Prog Synch Listen: Mahavishnu Orchestra: Not Nothingness

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Wikipedia:

The Lost Trident Sessions is a studio album by jazz fusion group the Mahavishnu Orchestra, released on 21 September 1999 through Sony Music Entertainment. It was originally recorded in June 1973 at Trident Studios but was not released until 26 years later. According to the album's detailed liner notes, in November 1998 Columbia Records producer Bob Belden stumbled upon two quarter-inch tapes in Columbia's Los Angeles vault whilst gathering material for a remastered reissue of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1973 album Birds of Fire. The tapes were otherwise unlabelled besides the recording location, but upon further inspection, they were revealed to be the two-track mixes for what would have been the Mahavishnu Orchestra's third studio album at the time.

Guitarist John McLaughlin told gig - The Music Magazine in 1977:

McLaughlin feels that the Orchestra was never recorded at their peak. "There is a studio album that never got released which is really good", he explains. It would have been their third studio album, following Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire. "But at the time the record was being made, emotion in the band was running so high that people could no longer see clearly. Everyone felt nervous about it". Why? "I don't know why". And McLaughlin did not pursue it either: "When the people in the band told me how they felt, I respected it. I didn't ask them to explain why they felt it. That was enough. So we put a live album out (Between Nothingness and Eternity) which was good, but it wasn't on the same level. But one day I'd like the album to come out. It's a great album".

With the exception of "John's Song #2", all compositions on this album were performed on other albums. The Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1973 live album, Between Nothingness and Eternity, consisted entirely of songs from the Trident sessions: "Dream", "Trilogy" and "Sister Andrea." Violinist Jerry Goodman and keyboardist Jan Hammer performed "I Wonder" and "Steppings Tones" on their 1974 album Like Children.

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Evening/afternoon all

The 'lost' third album

Lovely intro






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Good evening/afternoon!


I raise my glass to wish you good health & happiness, also as a toast to absent friends.


*chink*

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To absent friends

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Jerry and John - delightful start




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I raise my glass to wish you good health & happiness, also as a toast to absent friends.


*chink*

Not 'arf JJ!

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What a bunch of virtuosos...?

Stunning line-up





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Very confident opening!

And hello all! (fellow proggers)

...and absent friends indeed!

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Are you familiar with this album JJ?




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Evening/afternoon all

The 'lost' third album

Lovely intro






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Isn't it.



Somewhat oddly this was the first Mahavishnu album that I bought, though I had some solo McLaughlin & Shakti.

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Very confident opening!

And hello all! (fellow proggers)

...and absent friends indeed!

Chris lad - welcome!!

This album is a corker

Listen to those tubs - what a powerhouse Cobham is





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Apparently King Crimson 1972 were listening closely to this lot!

Most bands would KILL to have this stuff on their best album - this lot left it in the can for decades!

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Delicious touches abounding.

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This is just so innovative.

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Somewhat oddly this was the first Mahavishnu album that I bought

Now that is interesting!

Although Jean-Luc was a better violinist then Jerry - I prefer the earlier Goodman albums.

Nobody is as good as Ponty!

Riff Riff!






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This is just so innovative.

Incredible stuff Chris - have you got any Mahavishnu albums?






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Somewhat oddly this was the first Mahavishnu album that I bought

Jean-Luc was a better violinist then Jerry - I prefer the earlier Goodman albums.





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I like both. A lot.

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Apparently King Crimson 1972 were listening closely to this lot!

That makes a great deal of sense.


Stirring stuff - emotionally and mentally satisfying - in that regard similar to Bach.

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They fire on all 5 cylinders

They are so together

Sorry, to mention it again - but Billy's tubs are to die for

Just listen to that!!




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Somewhat oddly this was the first Mahavishnu album that I bought

Jean-Luc was a better violinist then Jerry - I prefer the earlier Goodman albums.





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I like both. A lot.

Indeed my learned friend but I have areal soft spot for Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire

Perhaps when I first heard their first album, at the time, it just blew me away - I'd never heard anything like it







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This is just so innovative.

Incredible stuff Chris - have you got any Mahavishnu albums?






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Have I!

not 'arf.

Mahavishnu, Shakti, John Mc solo and with Santana, Billy Cobham, Jean-Luc solo...