Mahavishnu Orchestra - Noonward Race

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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2010
  • Noonward Race - The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Live at the BBC 1972
    John McLaughlin - guitar
    Jan Hammer - keyboards
    Jerry Goodman - violin
    Rick Laird - bass
    Billy Cobham - drums
    A special thanks to the BBC for graciously allowing this video to exist here.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 477

  • @chrisfromnoosa1905
    @chrisfromnoosa1905 3 роки тому +116

    Breaking into the middle of a “Song” with an ad break will not force me to subscribe to UA-cam premium. Period!

    • @gordonrichardson9138
      @gordonrichardson9138 2 роки тому +19

      I was actually just about to pull the trigger and get UA-cam Premium, but I refuse to reward bad behavior! Interrupting a song with an ad?!!! I refuse to give one red cent to a company with that little respect for either its product (music!) or its users.

    • @daf827
      @daf827 2 роки тому +9

      Totally agree. I say F UA-cam! Then they run those stupid polls that say, “Help UA-cam by answering one question.” Help UA-cam?!? Do what? Target their damn ads better? Give me an effing break! I never answer those questions.

    • @rickwiglyjr7422
      @rickwiglyjr7422 2 роки тому +6

      Fook yeaa mane kick em all fricking a cheers 🍻

    • @aeyoung1971
      @aeyoung1971 2 роки тому +8

      Disgraceful practice on the part of UA-cam. No respect for the art.

    • @josemrodriguez3080
      @josemrodriguez3080 2 роки тому +5

      Yup - I wont be harrassed into being a subscriber and their algorrila shouda figured that out

  • @MrZootalores
    @MrZootalores 2 роки тому +124

    Billy Cobham is one of the finest drummers we've ever heard,he's magnificent,powerful i just needed to say that so we don't forget..

    • @MrGiorgioud
      @MrGiorgioud 2 роки тому +7

      I second that! What a drummer!

    • @magn8195
      @magn8195 Рік тому +9

      Best drummer in all multiverses!

    • @jimlassen9422
      @jimlassen9422 Рік тому +14

      As a drummer I know how very influential Billy Cobham was. His work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra was ground breaking (check out Inner Mounting Flame for instance) and he inspired so many drummers including Dennis Chambers many years later. I have seven of his LP's and have seen him about three times. His first solo LP, Spectrum, is also a game changer.

    • @dangilbert482
      @dangilbert482 Рік тому +4

      The Driving force of mahavishnu for sure !!!!

    • @evertvanderhik5774
      @evertvanderhik5774 Рік тому +3

      Yes, amazing. In my top 5

  • @joshb23
    @joshb23 2 роки тому +44

    The power and delicacy, speed and accuracy of Cobham's playing is hard to fathom. What a band!!

  • @jemp1965
    @jemp1965 2 роки тому +15

    John McLaughlin, please live as long as possible!!!

  • @dibensy59
    @dibensy59 3 роки тому +101

    The power of Cobham is incredible.

    • @matthewJ142
      @matthewJ142 3 роки тому +1

      Always heard of him but now I'm listening. Very talented and tasty drummer

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 2 роки тому +2

      Lefty

    • @jaselucian8563
      @jaselucian8563 2 роки тому

      you prolly dont care but does anyone know of a way to log back into an instagram account??
      I stupidly forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me!

    • @damianconnor6045
      @damianconnor6045 2 роки тому

      @Jase Lucian Instablaster ;)

    • @markjames4583
      @markjames4583 2 роки тому +7

      Man o man! It took me this long to realize just how important and soothing Jerry Goodmans violin was acting as counterpoint to all the other instruments! I love, love, love this group! When I first heard Birds of Fire I thought I had taken a musical trip to another planet!

  • @DenPay
    @DenPay 12 років тому +20

    The Mahavishnu Orchestra invented SHRED!

  • @unearthnoise4975
    @unearthnoise4975 9 місяців тому +8

    this is probably the most hysterical opening I've ever seen. I'll have what he's having. and the music is blistering

  • @therealawakener7
    @therealawakener7 3 роки тому +75

    The great "John McLaughlin", sadly often left out of lists of the greatest guitarists ever, but, make no doubt 'John' was and still is the full shit on an axe!

    • @SeanRosati
      @SeanRosati 3 роки тому +15

      The original fusion guitar “shredder” The pioneer. Ppl that really know, know John is one of the greatest and most influential Guitarists ever.

    • @DAGDRUM53
      @DAGDRUM53 2 роки тому +17

      A guitarist I knew hated McLaughlin, called him a noodler. Unbeknownst to him I put a bootleg Mahavishnu CD on in the car, playing
      the drum/guitar duet at the beginning of The Noonward Race. For 6 or 7 minutes in that version Billy & John fling fusillades of 32nd
      notes at each other in what Robert Fripp refers to as 'a calisthenic display of virtuosity.' A couple minutes in, my McLaughlin-hating
      buddy asked, "DaYUM, who is that?" I broke the news gently.

