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DAVEROCK-loved the Lost Trident Sessions reference. For some reason, my 13 year old Beatles, Grand Funk, Black Sabbath loving self started listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra. Birds Of Fire was the album. Was mystified back then, still love it today. The follow-up album to that was Between Nothingness And Eternity, a live album with 3 songs-42 minutes total time. The 3 songs on the live album were not on Birds Of Fire nor the debut Mahavishnu album.
When Lost Trident Sessions finally came out, Lo & Behold, there were the 3 songs from the Live album!! Along with a small handful of other great tunes. I still prefer the live versions, but that’s just me, Live music is the best music.
To wrap up this (admittedly, non G. Dead) story, Columbia records released a series of “complete Columbia” boxes maybe 20 years ago. Dylan, Miles, and many more. Mahavishnu was one, and there was an extra live album in that box, kind of like Disc 2 of the first live album. How I do love/treasure this CD. In fact, I’m off to play it right now!!
Thanks to all on this site for your patience. We have both similar & dissimilar musical tastes, but that’s a highlight for me. What I’ve also taken note of about y’all is this. Most folks here have a brilliant sense of humor. That’s what keeps us together.
Cheers!!

Edit/P.S. I was lucky enough to catch the aforementioned McLaughlin/Herring guitar-o-rama show. Good God, so magical. I bought 2 Jimmy Herring cds in the lobby, both excellent. One has a fantastic George Harrison cover. I’ll probably play these 2 after the Live Mahavishnu.

Istshow - that "Lost Trident Sessions" album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra is great - very powerful. As you probably know, the tracks on this were recorded in 1973 for a possible third album, and then languished in the vaults for about 25 years. I am not that discerning when it comes to fusion, as it used to be called, but to me it's definitely as good as "Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire".
I was going to say about Jimmy Herring playing on a live cd called "Live in San Francisco" - and have just read Alavarhanso's post. I knew nothing about this and ( say it quietly) don't know who Jimmy Herring is - but it looks worth checking out.

HF - well the Allmans were clearly worth seeing live in 1973, going off this set. I notice there are a few "grey area" live shows from this years available. One of them - Cow Palace 12/31/73, features Jerry, as you would obviously already know. Also, of course, they played at some of the big 1973 summer shows with The Dead. In fact, as I understand it, they may have unintentionally made it more difficult to release those shows officially through getting up to jam. A real pity - great bands at the top of their game on the same show.....but never a good idea to have lead guitarists from different bands jamming with each other on old blues/rock n' roll staples. I can't think of a single one I would want to hear more than once. Or once, now, having heard what they get up to.
Blimey - I just seem to have talked myself out of getting Cow Palace 12/31/73.

Nick1234 - that's exactly what happened to me listening to this Allman Brothers set based on "Brothers and Sisters". I have heard it before, and thought it was alright - but when I played it again earlier this week it was like a revelation. Makes me wonder what else I've got up there.

listening to a record you've played hundreds of times before and you just can't believe what you're hearing? It happened to me yesterday with In a Silent Way. Totally blew me away. Not my wife however. 'What on earth is that crap you're listening to now?' she asked. She doesn't like jazz, sounds sleazy she says. I love her anyway.

Great Britain won the 1936 Ice Hockey Olympic gold medal. Maybe we should try to get into it a bit more over here. Or maybe not 🙂.

An obscure one, on a classic TV show filled with obscure ones. He's a wealthy philanthropist who bankrolls a multi-specialty scientific research outfit from University of Michigan (the Dharma Initiative) that conducts experiments on the island the plane crashes on. The avatar is an image online of that character, though he's never seen that clearly on the show, and is only mentioned maybe twice. The numbers on it are the numbers that play a significant role over the course of the series. But my buddy and I used to watch Lost and jam as I was learning the bass. We'd often have the projector showing it while we jammed. We even learned a theme from it, and called the band Alvar Hanso & the Dharma Initiative. We weren't the only ones with that idea as we found out there was a band in the Virginia Beach area called The Dharma Initiative. Like the Spanish Inquisition, I bet you weren't expecting that response!

For the record: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their chief weapon after all, is surprise. Surprise, and fear. Their two chief weapons are surprise and fear. And an almost fanatical devotion to the pope. Amongst their weaponry...

....I've been meaning to ask for a while what your avatar means.
And your username.
Vguy came from my GD touring days. Stands for Vegas Guy and my name is Vince, so my crew back then gave me that nickname.
And no. It's not Vagina Guy, which I was usually trolled with re gaming lol. Kids these daze.
I changed my username on PS. Got so old. $10 well spent.
Although, I do enjoy the V. So those kids weren't entirely wrong. They're just jealous.
Boston got 135 pts this season and the "lowly" Panthers forced a game 7. Prez Cup curse incoming again?

Scooter Herring and Jimmy Herring aren't related as far as I know. Jimmy is from Fayetteville, NC, and was just learning Frank Zappa stuff on guitar about the time Gregg testified against Scooter. That was the incident, by the way, that strained relations between the Dead and the ABB for a long time. It put a strain on relations in the ABB for a while, too, which didn't need much help by the mid-70s.

The Jimmy Herring/John McLaughlin Meeting of the Spirits Tour in 2017 was amazing. They put out a single disc of the combined Mahavishnu set from one of the nights in San Francisco that is representative of what I saw. And there's a video of a livestream of the whole concert of one from the Capitol Theatre on that tour on youtoobs. Jimmy Herring and the Invisible Whip for a set (including a ripping Les Brers in A Minor by the ABB), John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension for a set, then all 9 musicians together for a set of Mahavishnu material that McLaughlin largely didn't play for decades. So good. I took my pastor at the time, gifting him tickets for Pastor Appreciation. But he was next door neighbors to Jimmy growing up, and still remembers when Jimmy got his first guitar for Christmas. So, that was pretty cool to see him have his mind and ears blown by those guys.

Can't wait for DaP 46. Hoping the meat of the Bonus is the He's Gone> Other One> Stella Blue from 9/19. Don't care if repetitive, they have their own flavors. Would take another Bird Song, too, if that's available.

....is playing on xm now. Channel 29 if anyone cares. If not, just be kind and scroll on by and don't be an asshole. All my homies hate assholes.

...To speculate about DP 47...?
I'd love an 85 release, how about Hershey 6-28-85 or 4-8-85?
For a box set how about a themed release instead of a venue release? I'd like a New Year's Box... 12-31-69, 12-31-70, 12-31-71 & 12-31-72
Got my shipping notice and have been binging on 72 Dead in honor of what's coming soon... recent playlist includes:
- Download Series #10 7-21-72 and partial 7-22
- Dave's #24 8-25-72
- Sunshine Daydream 8-27-72
- Dicks 23 9-17-72
- Dicks 36 9-21-72
On Deck:
- 9-24-72 from 30 Trips
- Dicks 11 9-27-72
Then I'll be ready for #46

All this talk of 80s Frost shows brings back good memories. Frost Amp box set, anyone?

I forgot all about those 'filler' tracks on DiP 36! Thanks to whoever called that out. I haven't listened to that in forever. That's an outstanding 50 minutes of live firepower. Makes me all the more excited to get DaP 46, and speaking of which, the 'shipped' notice just hit my inbox this afternoon... I'm guessing I'll take delivery on Wednesday May 3.

4/28. I was actually thinking of that final weekend of April in 1991 at UNLV. That weekend was one long party from front to end...

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