I saw Billy Cobham at a small club in Houston called La Bastille. It was a basement club that seated 50-75 tops and you could reserve a table for any shows they had there. I counted 62 pcs. in his drum kit. Later went on to see Chick Corea and the Return to Forever Band, on another nite Maynard Furguson, and also Dizzy Gillespie! Sweet huh?
I'm trying to learn this on guitar, but the rhythm is tricky to follow. The rhythm guitar seems to go in a pattern of 5 5 5 3 (the total could be 9/3). The lead seems to imply that rhythm too in "the main lick" but following the rest of the lead seems impossible!
Seems to have the 'outest' changes ever: implied Ab7+9b13 to Bb7b9 +11, which means potentially A melodic minor to B octatonic symmetric dimished (whole-half) could in theory be used since both scales contain the notes in these chords, but to actually make 'em into interesting, musical lines is another matter...
saw this band many times in detroits mansonic temple a small venue 3000 people dazed in a fusion train wreck but the best was them opening for zappa at cobo arena a nuclear meltdown for the rookies . frank came on the stage solo and said whoooa how bout that mahavishnu kiddies my favourite show of my life
Just a slight correction - the violinist on this song is not Jean-Luc Ponty, but Jerry Goodman, an ex-Flock member. IMHO, a much more accomplished musician than Jean-Luc, although I hold both of them in the highest regard.
Back in the 70's, this group performed live SIUE,Edwardsville, IL. Completely blew me away,not to mention all the long-hairs (hippies) and just plain music fans. Let's see Kanye West, Justin Bieber or these other lameass artisits of today top this!
Billy's drumming on this changed my musical life. I've read that he borrowed from Tony Williams, but Billy was the guy that I heard so he gets the credit!
some interesting comments, for sure. would not ever compare John and Co. to prog rock, but I can see where one would open your ears to the other. try to count out the time signature to this one, if you're up for a challenge.... ; )
There was a time when John McLaughlin left every great guitarist's tongue on the floor. Unfortunately, the playing continued to be great but the steam was let out of the bag and this music just didn't sell as much shortly thereafter. There was the Al DiMeola and Return to Forever incarnation but Chick Corea dissolved that soon after -- and I was disappointed when this music fell out of favor and the melodies became more experimental than challenging like this one. Wish it would return.
Yes, for some reason they all had I peak of creativity for some 2-3 years in the beginning orin the middle of the 1970-ies partly overlapping each other. But WHAT a peak - music that will last forever that you will return to...
I remember around 1972 when I heard them on the swedish top sales chart (yes they were there with this actual album!) I did not understand them. It sounded like som ordinary but weird orchestral music. A few years later after having consumed Yes, Gentle Giant et al they opened my ear to the more pure fusion music where Mahavishnu, Return to Forever and Weather Report stand out as some of the best bands ever in my view. Give this music some time and you may be hooked to it for a lifetime !
@tevevid I saw MO at the Astrodome in Houston in about '75....mind altering experience....They opened for YES believe it or not....YES didn't know whether to shit or wind their watch after MO got done....
As a Classically trained musician, ('Cello) I found this technically fascinating (when first released) because it does work so well aesthetically. First heard this on the album in '72 or was it '73, then heard them play it live in a very small auditorium at UCSD in 1973. The average White Band (playing Picking up the Pieces) opened for them. From that to this, was as though you'd been launched into space, a multidimensional space with a very different reality. It's still great stuff.
@ombelicodivenere sounds more like a guitar with some modulation effects (i guess).The attack variation sounds more like a guitar (or maybe its just my ears failing on me)
@MikeyboyMovies The 70s spawned some great experimental jazz-rock-fusion bands---and musicians---that were more about innovation, craftsmanship, and "the music"...than about making big money, or rock stardom: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yes, Zappa and the Mothers, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, The Stanley Clarke Band, Weather Report, and others. Disco came along and stiffled live music. Jazz-influenced music is appreciated more in Europe than in the country that "created" jazz.
@MikeyboyMovies Well, there was mostly commercial crap on the radio then as now. You never heard this on the radio - at least I never did. A friend turned me on to them around `72. But they were not popular or widely known even then. Everything acclimates and becomes old with time. New patterns of music must continually emerge (discovered or created?) to challenge the assumptions of the mind in order to stimulate it. Rock was much more powerful in '68 than in '08.
@TheMproductions Hullo,,the first violinist in THIS setting :: THE Exxcellent JERRY GOODMAN from the FLOCK! ( Colombia /Sony 4694432). Please also listen to Ponty:Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: KingKong on Liberty LBS 83375,, Regards from Norway
They went on a tour as the openers for Zappa in 1971. After the 2nd show FZ refused to go on, and starting with the third one he was opening for Mahavishnu. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was even billed as the band that nobody would follow. They tended to demolish the audience. Can you imaging listening to Commander Cody after this...
This is the era that I grew up in and "Birds.." is one of the first fusion albums I ever heard.In terms of top 3 favs I'd have to say "Inner Mounting Flame" "My Goals Beyond"(a pre Shakti acoustic recording)then this album.These recordings just glitter with a kind of nameless mystery and magic.The really amazing thing is that I still hear new things in them even almost 40 years later.
I still remember listening to this in a friend's dorm room in the mid 70's. This was mind expanding music to a kid that previously listened only to main stream rock and some jazz. Of course all of the musty smoke in the room helped with the mind expanding.
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!
man when this came out we were trying to decide who was faster larry coryell or john mchlauglin. larry was really choopy but john is my man :). boy did we get fucked up on this stuff back in the day :)
Some thirty years after I first heard this band they STILL send shivers down my spine... let's see how much of this day and age music we still REMEMBER in thirty years, eh?
Mars Volta? Really? Here we go again. Like comparing Tool and King Crimson or Slipknot and Cannibal Corpse or anything "weird" to Frank Zappa. Mars Volta may be a "Blah-ha-Ginsu-Octopus", but they are NOT to be put in the same category as anything John or Billy Cobham have breathed on. Mars Volta is fusion karaoke, Rubin sandwich, Top 40 retro prog rock. Like singing "Blue Suede Shoes" in Japan..a caricature fluffgressive rock band.
@owlandtree Are you serious right now? While The Mahavishnu orchestra Is AMAZING,your putting them on a very high pedestal. You can't toss The mars Volta to the side like that. Calling them top 40 retro prog rock is not doing them nearly enough justice. All the musicians involved with that project are extremely talented, and they're actually trying to do something different. Making money doesn't make them any less legitimate musicians.
