I absolutely love his bass playing on 'Herandu' from Weather Report's 'Black Market' album . Not surprisingly, the song was also composed by Johnson. AJ is most definitely an underrated player.
Some of the best playing in this genre I’ve come across. I suppose it was the golden age for that kind of material. Full marks also to the sound engineers on this gig/recording. Every instrument is clear and distinct. That doesn’t often happen nowadays.
I think Alphonso has to be the most underrated bassist ever. You don’t hear about him but he is on all my favorite records. I enjoy his lines and moves immensely!
Morgan Neher I don't care how young he looks, he is too young there to have aqcuiered such sound and play with such legends...Let alone all the rest...Brilliant
I was there as a teenager...one of the most influential Jazz-Rock bands. They sounded like this, no post-production, just blew your ears off. The golden age of live-music...
Got to see this same lineup play outside the Student Union on the Univ. of Florida campus that same year. Didn't sound quite this good, but more than good enough to appreciate the experience. That was my first time to hear Scofield, still a monster to this day.
timestamps. this gig is fking amazing 00:00 panhandler 04:16 juicy 12:25 red baron 20:20 almustafa the beloved 29:26 ivory tattoo 35:00 some day 44:56 hip pockets 53:00 billy drum solo 1:01:00 sweet wine 1:09:10 stratus 1:14:16 that's what she said
Duke was fresh out of Zappa. Cobham fresh out of Mahavishnu. Johnson fresh out of Weather Report. The who's who of fusion :) I think this was Scofield's first outing in the fusion scene. And what a place to start.
Billy Cobham is a huge influence on me. When I was a teenager, I heard songs like Stratus and Red Baron, Spectrum, and I was hooked. I thought he was the greatest drummer I had ever heard at that time...and I wanted to play like him. The way he moves around the kit like that just blew me away.
Much as I love all the greatest drummers, past & present, in rock & in jazz, to me, Billy was The G.o.a.t. They say nobody could do what Bonham did, what Peart did, Buddy Rich, etc. They are right. But nobody could do what BC did, either. The guy had superhuman skills, power & endurance. For example, check out "The Noonward Race" by Mahavishnu Orchestra, live in April 1972, on the "Mar Y Sol" various artists festival album. It's uncanny, the interplay between him & John McLaughlin. Even in the 1990s, he still had all his chops. Look for a 1992 trio live performance video with him, Herbie Hancock & Ron Carter. He plays with relative restraint, something he wasn't really known for since his stint with Miles, until his solo, which is as explosive as 20 years before.
@Armand d’Hubert But Ring did come up with some cool parts & patterns, that fit "their" songs like a glove, "Rain" & "Tomorrow Never Knows" being two of the best (no pun intended...😏🥁)... And, ps, he owns Carl Palmer's stainless steel kit from the "BSS" era. Pretty cool-ass.
@@jamesmicucci7028 That Mahavishnu Orchestra performance of "Noonward Race" from the 'Mar y Sol' album you mentioned was my introduction to Cobham, Mahavishnu, jazz-rock fusion and ultimately jazz itself. I was in my early teen years and my mind was totally blown hearing that performance in 1972. Sadly, that Mar y Sol CD is out of print (never made it to CD, I think), but it might be available to listen to on youtube. By the way, you might already know that that performance was heavily edited and the much longer entire unedited performance is included on the 'Best of Mahavishnu' CD.
ok - don't hate - this is the really FIRST TIME to listen to George Duke. I knew of his place in the scene but NEVER did this type of dive... OH MY MY - lots of good music to explore..!! This show will be in constant appreciation..!! Alphonso Johnson - young for sure but very accomplished. AND THAT BASS - I love the placement of the P-pickup..!!
If you dont like this kind of stuff that's understandable ...if you do this is a great live set and god hot damn always love the bass and the Chapman think it is ..
Talk about an incredible four piece group of all star fusion greatness! Billy Cobham, George Duke, John Scofield and Alphonso Johnson! Better witness this! You will never see legendary musicians like this again in a thousand years!
