Billy Cobham Band
La Bastille
Houston, Texas
September 1, 1974

Audience recording
CDs received by agalli in trade (from unknown gen cassette)
2026 CD rip: more complete and speed/phase corrected
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SET LIST:
01. Solarization Suite 22:28
02. Red Baron 8:43
03. Shabazz 15:14
04. Billy Cobham speaks and introduces band 2:20 (cut at 0:24.5 and 0:53.8)
05. Total Eclipse 11:05
06. Drum Solo > Taurian Matador 14:59 (cut at 07:12.8)
-cut-
07. Bandits 14:29
-cut-
08. Billy Cobham speaks 1:30
09. Lunarputians 8:03 (cut at 02:43.3)
-cut-
10. Heather 30:16 (cut at 16:15.1)
11. The Pleasant Pheasant 11:19
-cut-
12. Tenth Pinn 25:45

Running time: 166:11

BAND:
Billy Cobham - drums
John Abercrombie - guitar
Alex Blake - bass
Milcho Leviev - keyboards
Michael Brecker - saxophone
Randy Brecker - trumpet
Glenn Ferris - trombone


Background:
This was originally seeded by mr_mags on March 17, 2011 from agalli's first CD rip.
It is a very long recording with a lot of cuts and agalli's CDs were poorly tracked.
mr_mags retracked it and somehow Shabazz was lost from that version. Shabazz is
listed in mr_mags's setlist as track 2, but it's wrong - that track 2 is actually
Red Baron and then it jumps into the second part of Billy Cobham's band introduction.

Hence, this version runs about 18 minutes longer. Plus, it's now speed corrected.

It was originally seeded identified only as September 1974. I don't know if Sept 1
is accurate, but it's what setlist.fm has it as. The "1" could be a placeholder, so
it would be nice to see primary source evidence for the right date.


Editing notes:
-Audacity: a few secs after the tape cut during track 10, I seamlessly joined the
audio and also repaired a few samples here

-phase corrected the channel alignment (some parts were misaligned by 20 samples). I
don't think the azimuth alignment of the tape transfer was very good. The audio
quality would probably be notably improved by a better tape transfer
-automatically balanced levels. Also boosted the levels of tracks 3-12 by about
3 dB to be consistent with the levels of tracks 1 and 2

Major retracking and speed corrected because:
-track 1 was 0.9% fast for the first 4.5 mins, then transitioned to 1.85% fast by
6 mins in and stayed there until the end of track 2
-tracks 3 and 4 (to its 2nd cut) were 1.0% fast
-tracks 4 (after its 2nd cut) to the cut in track 6 were 1.5% fast
-track 6 after its cut was 2.5% fast
-track 7 to the cut in track 9 were on-speed
-track 9 after its cut was 0.9% fast
-track 10 before its cut was 2.5% fast, and after its cut to track 11 were 1.5%
fast
-track 12 was on-speed

-Audacity: seamlessly joined audio (removed repeated material) at ~0:02.79 sec of
track 3
Ross (ledwhofloyd), April 2026