The Mahavishnu Orchestra

[Shawn]

Oh well, not the first time I was wrong about something like that.

Fantastic album though!

[7/4]

After 40 Years, The Mahavishnu Orchestra Looks Back

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A special Mahavishnu Orchestra 5 CD package is due out from Sony Legacy in November, 2011. It will include the band’s first three albums plus The Lost Trident Sessions (originally released in 1999), a cut from the infamous 1972 Mar Y Sol Festival, and never before released material from its famed 1973 concert in Central Park.

[Pete C]

  On 11/14/2011 at 3:10 PM, 7/4 said:

After 40 Years, The Mahavishnu Orchestra Looks Back

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A special Mahavishnu Orchestra 5 CD package is due out from Sony Legacy in November, 2011. It will include the band’s first three albums plus The Lost Trident Sessions (originally released in 1999), a cut from the infamous 1972 Mar Y Sol Festival, and never before released material from its famed 1973 concert in Central Park.

I'd have hoped for a good quality DVD of one of their televised performances, like Don Kirschner's In Concert.

[7/4]

  On 11/14/2011 at 3:13 PM, Pete C said:

  On 11/14/2011 at 3:10 PM, 7/4 said:

After 40 Years, The Mahavishnu Orchestra Looks Back

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A special Mahavishnu Orchestra 5 CD package is due out from Sony Legacy in November, 2011. It will include the band’s first three albums plus The Lost Trident Sessions (originally released in 1999), a cut from the infamous 1972 Mar Y Sol Festival, and never before released material from its famed 1973 concert in Central Park.

I'd have hoped for a good quality DVD of one of their televised performances, like Don Kirschner's In Concert.

It would be nice...the boots are out there.

[Pete C]

  On 4/23/2010 at 2:02 AM, PHILLYQ said:

The live album was recorded over two nights at Central Park in 1973 and I was at one of those nights. I was 17 and it was a mind-altering experience, even though I had seen them the year before there. Mahavishnu led me to Miles, then to everybody else.

I wish I had been there. I never saw the band, though I'd seen Jerry Goodman with The Flock at the tail end of the Fillmore East.

Hey Philly, we're the same age and both Brooklynites. I knew I liked you for some reason or other.

[7/4]

too bad this version of the band didn't last long:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Miles Out

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds Pts. 1 & 2

they have embedding turned off.

Edited November 14, 2011 by 7/4

[7/4]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting Of The Spirits/You Know You Know Edited November 14, 2011 by 7/4

[PHILLYQ]

  On 11/14/2011 at 3:16 PM, Pete C said:

  On 4/23/2010 at 2:02 AM, PHILLYQ said:

The live album was recorded over two nights at Central Park in 1973 and I was at one of those nights. I was 17 and it was a mind-altering experience, even though I had seen them the year before there. Mahavishnu led me to Miles, then to everybody else.

I wish I had been there. I never saw the band, though I'd seen Jerry Goodman with The Flock at the tail end of the Fillmore East.

Hey Philly, we're the same age and both Brooklynites. I knew I liked you for some reason or other.

And you went to high school at Midwood? That's about 7-8 blocks from my boyhood home! I preordered the box only because it has the extra disc with more Central Park stuff. If it has the Mar Y Sol cut that's even better.

[mjzee]

I grew up in Midwood too! Not too far from Midwood High/Brooklyn College. Took the subway to see Mahavishnu.

[Pete C]

I grew up on Avenue H & E. 9th. Here's some Midwood (neighborhood) trivia: the following people attended James Madison High (Midwood's rival): Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders, Norm Coleman & Chuck Schumer. Schumer and Coleman were probably there together, as they were born a year apart. Al Franken, when he was running against Coleman, quipped that he was the only NY Jew in the race who was actually from Minnesota.

[mjzee]

I grew up on Ocean Ave between K & L. Saw some movies at the movie theatre around the corner from you, on Coney Island Ave.

[Pete C]

  On 11/15/2011 at 3:19 PM, mjzee said:

I grew up on Ocean Ave between K & L. Saw some movies at the movie theatre around the corner from you, on Coney Island Ave.

The Kent, featured in The Purple Rose of Cairo. Woody Allen grew up, IIRC, on 14th & K.

[PHILLYQ]

  On 11/15/2011 at 2:41 PM, Pete C said:

I grew up on Avenue H & E. 9th. Here's some Midwood (neighborhood) trivia: the following people attended James Madison High (Midwood's rival): Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders, Norm Coleman & Chuck Schumer. Schumer and Coleman were probably there together, as they were born a year apart. Al Franken, when he was running against Coleman, quipped that he was the only NY Jew in the race who was actually from Minnesota.

I now live about 10 blocks away from Madison.

  On 11/15/2011 at 3:52 PM, Pete C said:

  On 11/15/2011 at 3:19 PM, mjzee said:

I grew up on Ocean Ave between K & L. Saw some movies at the movie theatre around the corner from you, on Coney Island Ave.

The Kent, featured in The Purple Rose of Cairo. Woody Allen grew up, IIRC, on 14th & K.

The Kent is still there and badly in need of an upgrade.

[mjzee]

There's going to be a documentary on Woody Allen shown on PBS next week, and it takes him to his childhood home.

