Mahavishnu

[KJung]

Originally Posted by Richland123

Same with Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; especially with their Pictures At An Exhibition album.



John Scofield went in that way too many effects mode as well. I saw him live a about twelve years ago and he bored the audience to the point where people were falling asleep with his spacey overloaded guitar effects where you could not distinguish the notes he was playing and it was lots of slow music.

On a side note, my current drummer was at Berklee College of Music the same time John Scofield was there and he said he was a fantastic player back then. He also had Greg Hawkes and Elliot Easton as classmates before they formed The Cars and he said they were both incredible players as well.

+1 Luckily, Sco has really gotten back to just good old guitar in the past 10 years or so. Saw him a number of times, just a 335 or whatever that is that he plays through an amp. Sounded great. His Ray Charles tribute CD, along with the couple groove things he did with Modeski, Martin and Woods are GREAT!

I agree... hard to listen to his classic 'Loud Jazz' for me at this point.

[N.F.A.]

Originally Posted by Roscoe East

Just to clarify: Early Gong, when Daevid Allen was in the band, was certainly archetypal Canterbury Scene prog (which in a way makes it rather distinctly different from the more common Yes/Genesis/King Crimson school of prog-rock )

...but by the mid-70s after Pierre Moerlin had assumed the reigns of the band, Gong was definitely a full-on jazz-rock fusion band. Albums like Gazeuse! (aka Expresso) and Time Is The Key have way more in common with the music of Brand X, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Return To Forever than they do with Pink Floyd or Emerson Lake & Palmer.

Thanks for the clarification. I saw them live in the late 70's and IIRC they were being billed as "Pierre Moerlen's Gong". (I may still have the concert ticket somewhere!) Gazeuse is still among my most often-played cd's.

[Diesel Kilgore]

Tons of great material here fellas. Thanks for taking the thread and running with it. The fusion passion runs strong!

[zcwilkes]

I know exactly of you feel. I just discovered the Mahavistnu Orchestra through my drummer friend (we sit around and just talk music all the time) not to long ago and I was blown away. I had weather report and return to forever stuff but never listened to them. I was like where have you been my whole life, lol.

[bluewine]

I dismissed John & his orchestra the first time I heard them sometime back in the early 70s when I was a teenager.

It was like someone had taken me to an opera or the ballet.

It was over my head then and it's over my head now, 40 years later.

I'm not "hating" or saying I don't like John. Merely an aptitude issue.

Blue