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As a guitarist, I will confess to having experienced “sound-envy” on occasions. Never more strongly than when synthesizers first became truly accessible to the masses. Overnight it seemed, our keyboard player could summon forth uncanny imitations of trumpets, saxophones and string sections as well as a whole slew of unearthly sounds that left me feeling, well, inferior! No wonder guitarists with the necessary means went in search of ways to “play” a synthesizer from thei... MORE
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Back to early seventies for this track from the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, taken from what was supposedly their best selling album of the three (make that four if you include the only relatively recent "Trident Sessions"). The band had released the incredible "Inner Mounting Flame" a year before and had been touring like crazy since, so there was a huge and growing fan base waiting eagerly for more. This short track starts with the classic Mahavishnu sound - McLaugh... MORE
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At the outset I said I’d make 20 posts covering John McLaughlin’s musical career to date, and we’ve finally arrived at the last of them. What to close out the series with? I think it is only appropriate to go back to the first track of the first Mahavishnu Orchestra album, and hence the first time that I ever laid ears on this remarkable guitarist. Up to that point I’d been raised on late 60s music, starting with the Beatles and moving on thru slightly more “prog rock”... MORE
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After the mysterious falling out between members of the first Mahavishnu Orchestra after only two years together, McLaughlin quickly formed a new lineup, replacing Rick Laird with a very talented bassist named Ralphe Armstrong and violinist Jerry Goodman with French maestro Jean Luc Ponty. Gone also was Billy Cobham, with Narada Michael Walden taking his place behind the drums. For good measure, McLaughlin drafted Gayle Moran on keyboards in place of Jan Hammer, effectiv... MORE
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My first ever encounter with John McLaughlin was on purchasing the Mahavishnu Orchestra's debut album "The Inner Mounting Flame". This was a revelation to me. It was raw power and unbridled musicianship with odd jazz time signatures and it floored me. A couple of years later I discovered this double album with the most bizarre lineup of bands, but buried in there was 13 minutes of live Mahavishnu. The album never was released on CD to my knowledge, so this MP3 was lift... MORE
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I had to post this, as I am practicing it for my gigs next week with the Mahavishnu Project!!
Check out that freaky time signature....
I grew up playing this stuff. It's how i cut my teeth, got my chops. Whew!
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This album was my next step after digging on albums like _In A Silent Way_ and _Emergency_. John McLaughlin shreds it like nobody's business here. Unfortunately, it also opened the door for myriad imitators classified as fusion who helped plunge the stigma of Jazz/Rock Fusion into an irrelevant sidebar of Jazz music as a whole. Artists like Spyro Gyra, Bobbi Humphrey, Paul Hardcastle, and David Torn, while having made many contributions to furthering the genre, still ow... MORE
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This is one example of why Birds of Fire is easily one of the best albums of all time. And why the Mahavishnu Orchestra is immortal, even among those who don't know who they are. And why John McLaughlin is a musical genius of the highest caliber. Everyone who has any real appreciation for music should listen to this album in full, and will enjoy it.
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There is no such thing as God, or indeed a Lord - but the guitar solo on this beautiful piece of music was inspired by the illusion that there is, so who cares?
There is no "I" in "team", and no "TO" in Philadelphia!