    • @deanfordi2804
      @deanfordi2804 2 роки тому +9

      Who cares about list s

    • @josephblow5946
      @josephblow5946 2 роки тому

      McLaughlin is the full shit on an axe, while most guitar polls are full of shit.

    • @toncuz8291
      @toncuz8291 8 місяців тому

      Zappa said he was the best.

  • @guyravenscroft8118
    @guyravenscroft8118 2 роки тому +66

    RIP Rick Laird. Such a fantastic player.

    • @chilitoday
      @chilitoday 2 роки тому +12

      Laird recorded with Wes Montgomery too! He was primarily an upright bassist who Mac recruited for MO. All primo players

    • @brunoblivious
      @brunoblivious 2 роки тому +9

      I had no idea he'd died. RIP Rick Laird indeed. One of the true greats.

    • @Subilon
      @Subilon Рік тому +1

      When did he die?

    • @carlbowles1808
      @carlbowles1808 8 місяців тому +1

      How Rick keeps up so accurately is amazing.

  • @jeffr.5717
    @jeffr.5717 6 років тому +10

    McLaughlin gently puts on the guitar, quietly talks into the mic, then... TEARS IT UP, with the rest of the band.

  • @tablameister
    @tablameister 2 роки тому +33

    Cobham and McLaughlin had such an amazing connection that was highlighted in this song. Each time they did this song it was different. I remember picking up a 2 LP set in a discount bin for the "Mar Y Sol" festival in Puerto Rico. It has a blistering rendition of the Noonward Race.

    • @bernardkelly9708
      @bernardkelly9708 5 місяців тому

      I here You.Wow.I thought a freight train ran through My ear plugs.

    • @roytang2325
      @roytang2325 4 дні тому

      We must've shopped the same store. Cut out album. Also has the Allman Brothers altho Mahavishnu was the standout track.

  • @jopestv1063
    @jopestv1063 5 років тому +22

    At one of John McL's first Shakti concerts in Chicago in the late 70s I had the honor of meeting Jerry Goodman & his son who were in the audience. Dumbfounded & young & stupid as I was, all I could say to him in the lobby during the break was "I AM TALL TREE!" (a song from Jerry's previous band, The Flock). He looked at me bemusedly and stated that I was too young to remember that band. Introductions were made and a small polite conversation ensued. Such a nice guy.

    • @malena3141
      @malena3141 9 місяців тому

      Wow! what a memories. I wish there wd be a duo os Jerry and L Shankar! 2 violin Gods 🎻🎻

  • @curtisunit
    @curtisunit 3 роки тому +22

    Rick Laird goes hard. I cant think of a better team player. Selfless and in service to the whole music. And the music absolutely rocks.

  • @peterm7548
    @peterm7548 Рік тому +7

    I remember watching this on BBC when I was about 15 years old. It totally blew me away. So much better then the stuff on Top of the Pops back then!

    • @roytang2325
      @roytang2325 4 дні тому

      Yeah. Funny how time slips away. Just the visuals were mind blowing. The double neck guitar. The transparent drums. Dual bass tubs. Didn't know what to make of the music at the time. Wot? No singing? If I could go back in time and see any band the original Mahavishnu would be the one.

  • @stevenlewis4385
    @stevenlewis4385 2 роки тому +20

    I've never heard anyone solo like that on a 12 string. Amazing.

    • @ari1234a
      @ari1234a Рік тому

      Uuuh Electric 12 string is not that common in Rock/Fusion circles.
      Especially twin neck, but check out Leo Kottke he is the master on Acoustic 12 string.

    • @wjhandy
      @wjhandy Рік тому +1

      You got to watch your bends on a 12 string

    • @olli5976
      @olli5976 Рік тому +2

      You need to listen to Steve Howe’s playing on Awaken.

  • @Alchemedia
    @Alchemedia 2 роки тому +4

    Happy 80th Birthday maestro!

  • @robertskilton5271
    @robertskilton5271 9 років тому +176

    One of the most talented, brilliant, kind and caring persons I ever worked with. We had to move his show from a proscenium theater into a bar a few days before his scheduled show. The church, that also leased the theater, refused to allow the stage to be sullied with a Buddhist. RIdiculous. He rolled with it, no fits, complaints, only pure kindness and understanding. Too bad the church folk couldn't have the same disposition!

    • @soccermom233
      @soccermom233 8 років тому +1

      +Robert Skilton Pretty sure its Tantra, not Buddhism. Funny, though.

    • @sunrajah
      @sunrajah 8 років тому +5

      +Robert Skilton the "church" people must have been worshipping Satan or some other destructive "spirit" ...... tho I think Satan gets a bad rap sometimes

    • @markrobinson6129
      @markrobinson6129 7 років тому

      Interesting. Where was this show and when?

