Billy Cobham - Red Baron (Montreux Jazz Festival 1978, 4of7)

23-July-1982
Billy Cobham : Drums
Gil Goldstein : Keyboards
Dean Brown : Guitar
Tim Landers : Bass

[@stevewood6051]

Billy Cobham was and is the greatest drummer to ever live on this planet earth. I do really wished that we could have meant. My name is Steve Wood. I was an up coming expired by drummers like you. Thank,You, for your great playing and performing. I wish that i could have been exactly like you. Mr, Billy Cobham.😊

[@scottsmothermon63]

The guitar solo is just sick ...jeez

[@sunnylark369]

I just found this in 2022. Like holy shit, that's good. ❤️

[@dougrobinson3380]

Had this originally on vinyl that I bought around 1984 from a used record store; just finding this live version now- in 2022. Stuff like this is so HOTT, it should be able to blow COVID back to where it originates - i.e. out of humans!

[@csakanycsaba1392]

Jeez, I love Zappa (who learned me music), Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc. but the ever best is this one🙂. Thanks Billy, Jan, and Jeff (sorry for you being gone - I meet you in the other world)

[@TheWynos]

Good lord! What a jam, all the players! I played drums for 30 years and could not ever hope to keep up with Billy.

[@mattkurke5665]

I will NEVER stop coming back for more of this. When they go to double time at 3:25 all hell breaketh loose

[@flowerlandofjohn]

A channel with only Billy Cobham: happiness!! 🤩

[@bertrandcagnac8160]

Super que j'écoute depuis 89

[@thebetternobs]

that Mk1 Rhodes in the beginning... what an accurate timing.

[@kurtpatterson1296]

It was the era,the 1970's.There may be a lot of musicians emulating this style of music now,but it all started in the late 60's,early 1970's.No musicians were playing like this as late as 1965.This was a completely unique style combining jazz,rock,and Latin music.

[@larrytemple86]

THE MUSIC AT WOODSTOCK SEEM TO STIR A BREW OF THOSE MUSICIANS

[@kurtpatterson1296]

Check out Miles Davis at Isle of Wight concert 1970 on KZbin.

[@pmountcastle9586]

Lpp

[@willbill7250]

I have this album, Glass Menagerie thanks for posting

[@Guitargoetz]

:-) :-) :-) Thanks for this Record !!!

[@lindarhyne3920]

Ahhhh! Those were the best days of my drumming career! Out of North Texas had a 5 piece doing these fusion arrangements. Loved it!!! Bless Billy Cobham!

[@elorejano57]

Bestial como siempre el gran maestro Cobham!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love your work!!

[@zubimarta]

bueniiisimo , thanks for sharing

[@keyscook]

Superb...Bravo... Thanks for posting - Cheers from Seattle!

[@papamartino]

Génial!

[@ddrums001]

BC’s Glass Manahgere! Another all star group by Billy Cobham!

[@patfixsen7884]

This is the Smokin’ album on video! Great stuff

[@pelhamonetwothree1239]

I PRETTY MUCH GOT THIS TUNE DOWN PACK WITH THE DRUMS AFTER AFTER MANY MANY TIMES OF LISTENING NOW I AM WORKING MY SORT OF TWIST AND TAKE ON THIS AWESOMELY DIVINE TUNE THE RED BARON

[@evgenz627]

I like this combo!this is music!

[@MrBernardo.]

The best version of this song!

[@user-zo9nt3lw4h]

Кобом гениален. И этим все сказано. Таких музыкантов как он можно назвать "МИДАС" - любая музыка у них превращается в золото

[@JGPorcello]

Best arrangement ever!

[@harvvey9753]

not the origin?

[@JGPorcello]

i Harvvey Not sure, there is a studio version. I've heard plenty of others by Billy, and others that don't compare to this, in MHO.

[@harvvey9753]

JGPorcello including the "Spectrum" & lMarcus Miller Version?

[@mrmikespence1964]

JAZZMUSIC! IS "THE" GREATEST! ARRANGED! MUSIC! CATEGORY! OF (ALL-TIME)! THE! (G,O,A,T)! MUSIC! JAZZMAN! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@dominiquebrunet9833]

De la pure folie !

[@mattkurke5665]

Finally figured it out: Dean's playing his new toy, a 1982 Roland GR 505.

[@luigisari677]

Dean Brown and his amazing auto-wah effect...how great is ? this song/version is a masterpiece !!! 2:38 best groove epic moment !!

[@mrmikespence1964]

THE JAZZMAN! (DB)! & "THE" SUPREME! (JG)! THE! JAZZMAN! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@thebreathalyzer]

It is that great

[@flowlineproductions]

Mutron pedal a la Jerry Garcia. Listen to a live version of Estimated Prophet from this same time period.

[@mattkurke5665]

I just figured out what it is: 1982 Roland GR 505. It was bugging the hell out of me.

[@stefanhakopians3418]

Yes, deans line before the drums enter again is so tasteful...really epic

[@bertrandcagnac8160]

The best of the best

[@RonCarterBassist]

👍🏾👍🏾

[@scottdixon3936]

😻😻😻😻😻

[@smsoarescunha4688]

SOLARRRRR ! SOM PRÓSPERO

[@jeanlucchapelon]

Gil Goldstein push the band,Cobham and Landers accelerate to follow him !! Great !