@CBillemeyer I was semi-serious right then. I toss The Mars Volta aside because I know local bands that are/have been making music along the same lines, been doing it since innovators like Mahavishnu formed. Many very talented imitators, so lets name a few dozen of them as "influenced by" or "similar" as TMV. Besides, TMV ripped off Italian space rock bands ta boot. My point had nothing to do with money, everything to do with; why compare, just acknowledge and enjoy.
So, I heard a couple of musically inclined friends talking about the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and decided to check it out. Mind you, I don't play any instrument, (not for the lack of trying. I just lost half my left index finger in an accident and can't play the instrument of my choice i.e. guitar), but this is SO GOOOOOD! :DD
I'd be really, really grateful if any of you could help me expand my tastes in music. I love discovering such awesome stuff!
If you like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, you might end up liking Weather Report, another titan of the jazz fusion genre. In fact, Weather Report's most famous bassist, Jaco Pastorius, was, you could say, John McLaughlin's counterpart on bass in terms of amazing technique. Weather Report is very different in sound from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, but you might like it. Also, check out Billy Cobham's solo stuff (he's the drummer playing on this track).
@harnidhk Hello from San Francisco. Check out Brand X and Fire Merchants. YouTube has several Brand X vids. I think it only has one vid from Fire Merchants but an excellent piece. Be sure to also check John McLaughlin's duo with Carlos Santana, Love Devotion, Surrender. Cheers
Saw em at the Fillmore just after birds of fire release. First heard them on Zacherly's
show 12am-4am WNEW 102.7 the 1st FM. stereo radio show in N.Y. John McLaughlin (incredible guitar riffs) Jan Hammer (actually played the moog) Billy Cobham's arms looked like cobras lashing out at the drums!! could never remember the bass player's name,but WOW what an incredible band!! John Luc Ponty violin!
Saw em at the Fillmore just after birds of fire release. First heard them on Zacherly's
show 12am-4am WNEW 102.7 the 1st FM. stereo radio show in N.Y. John McLaughlin (incredible guitar riffs) Jan Hammer (actually played the moog) Billy Cobham's arms looked like cobras lashing out at the drums!! could never remember the bass player's name,but WOW what an incredible band!!
I am sure I got to see them at the Albert Hall, early 70s. Memories are a bit blurred (cant think why that should be!) but I can remember the stewards at the concert being togged up like the Hare Krishna. Great concert though.
remember catching them doing this at woolsey hall. 1973. mightyHIGHtimes back then. Didn't have much use for McLaughlin's holier-than-thou stage comments admonishing us all against doping and pushing whatever guru it was, but when he shut up and together with Jean Luc Ponty cut loose....
@elps84 I was at that show. I was 16, in High School and was into Prog Rock and Prog Jazz. I was a music student at the ECA, Educational Center for the Arts. Grew up in North Haven. Weather Report Played that year, or soon after at The New Haven Colosseum, opening for Earth Wind and Fire. Alphonso Johnson on bass. I've played fretless ever since that night.
@STONEtheGIANT yes indeed those were the days. i was a bit further north and used to catch all the shows at the Palace in w'bury - a real dive, but AUTHENTIC as hell. Colliseum shows were more of a crowd-(counter)culture experience than a musical feast, imho. mahavishnu was a HIGH point- woolsey had great sound (remember a lot of shows there...) but so were the Chambers Brothers (at the palace- forget what year- blew my mind)
@elps84, I was at that show too. It was great. Yea, the Sri Chimnoy folks were running the show that night. It was weird, but it was YALE in the early 70's. The pot smoke was thick up in the balcony where I was. LOL!!I saw Weather Report at the New Haven Coloseum around then too. Opened for Earth Wind and Fire.
In 1971 I was visiting my friend at Miami U. A guy in his dorm said there was a free concert in the cafeteria with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I asked him who that was. He said “Just go, you won’t believe it! They are the best band in the world!” I did. I sat about 10 rows back. Being a drummer (Rock mostly) and hearing what they were doing in odd time just blew me away. Their playing still does.
im not the kinda person who usually posts comments but felt like saying (typing) something out loud ... somehow there is this weird pre-conceived notion that progressive music is all about how off-beat or how weird u can make music ... why dissect a piece of art trying to force it into genres?? somehow it feels like we are taking the human factor out of music n the arts ... if u like it, u like it, if u dont, u dont ... thats the point ... the intent is not to please the most number of people!!!
@qmqmqmzpzpzp except all music isn't created in a vacuum and necessarily proceeds from the music of others which means music evolves in a describable (but not yet predictable) fashion; the description of this evolution is what you are calling "genre". Genre exists irrespective of popular opinion, and is not to be confused with "writing for large audiences".
Or in other words, Picasso & his works are cubist and yet his paintings are original & unique. Ya dig?
@qmqmqmzpzpzp The reason we dissect art is not because we want to find out but what pleases the most number of people, but rather how the artist did the work to please the people they. Usually we ourselves are pleased and this also contributes to why we dissect this work of art. This, coming from someone who enjoys dissecting works of art. I am a musical theoretician. ;)
@nww009 And yet it never has or never will explain how they (McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, etc..) came up with it to begin with. They didn't have anything to dissect. That goes for Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, and pioneers in general.
Apart from the unik unison tone between the violin and guitar, its obvious that a certain pattern of passages were used on this album. When listen to tihis and then "Miles Beyond" ( same album ), you can hear it.
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."
The Inner Mounting Flame, their first album is simply incredible, but they actually refined their sound even more on Birds of Fire, and the soloing really evolved especially Jan Hammer's. This piece, the title track, shows how their music peaked during those sessions. Jan Hammer becomes a master here of moog soloing in that genre, and Billy Cobham is better than ever! The writing is superb, John McLaughlin created a powerful tapestry of musical styles and blasted it through an electric guitar!
@triplettam Absolutely! Interestingly enough I was just reading that John's first choice for violinist was Jean Luc Ponty, but he couldn't come to New York with the others because of immigration problems. Listening to the soloing of both Hammer and Goodman on this album is drastically different than the first, both really evolve. John of course is a force of nature both in his playing and writing. There's nothing to compare to this music.
@timages13 Yeah, I had read that too. I'm happy Goodman got to play first though. I was a huge fan of The Flock. Ponty was great when they reformed (and as a drummer I loved Michael Walden ((and Billy)). Nobody's playing anything like this anymore. The only progressive band is Tool. And "smooth jazz?" Yeesh.