@@jimbrown571 these guys were pioneers of jazz Rock. Plus fusion with Funk. Amongst the other great jazz fusion rock funk musicians. In those days of the late 60's early mid 70s late 70s, it was referred to as jazz rock music. Do your homework
Alphonso Johnson was my bass teacher when I lived the the SFV. He was actually playing with Carlos Santana then and you are actually correct he was and is one outrageous musician. I used to go to all his live shows around L.A. and we all listened to him in awe and he is truly a humble and beautiful soul. I wish he would release the material he would present with his band, songs like Laya`s dance, outstanding song, among many. Keep on Al(Slim). Love ya! Tommy G.
I saw The Billy Cobham, George Duke Band in Chicago at The Ivanhoe Theater on October 26, 1976, I still have my ticket stubs. They played 2 nights with 2 shows each night and I went to all four! One of my greatest concert experiences ever and I even met Billy at a bar in the concert hall complex two hours before the first concert and shook hands with the man! My ticket stub was priced at $7 . . . those were the days.
Left handedness may be the reason for his improvisational techniques , that’s an amazing detail. Some incredibly talented musicians have been left handed, knopfler and mark king are also left handed
Billy Cobham is so humble, yet so talented. There was only one George Duke, my favorite musician of all time.Slim one of my favorite bass players ,with unparalleled tone and creativity...what a band
I picture Billy sitting back one day and thinking about what his dream all star band would be and then picked up the phone and made it happen👌Would’ve been an amazing band to reunite while George was still with us
Love these two guys to death! So happy to be able to see this so many years after hearing it with just audio. Is it just me? Or is there just an incredible amount of gear on that stage?! I can't imagine how long it took to set that up and sound check it in front of a waiting crowd 😮
Simply out of this world Musicianship. Impeccable, the whole lot of them! 🔥 Such a young Alphonso being this BAD, daymn!!! 👌🏿👌🏿 Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
What a fuckin band! To all those people consumed with Joe Bonamassa and all that pentatonic blues BULLSHIT, I say listen to this! Listen to what Sco's throwin down!
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Johnson, Scofield, Cobham and Duke, two of my idols from the mid 70s until today. STRATUS I love so much. I performed this title always with my former band as intro of our concerts.
FUSION - Had the pleasure of believe it or not seeing Tony Williams (RIP) Lifetime Band open up for The Billy Cobham and George Duke band in NYC Palladium on 14th Street. This was the first concert I went to - talk about being introduced to the world of LIVE MUSIC. Great MEMORIES!!
What a great show... What a great line-up.... George Duke is sadly missed was such a great keyboardist.... John Scofield is an excellent guitarist he is seldom mentioned & it's a shame... I don't understand why this show isn't on DVD... A very young Alfonso Johnson on bass... This is just awesome...
Caught show a Taft Theater in Cincinnati. Awesome indeed. Cob showed out time and time again all night. Rolling with one hand, while the other was held high in the air. He was amazing. Mr. Johnson was cold. Duke, "The Duke" period. JS, at the time I had never seen him before. I was 15 or so. I remember tickets were $8.00. I took my sister. What a show! Does anybody remember the warm up act that night?
I saw this band at Hammersmith, London...they opened for Shakti and Weather Report... I think they have had a massive impact for those lucky people who saw them.... I met George and he wanted to take this band further...every musician loved George and would have loved to reform...sadly he passed...he loved this band!!! Love you George!!! X
That Moog solo during the cut that starts at 4:16...couldn't possibly have been anyone but the great George Duke. Love always to you, wherever you are GD. And the Rhodes piano and Moog on Space Lady is sublime.
Saw this Band at the Tower theater in Philly 76 tore the house up first jazz fusion concert then saw Billy and Alphonso a year later this time with Jan Hammer on keys and Jeff Beck just rppied it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHATTTT!!!! I WOULD HAVE FOUGHT DEATH TO THE MAT TO SEE THAT LINE UP NOW! But then I was about 8yrs old so it balances out right...SSSIIIGGGHHH!!!UHHH!!!
To my knowledge, they didn't play CT or western MA. No way in the world I woulda missed THAT one! Now THAT'S the show that shoulda been released under the title "ALiveMutha4Ya"...!!!
Clarification: I was referring above to the show with Billy & Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck with The Jan Hammer Group DID play CT in 1976, I believe, at The Pinecrest Country Club in Shelton. And, as I've stated elsewhere here, I saw the Cobham/Duke Band a couple of times at Shaboo Inn in Willimantic, CT. They were fabulous. And, for some reason, I thought they were much better in person than on the live album.
