublemaker' am I? Because I appreciate MO, Coltrane, Hendrix et al. That's a bit of a leap isn't it?
I respect the Rolling Stones also. They don't claim to be great musicians. They repeatedly reject fans listing them as the best musicians on the planet. They categorize themselves as a "blues oriented rock band " and they are masters of that genre. I think Beethoven would have loved the Stones.
Back to my critical statements about Mahavishnu.... check out a band called It's a Beautiful Day... their piece White Bird. It's seems to me that MO are trying to get to that spot.
@cobraschlange - fuck me, you still posting you big bag of wind! The Stones don't claim to be great musicians because they aren't great musicians. And they don't categorize themselves as anything; it's twits like you who do the categorizing!
Just watched It's a Beautiful Day singing 'White Bird'.....OMFG! That just about sums you up you completely clueless wonder. Go post on Barry Manilow videos......you won't be so laughingly out of your depth!
@InnAb109 i just went to see that white bird video...with an open mind. cant believed he compared the 2. and yes, it does further prove that hes an idiot.
The Hendrix interpretation of All Along the Watchtower has some very fine rock genre guitar work. Has a bewitching effect on the mind. It's actually strongly mood altering music if you will. As far as rock genre i respect Hendrix, and I understand why people love his work.
Now wait a minute... I like to listen to Hendrix occasionally. I try to keep his contribution to music in perspective a bit. I love the "jam" sessions stuff he did at Woodstock. Not sure what the name of that piece is, but it's very soothing to the ears. Like a very quiet intimate conversation.
On the other hand I see pieces like Purple Haze as dvd filler. Just terrible music.
B.B King and Muddy Waters listed Hendrix as a "good " blues man. Not great. Peace.
By the way, I also studied part-time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Bob Howes. Go look that up you daffy twat! And you were never in a band, apart from, perhaps, the school youth orchestra where you sat with a tuba in your gob looking like a complete idiot counting the bars until your next farty little miniscule contribution!
@schlang - well it usually takes muppets like you about 200 years to adjust to any paradigm shift in music. You would have been one of those Luddites booing the first performance of The Rite of Spring, fighting in the stalls, or writing off Debussy's efforts in the same way you dismiss this music, which you laughingly call 'pop' music! You silly old sod! You haven't the first freaking clue about music so turn your attention, and outrage, to something you might comprehend. Try Britains Got Talen
let's give Jimmi Hendrix and Chi Coltrane a couple hundred years to settle before we bestow upon them the robes of music royalty.
I know one thing. As I listen to mahavishnu in the background, whilst speaking of 60's rock stars, Mahavishnu takes on a greater persona in MY mind. I guess taste is relative.
try to keep things in perspective when you use these grandiose adjectives to describe pop music.
I think any intelligent man with above average dexterity and long fingers, can master rock guitar style. i don't see that as a problem. We can't all be long lean mysterious looking black men living a devil may care lifestyle with millions of teenybopper fans adoring us. In that aspect hendrix was significant to the ""rock genre counterculture"" but not to the history or future of music.
YOU like hendrix. You are moved by his amazing live performances. You join millions in that regard. A quote from Hendrix:
" Purple haze all in my brain, funny, things just don't look the same, actin funny, but i don't know why, scuse me, while i kiss the sky""
Pure genius..... c'mon man wake up. Hendrix was a figurehead for teenagers and drug culture debutantes.I was his persona to as much as his guitar playing that captured his immature audience.
hey, come on. Your right it's not to like Jimmy. Not for nothing that Jimmy is known as one of the creativest guitarists of the best guitarists of all time. Really big names say so. You will find this statements all on YouTube. And you are comparing apples and oranges. Jimmy was a blues and rock guitarist, and John is a jazz musician. I love the guitar playing of both. People feel differently. The greatest guitar player for me is and will remain Steve Howe. Peace
@InnAb109...First, you didn't study at the Royal. Second, you're never been in a monetarily sucessfull band. And third "" Billy Cobham"" didn't "" create"" anything.
except a huge embarrassment to himself.
And if you would ever care to have a go at shutting my mouth let me know liar.
@cobraschlange - so you knew of Hendrix and Miles, of course, but you had to search for Coltrane!!??? Then you say.... 'those three aren't significant to the history of great music??!' My God! Next you'll be saying that Louis Armstrong had nothing to do with Jazz.
Stop with the posting as you are really making a complete fool of yourself!
I suppose your idea of great music is Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and anything after that simply doesn't register in your pea-sized brain!
@cobraschlange - I did attend the RAM (studied under James Blades and Nick Cole), I was in a successful band (how about 8 nights at Wembley Arena), I've never done anything other than to make my living through music, and Billy Cobham was a genius who's shoes you are not fit to shine!
If you don't believe me you can go fuck yourself! And don't go making threats over the internet, it just makes you look an even bigger idiot!
I knew of hendrix and miles of course but had to search for coltrane.
Are you mad? Those three aren't significant to the history of great music. Good God man you're only insulting every decent man or woman to study music and play before an audience. The most ridiculous thing i have ever read.
@cobra - I studied at the Royal Academy of Music, was in a successful band for 8 years, and now make my living writing/producing and playing keys and drums whenever the occasion arises. My first instrument was drums and Billy Cobham created a completely new and unique approach, the like of which had not been heard before. Rick Laird is a great bass player but the other four are musical geniuses who completely altered the way people approached their respective instruments! Go educate yourself be
These are the guys who couldn't earn a chair in the orchestra.
Now you assholes have pissed me off. Congratulations.
Cacophonous, self-indulgent, and adolescent rebellion by men who are too old to do this sort of thing. They can't see themselves as others see them, and you of common sensibilities are not of deep enough consciousness to judge music OR musicians.
@cobraschlange - goodness me! You are a blithering idiot and this is clearly beyond you. You're digging a great big hole for yourself with every post! You haven't the first freaking clue about music, you most certainly don't play an instrument. If you did you might actually 'get' how great this is, how great these guys were, especially for their time (40 years ago now). You are a Grade A Plank (as in wood) and you need to go drink a large glass of shut-up juice!
This " music " is shite. Obviously YOU are the one that hasn't played an instrument. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to this nonsense. And most of you idiots seem like the type of music afficionados that get high on pot and make believe the music you like is manna from heaven, and can't be topped.
why don't you act your ages, and learn to appreciate quality music before it's gone.
@cobraschlange Yours is s very silly comment. Perhaps YOU don't find any 'redeeming qualities' to this music. Goodman's playing notwithstanding, it is complex music played extremely well with a great amount of passion. Name calling and rude comments mean less than nothing. Like Hendrix, Miles and Coltrane, this is the stuff that still shapes new, original, creative music, if you can find it these days in America.
