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Sorry about the pictures! They showed up when I pasted them in. Let me try again

I'm actually not that familiar with this era myself, but the Mudd Club date is pretty excellent. Maybe because it's Zappa ... in a NYC club! A very tight unit he had there.

A couple of "action" shots from Sunday's Zorn shows. 1) Cobra, 2) New Electric Masada

Perhaps a little insight ... Posted by Malcolm Bruce “The following footage of LIFETIME has apparently just surfaced from the Beat Club archives. I’m wondering if there is more, although my understanding is that these in studio sessions were limited to 30 minutes. This was my Dad’s favourite band that he was involved with, for so many reasons I understand that notion, the sheer musical potential between them was self evident. Unfortunately it seems nobody really ‘got’ the concept, especially the industry. This I believe was the 2nd iteration, the first being a trio with just Tony, John and Larry, which without wishing to detract from them, was essentially a more conventional albeit avant-garde group. With the inclusion of my Dad it became something completely unprecedented. It was a time when real musicians who could actually play desired to be like rock stars as opposed to being pigeonholed by an industry devoid of insight into the potentialities of music making. And I’m not sure spiritually we have advanced since then, in fact I think we have regressed. Also, from the comments section: apparently some footage was shown in episode 61 of Beat Club, of McLaughlin rolling his eyes and the band stopping mid play, with presenter Uschi Nerke telling the viewers, ”Lifetime have behaved so badly and arrogantly in the studio that the work didn’t lead to any presentable results and had to be cancelled.” Read into that what we will, but I do hope there is more from this studio recording. The only other recording I have encountered from this lineup playing live is an audience recording from one of their U.K. shows (of which there were only a handful, some I believe booked by the late great Stuart Lyon) and it’s essentially unlistenable.”

Coincidentally I was just listening to THIS

SFJAZZ had an open house today and we were allowed backstage to see what it's like. One of the walls is lined with signed drum heads from those who played there

This is unbelievable! This high quality footage was just posted by Jack Bruce’s Twitter account of the Tony Williams Lifetime w/Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin and Larry Young. I never expected to see anything like this. Enjoy!

I wish Berne would come out to SF more often. He probably hasn't been here for at least 5 years. I asked him about that a while back and I think he has trouble finding venues for his brand of jazz.

Big Zorn Fest in town this weekend. I'm going to 2 shows: Cobra and Electric Masada. Saw him do Cobra at Big Ears this year - totally outrageous! Looking forward to this one, for SURE.

Good way, for sure!

Same ... 👍

Very much like a 21st Century Fairport Convention

Main Steam Stop Valve by mssv

Wow! Can't wait!

Looking forward to seeing it here in SF in a few weeks. Saw it at Big Ears in March and it was amazing!

Last night. Not exactly a concert, but I saw Stanley Clarke interviewed by Marcus Shelby at SFJAZZ. Very interesting and funny, as well!

I saw them in 72 opening for Poco, but I don't remember anything about it now. Saw LaFlamme about 5 years later with an IABD-like band and I remember they were pretty good.

On my calendar!

RIP David LaFlamme

He was very good with Tarbaby and David Murray at Big Ears earlier this year