It all starts at 01:12 John masterfully rips thru the changes... there in NO WOMAN guitarist in the world that could replicate that.

Simply incredible! Wicked low action!!

He’s holding the pick wrong.

Amazing!!!

Yo tenía 16 años la primera vez que escuché Birds of Fire, quedé impactado . Poco después Jhon visitó Buenos Aires por primera vez, y allí estuve....todavía recuerdo ese show.

In this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpXYnYKwr9KEn5Y interview, John says clearly that rehearsals were much slower and the drummer just kicked in high speed and all he could do on live TV was to play his ass off or drown.

Complicated simplicity - simply genius!!!!!

The violinist and drums are very impressive and intense. Jean Lu ponty,& Billy Cobham. The whole group are amazing Musicians

I don't know what say! So, so good!

Me habien dicho que es bueno este, es un perro de agua y toca la guitarra como un gallego 👎

Thank you so much for uploading this!

Watching this June 2024. It still gives me chills!

Does anyone know the rhythm played in this.... 5/8 or 8/8????

Uma sugestão importante, a ficha técnica, por exemplo: Drums, Billy Cobham, guitarra, John Mclaughlin, etc... Grato...!!!

Wow!

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boring!

SOOOOOOO SICKKKKKKK!!!!

Sae him Joey DeFrancesco and Dennis Chambers in Montreal years ago. Mannnnnn that was top shelf. Johns just different. He’s got blues, soul jazz and rock roll in his veins. Then there’s the classical Indian fusion. So much more. He probably ran it down once with Doc and the band then went in.

I was very fortunate to have seen this group on their first American tour opening up for ELP at Winterland in San Francisco .They were so captivating they scared the living daylights out of you but at the same time displayed such beautiful harmonic lines and majestic time signatures. One of the greatest bands to never be seen the likes again. Incredible Take note of the look of the faces in the audience and they were speechless .An added note i saw them before the mini moog was developed as Jan Hammer was using a ring moduiater at the time , Rick Laird was using a Fender Jazz bass not a Ampeg pleix-glass bass as seen here..And John McLaughlin was using a Black Les Paul not a double neck Gibson guitar..with two Marshall stack amolifers...loud very loud 😮 !!!! JIMI HENDRIX was ethereal and John McLaughlin was cosmic..Jimi Hendrix had just passed away and John McLaughlin was there to fill the void.. !!!!

This is the best version of Giriaj Sudha, ever. Without doubt!

Check out Rick Laird's bass.Class

Long live Rick Laird & Billy Cobham ! Long live John Mclaughlin and JanHammer & Jerry Goodman.

So interesting . lovely .

I knew McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra with Between Nothingness and Eternity album. Than I found all other slbums and bought. This concert reveal doubtless the progressive stars on yhe stage...

Without LSO and Thomas even is a❤ stunning performance...

desenvolvi as ´´paletadas´´ com esse grande músico

Anyone have a list of the band, besides Ed S., for this?

Lucky to have seen this incredible version of Mahavisnu shortly after Birds of Fire/ the recorded guitar solo of this song is one of the greatest fusion solos ever/ not bad here either !!!###

I remember seeing this when it originally aired.

I love Mahavishnu but my money is on "Weather Report" not only for the technical but the emotional.

Playing so fast, yet tedious. Never liked McLaughin where speed is major output

deep reaches of existence glorious intensity of everlasting life cyclez

the band really took off and raced. Of course John rose to the challenge!

The lines and the technique were awesome--yes he was an influential genius--but the tone was atrocious.

well,no doubt he is the fastest guitar player alive,but I prefer inspiration,instead of gymnastics.....Yo!

This version sure seems different than the Live in Paris version.

ypur title needs a small edit, if i may so bold… john explains to the audience that they are a “5 peace band”

Incomparable I don't know of too many live video recordings of this group with decent fidelity and pleasing camera work. This is one of them. I'd like a camera on Billy Cobham the entire time, though, since I'd like to see how he does all those impossible chops and fills. What muscular sophistication! "One Word" give him an extended and mind-boggling solo. Sadly, I never saw this group live. I was sixteen when they broke up and they never came to Anchorage, Alaska or were playing in California when I would visit in the summer. Nevertheless, they left us some phenomenal music, a new kind of sound--jazz-rock fusion with explosive solos and tight group cohesion over complex arrangements. Listening to "The Inner Mounting Flame" in about 1972 opened me up to new dimensions of aesthetic and spiritual experience, although I would not find my way home until Jesus Christ found me in 1976. Still, this music is a gift from God. The crowed response is a bit tepid, given the magic they were experiencing.

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Cobham could do this song then hop off the kit, on to the field and can orchestrate a textbook outside linebacker blitz to a QB’s weak side all on time, in the pocket of course.

Really? Somebody is dissing this?Amazing guitar player,innovator and human.What a world.

Astonishingly immaculate musicianship! I had the good fortune to see this same set performed by this amazing crew a few months earlier that year at the Whiskey à Go Go in Hollywood. it was a much more intimate venue, and the entire vibe throughout that night was seething with incredible energy. An unforgettable and extremely visceral experience. I looked forward to seeing them again, and I was able to do so the following year when they tore up the stage at the Roxy. 👍👍

What type or model is the guitar that Mr Mauglflin playing

41 years later Katia is still beautiful

Da gibts nichts zu sagen,ausser Gitarrenspiel von einem anderen Stern.zuhören und schweigen! Grossartig.the Best!!!

From 7:50 onwards, you almost enter another world as a listener. What beauty!

They Wailed!

I saw this lineup when I was 15 years old and to this day it was the most terrifying experience I have ever had. I set off on a course for music . . .