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Mahavishnu Orchestra

Required Listening vol 32
over 2 years ago

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 Da...

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Really like This One
over 2 years ago
In my life
over 2 years ago
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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?

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E * A * G * L * E * S ... Eagles!!!!!
over 3 years ago
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There is no "I" in "team", and no "TO" in Philadelphia!

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Required Listening vol 32
over 2 years ago

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 Da...

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Really like This One
over 2 years ago
McLaughlin Mondays # 16 – Expanding The Sound Palette
about 1 year ago
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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

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McLaughlin Mondays # 12
about 1 year ago
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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...

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McLaughlin Mondays # 20 – First Encounter, Final Monday
about 1 year ago
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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

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