Keyboards: Mitchel Forman, Drums: Danny Gottlieb, Sax: Bill Evans, Bass: Jonas Hellborg. On the LP/CD Billy Cobham is drumming.

I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra in Nice France in 1979....Billy Cobham on drums, Jeff Berlin on Bass, John Mac Laughlin on Guitar....

1984 --- A mere 37 years ago. I was just 28 years old and I had been a huge fan of the Mahavishnu Orchestra since I first saw them LIVE at the 'Woolsey Hall' on the Yale U. Campus in New Haven CT in June of 1971 before the release of 'The Inner Mounting Flame' which was their debut studio album, recorded in August 1971 and released in November of the same year by Columbia Records. After their formation, the group performed several debut gigs before they entered the studio to record their first album featuring all original material written by guitarist John McLaughlin and I was fortunate enough to catch one of those concerts. We had never heard anything quite like it before .. and perhaps never since .. ( although there are many 'Copy-Cats' out there since then ) .. McLaughlin was the first and he is also the best !!! ~~~

I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Santana on a 4th of July in Cleveland in like 76? Man was that a killer show! I still think John is the fastest guitarist ever. Man was the fusion scene so delicious back in the 70's. :D

Yeah, it's Danny Gottlieb here, of course. I was listening to swiss radio station DRS that day, when they broadcast that show live. They promoted this exclusive broadcast already weeks before as "Premiere of Mahavishnu with Billy Cobham" (by the way, this band incarnation was just named Mahavishnu - not Orchestra). Then, about 1 hour before the show the radio announcer came up with some "important latest news". "Due to unknown circumstances Billy Cobham is not playing tonight. He will be replaced by former Pat Metheny drummer Danny Gottlieb. But the saddest thing about it is, that Warner Brothers changed their mind by only allowing the first 30 minutes to be broadcast", said the announcer. I mean these were really big events back then. When Weather Report was on tour in the mid 70ties, they were featured in the evening news! At least here in Europe. Those times are gone forever. Back to Mahavishnu. Billy once said that John even didn't fire him. He just didn't hear from John anymore at some point and was wondering what happened. On the other hand, there were rumors that he wanted an outrageously high fee. Maybe that's why he didn't hear from John anymore, who knows? But God thanks they shared stage again later.

When John comes in for his first lead his guitar is smoking! That tone ! Sharp as a knife.

40 years later and still packs a hell of a punch. What a sound!

I love this album! One of my favorite Mahavishnu albums.

"Radio-Activity" sounds superb. Other-worldly.

1984 --- महज 37 साल पहले। मैं सिर्फ २८ साल का था और मैं महाविष्णु ऑर्केस्ट्रा का बहुत बड़ा प्रशंसक था, जब से मैंने पहली बार उन्हें 'द इनर' की रिलीज़ से पहले जून 1971 में न्यू हेवन सीटी में येल यू कैंपस के 'वूलसी हॉल' में लाइव देखा था। माउंटिंग फ्लेम' जो उनका पहला स्टूडियो एल्बम था, जिसे अगस्त 1971 में रिकॉर्ड किया गया और उसी साल नवंबर में कोलंबिया रिकॉर्ड्स द्वारा रिलीज़ किया गया। उनके गठन के बाद, समूह ने स्टूडियो में प्रवेश करने से पहले गिटारवादक जॉन मैकलॉघलिन द्वारा लिखी गई सभी मूल सामग्री को रिकॉर्ड करने के लिए स्टूडियो में प्रवेश करने से पहले कई शुरुआत की थी और मैं उन संगीत कार्यक्रमों में से एक को पकड़ने के लिए भाग्यशाली था। हमने पहले कभी ऐसा कुछ नहीं सुना था .. और शायद तब से कभी नहीं .. (हालांकि तब से कई 'कॉपी-कैट' हैं) .. मैकलॉघलिन पहले थे और वह सबसे अच्छे भी हैं !!! ~~~

❤ First l got record in 1973. Incredible ❤

I was there in 1971 in Woolse hall . I was there with my first girlfriend Lee it was the best. I still remember John on that duel neck guitar

God bless Mahavishnu

OMG I saw this in 1984 ar theatre Saint-Denis in Montreal. It completely blew my mind. Great thanks for letting me relive that incredible show.

I saw this tour at Festival Hall London. Already a big McLaughlin fan he walked on with a wireless guitar and played incredibly. It’s interesting here how much the material divides opinion. I feel if you replay and really listen you get it. 72 would not have made sense in 84. Everything had changed. Beautiful tunes and let’s here it for Jonas. Stunning musician.

