MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA - Noonward Race | FIRST TIME COUPLE REACTION (BMC Request)
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John McLaughlin: guitars
Jerry Goodman: violin
Jan Hammer: Rhodes with wah and ring mod
Rick Laird: Bass
Billy Cobham: Drums.
Is Rhodes a keyboard?
@@LSUfan Fender Rhodes, an electric piano.
@@LemurianJones Thanks!!
Rick Laird has always been the forgotten member of this band. Everyone else gets justified accolades. Hell he deserves some serious credit hanging with these amazing musicians. He was the only member that never soloed. Also on this debut I believe Billy Cobham was still playing a 4 piece kit.
Rick does solo briefly on “One Word” (from Birds of Fire), and he definitely had the chops to hang.
Wow, you are really hitting me in my teen years. Growing up in the ‘70’s with Mahavishnu, Al Di Meola, Yes, ELP, and so much more. I think what really distinguishes your reaction channel is the cross of rock, metal, prog, jazz fusion, and so much more. You really outshine the others. THANK YOU. Oh, and you also make me wish I had more than a smattering of college Spanish.
You need to SEE them in a video!
No man. You need to FEEL them in your body mind and heart.
Can't go wrong with John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra. I haven't listened to any of this in ages.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra are incredible. The musicianship in the band throughout all of it's incarnations is amazing. I started listening to them when I was in high school and The Inner Mounting Flame and Birds Of Fire blew me away. John McLaughlin's guitar playing is tremendous. It's the perfect blend of technique and emotion imo.
At 12 years old...I stumbled across this on the Radio.....I was hooked on Fusion ever since....and 50 years later This album sounds as good as the day I bought it
That Friday Night in San Francisco album is something, right? Billy Cobham (the amazing drummer) has a great album called Spectrum. Jan Hammer has a great album called The First Seven Days. Shakti with John McLaughlin - incredible, John McLaughlin - Devotion - incredible, Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender - incredible. And Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, The Lost Trident Sessiosn - incredible. So much great music!
Jon Anderson said in an interview that he and Chris Squire went to a Mahavishnu Orchestra concert and after the show he told Chris "We need to practice more !!" LOL
Jon says he said the same thing after seeing King Crimson. Jon tends to repeat his stories. I do remember him saying in the 70s that they were looking for more of a Mahavishnu sound. Sound Chaser maybe?
@@williamburchell7906 - Wow, that makes TOTAL sense about "Sound Chaser". Yet ANOTHER track worth a reaction along with "The Gates of Delirium".
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The literal definition of 'Bursting on the Scene'
Guys, my favorite John McLaughlin album is “Visions of The Emerald Beyond”! It’s an amazing album! Jean Luc Ponty also plays with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and it is incendiary!! Visions, you guys! 😲😊
Haven't heard this for years! Fuck, yeah! 👌
"Earlier" John McLaughlin included his work with Miles Davis (Bitch's Brew, In a Silent Way, and A Tribute to Jack Johnson) and a couple of great solo albums (My Goal's Beyond and Extrapolation). "Right Off" from 'Jack Johnson' would blow your minds, and "In a Silent Way / It's About that Time" is, for me, damn near a spiritual experience -- so coooool.
If you're not hip, Miles Davis' band was ground zero for the fusion movement. The leaders of Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mahavishu Orchestra Tony Williams Lifetime, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, and who knows what else came out of that. Bitch's Brew.
Excellent point.
Yeah, except the first two Mahavishnu recordings are the only things still worth listening to. That, and albums 3-5 of Soft Machine (look 'em up). The rest are ENTIRELY trite, soulless, ball-less, unlistenable nonsense. If there was ever ANYTHING overrated it's electric Miles.
@@dantean Having seen a lot of the greatest fusion bands (as I was obsessed with technical musicianship), I got burnt out in it. Live shows degenerate into shred fests. I craved structured ensemble playing and returned to my prog roots. Though, I like the avant garde. Trying to recreate the 70's isn't progressive in my book.
Miles Davis transformed McLaughlin from a mere musician into an artist. During the Bitches Brew Sessions, McLaughlin was starstruck and very nervous playing with his idols. Miles would yell at him constantly about his playing. McLaughlin finally mustered up the courage to ask Miles, "How do you want me to play?" Miles fired back at him, "Play like you don't know how to play!"