@davelewitt First time 1972 Carnegie Hall I was BLOWN AWAY by this band there is no way to explain it to any one that did not make a connection. No words to describe the dynamics of the Mahavishnu Orchestra but if you read the reviews of the concerts Wolfgangs Vault has available they come close.
@ cobrashlange or however you spell your name- get some RESPECT for one of the most unique bands of the modern era- have you ever listened to Stravinsky? Varese? Weber? Shoernberg? Hendrix? King Krimson?
God is present in all music, harmonious and dissonant-
he's a zionist folks. Perfect cover he's using too... the traditional zionist cover. Act like a retarded gentile zionist hater and go over the top so the middle of the road readers will say "" OMG if that's being a zionist hater, then i'm supporting Israel"""
Funny stuff... the lengths to which these zionists will go.
Anyway... maddsri, you're not fooling anyone, and your taste in music is horrible. You only defend this jibberish because most of the band are zionists.
@cobraschlange McLaughlin was mentored by the famous Sri Chinmoy, now deceased, who taught the Mahavishnu the mental ways to accomplish things beyond what was normal into extraordinary!!!
@FillmoreFreak Well if anybody is dedicating this music to their God, then they better duck and cover, for gods fine ear will be bleeding from this cacophony, and he's likley to get angry.
Honestly guys, this is fractured adolescent noise making. One day those people will look back and cringe at this video. And you will too, for supporting it.
Whenever any New Style is being invented in any Art Form at the start -Unlike us who've inherited their accomplishments -they had No Roadmap to follow and so, this shows that they are Twice as good as Us, and should be given Twice as much Credit For Getting It So Right From The Start -or almost so right usually, at worst.
Are you mad? First and foremost, this offering isn't the "highest level"" ANYTHING. It is truly cacophonous misery to a fine ear. it's skittles level playing. The whole concept of this being important music is blashemy, and certainly an insult to talented musicians.
you're a moron. go listen to britney spears already, leave this place jackass. go to the lady gaga channel or some other jewbag-fed dribble on the radio these days meant to homogenize the population and prepare us for a world government and an america that is no longer sovereign, you dirty little jew.
Esta es la mejor musica que puede haber, yo no se como se le puede dar tanto credito a un tipo que pues oye pura musica para las masas, no tiene ni caso atender a su comentario que es vano y sin argumentacion. HE IS JUST SPEAKING FOR SPEAK
You're all daft... if i want pop classic, and that's what this is.... i'd prefer something like 10,000 Maniacs.
This is a butterfly trying to return to the cocoon. Are they afraid of expressing their classical training? This is simply a cacophony of sound... no melody whatsoever. If so from what head does it begin?
cobraschlange has their opinion and fair enough. But like other members of the great unwashed they wouldn't know what was great if it got up and bit 'em on the a**
This in essence changed the face of 20th century music, along with Miles et al. But all the morons in the world will never geddit.
Ok half wits... let me rephrase my opinion of this ""music""
It's shite. Plain and simple. These are the type of music students that fall by the wayside. No doubt drugs and bad life choices have left once potentially solid musicians, as wayward counter culture goofs. Useless garbage. If you tell me you actually listen to tripe such as this whilst driving or sitting and smoking your marijuana, i'll call you simpleminded.
@cobraschlange It's an opinion and fair enough. But like other members of the great unwashed you wouldn't know what was great if it got up and bit ' you on the a**
This in essence changed the face of 20th century music, along with Miles et al. But all the morons in the world will never geddit.
@maddsri LOL hello little zionist stalker... pardon this fumbling interloper here folks... this "'maddsri"" person is one of a group of zany zionists that follow me via my RECENT ACTIVITY column. i'm afraid we'll have to put up with them as i don't want to erase my recent activity stuff, and they are BOUND to follow me. Pardon the disruption but dont be mad with me, be mad at the zionists for doing it. Thanks
wow, you really have issues. i'm not even a zionist. if anything, i'm an anti-zionist. i want the federal reserve destroyed along with the rothschild family and any jewbag who thinks israel is a legitimate country. i would love to see someone nuke israel and the english government along with the american government, though that will never happen. ummm, do i even know you? you need to take medication. calm the hell down. oh, and vote 3rd party already no matter what.
These guys were great, I loved them, but they were SO LOUD in concert, I'm surprised my hearing ever recovered, and surprised the band isn't collectively deaf.
@raivan354 Lol, your so lucky to have seen them live ! I've often wondered how Electric Musicians don't go deaf, maybe they do which is kind of dumb ...
@TheBelva85 Congratulations, you have mis-interpreted my post as well as one could hope to do.
You have confused my criticism of the sound as my being critical of the musicians. These are quality musicians, who, in my opinion have fallen beneath their station with this offering. I question their wisdom, not their qualifications
A scholarly musician should never attempt garage level halluncinogenic sound... it's pointless. Simple over qualification.
"Congratulations, you have mis-interpreted my post as well as one could hope to do".. read your previous post better, you'll find out the message you send is that one.
"scholarly musician should never attempt garage level halluncinogenic sound... it's pointless. Simple over qualification."
@cobraschlange If you dont like it, then have fun watching justin beiber. Maybe justin will have the "identity, signature, and hint of soul" your looking for
@cobraschlange don't be absurd, it's clearly does have an identity, as anyone who is educated in 20th century music would know it's jazz fusion. It does have a signature, it's it's in 12/4, and if you don't know what that means and you're here to call Mahavishnu garbage, than GTFO. and further more, it doesn't have soul. it has spirit. also, they don't just run up scales, but I guess someone who doesn't know any scales wouldn't be aware of that.
@pacnwcomre How do you think they've been rated? Aren't they are simply rated as one of the best rock bands ever?.. Looking at the way most scholars define "rock and roll" The Rolling Stones are indeed, one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever. Are they as technically sophisticated as JM or M.O.. ? certainly not. Saying that the Stones are "over rated" is like saying Bob Dylan, or The Beatles are over rated.. i guess you enjoy pissing in the wind, that argument is pointless.
@ybyainc The Doors and the Beatles were creative with thought proviking lyrics that drew inspiration from deep philosophical thinkers where JM is concerned (Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Blake) whereas Lennon and McCartney were innovative and lyrical. The Rolling Stones are popular but the masses inevitably have bad taste. Their lyrics are trite. Plus, they have been on the stage for about 35 years too long..."she comes in colors everywhere, in her hair, she's like a rainbow..yeah,you're a monkey"
@pacnwcomre Your comparative analysis between the Beatles, Doors and Rolling Stones is just silly. "Love, Love me do, you know i love you, so please love me too"
Half the stuff Morrison wrote sounds cool, but doesnt mean shit, total psycho babble, call it deep all you want. Morrison was no Dylan. Your argument will never gain any traction. Among music scholars, legendary musicians, as well as the masses, the Stones are nothing short of legendary and essential. You just dont like them.