    • @markrobinson6129
      @markrobinson6129 7 років тому +1

      jimdep1 yup

    • @sunrajah
      @sunrajah 7 років тому +1

      well jimdep1 -- try putting a statue of Buddha or Vishnu inside a church & see what happens!!! (I don't think Muslims practice statue idolatry like the other ones do, so much)

  • @lesnyk255
    @lesnyk255 8 років тому +143

    This is so different from the LP version that if he hadn't introduced it, I wouldn't have recognized it until halfway through! I was playing the LP (which I'd converted to MP3) in the lab where I worked one day, and one of the younger techs who'd never heard of MO stopped dead to listen when the guitar solo kicked into high gear. And when he found out that the music had been recorded maybe 40 years earlier, he nearly dropped his pants. They were one of a kind. Rock purists hated them, jazz purists hated them, music lovers revered them. Awesome, awesome band.

    • @Oneness100
      @Oneness100 6 років тому +37

      People didn't know what to make of them because they were very difficult to categorized and the big rock bands like The Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd were afraid to be on the same stage as them because they know who McLaughlin is, and they know they can't compete and they didn't want to risk losing their audience.
      Remember, John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page how to play jazz guitar when Page was In high school. he also did some session work on a couple of early Rolling Stones albums he didn't get credited on. He also played with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce prior to them starting Cream, so Eric Clapton knew who John McLaughlin was.
      They would routinely blow the headliner act off the stage, so they constantly had to change what bands to bill them with until they reached a level of popularity so they could headline their own concerts.
      But they did influence a ton of bands and artists.
      Journey was influenced by MO as Journey was started to create a more accessible "rock" version, hence Journey's first album.
      Santana was influenced by MO, and Santana did the album and tour with John, Billy and Jan. So that album/tour was kind of mix between Mahavishnu and Santana but they were exploring a different thing than just MO.
      Dixie Dreggs. They used to be a MO cover band before they got their own songs together to put out albums.
      Jeff Beck. Blow by Blow and Wired albums were heavily influenced by MO.
      Return to Forever was influenced by MO. Their first album was more acoustic, but after Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire came out, then Return to Forever went electric as they added Bill Conners and then Al Dimeola.
      Eleventh House was influenced by MO.
      The Section which was Jackson Browne's/James Taylor back up band made a few instrumental albums and they opened up for MO a few times. Interesting to note, John McLaughlin wrote and performed on a song on an early James Taylor album and MO played with James Taylor at a couple of concerts.
      Grateful Dead was also influenced by MO as they did some of their more experimental extended jams.
      I thinks to some degree they influenced Weather Report, and the interesting point is that Weather Report hired Jaco who originally tried out with the second MO. Also, Weather Report wanted to hire Billy after MO split up. Weather Report hired Narada for a couple of songs and some brief touring after his stint with MO.
      I'm sure I left some out, but they were VERY influential to a lot of musicians and bands.
      Jan Hammer was the first to play a minimoog/synth like a guitar, so ANY keyboard player that uses a pitch wheel to get their synth to sound like a guitar, was influenced by Jan Hammer.
      Drummers? Need I say anything about that? Billy influenced just about every major drummers coming out of both the jazz and rock world. It's not too often when a drummer's solo album hits Gold within a few months after release with essentially no marketing or advertising to speak of. Billy didn't even know it was actually on the market at the time. He just thought it would be a great "calling card" to get other gigs. he didn't have his own touring band until after the record label told him to put a band together and start touring due to lots of record sales.
      Most guitarists that came after that period were influenced by MO. there's probably a list of at least 20 or more rock, progressive rock and instrumental based guitar players that were coming out in the later 70's and 80's that were influenced by MO. Pretty much most, if not all of them.
      I'm surprised and not surprised MO hasnn't made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their influences on the Rock industry. but then again, the R&R HOF are kind of dumb shits because they allow rappers in.

    • @skittl3z2311
      @skittl3z2311 5 років тому +1

      Forreal the "intro" for lack of a better word bears no resemblance to the recorded. I was trying to learn the drum parts for the intro and came here to try help myself with some visual learning and I found no aid in my endeavor. Therefore i just learned this one instead lmao.

    • @juniorjohnson9509
      @juniorjohnson9509 3 роки тому +3

      @@Oneness100 "kinda dumb shits..."?? Don't you mean that they are total f'n morons?

    • @Oneness100
      @Oneness100 3 роки тому +4

      @@juniorjohnson9509 That too.

    • @freestate6200
      @freestate6200 3 роки тому +2

      Looks like they played a rather small venue, which is more intimate, and the guys go more for experimental excursions on their stuff.
      I've seen them in a "bigger" venue 10000 pp? and they just rocked, even more than on the other video from France, which is on YT.
      Tight as sloppy never comes. Impressive

  • @charold3
    @charold3 3 роки тому +18

    You won’t hear/see many guitarists who can flat pick a 12-string like that.

    • @Tony_Williams_Right_Hand
      @Tony_Williams_Right_Hand 3 роки тому +5

      No. You don’t hear many guitarists with this level of ingenuity either.

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 2 роки тому +6

      Or even play a 6 stringer like that. What a phenomenon that man.

  • @carlbowles1808
    @carlbowles1808 Рік тому +5

    Top shelf jazz rock fusion.

