Mahavishnu's Maddest Moment 1975 (1974 video)

10 minutes of musical insanity, the heights of which will probably never be reached again. This is from the last days of the 1970's Mahavishnu Orchestra/s - but I'm keeping the exact date a secret.

Anybody who manages to locate the original audio file will be truly disappointed by the sound - this was a big clean-up job. The speed of JML's solo at 2:05 made me start...

Though not titled, this is the last 1970s MO lineup:
- John McLaughlin (guitar + guitar synthesiser at 7:50);
- Stu Goldberg (piano/keys + other synth at 8:02);
- Ralphe Armstrong (fretless bass + fuzz/wah at 5:10); and
- Narada Michael Walden (percussion).

Don't be fooled by who's shown as playiing - though I did try to (roughly) match the 'scenes'.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• John
• McLaughlin
• Mahavishnu
• Orchestra
• live
• 1975

[zonlicht1980]

I prefer Billy Cobham on drums...

[SkymanBrother]

Needs more cowbell.

[caesarcerf]

maloneyguitars is on to something. A lot of this is on the 'and of' and the scales allow for accidental notes. As impressive as McLaughlin is on RECORD this is yet another very disappointing live performance. John's an amazing talent but this 'composition' is limp as hell.

[MaloneyGuitars]

The easy part about playing this type of music (around 3:13 and on) is that you don't have to look at the fretboard. There are so many accidental notes out of the scale that you can play any notes you want and everybody loves it.

[isivip1]

@zonlicht1980 .... it was not easy job replacing billy those times .... michael did his best and was one of the very fews could do , despite he was then young and unknow . Remember we were nearly 40 years ago , few great drummers around ......

[synthesizer301]

wat een kut geluid nice vid anyway

[MrJro2]

@psyoptica Agreed 100% I'm a huge fan of the Visions album. I prefer it front to back over any of the aerlier stuff. I love the Cobham stuff, don't get me wrong, but a fresh bit of air entered when Narada joined up.

[MrJro2]

Narada all the way!!!! I prefer Visions Of The Emerald Beyond mahavishnu over earlier stuff. That may sound sac religious, but it's true. The band was fresh and again Narada is flawless on the album...

[Walls1441]

ROFL the dude on cowbell

[shadowmalik009]

@egyptianminor because there is no video for this show, even though the title says video it really should say "1974 audio" or added video

[egyptianminor]

Johnny Mac's unique. Cobham is awesome, but so is Narada Michael Walden - saw him last year w/ Jeff Beck - he kicked some serious ass. Why doesn't audio match video?

[ArtistsPoetsDancers]

@psyoptica

People learn jealousy and hatred so easily. NMW Plays well and most importantly, John McLaughlin hired him and continued to for several sessions. Cobham's a fabulous player but his solos are often plagued by drum corp messes.