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 

 
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.

"MEH" was stenciled on the back of all the stacks.  I didn't think this was meh at all!  

How can you go wrong with Jesus on violin?
 

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. 

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: 
 

 
 

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

COOL! Thanks  for the post James! I love this!!! The Apocalypse LP 

Rain
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.