  • @Jellybeantiger
    @Jellybeantiger 5 років тому +48

    This band and Frank Zappa,never ever hear music of this calibre for a long,long time.

    • @freein2339
      @freein2339 3 роки тому +2

      Check out Dizzy and Bird...

    • @Jellybeantiger
      @Jellybeantiger 3 роки тому

      @@freein2339 Yes,I have alot of them,one of my fav films is Bird,love jazz in quartet or quintet form.

    • @peterwelsh1932
      @peterwelsh1932 3 роки тому +5

      And Jean Luc Ponty went from Frank’s Band to this band. And I never heard FZ say a kind word about John or Mahavishnu !😹🎭

    • @yodamaster444
      @yodamaster444 3 роки тому +2

      Black Midi's latest kexp set is super high energy and packs in some serious chops! They would be worth checking out for sure :)

    • @maxinemckenzie6076
      @maxinemckenzie6076 2 роки тому +5

      Frank could be a real shit about other people. Anyway John's untouchable as a Master Musician. 🕉 .

  • @Realbillball
    @Realbillball 8 років тому +22

    This is out of this world brilliant.

  • @BV-nx6vq
    @BV-nx6vq 2 роки тому +8

    Absolutely sick...no band like this before or since...a one off...astonishing & timeless...

  • @gregraines1599
    @gregraines1599 8 років тому +18

    Really good video quality for the early '70s. Looks like state of the art for it's era.

  • @Jellybeantiger
    @Jellybeantiger 5 років тому +17

    What I love about McLaughlin,he really listens to everyone around him,for all his brilliant technique,he was always about the ONE sound,where every musicians parts gell together to become one big magical WHOLE,all the great bands do that.Zappa,Genesis early days,Weather Report,Brand X.

  • @alancumming6407
    @alancumming6407 3 роки тому +11

    I watched this as a 14 year old on the BBC. I think it was a Saturday night about 6pm. BBC had two brilliant series called 'Sight and Sound' and 'Rock goes to college'. This was mind blowing for me and in retrospect quite surreal. Fantastic performance. There must have been some enlightened folks working for the BBC for a period of time!

  • @hayesmz
    @hayesmz 4 роки тому +10

    I saw this as a high school senior. Incredible. John did appear "other worldly" when he spoke. Better that he played. Billy Cobham! Wow!

  • @michaelellingson9282
    @michaelellingson9282 7 років тому +69

    Masters ALL .... simply the baddest progressive jazz rock fusion band of alltime !

    • @robertr.k.4520
      @robertr.k.4520 3 роки тому +7

      In my opinion the next greatest Fusion band was weather report.

  • @jemp1965
    @jemp1965 3 роки тому +21

    John McLaughlin is really the gentleman of guitarists. An incredibly sympathetic and humble person!! And sorry but Jan Hammer is here really fantastic!!

  • @ch1efool
    @ch1efool 3 роки тому +6

    Nothing better than being totally immersed into the performance and then getting an ad for fuxking M&M’s. Just what the artist would have wanted.

    • @desolationrow
      @desolationrow 3 роки тому

      It's an egregious defilement from hell. Appalling

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 2 роки тому +1

      The add I got was something about pouring salt into a cabbage lol

    • @ch1efool
      @ch1efool 2 роки тому

      @@icecreamforcrowhurst just pour salt in the wounds

  • @mohamadreazabdullah1702
    @mohamadreazabdullah1702 5 років тому +10

    John McLaughlin is indisputably a god of guitar.

  • @trigger696
    @trigger696 13 років тому +8

    OMG at 5 minutes there all looking around at each other and smiling, now given the sketchy Mahavishnu history and line-up changes thats just a magical moment!!

  • @Michael-Philip
    @Michael-Philip 9 місяців тому +2

    Cobham is unreal, I love how he plays open handed and uses the left hand on the ride.. Just unbelievable.

    • @onazram1
      @onazram1 5 місяців тому

      He's ambidextrous...

  • @collinfitch5819
    @collinfitch5819 3 роки тому +15

    billy cobham's stick control on the snare is unsurpassed as far as I'm concerned

  • @Caper1Forever
    @Caper1Forever 12 років тому +64

    this has nothing to do with drugs, you cannot play at this level on drugs, excellent musicianship and interplay thx for post

    • @snakeweirdo
      @snakeweirdo 3 роки тому +4

      By then John Mclaughlin had done a lot of acid.

    • @snakeweirdo
      @snakeweirdo 3 роки тому

      According to himself.

    • @maxinemckenzie6076
      @maxinemckenzie6076 2 роки тому +2

      Yes. But his new method was Meditation. 🕉 .

    • @snakeweirdo
      @snakeweirdo 2 роки тому +1

      @@maxinemckenzie6076 As it should be. :)

    • @Hologhoul
      @Hologhoul 2 роки тому +10

      The acid apparently greatly influenced his path into spirituality, but indeed he wasn't high in Mahavishnu Orchestra. He said he wasn't hanging out, didn't chase women either, just meditated and lots of yoga! Although the band split up due to tensions, the diverse personalities probably created some of the intensity and magic in the music anyway, so it is what it is. Great stuff!