@ybyainc .No, I don't like the Rolling Stones. I like a few songs like Lady Jane, Under My Thumb, Give Me Shelter. But Jumpin Jack Flash is trite. You are ignorant call Morrison's lyrics psycho babble. It just shows your ignorance of what he wrote. Compare "I'm a monkey" with "I found an island in your arms, Country in your eye, Arms that chained us, eyes that lied, Break on through to the other side." The Beatles music I was referring to was after the first albums, the White lbum especially
@pacnwcomre Your ignorance is more in question. How old are you? You act like your under 20, using subjectivity as an objective point in logical argument. 20 years ago i was a Doors fanatic, had most of Morrison's recorded work memorized. He wrote some great stuff, but you can not compare his mystical, free associative psychedelic style to the stuff the Stones did. You are comparing apple and oranges. If you don't "get" the Stones, that's your deal, but discrediting them is futile.
@ybyainc I just finished writing a book about Morrison called "Some Are Born to Endless Night: Jim Morrison's Vision of Psychic Apocalopse. It should be on Amazon by October. I was born in 1949. I am a Berkeley graduate and only saw the Doors three times. Don't prattle from your lectern of 'authority'. The Rolling Stones are a commercial cop out. Morrison's creative genius blows away the Rolling Stones. I don't like the Stones. Keith Richards looks like he died on stage and is embalmed..
@pacnwcomre Hmm... wellll... Nice that you are experienced in life and graduated Berkeley. Also, congratulations on completing your book, but in my estimation, you are a little weird in the head and certainly not someone i currently perceive as being "balanced" If you don't like the Stones, you dont like the Stones, but its more than that, your simply too far out in left field for me and most other fans of traditional rock and roll to takes seriously. Maybe you dropped too much acid.
@ybyainc You wrote.."your simply too far out in left field for me and most other fans of traditional rock and roll to takes seriously. Maybe you dropped too much acid. " That kind of remark about LSD is precisely the kind of response I should have exopected from a man of your obvious limittions. I have been immersed in rock music and jazz fusion for 40 years. Odd, isn't it, that the moment the word Berkeley is mentioned clueless clowns like you come out of the wood work. You need to read more.
@pacnwcomre Actually, my suspicion that you have taken too much acid has nothing to do with the common association of LSD with Berkeley and San Fran and everything to do with your long term fascination and possible obsession with Jim Morrison and the Doors. Your position is insistently obscure to a point of "weirdness" and uselessness as anyone who considers a band like the Rolling Stones to be impostors, fakes, sellouts, or "trite" relative to the rest of the music world is just irrelevant.
@ybyainc You wrote.."your simply too far out in left field for me and most other fans of traditional rock and roll to takes seriously. Maybe you dropped too much acid. " That kind of remark about LSD is precisely the kind of response I should have expected from a man of your obvious limittions. I have been immersed in rock music and jazz fusion for 40 years. Odd, isn't it, that the moment the word Berkeley is mentioned clueless clowns like you come out of the wood work. You need to read more.
@ybyainc I just finished writing a book about Morrison called "Some Are Born to Endless Night: Jim Morrison's Vision of Psychic Apocalopse." It should be on Amazon by October. I was born in 1949. I am a Berkeley graduate and only saw the Doors three times. Don't prattle from your lectern of 'authority'. The Rolling Stones are a commercial cop out. Morrison's creative genius blows away the Rolling Stones. I don't like the Stones. Keith Richards looks like he died on stage and is embalmed..
@ybyainc .No, I don't like the Rolling Stones. I like a few songs like Lady Jane, Under My Thumb, Give Me Shelter. But Jumpin Jack Flash is trite. You are ignorant to call Morrison's lyrics psycho babble. It just shows you don't what he wrote. Compare "I'm a monkey" with "I found an island in your arms, Country in your eye, Arms that chained us, eyes that lied, Break on through to the other side." The Beatles music I was referring to was after the first albums, the White lbum especially
Listen to them not as a whole unit but individually as each and every one of them plays to a different feel but it comes together as one amazing, complex, beautiful and unrivaled entity. What a monster!!!If only today's bands could have witnessed them,they would crap their pants and play better music because M.O. is the standard.Real music,real soul and ahead of any time.Music from another world.
I have John McLaughlin's full music score for the Mahavishnu orchestra that I was smart enough to purchase (1977) since I have a classical music background in piano so I can play all Jan Hammers keyboard parts (including my own ad-lib improvs). If there are any musicians on guitar, drums, bass, and electric violin that would like to replicate this music in concert let me know!!!
wow, thats awesome having the full sheets... I drum but I think i'm a long way from this level. Need to learn some Konokol first probably. Takita, Takita, Taka, Da. Takita, Takita, Da Di Gi Na, Da.
@maddsri What instrument have you mastered?? All the musicians in Mahavishnu Orchestra were masters at their instruments! Also John Mclaughlin dedicated all of his music to his, mine, and your Creator! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God!
I have seen the whole recording of this. Its an ad in the back of record collector mags. U can still order it.
Its so charmin. Theres a guy at the start with a clapper board with a clock in it. Hes wooly with penny rounders. Only down side is that j mc speaks. He sounds gay as fuk!!! Apart from that its the best ive ever heard them live. Brilliant!!!
reminds me of kansas. i love it!
cyberwaffles 1 month ago
大ファンだったが当時高校生。お小遣いをためてレコードを買うのがやっとでした。ライブのマクラフリンを見ることはないと思ってました。大感激。thank you.
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uriahheep108 5 months ago
If anyone is interested, I've posted some lessons on how to play this tune. 2 out of 3 videos are up so far, and the other should be up tomorrow.
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walterkolosky1 6 months ago
Cobham is like a machine gun on the drums, flawless performance!
35april 6 months ago
blimey this is some intricate cool shit
bfgfhell 6 months ago
Jam Band...Hardly. When my wife and I saw and listened to them at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton Ohio in the late 70's (early 80's?), this song was basically the same...note by note. Then again, maybe they were a little looser than I give them credit for. But they musically destroyed the place and from the raves, it was apparent that their performance super impressed everyone.
DJM721 6 months ago
this is about the most fusion acid jazz eva listened to in my life..
