Mahavishnu Orchestra - Miles Beyond

[graveey]

tribe called quest-same ol thing (if anyone likes hip hop here and wants to hear it sampled)

[Jija45]

4/4 or 3/4, please pick one! ;^;

(jk. This song's fucking beast.)

[KingCrimson250]

This one is dedicated to Miles Davis, and it really shows.

Despite being a guitarist, Jan Hammer is probably my favourite part of this track. That Rhodes just works perfectly.

[Burt472]

I get regularly goosebumps @ 0.40

[RyanBrett098]

I recently discovered 'King Crimson' and in my quest to find similar artists i was recomended 'Manavishnu Orcestra'. This is just the second track of theirs i've heard so far after 'Birds of Fire'; and I must say, if the rest of the album is as good as these two songs, I will be buying this album asap!

[mrprogjazzgto]

@RyanBrett098 Try the albums Visions of the Emerald Beyond.. King Crimson was great..Listen to Gentle Giant,

Brand X, wear out youtube..!!

[1m2a3t4t5]

@RyanBrett098

I'd recommend everything by Floyd (pink floyd), Gilmour is one of the best guitarists in the world, along with Mclaughlin, but yeah Pink Floyd is too good of a band to categorize as progressive. But then again if you know Crimson you most likely know everything about Pink Floyd.

Gentle Giant-Three Friends

Gong is a good band

Frank Zappa-Freak Out (Is not similar to King Crimson though)

[chemtrailstacoma2011]

This track is what did it for me! 

[JusticeWar]

Sublime ... It got a killer beat. A monument of acheivement, long live Mahavishnu

[phunkidruma]

this dude was the mozart of the seventies hands down.... classical sh*t!!!!

[able506]

billy cobham is my hero

[clyde8her]

@able506 Good hero to pick...he is awesome and I hate that word but it really fits him.

[Madnessfan34537]

Am I going deaf or is the quiet part 1 and a half mins extremly quiet? Please answer, im worried about my hearing.

[sergelapelle]

@Madnessfan34537 It's called an "intro" you might have heard of it ;)

[Madnessfan34537]

@sergelapelle I was talking about after a minute and a half in..

[victorgregson1973]

this is such and awesome track, love it, chilling on it now, nice buzz, good groove, doesn't get better.. Just checked this really awesome track from a new acid jazz guy.. This is a must hear,, truly. search on " Pai Crowd, Jamie Ruben " you are going to dig that for sure!

[Papwithanhatchet]

@victorgregson1973 Come on, man... I'm glad you like it but, really... come on. Nothing like the dynamic found here. Nothing. You're comparing a 50,000 volt powerline to a 12 volt battery. Ruben's stuff is okay and I'll peek in to see what he's doing in the future, but don't jerk people around with "this is a must hear" malarkey... I feel I was duped and that kind of p's me off.

[annjeelynn]

i read a that critic called this album "arty and mystic." its too bad that we couldnt have just enjoyed the orchestra with out analyzing every freaking note they played. they were with us such a short time....

[skifiles]

I think I allready said it. I was wrong, Narada was not in this album. My mistake!!

[mo9504]

Ian Hammer

[pbstratocaster]

Ladies & gentlemen,,,,,,,, THIS,,,,,,,,,, is music outside ANY category.

[kouklev]

great anyhow

[skifiles]

Cobham does not play here, Narada Michael walden does.

[devenking]

@skifiles -- Cobham is listed as the percussionist on the Birds of Fire album -- I thought Narada Michael Walden didn't join MO until the Apocalypse album, no?

[skifiles]

@devenking you are right. Absolutely right. 

[devenking]

@skifiles -- I wish MO would get back together for one last tour...I'd sell my soul to see that!

[skifiles]

@devenking my soul is allready sold!!!!! hahahhahaha!!!!!

But it would be great to see them all together again!!!!

[fulsomstryk]

correct.

[failont01]

@skifiles sorry young men but if you look at the lp you would see that cobham was on this lp

Narada Micheal walden didnot play with Mahavishnu until Apocalpse and visions of the emerald

beyond I know narada was still here in Michigan peace

[mo9504]

Thank you for this posting, a wonderful mix of Jazz and Funk & Rock, something that is missed in todays music industry, but because of people like you, it will carry on.

[japanisefishmarket]

Hammers rhodes intro is beautiful

Cobhams drumming especially though the solo section just cements his place in the top notches of drumming mastery

McLaughlan does the bst three note guitar solo lick:P

[Earschplittenlouden]

Oh Yeah!!

