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THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL CD COVER!
The original CD cover is visible here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Trident_Sessions#Track_listing
And here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yrarqjkloj0a
Song Title: Steppings Tones (Track No. 5)
Composer: Rick Laird
Playing Time: 3:11
Album Title: The Lost Trident Sessions
Artist: Mahavishnu Orchestra
Recording Date: June 25, 1973
Released: 1999
Label: Columbia/Legacy and Sony
Total Playing Time: 39:44
Genre: Jazz-Rock
Styles: Fusion, Jazz-Rock
AMG Album ID: R 430407
Releases Other Editions:
Year Type Label Catalog #
1999 CD Columbia/Legacy 65959
1999 CD Columbia/Legacy 65959
2001 CD Jazz 65959
Review by Richie Unterberger
Recorded in London on June 25, 1973, these sessions for a planned third Mahavishnu Orchestra album were shelved when the band decided to put out the live Between Nothingness and Eternity instead. Bootlegged in the past, two-track mixes of the missing album were discovered in the vaults in the late 1990s, paving the way for its official release in 1999. It’s thus the last of the three studio albums done by the original Mahavishnu lineup (with Cobham on drums, Goodman on violin, Hammer on keyboards and Laird on bass). Although McLaughlin had been the only composer on the first two Mahavishnu albums, he penned only of the six tracks here, with Hammer writing two and Laird pitching in one. It’s fiery, if perhaps over-busy at times, fusion, McLaughlin reaching his most feverish pitches in the frenetic concluding passage of the ten-minute “Trilogy.” The numbers written by other members than McLaughlin tend to be a little more subdued, and perhaps unsurprisingly less inclined toward burning guitar solos.
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