Billy Cobham Spectrum (Kongsberg, Norway 1974) (c) NRK
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Billy COBHAM (dr), John ABERCROMBIE (git), Michael BRECKER (s), Randy BRECKER (t), Glenn
FERRIS (trb), Alex BLAKE (b), Milchu LEVIEV (kbd).
"The pleasant Pheasant" "Red Baron" (B. Cobham).
Kongsberg Jazzfestival, Norway, 1974. From the NRK (c)
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With his incredible power, exquisite expression, nearly infinite dynamics, his ambidextrous odd meter grooves and those single strokes (!!!), Mr Cobham at this time was arguably the gold standard of the drumming world.
There was no argument. He was the gold standard for nearly 40 years. I just wish he didn't tune his Tom's so flat.. But still my number one all-time favorite drummer. And as an old geezer 🤩 today he's still doing it at a high level. Much respect Billy Cobham...
@@vaughnmiller5319 they sound flatter than usual here, could be the recording, it sounds a little muddy overall...
Tony Williams was better I thought.
Yes sir! And right on with your observation.
40 years ago. But yeah, He and bonham and Bruford shaped me. But none are even close to a best. .. if there is such a thing. To many parameters. But technically.. todays drummers are equaly badasses if not much more in certain cases. And ALL the good ones will site Billy as a idol at some point. This drumming was unheard in the day...
these european jazz festivals from the 70's are incredible. they are some of the finest and most appealing live jazz performances ever caught on film............................
I agree 1,000,000%. Allan Holdsworth and Gary Novak in Warsaw, Jaco and Mangelsdorff performing Trilgoue just to name a couple
Je suis d’accord, tremendously much so
Here i got some more points for your collection: ..............................….…………….........................°.................................... :D
Check out the Hungarian jazz scene from back in the day. Will blow your mind
I was 10 years old in 1974 and I just turned 59 a couple of days ago. My oh my how the time flies and Billy is still with us and playing the drums. What an amazing drummer he was and still is.
I was 16 in 74..and had the opportunity of seeing the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 73... Cobham is the ultimate drummer 🪘🍽️
@@ranjitverdi5702 I was 14 in 74, Billy was my idol - In 89 i worked for Billy and, after work, had a dinner with him, just Billy and me.
The seventies man!!! I’m all about it right now! lol I was 4, and was held up in a small town with very little money eating the lead paint off the land ladies house that she illegally bought all up when it went on sale right before it was outlawed… smh.. had to put something in my stomach, but I wanted to play drums, now that I’m finally attending it at 52, it’s a bit frustrating… I’m blaming the LED paint though
Saw him w Band 1973 warming up Hot Tuna
@@ranjitverdi5702saw Mahavishnu w Jeff Beck double bill 75 later that fall RTF those were fusion’s golden days
After he played I wasn't expecting that voice. Because he was a savage on those drums and then so soft and well spoken. Awesome fucking drummer man.
Haha, yeah he basically speaks like Michael Jackson!
Billy Greatest-Of-All-Time drummer
Definitely top 10…..pretty much seen ‘em all, especially the fusion drummers. Billy is a master of time keeping. Alphonze Mouzon was perhaps a funkier drummer but top flight. Lenny White certainly kept things moving with Chick & Stanley. It was an interesting time. Shalom
00:24 The Pleasant Pheasant
08:24 Red Baron
20:54 Tenth Pin
Billy Cobham was a real revolution in the drummers world back in 1974..
Amen rewrote the book for drummers move over Tony Williams Airto Jack Dejohnette
Billy was the first drummer to really solo during the music without having the band stop. Commonplace today but with Mahavishnu, his ability to solo over complex changes with odd times was mind blowing at the time ... and kind of still is
What you described was and is pretty common in the jazz world. Check out Art Blakey, Max Roach, Philly Joe, etc. I have a ton of respect for Mr. Cobham.
Billy “kind of” shreds any modern drummer. His style is just absolutely unrelenting.
Billy Cobham and Alphonse Mouzon were the drum giants of the early 70's. Thanks for uploading this masterpiece.
Enjoy!