I saw this tour in 84 in Houston, Texas on a Sunday evening at the Music Hall.! And that same afternoon we saw the Stanley Clarke Band at Fitzgerald’s.! On the “Find Out “ tour.! His band was a 4 piece group that featured 2 women.! One on drums and the other on keyboards.!! Sorry but I can’t remember their names.! But what a great day and evening of music.!! Those were the days.! Thanks for posting.!

Well oiled super-fusion! Makes you sit and listen.

A Rather Young Jonas Hellborg. Heard Him With Lane and Sipe,, in Sarpsborg,Norway. GREAT. Dag

As much as I love Danny Gottlieb, the way McLaughlin fired Billy Cobham (who played on the studio version of this track) was a dirty deal. According to him, he was standing by waiting to start rehearsals when he read in a trade magazine about Gottlieb taking over the drum chair. It was the first he had heard of it. Drummers are replaced all the time, but Billy had dedicated decades to Mahavishnu and deserved better treatment. That was a shabby way to treat a fellow musician.

Saw the boys in Cologne, a stunning concert and Danny did the hell of job on the drums, wonderful.

Amazing! Then & now!

His music has always been fascinating and he selects such fantastic band members. It's interesting how he likely has a lot of common influences and tastes as Holdsworth but approaches it with very different technique.

Great Jazz Rock Fusion...Masters !...

'' BEAUTIFUL ''

Gracias caballeros por las obras que dejan

Excellent 👏 👏 👏 👏

So nice music 💪

Increible!

Muy buenos musicos las visiones una maravilla

This group is amazing and this album rocked and rolled my youth starting from 13. Mahavishnu so advanced on its time. The best !

Прекрасно, кайф... Браво!

JM is 🔥

Very good, John's smoking hot.

This is a pale shadow of its first 2 incarnations.

Mahavishnu was my band from early-mid teens, I’m a wee Scots wummin from Glesca now in early 60’s so not typical at time, early/mid 70s. I think now that McLaughlin was more style than soul but loved all the instrumentation around his guitar virtuoso. Getting back in touch with IMF, birds of fire etc. after all these years. Billy Cobham still the best but under-rated drummer evvah!

❤ fantastique musique

Saw John and group in Copenhagen and Miles Davis on the scene.

1984 --- mahaj 37 saal pahale. main sirph 28 saal ka tha aur main mahaavishnu orkestra ka bahut bada prashansak tha, jab se mainne pahalee baar unhen da inar kee rileez se pahale joon 1971 mein nyoo hevan seetee mein yel yoo kaimpas ke voolasee hol mein laiv dekha tha. maunting phlem jo unaka pahala stoodiyo elbam tha, jise agast 1971 mein rikord kiya gaya aur usee saal navambar mein kolambiya rikords dvaara rileez kiya gaya. unake gathan ke baad, samooh ne stoodiyo mein pravesh karane se pahale gitaaravaadak jon maikaloghalin dvaara likhee gaee sabhee mool saamagree ko rikord karane ke lie stoodiyo mein pravesh karane se pahale kaee shuruaat kee thee aur main un sangeet kaaryakramon mein se ek ko pakadane ke lie bhaagyashaalee tha. hamane pahale kabhee aisa kuchh nahin suna tha .. aur shaayad tab se kabhee nahin .. (haalaanki tab se kaee kopee-kait hain) .. maikaloghalin pahale the aur vah sabase achchhe bhee hain !!! ~~~

First time even heard of John was from Jack Johnson in Art class when we were in either Jr high or high school. The doors and hendrix and led zepplin was screaming and then we heard Jack Johnson by Miles and while our dads were all hip to it we we learned and tried to tell them what was him. funny now when I think how smart we werent :D. Saw John Luc Ponte once. What a fabulous concert, I have a crazy story about that too..

O.M.F.G. ....... !

Estoy triste de estar contento de estar triste pero contento de escuchar este recital

ЗдОрово! Махавишну, это пять!!! Браво, Махавишну и банде!

I SAW THIS TOUR IN CLEVELAND OHIO!!! OMG!!!