John Mclaughlin, Guitar, Rick laird, Bass, Billy Cobham, Drums, Jerry Goodman, Violin, Jan Hammer keyboards.
Mahvishnu Orchestra ))))))))).
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@djphilharmonic 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 5 months ago
you ought to be able to sync it using a fancy video editing program. YOu can export the audio and then mute it then re-import it and drag to the exact right time ... I think
Sam5LC 7 months ago
At 0:28 Jan hammer gets up to have a quick piss behind his amp, hoping not to be noticed. But we all saw him.....
lowgrowl5 8 months ago
what luck that they found eachother and created this greatness for all of us to listen to! I am forever grateful for this music
trigjeeeh 8 months ago
Jan Hammer- Separated at Birth from Billy Crystal...
yuritim 8 months ago
Wow man, all of these guys together?! I would have killed for front-row seat:)
hartistry1957 11 months ago
Finale grandioso!
Billy´s stick at 9:06, intentional highlight or mishap with cool reaction?
Miwof 11 months ago
@Miwof intentional highlight for sure! :)
trigjeeeh 8 months ago
1970 + sat in the Birmingham Town Hall....watching this band.....jaw on the floor.....eyes bugging out.....all digestive functions faulty......breathing all to pot.....they were pretty good weren't they?
Swan2555 11 months ago 6
Wow! Now that is what you call a performance! I wish I could clone Billy Cobham and put him in our band...*hint*
kraziekesha 11 months ago
Instrumental virtuosos and musical visionaries, the Mahavishnu Orchestra was a band that soared to new heights and burned out much too soon. I would love to see new fusion bands playing this style of music with the intensity and passion of MO. Recently I have seen two bands that are taking this material to task: one is New York’s Mahavishnu Project and the other is New England’s Birds of Flame. Both have great players and a love and feel for this music.
NoCoverCafe 11 months ago
they cut the awesome part WTF they all shouldda solod on meeting of spirits
nerdyharry 11 months ago
la mahavishnu es de otro planeta!!! es un milagro musical .
Todos virtuosos los músicos .Excelente video
cerpintaxt92 1 year ago
saw dem 4 0r 5 times
Raymantico 1 year ago
lo mas!!!!
vanprasthjuan 1 year ago
A jam band with complexities. I like it.
Tengent 1 year ago
@Tengent Not true. That's what I thought in "70 (?) -went w/ drummer to see him (Them) fail to live up 2 studio recording. Was blown away & shocked by collective & individual musicianship! All arrangemnents were the same. All the "Heads" were in place (LOL). Solo & ensemble playing were awesome. 25 yrs later saw John Mc again, got to meet him & tell my little tale. He laughed. To this day that remains the single most impressive concert I've ever heard! Glad I had a chance 2 tell him! JTL/OSU
BatoLoco696 11 months ago
@Tengent If I saw you call The Mahavishnu Orchestra a 'jam band' in person I would smack the shit out of you.
wedamammynuns 10 months ago
@wedamammynuns Why? Mahavishnu spent the majority of their time jamming over cool progressions. What I love about them is that they have great compositional elements too.
Tengent 10 months ago
@Tengent I was mostly joking man. 'Jam band' is kind of a dirty word. It implies that you are putting them in the same category as garbage like the disco biscuits or moe or whatever the hell else. Umphreys Mcgee...blech.
wedamammynuns 10 months ago
I like Mahavishnu very very but in fact in my opinion the best fusion concert group in XX century was SBB, more attractive, more magic, although some were saying SBB was similar to Mahavishnu.
szelenberg 1 year ago
@szelenberg who is SBB? Thanks.
dorian411 11 months ago
I have admired the Mahavishnu Orchestra and John McLaughlin in particular for many years, but it wasn't until I saw this video that I realised just how exceptionally brilliant were Jerry Goodman and then Billy Cobham. Thanks for sharing this video. This is what YouTube should be about.
evilCB 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
Inner Mounting Flame what a SICK ass album! John McLaughlin is the shit man.
TheCooke14 1 year ago
As far as technical ability, Improv. ability, writing ability, timing, take you on a journey you'll not forget this is " The Greatest Band That Ever Was". Check out the Bio by this name and read how many famous musicians were completely mind fried upon hearing this band for the first time !
weewilly49 1 year ago
This is beautiful.
killwill66 1 year ago
Holy Shit... I think I've just witnessed the best drummer I've ever seen in my life... For the first time... OMG
sirlovemehard 1 year ago
@sirlovemehard you've just witnessed the best guitarist you've ever seen in your life
AdrianMutu87 1 year ago
@AdrianMutu87 Not sure about that... but definetely the best drummer / percussionist... Billy Cobham is Nuckin' Futs !!! X)
sirlovemehard 1 year ago
@AdrianMutu87 oh yeah Cobham is sick power precision and nuance.
cyclonus812 1 year ago
take that "CHECK!" out of the way you dumb fucker. it's the best part of the whole video
AdrianMutu87 1 year ago
The music's called Meeting of the Spirits so stop the clashing of the spirits
fuckallelsetodo 1 year ago
I came to this to listen to McLaughlin on guitar. but holy fuck, Cobham is wrecking the drum kit!
TheQuietCenter 1 year ago
Transend space and time
peobody714 1 year ago
@peobody714 I've transcended space once but not time. err No, sorry. I don't know what you're talking about.
Dashizz327 1 year ago
the rule here is Meeting of the spirits!
ok great progression rules
moimoiac 1 year ago
I remember seeing this on bbc as a nipper and being utterly gobsmacked. Fab!
TreyRoque 1 year ago
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ISHARAMALIKA 1 year ago
@smokelakes - it's either a wind-up or he really does live in that bland world. It's like comparing Liberace with Herbie Hancock!
I'd rather have a root canal than listen to White Bird again!
InnAb109 1 year ago
@cobrasclange - what do you mean I'm 'following' you? You're not gitschlangen are you? That would explain a great deal!
Your stupidity has EVERYTHING to do with the conversation! If you choose to post uneducated opinionated nonsense on You Tube do not expect it to go unchallenged.
So I'm a 'Zionist troublemaker' am I? Because I appreciate MO, Coltrane, Hendrix et al. That's a bit of a leap isn't it?
InnAb109 1 year ago
AGAIN, let me appologize for the comments left here by certain zionist (InnAb109) troublemakers.
I have no control over these zionists following me on YT, and leaving personal attacks that have NOTHING to do with the conversation.