[Pete C]

For a while the Kent was showing vintage Yiddish films. Shortly before I left the neighborhood in the late '70s I saw Moishe Oysher in The Singing Blacksmith. About as far from Mahavishnu as it gets, I guess...

[mjzee]

I once saw Flo & Eddie play at the 46th St theatre in Boro Park, underneath the El!

[thedwork]

  On 11/16/2011 at 1:02 PM, mjzee said:

There's going to be a documentary on Woody Allen shown on PBS next week, and it takes him to his childhood home.

i know i can always count on getting the most up to date info on Woody Allen by coming to the Mahavishnu Orchestra thread

but seriously, thanks for posting this. i assume this is a new documentary? Woody is getting on and the more attention paid the better afaic; no matter my, or anyone else's, opinion on his later output, scandals, etc...

i'll see if i can get my folks to dvr this so i can watch it at a later date. thanks mjzee...

Edited November 16, 2011 by thedwork

[skeith]

  On 11/15/2011 at 11:02 AM, PHILLYQ said:

  On 11/14/2011 at 3:16 PM, Pete C said:

  On 4/23/2010 at 2:02 AM, PHILLYQ said:

The live album was recorded over two nights at Central Park in 1973 and I was at one of those nights. I was 17 and it was a mind-altering experience, even though I had seen them the year before there. Mahavishnu led me to Miles, then to everybody else.

I wish I had been there. I never saw the band, though I'd seen Jerry Goodman with The Flock at the tail end of the Fillmore East.

Hey Philly, we're the same age and both Brooklynites. I knew I liked you for some reason or other.

And you went to high school at Midwood? That's about 7-8 blocks from my boyhood home! I preordered the box only because it has the extra disc with more Central Park stuff. If it has the Mar Y Sol cut that's even better.

Philly Q - is the box only available from PopEater? Is this newly remastered?

[mjzee]

  On 11/16/2011 at 4:10 PM, thedwork said:

  On 11/16/2011 at 1:02 PM, mjzee said:

There's going to be a documentary on Woody Allen shown on PBS next week, and it takes him to his childhood home.

i know i can always count on getting the most up to date info on Woody Allen by coming to the Mahavishnu Orchestra thread

but seriously, thanks for posting this. i assume this is a new documentary? Woody is getting on and the more attention paid the better afaic; no matter my, or anyone else's, opinion on his later output, scandals, etc...

i'll see if i can get my folks to dvr this so i can watch it at a later date. thanks mjzee...

This is from The Week:

American Masters: Seriously Funny - The Comic Art of Woody Allen

Though notoriously private about his creative process, Woody Allen allowed cameras onto the set of 2010's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger for this two-part portrait of his life and career. The filmmakers also follow Allen to his childhood home in Brooklyn and to the 2011 Cannes premiere of Midnight in Paris, Allen's highest-grossing film yet. Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese, Sean Penn, and Mira Sorvino are among the many friends and collaborators interviewed. Sunday-Monday, Nov. 20-21, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings.

Guess they never got around to interviewing Billy Cobham or Rick Laird!

[Michael Weiss]

Saw MO in a triple bill with Dr. John and the Allman Brothers

Memorial Auditorium, Dallas

June 9, 1972

[Pete C]

  On 11/16/2011 at 5:25 PM, Michael Weiss said:

Saw MO in a triple bill with Dr. John and the Allman Brothers

Memorial Auditorium, Dallas

June 9, 1972

That sounds like a great show, all 3 at their peak.

And you live in Brooklyn and attended IU with two friends of mine (I mentioned this to you some years ago at Smoke--I can't remember who you were playing with--maybe George Coleman?).

[Michael Weiss]

  On 11/16/2011 at 5:35 PM, Pete C said:

  On 11/16/2011 at 5:25 PM, Michael Weiss said:

Saw MO in a triple bill with Dr. John and the Allman Brothers

Memorial Auditorium, Dallas

June 9, 1972

That sounds like a great show, all 3 at their peak.

And you live in Brooklyn and attended IU with two friends of mine (I mentioned this to you some years ago at Smoke--I can't remember who you were playing with--maybe George Coleman?).

Don't remember who the two mutual friends at IU were but I played at Smoke with George Coleman in 2000. Louis Hayes on drums.

[Pete C]

  On 11/16/2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Weiss said:

Don't remember who the two mutual friends at IU were but I played at Smoke with George Coleman in 2000. Louis Hayes on drums.

Yes, that was the gig. Louis looked frail but played brilliantly. George was a *little* tipsy. The friends are Lee Feldman (singer-songwriter, pianist) and Renee Miles (singer, still lives in Indiana--her husband Billy Foster is an excellent pianist, coming out of similar influences as you).

Edited November 16, 2011 by Pete C

[mjzee]

Listening now to the Cleveland 4/21/72 show - amazing! This was from that NPR site that someone here posted a link to a few months ago.

This is the thread: Crooks & Liars

Edited November 23, 2011 by mjzee

[Noj]

  On 11/14/2011 at 3:33 PM, 7/4 said:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting Of The Spirits/You Know You Know

"You Know You Know" remains my favorite moment from these guys. And they do seem to only click for me in moments.