@@dantean no offence son, but that's total bollocks
A perfect band with many great players over the years. McLaughlin is crazy good. Still is. The man played on Miles Davis's Witches Brew with others like Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Billy Cobham. Jeff Beck's guitar hero is John.
Pat Metheny speaking of John McLaughlin said “he is a giant, one of my favorite musicians and composers ever”
Agree, but the album was Bitches Brew.
The title song from Birds of Fire is one of the wonders of the musical world.
Yes, I was going to mention that. A fiery blaze of glory.
@@rk41gator written in 18/8 in all of it's glory and Cobham on double bass drums subdividing the beats
gaughin1 : One Word !!!!
Not the easiest starter for the Mahavishnus. Happy you enjoyed the ride. They certainly brought an aggressive zest to the table.
Please check out John McLaughlin with Shakti (live)!
Meeting of the Spirits, the first song on this album is astonishing.
As Miles Davis said about John McLaughlin: " He's the one, the killer!" Thank you so much for this video!!
Hello guys. This record was born when I was twenty yrs old. Since then I use to play electric guitar with that McLaughlin's technique, it means>>REPIQUETEO. (I don't know how yo say in english)
It's difficult but very exciting and satisfying results.
I saw John McLauglin and Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1974 at a multiband indoor all day concert.I had never heard of them before and THEY WERE INTENSE !!!
Heard them in Spring 73
For Mahavishnu Orchestra my favorite album is Visions Of The Emerald Beyond which has Jean-Luc Ponty playing violin.
"Vital Transformation" from the same album is amazing also. Well, the whole album is phenomenal.
Vital is like an amazing sister tune to Noonward Race. Was just listening to VI and its like a 'better', less hectic version of Noonward.
Top 3 album of all time
Little known fact. You know at rock concerts were a track starts and the crowd pull out their liters and wave it, well it was the crowd who listened to this band that started the trend. Before Mahavishnu there was no Jazz-Rock group that had this level of intensity, (except perhaps Tony Williams Lifetime group with John McLaughlin), so the crowd felt like a special cult and this is what they did with their liters to represent The Inner Mounting Flame. Then as the group got bigger and so did their respective crowds, people began to notice that lighters at rock concerts was a good idea, and the rest (as they say) is history. You Know You Know, Dawn, One Word, Hymn to Him, Lila's Dance and of course part 1 & 2 of Eternity's Breath. These (I feel) are the essentual Mahavishnu tracks to listen to. But once your into the group, pretty much all their stuff up to the mid 70s will become essentual because alot of their other stuff is just as good. I don't think much of the 80s Mahavishnu group.
One Word off Birds of Fire is insane
There were various incarnations of this band. You're listening to the original band and their first LP. Mindblowing.
Ok then. Lotus on Irish Spring. Birds of Fire. Keep it coming.
John McLaughlin is part of the lineage that came from the Miles Davis group that included Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and others. Miles told John to go start his own band. Mahavishnu Orchestra came out of that. Then his acoustic group Shakti which is also a must listen. Check out "Joy" from that group. McLaughlin is a heavy jazz player yet equally has studied East Indian music. His meditation practice has kept him youthful and philosophically inspiration. He made a choice or stay more western yet still plays with Indian musicians.
A band I'm surprised you didn't hit sooner. This record is exceptional and the musicians...what can I say. An all time favorite.
Birds of Fire was my fave album when it came out, got me into fusion in my mid teens and I’m still in love with it. John McLaughlin is a virtuoso and an inspiration to so many.
Take a pebble before the Noonward Race.
From this album try::"A Lotus on Irish Streams." And consider a Coltrane cut from the duet album: McLauhlin and Santana "Love Devotion Surrender."
Note of interest: I got to sit next to Jerry Goodman at the Baked Potato ( at a Holdsworth show )and asked him whether he was the first guy to use a crybaby on a violin. He said that as far as he knew, he was the first to use electric violin. He later played with the Dregs who I saw many times. They should be on your list.
Saw him play with the Dregs here in Nashville in 1992. Special guest Bela Fleck on Banjo, it was fantastic.
@@bobcorbin3294 Sounds like a great show. I introduced a lot of people to the Dregs. Never disappointed.
Yes. There’s nothing like being in a small club with Steve Morse, Dave LaRue, and Jerry Goodman just a few feet away.
