Sunday, February 16, 2014

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Kongress Saal Munich, Germany 08-17-1972 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Pre-Olympic Games "Jazz Now" Festival
Kongress Saal
Munich, Germany
August 17, 1972
TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art Included

Pro-Shot DVD > DVD Audio Extractor 4.5.5 (wave) > Traders Little Helper (flac level8) sector boundaries aligned

01 - Meeting of the Spirits
02 - You Know You Know
03 - The Dance of Maya
04 - One Word  (end part)
05 - Resolution
06 - A Lotus on Irish Streams (cut short)

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - double kneck guitar
Jan Hammer - keyboards
Billy Cobham - drums
Jerry Goodman - violin
Rick Laird - drums

Before and during the Olympic Games quite a few cultural events took place including the Jazz Now Festival and the Solo Now! Concert. John McLaughlin took part in both. At Solo Now! John performed with just an acoustic guitar, at Jazz Now! of course he performed with Mahavisnu Orchestra. This nice recording comes from a bootleg DVD with impeccable sound and video quality. The last track ends early but the rest of the performance lows fine.

Some notable things that happened at the 1972 games was swimmer Mark Spitz setting a record for winning 7 Gold Medals which stood till swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 in 2008. Australian swimmer Shane ould won 3 Gold Medals, 1 Siver Medal, and 1 Bronze. Shane was just 15 years old. The USA lost in the basketball final to the USSR under much controversy, ending with the USA Team refusing to accept their Silver Medals which are still in Switzerland to this day.

The 1972 Olympics are remembered mostly for the tragic deaths of 9 Israeli athletes. The Games were suspended during and for 24 hours after the attacks for a Memorial Service and then the Olympics continued.


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