[@EleanorPeterson]

Yay, Billham Cobly! Love the music, don't love the camerawork. Somehow the director managed to miss all the 'important' moments! Lots of close-ups of, er, things up-close, but I wanted to see the guys playing. Preferably all of them. At the same time. Sigh. The best thing about listening to records (as opposed to watching videos) is that when you close your eyes, the camerawork's always perfect...😁

[@guppybill]

Oh McGawd! Sublime. It's the difference between playing a song perfectly and playing it as it wished to be played in that space, in that setting, in that time. Utterly sublime.

[@jstnxprsn]

I didn't even know Donald Duck sang jazz. Seriously, this is one of the tightest performances I've ever seen.

[@Flavum]

Captured on Billy's 1982 album "Smokin'".

[@ronaldwilliams3182]

Are you talking about the cartoon character or the lead guitar player from Blue Oyster Cult LOL

[@jstnxprsn]

@@ronaldwilliams3182 I challenge you to learn the solo on Don't Fear The Reaper and then explain what's happening with scales with that solo. I've tried learning it and it ends up hurting my head. LOLOL

[@TheMatthew5252]

Was this the Glass Menagerie band? I used to have the cassette tape of this concert. I think it was called Live And Smokin.

[@fernandoperdomomusic]

I need to know what envelope filter he is using .. so awesome.

[@heifetz14]

Pual McFartney on bass.In his dreams.

[@fernandoperdomomusic]

I have a feeling Edie Brickell's guitar player was a fan of Dean Brown.. the "What I Am Solo" is totally a Dean Brown impersonation.

[@jordo170]

I always got a Jerry Garcia vibe from that solo.

[@bollardill]

Dean Brown hits that MIDI just like Jerry Garcia sounds identical ...

[@dougrobinson3380]

3:35 Nice guitar face :-)

[@TheUprightMonkey]

Always good to see new Billy videos. This was for me the beginning of the end, though. Specifically, when they launch into double time. What? Turn such a fat and funky textured groove into freaking vaudeville? I don’t believe that Billy made a credible record after Shabbazz. The slide into Muzak started with a couple tracks on A Funky Side of Sings and continues to this day. Compare this version of Baron to that on Shabbaz. Night and day. And the original? Come on. I blame his sidemen, but he hired them. I’ve heard no one say any of this, and I know I’m gonna piss people off - but my heart remains broken as early Cobham is, for me, the greatest of all time. I would take Spectrum onto any desert island a happy man. But Drum n Voice? Come on.

[@TheUprightMonkey]

Watch the Tenth Pin video for an incredible example of what he left behind in the 80’s.

[@arnd-rainerrehbein7727]

Thanks for mentioning Shabazz. Never heard of it. Listen in. Brillant. After Spectrum I left. Red baron and the Jan Hammer Solo. Hard to top. Then for Jan Hammer Miami Vice. Good for his bank account. Not bad though. For TV. Zeitgeist. Maybe Cobham just likes to play live. Nevermind the musical relevance. You could be a bit more leniant. Cobham is in a way the mathematician of drums. Always precise and mathematicians tend to fade, when getting older.

[@strettoasino9006]

"TAMA" !!

Who here opened up their issue of Modern Drummer and saw that Tama Kit and that became yiur lust object?🥁🤯😳🤪

[@mattkurke962]

Dean Brown is a M O N S T E R !

[@mrmikespence1964]

A "JAZZMAN" THE! JAZZMAN! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@mrmikespence1964]

"JAZZMUSIC GREATS" & THE! (BCJB)! & ME! & "THIS" (SUPREME)! IN "THIS" WORLD! (JAZZMUSIC)! PERSONEL! (THE! JAZZMAN)! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@mrmikespence1964]

"JAZZMUSIC RULES" THE! JAZZMAN! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@dagostinoification]

MY MASTER ! (demo acriylic Chines drums by Didier D('Agostino >>

[@bob733333]

Phish eat your heart out.

[@nepotiums]

Damn, George Harrison can really funk that guitar.

[@karilamervo5343]

And they finally got Paul McCartney play a right-handed bass...just kidding )

[@mrmikespence1964]

DAMN WRONG! THIS IS! THE JAZZMAN! (DB)! "SUPREMELY" PLAYING! THE (JG)! THE! JAZZMAN! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@mrmikespence1964]

"THIS IS JAZZ" PAUL MCARTNEY! IS "NOT" JAZZ! THE! JAZZMAN! *MIKE SPENCE!

[@foobargorch]

I'M PRETTY "SURE"! IT WAS! A JOKE! * FOOBAR GORCH!

[@bengtwahlstedt1021]

It's not 1978. It's 1982.

[@tangosierra9649]

Is that the bass player from The Knack

[@glennducey8894]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Landers

[@fibboobbif]

Thx for the post, i see that was in 1982, but why didnt you change it in the title, and why is that rude cut at 4:26?

[@wilhamcobly3805]

1978? Sure?

[@marcelojack6177]

UNA CAGADA

[@randyclere7756]

This was his most killing band