[Earschplittenlouden]

Oh Yeah!!

[Earschplittenlouden]

Oh Yeah!!

[Earschplittenlouden]

Oh Yeah!!

[ocean4315]

That is some funky, soulful violin (pizzicato) playing from Jerry Goodman. Cobham really drives the song. Jam Hammer is a monster keyboard player...

[viidiot]

I keep trying to tell my friends that Bonham and Moon are all well and fine, but that Cobham is the drum god.

[icaredamnit]

@viidiot Yes. Check out his Spectrum album.

[mullah06]

@icaredamnit Yeah Man and Bolin is in there with him, RIP

[psyne000]

Rhodes on this is Sublime...none better.

[Burt472]

Fantastic. The bass/drums entry is simply magnificent.........

[gingataff]

This is my favourite track off my favourite album (I own 5 copies).

Everything that's great about MO is in this one song.

Blessings to John, Jan, Jerry, Rick and Billy.

[Zapple03]

It's usually the lead singer or lead guitarist everyone seems to dig, here we have the superlative Jon McGlaughlin,truly gifted, and only because of his gift can this music exist... but most of the youtube comments on this album don't mention him too much but it's all about Billy. I thought drummers were supposed to stay in the background, or is it sometimes that they're the Real Stars......???

[Psycho9263]

@Zapple03 Can you imagine Billy Cobham in Frank Zappa's Band?

[NorrisChuckling]

Loves those violins. Or violas? Whatever, it's awesome!

[HgKen74]

one of the sickest bands i've ever heard

[tindoor38]

oh yes!

[martinevans123]

about 27.000

feet

of musical elevation

soaring

extasy

with a groove

[kevfullo]

sweet

[KorovaMilkBarbie]

Miles (Davis) Beyond

[when2L]

@KorovaMilkBarbie you know it!

[eldorado96]

This song always spins me off into the stratosphere. Memories of Paramount Seattle with me fellahs.

[RazDaz2000]

my favorite part is 0:40

[junoedwards]

Same Ol' Thang by ATCQ!!!

[Shadapaga]

@junoedwards i was wondering if people were sampling this type of music as i was listening, makes me dust off my MV8000

[eddievelasco]

Billy Cobham is a beastly animal on the skins...none finer!!! Viva Mahavishnu

[dantean]

@eddievelasco Yeah. Most of the chops-heavy drummers playing the super-complex stuff end up sacrificing their beast instincts (if they ever had them), but not Billy! I say this, by the way, as the world's biggest fan of Zappa drummer Aynsley Dunbar, whose nickname was "The Beast".

[ricnros]

I'm so back in college now

[bonzo21290]

ah cobham is so solid n funkay

[Kemster79]

Sounds like Air....

[aaronholt100]

it's nice

[1Delta]

this is a true masterpiece and I totally agree that Cobham just drive the syncopation, the funk and the shear power of this monster of a song. I have heard some jaw dropping versions of this song, but it's beautiful thing to hear the quieter ambience.

ATTENTION UKULELE players, get off your ass and start playing some Jerry Goodman, four string plucking blues!

[chinaalteclansing]

what type of piano is he using here?

[unwashedmime]

sounds like a whirly perhaps.

[LGathLax]

Fender Rhodes. Jan Hammer always used it and in fact that was the staple keyboard for all the fusion players in the early 70's.

[atl2maryland]

@LGathLax that Fender Rhodes is so silkyy!

[aixelsydyslexia]

Pizzicato solo ftw.

[andrewattsup]

So, so cool. Cobham...yeah. What a genius.

[forkhead]

Cobham just grooves the sick time signature like it was NOTHING.

[gingerb91]

NOTHING!!!

[yuritim]

@forkhead I have drummed my teeth to his rhythms in this song for the better part of 35 years but can't drum it in real life.

Absolutely captivating.

[MrDrummer38666]

@yuritim Take a look over triplets, flames and multiple bounces, it's quite ussual to me, but i still feel satysfied whyle listening to them

[MrFarcry1966]

@forkhead

He is Jesus resurrected, my friend. Allah's latest and best disciple. The Buddha who met the Buddha by the side of the road and killed him. God.

I don't know about you, but these gods are the only ones I want or need.

[kakalovplaying]

This is what you can call, Music.

[psyne000]

Masterpiece.

[musicforspeeding]

3:18 is the beginning of the sickest guitar line ever

[VegetarianBarbarian]

super AWESOME YAAA

[goldenchopsticks]

Sweetness.