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Aaron Montalvo's Collection

Mahavishnu Orchestra   05/15/1972

Hunter College, New York, NY
Source DVD
Media DVD   1 disc
Notes This is part of a compilation of Mahavishnu videos. It includes the columbia promotional video, don kirshner's concert, and another concert. Well worth having. Sound is good, picture not so much in some cases.

Here's the info file for specifics:

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--- Mahavishnu Orchestra ----

John McLaughlin
Jan Hammer
Billy Cobham
Jerry Goodman
Rick Laird



chapter point / song titles

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



a JPG with screen shots of the menu and content can be viewed here

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVAMiyA




total DVD length : 33 minutes



chapter 1

Film of the Mahavishnu Orchestra from a columbia records unreleased promo for an unknown single release
(you see the cover at the end of the clip.... anyone ever seen it ?) it had very badly synced audio with audience
cheering covering the mismatch it would appear in putting together the promo the video editor columbia used
got confused with the sound mix of the groups electric guitar, moog syntheiser, electric violin sounds and got lost
trying to match them to the video for the promo to a different song (Noonward Race) and then some parts were
speeded up, the film is of the band playing at Hunter College in New York May 15, 1972 which was broadcast
by radio station WABI 99.5 FM. The project must have then got shelved but a copy with this timecode was shown
on possibly a pilot episode of an unknown TV show.

The video was recently placed in the video-editing timeline along with the audio from Hunter College FM broadcast
and moved around untill a good match was found during this part of " Dance of Maya "
**note** it is possible the film columbia used is from grabs taken from several different songs from the concert and
it is only a coincidence it best fits this part of "Dance of Maya"



chapter 2 > 5

For the first time decent video of the "in-concert" TV show has been synced to an FM recording of the simulcast

from a VHS tape the "in concert " TV show filmed at Bananafish Garden in Brooklyn New York
the most likely date is believed to be March 15 1973
This copy is about 2nd or 3rd generation off the taper who apparently still has his Betamax tape somewhere but in storage.

It was first synced to the audio off the Japanese bootleg " Mourning of the Eternal Five" and then sent to a McLaughlin
collector for an opinion the collector had since heard of a better recording on Dime by "merday" then when that was synced
another slightly better recording of the simulcast uploaded first on TTD then Dime of " bpthree " which is a little better
and so this was synced and although not perfect is quite acceptable and now for first time the video has stereo audio.




chapter 6 > 7

Filmed for D.K.R.C at the Palace Theatre in New York on November 7, 1973 video sourced from 2 VHS tapes
(one was slightly longer) only B quality but better than what most people have, the first 30 seconds is B- then the
quality improves but alas to only B quality,
there is supposed to an even better quality copy of the video around but I don't have it
the good thing it has now been synced to a nice soundboard audio from the show






Trivia - The photo used for the menu was taken at the Bananafish Garden concert by the photographer Annie Leibovitz







Video Attributes:

Video compression mode: MPEG-2
TV system: 525/60 NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Source picture resolution: 720x480
Frame Rate: 29.97
Bitrate: 6000+



Audio Attributes:

Audio Coding mode: LPCM
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Number of Audio channels: 2.0
Bitrate: 1536





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Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A
Owned by Aaron Montalvo · Last Updated May 23, 2023