Germany really loved Billy. I remember being there in 83 and riding a taxi the driver asked me if I minded him playing a cassette of Total Eclipse. I smiled and told him to crank the volume.
In an age where beats, raps, loops,and chants dominate the airwaves, it's always refreshing to go back to the roots of the musician and his instrument, the merging of soul, body and instrument, where the three are fused into one universal sound and where the listener has become one with them. This is truly wonderful!
I got to play with Billy Cobham a few years ago, he was touring and we managed to book him for a recording session...he's the baddest dude on the kit and the coolest guy hang with.
the analog age had little that one could bypass to feign intelligent music in any of the genre's............ nowadays in the decline of the music industry its just annoying to see and hear the nonsense........... then jazz players and jazz fusionista's worked long and hard to perfect the music score, they had the listeners heart and soul in mind in doing so.... look at the perspiration on mr cobhams back..... something missing today on the egocentric muzak circuits
Billy plays something totally unreal, in his own frequency, own beat. It's such a pleasure to listen to his drumming and grooving. Thanks for existing my friend!
holi wow!!! i lov this version......new innovation of what has been a timed honored cover by so many ......Billy does more and new with his own.....lovit !!!!!
I've commented on this before but it won't hurt anyone's feelings. I followed a girl to New York City and lo and behold 2 nights later I was sitting in the Cornerstone Club and there they were. T. Bolin was at his prime but Jan and Billy stole the show. It was a smallish club and usually it was noisy as all hell. That night the bartenders didn't't evenca make a sound. Remember this was a four piece band. No dudes lounging around. They were happy and smiling, like they knew something nobody else did. VERY,VERY COOOOL. It was the best band I had ever heard and I grew up in the SFO bay area. Lots of good stuff. But,nothing like these cats. the good old days. Peace
@@TheLochs yeah, indeed! Tommy just barely managed to stay alive long enough to play some live shows, note by note worthy to be remembered. Tommy tragically died on heroin a little later, that was one of the top 20 saddest occurences in rock/fusion/funk.
Haven't seen him since the 70's but I can see that he's still killing it with a whole new generation of musicians. Thanks for uploading this performance!
I bought his greatest hits cassette in '83 (didn't know who he was) and was hooked. This is one of my favorites to play to.....can't find any players as good as those on Billy's CD's.
Sorry. Have just watched this yet again for the enth time.That young man on percussion (i am probably old enough to be his grandfather) is outstanding as of course are the rest of the band (How can you call these people a band ?) Goodness me !!! All Best Simon .On my wife's site (I am too old and feeble to have my own).
¿porque? because zee Germans were zee sound engineers. Dass ist darum. That's why. How you like my Spanglish Danglisch, vato? I am loco ese. Yo soy el pinche loco gringo. Der fickende verruckte Nortenø , Alter.
Saw the Love Devotion and Surrender Tour at Saratoga and caught the "Spectrum 40 th Anniversary Tour at the Egg in Albany, a few years ago! I was a Union Stagehand for 30 years, and these were probably 2 of the best performances I saw!
Prince covered this tune in his 2009 jazz band in Montreux and later revisited in 3rd eye girl.Did a hell of a job with his different instrumentation.Prince had horns replacing the notes of the steel drums ,and had that heavy groove on the theme.Billy Cobham would have been impressed!I sure as f was floored!!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🇨🇦🤓
Remarkable, how this obvious alien ('The Invaders', 1967) not only nicely integrated, yet even literally kicked the concept of drumming up into space. Unsurprisingly he, meanwhile for years, lives in Switzerland, the country famous for its ultimate clocks and watches ...
This and Red Baron are smoking versions of these tunes! I love the Spectrum album and it's still one of my favorites for 30 years. I was a baby when it came out.. like anyone gives a shit.... Cobhams been in my top 3 even when it changed! Billy,Tony,Buddy, just my humble opinion. I love so many other players it just seems those are the 3 that I come back to whether I'm into Kenny Clark,Max Roach,Philly Joe Jones,Elvin or Dave Weckl, Vinnie Coliauta,Gary Novak I come back to well Steve Gadd also. Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham and Tony Williams. Depends on the day wich one I think is the best! No one stays #1 for long.! I really am insane! I talk to myself on TH-cam 😲😵 Help maybe needed in the distant future.
QUANDO HO ASCOLTATO L ALBUM SPECTRUM E BILLY 1970 MI SONO INNAMORATO DI QUESTO MERAVIGLIOSO BATTERISTA !!!! E SINO ADESSO NESSUNO ARRIVANO ALLA SUA ALTEZZA!!!2020
Great version! These are some talented musicians, I only wish the cameraman got Billy's drums at the last minutes of the song where he was slamming out those famous rolls dammit! I still approve this message, lol
What a great tune. The video is a bit distracting but either Billy didn’t want the camera close to him during his solo or he didn’t want the camera to see what he was doing (?).. but it’s pretty weird that the focus is on everyone else during his solo... great version of a classic though!
