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.
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!
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'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.
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 !!!!!
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 ...
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!!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🇨🇦🤓
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
¿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.
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.
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!
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 !!
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 CZcams 😲😵 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
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.
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.
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).
Nothing was gained by the downtempo section up to around 4.00. This has been one of my favorite pieces since I first heard it back in 1973, but I almost gave up on this performance before getting to the good part.
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!
Simon here.Watching this,at my age,remembering Jerry Goodman,Jean Luc Ponty,Sugarcane Harris et al.Marvellous !!!!!
Ja einer der besten Drummer seiner Zeit!!!
Billy exists in his own ‘Stratus’ phere. He has influenced so many and is a gift to us all.
Too slow
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.
Thank God for real music!
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!
Alpha supernova drummer . He is his own galaxy.
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!
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
He is the best . Four sticks' man. 4 ever Drumsticks' Man
Saw him at the bottom line in NYC in 74 with the Brecker brothers what a great show
I've been watching this video at least twice a day, for weeeeeeks. Loving Billy
So have I
I've followed billy's career since mahavishnu days . so many great tracks
Cobham was born with a set of drums!! No one can touch him!!
100%
His drumming is so heavy and clear
My favorite song of all times a fusion song of course
Best Drummer...
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.
Amazing music and talented musicians
wow.. I didn't think I would tire of billy cobham
Seeing BC at Ronnie Scots was the best performance I ever saw.
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 !!!!!
Billy is up there with the very best. What a great sound this is. Fantastic musicians.
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 ...
E' una delle più belle versioni che io abbia mai ascoltato!
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!!✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🇨🇦🤓
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
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.
GOOD BEER DRINKIN' MUSIC,. JAM ON MY BROTHERS!
grande billy....
MY MENTOR. BILLY COBHAM...
WONDERFUL !!!
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.
DRUM MAGICIAN...
Billy is the best
Fantastisch, super gut.
i love this snare and rimshot
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!!
amazing performance of Stratus,
perhaps the best
Love this bass player! What groove!!
C'est Fifi Chayeb
Agreed. Who is that guy? His attack and tone and time was crazy!
Goose bumps = every time.
Awesome, many thanks for the post. My first concert ever was Billy drumming on the Birds of Fire tour.......damn !
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.
нет слов!!!
Saw him in Boston summer of 78 or 79,,,show was insane
Normally I ‘m not that Crazy about steel drums but this sounds so GREAT!
Fusion jazz is an extremely creative and swinging type of music. I just love it!
Fantastic!!!!
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 !!
That's so great. I admire him very much
This shit is coldblooded......
Absolutely amazing 🎶🎼🎵🎸👍👍👍👍👍
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 CZcams 😲😵 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
EXCELENT
Merci Yvon pour cette vidéo de Billy avec nos amis Français ! Le groove de Fifi Chayeb à la basse !
Applause doesn't due him justice ! What a master of the drums.
Best version ever!!
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!
Grandiosi!! ❤
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.
❤ Grandi!!!!
That's great and nothing left to add.
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
Clucking bell! So, so good! All of it.
I REALLY LIKE TO HAVE SUCH A MASTER,...IT FEELS,..GOOD,...........ABNORMAL,..............THANK YOU,...MAESTRO
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.
There's nothing you can say that hasn't already been said about Billy, but I'll say it anyway...farkn hell.
All member is great❤️
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😮
Fucking phenomenal.
Love this guy. Huge influence on my playing style
super group
An interesting variation on what was and is the magnum opus of the Fusion genre.
Amazing Sound. So powerfull but never overplayed.
in aw as I met this beatologist
SUPER
Fusion as its best
...for me...the goodfather...of da headZ....billy...the human. drunMaschine
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!
È il paradiso!
He's got a top notch band.
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).
Круто, ништяк 👍👍👍 Super
La Folie !
Nothing was gained by the downtempo section up to around 4.00. This has been one of my favorite pieces since I first heard it back in 1973, but I almost gave up on this performance before getting to the good part.
Great Fkn' 📫, Yvon Re'Ze' !!! 👍 ~WOOOYAH ~ 😀-*
THE GREATEST!!!
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!
Saw Billy in early 90s at Chastain Park in Atlanta. Billed Super Jazz Band. Corea, Clarke, Naji, Carlton.
Grande Billy y Camelia, un amor!!
That dude on the steel drum what a cool frickin touch
Un capolavoro
Impossible to replicate like Keith Moon
Agree !!!
GOD bless! Thank you Yvon Reze
Electronic steel drums? Ouch Too bad ass to handle. Im gonna listen everyday.. I love Billy.
WOW
Muito bom! Amo!!!