Talk:The Inner Mounting Flame

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The band was electric, right? Were all their instruments, including the violin (which does sound metallic) and the percussion, electric?

Yes, everything was electric.-FeralCats

Well some tracks like 'A Lotus on Irish Streams' and 'Thousand Island Park' are entirely acoustic. Drums/percussion were acoustic as far as I know. -McYaballow

Sloppy!
I bought this album thinking "I've heard these guys are good, this is going to be a treat," but this is so sloppy, and so masterbatory. Just because you have chops, doesn't mean you should play fast all the time. The difference between this and say, Jean-Luc Ponty's mid-70s work (Aurora, Enigmatic Ocean) is: Ponty's band is equally as talented, they play actual songs with actual melodies, and they are tight and well-practiced. This album is embarrassing...and McLaughlin should never have produced it. They should have had an outside producer, a perfectionist, to whoop their butts into shape. I am glad that Dream Theatre listened to Maiden, Rush, and Yes, and didn't base their influences on this. I don't understand how something so meandering, sloppy, and self-indulgent could either sell so much or garner so much praise. A true mystery to me. 65.248.164.214 (talk) 16:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

You really need to give it more spins. It might not appeal to someone who likes boring, machinistic music like Dream Theater, but there is a lot going on here musically that you don't acknowledge. What you perceive as "sloppiness" is really a part of the appeal (in my opinion); it's dirty and rough around the edges like good rock music. I think that much of the "jazz fusion" and prog rock of the 70s and 80s (and especially a band like Dream Theater) really missed that balance. They might have had interesting music and talented instrumentalists, but for a style of music that was supposed to incorporate "rock" influences, a lot of the music in this genre lacks balls and sounds stiff. Maha got the balance right on this album and that's why it is second to none. Let's see Dream Theater write a groove like "Vital Transformation!" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.180.82.17 (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

65.248.164.214 just got his shit FUCKED UP. dream theatre is awful.

Correct Track Titles
I corrected two titles recently. One was later undone. I had changed "Meeting of the Spirits" to "Meetings of the Spirit". An anonymous user undid that change. My change was based on the listing from the original Columbia release. Can anyone explain why the current text "Meeting of the Spirits" should be considered correct? If not, I would like to put my change back. Wantnot (talk) 11:34, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Spotify has the track as "Meeting of the Spirits" as does the Amazon track listing, as does the book "Follow Your Heart - John MacLaughlin song by song". I have not dug the vinyl out of the basement to crosscheck. Maybe an entry such as "Meeting of the Spirits" (listed as "Meetings of the Spirit" on the original Columbia LP)?

More curious to me is the attribution to The Mahavishnu Orchestra when every copy of the album I've seen it's The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John MacLaughlin. Daddylight (talk) 19:31, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I have checked the title on my vinyl - didn´t have to go to the basement - and it´s "Meeting of the Spirits". So it is correct. --Cdl obelix (talk) 17:18, 16 April 2014 (UTC)