Hey wait just o' damn minute, I thought I was king... L.L. P.S. love me some Tommy Bolin, so I had 'Spectrum' on vynal. I play guitar and prerequisite for any really good musician is that you have to be o' natural born drummer.
Don’t forget Lenny White
@@obpuckcast4794 and Nirada Michael Walden
@@RexLancaster Most definitely
Saw him last night in Jazz Caffe Camden in London, at almost 80 years old he is still explosive and powerful, truly a master drummer
I remember Cobham being THE pivotal figure in the evolution of drum technique in much the same way as Pastorius was on bass
@@brianhammer5107 Who played rings around him? Seriously interested in which bassists of his era you mean.
Cobham was responsible for the advent of jazz fusion "Spectrum" in the 70's along with , Miles , John Mclaughlin &
Weather Report. Jaco was acknowledged for his innovative harmonics ! It's not appropriate to compare Jaco with todays players.
@@brianhammer5107 "Richard Davis or Stanley Clarke played rings around him" - Gotta disagree with you there. Pastorius was a genius. The playing on Joni Mitchell's Shadows & Light is exceptional on all levels. He reinvented electric bass playing.
@@brianhammer5107 Nobody played fretless electric the way JP did before him, thousands did afterward. Stan Clarke took his cues from the great funk players Richard Davis is a steam bass player and Chris Squire, much as I love Yes, was not fit to shine any of the above's shoes on a technical level. I understand you may not like Pastorius's style but artistically he was miles ahead of the rest.
@@wpdoyle Niels Hennig Oersted Pederson, for one.
NO one can play like Billy CobHam!!!
😊😊😊😊😊billy cobham man of drum styles
very very good.............................................................................
What a killer band! Everybody wants to play with Billy! And the great John Abercrombie on guitar! R.I.P. John.
Also RIP Michael Brecker
Saw him on street in Nantucket summer of 75 or 76 w Rick Laird on bass and unknown drummer literally playing on sidewalk on main street amazing
Wow, Michael and Randy Brecker look so young. This is monster fusion.
Hands down the greatest drummer in any category. His power, quickness, and ability to play delicately, was startling. Atlantic Records' 1973 "Spectrum" album is the quintessential Fusion album. A must for any record collector. 🎶🎶🎶 "What is Life but a spectrum, and what is Music but Life itself." BC
Yeah maybe. Elvin Jones wasnt too shabby
I just remember we used to listen to his records for hours upon hours. We knew nothing about music; not even how to count. We just knew we were listening to something special.
I was very fortunate (aged 20) to be in New York in April 1974. One night I went to a club called The Bottom Line to see this band, and the next night I saw Tony Williams at The Village Vanguard. Two stylistically very different drummers, but in my view both incredible path setters. Thanks for posting this and reminding me how good this was.
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Yes defenitely two pioneers.
The drummers of that generation created the whole Jazzrock style of playing drumset. There were no transcriptions, videos, internet and what have now adays.
Hats off to all of tem.
John Marshall, Billy Cobham, Jack De Johnette, Bill Bruford, Pierre Courbois, Robert Wyatt.
They gave me the space and inspiration to play the drumset.
AMEN!!!!
Super cool Brecker bros., Michael in a Taxi Driver/De Niro vibe...
What a band, Billy's out of this world.
He was a pioneer on openhanded drumming. This is the most ergonomically correct way to play drums. His drumming skills are unparallel even to this day
Billy Cobham doesn't know this, but he influenced so many pro drummers. He was an inspiration to so many. Starting with me, I will not share this here, but I wish to thank a man that was my mentor in drumming; even though he is unaware??? THANK YOU SIR from what I learned from you since 1975, and your album... Funky Thide of Sings in approx, 1975,, which was the time I considered you as my mentor, Thanks. My utmost respect.
Yes, me too!!!
He Knows .....Alex Van Halen Hot for Teacher
@@CP-kb1du YEAH ...VAN HALEN BETTER KNOW
I have quite a few favorite drummers. But Billy is my all-time favorite. The standard in my book. The dude is a machine.
This guy is my all time drumming hero. I’ve been playing for 25 years and had a lot of heroes along the way, but this guy has everything.
