Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word (Châteauvallon, France, 1972 - synchronised)
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2020
- Here's a snippet from their Chateauvallon concert but it's replaced with radio-sourced audio and synched. (If you don't think there's much difference in the audio, I highly suggest wearing your headphones)
So, a full live broadcast of the Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Festival of Châteauvallon, France, 1972 circulated in recent years in the form of physical distribution and digital file. A radio broadcast tape also exists in digital form (and in unusual stereo, where Jan Hammer's Rhodes are at the right and much of the instruments are filled in both channels), which allows syncing to be possible, but it's got a lossy quality. I tried syncing these together but it came out as a bit iffy and awkward but it shouldn't be too distracting; keep in mind that I don't do full-time video restoring so this is just a bit of an occasion where I'd like to play around with video editors (or try to refine these skills)
Watch for:
-at 0:00, the snare goes from the right channel to centre channel - very creative!
-at 0:53, the radio-sourced audio persists while the video gets abruptly cut.
-at 2:23, MEH (comical relief)
-at 8:36, drum solo
-at 14:03, wrap it up
-at 15:19, this motif is called Resolution when describing in the context of Mahavishnu Orchestra; the motif was first heard in Tony Williams Lifetime's single One Word.
-Throughout the whole video, this was equalised (the thin-sounding audio don't do much for me.)
Source audio: Sugarmegs (tela.sugarmegs.org/ - search Chateauvallon France or Mahavishnu)
In Memoriam: Rick Laird (1941 - 2021)
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Featured in LouderSound website: www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-of-the-mahavishnu-orchestra
Very interesting
Thanks for this!
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I was there that night, as stage electrician, an was happy to talk about 20min with Billy Cobham. He's really a nice and cool man. He was paracticing gym and karate that explains his power. And yes! he plays *louder* than most of the drummers.
You’re a lucky man
How do you know he was practising gym and karate?
@@magn8195 he talked with him for 20 mins
And his Fibes kit is super loud anyway. Used to own one myself.
Yeah man👍you get it!!! Saw McLaughlin with the Mahavishnu 73 Newcastle City Hall UK, Cobham Newcastle Poly 75 just fucking awesome.and yer right brother,he is a really down to earth person,I met him backstage after the gig....My favourite drumming technians Cobham 🪘❤️ Frank Katz (Brand X, Tunnels with Perc Jones bass, John Goodsall 🙏 guitar,Ginger Baker(Cream with Jack and Eric),Lenny White(Return to Forever), Alphonse Mouzan(Tommy Bolin,Larry Coryall... enjoy and God Bless you 🙏
Just learned of Rick Laird’s passing. Very sad, but what a life. Brilliant musician and a member of possibly the greatest band ever. Not bad. And later in life he became a fantastic photographer, something I can relate to. Rest In Peace, Rick!
Other worldly. Billy Cobham unmatched on drums. What a monster!
Billy is an absolute monster on the drums one of my favorites
He is the best. That is just my opinion. I have never heard any better.
@user-tt9ef7hg4u It's hard to argue that he's absolutely amazing he's kinda like Charly Antolini both have speed and power and can play kick ass groves
@@loucifer4205 I have to check out Charly Antolini now, if you are comparing him to Mr. Cobham. Thank you.
@user-tt9ef7hg4u Check out a drum battle between Chary Antolini, Hubb Janssen and Pete York wait till you hear Hubb he's also one of the best he's got Buddy Rich speed
How many bands have all their members, “World Class”.......? these guy’s for sure!
these guys were absolutely phenomenal.
Back in 1972 they were phenomenal.
Billy's drumming is a high speed train relentlessly rolling
Holy Smokes!!!! Billy Cobham!!!! Those double and single stroke roll in addition to the bass drum in the beginning of the song are outstanding and blazing🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. He is still the GOAT!!!!
👏👏👏👏
The hardest hitting fusion ever.
Richard, They led the way for all that came after them.