InnAb109 is just one of MANY such troublemakers at YT. They're just a nuisance really. Ignore them.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
HEAVENLY...!!!!!...
cosmocum 1 year ago
I respect the Rolling Stones also. They don't claim to be great musicians. They repeatedly reject fans listing them as the best musicians on the planet. They categorize themselves as a "blues oriented rock band " and they are masters of that genre. I think Beethoven would have loved the Stones.
Back to my critical statements about Mahavishnu.... check out a band called It's a Beautiful Day... their piece White Bird. It's seems to me that MO are trying to get to that spot.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange - fuck me, you still posting you big bag of wind! The Stones don't claim to be great musicians because they aren't great musicians. And they don't categorize themselves as anything; it's twits like you who do the categorizing!
Just watched It's a Beautiful Day singing 'White Bird'.....OMFG! That just about sums you up you completely clueless wonder. Go post on Barry Manilow videos......you won't be so laughingly out of your depth!
InnAb109 1 year ago
@InnAb109 i just went to see that white bird video...with an open mind. cant believed he compared the 2. and yes, it does further prove that hes an idiot.
smokelakes 1 year ago
@cobraschlange every morning, I make a Rolling Stones' album, and then... I flush the toilet... ;-)
Shaakhal 1 year ago
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@cobraschlange every morning, I make a Rolling Stones' album, and then... I flush the toilet... ;-)
Shaakhal 1 year ago
The Hendrix interpretation of All Along the Watchtower has some very fine rock genre guitar work. Has a bewitching effect on the mind. It's actually strongly mood altering music if you will. As far as rock genre i respect Hendrix, and I understand why people love his work.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
Now wait a minute... I like to listen to Hendrix occasionally. I try to keep his contribution to music in perspective a bit. I love the "jam" sessions stuff he did at Woodstock. Not sure what the name of that piece is, but it's very soothing to the ears. Like a very quiet intimate conversation.
On the other hand I see pieces like Purple Haze as dvd filler. Just terrible music.
B.B King and Muddy Waters listed Hendrix as a "good " blues man. Not great. Peace.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
I was thinking that this was paco de lucias composition... zyryab.... does somebody know? is paco de lucia composer of this composition?
smithlasha 1 year ago
And there we go, self rightous fools arguing over nothing, enjoy the music you like, and shut the fuck up.
masterofscotland 1 year ago 27
@masterofscotland i'm with you brother, just listen n shut the fuck up
Phiezer 1 year ago
@masterofscotland
Bravo!
webegetar 1 year ago
@masterofscotland WELL PUT
phillipians 7 months ago
By the way, I also studied part-time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Bob Howes. Go look that up you daffy twat! And you were never in a band, apart from, perhaps, the school youth orchestra where you sat with a tuba in your gob looking like a complete idiot counting the bars until your next farty little miniscule contribution!
InnAb109 1 year ago
@schlang - well it usually takes muppets like you about 200 years to adjust to any paradigm shift in music. You would have been one of those Luddites booing the first performance of The Rite of Spring, fighting in the stalls, or writing off Debussy's efforts in the same way you dismiss this music, which you laughingly call 'pop' music! You silly old sod! You haven't the first freaking clue about music so turn your attention, and outrage, to something you might comprehend. Try Britains Got Talen
InnAb109 1 year ago
let's give Jimmi Hendrix and Chi Coltrane a couple hundred years to settle before we bestow upon them the robes of music royalty.
I know one thing. As I listen to mahavishnu in the background, whilst speaking of 60's rock stars, Mahavishnu takes on a greater persona in MY mind. I guess taste is relative.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
try to keep things in perspective when you use these grandiose adjectives to describe pop music.
I think any intelligent man with above average dexterity and long fingers, can master rock guitar style. i don't see that as a problem. We can't all be long lean mysterious looking black men living a devil may care lifestyle with millions of teenybopper fans adoring us. In that aspect hendrix was significant to the ""rock genre counterculture"" but not to the history or future of music.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
Ok, Hendrix.
YOU like hendrix. You are moved by his amazing live performances. You join millions in that regard. A quote from Hendrix:
" Purple haze all in my brain, funny, things just don't look the same, actin funny, but i don't know why, scuse me, while i kiss the sky""
Pure genius..... c'mon man wake up. Hendrix was a figurehead for teenagers and drug culture debutantes.I was his persona to as much as his guitar playing that captured his immature audience.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange
hey, come on. Your right it's not to like Jimmy. Not for nothing that Jimmy is known as one of the creativest guitarists of the best guitarists of all time. Really big names say so. You will find this statements all on YouTube. And you are comparing apples and oranges. Jimmy was a blues and rock guitarist, and John is a jazz musician. I love the guitar playing of both. People feel differently. The greatest guitar player for me is and will remain Steve Howe. Peace
Lightfromsirius 1 year ago
@innAb109
took you some time to find blades and cole on the Royal Academy website didn't it? LOL.
you never studied there. Let's drop this nonsense at any rate. Congratulations you were in a band once.... join the club.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange Are you saying that Hendrix was not significant in the history of great music?
RickyH1123 1 year ago
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the man with the double neck is John Mclaughlin, and he's selling himself as a cheap bubblegum act here to make a little money I'm sure.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
the man with the double neck is John Mclaughlin, and he's selling himself was a cheap bubblegum act here to make a little money I'm sure.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@InnAb109...First, you didn't study at the Royal. Second, you're never been in a monetarily sucessfull band. And third "" Billy Cobham"" didn't "" create"" anything.
except a huge embarrassment to himself.
And if you would ever care to have a go at shutting my mouth let me know liar.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange - so you knew of Hendrix and Miles, of course, but you had to search for Coltrane!!??? Then you say.... 'those three aren't significant to the history of great music??!' My God! Next you'll be saying that Louis Armstrong had nothing to do with Jazz.
Stop with the posting as you are really making a complete fool of yourself!
I suppose your idea of great music is Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and anything after that simply doesn't register in your pea-sized brain!
InnAb109 1 year ago
@cobraschlange - I did attend the RAM (studied under James Blades and Nick Cole), I was in a successful band (how about 8 nights at Wembley Arena), I've never done anything other than to make my living through music, and Billy Cobham was a genius who's shoes you are not fit to shine!
If you don't believe me you can go fuck yourself! And don't go making threats over the internet, it just makes you look an even bigger idiot!
InnAb109 1 year ago
""" hendrix, miles, and coltrane.
I knew of hendrix and miles of course but had to search for coltrane.
Are you mad? Those three aren't significant to the history of great music. Good God man you're only insulting every decent man or woman to study music and play before an audience. The most ridiculous thing i have ever read.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
holy shit COBHAM ANNIHILATED AT THE END
solargesture 1 year ago
....Go educate yourself before you open your big fat mouth again! And don't knock what you don't understand you stupid ass!
