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Babel_17

(5,400 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:23 PM Jul 2015

Mahavishnu Orchestra: you know you know

John McLaughlin with Shakti

John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension

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Mahavishnu Orchestra: you know you know (Original Post) Babel_17 Jul 2015 OP

The Mahavishnu Orchestra apotheosis: "Apocalypse" leveymg Jul 2015 #1

Cool cover! Mine had a different one Babel_17 Jul 2015 #2

This MO album was Produced by the Fifth Beatle. Sublime in places. Altogether - Not to be missed. leveymg Jul 2015 #3

I saw them when they were playing with The Mothers of Invention Babel_17 Jul 2015 #4

OMG, what a double-bill! leveymg Jul 2015 #5

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

1. The Mahavishnu Orchestra apotheosis: "Apocalypse"

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Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:30 PM

Jul 2015

Babel_17

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2. Cool cover! Mine had a different one

Reply to leveymg (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:44 PM

Jul 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_%28Mahavishnu_Orchestra_album%29

The one from that article.

leveymg

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3. This MO album was Produced by the Fifth Beatle. Sublime in places. Altogether - Not to be missed.

Reply to Babel_17 (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:02 PM

Jul 2015

Saw the Orchestra (without the London Philharmonic) in '72 in a backroom bar space in a small town outside NYC. Just them and about 20 of us mere mortals. Sat ten feet from the Mahavishnu, 11 from Billy Cobham and 12 from Charlie Haden - all decked out in white and radiant.

Never heard Goodbye Pork Pie Hat done better.

Babel_17

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4. I saw them when they were playing with The Mothers of Invention

Reply to leveymg (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:15 PM

Jul 2015

I see now that Zappa helped coax Jean Luc Ponty to come to the USA.

http://rocktourdatabase.com/content/frank-zappa-mothers-invention-mahavishnu-orchestra

I guess that was the night. Huh, I don't remember Leo Kotke, maybe we got there late. Just kids, but we liked The MO.

leveymg

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5. OMG, what a double-bill!

Reply to Babel_17 (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:40 PM

Jul 2015

Saw Gentle Giant and Focus at the Academy of Music in Nov. of '74. Another great full double-bill.

There was so much excellent live music, and practically anyone could afford to see it back in those crazy daze of crystal haze. I just don't know how, or quite remember, how we managed to get home in one piece. Had something to do with the milk train on the New Haven Railroad and a flying lesson first-thing the next morning. Interesting 24 hours.

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