Billy Cobham Spectrum 40 concert


What an amazing performance in St. Petersburg.
Hard to believe its been 40 years from the first spectrum album. Good to see lots of people still enjoying real musicians.
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Yeah, I saw Billy doing most of Spectrum back in the mid-70s. They were the backup band for Rick Wakeman at DAR Constitution Hall in DC.

Billy was *incredible*, fastest hands I've ever seen. And his forearms looked like taut bands of steel. If that man grabbed you by the neck, he could pop your head off with a single squeeze.

And he had a VERY cool drumset - it was bright yellow and was formed such that the drums were curved and the bottoms pointed out towards the audience. And the "mouths" of those bottoms were flared, kinda like the horn of a trombone. He and his band absolutely killed, best drumming performance I've ever seen! And I think the guitarist was Tommy Bolin - he was incredible!!

-RW-