More Mahavishnu Orchestra today and more of what Marc Yeats has called their “frenzy” which I always find so deliriously exhilarating. The piece shown above is intended to replicate the whirling rush as one is drawn in tumbling as into a vortex. All driven by astonishing machine like drumming of Billy Cobham and punctuated by the staccato guitar licks of McLaughlin himself. For me this is no intellectual adventure. Sometimes there’s no need for an explanation. It’s purely and thrillingly visceral…
Awakening, Mahavishnu Orchestra
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