I was fortunate enough to catch them for free, playing outside the Univ. of Florida Student Union in 1976. I even managed to ask Cobham if there were any plans to team up again with Tommy Bolin. He just shrugged his shoulders and went back to breaking down his drum kit. Most of us know the talented but addicted Bolin OD'd in December of that year. Sad but true repeat event all too common in the 1970s.
Class is in session with this awesome line up. Everyone is at the top of there game here. Billy is on fire here George giving us those funky keys Young John and Alfonso there wow
For some reason George didn't care for this project or the album when it came out. I was like WHAT?! A few years before he died I emailed him giving him the reasons why this music is so great. He replied saying I was probably right. He was cool guy who responded to email from fans
Thanks for sharing. George was so wonderful, I regret never having seen him live. He's such an interesting player, could go in so many directions and was always amazing whether he was playing piano, electric piano, synth...his personality always came through.
I was lucky enough to hang with George...he loved this band and wanted to tour with it again but He told me Sco was so busy...oh how I wish....he really LOVED this band....
Saw them same year at the Tower theater Upper Darby same awesome lineup Just Nasty I just amen into Jazz Fusuion in 75 took a Young Lady don't think she quite got it . The next year Billy Coham came back with Alphonso Johnson Jan Hammer and Jeff Beck to the Spectrum in Philly had to go another Awesome show
Being a former club band vocalist and percussionist, this is what REAL MUSIC is suppose to sound like. Very talented individuals. I'm 72 and STILL love it, so guys "Keep It Comin'"
Sco was cool af at the CT club show I saw with this band, I think it was in Fall 1976. Most of us Billy fans didn't even know who Sco was until this tour. John Abercrombie had been the guitarist on "Crosswinds" & I think "Total Eclipse", too. Maybe I missed one Sco was on already. Whereas Tommy Bolin had impressed on "Spectrum" that a rock dude could hang with the fusion masters, Sco went even farther with his command of jazz & fusion idioms with BC, Dukey & Alphonso. He's spread out stylistically since then, I think he's even respected in the jam band scene, but yeah, I thought he played with a cool ass intensity in this lineup.
These gentlemen was just getting started... with so much street credits to there names....so much knowledge on this stage... Alfonso is so next level to Jaco and Billy Cobham is so amazing to watch. George Duke funky and respected keyboardist (rest in peace) A young John Scofield ripping it up... great band
Love it my early inflatable sorry sound not loud enough I met all these cats played with some lessions etc best stuff even today time travels energy spirit stays where the heart is great shit period RIP you know. NJ all day Billy David Sancious Erie boom Carter's town also the boss Bruce I think of Flora still here baby island boy yrs
Had this album when I was 15. Catch Alphonso Johnson's "On the Case" Moonshadows) around this time too - Not to mention Billy Cobham's "Spectrum". Bought that when I was 13 (1973) - With my paper route money! Wanna know about fusion, just ask.
You just said the magic word. "Spectrum" is my favorite album by any drummer in fusion or rock (Bill Bruford & others notwithstanding), and has been since it's release in 1973 when I bought it the first time on gatefold lp...then twice more on cd. Oh yeah, half of it is also on his greatest hits cd, got that, too.
You know it's a real shame that when George Duke passed away they didn't put this show on DVD as a tribute to the man... especially with this line-up....
ogrebattle22763 I hope this live performance will eventually hit DVD, but I saw in an early interview that George Duke didn't like this live album. RIP DUKE
This would be the viable Miles Davis band would he have toured then. FANTASTIC music. There are no less than 3 Rolands RE-201 and 1 Mutron BiPhase in their rig, musician's mainstais.
Don't forget his impossible drumming with Mahavishnu Orch, Newport Jazz Fest, maybe 1971, on youtube; forced me to buy double pedals, stole so many licks from him (at least the ones I could play)
First saw Alphonso with Weather Report on the "Mysterious Traveler" tour, October 1974, front row center balcony, in Hartford, on a free ticket...next time was with this band at a CT club show (Shaboo Inn), 1975 or 1976. He was the first guy I remember seeing play fretless electric bass live, even before Jaco (I had missed WR with Miroslav Vituous). Fabulous player with a lot of taste.
Alphonso Johnson TERRIBLY underrated!!! Awesome!!!
For me he made Weather Report.....
