The original line-up at their awesome peak. Billy Cobham is particularly on fire.
To get a taste of what MO were like live; slap on some cans and max the volume until your ears want to bleed :)
Recorded at Bananafish Garden NY 1973
ma no pa with echo's of Lyla's dance from visions of the emerald beyond in the intro
John McLaughlin (guitar)
Zakir Hussain (tabla)
V Selvaganesh (percussion)
U Shrinivas (mandolin)
Syracuse University 1972. Most videos of this tune I've come across have Johns solo missing, so I felt this needed posting even though it sounds a bit like it was recorded down a telephone.
Rare clip, recorded for French tv 1984. I believe this is the only time W.B.T.G has been played live.
John McLaughlin - guitar
Hari Prasad Chaurasia - flute
Zakir Hussein - tabla
Katia Labeque - piano
Marielle Labeque - tambura
The best quality MO footage I've ever seen. Shame JM's solo is missing.
Well that was my original discription but the crystal like clarity has been lost in the uploading. Oh well, call it fairly good resolution then.
Mostly JMcl's solo. He's always at his best when he has a drummer to drive him and Dennis Chambers is Billy Cobham's natural successor. 'Go ahead john'!!
Quality poor. My favourite live band in mclaughlins career after mahavishnu 1+2 is the one truth band. Saw them at the Rainbow-London in 1979 and they took the roof off. Main feature here is a keyboard solo by the brilliant (and often underrated) Stu Goldberg.
J.Mclaughlin
L.Shankar
Stu Goldberg
Fernando Saunders
Tony Smith
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