Դա այս հին վայրի աշխարհի առաջարկներն էին > ապրել, կիսվել, զբաղեցնել, զվարճանալ և միասին ապրել: Ցավոք, մենք այնքան կենտրոնացած ենք եղել ժամանակների փոփոխության վրա, որ ժամանակ կամ գիտակցություն չենք ունեցել ինքնակազմակերպվելու, բայց ոգին դեռ կա

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Radio-Activity is cookin'! ☢📻👍

💖💖😘😘💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

🌸🌱💙😀

The Miles code 😉

For some, the litmus test will always be his first, groundbreaking Mahavishnu Orchestra that recorded the classic The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia, 1971), while the truth is that McLaughlin has continued to evolve in a myriad of contexts. From the Indo-centric Shakti and Remember Shakti to his trio with Trilok Gurtu and his late 1990s Heart of Things band, each of McLaughlin's groups has possessed its own distinctive personality. So, too, did subsequent versions of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, most notably the expanded group that evolved out of McLaughlin's somewhat controversial Apocalypse (Columbia, 1974), an ambitious collaboration with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and The London Symphony Orchestra. McLaughlin's eleven-piece band, featuring French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty hot off the road with Frank Zappa, would go on to record another enduring Mahavishnu Orchestra album, Visions of the Emerald Beyond (Columbia, 1975), but disbanded before it had the opportunity to perform material from that disc in its entirety. Still, the group toured the Apocalypse album, with one stop being at the famed Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974. ~ The Mahavishnu (this time without the "Orchestra") that McLaughlin re-formed in 1983 was even more controversial. Along with original Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Billy Cobham, the group's self-titled 1984 Warner Bros. album remains an unfortunate footnote in McLaughlin's discography. McLaughlin, who had been experimenting with guitar synthesizer technology from the mid-1970s, was focusing more on the Synclavier II and a digital guitar that opened up his sonic palette in ways previously only available to keyboardists, with minimal emphasis on his rawer electric guitar, and the album suffered for it. Still, the group, featuring a number of young players-Miles Davis alumnus Bill Evans on saxophones, Mitchell Forman on keyboards and Jonas Hellborg on bass, along with ex-Pat Metheny Group drummer Danny Gottleib, who replaced Cobham on tour-was a seriously in-your-face, kick-ass live band to which the studio album only alluded. The group remained together for three years, but made a stop at Montreux in its early days during the summer of 1984. ~ Those who own the mammoth seventeen-CD Montreux Concerts (Warner Brps., 2003), which collects all existing McLaughlin shows into one box set, are already familiar with these two stunning performances. But, aside from bootlegs copies, the video component of these two shows has remained in the Montreux vaults for far too long, making the release of the two-DVD set Live at Montreux 1984/1974 a welcome event for McLaughlin fans, and a revelation for those who don't realize just how sophisticated yet visceral both groups were in performance. A minor note: a manufacturing error has the 1984 show labeled 1974, and vice versa. ~ The 1974 edition of Mahavishnu Orchestra was a collective of eleven outstanding players, including three- piece string and wind sections that allowed the group to tackle the music from Apocalypse with some reverence while being a more practical touring unit (operative word: more, few bands of this size could tour today with any financial feasibility). But it was the core group-Ponty as McLaughlin's primary solo foil, keyboardist/vocalist Gayle Moran (soon to marry another icon, keyboardist Chick Corea), bassist Ralphe Armstrong and drummer Narada Michael Walden (a powerful young drummer who would go on to forge a mega-career as a pop producer, making his relative desertion of the kit a real shame)-who gave this version of Mahavishnu Orchestra its teeth. No, this unit was not as raw and unbridled as the first Mahavishnu Orchestra, but it truly was an orchestra, allowing McLaughlin to realize his increasingly broad-scoped compositions. ~ Those who own bootleg videos of this concert will be disappointed that only two tracks are available in video form, the 29-minute "Hymn to Him" and 22-minute "Wings of Karma." The rest of the performance is available only in audio format. Still, 51 minutes of this band is more than enough to demonstrate an ensemble that could, at times, be elegant and subtle, but at other times powerful and, while less raw, still rivaling the original Mahavishnu Orchestra in terms of energy, and extended soloing by McLaughlin and Ponty. Both tracks are significantly extended ("Hymn" was only 19 minutes on Apocalypse, while "Wings" was only six), and amongst the many notable attributes of the set is just how far McLaughlin had traveled as a guitarist. Still capable of blistering runs, his harmonic approach had broadened, with his lengthy solo on "Wings" as good as anything he'd done to date. ~ As strong as Ponty and McLaughlin are, Armstrong and Walden are no less important, the perfect combination of dexterity, sensitivity and keen listening. McLaughlin's solo on "Wings" would be nowhere near as effective without the dynamic interplay of the bassist, drummer and Moran, on electric piano. Moran's future role in Chick Corea's expanded Return to Forever has garnered considerable disdain from fusion fans but here, while she doesn't dominate, the small group sections benefit greatly from her presence. ~~~

Bill Evans 🎷

6:43 gasping for air after that bitchin guitar solo.