I absolutely love his bass playing on 'Herandu' from Weather Report's 'Black Market' album . Not surprisingly, the song was also composed by Johnson. AJ is most definitely an underrated player.
Whats crazy is
that he was 19 in this video
@@tyroess7831 And, so was Jaco Pastorius. They were both 22-23 years old during the recording of Black Market.
Mr. cucumber slumber!
The 70s was the most creative decade in modern music in my opinion.
Facts!
Sometimes it takes some time to appreciate creativity. This concert is so inspired
Late 60's & early 70's is the best for fussion. Funky, Rock & Jazz. Billy cobham - Spectrum is a nice exemple.
Seriously?
@@thomasryan5764 Yeah, seriously. It's pretty much indisputable. These days everyone just copies past styles or makes elementary garbage.
Some of the best playing in this genre I’ve come across. I suppose it was the golden age for that kind of material.
Full marks also to the sound engineers on this gig/recording. Every instrument is clear and distinct. That doesn’t often happen nowadays.
I think Alphonso has to be the most underrated bassist ever. You don’t hear about him but he is on all my favorite records. I enjoy his lines and moves immensely!
Morgan Neher I don't care how young he looks, he is too young there to have aqcuiered such sound and play with such legends...Let alone all the rest...Brilliant
He is a professor now!
He never was underrated....he just didn't play in mainstream music. Fans of fusion and jazz know exactly who he is and revere him.
He wrote my favorite Weather Report song.
Thanks, I was wondering who the bass player was.
Excellent!!!!!
I was there as a teenager...one of the most influential Jazz-Rock bands. They sounded like this, no post-production, just blew your ears off. The golden age of live-music...
Got to see this same lineup play outside the Student Union on the Univ. of Florida campus that same year. Didn't sound quite this good, but more than good enough to appreciate the experience. That was my first time to hear Scofield, still a monster to this day.
👍
Fucking amazing. Loving this for many years
timestamps. this gig is fking amazing
00:00 panhandler
04:16 juicy
12:25 red baron
20:20 almustafa the beloved
29:26 ivory tattoo
35:00 some day
44:56 hip pockets
53:00 billy drum solo
1:01:00 sweet wine
1:09:10 stratus
1:14:16 that's what she said
BLESS YOU CHILD
thanks for this
You 👍🔥🙏
Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Chapter by Chapter / Verse by Verse !!!!!!! Amen
Yeah bruh ...perfect ...good list..I have most....thnx bruh
Duke was fresh out of Zappa. Cobham fresh out of Mahavishnu. Johnson fresh out of Weather Report. The who's who of fusion :) I think this was Scofield's first outing in the fusion scene. And what a place to start.
Billy Cobham is a huge influence on me. When I was a teenager, I heard songs like Stratus and Red Baron, Spectrum, and I was hooked. I thought he was the greatest drummer I had ever heard at that time...and I wanted to play like him. The way he moves around the kit like that just blew me away.
Billy Cobham makes drumming look like a full-contact sport! He's athletic AF
Even though it's Duke's band, who do the band keeps staring at, it's Billy
it's not Duke's band
Much as I love all the greatest drummers, past & present, in rock & in jazz, to me, Billy was The G.o.a.t. They say nobody could do what Bonham did, what Peart did, Buddy Rich, etc. They are right. But nobody could do what BC did, either. The guy had superhuman skills, power & endurance. For example, check out "The Noonward Race" by Mahavishnu Orchestra, live in April 1972, on the "Mar Y Sol" various artists festival album. It's uncanny, the interplay between him & John McLaughlin. Even in the 1990s, he still had all his chops. Look for a 1992 trio live performance video with him, Herbie Hancock & Ron Carter. He plays with relative restraint, something he wasn't really known for since his stint with Miles, until his solo, which is as explosive as 20 years before.
@Armand d’Hubert But Ring did come up with some cool parts & patterns, that fit "their" songs like a glove, "Rain" & "Tomorrow Never Knows" being two of the best (no pun intended...😏🥁)... And, ps, he owns Carl Palmer's stainless steel kit from the "BSS" era. Pretty cool-ass.