@triplettam Both are excellent musicians, although the Mahavishnu Orchestra for me will always be Jerry Goodman, their greatest music was made with him. I read about his first recollections with the band, how he was blown away by the other player's skills and John's music. I don't know Tool, I'll find out.The Jazz band I really like now is the Wayne Shorter Quartet. I saw them here in New York City and they are amazing! Every player is brilliant and Wayne Shorter's music as always great!
@triplettam Tool is not the only progressive band out there. There's Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Spastic Ink, Messhuggah, Protest The Hero, just to name a few. Complex music isn't hard to find if you know your musicians. Even Radiohead went progressive, listen to their album "Kid A".
@PoeticJustice05 You're right! I should have said the only WELL KNOWN progressive band (and I should have included Radiohead in that statement. I have everything they've done). The thing is, bands like MO and Weather Report and King Crimson were big deals when they released something new, even if there wasn't a song that got a lot of airplay on the album. Now I have to rely on word of mouth for any challenging music. I'm going to check out every band you mentioned. THANKS!!!!
@PoeticJustice05 P.S. Checked out some of your recommendations. Loved Mars Volta. Faved a few. Messhugga? Have you ever heard of a Japanese band named Dir en Grey? Check out "Saku Vid." Slainte.
@triplettam If you liked The Mars Volta, you should check out their album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Specifically Wax Simulacra and Goliath, those are pretty crazy.
@triplettam Absolutely! Interestingly enough I was just reading that John's first choice for violinist was Jean Luc Ponty, but he couldn't come to New York with the others because of immigration problems. Listening to the soloing of both Hammer and Goodman on this album is drastically different than the first, both really evolve. John is a Monster in his playing and writing. There's really nothing to compare to this music he wrote.
Listen to it very loud, that's how John meant for it to heard!
Still, one of the greatest masterpieces of musical composition ever! I was raised with the Masters: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. Those who respect musical genius, even if you can't connect with personal tastes, must give homage to the skill involved. A whole new standard was achieved with these men. Corea's early comps paled; and so many who followed. What evidence shows this? McLaughlin's masterful ability to provide several themes individually and then combine them in the end. Awe-inspiring!
Still have the album, man, I was messed up when I saw them, it was OUTSTANDING, Boston 1973 Suffolk downs, thank you so much for posting this, nobody knows John M. Double neck guitar, he is a gift to music
All you guys are music genius for being Deep enough to recognize the MONSTER talent put forth by this 'One in a Million' super special, improv, superior tech ability and writing Uniqueness MONSTER!
A freakin wall of sound crashing in and over you!
I had this back in the day. I don't think we classified things so intently like we did later. Jazz-rock...fusion.....prog.....whatever. This is just GREAT music.
@randomscience1 - I guess I'm lucky. I still have a good condition copy of this album bought back in the day. Agree about the "not classifying so exactly" then. Freakin' wall of sound - yes. Saw them in concert not long after the release of this album - one of the most intense performances I have ever witnessed - the accuracy of their playing, the lively inventive jamming. It never let up except for a couple of more low key numbers. I left exhausted and totally satisfied. Absolutely brilliant!
@randomscience1 Your comment about giving away an album collection is at once funny and sad. I kind of understand how you would have felt...I too have parted with one or two hard-to-gets like an original pressing of Jimi Hendrix Cry of Love and my Inner Mounting Flame! Still kick myself. Fortunately my album collection has been relatively small so never became a burden to deal with. A very close friend of mine did something like you with 3000 plus albums!
@inindian Thanks for the comment. My solace is that I gave them away to someone I worked with - along with my turntable. He was and still is really into vinyl. And a great guy. He also got my old golf clubs.
I was convinced back then that I would purchase everything again on cd. Never did. Thank goodness for downloads, though they sometimes just don't seem to capture it do they? It's hard to believe generations ahead never even knowing what a music store is....
Long time ago, in (communist then) Poland, musicians group calling SBB, modelling on the Mahavishnu style, played excellent, timeless music. Listen sample, please: SBB - Odlot, part 2 of 2
I almost swore off rock n roll after listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra! We were still in high school and totally digging this stuff. Went to their concerts, saw Return to Forever live, Larry Coryell & Airto concerts (don't even get me started about music from Brazil, or BRASIL!); what a time that was for discovering and seeing new music!
@alderems Ah, a soul brother, you just named the same music I was listening to back then. Also read Carlos Castenada listening to this album. Try that. Jeez what a trip.
I never read so many utterly stupid comments about this truly exceptional music...how did these losers come upon this great artist and his music in the first place?
This song is fucking freaky I listened to it and I felt like I was on acid again, I could here the concrete start to crack outside my window and I'd see faces when I would close my eyes
I remember way back when this came out,it was released the same time as Tulls passion play.I went to virgin records in Glasgow to buy passion play but this was playin in the store so I bought this instead and got passion play a few weeks later.
the 1st time i heard this i was about 15....on vinyl,with great headphones....i wasn't even stoned!!!! i sure as hell was by the time it was over....holy crap....j.m. and jerry goodman.....still haven't heard anything like it.....this is jazz/fusion meant to be played close to the pain threshold....5000watts---150db......hurt me again!!!
Someone commented about Stravinsky...If you can, you should check out Don Sebesky's Birds of Fire/Firebird mashup from the "Giant Box" collection. Classic!
Someone commented about Stravinsky...If you can, you should check out Don Sebesky's Birds of Fire/Firebird mashp from the "Giant Box" collection. Classic!
@sircasington31 You're right. Ted Nugent certainly doesn't belong in the same category as Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. But because Nugent is so ridiculously conceited I thought I would include him just because I know it must irk him to no end, hearing John McLaughlin playing the guitar like this, messing with Nugent's megalomania.
@yowzephyr I think Eric would have loved McLaughlin's vibe...Jimmy would have completely understood it and Ted would have scratched his balls in confusion.
Best fusion groove ever!!!!!! Thanks for posting!!
beedoe51 1 day ago
ah yes - the world's most famous stick drop: @3:40
666uberstud666 1 week ago
saw this in montreal in74 it was made for acid
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Vox572X 1 week ago
I saw Billy Cobham at a small club in Houston called La Bastille. It was a basement club that seated 50-75 tops and you could reserve a table for any shows they had there. I counted 62 pcs. in his drum kit. Later went on to see Chick Corea and the Return to Forever Band, on another nite Maynard Furguson, and also Dizzy Gillespie! Sweet huh?
