Track Listing

1. Trilogy: The Sunlit Path/La Mere De La Mer/Tomorrow's Story Not The Same
2. Sister Andrea
3. Dream

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97894 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Power, Beauty & Passion
As we are approaching the 35th anniversary of this recording, I thought this might be a good time to reflect on my feelings about this performance in Central Park, NYC in 1973. As one reviewer said at the time..."the music must have stopped a few muggers in their tracks"...is totally appropriate. The original MO certainly changed my life...forever. I personally saw them only once...Princeton, NJ in late 1973...three months after this recording. Sidenote: Chick Corea's Return To Forever opened for MO at this show...featuring Bill Connors on guitar. Tickets were $4.00...those were the days...yes indeed. No need to get into the superlatives about the level of MO's musicianship...intricate compositions...innovations...etc...they have all been beautifully articulated by the other reviewers of this and other MO recordings. What I do want to simply say is that this music continues to reverberate in my consciousness in 2008...it opened artistic doors that I didn't even know existed. John McLaughlin has always been a musical visionary...starting with Extrapolation...ending to where he eventually winds up. It's a beautiful...fantastic...journey.

Final sidenote to fans: check out some of the unauthorized recordings of the original MO on the net...OMG...

between nothingness and eternity
the more time goes on, the more i appreciate the original m.o.; each musician was a show-stopper in himself. this is one terrific recording. if you can't get enuff of this, try to dig up the live m.o. bootlegs they made at berkeley, hunter college, cleveland and miami - they are available if you spend some time looking.

Bliis-filled Memories
I was there. Both nights at the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park; 15th row, center aisle. To this day, it remains one of the most beautiful and most powerful live performances that I have ever seen. Only one other show by the Mahavishnu Orchestra ever matched it for both sheer virtuosity and that special spark between all of the players and that was at the Capital Theatre in Passaic and I saw that too. This album is as close to your getting share such a memory with me as we can get; most of the stuff on YouTube is in sad condition, but still worth a peek. This, on the other hand, is crisp. The only glitch to the recording is when Jan's keyboard head blew and that long space in Dream comes from the road crew having to get a new one in place. How's THAT for memory? LOL!!! Yes, this is Lost Trident Live, but it also has pieces from Like Children (c'mon, Sony, release that chestnut!). A "must" for fusion lovers. Sat Nam!