  • @KarmaMechanic988
    @KarmaMechanic988 Рік тому +2

    The guitar is screaming for mercy!

  • @katsujinkin60
    @katsujinkin60 Рік тому +2

    I saw them at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center in 1973. I was working my way through college there at the box office, and when the shows started I could take any empty seat in the house. I saw some incredible shows of every genre imaginable!

  • @kmatulka
    @kmatulka 11 років тому +4

    I still can't believe it's possible to play like that...

  • @glennzornig4978
    @glennzornig4978 5 років тому +10

    Jimmy Page owes much of his success to John McLaughlin, Jimmy's guitar teacher. John's playing with Al and Paco would have left Jimmy in total astonishment.

  • @nige3801
    @nige3801 2 роки тому +5

    Jerry Goodman is outstanding

  • @brownsparlour9813
    @brownsparlour9813 3 роки тому +16

    i love how theyre all just laughing bouncing off each other cos they know how absolutely insane this is

  • @jeantours9641
    @jeantours9641 2 роки тому +6

    john mac laughlin....the alpha and omega of the electric guitar

    • @Steeyuv
      @Steeyuv 10 місяців тому

      Yeah…but you should hear him on acoustic…

  • @henrysmith5472
    @henrysmith5472 2 роки тому +7

    Cobham deserves to be in the same conversation with Peart and Bonham when talking about the best of drummers.

    • @anephemeralcollation3865
      @anephemeralcollation3865 Рік тому +2

      I really like Rush and Zeppelin but Cobham's the only one of those three in the running.

    • @user-rc8ov3di5k
      @user-rc8ov3di5k 9 місяців тому +2

      He’s so much better than those guys, maybe compare him to Buddy Rich

  • @unearthnoise4975
    @unearthnoise4975 9 місяців тому +1

    incomparably great.

  • @waynedanberry
    @waynedanberry 9 років тому +70

    INSANE! How can they play THAT FAST TOGETHER LIVE?

    • @Randall_Kildare
      @Randall_Kildare 8 років тому +13

      +Wayne Danberry practice, practice, practice...
      Amazing performance from amazing musicians. I love how this fusion really, REALLY works.
      True MAGIC.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 6 років тому +4

      Today this is a standard required skill for accomplished musicians, even Dream Theater do this all the time.

    • @Anomaly.Filmworks
      @Anomaly.Filmworks 3 роки тому +2

      The answer is PRACTICE. ..Now, what was the question?

    • @a.s.vanhoose1545
      @a.s.vanhoose1545 3 роки тому

      Drugs

    • @Excalion88
      @Excalion88 3 роки тому +9

      @@u.v.s.5583 This level of musicianship is not a standard skill for accomplished musicians. I haven't the faintest idea why anyone would say that, lol.

  • @charlesbyrd1957
    @charlesbyrd1957 4 роки тому +46

    The man who gave Jimmy Page guitar lessons.

    • @Swing20
      @Swing20 3 роки тому +10

      charlesbyrd1957 and harmony lessons to John Paul Jones.

  • @robperry5293
    @robperry5293 2 роки тому +5

    I got to see these guys in concert (Great opening act) but what really made the concert unbelievable was when Jeff Beck brought John out to play his whole show with him.

  • @terrymcintyre9947
    @terrymcintyre9947 Рік тому +3

    The 11/16 funk jam really sells it.

  • @jameselkat
    @jameselkat 13 років тому +21

    @Grunge00125 I love Page, one of my favs. As a guitarist myself I can assure you that McLaughlin has a far greater technical mastery of the instrument. It's really not even close. McLaughlin could play anything Page ever played, without a doubt. Page, on the other hand, couldn't play half of what McLaughlin played.... like many of the riffs in this song for example. Page is a phenomenal songwriter indeed. McLaughlin on the other hand is a phenomenal composer. Not knocking Page, elevating John.

    • @lestrum
      @lestrum 5 років тому +4

      James Dickman McLaughlin gave Page lessons in England for a bit. That says it all. Page himself said Mclaughlin was the best guitarist in England prior to John coming to America.

    • @marykazhimo5921
      @marykazhimo5921 2 роки тому +1

      I'm sure if page wanted to be technical he could have as he came from that experimental era. But he loved the hard rock blues and simple acoustic which you can see from his songwriting so whats your point? And could John write like zeppelin music? Lol I hardly think so.

  • @eerovalkonen
    @eerovalkonen 5 років тому +3

    I keep playing them decade after decade - cos nothing better seem to come - in my lifetime or looks like so - thank god we had this in our life times.

  • @johnpandolfino8663
    @johnpandolfino8663 9 місяців тому +1

    Never forget the night I saw them at Carnegie Hall opening for Chicago way back in 1972....