I was first indoctrinated to Mr. Cobham, when they were phasing-out 8-track tapes. I bought this concert on an 8-track tape for like $0.50 at Target. It was the best $0.50 I ever spent.
I’ve heard Billy’s name thrown around for years by so many drummers, but never seen any real good footage of him. Wow I’ve been missing a lot. What a monster drummer. I love his massive kit.
Check out the Billy Cobham George Duke band, there's a Montreux festival on RUclips and he added a bunch of North Drums to his Fibes clear kit with the same sized drums. ruclips.net/video/nrJ_OIlcKe8/видео.html
The yellow kit in this video is supposed to be made from compressed paper and made by a drum shop called Professional Percussion in New York, which no longer exists. Al Duffy is the drum builder. I think Al is also the same guy that built the Gong drums Billy used back then, the inventor of the original chain drive pedal that later sold the patent rights to DW and Tama drums.. practically all of the major jazz/fusion drummers used the chain drive pedal. Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Lenny White, Billy Cobham, on and on and on. It was THE pedal to own…
I had one and back in the later '70's before DW and Tama bought the patent rights, Pro Percussion sold them for less than $40 brand new. Those were the days…. ;-)
Yeah, in the 70's, Cobham was the King.. I saw him with Mahavishnu in Nov 73, and I lost count of how many drum sticks went shooting straight up in the air. I've seen him break bass drum pedals, drum heads, hi hat pedals while playing and it doesn't phase him. His roadie would just replace while Cobham's playing the song/solo…. It's interesting to see someone replace a tom tom head while Billy's playing.
He was in perfect physical condition back them. I have no idea what kind of things he would do to keep in shape. I heard rumors, like he did 400 pushups, pull-ups and things like that a day. I don't know how much of that is true…. But it does make sense.
just saw Billy Oct 14th 2022 at Sony hall in NYC, he is a fellow grad of Fiorello Laguardia HS of Music & Art in NY
what a a great innovative movement he spawned in the drumming world, and although his age has snatched much of his energy and stamina, I dont know many who would dare challenge this human being. He is after all 'The G.O.AT."
nice
Cobham showed the world a new way of playing drums...a really great influence, a Sun!!!
@@brianhammer5107 Billy Cobham doesn't play like Tony Williams. Billy Cobham plays like Billy Cobham. Therefore his style indeed was a new and unique way of playing the drums. I dont know why you feel the need to compare him to Tony Williams. They were both monsters in their own unique way
@@brianhammer5107 talking like that you must be a relative of Jan Hammer 😂 jk. Btw got to hang out with Dennis Chambers he mentioned Tony Williams and Billy Cobham as influences along with Joe Jones and the obvious others like Max Roach Buddy Rich cetera. He spent at least 45 minutes with me showing me different links as musicians he plays with I was honored of course. I asked him what he thought of Chick Corea ( who I'm not a big fan of admittedly) drumming and he said "he's okay he can keep a Beat"^. I then asked him how about Jan Hammer drumming (I'm a huge fan always) and he said "now he can play" or something to that effect. Figured you might appreciate
These things always gets so incredible USA centered... We had drummers in Europe that were better jazz or fusion drummers than Cobham already in the late 1960s. Such as Pieter Voogt, Egil Johansen and numerous others. Not to mention all the skilled drummers in Latin America...
Herr Bönk Sorry. We will start down-playing these guys so yours can get their due.
@@carpballet Why? It's not about fame or the under/overrating that everybody talkes about on the internet. It's about reality. You don't even contemplate these musicians exist, even if you have heard them. Americans live in a bubble to a higher degree than most other countries do.
Every up and coming drummer got the Cobham Bug in 70s !..a trail blazing era
Trombone gets a sick solo! That's pretty much perfection.
Cobham is a drumming genius...
Billy is such an important influence because I discovered him at a time when I was at a crossroads between hard hitting and aggressive metal drumming and gentle, melodic jazz drumming. I had an identity crisis because I almost felt like I needed to choose one style or the other. Billy proved that I didn't and that it was possible to do both
Been a lifelong fan of BC. Great to hear this! He was 28... Genius in progress. Bought Shabazz on LP at the time and this really complement it.
