I’ve been listening to this amazing album for 50 years and there is nothing else quite like it in recorded history. Always exciting, never gets boring. Miles is on fire and the rest of the band are in a zone so in synch with Miles it’s beyond belief.

UK 1970 press is rather muddy sounding.
whats the consensus on best vinyl pressing?
the compilations "The Horn 1956 -1983" & "Prince Of Darkness" both have individual tracks in excellent quality
Is there a MDAF vinyl pressing that sounds that good or is this album best heard on CD? and yes, i still listen to this album even after the complete concerts were released, I value both as seperate listening experiences. I don't think of MDAF as just an inferior heavily cut down version of the concerts, more a reimagining with some inspired cut & paste by Teo Macero. I love the part of Wednesday Miles when the fragment of Bitches Brew inserted into Directions flips to manic thrashing.
the CD is pretty cheap nowadays so pick it up and judge for yourselves.

All these years later its still not common practise to treat a live recording in this manner, unless the project is explicitly paying homage to Miles, so perhaps it was a step too far for rock audiences as well as Jazz ones. So don't think of it as a live album, think of it as another Macero masterpiece of electronic composition that just happened to use live material as its source.
I can't imagine how much effort it took to pull the material to pieces and rebuild it like this with the technology available in 1970. looping tiny fragments of accidental ambience is nothing these days but it was very different then and it deserves to be heard.
Miles had already released 10 live albums in the 1960's and, by 1970, on a high from the experiments of Bitches Brew, I guess he felt it was time to try something new

This is heavily edited as we all know, but it was issued as Bootleg No.3 in 2014 which is a must have!

Unfortunately my copy was missing LP2 and brought https://www.discogs.com/John-McLaughlin-Featuring-Lifetime-In-Retrospect/release/2018021 LP2 instead... Bummer (though LP1 from this set is still awesome!)