InnAb109 1 year ago
@InnAb109
Ditto!
webegetar 1 year ago
@cobra - I studied at the Royal Academy of Music, was in a successful band for 8 years, and now make my living writing/producing and playing keys and drums whenever the occasion arises. My first instrument was drums and Billy Cobham created a completely new and unique approach, the like of which had not been heard before. Rick Laird is a great bass player but the other four are musical geniuses who completely altered the way people approached their respective instruments! Go educate yourself be
InnAb109 1 year ago
These are the guys who couldn't earn a chair in the orchestra.
Now you assholes have pissed me off. Congratulations.
Cacophonous, self-indulgent, and adolescent rebellion by men who are too old to do this sort of thing. They can't see themselves as others see them, and you of common sensibilities are not of deep enough consciousness to judge music OR musicians.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange - goodness me! You are a blithering idiot and this is clearly beyond you. You're digging a great big hole for yourself with every post! You haven't the first freaking clue about music, you most certainly don't play an instrument. If you did you might actually 'get' how great this is, how great these guys were, especially for their time (40 years ago now). You are a Grade A Plank (as in wood) and you need to go drink a large glass of shut-up juice!
InnAb109 1 year ago
@InnAb109
This " music " is shite. Obviously YOU are the one that hasn't played an instrument. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to this nonsense. And most of you idiots seem like the type of music afficionados that get high on pot and make believe the music you like is manna from heaven, and can't be topped.
why don't you act your ages, and learn to appreciate quality music before it's gone.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange Yours is s very silly comment. Perhaps YOU don't find any 'redeeming qualities' to this music. Goodman's playing notwithstanding, it is complex music played extremely well with a great amount of passion. Name calling and rude comments mean less than nothing. Like Hendrix, Miles and Coltrane, this is the stuff that still shapes new, original, creative music, if you can find it these days in America.
uncasist 1 year ago
It does something to me everytime I hear this song...
ricardohenry1 1 year ago
Monster drum solo.
Frisbieinstein 1 year ago
Holy Crap... This video is PURELY INTENSE..!!
John on that Gibson SG Double Neck is from another planet.
Goodman brings you to another galaxy.
Jon Hammer smokes those keys..!
Cobham ends this jam with a SMOKIN solo/exercise..!
Purely from another Paradigm..!
mrprogjazzgto 1 year ago
McLaughlin is the man.
1ManApocalypse 1 year ago
you get "spiritual orgasm" listening to this kind of music....
xwarx1000 1 year ago
love devotion and surrender.......got to love Billy Cobham on drums
stoneyll 1 year ago
John reminds me of Ted Bundy. The way he looks I mean.
tardwhisperer 1 year ago
actually after reading some of the vile comments here I think we all need a little time out here-
you people are nuts and I've wasted 5" of my life---
Mahavishnu ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!
RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
davelewitt 1 year ago
@davelewitt First time 1972 Carnegie Hall I was BLOWN AWAY by this band there is no way to explain it to any one that did not make a connection. No words to describe the dynamics of the Mahavishnu Orchestra but if you read the reviews of the concerts Wolfgangs Vault has available they come close.
FillmoreFreak 1 year ago
@ cobrashlange or however you spell your name- get some RESPECT for one of the most unique bands of the modern era- have you ever listened to Stravinsky? Varese? Weber? Shoernberg? Hendrix? King Krimson?
God is present in all music, harmonious and dissonant-
now go do your homework and learn some
RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tank you beddy much buh bye!
davelewitt 1 year ago
he's a zionist folks. Perfect cover he's using too... the traditional zionist cover. Act like a retarded gentile zionist hater and go over the top so the middle of the road readers will say "" OMG if that's being a zionist hater, then i'm supporting Israel"""
Funny stuff... the lengths to which these zionists will go.
Anyway... maddsri, you're not fooling anyone, and your taste in music is horrible. You only defend this jibberish because most of the band are zionists.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange McLaughlin was mentored by the famous Sri Chinmoy, now deceased, who taught the Mahavishnu the mental ways to accomplish things beyond what was normal into extraordinary!!!
FillmoreFreak 1 year ago
@FillmoreFreak Well if anybody is dedicating this music to their God, then they better duck and cover, for gods fine ear will be bleeding from this cacophony, and he's likley to get angry.
Honestly guys, this is fractured adolescent noise making. One day those people will look back and cringe at this video. And you will too, for supporting it.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange F^@k outta here
ricardohenry1 1 year ago
Whenever any New Style is being invented in any Art Form at the start -Unlike us who've inherited their accomplishments -they had No Roadmap to follow and so, this shows that they are Twice as good as Us, and should be given Twice as much Credit For Getting It So Right From The Start -or almost so right usually, at worst.
MarischaLInto809 1 year ago
""Melodic improv at the highest level?"""
Are you mad? First and foremost, this offering isn't the "highest level"" ANYTHING. It is truly cacophonous misery to a fine ear. it's skittles level playing. The whole concept of this being important music is blashemy, and certainly an insult to talented musicians.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange
you're a moron. go listen to britney spears already, leave this place jackass. go to the lady gaga channel or some other jewbag-fed dribble on the radio these days meant to homogenize the population and prepare us for a world government and an america that is no longer sovereign, you dirty little jew.
maddsri 1 year ago
Esta es la mejor musica que puede haber, yo no se como se le puede dar tanto credito a un tipo que pues oye pura musica para las masas, no tiene ni caso atender a su comentario que es vano y sin argumentacion. HE IS JUST SPEAKING FOR SPEAK
herosjulio 1 year ago
some people simply have not got a clue.
zooteraudio 1 year ago
Cobra says: "no melodies..." Jerry Goodman isn't playing melodies? This is melodic improv. at the highest level.
navazguitar 1 year ago
You're all daft... if i want pop classic, and that's what this is.... i'd prefer something like 10,000 Maniacs.
This is a butterfly trying to return to the cocoon. Are they afraid of expressing their classical training? This is simply a cacophony of sound... no melody whatsoever. If so from what head does it begin?
