3. Mahavishnu OrchestraThe Inner Mounting Flame
My first memory of jamming with Mark Ronson was sitting and trying to figure out a song called ‘You Know, You Know’ from this album. We were just having a bit of fun, but we played that song for two hours straight. Of all the Mahavishnu records this is the least produced, there’s only five of them if you include the violin player.
This record really changed my life, it opened my brain musically. I found this through Bitches Brew [on which Mahavishnu Orchestra’s John McGlaughlin plays guitar]. I’d read the Miles Davis autobiography Miles while I was in high school. I didn’t know anything about his music, I’d just read the book because it was there, but it got me into listening to jazz, and once I’d started listening to Bitches Brew every day, that got me into listening to Mahavishnu. It was a direct line of following the breadcrumbs of who played on what album you get into all sorts of stuff, a spiderweb of musicians.
