Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Wild Strings

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Wild Strings ('72 live - One of the rarest bootlegs)
Jazz-rock / Progressive rock / Fusion | 1CD | FLAC (separate) + SCANS –(NO CUE, NO LOG) | 1999 | 414 MB

Tracks:
1. Meeting of the Spirits
2. You Know You Know
3. The Dance of Maya
4. The Noonward Race

One of the rarest MO bootlegs with the BEST sound quality...

Artist: Mahavishnu Orchestra
Album: Wild Strings (1972-04-21 - Emerson Gymnasium, Cleveland, OH)
Year: 1999
Style: Progressive rock
Genre: Jazz-rock
Format: FLAC (separate) +SCANS –(NO CUE, NO LOG)

The concert billing was:
West Bruce and Laing, Procol Harum and Mahavishnu Orchestra (as the opening act! -- imagine that!)
According to John McLaughlin, Columbia refused a live release of this show. John McLaughlin himself feels that this show in Cleveland is one of the best that the Mahavishnu Orchestra has ever done. As Irony would have it, Columbia asked their engineer and Gregg Bendian to assist with the release of this live CD. A mix was made and sent for approval to John McLaughlin. No word from Columbia since.

Line-up:
John McLaughlin- guitar
Jan Hammer- keyboards
Jerry Goodman- violin
Rick Laird- bass
Billy Cobham - drums

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