Is this the only song from that concert that is recorded? Hope they release more.
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Previously unseen Jack/Tony Williams Lifetime
- Thread starter Michedelic
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It wasn’t a concert, just a TV studio appearance, no audience, on a long-running German music showcase program. There’s a additional brief clip of them messing around, with the hostess Uschi commenting over it that they were not going to be featured on the episode they were slated for due to bad behavior. I have no idea what happened, but that single long clip was all that was recorded for the show but apparently never aired.
Great clip, thanks for posting! I saw Lifetime twice, once in the late 60s and in again in 1970 both times at Ungano's in New York City. First time as a trio and the second with Jack. Tiny club, they were one of the most intense and loudest bands I ever saw. At the show with Jack both he and John were playing through double Marshall stacks and Larry had a stack of Sunn amps. It was loud and it was relentless!
What struck me is how McLaughlin was using the situation for mapping out ideas for Mahavishnu, although he was also doing that with the Devotion album around that time.
This was also about the time period of Escalator Over the Hill
I can remember Jack Bruce stating that Lifetime failed because of the business issues not because the musicians wanted to end the band…
Who knows where it would have gone.
I can remember Jack Bruce stating that Lifetime failed because of the business issues not because the musicians wanted to end the band…
Who knows where it would have gone.
It might have gone on for another year, maybe not. Jack was always moving forward, he already had one solo album out, and was gearing up for the next one; that tune was labeled “A Famous Blues”, but it was really his “Smiles and Grins” under development. McLaughlin too had other plans…there was that snippet of “The Dance Of Maya” going on, and in that general time period he was already working with Billy Cobham and Jerry Goodman on the My Goal’s Beyond album.
Then, yes, the Carla Bley stuff, pretty out there, but he was just a guest. The West, Bruce, and Laing stuff, I don’t know…while there was that Cream/Mountain connection, I myself was pretty disappointed with it(same with BBA, which came out around the same time). In both cases, a step backwards just when that sort of thing was getting tired. I just thought of it as a bill paying maneuver.
It was sad that Jack’s solo band with Bley, Mick Taylor, and the others didn’t record, but Williams moved on, scooped up Holdsworth for a while, and bassist Tony Newton was pretty hot.
Jack was one of about five people on earth who could sing that melody. Just amazing.
And Tony Williams! Wow!!
