bayoubill
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1972
I can count the times on one hand when I heard something that made me say WTF? Smokin at the Halfnote was one. 1967 the first time I heard Hendrix. And this in 1972. Amazing even today. It started my love of fusion
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Get that guy a tuner.....
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Re: 1972
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☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2014/08/02 15:33:06
Groundbreaking.
Out of tune guitars.
Boaf uvvum.
To my ears at least.
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bayoubill
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Get that guy a tuner.....
That was before those were invented and it had to be done manually plus being deaf helps listening pleasure
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Amazing, seeing a big time act make the audience wait while they tune. Strobe tuners were around in 1972. So were roadies.
The music's pleasant enough, though, if a little pretentious. The facial expressions of the keyboardist cracked me up, looked like he had gas. I know, not funny. I've had gas on stage before - you have to time its release to the beat. During the quiet parts all you can do is make that face and hope it's interpreted as emotional immersion.
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bayoubill
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Strobe tuners were those big things with the squiggly lines on the screen that set your guitar's harmonics at the music store. None of the pickers I knew could afford one to buy one. I couldn't afford to bring my guitar to a music store.
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Re: 1972
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☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2014/08/02 16:37:06
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The facial expressions of the keyboardist cracked me up, looked like he had gas. I don't think he had gas. I think he was hammered. 
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bayoubill
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I think he was hammered
Jon he was.. party animal
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The music's pleasant enough, though, if a little pretentious. The facial expressions of the keyboardist cracked me up, looked like he had gas. I know, not funny. I've had gas on stage before - you have to time its release to the beat. During the quiet parts all you can do is make that face and hope it's interpreted as emotional immersion.
This cracked me up. Funniest thing I have read in awhile.
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I remember getting "Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds Of Fire"albums when they released and still have them in A condition.
Saw him live at the Pope Joy Hall in Albq. NM in 1978. Stanley Clark opened for him.
(my wife was 8 months pregnant with our first...she was miserable and hated both groups lol....and wasn't real happy with me for talking her into going.)
It was an amazing concert.
I remember during the concert that John broke into a few minutes of solo...it was amazing as if he was just jamming by himself...then he stepped up to the mic and said, "bass player broke a string" and the group kicked in again. Jaw dropping performances that night.
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bayoubill
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Check out Billy Cobham's playing on the 72' concert! INCREDIBLE! btw, all my family hates jazz. They prefer the pop/country radio stuff. This band was a surprise for me. I thought John was still with Miles. I would have loved to have seen that concert. The concert I enjoyed the most was Al Di Meola in 87'. In Houston I think. Bunny Barrel was on bass that night. They played 4 encores
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I jumped on this one when it released in '76. Friends visiting would see the cover next to the stereo and it would hit them off guard... in '76 we could have passed as identical twins...even the glasses but my hair was much longer. I enjoyed his first even more than Elegant Gypsy. Still have this LP too in ace condition. I wished I'd caught him in concert back then but never did.  Oh...he also did this in '76  I'd always record the first play to tape and wear the tape out so most all my LP's are close to mint.
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"MEH" was stenciled on the back of all the stacks. I didn't think this was meh at all! 
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Re: 1972
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☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2014/08/02 21:36:35
How can you go wrong with Jesus on violin?
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Speaking of the keyboardist, I was dying to see his moog and how he used it. The lines he came up with just floored me. I remember running the records over and over by hand to get the right notes. I ruined the Birds Of Fire LP by doing that. The tempos were just way out of reach back then.
Back to when I saw Di Meola live. I was up front center in the 4th row and the sound of that PA to this day was the cleanest most beautiful I've ever heard. I think about that concert all the time and how flawless the playing was.
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I grew up in a Mahavishnu Orchestra household. That stuff was played a lot when I was growing up and I still love it today. John McLaughlin was and still is an incredible guitar player. I remember an album he did with Carlos Santana which I listened to a lot when I first started playing. Great stuff. Some of that Billy Cobham drumming is spectacular. I'm sure I used to have a live Billy Cobham album where they play Mahavishnu covers, well worth a listen (unless I'm just completely imagining that). I frequently find myself influenced by their sense of harmony. I hear chords like this in my head all the time now:
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COOL! Thanks for the post James! I love this!!! The Apocalypse LP
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Mahavishnu isn't really my thing, but it was with Billy Cobham's Quadrant Four that I discovered Tommy Bolin, who became one of my favorite guitar players ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLMb6RniGrU
Yeah Tommy Bolin was great, it sounds like there's a big party happening on his fretboard.
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