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I'm trying to learn this on guitar, but the rhythm is tricky to follow. The rhythm guitar seems to go in a pattern of 5 5 5 3 (the total could be 9/3). The lead seems to imply that rhythm too in "the main lick" but following the rest of the lead seems impossible!
jamma246 2 weeks ago
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jamma246 2 weeks ago
Turn on the radio..and run by the god knows how many commercial channels. Whatever happened to music.......This is such a breath of fresh air.
DutchHeartMonger1 3 weeks ago
I've only recently immersed myself in jazz-fusion and the MO are easily amongst the best musicians I have ever heard.
JimTheDuneBuster 3 weeks ago
Seems to have the 'outest' changes ever: implied Ab7+9b13 to Bb7b9 +11, which means potentially A melodic minor to B octatonic symmetric dimished (whole-half) could in theory be used since both scales contain the notes in these chords, but to actually make 'em into interesting, musical lines is another matter...
egyptianminor 1 month ago 2
As hard as it may seem, this was even better live.....probably the loudest concert I ever attended....it lifted you off the floor.
fastnbulbouss 1 month ago
This is one of the best pieces of music.
tbohm0 1 month ago 3
Stile similar at the intro of "close to the edge"..Quie fue primero,el huevo o la gallina o ambos son lo mismo?
sinfoneura 1 month ago
i like alot
perellit 1 month ago
this album inspired mr morse dregs ala carte
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GregMagDrums 1 month ago
Sry Chimoy and his words was the inspiration for John McLaughlin to make this fantastic song and this album. Namaste.
UNOENELTODO 1 month ago
Notice its NOT in 4/4 how brave and skilled.,
topmeat69 1 month ago
@topmeat69 yes,is 9/8 into the intro.
sinfoneura 1 month ago
BTW, this tune is NOT "Birds of Fire".
ufjir 2 months ago
@ufjir It most certainly is.
simasuma 2 months ago
@simasuma
You are right. I confused it with "Open Country Joy".
ufjir 2 months ago
saw this band many times in detroits mansonic temple a small venue 3000 people dazed in a fusion train wreck but the best was them opening for zappa at cobo arena a nuclear meltdown for the rookies . frank came on the stage solo and said whoooa how bout that mahavishnu kiddies my favourite show of my life
lestergass55 2 months ago
@lestergass55
yeah Im too young but my pops saw many shows at the Grande Ballroom...
But from the Detroit love the 313
christiscarpenter 2 months ago
Just a slight correction - the violinist on this song is not Jean-Luc Ponty, but Jerry Goodman, an ex-Flock member. IMHO, a much more accomplished musician than Jean-Luc, although I hold both of them in the highest regard.
TownerWalcott84 2 months ago
I SEE GOD!
54markl 2 months ago
Back in the 70's, this group performed live SIUE,Edwardsville, IL. Completely blew me away,not to mention all the long-hairs (hippies) and just plain music fans. Let's see Kanye West, Justin Bieber or these other lameass artisits of today top this!
greenermanpoole44 2 months ago
Billy's drumming on this changed my musical life. I've read that he borrowed from Tony Williams, but Billy was the guy that I heard so he gets the credit!
homeworldmusic 2 months ago
some interesting comments, for sure. would not ever compare John and Co. to prog rock, but I can see where one would open your ears to the other. try to count out the time signature to this one, if you're up for a challenge.... ; )
homeworldmusic 2 months ago
Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer did an album called 'like children' anyone know where I can find this?
BopsStudios 3 months ago in playlist Mahavischnu Orchestra(1973) Birds of fire
There was a time when John McLaughlin left every great guitarist's tongue on the floor. Unfortunately, the playing continued to be great but the steam was let out of the bag and this music just didn't sell as much shortly thereafter. There was the Al DiMeola and Return to Forever incarnation but Chick Corea dissolved that soon after -- and I was disappointed when this music fell out of favor and the melodies became more experimental than challenging like this one. Wish it would return.
lastrada52 3 months ago
@lastrada52
Yes, for some reason they all had I peak of creativity for some 2-3 years in the beginning orin the middle of the 1970-ies partly overlapping each other. But WHAT a peak - music that will last forever that you will return to...
tevevid 3 months ago
mmmmmm
MonicaReally 3 months ago
I remember around 1972 when I heard them on the swedish top sales chart (yes they were there with this actual album!) I did not understand them. It sounded like som ordinary but weird orchestral music. A few years later after having consumed Yes, Gentle Giant et al they opened my ear to the more pure fusion music where Mahavishnu, Return to Forever and Weather Report stand out as some of the best bands ever in my view. Give this music some time and you may be hooked to it for a lifetime !
tevevid 3 months ago
@tevevid I saw MO at the Astrodome in Houston in about '75....mind altering experience....They opened for YES believe it or not....YES didn't know whether to shit or wind their watch after MO got done....
clyde8her 3 months ago
General Grievous is secretly their drummer.
RoflcoptersaurusRex 3 months ago
@RoflcoptersaurusRex lmfao i can so totally see that being true!!
chunk1bunk 3 months ago
this band was just recommended to me by the internet and this is the first song i've decided to listen to
mind quite blown
Roronoa79 3 months ago
@Roronoa79 , your comment had me crying laughing for real. All of the members are master musicians and Cobham was killin' those drums.
nubonyx 3 months ago
As a Classically trained musician, ('Cello) I found this technically fascinating (when first released) because it does work so well aesthetically. First heard this on the album in '72 or was it '73, then heard them play it live in a very small auditorium at UCSD in 1973. The average White Band (playing Picking up the Pieces) opened for them. From that to this, was as though you'd been launched into space, a multidimensional space with a very different reality. It's still great stuff.
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Guitar @ 3:15+
joespell 4 months ago
Guitar @ 3:15+
joespell 4 months ago
Does anyone know for sure who is soloing at around 3:15? Is it the guitar or the keyboard?
Kaitano94 4 months ago
@Kaitano94 sounds more like an harp syntethizer
ombelicodivenere 4 months ago
@ombelicodivenere sounds more like a guitar with some modulation effects (i guess).The attack variation sounds more like a guitar (or maybe its just my ears failing on me)
LinkmitchTV1 3 months ago
@ombelicodivenere i would like to restate that.. its actually Jan Hammer going crazy on his pitch bend wheel making it sound alot like a guitar
LinkmitchTV1 3 months ago
@Kaitano94 moog :o
bernich88 2 months ago
This band is absolute GENIUS !!
