Mahavishnu Orchestra’s March 1972 performance at the Whiskey a Go-Go captures the fusion ensemble at peak intensity, just months after John McLaughlin’s electric violin-driven debut reshaped jazz-rock. The Los Angeles set documents the group’s intricate interplay between McLaughlin’s searing guitar, Jan Hammer’s cascading keyboards, and Billy Cobham’s polyrhythmic drumming—a blueprint for fusion that would dominate the decade. Raw, unpolished, and propulsive.