# Previously unreleased footage of Mahavishnu Orchestra from 1973 **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617 **Category:** General Music Discussion **Created:** [November 24, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617 "2025-11-24T04:24:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 5 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Riffdiculous](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@Riffdiculous](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Riffdiculous) #### Post date: [November 24, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617/1 "2025-11-24T04:24:48Z")
_Excellent_ shots of John throughout, and everyone is on fire, of course. So cool that this little treasure can now be seen. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gxd9cFm5xsY/maxresdefault.jpg "Mahavishnu Orchestra - Live in Chicago, IL (February 18th, 1973) - Super 8 Film") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxd9cFm5xsY) ---
### Author: ![Twangsta](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/twangsta/32/13618_2.png) [@Twangsta](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Twangsta) #### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617/2 "2025-11-25T15:32:21Z")
Wow, good audio and everybody is on fire indeed. Sparks flying. ---
### Author: ![Troy](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/troy/32/3_2.png) [@Troy](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Troy) #### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617/3 "2025-11-25T17:40:12Z")
Great find! John is basically the archetypal reverse dart DSX-er. ---
### Author: ![garbeaj](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/58f4c7/32.png) [@garbeaj](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/garbeaj) #### Post date: [November 30, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617/4 "2025-11-30T15:42:59Z")
I saw this when Gary Husband posted it…absolutely amazing! I was struck by how much Jeff Beck must have been totally inspired by John in this era…the way John inserts those left hand Index finger quick whole step bends in the middle of the shredding-Beck didn’t do that before this and then he did it thereafter. He does it all over ‘Blow By Blow’ and the BBC footage with the Upp band and then that became a Beck move until his dying day. John certainly did have an epiphany or multiple epiphanies after playing with Miles…he was pretty much playing straight bebop in The Graham Bond Organization and later. Even when he got with Miles and Zawinul for ‘In a Silent Way’, he was doing these “zen” one note things…by ‘Bitches Brew’ there was an explosion and then he became what we know him to be. And Beck and everyone else took notice! This is a remarkable document…I can’t stop watching it. Very much like the ‘78 footage of Van Halen that fell out of the sky a while back-“Re-play, jaw-drop. Re-play, jaw-drop.” Ad infinitum. I love this. ---
### Author: ![Sully75](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/sully75/32/328_2.png) [@Sully75](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Sully75) #### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/previously-unreleased-footage-of-mahavishnu-orchestra-from-1973/92617/5 "2025-12-28T16:06:55Z")
That is really awesome, thank you! In the dumbest way possible this has made me think about getting a double neck guitar. I’ve never seen someone use it so musically…I guess meaning someone who was improvising with it vs copying parts from an album originally done on an acoustic. Since I’m a luthier, I’ll probably have to make one ☹ But making an ultralight double neck would be a cool project.