right? Definitely takes me back...don't forget about the old Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship concert VHS's....right? Vinnie, Peart, Smith, Smitty...his set was amazing. Remember Marvin Smitty Smith?....dang...
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What a Master! No words... Thank you very very much for posting this Master Class! What a Blast! This last solo was ..... Hooooolly Molly! He's truly one of the bests! One of my all time favorites! Thank you Mr. Billy! You truly inspired me along the way! Gratitude Master! Cheers from Brazil! ❤️🙏🏾✨
Todo lo que estas explicando, me lo trasmitiste, hace muchos años, los 80. No entiendo el ingles, pero se cada cosa que explicas... Has sido y lo sigues siendo... Mi hermano, parece que compartimos los mismo. Gracias !
@@user-st1yz4yc8d CLEARLY!!! I gotta say honestly though that Simon keeps getting better and better so much that it’s just ridiculous. He’s like a Billy copycat with that touch of British Metal thing like he secretly listens to a bit of Iron Maiden! 😂 He’s a master though and all of the greats that we grew up loving just keep getting better and at about 65 or 70 they’ll slow down just a little bit. When Gadd did that final tour with Chick in 2017 or 18 the footage of him in New York is just bonkers. He’s in his 70’s just blazing. And Vinnie, Steve, Dave, Erskine and Bozzio! Can’t forget Omar as well. So many beautiful players.
El maestro en la batería estará homenajeado en el PanamáJazzFestival enero 2024. Billy es de nacionalidad panameña, nacido en Panamá, provincia de Colón. Y Danilo Perez con el PJF hace homenaje a unos de los mejores en la batería, Billy Cobhan. Desde mi pequeña y preciosa Panamá.
Retired professional drummer here, 4+ decades into this game, he was a game changer for me in the very early eighties. Hearing his shit from Miles Davis, to Mahavishnu...man oh man. The fact that he played open handed, and had a non-sequential tom set-up, i.e. not highest to lowest which is most common. His cymbal set-up was unique, what he played, how and when he played it, and the whole 'four stick thing'...he seemed to me, at the time, he was an ambidextrous drum playing God! For me there is no 'best' drummer of all time, but imo he was the most 'unique' by far.
I'm fascinated by the drum cymbal sounds. Huge drums cranked way up, shallow dry snare sound heavy clang cymbals, tight dry bass drums. It's all a bit of a mess acoustically but Cobham is so freaking un human I watched the whole thing!
The Master Drumer Billy Coban advices simple common Sence to body posture to flow his sitting up right straight the spinal cord the back the balance of the body is the center core of bodies energy flow. If any one who practices yoga or Taichi will understand what energy flow & movement means 😅
Respectfully, too much talking about what's really basic drumming. To my ears, what Billy was going for in his playing and never achieving, was what Virgil Donati has achieved in his playing. Humility works well for playing this inistrument, too as I see in Donati's playing and how he presents himself to the public.
The point most people miss about Billy is his musicality and how he can do what amounts to way over playing yet some how the groove really works and is very musical with the particular song , vital transformation by the Mahavishnu Orchestra would be a good one to check out, you also have to remember broke the mold when he came along , Virgil is outstanding for Shure but he's very much a product of many giants like Cobham who broke ground and came before
@@s1sters118 Your opinion is respected. My opinion, as a professional drummer for 63 years (12 to 75), comes from many years of studiying the drumming greats, including B.C. When he came on the scene, I went for everything he recorded and felt he was "it" on the scene in his time. Since then Donati showed up with his uncanny, indescribable technique and style. I always liked drummer Peter Erskine's remark about Virgil's drumming. He said, "Virgil? Who knows what he's doing !" I believe what makes Virgil's drumming over the top compared to other drummers, is that he is a composer and plays keyboards. That abillity certainly would help with ideas soloing on a drum set. Virgil's physical ability, too is monsterous! His doubles on his bass drum pedals while intricately playing speedy singles on the toms around the set is marvelous ! To my ears, Cobham never had Donati's technical ability, nor style of his own grooves - especially in odd time signatures - in his original compositions in the jazz fusion genre. If you'd like, here is an example of Donati's top drawer soloing abilities: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4C0ZxfB__M4.html (watch from the beginning)
@@JeffHogue-em6zx no one is questioning he has a monster technique but now put up a clip of him playing on someone's album rather than a solo , in that settings he doesn't do anything that's vastly different from any of those speed metal guys , there's nothing that makes you go "that's Virgil" like you can hear with a lot of the greats ...,.. someone will always come along with a better technique, you only have to look at some of the new crop of speed metal guys or the young lions from the gospel world but very few of them make an impact on the musical world like a Gadd or Tony Williams or people like BC has
Uses the words me and I a lot. He has huge talent but I feel watching this he lacks the ability or inclination to really disclose anything he's doing. I met him in London around 2018 at one of his shows and openly thanked him for some great musical moments. He looked at me like you would look at a dog turd on your shoe. Oh well.