Jazz Rock pioneers
Billy's drumming unmatched. The entire band virtuoso s
So true.
Central Park. 1973. Mind blowing experience!! Nothing like it at that time or in the 51 years following. Thank you, John and crew.
i played mahavishnu in my office at the FBI,imagine how well that was received !
I love how they go into the original Tony Williams Lifetime One Word at the end.
Billy Cobham, Billy Cobham that was the drum solo of drum solo's thanks for this post.
Yep, it's pretty effortless in artistic execution.
Insane tempo. I remember Mahavishnu setting the bar for speed.
Love this, love Mahavishnu.
Great! Mahavishnu always sound best when they play compositions instead of just solos.
RIP Rick Laird.
This is some spectacular effing musicianship. Transcendental and so beyond most everything else out there
What a wonderful chaos, mess. so intense. i‘m on the edge of my seat! ❤
OMG Billy executes spectacular triple stroke rolls in the intro!
And that's on a gig, not in the practice room!
PURE GENUIS,WHAT GREAT MUSICIANS THEY ARE.THEY WERE MEANT TO BE HEARD.😎🎸🔊🎶🎼☮️ BOB.
Once I saw them for the first time at the Mar y Sol Rock fest in Puerto Rico, 1972 I was hooked. Saw them in Central Park, and back in Puerto Rico just John and his wife performing acoustic and sitar, met him right after that performance, one of the highlights of my life LOL.
The audience is stunned... as was likely anyone who saw this group live. There was nothing like them. I remember when I was first introduced to the Birds of Fire album at a classmate's house on a modest stereo record player in 1973. The buzz roll intro to One Word - then Boom.!!.. all I could do was keep watching the record go round-and-round while I was engulfed in inner mounting flames. I was a young drummer then - this music has never left me.
Birds of fire was my favoured album.
@@imienazwisko9188 birds of fire was my intro album, bought for me boyfriend, but Inner mounting Flame is the piece de resistance - magic!
@@imienazwisko9188
Same 👍
The apex of modern music. It had no place to go but downhill after this. Down it went, and down it goes today
Stop. Just stop already.
John McLaughlin is laughing at you
One Word: Masterpiece!
If anyone tries to tell you there is a greater drummer than Billy, politely smile and walk away.
Buddy Rich and Tony Williams acceptable answers too
Isn't it disappointing so few viewers on this site, such wonderful music. I suppose non-viewers will never no what they've missed.
This is special music for special people...you know you know...
We who listen to this have always been the minority. Nothing new.
Alan , They are the the ones that all lived on the other side of the street not our side.
Not disappointing to me, there is always music timeless like Bach or Coltrane and it has nothing to do with temporalness.
Know they wont
Much better sound than the current youtube postings of this which sound "dulled-down." :-)
Outer limits of professionalism! The best one ever. Rick Laird and Jan Hammer are really cool guys. They speak with you... about anything!
I saw this group live 3 times. I never noticed Billy using the traditional grip backwards before. He's left handed but his teacher Papa Joe Jones told him, "turn that drumset around and play it the RIGHT way".
I'm a righty, I can't image teaching my left foot to play the bass drum parts. But both Billy and Ringo put the bass drum on the less dominant side. Peer pressure can make people learn things they never needed to learn. Gotta say, Billy and Ringo did very very well despite the unnecessary challenge.
All I Could say is Amazing 👏 Awesome 👍 and Great ✌️🥁🎸
great band !!!!! R.I.P. Rick :-(
Powerfull drums, Billy C. Thanks for share.
The bass/drum conversation starting at 2:23 has always been my favorite part. 😌
Billy Cobham's solo may be the GOAT.
Yeah---move over buddy rich.
@@skillet6870
Yep, move over indeed.. Billy in a completely different (higher) class to buddy . imo.
@@Zapple7 And if one thinks his 'One Word' solo is the GOAT, just listen to his solo on 'Tenth Pinn'.
@@skillet6870
..just have... awesome.. undisputed titan of the drums without question.