Overexperimentation and self indulgence.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
cobraschlange has their opinion and fair enough. But like other members of the great unwashed they wouldn't know what was great if it got up and bit 'em on the a**
This in essence changed the face of 20th century music, along with Miles et al. But all the morons in the world will never geddit.
arit42 1 year ago
Ok half wits... let me rephrase my opinion of this ""music""
It's shite. Plain and simple. These are the type of music students that fall by the wayside. No doubt drugs and bad life choices have left once potentially solid musicians, as wayward counter culture goofs. Useless garbage. If you tell me you actually listen to tripe such as this whilst driving or sitting and smoking your marijuana, i'll call you simpleminded.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange It's an opinion and fair enough. But like other members of the great unwashed you wouldn't know what was great if it got up and bit ' you on the a**
This in essence changed the face of 20th century music, along with Miles et al. But all the morons in the world will never geddit.
arit42 1 year ago
@arit42 And you can take a hike smart aleck.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange
you're an absolute imbecile and have severe issues. you need to get a life. make some friends while you're at it, douchbag. have a great day asswipe!
maddsri 1 year ago 2
@maddsri LOL hello little zionist stalker... pardon this fumbling interloper here folks... this "'maddsri"" person is one of a group of zany zionists that follow me via my RECENT ACTIVITY column. i'm afraid we'll have to put up with them as i don't want to erase my recent activity stuff, and they are BOUND to follow me. Pardon the disruption but dont be mad with me, be mad at the zionists for doing it. Thanks
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange
wow, you really have issues. i'm not even a zionist. if anything, i'm an anti-zionist. i want the federal reserve destroyed along with the rothschild family and any jewbag who thinks israel is a legitimate country. i would love to see someone nuke israel and the english government along with the american government, though that will never happen. ummm, do i even know you? you need to take medication. calm the hell down. oh, and vote 3rd party already no matter what.
maddsri 1 year ago
chucha, estos grupos sí que eran de verdad.
27copas 1 year ago
These guys were great, I loved them, but they were SO LOUD in concert, I'm surprised my hearing ever recovered, and surprised the band isn't collectively deaf.
raivan354 1 year ago
@raivan354 Lol, your so lucky to have seen them live ! I've often wondered how Electric Musicians don't go deaf, maybe they do which is kind of dumb ...
Bruce097 1 year ago
ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Brilliant intense music - such an antidote to today's anodyne shit fest.
visog 1 year ago
this makes me miss LSD
tranesonic16 1 year ago
@tranesonic16 YEAH dude
totopovic 1 year ago
This band makes all others look like crap.
plynix 1 year ago
This is my 2nd choice after Birds of fire.
plynix 1 year ago
This is gospel music, and for that, I am grateful to Lord John, Lord Billy, Lord Jan and Lord Jerry. badass!!!!!!!!!
MsFrenchPetal 1 year ago
Technically sound garbage. This piece has no identity, signature, and not a hint of soul. Trained musicians running jazz riffs and scale.
rather like Stephen Hawking teaching algebra.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange Holy shit master teach us how to achieve your grade of superiority.
No wait just grab an instrument and try to do something better.
TheBelva85 1 year ago
@TheBelva85 Congratulations, you have mis-interpreted my post as well as one could hope to do.
You have confused my criticism of the sound as my being critical of the musicians. These are quality musicians, who, in my opinion have fallen beneath their station with this offering. I question their wisdom, not their qualifications
A scholarly musician should never attempt garage level halluncinogenic sound... it's pointless. Simple over qualification.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange
"Congratulations, you have mis-interpreted my post as well as one could hope to do".. read your previous post better, you'll find out the message you send is that one.
"scholarly musician should never attempt garage level halluncinogenic sound... it's pointless. Simple over qualification."
Where does this rule come from?
TheBelva85 1 year ago 7
@TheBelva85 Satan!
furiousgeorge1939 1 year ago
@cobraschlange If you dont like it, then have fun watching justin beiber. Maybe justin will have the "identity, signature, and hint of soul" your looking for
magotcoveredbabies 1 year ago
@magotcoveredbabies Please go bite the buttocks of a fat greasy woman.
cobraschlange 1 year ago
@cobraschlange don't be absurd, it's clearly does have an identity, as anyone who is educated in 20th century music would know it's jazz fusion. It does have a signature, it's it's in 12/4, and if you don't know what that means and you're here to call Mahavishnu garbage, than GTFO. and further more, it doesn't have soul. it has spirit. also, they don't just run up scales, but I guess someone who doesn't know any scales wouldn't be aware of that.
thrakish 1 year ago 2
thanks for sending paul. this is a really cool video. i like how drums heat up even more at the end. yes, it was a fun jam last night.
rob3fs 1 year ago
...don't know why some on here are comparing this band to the Stones - both completely different, and both masters of their crafts.
Mahavishnu Orchestra are beyond most musicians' capacity, for sure, with their dexterity and fusion - excellent!!
eggflipsupreme 1 year ago
great... feel so free...
bloodhoundtg 1 year ago
Unbelievable. Check out 10:7:44. Wicked
ritter1808 1 year ago
these guys destroy rolling stones.
KillingLies1 1 year ago 3
The Rolling Stones have been over rated for decades............what trite lyrics!
pacnwcomre 1 year ago 2
@pacnwcomre How do you think they've been rated? Aren't they are simply rated as one of the best rock bands ever?.. Looking at the way most scholars define "rock and roll" The Rolling Stones are indeed, one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever. Are they as technically sophisticated as JM or M.O.. ? certainly not. Saying that the Stones are "over rated" is like saying Bob Dylan, or The Beatles are over rated.. i guess you enjoy pissing in the wind, that argument is pointless.
ybyainc 1 year ago
@ybyainc The Doors and the Beatles were creative with thought proviking lyrics that drew inspiration from deep philosophical thinkers where JM is concerned (Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Blake) whereas Lennon and McCartney were innovative and lyrical. The Rolling Stones are popular but the masses inevitably have bad taste. Their lyrics are trite. Plus, they have been on the stage for about 35 years too long..."she comes in colors everywhere, in her hair, she's like a rainbow..yeah,you're a monkey"
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
@pacnwcomre Your comparative analysis between the Beatles, Doors and Rolling Stones is just silly. "Love, Love me do, you know i love you, so please love me too"
Half the stuff Morrison wrote sounds cool, but doesnt mean shit, total psycho babble, call it deep all you want. Morrison was no Dylan. Your argument will never gain any traction. Among music scholars, legendary musicians, as well as the masses, the Stones are nothing short of legendary and essential. You just dont like them.
ybyainc 1 year ago
@ybyainc .No, I don't like the Rolling Stones. I like a few songs like Lady Jane, Under My Thumb, Give Me Shelter. But Jumpin Jack Flash is trite. You are ignorant call Morrison's lyrics psycho babble. It just shows your ignorance of what he wrote. Compare "I'm a monkey" with "I found an island in your arms, Country in your eye, Arms that chained us, eyes that lied, Break on through to the other side." The Beatles music I was referring to was after the first albums, the White lbum especially
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
@pacnwcomre Your ignorance is more in question. How old are you? You act like your under 20, using subjectivity as an objective point in logical argument. 20 years ago i was a Doors fanatic, had most of Morrison's recorded work memorized. He wrote some great stuff, but you can not compare his mystical, free associative psychedelic style to the stuff the Stones did. You are comparing apple and oranges. If you don't "get" the Stones, that's your deal, but discrediting them is futile.
ybyainc 1 year ago
@ybyainc I just finished writing a book about Morrison called "Some Are Born to Endless Night: Jim Morrison's Vision of Psychic Apocalopse. It should be on Amazon by October. I was born in 1949. I am a Berkeley graduate and only saw the Doors three times. Don't prattle from your lectern of 'authority'. The Rolling Stones are a commercial cop out. Morrison's creative genius blows away the Rolling Stones. I don't like the Stones. Keith Richards looks like he died on stage and is embalmed..