The closing ”Tenth pin”, not exactly hummable, has some of the baddest solo explosions from the man.
Cobham had actually just turned 30 the month before this show, but still...a very young man to be such an accomplished bandleader. And from the drums no less...not the easiest instrument from which you can launch yourself into fame.
Billy Cobham...What a beautiful, gentle soul, with an absolutely FEROCIOUS voice on the drumkit.
I agree with You there moot.
they call him MR COBHAM......damn.
Billy clearly is grateful and acknowledges the shoulders of the Giants he has stood upon indeed a humble and gracious man
Cobham, man....so relaxed.
I love the gaffer tape keyboard restraints on the Fender Rhodes...period technology at it's finest.
One of the greatest drummers point blank period. The intro song the pleasant pheasant is a classic. Truely phenomenal percussionist, could play anything with anyone. His drumming transcends time
At one point early on, BC sort of stands up to finish one of the rolls… and for a second I felt really sorry for those drum heads! He can pound the crap out of them from a seated position - standing he probably made them regret their entire existence! SO powerful but so smooth and with such a groove!
Man, I see so much of Billy in Simon Phillips...From the way he plays to the way he sets up and tunes his kit...Never realized it before.
THE TRUTH COMES OUT IN TIME...
I love his Crosswinds album.
I remember as a young beginning drummer listening to the solos on that album absolutely blew me away.
Ambidextrous and Scary skills around any Drum Kit! Amazing to say the least watching him play and still getting better in his 70s' God Bless Billy !
Love this Band! and this era of Billy's music.
Can see where Simon Phillips got it all from. Saw Cobham do a clinic in London about 1975 - jaw dropping. No boom stands.
Opened handed, left ride on a right handed set. Billy, Lenny White and myself. Drum teacher in grade school thought I was crazy. "Mike, why?... your right handed!" Redemption.
Two down sides. "sitting in" on a Right set and having to move the owners Ride symbol to the left side while the owner--- scratching his head would say: "ah...whatya' doing bro?" Secondly, my playing was a Far cry from either one of these two monsters.
My biggest influence, Billy Cobham is the drummer’s drummer. What a fantastic find, just magic
What an amazing band Billy had back then. Leaving the Mahavishnu to do his own thing and teaming up with the Brecker brothers. Unbelievable show. That's the stuff I can put on RUclips on saturday mornings and hope that the kids pass by the TV and ask "Hey dad, what's that cool music?", and I go "Cool? Dudes, that's incredible. It's not cool, it's not ok. It's freakin' amazing". That's what I wish.
My drum hero. On his most incredible sounding kit he ever played. At the absolute peak of his powers...I love you for putting this out there. Thanks.
Saw Billy Cobham in a drum clinic once....watched him play from 10 feet away....truly a musical life altering event
Cobham shredding on the drum kit !!!!!! AMAZING TALENT , ferocious drumming
I picked up a Mahavishnu orchestra live album that is signed by Billy for $8 a few weeks ago, not sure if the seller realised if it was signed or who by.
Glad to have it
That is GREAT!
8 $ great you find it in the street
With a homies seller shop
How lucky you are ...
His first album he used Tommy Bolin on guitar.
Congratulations ! My most valued thing apart obviously from my partner and children is a photo of Mr Cobham and myself taken at a club in north london a couple of years ago.Along with Bill Bruford my greatest hero.(Kind regards Simon using my partner's site cos I am so old I do not have my own).
@@gabrielleconway5219
Beautiful 👌
Cobham is so good it's almost frightening.
Met him at a festival the the UK in 2002. He made time to stop and chat to me for a couple of minutes which I thought was ace. Absolutely class act
Love the duct tape holding the keyboards down.
Billy is an incredible player. Open-handed technique, clearly very ambidextrous. I’ve been a huge fan since Inner Mounting Flame.
RIP John Abercrombie :(
Man what a video! Totally blown away. Billy Cobham at his prime. Thanks for sharing.
This when he was athletic in physical shape,vibrant in spirit
I saw 👀 him in New York City
He was magnificent,incredible magician,10 miles high,a Denver high 1975
Great performance. RIP John Abercrombie.