Saw him play with the Dixie Dregs "Bring 'em Back Alive" Tour. Man . . . wish I saw Holdsworth at the Baked Potato, had soo many chances to see him and I blew it :(. Talked with Virgil Donati their once after a show ("C.A.B.") and he said it was his 2nd home :).
@@mvunit3 That was Holdworth's second home. He was there at least twice a year.
Listen to the amazing drumming throughout Vital Transformation you won’t be disappointed
Hey guys, if you’d like a slightly easier listening Mahavishnu track, try one from the album Visions of the Emerald Beyond. Amazing album. Take the track Cosmic Strut for example. Jean-Luc Ponty on violin. Narada Micheal Walden on drums. Cheers!
Yes, take a deep breath... Mahavishnu had several line ups, it's all incredible, almost anything from McLaughlin is always innovative and he uses the finest musicians and is a special composer, very unique, I hope you continue to explore John McLaughlin. This is an album you might want to hear in order, there are interludes and stuff... Thank you!
Great song and reaction,these guys are still ahead of their time......Oh how i love John Mclaughlin..he is my # 5 all time guitarist and billy cobham on drums and the brilliant Jan Hammer on keyboards,wow..listen to the album "love,devotion and surrender" with Mclaughlin and Carlos Santana...stunning stuff..all my best,Kent
There was so much music experimentation in the 70s. I really didn't appreciate it much at the time because, well, it was pretty common. 20 minute songs, synths pushed to limits creating unnatural sounds, time changes, violins with distorted guitars, and tons of talent. It was a great time for music.
This is the first incarnation of the group! The second had Jean-Luc Ponty & Narada Michael Walden. Jonas never was in Mahavishnu Orchestra, but played many times with McLaughlin.
For something with this same energy and as a direct result of this lineup checkout Billy Cobham's seminal release "Spectrum"! Especially "Stratus", "Quadrant 4" & "Red Baron"!
Cobham - Hammer - Tommy Bolan & Leland Sklar!
During the 1960's , jazz had become very sophisticated and " clean " .... Mahavishnu wae a deliberate melding of sophistication and raw electric POWER .... it was the very birth of Jazz-Rock !!!
Ruth Underwood (percussionist for Frank Zappa) tells a great story of the first time they heard Mahavishnu, they had entered the theater from the front and were walking down to the stage with Mahavishnu doing a sound check and started playing, it was so loud, intricate and fast that Frank stopped dead & Ruth looked at him, she says it was the only time she saw Frank totally flummoxed. John McLaughlin had been playing professionally since 1963. He was on the seminal Miles Davis recording Bitches Brew along with many other jazz artists. His style was what you hear here. The flamingo guitar is clean because that is the style necessary for that style. John helped create the jazz fusion guitar lines & riffs that Al DiMeola used in Return To Forever.
Flamenco.
Flamingos are exotic birds. Not guitars.
I like NicknLex reactions better that any other, because you guys are very quality oriented. You both appreciate quality music and to see you two enjoy it, is very enlightening to me! Thank you!!!
I had 'Birds of Fire', 'Visions of the Emerald Beyond' and 'Love Devotion Surrender' which I saw on tour in '74...McLaughlin was godly.
My dad brought home an 8-track called 'Mar Y Sol' I think it was of a Caribbean festival with 'Noonward Race'...incredible!
I always loved Jerry Goodman's playing.
Hearing these two explain what was going on here was great. Regardless of their knowledge before or during the listen, at least they heard The Noonward Race!
Saw this band in 1972. Jan Hammer went on to write the theme and score for Miami Vice.
Oh yeah, Jean Luc Ponty played on some of the albums as well. OMG!
I saw MO in London at the Rainbow Theatre. When I left, I couldn't hear anything for days. To quote John McLaughlin in an interview years later; We were loud. An understatement!
This happens when you practice...
Never got the chance to see Mahavishnu Orchestra play live, but I did have the good fortune to see John McGlaughlin in concert in Toronto about a decade ago with a trio of East Indian musicians (2 tablas and a mandolin).
Just to show how his musical approach has evolved over time, his live setup consisted of a guitar and a laptop - that was it! And he was creating CRAZY ASS sounds with that minimalist rig!
Keep up the great work, guys. Lovin what you’re doin!
Zappa said " John plays the guitar like a machine gun".