Just watched an amazing Utube of Prince playing this song; tons of his wicked sweet guitar- from a Montreal jazz fest. I love Sir Billy C; I always thought the guitar was the most important instrument on the original recording.
Myself and a buddy just had to go to a Billy Cobham drum workshop in Toronto, sometime in the mid 1970's. We were not even drummers. That was after Spectrum blew our minds, and we had caught his live show at the famous El Macombo from a front table.
Ha hahaha ...all the musicians are like " damn Billy...why so fast a tempo ? " ...Great Band.. fantastic music !!! thank you Mr Billy Cobham ...a master musician and composer !!
I think it's weird when the editor for the video films everybody more during their big solos and then don't film billy as much during his. That aside this is one of the best versions of Stratus I've heard!
Comparisons usually are difficult when it comes to music and creativity/taste. But in this case, I think Lenny and Billy can be compared since they are both sounding really raw and edgy. Both are power houses and they both are DRIVING as hell!
What's up with the video direction? Billy is soloing over the vamp at the end of the song and the cameras are on everyone but him! Did the director go out for a smoke mid-show?
Billy exists in his own ‘Stratus’ phere. He has influenced so many and is a gift to us all.
Too slow
Simon here.Watching this,at my age,remembering Jerry Goodman,Jean Luc Ponty,Sugarcane Harris et al.Marvellous !!!!!
Germany really loved Billy. I remember being there in 83 and riding a taxi the driver asked me if I minded him playing a cassette of Total Eclipse.
I smiled and told him to crank the volume.
In an age where beats, raps, loops,and chants dominate the airwaves, it's always refreshing to go back to the roots of the musician and his instrument, the merging of soul, body and instrument, where the three are fused into one universal sound and where the listener has become one with them. This is truly wonderful!
Electronics and other gimmicks are all well and good, but at the end of the day the musician must be just that. Anyone can program a computer to sing.
I got to play with Billy Cobham a few years ago, he was touring and we managed to book him for a recording session...he's the baddest dude on the kit and the coolest guy hang with.
the analog age had little that one could bypass to feign intelligent music in any of the genre's............ nowadays in the decline of the music industry its just annoying to see and hear the nonsense........... then jazz players and jazz fusionista's worked long and hard to perfect the music score, they had the listeners heart and soul in mind in doing so.... look at the perspiration on mr cobhams back..... something missing today on the egocentric muzak circuits
Ironically a lot of the samples are his - Stanley Turrentine's Sister Sanctified and Bob James' Nautilus to name but two..
P
Fantastic!!!!! Billy Cobham one of the greatest drummers ever!!!
Yes :)
Billy plays something totally unreal, in his own frequency, own beat. It's such a pleasure to listen to his drumming and grooving. Thanks for existing my friend!
Sono d’accordo con te!
Ja einer der besten Drummer seiner Zeit!!!
Thank God for real music!
Real music like this is rare today with such talent and skill.
rare?.i dont think its even happening now, unless you find the coolest hottest out of the way group making 40.00 apiece per gig
I've been watching this video at least twice a day, for weeeeeeks. Loving Billy
So have I
holi wow!!! i lov this version......new innovation of what has been a timed honored cover by so many ......Billy does more and new with his own.....lovit !!!!!
Cobham was born with a set of drums!! No one can touch him!!
100%
I've commented on this before but it won't hurt anyone's feelings. I followed a girl to New York City and lo and behold 2 nights later I was sitting in the Cornerstone Club and there they were. T. Bolin was at his prime but Jan and Billy stole the show. It was a smallish club and usually it was noisy as all hell. That night the bartenders didn't't evenca make a sound. Remember this was a four piece band. No dudes lounging around. They were happy and smiling, like they knew something nobody else did. VERY,VERY COOOOL.
It was the best band I had ever heard and I grew up in the SFO bay area. Lots of good stuff. But,nothing like these cats. the good old days.
Peace
So Tommy Bolin did some live shows with Cobham?
@@TheLochs yeah, indeed! Tommy just barely managed to stay alive long enough to play some live shows, note by note worthy to be remembered.
Tommy tragically died on heroin a little later, that was one of the top 20 saddest occurences in rock/fusion/funk.
Haven't seen him since the 70's but I can see that he's still killing it with a whole new generation of musicians. Thanks for uploading this performance!