@@jamesmicucci7028 That Mahavishnu Orchestra performance of "Noonward Race" from the 'Mar y Sol' album you mentioned was my introduction to Cobham, Mahavishnu, jazz-rock fusion and ultimately jazz itself. I was in my early teen years and my mind was totally blown hearing that performance in 1972. Sadly, that Mar y Sol CD is out of print (never made it to CD, I think), but it might be available to listen to on youtube. By the way, you might already know that that performance was heavily edited and the much longer entire unedited performance is included on the 'Best of Mahavishnu' CD.
ok - don't hate - this is the really FIRST TIME to listen to George Duke. I knew of his place in the scene but NEVER did this type of dive... OH MY MY - lots of good music to explore..!! This show will be in constant appreciation..!! Alphonso Johnson - young for sure but very accomplished. AND THAT BASS - I love the placement of the P-pickup..!!
each one a legend in his own right, but together these guys are unreal. perfect combo
Agreed!!
I remember them back in 1976 in Gusman Hall D town Miami
Agreed too....!!! Pure joyce!!!
4 Of my favorite musicians playing together, you can't ask for more
@@pedrolancemachadolucesgarc9485 Wow Gusman Hall. Is that still around?
Also underrated is John Scofield for guitarists… this was a match made in heaven for these 4 musicians to grace the same stage together.
No visual effects no on stage Antics just straight up jazz, funk,rock- Fusion at its excellence decades ahead then, and still unmatchable today 2021
I hate the world for not fully appreciating this man's amazing talent.
Don't hate the world, share this video and educate the world!
Billy Cobham is the best drummer i have ever seen
I know there are plenty of "new hotness" drummers but Cobham's towering techique, precision, musicality, and chutzpah puts him in a class of one.
If you dont like this kind of stuff that's understandable ...if you do this is a great live set and god hot damn always love the bass and the Chapman think it is ..
You're not alone. A number of famous drummers have said that Billy Cobham is their favorite drummer.
Talk about an incredible four piece group of all star fusion greatness! Billy Cobham, George Duke, John Scofield and Alphonso Johnson! Better witness this! You will never see legendary musicians like this again in a thousand years!
My favorite drummer of all time Billy Cobham especially when he was with the mahavishnu orchestra !
One of greatest Jazz Rock fusion bands ever.
Maybe toe to toe with Weather Report...
@@fredsanke4070 Sorry , this is clearly better than Weather Report. Weather Report is a little more Vanilla, from the best of my memory
i dont think they would appreciate the "Rock" name...this is purely Jazz fusion, Jazz/funk fusion. Boston, Toto, Yes and Chicago, Kansas is Jazz Rock
Or Carlos santana
@@jimbrown571 these guys were pioneers of jazz Rock. Plus fusion with Funk. Amongst the other great jazz fusion rock funk musicians. In those days of the late 60's early mid 70s late 70s, it was referred to as jazz rock music. Do your homework
Good lord, it must have amazing to hear - and feel - this group live. Fusion was so hip back then.
it's hip again - just look at Thundercat, MonoNeon, Domi and JD Beck, and many more....
@@richardworth350 Snarky Puppy
Alphonso Johnson was my bass teacher when I lived the the SFV. He was actually playing with Carlos Santana then and you are actually correct he was and is one outrageous musician. I used to go to all his live shows around L.A. and we all listened to him in awe and he is truly a humble and beautiful soul. I wish he would release the material he would present with his band, songs like Laya`s dance, outstanding song, among many. Keep on Al(Slim). Love ya! Tommy G.
I saw The Billy Cobham, George Duke Band in Chicago at The Ivanhoe Theater on October 26, 1976, I still have my ticket stubs. They played 2 nights with 2 shows each night and I went to all four! One of my greatest concert experiences ever and I even met Billy at a bar in the concert hall complex two hours before the first concert and shook hands with the man! My ticket stub was priced at $7 . . . those were the days.
Wow what an experience that must've been!
The good old days. Bar none. Find me a drummer like this now. And besides that, a left handed drummer. Rare.
Left handedness may be the reason for his improvisational techniques , that’s an amazing detail. Some incredibly talented musicians have been left handed, knopfler and mark king are also left handed
Lenny White plays a right hand kit left handed.
Nothing compares. These guys in their prime were eons ahead of the times.
Billy Cobham is so humble, yet so talented. There was only one George Duke, my favorite musician of all time.Slim one of my favorite bass players ,with unparalleled tone and creativity...what a band
I picture Billy sitting back one day and thinking about what his dream all star band would be and then picked up the phone and made it happen👌Would’ve been an amazing band to reunite while George was still with us
I definitely agree Billy Cobham is my favorite drummer he is a beast especially back then even when he was with the mahavish orchestra !
