I saw them once in 1973, i saw the quartet without violin in 1975, and i saw Shakti 3 times in 76 and 77 !

Yes, me too..was a great show..

I was there...Logins and Messina were nice, normal, had a recorder duet, then a LONG wait and this conspiracy from planet Venus starts to play and people were agog at the virtuosity especially BC's drum solo. The party favors passed down might have contributed...

@@jonathanwobesky9507 Yes indeed, from Venus or from another galaxy. I couldn't believe that they were really human the music was so freaking intense.

@@blankfrancine I was retracing the memory, this was before or just as innermountingFlame came out, but I read a review in the Globe that knew JM's resume with Miles (my guru at that age 15) and the bus stopped next to the common. I heard some chords and melodies that suggested Venus specifically. melodically ascending triplet arpeggios.

John was playing through two 200 watt Marshall heads - to quite a guy who was there "McLaughlin had TWO Marshall Major 200watt heads and four stacks. 32 speakers? CRANKED in a 800 seat theater." Just for him, everyone else was like the nuclear armageddon amp collection.

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SMH I don't know what they're doing here. They're here because they love MO, right? But if they love MO enough to want to check out a live gig...don't they already know that 90 percent of the bootleg live recordings are pretty gnarly, a lot of them borderline unlistenable...? This top ten tier recording quality. And, the icing on the cake is...it's a fun performance, truly spectacular and other worldly at times. WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE////?? smh ..bloody audiophiles, they don't love music, they prefer to...dunno...have their earlobes caressed by hookers while reading what hi fi magazine probably

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The other great one that comes to mind is "Wild Strings" - it's a soundboard recording that was supposed to come out as an actual legit release (everyone in the band signed off on it) but it never came out. The guy announces the concert sounds like Mr. Rogers "We're going to hear some real good music kids!" and the band comes out like a bomb exploding and John's first solo is so fierce and energetic you find yourself holding your breath. Explosive power these guys had in massive quantities.

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producers at the time were urging him to cover other peoples music rather than this stuff he wrote

And those producers were crazy.

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MO was the most rock oriented and powerful band in the fusion movement then. Still an extension of what Miles was into at the time, as well as Zawinul and Shorter.

@@raymondkarlsson9794 Yep indeed we certainly can say that and JML is of course one of the greatest musicien and composer, he has done amazing things with the 4th dimension too.

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@@JazzCubePlus He was breaking fusion barriers .

I'm on a bluetooth speaker. Sounds fine to me. Try some different methods, streaming can be tricky sonic alchemy

I'm on a bluetooth speaker, sounds pretty decent. I for one love the manic live energy. I appreciate not having enough folks around to chat fusion jazz with tho

There are quite a few live performances of Birds Of Fire and One Word. The more of this band you discover, the less interested you will be in comparing performances. I've found that people have echoed my thoughts that the album versions are like sketches/templates/demoes of the live performances that reflect the magic of the occasion, the tremendous energy flow between musicians and audience and...something else... The album versions seem almost embryonic after listening to these musicians in full flight. The studio version of Birds of Fire is consistently tight, yes. In the studio, the priority is getting the track down, then doing the next one, and doing it all in time so everyone can get home to the wife. Live performance is a very different entity. The ecstasy of everything coming together great on a magic night used to lead the guys in the band to play faster (interestingly, same thing used to happen to that other awesome band - The Beatles). The band feel more free to express. The music has far more dynamic range than what they could play in the comparatively claustrophobic and sterile studio. The intensity is right up there, often it's like walking a tightrope or standing on the edge of a precipice. Sometimes things feel like they're about to fall apart, then somehow it pulls itself together, often with the most spectacular and exciting results. The degree of "tightness" can vary many times within the one piece of music! It is ebb and flow. I've been playing live for 34 years with various musicians, in UK with English musicians, India with Indian and Egypt ditto..the music is different but the underlying communication is the SAME. That communication does not come as easily at 9 in the morning in a sterile recording studio as it does at a thrilling event, walking onto stage in front of an audience that is ready to share joy with you. That is where the music takes on new mysterious life and takes us to the newest and strangest places. Lastly, really...if you don't like the quality of this recording then you'll hate more than 90 percent of the other bootleg MO stuff lol. It's pretty gnarly, most of it, and like all music, requires setting aside prejudice, to catch glimpse of any emerald beyond, sir. The Between Nothingness album is great quality hi fi wise, but not the most inspired performance. There are recordings out there that sound like mud...just awful...like the microphone was wrapped in a sack of moldy pullovers then submerged in pond water. Even I can't listen for more than ten minutes..and it's always same feeling of what a shame...damn...because underneath all that murk...you can tell there's something incredible going on. It's one of life's little unfairnesses.

@@Fretlessness Heck, Jake. Amongst the hundred or so bootleg MO gigs, this one is in the top ten, recording quality wise. And what fabulous luck - it's a cracking performance too. Happy happy days. No mistake about that.

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