Это не Mahavishnu Orchestra. MO - это трое гениальных музыкантов, убежавших от посредственного гитариста в 1973, возомнившего себя их хозяином. Теперь он более-менее научился строгать, выпиливать, сверлить, набирает себе в свиту талантливых музыкантов. И всех называет своей кличкой "Mahavishnu". И вся слава снова достаётся ему, любимому. Данный коллектив безусловно прекрасен. Вполне мог обойтись без этого "гитариста". Правильно размазал его великий Frank Zappa ещё в 1973.

I was in Rotterdam for this concert. Jonas had hair on one side and none at the other. He played amazing. Broke a string on his bass on a Hendrix cover. Milos Forman also superb!. Oh man....was it with Cobham in Rotterdam?

Extraterrestrials- Not humans at all. Line-Up1971-1973 with Jerry Goodman (violin) & Billy Cobham (drums), even better, although seems difficult to believe. RÄ.

John McLaughlin had to be an aspiring shredder's worst nightmare come to life !!!###

First track is good, after Synclavier killed whole Mahavishnu sound (with help of saxophone). God bless Mahavishnu from 70'tys.

I play the bass guitar. At least that's what I call it. How can you play a guitar with three broken fingers on one hand and two broken fingers and a broken wrist on the other?Anyway I always watch the bass player and focus on his/her performance.Helborg is incredible in this lineup. You can hear every note he plays. A rarity! You can tell Miles Davis's influence from the start as each musician darts in and out from the main melody.

"JAZZ! MUSIC! LEGENDS" THE! GREATEST! (MO)! ANOTHER! ONE! OF! THESE! (HALLOWED)! JAZZ!MUSIC! CATEGORY! (ONLY)! JAZZ!MUSIC! CONCERTS! I! ORIGINALLY!!! (PERSONALLY)! ORGANISED! (ASSEMBLED)!!! IN! JAZZ!MUSIC! BEFORE! ANYBODY! (ELSE)! FROM! THE! (SUPERIOR)! JAZZ!MUSIC! CATEGORY! (PERSONNEL)!!! OF! THE! (JAZZ!MUSIC)! CATEGORY! I! (MADE)! ONLY! I! KNOW! ABOUT! CONSIDER! (YOURSELFS)! NOW! (INFORMED)! BY! (ME)! ON! (JAZZ!MUSIC)! THE! (ONE)! THE! (ONLY)! THE! (JAZZ!MAN) *MIKE!!! SPENCE!!!

'' get this ... MICHAEL WALDEN .. PLAYING FOR JOURNEY NOW '' ...

\0/ \o/ \0/ Demais! (brasil)

一聴した感じでは、まだ、B.エバンスが師匠のD.リーブマン直伝の演奏をしていた頃の様だ。 ゴリゴリのコルトレーン派。 演奏は、現在の方が、深みと奥行きと余裕を感じられて好ましい。 髪がある頃の方が師匠の演奏に近くて、髪が師匠に近付いた現在は、師匠と遠い(笑)

Anyone know what kind of guitar that white one was that John was playing ?

Poetry Poetry

Par ir cuadrando la ecuación perdida

John is playing great , but its not Mahavishnu without Cobham , Hammer and Goodman ...

Is there a DVD available for purchase?

Mike stern

take a decade to mahavishnu to turn in wheater report

Sounds more like WR than MO.

This sounds more like a tame Weather Report than Mahavishnu.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra had a very distinctive sound that was more or less preserved, altho a little bit more produced/clinical, in its second iteration with Jean Luc Ponty and Narada Michael Walden but this, as great as it is, ain't that sound

is that jaco?

Who is on bass. ?

Not the Maha Era I like at all !!!! 😣

Saw that show!! Great show but what a drag Billy Cobham was not there. I asked BC why he was not on the tour, at a clinic, he told me "I was just never asked..."

Musicians ? please !

sequencer is going, but drummer has no headphones/click.

Pas ma période préférée.

The first two Mahavishnu Orchestra incarnations were stupendous. This is horrible elevator music.

I worked in a steel mill where cats got tortured and metal beams crashed and clanked and fat union workers farted that sounded just like this concert.

Somewhere around 1980 it went wrong. Too much whining synth pop and a complete lack of ethnic instruments and Asian influence IMHO.

Even the greatest have done a lot of bullshit….

Sorry I would not give 20 cents for the cuts here. In fact it sounds like a cluster.... To me... There is much more talent here then meets the ear.

80s was terrible for most best artists - unfortunately - it was terrible decade for whole world also.