Incredible musicianship and so full of energy. I definitely get a race vibe from this music.I Don't think Mahavishnu orchestra got enough credit for their body of work.
Check out "Meeting of the Spirits" from the same album. Also, "Sister Andrea" from the early live album. To hear what the 2nd band sounded like with Ponty: "Lila's Dance" is a beautiful song.
Their album BIRDS OF FIRE has so many brilliant tracks and is their most well known album.
Oh YES. Love Mahavishnu Orchestra. Jon McLaughlin is one of the greatest, as are every other musician in this group.
Oh, you've listened to Friday Night in San Francisco. Well... then you already know 😀
Was lucky to be at Friday Night Live, Mclaughlin is a beast! Time to dip into some Brand X!
For me John McLaughlin reached perfection with his band Shakti. When i lived in Bombay i wsed to go to the Jazz Yatra Festival where Indian and wearern jazz musicians jammed together. Shakti was the only source easily available in the UK ovf sutch a fusion.
This track brings to mind Kathakali dance music of South India.
my first time seeing Mahavishnu was right after Inner Mounting flame had just come out. They were playing on the Boston Commons with Logging and Messina, who were very good. Up second was Mahavishnu and the just blew my and my band members minds! Our base player exclaimed after the first song, this makes you want to ho home and practice until your fingers bleed or you just to go home and throw your instrument in the trash. the
What a coincidence. I sent you “Friday Night in San Francisco” on CD - it was delivered yesterday. ✨🤪
Ahhhh thank you so much!! Going to pickup packages this weekend!! :)
I was at that concert. The opening act was some guy name Steve Morse, who joint the trio at the end of show.
There were many variations of the Mahavishnu Orchestra over the years, although you can't go wrong with the initial lineup! Might I suggest that you check out John McLaughlin's collaboration with Carlos Santana on their Love Devotion and Surrender album. In addition on this album Inner Mounting Flame the song 'Meeting of the Spirits' has all the energy you want.....Long live the 70's ha ha
If I knew you guys would do Mahavishnu... wow! When in the mood for them again do the first song on that album "Meeting Of The Spirits", or "You Know, You Know" (a real funky 70s sound!), but any song on that album will do as the whole album is an awesome concept experience! We were eating this up back in the 70s! Lemme tell ya! ✌️😎
The more you listen to Mahavishnu Orchestra, Billy Cobham's solo albums, and McLaughlin's guitar sound variety, the more you basically hear the origins of TOOL.
Wow, not expecting you guys doing them, I saw the original Mahavishnu in 1973 and they played for 3 hours. Billy Cobham is a top 10 drummer in any genre. Incredible band that I dig out a couple times a year to remind me how great they were. I also saw a revised Mahavishnu that John M recruited Jean Luc Ponty in, they went out with King Crimson & Golden Earring (Fantastic band!) In 75. & co-headlined another tour with Jeff Beck, amazing stuff.
Jann Hammer composed the music for Miami Vice.
I'm in heaven. Thanks. Saw this band in 1972 at the local music festival and I didn't think a drummer could play a whole set with that much power... but Cobham made it look easy.
"Lotus on an Irish Stream", from this album, is the other end of the spectrum...acoustic guitar, piano and violin.
I saw them live in 1971 and was blown away. Check out pictures of his double neck guitar. My favorite on this album is Meeting of the Spirits but it's all incredible!
I can completely endorse the previous recommendation of Weather Report; especially if you start with their album, “Heavy Weather”(1977). A truly, amazing display of musicianship & emotion. Jaco Pastorius on bass is a sheer joy to listen to. I would also highly suggest you give a listen to another great jazz/rock/pop fusion band, Spyro Gyra. I would start with their Grammy winning album, “Morning Dance”. In fact I would take it as a great favor, if you guys would listen to & give your reaction to both these amazing albums. Knowing how much you appreciate jazz & jazz fusion; I really think you owe it to yourselves to investigate both of these fantastic groups.
Wow, that's an intense one to start with! Personal Mahavishnu Orchestra favorites: "Birds of Fire," "One Word," and "Open Country Joy," all from the Birds of Fire album (their second studio project). Original personnel (which you helpfully identified). I saw them play when they were touring on that album back in 1973(?). Amazing concert. As I recall, they included "Noonward Race" in the set.
