The way it used to be...Billy Cobham content.

[tvbop]

Tele bass, Acoustic bin....what a tone.

Billy Cobham Spectrum (Kongsberg, Norway 1974) (c) NRK - YouTube

 

[Geri O]

Man, what fire and energy! Loved the "Fusion", or whatever the pointy-headed critics labeled it in the day!
I still get a serious kick out of this and all the other artists and groups from that day and forward.

Oh, yeah, the tone. Well, it is what it is, considering the technology back then. But the playing dang sure comes through (the part I care about the most....)

 

[Bob_Ross]

Alex Blake on bass. I think he went on to work with the Manhattan Transfer.

And whoa, check out the size of Billy's monitor!!!

 

[seamonkey]

Leland really shows what it takes to be a great bass player.

Billy Cobham is the master of left-handed playing on a right-handed drum set. Pure brilliants! His fills are absolutely unique only to him.

 

[Lance Bunyon]

Cobham stands out in a sea of copycats. Billy Cobham was one of the originators. Good composer as well. Hes up there withy favorite fusion drummers.
There was no decent live recorded tone in 1974, the tech didn't exist. I used to have a CD of Mountain live from that era. Gave it to one of my employees. There was a 60 cycle hum for the entire album.

 

[RattleSnack]

I've loved Cobham's music since I was kid - his early works and later Nordic.
It's always fun to listen his live recording and count how long it takes from the begining for first fill to come - here it's almost 13 seconds

 

[Bob_Ross]

Since today is 5/4 (Thursday May 4th) I'll just post this little Lalo Schifrin ditty...which features Billy Cobham on drums:

 

[4Mal]

I saw a couple of Mahavishnu Orchestra shows with Mr Cobham and later a couple of Duke/Cobham shows. He was always flippin amazing but...

Steve Gadd was working back then too.. at least in the mid seventies. Aja came along in (I think) 77. And David Garibaldi earlier than that... Bernard Purdie maybe in that period... That was quite the drummer scene.

 

[Stinsok]

I saw BC at a drum clinic a million years ago. At that time I had never seen anyone play at that level.

 

[Geri O]

I saw a couple of Mahavishnu Orchestra shows with Mr Cobham and later a couple of Duke/Cobham shows. He was always flippin amazing but...

Steve Gadd was working back then too.. at least in the mid seventies. Aja came along in (I think) 77. And David Garibaldi earlier than that... Bernard Purdie maybe in that period... That was quite the drummer scene.

To put it mildly.....

 

[Bird Lady]

Alex Blake on bass. I think he went on to work with the Manhattan Transfer.

And whoa, check out the size of Billy's monitor!!!