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Mahavishnu Orchestra 05/12/1973

SHOWID 333085

Set I

Meeting of The Spirits
Hope
Awakening
Open Country Joy
Dance of Maya
One Word

Set II

 

Set III

 

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The Mahavishnu Orchestra as part of a double bill tour with Frank Zappa at the Cobo arena in Detroit on May 12, 1973

The band is really cooking and play a really great show this performance is one of my favorites.

During Oct-Dec 1972 Mahavishnu Orchestra used to tease their audience by playing the opening chords of "Meeting of the Spirits" and then launch into "Birds of Fire" !

At this show they do it again this time starting as if they are playing "Birds of Fire" but launch into "Meeting of The Spirits" without the opening chords, during 1973 they dropped the opening gong part and played it this way.



The encore "One Word" is not complete it ends 2 minutes after Rick Lairds solo and strangely there is no drum solo they must have had to cut it short, as Frank Zappa was the headliner it's quite possible a Zappa fan taped some
of the Mahavishnu Orchestra set or the last part of "One Word"

There was a full page story in English music paper "Sounds" May 26, 1973, about the concert it was to promote the Mahavishnu Orchestra tour in England in June and the reporter Jerry Gilbert mentioned when he was interviewing
John McLaughlin in the dressing room a CBS film crew were filming them and he mentions the CBS film crew more than once, alas no video of the concert has so far turned up.

Collectors With This Show

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Joe (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   SBD
Jack Warner (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   MST>?>FLAC
Notes: John McLaughlin g Jerry Goodman vn Jan Hammer ky Rick Laird b Billy Cobham d
Chris M. (4/4) FLAC / 0 View   SBD
Michael Shilling (4/5) CDR/Flac / 1 B+ View  
Notes: Unfortunately Tracks 2-4 marred by Brick-Wall Clipping (especially Drums) dragging SQ to a "B". Cleans Up thereafter > B+. Solid Performance.
Doug (3/0) mp3 / 0 A- View  
Notes: A couple cuts in tracks here and there...
Chris Larson (3/5) flac / 1 B View   cass > SB audigy2/Soundforge > Flac.frontend.Level.6
Notes: 387mb/75min, last song cuts out
Alan (3/5) cdr / 1 A A- View   DaD d/load 2006
Notes: DaD d/load 2006 good sound.
OBIE (2/5) FLAC / 2 View  
Greg Peters (2/5) cdr / 1 View  
john s (2/5) cd / 1 View  
Eddie Dunn (2/0) / 0 View  
mjallen (1/5) / 0 View   SBD
Jeff Kaisershot (1/5) FLAC / 0 A- View  
Hanf (1/5) Flac / 0 View  
Notes: cass > SB audigy2/Soundforge > Flac.frontend.Level.6 original wav files 765 meg converted to Flac
Janaja (1/5) CD / 1 B+ View  
Mike (1/5) CDR / 1 B+ View   aud
BluesFan (1/5) FLAC / 0 View   AUD
Camber (1/1) / 0 View   cass > SB audigy2/Soundforge > Flac.frontend.Level.6
Norton Zenger (1/0) / 0 View  
Mike (1/0) CDR / 1 B+ View   aud