JusticeWar 4 months ago
Man I bet the 70's were awesome, the 00's and 10's are cool, but the 70's see, mind blowing!
MikeyboyMovies 4 months ago 18
@MikeyboyMovies The 70s spawned some great experimental jazz-rock-fusion bands---and musicians---that were more about innovation, craftsmanship, and "the music"...than about making big money, or rock stardom: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yes, Zappa and the Mothers, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, The Stanley Clarke Band, Weather Report, and others. Disco came along and stiffled live music. Jazz-influenced music is appreciated more in Europe than in the country that "created" jazz.
LechDharma 1 month ago
@MikeyboyMovies -Trust me they were awesome!!
osiyo11 1 month ago
@MikeyboyMovies Well, there was mostly commercial crap on the radio then as now. You never heard this on the radio - at least I never did. A friend turned me on to them around `72. But they were not popular or widely known even then. Everything acclimates and becomes old with time. New patterns of music must continually emerge (discovered or created?) to challenge the assumptions of the mind in order to stimulate it. Rock was much more powerful in '68 than in '08.
whactya 3 weeks ago
@whactya My dad was around then and told me that zappa and king crimson used to get radio play.
Lucifermorningstar21 3 days ago
@MikeyboyMovies every era was pretty cool in its own right :)
nelson3300 2 weeks ago
@MikeyboyMovies
Whats cool about the 00s and 10s, all I can pick out are John Mayer, Tallest Man on Earth and...um
1m2a3t4t5 5 days ago
@1m2a3t4t5 try mastodon, dillinger esc plan, cephalic carnage, obscura, nile, don cab's 5th album, agalloch, the decemberists.
Lucifermorningstar21 3 days ago
@MikeyboyMovies 4 me the greatest era of music ever. 70's music is just completely free.
Lucifermorningstar21 3 days ago
One thing that really surpised me with the Emeral album was that Jean Luc Ponty played violin.
Im a long time fan of Frank Zappa and recognised his style in this band. When i heard "Cosmic Strut" i knew there had to be a familiar link.
Excellent jazz prog band, i've really been diggin this band!
TheMproductions 4 months ago 8
@TheMproductions Hullo,,the first violinist in THIS setting :: THE Exxcellent JERRY GOODMAN from the FLOCK! ( Colombia /Sony 4694432). Please also listen to Ponty:Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: KingKong on Liberty LBS 83375,, Regards from Norway
MrWildcountry 3 months ago
They went on a tour as the openers for Zappa in 1971. After the 2nd show FZ refused to go on, and starting with the third one he was opening for Mahavishnu. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was even billed as the band that nobody would follow. They tended to demolish the audience. Can you imaging listening to Commander Cody after this...
stubhead 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Mahavishnu Orchestra
@TheMproductions Oh yeah, Jean Luc Ponty is definitely my favourite part of this band. Zappa always found the best!
Zombywoof91 2 months ago
It is still awesome!
walt7500 4 months ago
¡I SUMMON FOR THE GREAT SPIRIT OF GOD TO BLESS ALL MUSCIANS LIKE THESE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LISTEN TO THEM! AMÉN, AMÉN.
BluesJesus1959 4 months ago
Nothing in this world like John's open chord ostinato arpeggios. A aural link to pure joy and mystery.
dorian411 4 months ago
This is the era that I grew up in and "Birds.." is one of the first fusion albums I ever heard.In terms of top 3 favs I'd have to say "Inner Mounting Flame" "My Goals Beyond"(a pre Shakti acoustic recording)then this album.These recordings just glitter with a kind of nameless mystery and magic.The really amazing thing is that I still hear new things in them even almost 40 years later.
bluesborn 5 months ago
If you like this like i do you should check out friday nights in sanfrancisco with john mclauflin,al demiola, and paco delucia. its awsome
s23conway 5 months ago
I still remember listening to this in a friend's dorm room in the mid 70's. This was mind expanding music to a kid that previously listened only to main stream rock and some jazz. Of course all of the musty smoke in the room helped with the mind expanding.
musicnut1986 5 months ago
this is such and awesome track, love it, chilling on it now, nice buzz, good groove, doesn't get better.. Just checked this really awesome track from a new acid jazz guy.. This is a must hear,, truly. search on " Pai Crowd, Jamie Ruben " you are going to dig that for sure!
victorgregson1973 5 months ago
Having watched this concert in to in the mid 70's at the Orphium (?), the place was electrified.
Incredible stuff. Jhon was humming the light fandango!
thanks for putting this vid up , appreciated.
Ogsonofgroo 6 months ago
Fucking Awesome!
LZProjects 6 months ago
man when this came out we were trying to decide who was faster larry coryell or john mchlauglin. larry was really choopy but john is my man :). boy did we get fucked up on this stuff back in the day :)
jazzynet1 6 months ago
the first and truly the only "SUPERBAND" has never been paralleled
TheOnward1k 6 months ago
What is Mars Volta anyway??
AORCrazy 6 months ago
Some thirty years after I first heard this band they STILL send shivers down my spine... let's see how much of this day and age music we still REMEMBER in thirty years, eh?
TheQTWolf 6 months ago
Mars Volta? Really? Here we go again. Like comparing Tool and King Crimson or Slipknot and Cannibal Corpse or anything "weird" to Frank Zappa. Mars Volta may be a "Blah-ha-Ginsu-Octopus", but they are NOT to be put in the same category as anything John or Billy Cobham have breathed on. Mars Volta is fusion karaoke, Rubin sandwich, Top 40 retro prog rock. Like singing "Blue Suede Shoes" in Japan..a caricature fluffgressive rock band.
owlandtree 6 months ago
@owlandtree Are you serious right now? While The Mahavishnu orchestra Is AMAZING,your putting them on a very high pedestal. You can't toss The mars Volta to the side like that. Calling them top 40 retro prog rock is not doing them nearly enough justice. All the musicians involved with that project are extremely talented, and they're actually trying to do something different. Making money doesn't make them any less legitimate musicians.
