Having fun with "The Inner Mounting Flame" by The Mahavisnhu Orchestra

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I bought this LP at Scotti's in Summit, NJ for $1. I finally decided to listen to it and I couldn't believe how great it was. Then I looked at the record (about halfway through side 2) and I realized at had it at 45 rpm. I switched it back but it was breaking my buzz, so I switched it to 45 again and finished it.

If you have this LP, do yourself a favor and switch it to 45. It sounds like a freakout Mars Volta jam.

― Voodoo Child, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

That's really funny, considering how many people I know who enjoy it at the regular speed.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Unsafe at any speed!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

love that drummin!

― huell howser (chaki), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

The Mars Volta is so much better than John McLaughlin. Tortoise is better than Miles Davis. The Junior Boys are better than New Order. MIA is better than Portishead.

― lyle green, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

For the record, I was just making a dumb Ralph Nader joke. Mahavishnu Orchestra are of course classic.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I dont get the M.I.A./Portishead comparison.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Aerosmith's Rocks LP is an awesome thrash record at 45 rpm.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

I can only listen to this record pitched way up.

Return To Forever is still unlistenable, even pitched up, unless you play it both pitched up and backwards. Then suddenly the chord changes become interesting.

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I've tried a few times to like this album but I've given up, it's not terrible it's just kind of nothingy, boring really

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

You don't even need to speed it up, Billy Cobham prefigured sped-up breakbeats by about two decades. NOT BORING.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Each to his own

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

I've tried with Magma too but can only really get into the live album. Not my bag I suppose.

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I also bought this LP for a dollar, and I don't think I've played it through more than once. It seems like the kind of thing I'd like, but I'm not that into it. The first couple Return to Forever albums are much better.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

There's this one Return to Forever jam called "Earth Juice", it is LE BIZZOMB.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Jean-Luc Ponte on IMF also?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Nah, it's Jerry Goodman all the way.

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Mahavishnu songs that use lots of Eastern harmonies and tritones >>>>>>>>>>>>> Mahavishnu songs that don't

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I think I might prefer The Lost Trident Sessions for sheer group firepower.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I suppose I just don't like all that frantic, playing-a-million-notes-a-minute stuff, especially on electric violin. Give me Don 'Sugarcane' Harris any day of the week!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I suppose I just don't like all that frantic, playing-a-million-notes-a-minute stuff,

I don't either, usually, but when I do, I hit Mahavishnu for my annual fix!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Btw, I had a similar experience listening to a McCoy Tyner record in college (i.e. being stoned and accidentally playing it at 45). Al Foster was on drums and I said to myself, "Holy shit! I never knew that Al could sound like Billy Cobham!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't even particularly like this album (though I am a McLaughlin fan) but I find it very hard to believe that the Mars Volta could even pull off the 33 1/3 version of this record. (I wouldn't mind hearing the album sped up though.)

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

never heard this before today and

it turns out it's the BEST RECORD EVER

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 22 February 2013 02:10 (thirteen years ago)

WTF was I on about re not liking this album??

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 22 February 2013 02:16 (thirteen years ago)

I find it very hard to believe that the Mars Volta could even pull off the 33 1/3 version of this record.

was OTM though

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 22 February 2013 02:17 (thirteen years ago)

defo a fun album

― marc robot (seandalai), Friday, 22 February 2013 02:33 (thirteen years ago)

yeah it's so fucking raging

birds of fire & the live album of that lineup (between nothingness and eternity i think it's called) are really good too

― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 February 2013 02:48 (thirteen years ago)

me otm 7 years ago

― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:57 (thirteen years ago)

The other day I listened to Emergency! and this back to back, I was surprised how much better I liked Inner Mounting Flame. A 45 rpm version would be like drinking way too much coffee.

― Brad C., Friday, 22 February 2013 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

yeah i can't imagine

― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Friday, 22 February 2013 15:11 (thirteen years ago)

although it reminds me of smoking weed in college and listening to mccoy tyner's "quartets 4x4" on 45 without realizing it, and sitting there thinking "holy shit, al foster sounds just like billy cobham!".

― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Friday, 22 February 2013 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

i had Birds of Fire on LP (the record store guy said it was very good plus it had a cool cover = SOLD) and heard it was "Jazz Fusion" so my thought then was "alright, I'm a jazz guy now" when what I was really listening to was more akin to King Crimson minus the singer

― frogbs, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

"You Know You Know" destroys just about everything in its path. The live version on youtube is so good.

― Johnny Hotcox, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

Hmm, I only have birds of fire (which is great) and apocalypse (which I didn't enjoy so much). might check this out today.

― wins rules at negative self-demolition (wins), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:27 (thirteen years ago)

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