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Mahavishnu Orchestra
Case Western Reserve University
February 17, 1973 Cleveland, OH.
Soundboard @320
John McLaughlin - guitar
Jan Hammer - keyboards
Jerry Goodman - violin
Rick Laird - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
Setlist: 01. Birds Of Fire 10:56
02. Open Country Joy 9:25
03. Hope 1:39
04. Awakening 13:11
05. Miles Beyond 12:17
06. One Word 13:11
07. Sanctuary 6:59
08. The Dance Of Maya 18:55
09. Vital Transformation 5:58
Jack Bruce & Friends - Live The Bottom Line
New York City, NY March 19, 1980
early show
EN FM Remaster @flac
CD1 01 White Room
02 Jet Set Jewel
03 Post War
04 Born Under a Bad Sign
05 You Burned the Tables On Me
06 The Loner
Total time: 45:23
CD2 01 Running Through Our Hands
02 Theme for an Imaginary Western
03 Bird Alone
04 Politician
05 Sunshine of Your Love
06 NSU
07 Jack Bruce interview fragment
Total time: 57:37
Jack Bruce - bass, vocals
Billy Cobham - drums
David Sancious - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Clem Clempson - guitar, vocals
source: FM cassette master
taped by Bob MacFarland
emoto on LL
original lineage: WNEW-FM simulcast > Sony TC-153SD
Maxell UDXL-II90s, Dolby B NR > Nak Dragon > HD-P2 24/96 > HD >
Adobe Audition 2.0 16/44.1 > Cd Wave Editor > FLAC
transferred & seeded by Rob Berger 11/10/09
EN remaster notes 10.26.2014
My 48th birthday started off on a sad note when I awoke Saturday morning (10.25.2014) and learned of the passing of the magnificent bass behemoth Jack Bruce at 71. When I got back home later on someone had reposted, to another tracker, this absolutely mind-frying, balls-to-the-wall performance from when Jack first assembled this all-star band with Billy Cobham, David Sancious and Clem Clempson at the outset of the 1980s. This concert, broadcast over WNEW-FM in NYC live as it happened and captured direct to Maxell cassettes off the air, dates from a few days before this band even had a record out and finds all four virtuosi ready to blow up the Bottom Line... which they do over the course of the next 103 minutes, sending the packed club into complete pandemonium, which you'll hear all up and down the tape.
This master cassette was taped with Dolby B noise reduction back in the day so I took a good few hours with it and went about putting the high end into a punchier place. Using Sound Forge 9 I was able to find a way to make the drums somewhat more present and resurrect the treble some, giving it more life and unleashing more of its (not insignificant) power without altering it too much. Unless WNEW taped this themselves as it went out and archived it, I don't think there's a pre-FM source of this, given the one-offness of these old Bottom Line broadcasts, but who knows? There was a (horrifying-sounding and incomplete) Italian bootleg CD of some of this show out back in the mid-1990s when there was that interregnum in copyright law over there, but this right here may be as good as it gets for this one barring someone having captured it, say, onto a reel-to-reel off the air or some such. All conjecture aside, this is the real thing, and all we know exists as far as a live document of this incendiary group at its inception, so please do enjoy this remaster of what can only be termed a take-no-prisoners performance. I hope it makes some fraction of a fitting tribute to the Maestro who left us yesterday with a lifetime or twelve worth of the very finest sounds.
updated lineage: original FLAC files > Sound Forge 9 remaster > DIME > you
Thanks to the original source, the seeder and DIME!!
BACK FROM THE DEAD... Originally posted June 17, 2010
Billy Cobham with George Duke - Electric Ballroom
Dallas, TX
(New Year's Day) 1975
KZEW-FM broadcast
FM Source @320
George Duke-keys
Doug Rauch-bass
John Scofield-guitar
Billy Cobham-drums
Track List: 01 Unknown > For Love (I Come Your Friend) (from 7:00)
02 Red Baron
03 Band Introductions, Song For My Friend
04 Earthlings
05 George Duke improvs.(incl.Tzina, Feel, Space Lady) > Feel (at 7:30)
06 Drum Solo
Tapers's Notes Lineage:
SBD>FM simulcast>Toshiba stereo cassette deck>MASTER Maxell c-120 Extra Cassette>Nakamichi BX-100 cassette deck (no Dolby)>AUDACITY (level set, track splitting, no processing or NR)>TLH (flac8, align, check, ffp)>you
QUALITY: A or 9 (a bit dense and thick in the middle (like me)).
ABC-TV "In Concert" FM SIMULCASTS:
The In Concert series ran every other Friday night on ABC-TV affiliates, with an audio simulcast on ABC radio stations. Each show ran from 11:30PM-1:00AM, with 75 minutes of music. Bands included the obscure, the awful, and the amazing.