Amazing music and talented musicians
I bought his greatest hits cassette in '83 (didn't know who he was) and was hooked. This is one of my favorites to play to.....can't find any players as good as those on Billy's CD's.
Check out Jing Chi 3D with Vinny Colaiuta Robin Ford and Jimmy Haslip
dude! Vinny plays this song 30times a year when he tours wit Jeff Beck!!
I attribute Cobham's popularity to his ability to combine the best elements of both rock and jazz drumming.
Back from the Mahavishnu orchestra days. But he also played with Horace Silver, which was more American Jazz.
Alpha supernova drummer . He is his own galaxy.
Saw him at the bottom line in NYC in 74 with the Brecker brothers what a great show
Billy is up there with the very best. What a great sound this is. Fantastic musicians.
Fusion jazz is an extremely creative and swinging type of music. I just love it!
Awesome, many thanks for the post. My first concert ever was Billy drumming on the Birds of Fire tour.......damn !
Love this bass player! What groove!!
C'est Fifi Chayeb
Agreed. Who is that guy? His attack and tone and time was crazy!
amazing performance of Stratus,
perhaps the best
Sorry. Have just watched this yet again for the enth time.That young man on percussion (i am probably old enough to be his grandfather) is outstanding as of course are the rest of the band (How can you call these people a band ?) Goodness me !!! All Best Simon .On my wife's site (I am too old and feeble to have my own).
wow.. I didn't think I would tire of billy cobham
He is the best . Four sticks' man. 4 ever Drumsticks' Man
Perfect sound of the Drums
¿porque? because zee Germans were zee sound engineers. Dass ist darum. That's why. How you like my Spanglish Danglisch, vato? I am loco ese. Yo soy el pinche loco gringo. Der fickende verruckte Nortenø , Alter.
Best Drummer...
Fantastisch, super gut.
Saw the Love Devotion and Surrender Tour at Saratoga and caught the "Spectrum 40 th Anniversary Tour at the Egg in Albany, a few years ago! I was a Union Stagehand for 30 years, and these were probably 2 of the best performances I saw!
I could not have lived with myself if I'd missed the "Spectrum 40" tour when it came through my town. God, what a show.
His drumming is so heavy and clear
Normally I ‘m not that Crazy about steel drums but this sounds so GREAT!
Дрожь его барабанов отдаётся* в теле, ритмом дыхания и стуками сердца
i love this snare and rimshot
Prince covered this tune in his 2009 jazz band in Montreux and later revisited in 3rd eye girl.Did a hell of a job with his different instrumentation.Prince had horns replacing the notes of the steel drums ,and had that heavy groove on the theme.Billy Cobham would have been impressed!I sure as f was floored!!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🇨🇦🤓
E' una delle più belle versioni che io abbia mai ascoltato!
Best version ever!!
Seeing BC at Ronnie Scots was the best performance I ever saw.
Спасибо, Билли!😊
Remarkable, how this obvious alien ('The Invaders', 1967) not only nicely integrated, yet even literally kicked the concept of drumming up into space. Unsurprisingly he, meanwhile for years, lives in Switzerland, the country famous for its ultimate clocks and watches ...
This and Red Baron are smoking versions of these tunes! I love the Spectrum album and it's still one of my favorites for 30 years. I was a baby when it came out.. like anyone gives a shit.... Cobhams been in my top 3 even when it changed! Billy,Tony,Buddy, just my humble opinion. I love so many other players it just seems those are the 3 that I come back to whether I'm into Kenny Clark,Max Roach,Philly Joe Jones,Elvin or Dave Weckl, Vinnie Coliauta,Gary Novak I come back to well Steve Gadd also. Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham and Tony Williams. Depends on the day wich one I think is the best! No one stays #1 for long.! I really am insane! I talk to myself on TH-cam 😲😵 Help maybe needed in the distant future.
Alphonse Mouzon! R.I.P.
QUANDO HO ASCOLTATO L ALBUM SPECTRUM E BILLY 1970 MI SONO INNAMORATO DI QUESTO MERAVIGLIOSO BATTERISTA !!!! E SINO ADESSO NESSUNO ARRIVANO ALLA SUA ALTEZZA!!!2020
My favorite song of all times a fusion song of course
An interesting variation on what was and is the magnum opus of the Fusion genre.
Absolutely amazing 🎶🎼🎵🎸👍👍👍👍👍
Great version! These are some talented musicians, I only wish the cameraman got Billy's drums at the last minutes of the song where he was slamming out those famous rolls dammit! I still approve this message, lol
Merci Yvon pour cette vidéo de Billy avec nos amis Français ! Le groove de Fifi Chayeb à la basse !
