Monday, January 6, 2014

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Don Kirshner Presents 1973 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Don Kirshner Presents
The Banana Fish Garden, Brooklin NY March 15, 1973
The Palace Theater, New York City, NY November 7, 1973
TV Broadcast/FM Simulcast Recordings
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kps
DVD Cover Art Included

01 - Hope
02 - One Word
03 - Resolution
04 - Sister Andrea
05 - Awakening (snippet)
06 - Hope
07 - Celestial Terrestrial Commuters

Mahavishnu Orchestra:
John McLaughlin - guitar
Jan Hammer - piano, synth.
Billy Cobham - drums
Jerry Goodman - electric violin
Rick Laird - bass

Founded in 1971, the Mahavishnu Orchestra helped pioneer the Jazz Fusion movement. By 1973 however the mounting tensions between the bands members would be it's undoing. The original line-up would fold months after their Don Kirshner's Rock Concert performance. The second line-up would come to be called the "Real Mahavishnu Orchestra" by John McLaughlin. 1973 was also the year that McLaughlin would collaborate with Carlos Santana on the Love Devotion And Surrender album. This performance was my introduction to Mahavishnu Orchestra and I have been a fan ever since, but the original line-up is probably my favorite.

This recording comes from my bootleg DVD which has both the Don Kirshner's Rock Concert & ABC-TV In Concert performances. Don Kirshner was Executive Producer of In Concert when Mahavishnu Orchestra made their appearance on the show. By September of the same year he founded Don Kirshner's Rock Concert which remained on the air until 1981. The year MTV made it's debut.

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