Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Oct 30, 2026
Jim MotavalliHOST
And they were fanatically successful at this.
Jim MotavalliHOST
And my high school hosted shows by Cream, The Doors, Eric Burden and the Animals, Buddy Miles Express, John, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Taj Mahal, all these people.
Jim MotavalliHOST
And the two people who did this, you know, after they graduated, one became the biggest DJ in Great Britain, Paul Gambaccini.
Jim MotavalliHOST
He's very well known there.
Bob LefsetzHOST
Then, of course, we had Weather Report.
Bob LefsetzHOST
We had the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Bob LefsetzHOST
What is the status of both? You said you're not really a jazz guy.
Bob LefsetzHOST
We put jazz at extreme.
Dylan TriggGUEST
And that is certainly something that phenomenology has a lot to say on in various ways, especially in and through our lived body to to pick up on a theme that is very dear to the philosopher I mentioned in these notes, Merleau-Ponty.
Matt WhyteHOST
Merleau-Ponty, who I want to point out, since I've already referenced progressive music, shares a French hyphen with the Mahavishnu Orchestra violinist Jean-Luc Ponty.
Dylan TriggGUEST
Yes.
Dylan TriggGUEST
I'm a big fan of him, actually.
Richie MoralesGUEST
And, uh, Naturally, because he's the son of Dave, we played a lot of music in our time signatures.
Richie MoralesGUEST
We used to copy the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Richie MoralesGUEST
We would try to play those kinds of songs.
Richie MoralesGUEST
We played a lot in our time signatures.
Billy CorganHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Billy CorganHOST
Or Maha Vishnu, for God's sake.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
I've recently rediscovered Billy.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
You know, people ask, you know, who's my favorite drummer? It's always Mitch Mitchell.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
One day I just landed, you know, on the Spotify, cursed be its name.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
I landed on some Maha Vishnu.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
Okay, okay, okay.
Stewart CopelandGUEST
Give it up, Billy.
Bob BeattyHOST
He's a terrific storyteller.
Bob BeattyHOST
He is one of those people who introduced me to Mahavishnu Orchestra and John McLaughlin, but that is not the topic of the conversation.
Bob BeattyHOST
Today, the topic of the conversation is specifically Woodstock, his experience at Woodstock with his now wife, Camille, who makes several appearances.
Bob BeattyHOST
Bring Gary back, along with Tom Pragliola, who's also sat at the crossroads for this interview, and we will talk a little bit about Woodstock on a future episode.
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Cliff PearsonHOST
76 saw the release of The Last Album by a Mahavishnu orchestra for quite some time.
Cliff PearsonHOST
The album, of course, is Inner Worlds and features Narada Michael Walden, who we mentioned earlier.
Cliff PearsonHOST
Here is The Way of the Pilgrim.
Cliff PearsonHOST
¶¶ The Way of the Pilgrim by Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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Cliff PearsonHOST
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's album The Roaring Silence came out in 76.
Matthew RonayGUEST
The reason I really wanted...
Matthew RonayGUEST
I mean, I was already, like, a huge Miles fan, but I was really, like, super into jazz fusion, and, like, while I was in grad school, like, listening a lot to, like, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report and... like all the Billy Cobham stuff and I don't know.
Brian AlfredHOST
It's funny, sometimes I play that stuff when I'm teaching and the students think it's smooth jazz, like they have no
Matthew RonayGUEST
Yeah, concepts of
Gabriel Akhmad MarinGUEST
Yeah, I thought I was going to be a rock star when I was young because I looked the part and I was really good and I was really good at the bands and I had an unbelievable band and I wrote really great rock music and that was where I was going to go.
Gabriel Akhmad MarinGUEST
Then I heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra, you know john mclaughlin intermountain flame in junior or senior year of high school and it just sent my whole world into a different direction you know and then it took me a couple years to really but that was the first thing and then by i went into college i'm gonna be like a rock star guy and i was lucky enough to meet the guys and form the band that i've been in that's been the weird instrumental fusion band you know we met in college And by the end of college, I was in the band that I'm still in now.
David EllenbogenHOST
But that's kind of a rock star band.
David EllenbogenHOST
I mean, you guys have a big...
Pablo HeldHOST
I can't think in 13. you know
Wendy EisenbergGUEST
yeah well it's weird I can't really think in 11 9 I can think in because 9 is compound in a certain way but like I can think in 13 but that's just because I had this guitar teacher really young like at a summer camp like not like my main person who was really into like the song I Wish by Mahavishnu Orchestra and so that one was in 13 and so I like kind of that I learned it when I was like 13 or something myself so it's just kind of like in there mm-hmm But every other one, I'm just like,
Wendy EisenbergSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I don't know.
Wendy EisenbergGUEST
And also, like, I love to lop off a beat.
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