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
@pacnwcomre Hmm... wellll... Nice that you are experienced in life and graduated Berkeley. Also, congratulations on completing your book, but in my estimation, you are a little weird in the head and certainly not someone i currently perceive as being "balanced" If you don't like the Stones, you dont like the Stones, but its more than that, your simply too far out in left field for me and most other fans of traditional rock and roll to takes seriously. Maybe you dropped too much acid.
ybyainc 1 year ago
@ybyainc You wrote.."your simply too far out in left field for me and most other fans of traditional rock and roll to takes seriously. Maybe you dropped too much acid. " That kind of remark about LSD is precisely the kind of response I should have exopected from a man of your obvious limittions. I have been immersed in rock music and jazz fusion for 40 years. Odd, isn't it, that the moment the word Berkeley is mentioned clueless clowns like you come out of the wood work. You need to read more.
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
@pacnwcomre Actually, my suspicion that you have taken too much acid has nothing to do with the common association of LSD with Berkeley and San Fran and everything to do with your long term fascination and possible obsession with Jim Morrison and the Doors. Your position is insistently obscure to a point of "weirdness" and uselessness as anyone who considers a band like the Rolling Stones to be impostors, fakes, sellouts, or "trite" relative to the rest of the music world is just irrelevant.
ybyainc 1 year ago
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@ybyainc You wrote.."your simply too far out in left field for me and most other fans of traditional rock and roll to takes seriously. Maybe you dropped too much acid. " That kind of remark about LSD is precisely the kind of response I should have expected from a man of your obvious limittions. I have been immersed in rock music and jazz fusion for 40 years. Odd, isn't it, that the moment the word Berkeley is mentioned clueless clowns like you come out of the wood work. You need to read more.
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
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@ybyainc I just finished writing a book about Morrison called "Some Are Born to Endless Night: Jim Morrison's Vision of Psychic Apocalopse." It should be on Amazon by October. I was born in 1949. I am a Berkeley graduate and only saw the Doors three times. Don't prattle from your lectern of 'authority'. The Rolling Stones are a commercial cop out. Morrison's creative genius blows away the Rolling Stones. I don't like the Stones. Keith Richards looks like he died on stage and is embalmed..
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
@ybyainc .No, I don't like the Rolling Stones. I like a few songs like Lady Jane, Under My Thumb, Give Me Shelter. But Jumpin Jack Flash is trite. You are ignorant to call Morrison's lyrics psycho babble. It just shows you don't what he wrote. Compare "I'm a monkey" with "I found an island in your arms, Country in your eye, Arms that chained us, eyes that lied, Break on through to the other side." The Beatles music I was referring to was after the first albums, the White lbum especially
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
@ybyainc 'psycho babble ' is tough. I find Morrison's lyrics much more appealing than Dylan's . it's more concise and shows the picture in 3 words.
there was some babbling too but due to too much booze
btw sorry for Mahavishnu fans
itnow 1 year ago
i was about to kill myself, but after watch this video, life has more sense
KillingLies1 1 year ago
Man, Jan's Minimoog solo was absolutely amazing!
plungerdrum 1 year ago 2
Another out-of-this-world band I can think of is E.L.P.
diemutha666 1 year ago
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Listen to them not as a whole unit but individually as each and every one of them plays to a different feel but it comes together as one amazing, complex, beautiful and unrivaled entity. What a monster!!!If only today's bands could have witnessed them,they would crap their pants and play better music because M.O. is the standard.Real music,real soul and ahead of any time.Music from another world.
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diemutha666 1 year ago
I live in Oregon in the USA, and you????
hippitybippitybop 1 year ago
jerrys arpeggios at 7:56 ....lol
they were having a ball :)
Gtrplayer77 1 year ago
Argghhhhh! This some music!
visog 2 years ago 2
I have John McLaughlin's full music score for the Mahavishnu orchestra that I was smart enough to purchase (1977) since I have a classical music background in piano so I can play all Jan Hammers keyboard parts (including my own ad-lib improvs). If there are any musicians on guitar, drums, bass, and electric violin that would like to replicate this music in concert let me know!!!
hippitybippitybop 2 years ago 4
wow, thats awesome having the full sheets... I drum but I think i'm a long way from this level. Need to learn some Konokol first probably. Takita, Takita, Taka, Da. Takita, Takita, Da Di Gi Na, Da.
Dilliboy63 2 years ago
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whoa, do that. i'm there.
maddsri 1 year ago
@maddsri What instrument have you mastered?? All the musicians in Mahavishnu Orchestra were masters at their instruments! Also John Mclaughlin dedicated all of his music to his, mine, and your Creator! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God!
hippitybippitybop 1 year ago
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@maddsri In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God!!!!!!!!!
hippitybippitybop 1 year ago
Saw them in '72, they were awesome.
GeoStratocaster 2 years ago
Absolutely friggin Fantastic!..:-)
Mariekesone 2 years ago 2
Jerry Goodman's run at 0:26 send chills down my spine,,
vertisvirtuoso 2 years ago 2
I have seen the whole recording of this. Its an ad in the back of record collector mags. U can still order it.
Its so charmin. Theres a guy at the start with a clapper board with a clock in it. Hes wooly with penny rounders. Only down side is that j mc speaks. He sounds gay as fuk!!! Apart from that its the best ive ever heard them live. Brilliant!!!
daftweebrush 2 years ago
theyr cool!
reminds me of......
sweet smoke just a pogue
saromak 2 years ago
MO is my all time favorite band. epic.
rhetoricjams 2 years ago
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Jean-Luc Ponty is insane on the violin.
Mowac 2 years ago
Thats Jerry Goodman.
railcar123 2 years ago 9