What is Billy Cobham doing now?
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Topic: What is Billy Cobham doing now?
Posted By: The Quiet One
Subject: What is Billy Cobham doing now?
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:22
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Billy Cobham is coming to Argentina, and been meaning to go. Though I only know, from his solo works, Spectrum, I love it, but not sure he'll play any song of it. So I want to know what has he been doing lately, what sort of music, well surely Fusion, but any good? Also, if someone saw him live lately, please tell me how was it. |
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:25
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I heard the news some weeks ago. Although I have to skip college to go I think I'll end up going.
Apart from spectrum , I don't know any of his solo stuff. But it's jazz ,you can't go wrong with that one!
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:28
| ^haha, you're right, but it would be cool to know a bit of what he's doing lately, I don't want to end up going and see him play the drums all night long, hahaha |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:45
You just got Deep Purple and now you're getting Cobham? Curse you and your great luck, Argentina! 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:46
^we also had Peter Gabriel, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Radiohead, and some more 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 16:00
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He might just be taking a leak or something right now.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 16:09
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Might find something here:
http://www.billycobham.com/html/index.php - http://www.billycobham.com/html/index.php
I never knew he was the drummer for Gabriel's Passion until recently. What an artist. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 19:09
| I saw him last September in NYC at the Blue Note with the Spectrum Band (Dean Brown - Guitar, Victor Bailey - Bass, Tom Coster - Keyboards & Billy Cobham - Drums). The band was good (but I prefered the Spectrum Band with Frank Gambale in it). At the Blue Note he did a couple of songs from "Spectrum", one from "Crosswinds" and a couple from "Fruit of the Loom" (maybe a couple more I don't remember - it was a very short set about 50 minutes max). Not sure what he could be into by now, he changes frequently. He's a little slower than the Mahavishnu Orchestra days (hey that was over 35 years ago) but still technically great. You should see a very good show. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 19:57
| ^thanks very much for that info! Probably will go! |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: March 24 2009 at 22:06
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Tom Coster and Frank Gambale are incredible musicians. They are worth paying the $120 |
Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 00:28
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Not very recent, but I've been into a cool band called Jazz is Dead recently. Cobham, T Lavitz, Alphonzo Johnson, and Jimmy Herring comprised the original lineup for their first album 'Blue Light Rain', and I managed to find a live show as well. They play covers of Grateful Dead songs, which put me off at first cause I'm not a big Dead guy, but they put their own original fusiony spin on them. Very addictive stuff, and Cobham's great as usual. But yeah overall this was 10 years ago now for Cobham. Don't know what's happening now. |