I’m so glad you’re listening to MO, they are a major foundation element of Fusion Jazz. I would have recommended you listen to Meeting of the Spirits, the first track on this album for a first time listen. Great reaction.
Now you've got my attention guy's..... That's MY kind of music. Thank you very much.
Check out the album Birds Of Fire next. Miles Beyond is a great track. This is the Mark 1 lineup. Every single musician was a virtuoso on their instrument, Rick Laird on bass is the unsung hero in this lineup. Watch sone live stuff, it'll blow your mind. The interplay with them is amazing. Billy Cobham's solo album Spectrum is great. So many samples have been lifted from it, including the drums and bass from the track Stratus, which were used on the Massive Attack song Safe From Harm, from their album Blue Lines. Tommy Bolin was the guitarist on Spectrum, who later ended up in Deep Purple. It was hearing John McLaughlin that encouraged Jeff Beck to go in a more jazz oriented direction.
Which explains why Michael Walden is playing on the Jeff Beck album too.
This album is, aside from Miles going electric, the birth of jazz/rock fusion.
I read through the discog list of stuff that Michael Walden has been involved with, on recordings and different productions, bands, including the London Symphony collaboration mentioned on here, and everything else. It's like the list of everything he's been on, and done, simply does not stop..
One of my faves is "Lila's Dance" from M.O.'s "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" LP. I highly recommend it! After a steady diet of rock, the first time I heard Fusion Jazz, I about soiled my panties! (in a good way) hahaha Happy Travels N&L
Lila's Dance is a great song.
So glad you can appreciate this. It's not for everyone, as I know from my decades of attempted proselytizing the joys of MO. :-)
My favorite album of all time is Birds of Fire. Not a single track is less than excellent, in my opinion.
I've been a Mahavishnu fan since 1972. Saw them in Manchester, England. Then on 6th May, I met John McLaughlin in Manchester. And believe this or not, he's from the village where I now live in Doncaster, Yorkshire England. I spoke with John. He's a lovely man. Had time to chat with a gushing idiot who was so overwhelmed.
My dads fave album, we used to listen to this on the way to the beach in Cornwall U.K. as a kid. Amazing record
Friday Night in San Francisco- Acoustic live, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia....a must listen to with crowd reaction.
Jan Hammer, Billy Cobham so many amazing musicians. Jerry Goodman on violin I believe
WAIT... I am original huge fan of this band yet this song is one of their most radical to have chosen for your first listen. I wish you'd had picked another to hear to get the full versatility and range by them. This is more of the vamping improv jam side rather than the more tightly composed amongst their compositions. Jan Hammer on keys laid the blueprint for the quintessential moog synth Jazz Fusion sound with this M.O. debut LP in 1971. Like him, Jerry Goodman on Violin did their first 3 LP's plus a LIve release of their last album during this incarnation of the band. McLaughlin went on to create another lineup with Jean Luc Ponty. Both groups were incredible especially LIve! I hope you get to hear their 2nd "Birds of Fire" album. It's much more refined and would make a much better introduction to truly understand why this group is so revered as a milestone of early Jazz Rock.
I saw this tour . Greatest band ever !
Jon ANderson said lately (to Chris Squire) that when they listen for the fist time King Crimson, that thay do some practise. After a few years when he and Chris watched Mahavishnu live, he said exactly the same
Very enjoyable.
I bought this in late '72 - having saved up for several weeks to pay for it. I had actually heard the track on BBC radio earlier that year and hadn't a clue who it was [I even thought it might have been an obscure Hendrix track I'd never come across...]. I listened intently to it and got to know every note and nuance. They were a great band for that era.
There are a few live versions of it that are even faster!
I'll vote with the other commenters who have suggested you check out "Lila's Dance" from Mahavishnu's 5th LP, "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" (Ponty was the violinist in that incarnation). Also, if you want to hear some early McLaughlin, check out his gig with Tony William's Lifetime - his work with Miles Davis (Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, Jack Johnson) - his debut album, Extrapolation (where he plays "clean" electric guitar) - My Goal's Beyond (all acoustic) - Devotion ("dirty" electric guitar)... and I haven't even gotten to another fusion band of the era, the 11th House, led by guitarist Larry Coryell... fusion was my epiphany.....
Excellent!
Thanks guys
looooooooove Mahavishnu
Also check out John's work with Miles Davis, especially In a Silent Way, which is my fave.