His style is beyond compare, his playing is an unstoppable force of nature…
On RUclips the ralph Humphrey and Chester Thompson talk about being on your with Zappa and Mahavishnu w/ Billy on drums. They said watching him from side of stage they could not believe how fast, hard and round his drum sound was. They said it felt like his floor toms were going to jump of the stage. It was like getting blown back from the volume and sheer amount of sound coming from the stage. Then later on in the night they caught Billy clocking them while they played and he look astounded and they secretly cheered. It was Chester’s 2nd or 3rd show with Frank.
I am grateful to have come across this video. I want to send my heartfelt praise to his drums that have not faded even now! 2023, from Japan
After that incredible performance of power,ferocity and grace he wasn’t even a bit pressed for air! Stunning
Great music for when they remake a Dirty Harry movie.
His drumming is otherworldly.
Wow !!! I just discovered Cobham, while listening to Tommy Bolin box set. Amazing!
And you maybe was listening for Tommy Bolin because of Deep Purple?
@@aroldosolletico Comment sounds a little condescending. He said listening to the "box set." It's a retrospective of Tommy's career.
Billy was definitely a strong influence and driving force when I was first learning the craft work on the kit! Fantastic!
Yep I was one of those 18 year olds sitting with my mouth open in disbelief
Which 18 years olds join these kind of concerts nowadays?
funklover24 I'm 18 and I've been listening to jazz and fusion since I was 16. We're out there, but unfortunately not many of us.
@@jazzandrocknroll3235 Great to hear from you and I hope, you'll find fellow team mates to share your taste of music. :)
funklover24 Thank you
Me too.
This makes me happy.
Superb footage and sound quality. I’ve been watching scratchy versions of this for years. This is perfect! Thanks for sharing Billy’s brilliance in a quality format!
The footage is definitely superb, agreed. The sound quality, at the start, was not so superb. But it's okay, superb musicians make up for it more than talented autotune operators.
Awesome, Cobham with one of his best line-ups. Thanks for posting.
Billy Cobham the Jimi Hendrix of drums and that's 100% facts!🎛️🥁🥁🤣🥁🥁🎛️
I had the privilege of watching Cobham live, dueling drums with Gary Husband, at Mother's Tavern in SLO. Small and intimate venue to see a show, and be able to watch the master up close. Husband is no slouch either, both were incredible that night.
Power, speed and precision, the best !!!
Mr Billy Cobham musically was my eye opener
First time I heard Billy COBHAM, John ABERCROMBIE, Michael BRECKER and Randy BRECKER was the Dreams album.
RIP John Abercrombie, 8/22/17.
William Doyle
Thank you for those words. I didn’t realize until I read it that John had passed last year. My first exposure to him was Billy Cobham’s “Shabazz”. His sound led my to guitarist with a similar sound to his such as John Scofield and Bill Frisell. I’m not a musician and don’t know what to call it but all three have a style that sounds almost off-time or off-key or both. I don’t know what they were doing but it was in a language I understand.
At 4.50 ! WTF ? Absolutely fierce drumming, off the scale. Love Billy Cobham, can't wait to see him at Ronnie Scotts in a couple of months !
GREAT MUSICIANS ! BILLY WONDERFUL
The golden age of fusion! I was lucky enough to see this very band at least 5 times! Too bad the sound isn’t better. Doesn’t do these guys justice!
Best Billy Cobham performance ever!!
Man, that drum kit would fit right into a Technical Death Metal band... and this is 1974? Jeebus!
The kit might. The musician behind them no.
Extraordinario el Gran Maestro Billy Cobham !!!!!!
Billy cobham could qualify as being a Marvel avenger
🕺🏾🕺🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤣🤣🤘🏾
Thanks to the uploader-@Lasse ...Thanks for taking time out of your life to do this amazing upload...Without you, many people, including myself, would never see this sort of thing...You're doing god's work...:)
Thanks!
@@Jfk3434 Enjoy!
John ABERCROMBIE, the genius. May rest in peace.
Nobody could touch Billy in the 70"s. Not one single human being on planet earth.
