Dream Bands - with Billy Cobham

I enjoy
thinking of Billy Cobham in mega star bands.
sounds crazy
but these days anything goes - if they get on.


Dream Project 1

Jeff Beck with Billy Cobham Band
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Jeff Beck - Guitar , Voice Box
Billy Cobham - Drums , Timbales
Alphonso Johnson - Bass , Stick Bass
Jan Hammer - Moogs, Keyboards (for the studio CD)
Tony Hymas - Keyboards , Moog (for the Tour)
Paulinho Da Costa - Special Percussion.

Label : EagleRock records & Eagle BluRay

Production - Jeff Beck, Billy Cobham ,Ken Scot
Studio Engineer - Ken Scott




Dream Project 2

Prince with Billy Cobham Band
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Prince - Lead guitar , clavinet keyboard
Billy Cobham - Drums
Phil Upchurch - 2nd Guitar , Lead Guitar
Nathan East - Bass
Gil Goldstein - Piano , Organ , Moog
Rachel Z - Keyboads , Synthes.

Production - Prince & Tommy Vicari
Studio Engineer - Dennis McKay

Label :EagleRock records & Eagle BluRay





Dream Project 3

Carlos Santana & Billy Cobham Band
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Carlos Santana - Lead Guitar
Billy Cobham - Drums, Percussion
Chester Thompson - Keyboards
Alphonso Johnson - Bass
Paul Jackson Jr. - 2nd Guitar
Raul Rekow - Congas, Percussion
Ndugu Chancler - 2nd Drums , Timbales , Percussions

Supporting Band
Asere (with Billy Cobham on last track).


Label : AristaBMGSony & Eagle BluRay.

Producers - George Duke , Carlos Santana , Billy Cobham.
Studio Engineer - Bob Clearmountain






On all Tours
Special Selected Chefs (with Mobile Kitchen Bus)
By Billy Cobham, Carlos Santana & Prince








Nothing wrong with Dream bands
I hope Billy can Laugh at these

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Outtasight
Colin.

Here my dream band with Billy!
Joe Defrancesco: b3 organ
George Benson:guitars
Billy Cobham:drums
DSD recording at Sony studios!(you know what i'm talking about Colin!)
dream band 2:
Austin Peralta:Piano
Ron Carter :bass
Buster Williams:bass
Gary Burton:mallets
Billy Cobham:drums
DSD recording and mastering at Sony studios (Tokyo) by the Suzuki's brothers.

Yes DSD , SACD, DVDA , DTS
or a 5.1 BluRay
I am happy with.



Great idea of a band
Jazz at its best Steph.

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Outtasight
Colin.

Cool topic! I have so many Boomer dream bands I wouldn't know where to start! Some people, unfortunately are no longer with us, but....here goes.

How about : Boomer-drums
Jaco Pastorious-bass
John Lord-hammond organ and keys
Jeff Beck-guitar
Stan Getz-tenor sax

Billy Cobham- Drums
Tony Levin- Bass
Brad Mehldau- Keys
Evelynn Glennie--Percussion
Chick Corea- Keys
ME--second drums
Joshua Redman-Sax
Airto- Percussion

C'mon-it wouldn't be a DREAM without myself in it!!! hahahahaha!
Cut at Electric Ladyland, with Trevor Horn/and Rick Rubin

(Sorry If I mis-spelled anyone)

D.L.

Billy- Rhythm Drums
Billy- Lead Drums
Billy- Backup Drums

If he could only be cloned...

Great stuff, Dave.

Bilham on drums
Bobby McFerrin
Michael Hedges on guitars (or Bireli Lagrene for a living dream)
John Hicks on piano (or maybe Benny Green for a living dream)
Ornette Coleman on whatever he wants
Jon Camp on bass (whatever happened to him? melodic bass player from Renaissance; seems Charlie Haden would be the better choice)

May as well have Leonard Bernstein (or Slatkin) conducting and a Mick Jagger walk-on.

Boomer has already played with most of the important musicians on the planet in so many varied types of music, that there aren't many situations I can think of that I would like to see.

But since this is a fantasy question there are probably two I would fantasize about:

1. I would like to see Boomer and Steve Gadd, who both come from a drum corps foundation in their playing, get together with a selected all-star drum line of the best kids that are out there in drum corps right now , and play. It would be a tremendous boost for drum corps across the country, and I think would be a real fun thing for both of these drummers to re-visit at this time in their lives.

2. I would like to see the original M.O. reunite. Since Jan Hammer is the lone holdout on this, I would suggest Stu Goldberg as the keyboardist.

Peace, TED

John McLaughlin - Guitar
Billy Cobham - Drums
Jerry Goodman - Violin
Jan Hammer - Keyboards
Rick Laird - Bass

;0)

This kind of group came to mind....

Billy Cobham: drums
Jeff Berlin: bass
Scott Henderson: guitar
Chick Corea: keyboards
Nippi Noya: percussion

Seems Scott Henderson is a great pairing and it hasn't happened before, though I know Scott would be way into it being a longtime fan of Billy. He was beautifully covering Spectrum material by 1976 and probably before then . . .

Woofus, I was listening to Scott Henderson’s albums “Dr Hee” and “Nomad” the other day, great stuff. Here’s a clip of Chick Corea’s Electric Band with Scott Henderson on guitar from 1986. Dave Weckl looks young here, I think he was around 25 at the time. This tune “King Cockroach” is from a jazz festival in Bern, Switzerland. I have this tape, it’s around 80 minutes and the quality is superb both musically and technically (good picture quality and stereo sound). The band plays six tracks from their first album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmjZToHAIhE&feature=related