Love these two guys to death! So happy to be able to see this so many years after hearing it with just audio. Is it just me? Or is there just an incredible amount of gear on that stage?! I can't imagine how long it took to set that up and sound check it in front of a waiting crowd 😮
George Duke, Billy Cobham, Alphonso Johnson and John Scofield in the seventies.. This is way too hot!
Simply out of this world Musicianship. Impeccable, the whole lot of them! 🔥
Such a young Alphonso being this BAD, daymn!!! 👌🏿👌🏿
Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
What a fuckin band! To all those people consumed with Joe Bonamassa and all that pentatonic blues BULLSHIT, I say listen to this! Listen to what Sco's throwin down!
Look neil peart was great rest in peace sir, but Billy is on that same level of intensity and just a genius of drumming and timing.
you will rise next level while watching and listening to this...
+functionalschizophr straight truth
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A poor man's Return to Forever.
Alphonso Johnson!!!
This is amazing. Red Baron just rips. Also... I never noticed before, how much Scofield looks like John Cleese!
“No he doesn’t”………….Mr. Cleese
Yup. Gallagher too.
@@bongofury5924 "but that's not an argument, it's just contradiction"
Johnson, Scofield, Cobham and Duke, two of my idols from the mid 70s until today. STRATUS I love so much. I performed this title always with my former band as intro of our concerts.
I assume your band was great. As drummer I did the same back in the day. Was a wonderful time for me.Hope it was for you also.
We had a vhs copy of this in college in the late 90s. We watched it repeatedly and did things that college kids do 😉 . Great times!
🌳🕊❤️
I must admit, I forgot about Alphonso. Definitely one of the greatest Bassist , in the top bracket. Probably the first man to play the Chapman Stick.
FUSION - Had the pleasure of believe it or not seeing Tony Williams (RIP) Lifetime Band open up for The Billy Cobham and George Duke band in NYC Palladium on 14th Street. This was the first concert I went to - talk about being introduced to the world of LIVE MUSIC. Great MEMORIES!!
Was there allan holdsworth on guitar? Because allan was playing with Tony around 1975.
This is one of the funkiest assemblies of all time.
The facial expressions are top-notch! You can't learn that in school.
Clavinet with a Mutron ll phasor ! Funky as fuck !
He could bend notes with that machine no doubt
What a great show... What a great line-up.... George Duke is sadly missed was such a great keyboardist.... John Scofield is an excellent guitarist he is seldom mentioned & it's a shame... I don't understand why this show isn't on DVD... A very young Alfonso Johnson on bass... This is just awesome...
Caught show a Taft Theater in Cincinnati. Awesome indeed. Cob showed out time and time again all night. Rolling with one hand, while the other was held high in the air. He was amazing. Mr. Johnson was cold. Duke, "The Duke" period. JS, at the time I had never seen him before. I was 15 or so. I remember tickets were $8.00. I took my sister. What a show! Does anybody remember the warm up act that night?
Same lineup played Vancouver at the commodore
Front row baby
YESSUH!!! COBHAM DUKE JOHNSON & SCOFIELD!!! CLASSIC!!!
Look at how so young they were, a young 25yr old George Duke killing it!!!!
George was 30 in 1976. Still young, but Scofield was 25 then.
Look at the amount of kit that both Billy and George have! Al and John are virtually squeezed off the stage.
Billy. and Alphonso....wow!!!
Its amazing how G. Duke was ahead of his time with the extraterrestrial vibe with "Some Day". Maurice White was the same in his writings with EWF.
I think the first he really got into that was Inca roads I remember him talking about it
I bought that album when I was 14! Maybe that’s why I’m so screwed up now...I still love this music. R.I.P. Mr. George Duke.
Alphonso Johnson is my favorite bassist though highly underrated
And these guys played music for the sake of playing music to the best of their abilities, which were very very high, what a concept!
Scofield. Haha. That cigarette, and he doesn't even look at his fret board. He is just that good. One with that axe. Just way too cool. lol
Paradise all in one room
The Billy Cobham and George Duke Band - Live On Tour In Europe. It's a great album.
This whole band has such filthy good musicians hot damn
I saw this band at Hammersmith, London...they opened for Shakti and Weather Report...