  • @emiliacanet9960
    @emiliacanet9960 Рік тому +1

    Saw these guys all throughout the 80s. Amazing. Now 2023 awesome

  • @larrylanberg3552
    @larrylanberg3552 3 роки тому +5

    Oh man, yeah I can dig this. My first time hearing it. The drummer is out of sight and its no wonder that Phil Collins admired him so.

  • @bb1111116
    @bb1111116 Рік тому +2

    Amazing talent. I saw them live and they blew me away. They still do.

  • @emiliacanet9960
    @emiliacanet9960 2 роки тому +3

    I was blessed to see them many times in my lifetime.

  • @PutItAway101
    @PutItAway101 2 роки тому +3

    Whatever the race was, I think they won it. Holy shit!

  • @christophernation4793
    @christophernation4793 5 років тому +50

    Billy Cobham ... not so much a drummer as a force of nature plugged into an artist. Or maybe an artist plugged into a force of nature.

  • @MediaWest
    @MediaWest Рік тому

    I haven't seen this in decades thanks for posting

  • @BSIII
    @BSIII 2 роки тому +4

    Godfather of shred

  • @angeloarimborgo6352
    @angeloarimborgo6352 8 місяців тому +1

    That was insane!!!

  • @homeworldmusic
    @homeworldmusic 12 років тому +4

    cobham always made my head spin on "birds of fire", his drumming inspired me as a guitar player as much as any guitar player ever has. wow. thanks for this, awesome to see all of the original lineup in such a together performance.

  • @guyharrison4644
    @guyharrison4644 3 роки тому +2

    remember hearing M.O. when I was about 15yrs old (1977ish) blew my mind.Friends at school thought I was nuts,haha. There will never be another....out of this world.

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 2 роки тому +2

      I had the same experience about 20 later lol bought Inner Mounting Flame at Tower Records London, brought it home and it absolutely blew my mind. Still does.

  • @jeantours9641
    @jeantours9641 2 роки тому +2

    by the way the BBC is the greatest gift of England to the world

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 3 роки тому +6

    After all these years I finally figured out who he sounds like when he speaks (or at least used to sound like).
    Andy Kaufman.

  • @broadpath7184
    @broadpath7184 3 роки тому +2

    I'm still astonished anytime I hear MO - just like the first time....

  • @gradyholt3906
    @gradyholt3906 10 років тому +8

    saw them in the majestic theatre in dallas I haven't recovered fully from the exhilaration

    • @goman999
      @goman999 8 років тому

      Grady Holt I saw that same show. Same result. Some experiences are formative.

    • @Riddim4
      @Riddim4 5 років тому

      I was there then too, and when they opened for the Allmans a year earlier at The Dallas Memorial Auditorium.

  • @jaimeharrington749
    @jaimeharrington749 7 років тому +39

    I saw them at the Akron Rubber bowl. An unheard of band called the Eagles opened, the second act was a new group who had one album out called Yes and Maha was the headliner.

    • @jackhammer111
      @jackhammer111 7 років тому +3

      twice
      in Columbus in six mouths including the second to last performance they
      ever did. Mershon Auditorium on the OSU campus. The sound board
      recording of it lives on. you can find it with a little digging. grew up
      Beatles, trough Zep, grew appreciate the art and craft of song writing,
      get educated in comp and arranging, leaned to love do and create vocal
      harmony, more into real jazz, the greatest improvisors that ever lived,
      miles, Parker, D izz, lester, woods... the b-bop geniuses. then these
      guys came along and used eastern improv form and atonal sounds, no
      respect for common time signatures, jazz chord extensions and arpegges
      and ROCK instruments and their virtuoso skills and what they did was the
      zenith of the rock band fromat. Only months before john had been
      recording with miles as a jazz player pretty much all best jazz recoding
      writers wanted to play with him. Cobham had become THE drummer real
      musicians wanted in the studio. laird, hammer, goodman were very very
      good players but simply put in my more than casual opinion it's easy to
      call McLaughlin greatest guitar player that ever lived and Billy Cobham
      the greatest drummer. John was the fastest play ever, to this day, and
      you might not notice until you find certain lines in solos because fast
      was never point where as now everybody want a neon sign "see how fast I
      can pick" . The reason to pick fast was always, and still is btw because
      he still plays, always about using right hand's speed to shape lines
      and create emphasis on a fretted instrument. Cobham was an athlete
      behind the drums. his physical prowess let him move the sticks and hands
      from one place to anther faster than any I've ever seen to this day.
      but that quickness isn't the point either, nor is the great power he
      could use. it's been about the precision and smoothness of the rolls and
      the quickness of his mind which let him do what I think he loves best,
      which is fix his attention on another player and play WITH them. He
      loves the sum being greater than the sum of it's parts and how players
      in a band can make each other express themselves artistically more
      directly and perfectly with what ever force it is that comes through
      them more purely than they ever thought possible. This band had great
      great players and and the band was better than any player in it. Much
      has been said about conflicts between McLaughlin and Cobham personally
      and in a business sense but one the music started they wanted the rush,
      the fix. Addicted to the energy that poured through them at moments when
      they played together. I got to talk to Cobham once and then another
      even though I'm not a drummer I paid to do a drum clinic of his where
      the first part of the day was just him talking and demonstrating and
      most importantly trying to de-mystify what he does. Totally down earth
      humble without a trace of arrogance about him. He said something like
      "everything I do you can do if you're serious about wanting to and put
      in the work". It was hard to get him to admit he had any special gifts.
      (which was good 'cause I admit Billy and John but would show up
      occasionally in my dreams as kinda godlike figures) Much of his talk was
      about how to practice make practice smarter. I'll never forget. Someone
      ask him what he though of McLaughlin's eastern mystic thing about Sri
      Chimoy with the white suits and how he presented it all. He said
      everybody buys into something, with John "It's just a higher form of
      Bullshit." I didn't detect anything hateful about how he said it at all.
      It seemed funny, it actually brought the house down but I felt like
      people were laughing at the misdirection humor without laughing at John.
      I also admit there comes a point when hearing
      great players I become aware they are experiencing things, feeling
      emotions, getting to know what it's like to be a conduit to a powerful
      kind of joy that you and I are never ever going to feel. I feel jealous
      of that. I try not to let it show.

