This is what I listened to almost every day when I was 14+. Billy Cobham's finest hour I think is the duet he has with McLaughlin in the mid section. He is a horrifyingly good drummer.
But the truly wonderful part is when the band falls back into a loping funk based on the second section of the tune, as if a fever had broken (towards the end of the following):
Never understood why they had that bass player. He wasn't in the same league as the rest of the band, Keeping up with Cobham is nearly impossible, and Jan Hammer could play his parts with his left hand. If Hammer wasn't so gung-ho on the Fender Rhodes and played something like the RMI, this would have been even more obvious. I sometimes wonder what Mahavishnu would have sounded like with say, Hugh Hopper...
Never understood why they had that bass player. He wasn't in the same league as the rest of the band, Keeping up with Cobham is nearly impossible, and Jan Hammer could play his parts with his left hand. If Hammer wasn't so gung-ho on the Fender Rhodes and played something like the RMI, this would have been even more obvious. I sometimes wonder what Mahavishnu would have sounded like with say, Hugh Hopper...
ReplyDeleteYes,that portion around 7:40 still evokes the same emotional release after 47 years
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