I think they have had a massive impact for those lucky people who saw them....
I met George and he wanted to take this band further...every musician loved George and would have loved to reform...sadly he passed...he loved this band!!! Love you George!!! X
seeing scofield so young is insane. what a fucking roster.
Mr.Cobham was a pioneer in synth treatment of real drums and probably the first drummer to use looping tech amongst his other musical achievements.
That Moog solo during the cut that starts at 4:16...couldn't possibly have been anyone but the great George Duke. Love always to you, wherever you are GD. And the Rhodes piano and Moog on Space Lady is sublime.
real music, real vibes, no showoffs!!! just beautiful!!
When musical giants walked the earth!
The great Young John Scofield on Guitar. This was 1976. I was in High School. George Duke RIH. Alphonso Johnson on Electric Bass. What a Band
Saw this Band at the Tower theater in Philly 76 tore the house up first jazz fusion concert then saw Billy and Alphonso a year later this time with Jan Hammer on keys and Jeff Beck just rppied it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHATTTT!!!! I WOULD HAVE FOUGHT DEATH TO THE MAT TO SEE THAT LINE UP NOW! But then I was about 8yrs old so it balances out right...SSSIIIGGGHHH!!!UHHH!!!
Billy, Alphonso, Jeff Beck, and Jan Hammer?!?!?! GODDAMN!!! I hope somebody got a tape of that sheeitt!!!
To my knowledge, they didn't play CT or western MA. No way in the world I woulda missed THAT one! Now THAT'S the show that shoulda been released under the title "ALiveMutha4Ya"...!!!
Clarification: I was referring above to the show with Billy & Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck with The Jan Hammer Group DID play CT in 1976, I believe, at The Pinecrest Country Club in Shelton. And, as I've stated elsewhere here, I saw the Cobham/Duke Band a couple of times at Shaboo Inn in Willimantic, CT. They were fabulous. And, for some reason, I thought they were much better in person than on the live album.
I was fortunate enough to catch them for free, playing outside the Univ. of Florida Student Union in 1976. I even managed to ask Cobham if there were any plans to team up again with Tommy Bolin. He just shrugged his shoulders and went back to breaking down his drum kit. Most of us know the talented but addicted Bolin OD'd in December of that year. Sad but true repeat event all too common in the 1970s.
Love it...........George always on top having FUN!. Moog Synth is his SOUL then!
alphonso looks like a kid back then. The 70's were very creative years for fusion jazz, some of the best bands/musicians came from these times.
He was 25 at the time
Class is in session with this awesome line up.
Everyone is at the top of there game here.
Billy is on fire here
George giving us those funky keys
Young John and Alfonso there wow
Exquisite double-bass drumming by Billy on Juicy!
For some reason George didn't care for this project or the album when it came out. I was like WHAT?! A few years before he died I emailed him giving him the reasons why this music is so great. He replied saying I was probably right. He was cool guy who responded to email from fans
Thanks for sharing. George was so wonderful, I regret never having seen him live. He's such an interesting player, could go in so many directions and was always amazing whether he was playing piano, electric piano, synth...his personality always came through.
Me too... I wrote a lot with him! I even got his George Duke Songbook from 1977 and he signed it.. much missed!
Haha that is a great story, thanks for sharing
I was lucky enough to hang with George...he loved this band and wanted to tour with it again but He told me Sco was so busy...oh how I wish....he really LOVED this band....
I had forgot that Duke had died. :/
Saw them same year at the Tower theater Upper Darby same awesome lineup Just Nasty I just amen into Jazz Fusuion in 75 took a Young Lady don't think she quite got it . The next year Billy Coham came back with Alphonso Johnson Jan Hammer and Jeff Beck to the Spectrum in Philly had to go another Awesome show
24:00 (!!!) Gänsehautmoment. Absolut geil arrangierte Mugge.
Wow, I think that's the earliest use of a Stick that I've seen. I thought it wasn't invented until the early 80s.
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Scofield and Johnson are also terrific players
Being a former club band vocalist and percussionist, this is what REAL MUSIC is suppose to sound like. Very talented individuals. I'm 72 and STILL love it, so guys "Keep It Comin'"
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COBHAM/DUKE BAND WHAT AN AMAZING, EXCELLENT JAZZ-ROCK QUARTET I LOVE THESE GUYS THERE MUSIC MAKES ME HAPPY&TOUCHES MY SOUL. JAZZ-ROCK FUSION FOREVER
Billy Cobham mad sexy on them drums...I can't even front lol
I have a feeling he was aware of that haha
best Scofield ever!