CBillemeyer 6 months ago
@CBillemeyer I was semi-serious right then. I toss The Mars Volta aside because I know local bands that are/have been making music along the same lines, been doing it since innovators like Mahavishnu formed. Many very talented imitators, so lets name a few dozen of them as "influenced by" or "similar" as TMV. Besides, TMV ripped off Italian space rock bands ta boot. My point had nothing to do with money, everything to do with; why compare, just acknowledge and enjoy.
owlandtree 6 months ago
It is music like this that justifies my love for fusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1qaz2wsx3edc5753 6 months ago
So, I heard a couple of musically inclined friends talking about the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and decided to check it out. Mind you, I don't play any instrument, (not for the lack of trying. I just lost half my left index finger in an accident and can't play the instrument of my choice i.e. guitar), but this is SO GOOOOOD! :DD
I'd be really, really grateful if any of you could help me expand my tastes in music. I love discovering such awesome stuff!
harnidhk 7 months ago
@harnidhk
Try this: youtube.com/watch?v=Kl1rRxG251s
justinbgaga 7 months ago
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GWC1975 6 months ago
@harnidhk
If you like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, you might end up liking Weather Report, another titan of the jazz fusion genre. In fact, Weather Report's most famous bassist, Jaco Pastorius, was, you could say, John McLaughlin's counterpart on bass in terms of amazing technique. Weather Report is very different in sound from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, but you might like it. Also, check out Billy Cobham's solo stuff (he's the drummer playing on this track).
GWC1975 6 months ago
@harnidhk Hello from San Francisco. Check out Brand X and Fire Merchants. YouTube has several Brand X vids. I think it only has one vid from Fire Merchants but an excellent piece. Be sure to also check John McLaughlin's duo with Carlos Santana, Love Devotion, Surrender. Cheers
woofycalling 6 months ago
What a great song!
SINOFTRAVEL 7 months ago
Saw em at the Fillmore just after birds of fire release. First heard them on Zacherly's
show 12am-4am WNEW 102.7 the 1st FM. stereo radio show in N.Y. John McLaughlin (incredible guitar riffs) Jan Hammer (actually played the moog) Billy Cobham's arms looked like cobras lashing out at the drums!! could never remember the bass player's name,but WOW what an incredible band!! John Luc Ponty violin!
TheEvolytion 7 months ago
@TheEvolytion bass player was Rick Laird and the original violinist was Jerry Goodman,Ponty was in the second Mahavishnu incarnation.
mrlucky777 7 months ago
@mrlucky777 Hey thanks Lucky! I didn't know about Ponty being the second violinist. GREAT band though huh?
An even better time to be a kid! Ah, youth.
TheEvolytion 6 months ago
Saw em at the Fillmore just after birds of fire release. First heard them on Zacherly's
show 12am-4am WNEW 102.7 the 1st FM. stereo radio show in N.Y. John McLaughlin (incredible guitar riffs) Jan Hammer (actually played the moog) Billy Cobham's arms looked like cobras lashing out at the drums!! could never remember the bass player's name,but WOW what an incredible band!!
TheEvolytion 7 months ago
I am sure I got to see them at the Albert Hall, early 70s. Memories are a bit blurred (cant think why that should be!) but I can remember the stewards at the concert being togged up like the Hare Krishna. Great concert though.
grichardson1234 7 months ago
remember catching them doing this at woolsey hall. 1973. mightyHIGHtimes back then. Didn't have much use for McLaughlin's holier-than-thou stage comments admonishing us all against doping and pushing whatever guru it was, but when he shut up and together with Jean Luc Ponty cut loose....
elps84 8 months ago
@elps84 I was at that show. I was 16, in High School and was into Prog Rock and Prog Jazz. I was a music student at the ECA, Educational Center for the Arts. Grew up in North Haven. Weather Report Played that year, or soon after at The New Haven Colosseum, opening for Earth Wind and Fire. Alphonso Johnson on bass. I've played fretless ever since that night.
STONEtheGIANT 7 months ago
@STONEtheGIANT yes indeed those were the days. i was a bit further north and used to catch all the shows at the Palace in w'bury - a real dive, but AUTHENTIC as hell. Colliseum shows were more of a crowd-(counter)culture experience than a musical feast, imho. mahavishnu was a HIGH point- woolsey had great sound (remember a lot of shows there...) but so were the Chambers Brothers (at the palace- forget what year- blew my mind)
elps84 7 months ago
@elps84, I was at that show too. It was great. Yea, the Sri Chimnoy folks were running the show that night. It was weird, but it was YALE in the early 70's. The pot smoke was thick up in the balcony where I was. LOL!!I saw Weather Report at the New Haven Coloseum around then too. Opened for Earth Wind and Fire.
STONEtheGIANT 7 months ago
Thanks for posting. I own this one too.
FeatherCl 8 months ago
I discovered this album in 1976.... WOW, it changed the way I looked at music!
I consider them the greatest assemblance of technical MASTERS ever!
Very intense and not for everyone, but if you dont feel PASSION in their music ...
your numb! This is THE definition of... Progressive Jazz/Rock fusion
The seed planted by Miles Davis !
longboarder1960 8 months ago
i was just 15 -16 when i 1st heard this -straight to to the blotter we went.....
jf4985 8 months ago 2
@jf4985
Screaming yellow canaries in La Jolla California, those were my birds of fire!
wificowboy 7 months ago
Mindfuck
elekthrasher 8 months ago
i also urge these fan to checkout the mars volta .... just turn it down some and it will be mind blowing like this!
hippiepsycopathz 8 months ago
i also urge these fan to checkoout the mars volta .... juat urn it down somw and it will be mind blowing like this!
hippiepsycopathz 8 months ago
my mind is a mess after listeningvto tovthis song.really mind blowing.fantastic.
beroth77 1 year ago
In 1971 I was visiting my friend at Miami U. A guy in his dorm said there was a free concert in the cafeteria with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I asked him who that was. He said “Just go, you won’t believe it! They are the best band in the world!” I did. I sat about 10 rows back. Being a drummer (Rock mostly) and hearing what they were doing in odd time just blew me away. Their playing still does.
jbhatch 1 year ago 20
@jbhatch I envy your cafeteria. HOWLEY!!!
Peace (is the path).
sketch2k 5 months ago
im not the kinda person who usually posts comments but felt like saying (typing) something out loud ... somehow there is this weird pre-conceived notion that progressive music is all about how off-beat or how weird u can make music ... why dissect a piece of art trying to force it into genres?? somehow it feels like we are taking the human factor out of music n the arts ... if u like it, u like it, if u dont, u dont ... thats the point ... the intent is not to please the most number of people!!!
qmqmqmzpzpzp 1 year ago 19
@qmqmqmzpzpzp except all music isn't created in a vacuum and necessarily proceeds from the music of others which means music evolves in a describable (but not yet predictable) fashion; the description of this evolution is what you are calling "genre". Genre exists irrespective of popular opinion, and is not to be confused with "writing for large audiences".