    • @jackhammer111
      @jackhammer111 7 років тому +3

      btw.. how can you copy text in here without losing word wrap?

    • @3121babe
      @3121babe 7 років тому +6

      That's a weird lineup!!

    • @goclbert
      @goclbert 7 років тому +3

      That is incredibly interesting. What a time and place to be alive, huh? I hope to see a show half as magical as that sounds in my lifetime.

    • @roddownburstjohnson
      @roddownburstjohnson 6 років тому +1

      I saw the same bill at Cobo Arena in Detroit. I still chuckle at the unlikeliness of it.

  • @chrismawson8935
    @chrismawson8935 5 років тому +5

    Love that bit of synergy between McLaughlin and Cobham at 2:33

  • @Stew5B
    @Stew5B 13 років тому +7

    It's like slowly drinking a pint of Guinness.... not to everyone's taste but once hooked there is no other!

  • @macleadg
    @macleadg 3 роки тому +5

    Saw them three times. Once opening for J. Geils Band, then opening for Marshall Tucker band, then as the headliner. First two times were amazing. The last time, though, tensions in the band were showing on stage, and Goodman & McLaughlin were just trying to play faster & louder than the other, and my ears were still ringing well into the next day. They’re still my favorite all time band; they still sound fresh & powerful almost a half-century (yikes!) later,

    • @jcesare1
      @jcesare1 Рік тому

      Some interesting pairings!

  • @petermuller7029
    @petermuller7029 6 років тому +9

    I gladly remember my first „Crossroads“-Concert, aal great guitarists where playing, Larry Corell, Larry Carlton and Jeff Beck announced J. Mclaughlin, John walked upstairs and all the other guys moved their arms to John like theyprayed to him.

  • @paullevine1813
    @paullevine1813 11 років тому +1

    . We simply must accept our talents to play the best we can & enjoy their talents to play better than everyone else, which they did. I saw them in 73 and the hall needed to call paramedics & a roofer to replace the roof after they blew it off & to re attach everyone's jaws , God they were awesome.. that was Constitution Hall in Washington DC, i was only 17..

  • @tedcabana
    @tedcabana 3 роки тому +1

    Just one of the reasons why John Mc. is one of my all time favorite guitarists.

  • @326vince
    @326vince 7 днів тому

    That 12 string leads insane. I’m partial to Mar y sol. That version is unbelievable. They’re always incredible. I’m lucky I saw the original and second edition.

  • @irvingjuarbe2193
    @irvingjuarbe2193 3 роки тому +2

    I WILL NEVER FORGET the first time I saw them at the Mar y Sol Rock Fest in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico in April of 72' ( a double album of that fest was put out for those interested). Most there at the Concert did not know who they were but We should did after. OMG , I was high of course , but they blew everyone listening away. This is the song that was included in the Live album, simply amazing. I saw them later when I moved back to NYC in Central Park. I did see John and his wife give a free acoustic performance before like 150 persons at the San Cristobal Fort in Old San Juan and met him after, one of fondest memories of this Musician. I then saw him perform in NYC at the Town Hall about 30 later with a young group of talented musicians. Great Memories for sure.

    • @bzbzob
      @bzbzob 3 роки тому

      I have had that album for a while now, the Mahavishnu track is ridiculous man, wow.... your head must still be spinning!

    • @tomh6183
      @tomh6183 3 роки тому

      Oh yea I got that album too,lots of good music.A really unknown album.

    • @bernardkelly9708
      @bernardkelly9708 5 місяців тому

      I got the album.WOW.the noonward race.not legal for listening.

  • @michaelcorenzwit8118
    @michaelcorenzwit8118 Рік тому +1

    The interplay and communication between these wonderful musicians is a joy to watch and listen to. I have followed McLaughlin and Cobham since the appeared with Miles Davis who told them that they should form their own band which became the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Imo, they are both goats on their instruments.