Safe to say, Scofield is the definition of cool...
Sco was cool af at the CT club show I saw with this band, I think it was in Fall 1976. Most of us Billy fans didn't even know who Sco was until this tour. John Abercrombie had been the guitarist on "Crosswinds" & I think "Total Eclipse", too. Maybe I missed one Sco was on already. Whereas Tommy Bolin had impressed on "Spectrum" that a rock dude could hang with the fusion masters, Sco went even farther with his command of jazz & fusion idioms with BC, Dukey & Alphonso. He's spread out stylistically since then, I think he's even respected in the jam band scene, but yeah, I thought he played with a cool ass intensity in this lineup.
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These gentlemen was just getting started... with so much street credits to there names....so much knowledge on this stage... Alfonso is so next level to Jaco and Billy Cobham is so amazing to watch. George Duke funky and respected keyboardist (rest in peace)
A young John Scofield ripping it up... great band
Dammm, just my time of Day,,,, Great Times to hear this ,,,
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Absolutely brilliant ...I really enjoyed that. Thanks for uploading👏👏
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Love it my early inflatable sorry sound not loud enough I met all these cats played with some lessions etc best stuff even today time travels energy spirit stays where the heart is great shit period RIP you know. NJ all day Billy David Sancious Erie boom Carter's town also the boss Bruce I think of Flora still here baby island boy yrs
Greatest version of Stratus ever! Just an amazing display of virtuosity!!!
the heyday of fusion
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WHICH HELPED MADE MY SON!
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Had this album when I was 15. Catch Alphonso Johnson's "On the Case" Moonshadows) around this time too - Not to mention Billy Cobham's "Spectrum". Bought that when I was 13 (1973) - With my paper route money! Wanna know about fusion, just ask.
My friends brother was about 5 years older than us. He had us on a steady diet of this stuff at an early age as well.
You just said the magic word. "Spectrum" is my favorite album by any drummer in fusion or rock (Bill Bruford & others notwithstanding), and has been since it's release in 1973 when I bought it the first time on gatefold lp...then twice more on cd. Oh yeah, half of it is also on his greatest hits cd, got that, too.
You know it's a real shame that when George Duke passed away they didn't put this show on DVD as a tribute to the man... especially with this line-up....
ogrebattle22763 I hope this live performance will eventually hit DVD, but I saw in an early interview that George Duke didn't like this live album. RIP DUKE
It definitely needs to be on every channel asap. We need to get back to musicians actually playing instruments with skill.
This would be the viable Miles Davis band would he have toured then. FANTASTIC music. There are no less than 3 Rolands RE-201 and 1 Mutron BiPhase in their rig, musician's mainstais.
This is when Brother Billy was in his young prime.
Don't forget his impossible drumming with Mahavishnu Orch, Newport Jazz Fest, maybe 1971, on youtube; forced me to buy double pedals, stole so many licks from him (at least the ones I could play)
This takes me to another world.
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Those guys are playing a game and overjoyed
Saw them at belly up tavern in solana beach Ca 6 ft away
ALPHONSO JOHNSON IS INCREIBLE !!! SO YOUNG !!!
He looks younger than he actually was. At 25 he was the same age as John Scofield... who looks older lol
LMAO!
Love his conception and feel..one of the best supporting and sweet playing bassists ever
I wish I had his hairline. I'm more on the scofield side of things haha
First saw Alphonso with Weather Report on the "Mysterious Traveler" tour, October 1974, front row center balcony, in Hartford, on a free ticket...next time was with this band at a CT club show (Shaboo Inn), 1975 or 1976. He was the first guy I remember seeing play fretless electric bass live, even before Jaco (I had missed WR with Miroslav Vituous). Fabulous player with a lot of taste.
If there was musical justice, this band would be considered high on the list of supergroups.
It does my heart good to hear these guys play stuff, Billy C. Fighting them drums,,,,,And the boys, having fun,,
Best Red Baron ever to be performed, ever.
I sooooooooooo remember this TIME. All GREAT.... Cobham is STILL AMAZING
GOD DAMN!