I bought a set of Octobons that Billy was demonstrating in Houston Tx. Had a gig that night at Bergstrom AF Base doing a gig, we were playing the song Flashlight and my Octobons bounced right off the stage and cracked them. Embarrassing as hell! Recouped and continued playing. Billy hell of a drummer and a Great Guy!
Awesome, we have most of the old band from the 60's "Dreams"in this line up. They even had a top 40 release in 69-70, "Holly Be Home" Great tune, Great Album. It was the forerunner to This Cobham Band and the Brecker Brothers Albums!
“Holly be Home” is one of my favorite songs, and the first Dreams album is one of my favorite albums.
It’s good to know that someone out there remembers the group.
“Imagine My Surprise” with Will Lee and Grolnick was also enjoyable but quite different and more commercial and slicker.
I saw this Cobham band in ‘73 when he also had Victor Pantoja on congas.
The two of them did a solo together that was fairly telepathic.
1st piece is really fusion on speed. I remember the times when I was so overexcited, too. However, Billy was my total hero, after I finally realized what he did on the drum.
Nobody but nobody has ever had or will ever have a better roll than Billy.
Morello had the best rolls evers. Even Buddy agreed.
I’d first heard him play with McCoy Tyner, on “Fly With The Wind”, back in 1976. Ron Carter on bass, Hubert Laws on flute. Backed by a wind/string section. Amazing music!
Thank you Lasse for posting this amazing concert!
enjoy!
Amazing era amazing music amazing musicians....you just need a ford gran torino 74 with white stripes
Info Polovendite 😂 starsky & hutch, brother. ...or some big detroit rolling iron with fins on the back...
red Torino like Starski
Info Polovendite
I had a Grand Torino with a black vinyl top and a yellow body. Got me all the way across country from Columbus, Georgia to Los Angeles in the mid 1980's
The man can play with 4 sticks. Ferociously talented.
First of all, I truly admire Billy's talent, however, older percussionists like Louis Belson and Lionel Hampton, not to mention Papa Jo Jones, had already laid the foundation doing these skills before Billy was even conceived. It doesn't diminish Billy's skills, just puts them into perspective. Check out Chick Webb sometime. Peace!
@@kookiekreatureYou are correct. Billy Cobb Clyde Stubblefield etc. Talent speaks for it self.
@@drewanders8168 Thanks. Actually it was Billy's innovations with Tama that inspired me to build several of the huge drum sets that I played, and sold to other professionals, during the 70's & 80's. I still buy, sell, trade, and play as often as possible. Later gator!
Thank the Norwegians for filming this !USA didnt give a shit about these guys.saw these csts and met Cobham and Abercrombie while me and me droogs were leaving the restrooms and they were getting reafy to go onstage.so cool these guys were nice to us punkass fusion teens,we were yelling and made a lot if noise to let em know we loved them!
Here’s one of the best BC performances, thank you Lasse
Enjoy!
Awesome. ❤❤❤❤ love those guys. Mike’s definitely my favorite Saxophone player
So colorful, both the music and the clothes, so trippy.
Love when abdul Ferris make the Elephant !! great performance !! love this chaotic noise !!
Thanks for posting. Great to see Cobham in his prime.
Billy Cobham play with the Saint Albans Queens men from Queens Long Island also played with the Long Island Sunrisers as a tenant drummer you can hear him play in sing sing sing in the year 1964 with the Long Island Sun rises outstanding it was a great member I was a member from 64 through 68 Long Island Sunrisers drum and bugle Corps
Billy's the Godfather of the traps it will never be another drummer who plays with that inner feeling that he brings to the table Billy & Alan Holdsworth immortal gods Rest in paradise Mr. Holdsworth as well as Mr Ambercrombie 🙏🏻
the first tune is from "crosswinds" btw - a hugely underrated album and one of my personal favs. never thought i'd get a chance to see any of this played live - what a tremendous treat!! thnks for the upload!
Yes, agreed. I think it's up there with "Spectrum", albeit with a different approach.
It's definatly NOT underrated. Well loved by most Jazz Rock/Fusion fans. Anyone who isn't won't have heard of it, but that goes for the majority of Jazz rocks albums.