What a great tune. The video is a bit distracting but either Billy didn’t want the camera close to him during his solo or he didn’t want the camera to see what he was doing (?).. but it’s pretty weird that the focus is on everyone else during his solo... great version of a classic though!
WONDERFUL !!!
DRUM MAGICIAN...
MY MENTOR. BILLY COBHAM...
Dude! this is almost better than Inca Roads!! First time hearing this version of Stratus! Can't believe that is a double cutaway Yamaha guitar!
grande billy....
This stank so good u have to pause and breath and continue. Wowers boom!!!!
GOOD BEER DRINKIN' MUSIC,. JAM ON MY BROTHERS!
That's great and nothing left to add.
So much talent.
Just watched an amazing Utube of Prince playing this song; tons of his wicked sweet guitar- from a Montreal jazz fest. I love Sir Billy C; I always thought the guitar was the most important instrument on the original recording.
+sullivan2339 That's because it was Tommy Bolin!
All member is great❤️
I can't believe nobody's commented on this lately Billy's the f****** best
We watch always….Who’s understand!!! A nt no lot of people who understand!!? What you expect??!!!
Greetings from Massachusetts, U.S. I’m listening on May 16, 2024.
Please director !!why you don’t show the Billy Cobham when he ‘s doing SOLO DRUMS??????
Myself and a buddy just had to go to a Billy Cobham drum workshop in Toronto, sometime in the mid 1970's. We were not even drummers. That was after Spectrum blew our minds, and we had caught his live show at the famous El Macombo from a front table.
His comment about using his 5 limbs equally made me wonder what he meant. He then replied that his brain/ head😂 was the 5th. Or maybe the first😮
Applause doesn't due him justice ! What a master of the drums.
Love this guy. Huge influence on my playing style
Ha hahaha ...all the musicians are like " damn Billy...why so fast a tempo ? " ...Great Band.. fantastic music !!! thank you Mr Billy Cobham ...a master musician and composer !!
I think it's weird when the editor for the video films everybody more during their big solos and then don't film billy as much during his. That aside this is one of the best versions of Stratus I've heard!
That's so great. I admire him very much
Saw him in Boston summer of 78 or 79,,,show was insane
He's got a top notch band.
He is an athlete on the drums with a composers' mind more complicated than Mozart, Bach, and Schubert combined - That's Billy Cobham
Great drummer...not in the same league as classical composers.
Amazing Sound. So powerfull but never overplayed.
Goose bumps = every time.
Clucking bell! So, so good! All of it.
I REALLY LIKE TO HAVE SUCH A MASTER,...IT FEELS,..GOOD,...........ABNORMAL,..............THANK YOU,...MAESTRO
This shit is coldblooded......
EXCELENT
нет слов!!!
GOD bless! Thank you Yvon Reze
super group
in aw as I met this beatologist
Grandiosi!! ❤
SUPER
THE GREATEST!!!
Electronic steel drums? Ouch Too bad ass to handle. Im gonna listen everyday.. I love Billy.
A Master of the Art at Work .....& is that Robert Greenidge on steel-pans .....??? bj
junior gill
holy fuck that violin solo got me good man!!!!
Saw Billy in early 90s at Chastain Park in Atlanta. Billed Super Jazz Band. Corea, Clarke, Naji, Carlton.
Fucking phenomenal.
I don't think there's another drummer even in the same zip code as Billy Cobham
+Bill Q Lenny White. I get what you mean though, he is the dog's bollocks.
Comparisons usually are difficult when it comes to music and creativity/taste. But in this case, I think Lenny and Billy can be compared since they are both sounding really raw and edgy. Both are power houses and they both are DRIVING as hell!
Yes, indeed...!!
Vinny Cauluta
Absolutely agree.. I have heard many good and even some great drummers but Billy C, is something else!!
Can anybody name these folks, besides Billy Cobham.
Google Spectrum album 1973. I think Jan Hammer keys. Lee Sklar bass. Possibly Tommy Bolin guitar
Billy is the best
È il paradiso!
Grande Billy y Camelia, un amor!!
What's up with the video direction? Billy is soloing over the vamp at the end of the song and the cameras are on everyone but him! Did the director go out for a smoke mid-show?
xxxx
I TOTALLY agree, Bill Bunkers!!
Camera Man Sucks!
Great Fkn' 📫, Yvon Re'Ze' !!! 👍 ~WOOOYAH ~ 😀-*
There's nothing you can say that hasn't already been said about Billy, but I'll say it anyway...farkn hell.
I've followed billy's career since mahavishnu days . so many great tracks
Fusion as its best
Snillingur! Hef hlustað á tónlistina hans síðan ofarlega á síðustu öld :)
That dude on the steel drum what a cool frickin touch