Or in other words, Picasso & his works are cubist and yet his paintings are original & unique. Ya dig?
GoldStandardIsALie 7 months ago
@qmqmqmzpzpzp The reason we dissect art is not because we want to find out but what pleases the most number of people, but rather how the artist did the work to please the people they. Usually we ourselves are pleased and this also contributes to why we dissect this work of art. This, coming from someone who enjoys dissecting works of art. I am a musical theoretician. ;)
nww009 4 months ago
@nww009 And yet it never has or never will explain how they (McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, etc..) came up with it to begin with. They didn't have anything to dissect. That goes for Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, and pioneers in general.
stratoleft 4 months ago
@qmqmqmzpzpzp well said..
SuperSandwichmonster 3 months ago
Apart from the unik unison tone between the violin and guitar, its obvious that a certain pattern of passages were used on this album. When listen to tihis and then "Miles Beyond" ( same album ), you can hear it.
ps I have this one on vinyl.
pbstratocaster 1 year ago
don't forget SBB and its fantastic fusion music, maybe even more magic than Mahavishnu
szelenberg 1 year ago
This song starts to suck at about 5:51
brian10005 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
every musician in this band is a virtuoso of his instrument
mrlucky777 1 year ago
The Inner Mounting Flame, their first album is simply incredible, but they actually refined their sound even more on Birds of Fire, and the soloing really evolved especially Jan Hammer's. This piece, the title track, shows how their music peaked during those sessions. Jan Hammer becomes a master here of moog soloing in that genre, and Billy Cobham is better than ever! The writing is superb, John McLaughlin created a powerful tapestry of musical styles and blasted it through an electric guitar!
timages13 1 year ago
@timages13 Lets not forget Jerry Goodman!
triplettam 1 year ago
@triplettam Absolutely! Interestingly enough I was just reading that John's first choice for violinist was Jean Luc Ponty, but he couldn't come to New York with the others because of immigration problems. Listening to the soloing of both Hammer and Goodman on this album is drastically different than the first, both really evolve. John of course is a force of nature both in his playing and writing. There's nothing to compare to this music.
..and Billy Cobham of course, incredible!
timages13 1 year ago
@timages13 Yeah, I had read that too. I'm happy Goodman got to play first though. I was a huge fan of The Flock. Ponty was great when they reformed (and as a drummer I loved Michael Walden ((and Billy)). Nobody's playing anything like this anymore. The only progressive band is Tool. And "smooth jazz?" Yeesh.
triplettam 1 year ago
@triplettam Both are excellent musicians, although the Mahavishnu Orchestra for me will always be Jerry Goodman, their greatest music was made with him. I read about his first recollections with the band, how he was blown away by the other player's skills and John's music. I don't know Tool, I'll find out.The Jazz band I really like now is the Wayne Shorter Quartet. I saw them here in New York City and they are amazing! Every player is brilliant and Wayne Shorter's music as always great!
timages13 1 year ago
@triplettam Tool is not the only progressive band out there. There's Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Spastic Ink, Messhuggah, Protest The Hero, just to name a few. Complex music isn't hard to find if you know your musicians. Even Radiohead went progressive, listen to their album "Kid A".
PoeticJustice05 1 year ago
@PoeticJustice05 You're right! I should have said the only WELL KNOWN progressive band (and I should have included Radiohead in that statement. I have everything they've done). The thing is, bands like MO and Weather Report and King Crimson were big deals when they released something new, even if there wasn't a song that got a lot of airplay on the album. Now I have to rely on word of mouth for any challenging music. I'm going to check out every band you mentioned. THANKS!!!!
triplettam 1 year ago
@PoeticJustice05 P.S. Checked out some of your recommendations. Loved Mars Volta. Faved a few. Messhugga? Have you ever heard of a Japanese band named Dir en Grey? Check out "Saku Vid." Slainte.
triplettam 1 year ago
@triplettam If you liked The Mars Volta, you should check out their album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Specifically Wax Simulacra and Goliath, those are pretty crazy.
PoeticJustice05 1 year ago
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@triplettam Absolutely! Interestingly enough I was just reading that John's first choice for violinist was Jean Luc Ponty, but he couldn't come to New York with the others because of immigration problems. Listening to the soloing of both Hammer and Goodman on this album is drastically different than the first, both really evolve. John is a Monster in his playing and writing. There's really nothing to compare to this music he wrote.
Listen to it very loud, that's how John meant for it to heard!
timages13 1 year ago
Still, one of the greatest masterpieces of musical composition ever! I was raised with the Masters: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. Those who respect musical genius, even if you can't connect with personal tastes, must give homage to the skill involved. A whole new standard was achieved with these men. Corea's early comps paled; and so many who followed. What evidence shows this? McLaughlin's masterful ability to provide several themes individually and then combine them in the end. Awe-inspiring!
utopiandesign 1 year ago
Still have the album, man, I was messed up when I saw them, it was OUTSTANDING, Boston 1973 Suffolk downs, thank you so much for posting this, nobody knows John M. Double neck guitar, he is a gift to music
mo9504 1 year ago
Still have the album, man, I was messed up when I saw them, it was OUTSTANDING, Boston 1973 Suffolk downs
mo9504 1 year ago
I always thought that this album really influenced Jeff Beck,particularly the Wired album.
bullikins 1 year ago
i used to have this on vinyl up until about 4 or 5 years ago......some asswipe stole it!
ACEDIAMOND666 1 year ago
All you guys are music genius for being Deep enough to recognize the MONSTER talent put forth by this 'One in a Million' super special, improv, superior tech ability and writing Uniqueness MONSTER!
weewilly49 1 year ago
A freakin wall of sound crashing in and over you!
I had this back in the day. I don't think we classified things so intently like we did later. Jazz-rock...fusion.....prog.....whatever. This is just GREAT music.
randomscience1 1 year ago
@randomscience1 - I guess I'm lucky. I still have a good condition copy of this album bought back in the day. Agree about the "not classifying so exactly" then. Freakin' wall of sound - yes. Saw them in concert not long after the release of this album - one of the most intense performances I have ever witnessed - the accuracy of their playing, the lively inventive jamming. It never let up except for a couple of more low key numbers. I left exhausted and totally satisfied. Absolutely brilliant!
inindian 1 year ago
@inindian I am quite envious that you saw them live, and that you have a good copy of the lp.