Saw them in 1974 in Melbourne with the string quartet. Awesome experience. Lots of smoke in there.
Incredible interplay between Cobham and Laird in this video.
I can barely imagine what it must’ve felt like to have seen and heard this for the first time. My god.
R.I.P RICK LAIRD
My head is still spinning ,Total greatness!!!
Amazing, thanks to sharing!
sono 51 anni che mi accompagnano ed ogni volta è come se sentissi per la prima volta questa forza della natura. GRANDI
Possibly the greatest Jazz/Fusion duel of all time. ❤
B.C. is an absolute drum god,one of my all time heroes🥢👌👏👏👏❤️
MO should be taught in every classroom on earth.
Their first album, which was done in a hurry, was their best in terms of composition.
It was also their most exciting and least pretentious.
I equate it to Hendrix’s first record in that regard.
I probably saw the original MO 10 times when I was in and shortly out of high school.
God bless Mahavishnu
Amazing, thank you. AMAZING tones across all instruments but the electric violin strikes me, because at first I thought it was guitar on the record
I thought the same when I very first heard it, years back! These guys are absolutely unbelievable. I think Rick Laird, the bassist, is really underrated!
Mr. Cobham paved the way for us all !!!!!!!!!!!!
Shout to Rick Laird. The rock in a storm. 💪💪💪Sad to hear that he passed.
WTF!!!!!!! INFKNCREDIBLE
My aunt was a yoga teacher, while at her studio I came across this album, I was about 14-15, I had no idea of what I discovered until I took it home and played it, it was like traveling to a traveling into a different universe, and I was, after awhile I had every album they had out,totally changed how I looked at music from then on, just beautiful and mind blowing, Love them and still do, 50 years later, pure ❤ and magic ✌
So cool!! I was so taken with this band! I thought everyone knew who they were! They were on "IN CONCERT"!!
Terrific! The audio waveform for the TV version is entirely missing the treble end, hence its dull sound. If a radio version exists and more of this synchronising for a 'natural sound' is possible, wonderful!
What amazes me is all of the people who listen to Def Leppard, but would not be able to dig this.
Saw a section labeled "Meh Comic Relief" and knew it was gonna be the Bass Solo
RIP Rick Laird. I absolutely have always loved this solo
outstanding job, it reminds us there once was a free thinking television with dedicated producers and technician crews who relayed true musicians' works. Where have all these music lovers gone?
World's Greatest ...
Saw many times first time was Aragon ballroom Chicago, November 3, 1972 I was 17
Je m'attendais pas à trouver cette video ici mille merci pour l'avoir deposé...ici cest fantastique quel pied 👍❤️❤️❤️
Saw them live in NY in 1970's. My hearing was never the same
Fenomenal !!! De otro planeta..5 supermúsicos en accion..se presentable en festivales de rock sin ser rockeros ...todos jazzistas de 1ra clase y fusion ...hacian ver a las otras bandas infantiles...
50yrs ago 😳
My God! From about 3 minutes onward, during the bass solo, this gets so absolutely FUNKY, beyond belief! I don’t remember the LP getting into such a super tight groove… amazing!
Absolutely amazing, showing the power of jazz fusion like no other band…
music a la carte
Very nice camerawork
Merci à la TV française !
That ' Fibre' drumkit looks amazing !
The best sounding drums EVER. Very sharp and punchy. Mydad saw them in Atlanta and said they were the loudest, scariest band he's ever seen. He said Billy's bass drums were literally like cannons.
9:54 Billy Cobham's drumming is so hot, John McLaughling had to cool his hands😅!
Awesome!!!!
Hermoso Gracias!!!!
I love hearing Rick solo Birds of Fire had so much fire in it like Birds of Fire flying too close to Wax Sun Icarus sorry I just went where the music took me another Galaxy
Billy cobham mejor baterista de todos los tiempos y estilos !!! Es de otro planeta
Bei der Schöpfung der Welt, war diese Musik dabei. Auch die Halbgötter die sie spielten war vorgesehen.
so great
Where's Jerry Goodman?