Mahavishnu Orchestra: John McLaughlin - guitar
Jan Hammer - piano, synth.
Billy Cobham - drums
Jerry Goodman - electric violin
Rick Laird - bass
~R.I.P.~ George Duke - January 12, 1946 † August 5, 2013
BILLY COBHAM / GEORGE DUKE BAND
Recorded live at "the Montreux Jazz Festival" , July 6, 1976
Excellent lineup Cobham has 3 Americans with him as he toured across Europe. George Duke on keyboards of course played with Zappa as well as Jean-Luc Ponty. Alfonso Johnson on bass is probably best known for his work on those 3 classic WEATHER REPORT albums. John Scofield on lead guitar has quite a long solo career and put out an album with Pat Metheny.
Check out how YOUNG Alphonso Johnson is at this time!
- Billy Cobham / percussion, drum synthesizer, vocal
- George Duke / keyboards, vocal
- Alphonso Johnson / electric bass, Chapman Stick, vocal
- John Scofield /electric guitar,
1. 0:00:00 Panhandler 4:18 2. 0:04:18 Juicy 8:10 3. 0:12:28 Red Baron 7:51 4. 0:20:19 Almustafa The Beloved 9:07 5. 0:29:26 Ivory Tattoo 5:37 6. 0:35:03 Some Day 9:54 7. 0:44:57 Hip Pockets 8:06 8. 0:53:03 Drum Solo 8:00 9. 1:01:03 Sweet Wine 3:53 10. 1:04:56 Life & Time 4:15 11. 1:09:11 Stratus 5:10 12. 1:14:21 That's What She Said 5:00
Billy Cobham 1975-01-01 Electric Ballroom Dallas,TX FM Broadcast
The Electric Ballroom on fire...
Setlist: 01 For Love (I Come Your Friend) (from 7:00) 12:03 02 Red Baron 9:13 03 Band Introductions, Song For My Friend 15:29 04 Earthlings 6:12 05 George Duke Medley(incl.Tzina, Feel, Space Lady); Feel (at 7:30) 12:47 06 Drum Solo 8:06 07 unknown? 21:34
The band: George Duke-keys Doug Rauch-bass John Scofield-guitar Billy Cobham-drums
John McLaughlin and Billy Cobham Montreux Jazz Festival 2010
Montreux, Switzerland
July 2, 2010
BBC FM Source @224
Radio presenter Jaz Nelson:
The Mahavishnu Orchestra performed in 1971, unleashed a series of cosmic… fusion albums until ‘76 when their inner mounting flame grew too hot and they imploded. They got together briefly in 1984 and then disappeared again until at last one day last July when guitarist John McLaughlin just happened to be hanging out on the banks of Lake Geneva when he got a call from his old friend Claude Nobs telling him that a band had cancelled that night and Claude said, ‘John, do you fancy getting back together with Billy Cobham and playing some Mahavishnu tunes?’
Thanks to tom_phillips who shared the tracks on Dime. Tom noted: “John McLaughlin’s last minute ad-hoc reunion with Billy Cobham, recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival last July. Suberbly recorded and demonstrating the John hasn’t lost his chops (where has he been for the last 25 years?), it is only short highlights…”
Certainly shows why the Mahavishnu Orchestra should never be overlooked.
Billy Cobham with George Duke - Electric Ballroom Dallas, TX (possibly New Year's Day) 1975 KZEW-FM broadcast FM Source @320
George Duke-keys Doug Rauch-bass John Scofield-guitar Billy Cobham-drums
Track List: 01 Unknown > For Love (I Come Your Friend) (from 7:00) 02 Red Baron 03 Band Introductions, Song For My Friend 04 Earthlings 05 George Duke improvs.(incl.Tzina, Feel, Space Lady) > Feel (at 7:30) 06 Drum Solo
This is from his Crosswinds timeframe; I recognize "Heather" in this set of seven cuts.
That's about all I recognize: the rest is a blur of Billy's hands. Damn, but this guy is faster than the speed of sound!
Billy Cobham : Drums George Duke : Keyboards John Scofield : Electric guitar Alphonso Johnson : Electric bass
Alan Holdsworth, Jack Bruce, & Friends Montreux Jazz Festival, July 23, 1982 AKA - A Gathering Of Minds
Soundboard @320
pw - fbsvw
Allan Holdsworth: Guitar Didier Lockwood: Violin David Sancious: Keyboards Jack Bruce: Bass, Vocals Billy Cobham: Drums
1. Crazy Eights
2. Mysterious Conversation
3. Ursellan Summer
4. Drifting Into The Attack
5. Theme From An Imaginary Western
6. Uptown Breakdown
7. Sleight Of Hand
8. Bloody Mary
9. Something In B Flat