Oh Yeah!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Got their "Birds of Fire" album when I was a teenager ... eye opening was already a Jan Hammer fan
Heck, if I got that album as a Teenager and totally took to it, I probably would have become a musician :p. This would have been WAAY over my head in 1979 to 1981. Glad I discovered it when I did in my 20's :).
@@mvunit3 that’s funny because I was in my teens when that album came out, and I was also learning guitar at the time. I thought I was doing pretty good...but when I put that album on for the first time, I thought about just putting down my guitar for good.
@@wicky4473 haha :D. My "moment" was when watching a video lesson from Eric Johnson :p.
@@mvunit3 that reminds me of the old joke…When someone asked for directions to Carnegie Hall. The answer?
@@wicky4473 . . . .
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You guys could check out both Awakening, You Know You Know and Meeting of the Spirits next
John took guitar off into the stratosphere with the influences of Miles, Coltrane and Hendrix as well as many others. His directions were so monumental and varied, that there really isn't a comparison to any other guitarist. Check out the many live versions of Mahavishnu with this lineup and you can hear some of the most incendiary and powerful electric guitar ever performed. The ferocious technique along with an unrelenting urgency and soul cry of passion is untouchable stuff. Nobody else has come close to that level of playing that John or Mahavishnu Orchestra produced. I don't know any smart and talented guitarists who would disagree either. Here's some scorching work. And there are plenty of shows which display greater intensity than this: ruclips.net/video/6-3lvormrWc/видео.html
He is featured prominently of the Miles Davis recording 'A Tribute to Jack Johnson' and the entire composition "Go Ahead John" was later released on the Big Fun compilation. It's mind-blowing still, 51 years later.
I love that album. Apparently during Right Off they were jamming, and fooling around waiting for Miles to arrive. He came in heard what they were playing, started the tape rolling, and then started blowing an incendiary solo.
They were a more complex Snarky Puppy 50 years before Snarky Puppy.
One of only 2 bands who made me stand still the first time I heard them
Zappa was the other
Inner Mounting Flame is a good starting point. I grew up on the Birds of Fire album, in the mid 70's (my older sisters gave me that album along with Mother Absolutely Free, Tea for the Tillerman, Its a Beautiful Day, and the Dillards). I learned to play a fair amount of this on my acoustic back in the day, then I heard McLoughlin/Shakti and nearly gave up on the instrument.
I'm glad you enjoyed this.
Check out the album The Lost Trident Sessions for great studio quality and peak chops from the original Mahavishnu lineup.
I have that Al Di Meola album with Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway. Just a fun song, that blew my mind the first time I heard it.
Johnny Carson had Jon McLaughlin on The Tonight Show several times. Meeting of the Spirits on this album is what I'd recommend next, but the whole album is great.
The "Tour De Force" version of RwtDoaSH is . . . . no words can describe.
Wow! Never heard this. Bad ass.
Suprpised you found this! Check out their Smile of the Beyond, from their Apocalype album, the only one of theirs I owned. . Soprano on it cuts to the heart...
one of the best guitar solos I've heard in my life
Love your channel. Love your reactions and what you choose to react to! Since you've made this recent foyer into the realm of cutting edge fusion, I'd like to suggest a piece which is something of a bit of musical acrobatics. It involves one of the players in this groundbreaking crew (Mahavishnu Orchestra); the keyboardist Jan Hammer. The piece is called "Twenty One" and it is from Jan's 1976 solo album "Oh Yeah?". Warning: Strap in before listening! It is done in the time signature 21/16 (hence the title) and at breakneck speed with such precision, it will likely leave you breathless!
Jan Hammer is a phenomenal composer. I wish I could play on guitar what he does on keyboard. Billy Cobham also composed his absolutely cool and one-of-kind song a bunch of people have played on. Red Barron.
Noonward Race hatte ich euch auch bei eurer Billy Cobham Reaction vorgeschlagen ... mein 2. Vorschlag war und ist Vital transformation. Mahavishnu waren und sind einmalig, als Teenager habe ich diese Musik nicht verstanden :-) heute finde ich sie umso besser. Man muss es im zeitlichen Zusammenhang sehen, was die Band "erfunden" hat, es gab nichts vergleichbares. Ps: Jan Hammers größter Erfolg in den 80ern war der Soundtrack zu Miami Vice, dieser erhielt 4 x Platin !