  • @taggartreid9408
    @taggartreid9408 Місяць тому

    Johnny Mclaughlin Electric Guitarist. Hell Yeah!!

  • @petermcintyreA1
    @petermcintyreA1 7 років тому +1

    they did create a lot of excitement back then, up till the mid 70's

  • @tracezachdaniels4264
    @tracezachdaniels4264 9 років тому +2

    AWESOME.!!!

  • @leandrosouza-ov1rd
    @leandrosouza-ov1rd 3 роки тому

    Thanks to sharing!

  • @evertvanderhik5774
    @evertvanderhik5774 7 років тому +2

    they were all absolutely in their prime

  • @deepindercheema
    @deepindercheema 9 років тому +1

    only came out in 2007 or so when BBC 4 broadcast it. So many folks were waiting thro' their 20's , 30's and 40's having heard of it but never seen it

  • @mirkosandoval6032
    @mirkosandoval6032 Рік тому

    Brilliant!!

  • @maxmillington8363
    @maxmillington8363 8 років тому +3

    Wish these guys could get along and release more of their live concerts

    • @lesnyk255
      @lesnyk255 8 років тому

      +Max Millington Is it that, or is it that they don't actually own the rights to the music? There was no issue (that I'm aware of, anyway) releasing "The Lost Trident Sessions";, even though the project was shelved because the band couldn't decide whether the record was finished or not. (JM wanted to bring in a string quartet.) I would hope that after all these years their animosities have cooled off... But yeah, it sure would be great to be able to hear soundboard quality recordings of these concerts.

    • @lestrum
      @lestrum 5 років тому

      Max Millington Wolfgangs Vault web site has many live recordings for Mp3 download.

  • @joeblechl7736
    @joeblechl7736 5 років тому +5

    Cobham made time for the gym

  • @johnreeves1943
    @johnreeves1943 8 років тому +9

    Now that's how you play an electric guitar!

    • @Realbillball
      @Realbillball 8 років тому +4

      +John Reeves Yes it is....and a little more.

  • @georgehenry8391
    @georgehenry8391 3 роки тому

    I'm very glad that the Muses grant us more and better than we deserve, sometimes.

    • @stratcat4450
      @stratcat4450 3 роки тому

      I'm grateful to have seen every mahavisu line up multiple time back then. Good as they all were with billy was the greatest. As loud an intense as they were they always adjusted to the room to have perfect audio. Billy was so great in all his solo endeavors as well.

  • @romeedee
    @romeedee 13 років тому

    Perfect.

  • @tvmtravelvideomovies6705
    @tvmtravelvideomovies6705 11 місяців тому

    Love it

  • @evertvanderhik5774
    @evertvanderhik5774 Рік тому +1

    That sound at 02:03 heard that in more music of him, now I understand it's the 12 string

  • @andresilvaguitarr
    @andresilvaguitarr Рік тому

    Good times !

  • @gbarrancos1
    @gbarrancos1 12 років тому +4

    I agree with you in the fact that it's clear that John is in a different frequency and i truly believe that's not acid. According to Rick Laird (in a recent interview you can find here on YT) John was into some deep spiritual work which included lots of meditation, celibacy and a strict diet. There's a point during that work that you are filled by a strong wave of peace and consciousness which is kind of a "high" but in a whole different way.I've experienced this once in life,no drug beats it :)

    • @nrg16108
      @nrg16108 9 місяців тому +3

      Yes any strict yogic can achieve greatness with Vegan diet meditation and worship of Supreme God!

  • @TheSecondNature
    @TheSecondNature 13 років тому

    masterful peprformance
    theyre the best

  • @MrMrh1958
    @MrMrh1958 5 років тому +1

    Intense stuff!🤯

  • @uglugl54
    @uglugl54 6 років тому

    unbelieveable!

  • @globalsystemsinc9301
    @globalsystemsinc9301 5 років тому +2

    violin guy best soloist - 46 years ago! Billy Cobham getting it done, Jan Hammer ... did I mention this is 46 years old? I saw Cobham live in 1976 with G Duke, great show

    • @theRegis56
      @theRegis56 3 роки тому

      A very good one for sure,but I prefer the french violonist JL Ponty who also played in the beginning of 70's in the MO.The drummer B Cobham is awesome,he shared a lot of performances with JL Ponty on precious records.

  • @faustfood
    @faustfood 7 років тому

    Can't thank you enough for this, but I will try .thank you Ron .

  • @peterstone9
    @peterstone9 6 років тому

    Mahavishnu & Cobham simply the best at their respsective crafts.........the others, among the best.......never been equaled.

  • @paulsmith9574
    @paulsmith9574 Рік тому

    I did get to see these guys live in Chicago way back in those days. I don't know what a Mahavishnu is, but given their talent, I ignored that. I was impressed by the speed they all played those riffs, and in sync.

  • @philips.4502
    @philips.4502 3 роки тому

    Speechless