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!
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.
Great synthesiser playing from Camelia Ben Naceur. I'm glad I had the chance to see the band on this tour, just a few days after this concert was recorded
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).
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 !!!!!
¿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.
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 ...
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!
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.
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!!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🇨🇦🤓
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 RUclips 😲😵 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
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.
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 !!
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!
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!
Billy's ambidextrous open hand drumming used to freak me out way back when he played those shitty clear Fibes drums. He's better now 40 some years later and his drums sound so much better.
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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.
Fantastic!!!!! Billy Cobham one of the greatest drummers ever!!!
Yes :)
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..
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Anyone enjoying this masterpieces in 2025?
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!
Thank God for real music!
Cobham was born with a set of drums!! No one can touch him!!
100%
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 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.
I've been watching this video at least twice a day, for weeeeeeks. Loving Billy
So have I
He is the best . Four sticks' man. 4 ever Drumsticks' Man
I've followed billy's career since mahavishnu days . so many great tracks
Saw him at the bottom line in NYC in 74 with the Brecker brothers what a great show
Great synthesiser playing from Camelia Ben Naceur. I'm glad I had the chance to see the band on this tour, just a few days after this concert was recorded
Great drummer and musicians. I try to see Billy every time he comes to Detroit. 😊😊❤❤
My SuperStar. Thank You for showing all Drummers everywhere how it's done.
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.
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!
Alpha supernova drummer . He is his own galaxy.
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!!
E' una delle più belle versioni che io abbia mai ascoltato!
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.
Hello.
Amazing music and talented musicians
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).
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 !!!!!
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.
wow.. I didn't think I would tire of billy cobham
Seeing BC at Ronnie Scots was the best performance I ever saw.
Billy is up there with the very best. What a great sound this is. Fantastic musicians.
Love this bass player! What groove!!
C'est Fifi Chayeb
Agreed. Who is that guy? His attack and tone and time was crazy!
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 ...
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.
Fantastisch, super gut.
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.
My favorite song of all times a fusion song of course
Fusion jazz is an extremely creative and swinging type of music. I just love it!
This stank so good u have to pause and breath and continue. Wowers boom!!!!
Ja einer der besten Drummer seiner Zeit!!!
His drumming is so heavy and clear
WONDERFUL !!!
amazing performance of Stratus,
perhaps the best
Saw him in Boston summer of 78 or 79,,,show was insane
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!!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🇨🇦🤓
Awesome, many thanks for the post. My first concert ever was Billy drumming on the Birds of Fire tour.......damn !
GOOD BEER DRINKIN' MUSIC,. JAM ON MY BROTHERS!
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 RUclips 😲😵 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
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!
Best version ever!!
Merci Yvon pour cette vidéo de Billy avec nos amis Français ! Le groove de Fifi Chayeb à la basse !
That's so great. I admire him very much
Absolutely amazing 🎶🎼🎵🎸👍👍👍👍👍
i love this snare and rimshot
Best Drummer...
There's nothing you can say that hasn't already been said about Billy, but I'll say it anyway...farkn hell.
DRUM MAGICIAN...
All member is great❤️
Applause doesn't due him justice ! What a master of the drums.
That's great and nothing left to add.
Normally I ‘m not that Crazy about steel drums but this sounds so GREAT!
Clucking bell! So, so good! All of it.
MY MENTOR. BILLY COBHAM...
Goose bumps = every time.
Love this guy. Huge influence on my playing style
So much talent.
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 !!
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
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.
Дрожь его барабанов отдаётся* в теле, ритмом дыхания и стуками сердца
EXCELENT
He's got a top notch band.
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!
Amazing Sound. So powerfull but never overplayed.
grande billy....
I REALLY LIKE TO HAVE SUCH A MASTER,...IT FEELS,..GOOD,...........ABNORMAL,..............THANK YOU,...MAESTRO
An interesting variation on what was and is the magnum opus of the Fusion genre.
Saw Billy in early 90s at Chastain Park in Atlanta. Billed Super Jazz Band. Corea, Clarke, Naji, Carlton.
Billy's a Trojan, sad to have missed him on recent gig in uk. 🥁
Круто, ништяк 👍👍👍 Super
GOD bless! Thank you Yvon Reze
Can anybody name these folks, besides Billy Cobham.
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!
Спасибо, Билли!😊
A Master of the Art at Work .....& is that Robert Greenidge on steel-pans .....??? bj
junior gill
This shit is coldblooded......
Fantastic!!!!
Great Fkn' 📫, Yvon Re'Ze' !!! 👍 ~WOOOYAH ~ 😀-*
super group
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!
Young players listen and learn this is the way it is done
Bravissimo!
Billy's ambidextrous open hand drumming used to freak me out way back when he played those shitty clear Fibes drums. He's better now 40 some years later and his drums sound so much better.
que tema icónico! que extraordinario!!
Electronic steel drums? Ouch Too bad ass to handle. Im gonna listen everyday.. I love Billy.
THE GREATEST!!!
in aw as I met this beatologist
υπεροχο !!!!!!!!!!!
Suuuper. WIELKA klasa.
impresionante!!! el 10 de junio 2015 estará en cordoba, argentina!
Vaya !! Ahí está junto a ese gran artista el gran Jean Marie Ecay !