I gave away a couple of hundred lp's about fifteen years ago (basically my entire collection) for reasons which now seem insane.
Birds of Fire and Inner Mounting Flamer were two of them. I'm an idiot.
randomscience1 1 year ago
@randomscience1 Your comment about giving away an album collection is at once funny and sad. I kind of understand how you would have felt...I too have parted with one or two hard-to-gets like an original pressing of Jimi Hendrix Cry of Love and my Inner Mounting Flame! Still kick myself. Fortunately my album collection has been relatively small so never became a burden to deal with. A very close friend of mine did something like you with 3000 plus albums!
inindian 1 year ago
@inindian Thanks for the comment. My solace is that I gave them away to someone I worked with - along with my turntable. He was and still is really into vinyl. And a great guy. He also got my old golf clubs.
I was convinced back then that I would purchase everything again on cd. Never did. Thank goodness for downloads, though they sometimes just don't seem to capture it do they? It's hard to believe generations ahead never even knowing what a music store is....
-take care
randomscience1 1 year ago
I saw them in 1973 at Kent state
Richard2003 1 year ago
men i love this music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrGuitar0492 1 year ago
increible, musica de hace tiempo pero mas avanzada que nada, al igual que muchas otras bandas que te dejan de los pelos
brunolski1986 1 year ago
You have admit Jerry Goodmans violin adds alot to this piece.Wonderfully intense.
drex23100 1 year ago
fucking audio crack
slippyslappy93 1 year ago
That 18/8 time signature. :l
SSJHEW 1 year ago 2
Long time ago, in (communist then) Poland, musicians group calling SBB, modelling on the Mahavishnu style, played excellent, timeless music. Listen sample, please: SBB - Odlot, part 2 of 2
Lucjan47 1 year ago
@Lucjan47 I'll check them out, ever hear Scope? E German I think; very cool too
mullah06 1 year ago
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music peaks, this is one of them.
mafross 1 year ago
music peaks, where is one of them.
mafross 1 year ago
The whole album is brilliant.
Bumbumawangis 1 year ago
If you pukes, don't dig it then go hide under you mom's skirt. This was the best band in the universe at the time.
taccat721 1 year ago
I almost swore off rock n roll after listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra! We were still in high school and totally digging this stuff. Went to their concerts, saw Return to Forever live, Larry Coryell & Airto concerts (don't even get me started about music from Brazil, or BRASIL!); what a time that was for discovering and seeing new music!
alderems 1 year ago
@alderems Ah, a soul brother, you just named the same music I was listening to back then. Also read Carlos Castenada listening to this album. Try that. Jeez what a trip.
icaredamnit 1 year ago
I never read so many utterly stupid comments about this truly exceptional music...how did these losers come upon this great artist and his music in the first place?
timages13 1 year ago
This song is fucking freaky I listened to it and I felt like I was on acid again, I could here the concrete start to crack outside my window and I'd see faces when I would close my eyes
snakekramer 1 year ago
@snakekramer fuck off what do you know about this master piece
jbmadhouse 1 year ago
@jbmadhouse I know that it makes me feel like I'm on drugs asshole whats it to ya?
snakekramer 1 year ago
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@snakekramer fuck off what do you know about this master piece
jbmadhouse 1 year ago
The nice thing about being paranoid is that it has a theme song.
FortKielbasa 1 year ago 2
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out this world,,,,,!!!
ror312gallery19 1 year ago
Isto é obrigatório conhecer para quem ia ao cascais jazz e etc...socorro que ninguém conhece!!!!
Pessoal dos 50 e 60, acudam-me! Tanto ácido para quê se ninguém se lembra????
TheDulcecontente 1 year ago
I remember way back when this came out,it was released the same time as Tulls passion play.I went to virgin records in Glasgow to buy passion play but this was playin in the store so I bought this instead and got passion play a few weeks later.
scotsmaninusa 1 year ago
@scotsmaninusa :) you win!
greenblackswerl 1 year ago
the 1st time i heard this i was about 15....on vinyl,with great headphones....i wasn't even stoned!!!! i sure as hell was by the time it was over....holy crap....j.m. and jerry goodman.....still haven't heard anything like it.....this is jazz/fusion meant to be played close to the pain threshold....5000watts---150db......hurt me again!!!
trinitybluesman 1 year ago
Unbelievably tight unison between guitar and violin. Absolutely awesome, a long-time favourite.
pmills48 1 year ago
ta taaa ta ta ta taaaa tatatatata taaaaa ta ta ta taaaaa ta ta ta ta ta......
alanboro 1 year ago
Someone commented about Stravinsky...If you can, you should check out Don Sebesky's Birds of Fire/Firebird mashup from the "Giant Box" collection. Classic!
smprezbo 1 year ago
Someone commented about Stravinsky...If you can, you should check out Don Sebesky's Birds of Fire/Firebird mashp from the "Giant Box" collection. Classic!
smprezbo 1 year ago
When Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent, etc. heard John McLaughlin play this, they must have wept and pissed their pants.
yowzephyr 1 year ago 58
@yowzephyr Hahaha, pwned! This is almost literally not from this world. My favourite from this album.
devic667 1 year ago
@yowzephyr I think Ted said "Crap, since I am such a lazy, worthless wanker, what gun should I use to kill this pussy"?
dorian411 1 year ago
@yowzephyr Agreeded
Redthundereign 1 year ago
@yowzephyr haha very true, although i don't think ted nugent belongs in the the same category as clapton and page.
sircasington31 1 year ago 2
@sircasington31 You're right. Ted Nugent certainly doesn't belong in the same category as Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. But because Nugent is so ridiculously conceited I thought I would include him just because I know it must irk him to no end, hearing John McLaughlin playing the guitar like this, messing with Nugent's megalomania.
yowzephyr 1 year ago
@yowzephyr Dude I saw this live in Long Beach in 73; EC was 2 rows in front of us and HE WAS IN ECSTASY! Envy only lives in AMATEURS!
mullah06 1 year ago
@yowzephyr I think Eric would have loved McLaughlin's vibe...Jimmy would have completely understood it and Ted would have scratched his balls in confusion.
naturaltoby 1 year ago
@yowzephyr I've neither touched a guitar or intend to in my life, and I wept and pissed my pants when I heard him play this.
jnmdjc957 1 year ago
@yowzephyr music 's not just technical ability...
413Kristianna 8 months ago