Shredding on violin?
Miss him.
Oh.
There he is.
Kinda letting the bass player shred.
Everyone else is just killing it.
Billy Cobham is just scary good on drums.
So fast.
Love that he has 3 rack toms and 3 floor toms.
So badass.
He made those vista-light acrylic drums work.
And those cymbals are breaking a serious sweat.
Actually?
Those drums are seriously sweating.
Billy's making them work for their money.
Damn Billy.
Fire the camera man who took so long getting over to Jerry for his shredding.
Or the director who was too slow telling his camera man to catch Jerry.
F*cking Jerry matches John's speed on guitar on violin.
Damn dood.
Jerry be killing it.
Wtf?
Just a beast shredding.
On a blue violin no less.
Actually, the whole band is a beast.
M*ther f*cking Mahavishnu Orchestra, baby.
Just shredding.
This is poetry
Oh heck yes! Saw them 3 times, 72 and 73, tore my head off, kicked it into a cosmic basket and put it back. When the set was over people were frozen, they couldn't move, they couldn't speak.
Can't think of any better bands than this...talent unleashed!!!!
@@instantscratchchannel9477 - I don't know about the tiers however I saw Cream twice, Hendrix once and they certainly set the foundations for what came later. Jeff Beck, Return to Forever...the Mahavishnu Orchestra certainly pulled from nearly everything that lead to their existence - Coltrane, Miles, Eastern influences, you name it. Zappa was certainly taken aback despite his "machine gun" remark.
Inégalés !!!
Monstrueux !!
Que des stars !!
I saw them twice on Long Island and first heard their music on rock station 102.7 in the early 70’s. Their music influenced musicians like Jeff Beck and groups like Return to Forever.
Que bueno llegar a este video y oir el "Birds of Fire" disco que llegó hacia mi como un obsequio de parte de un amigo melómano que conocí por la web se llama Rob y es de IOWA. Saludos desde Lima Perú
Otro nivel
very good...............................
Billy is insane.
increíble
Does anyone believe that Billy could play death metal like Suffocation, Cryptopsy or Origin? I don't doubt it. "I feel the Metal Fatigue."
That’s exactly what I thought, I can perfectly listen the influence this had on Atheist, Meshuggah and probably many more in the Avant-Garde and Technical sub-genres of extreme metal
Bill es batería espectacular .el y el bajista suenan como en el disco .los demás improvisando mucho .nose si es más fácil en cuanto ha ejecución.aun así el resultado es buenísimo .una actuación memorable
Very musical.
One big word. About resolution insert i firstly thought it was a "medley" but no - Birds of fire having been edited after. Was it a part of "One Word" in 1972?
"resolution" the never ended tension growing piece of music. I prefer don't understand how they did it.
billy cobham,the goat nuff said
Billy cobham un fenómeno. #2
Holy shit
back when Zildjian made great sounding cymbals...
❤
So much Discipline on display here! Every Musician was spectacular from the get-go, but McLaughlin was pure Shakti - released on this Human plane! The School of Miles Davis turned out a few Pythagorean Wizards!
Holy fuck!
God: Only I can make masterpiece. Mahavishnu Orchestra: Sorry, not any more.
billy cobham drumm'in genius,just say'in
The Mothers of Invention opened for them and afterwards Frank Zappa added Jean Luc Ponty.
After all that a golf clap?
OMG!
THE TIMING,THE BUILD UP TO BECOME ONE, WITH THE MUSIC ,IS AMAZING. PURE GENUIS. WHAT A GREAT BONDING OF THESE MUSICIANS. EACH ONE TO BE AHEAD OF TIME. NO BAND WILL HAVE , THESE MUSICIANS TOGETHER EVER AGAIN. PURE GENUIS.😎🎸🔊🎶🎼☮️ BOB
Yes!