Billy Cobham Band
Alvin Batiste- clarinet, sax, flute
Charles Singleton- guitar
Ray Mouton- guitar
Marc Soskin- keys
Randy Jackson- bass
Billy Cobham- drums
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, Mass.
February 18, 1978
1st show
master audience recording
Sony TC-48 cassette deck, unknown external mike >
TDK-SA 90 min. master cassette >
played on Nak. 125 into soundforge (WAV) with realtek soundcard >
FLAC > torrentially yours.
runtime: 57:18
1: tuning 1:30
2: stage introduction > ACDC > 7:56
3: La Guernica 10:26
4: stratus 16:49
5: talk and band introductions 2:21
6: on a magic carpet ride > 10:38 (spliced at flip and missing first few seconds)
7: puffNstuff 7:35 (end cuts)
a this and that masters of fusion 3 step torrent production
(master tape > WAV > FLAC > torrentially yours.)
Do not sell this recording.
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comments:
although I didn't see this show, I still have the master cassette recording,
made with a Sony TC-48 recorded to a TDK-SA tape. the beginning of on a magic
carpet ride was apparently erased from the master cassette somewhere along its
journey, missing about 20 seconds, and there's a tape flip splice, just a few
seconds missing there. I don't know how much of the end is missing, the end of
puffNstuff and probably an encore are missing. it's close to an hour of the set
in decent sound quality, possibly the best of the 3 Boston 1978 shows I've heard
(the other 2 at Berklee P.C. in June along with the One truth Band). the external
mike was a decent one (an electret-condensor type, with a battery in it) so even
though made with a lower-fidelity deck than the other 1978 Boston recordings I've
heard, I think it's a higher fidelity recording, since the biggest determiner of that
is the mike, more than the deck or tape used. all of those are a factor in how much
fidelity is captured, and while this deck totally let me down later that year with
Jethro Tull show (its last recording mission), until that point it worked quite reliably.
It just needed a bit of speed adjusting before I posted it so that is done and it's
time to share some more corn on the Cob (with ham). sorry if lame joke but if 75 or
earlier there would be no ham just all jam. In 1978, Cobham was still a great drummer
to hear live, but he did like to ham it up a little, with this group. fortunately he
also liked to jam it up a little too. So for those who didn't get to hear when Billy Cobham
was the Goliath of drummers (especially in the Maha. Orch.), this may be more familiar
and preferable music anyway. the year after this, Billy was off with another go-round
with John McLaughlin. This wasn't nearly that intense (not much is) but it was in the
most vital decade of Billy Cobham's music, when the standard for fusion drumming was
set by this fellow.