Stratus

[Migo6Lino]

Gotta dig out these ol' vinyls... Such great stuff!

[misalko1]

sta reci ?

[jaco1458]

I swear Billy is known for much more than this song,but thats all I hear... too bad...

[jode72]

Yep, that's where Massive Attack got it. LOL

[JBroMusicProductions]

Almost fell off my chair listening to the rhythm section's tight groove!

[kasavubu]

Aussie Carl on Stratus with Cobham and Aussie Tal with Beck on Startus.

[tuutsweet]

billham`s magic

[iepkiriakos]

safe from harm LOLOL

[BowDownMufasa]

0:53

i better sit down, its about to get funky in here.

[vIIIthnote]

Uh... Bill Cobham is the best drummer that ever walked the planet man.

[townwrecker1345]

@vIIIthnote Thats why they call him the master

[uhlson7519]

a kind of grooving perfect !

[earlofable]

awesome 

[shapukoy]

super!!!

[KBMCINTERNETRADIO]

can prince do this?? hell no!

[hood67]

@KBMCINTERNETRADIO

of course he can.....

He plays this one in his aftershows following on from the 31 dates at the 02 dome.

[USfutbol]

@KBMCINTERNETRADIO Yea he can. He may not be as good as duke on the keys but as an overall musician prince can play with duke any day he wants.

[KBMCINTERNETRADIO]

@USfutbol Really????????? And Obama is better than Prince too? Please!! In your dreams. Prince is an overall musician? Like Quincy? Stanley Clarke? Jimi? Tupac? Jaco Pastorius? Steve Vai? Ed Van Halen? James Brown? Prince is ok but don't a genius to me.

[USfutbol]

@KBMCINTERNETRADIO Well he can play 27 instruments and pratically recorded all the instruments and produced  his first four albums along with The Times first two. Are you seriously trying to compare Tupac to prince as a musician. Tupac can rap don't get me wrong but i don't believe tupac produced one of his tracks on All eyes on me or any other of his albums.

[KBMCINTERNETRADIO]

Sister Lyrics by Prince

Album: Dirty Mind

"She's the reason for my, uh, sexuality

She showed me where it's supposed to go

A blow job doesn't mean blow

Incest is everything it's said to be

Oh, sister

Don't put me on the street again

This is the sickest shit i've ever heard!

[USfutbol]

@KBMCINTERNETRADIO I don't care i don't think any one else besides you does. Its about the music not the lyrics. As a musician prince is incredible and up there with the best of the best in popular music there is no debate.

[fastone56]

@USfutbol Just goes to show, having a bias doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. Prince is right up there with all of them

[herbalist420ganja]

i have heard this bass line in a few songs...

[ckit4u]

THE DUKE!!!!!!!!

[musiqman801]

It's not just the virtuosity of the individual musicians that makes this so good; it's their chemistry. And Cobham is still the best of the power drummers - a rare breed.

[cicciodinonnapapera5]

simply wonderful

[charuga33]

best version!

[Roger17drummer]

ohw man! the bass in this! .... :P

[MonsieurJ69]

I have two gods on keyboards, George Duke & Jan Hammer. Nobody stands in front of those guys ...

[Jeansieguy]

@MonsieurJ69 Come on? Chick Corea!

[FrankieZBongs]

@MonsieurJ69 I am not disagreeing, but I could list numerous keyboard players at their level if not surpassing it. Chick Corea, Hiromi Uehara, Kerry Minnear (Gentle Giant), Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin(both from Zappa). Granted these are all a matter of opinion.

[BrianMBrody]

@FrankieZBongs

you do know that George Duke was Zappas first call keyboardist for a reason.....

[FrankieZBongs]

@BrianMBrody I am not disagreeing with you, but do you have sources? I have read numerous books, interviews, and watched interviews with Frank and his band members. Never one did what you just say come up. Maybe from certain years (i.e 69-76ish) but from 66-88? I do not think so.

[HorstHorstmann202]

0:14 "Oh my god, i had enough!" :D

[newtronstar]

Tommy Bolin reincarnated into Eddy Van Halen, George does smoke mr hammer but Tommy Still holds the title for best Guitar solo. Best version of this song i have seen :) Really, Rap & hip hop sound better than this, not, Boomers may have fucked up the planet, but they still Rule music innovation & originality

[drumsonly2002]

These guys have fun while being brilliant!

[chirstofa893]

is there anything this guy can't do? george duke what a legend!!

[TheBoneRanger1968]

Two of the best on their instruments in the world together. It just doesn't get much better than this!

[Charlie200971]

Excellent ! rien à ajouter !

[LIGHTRONIX]

synth win

[bassemhumm]

@1992RATM /wootslap I think Massive Attack is sampling these guys, or at least they listened to Billy Cobham's 1973 releace SPECTRUM. Lee Sklar hammers out that same bass line, flawlessly bar after bar after bar. This too is a great version of Stratus. These old boys can rock.

[pegsterdtown]

Duke is a Master, Cobham is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!

[pegsterdtown]

Duke is GRE

AT Cobham is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!

[1992RATM]

baseline i swear sounds like safe from harm by massive attack

[wootslap]

@1992RATM It is. It all was sampled for Safe From Harm.

[jonathanguitar27]

Duke murders the minimoog !!!

[jopax666]

*HEADSPLODES*

Yeah, funk tends to do that to people :>

[WoWintosh]

that guitar sounds really terrible

[zakkah93]

I use to play death metal and progressive metal since I'm 18 and grew up with it, but when I heard this music I realized that good music never dies. This is REALLY FUNKY! So nice to see how they just love to play and improvise, just love the keyboard player's expression at 3:10, he's so amazing!! The whole band is!

[heckto35]

@zakkah93 That's George Duke on the keys for ya baby bubba!!

[Iaido47]

@zakkah93 You need to check out the Mahavishnu Orchestra, it's real impromptu Jazz.. John Maclaughlin (The Cat) was a heavy influence on Carlos Santana. Billy Cobham was a heavy influence on my palying. I saw them live twice, blew me away.

[zakkah93]

@Iaido47 Thanks dude, I will.

[csidorf]

@zakkah93 have you tried Chis Poland's version?

[zakkah93]

@csidorf Awesome guitarist.

[markusmala]

George and his minimoog babe... whaou!! one of the best at it!

[sUnnydUcks123]

I'm glad I found this video. It's refreshing to see people have a big soul for music.

[corymurray]

duke is awesome.

[rmsolympic1]

Favorite part and moment of truth: 03:15.

[Burtonindustries7]

when music actually took time to write...

[noodlam]

what year is this?

[rockr1997]

00:00



[MitchTenderness]

This is a jazz standard.

[Jawohlize]

this is real music guys!! they played because they have fun not to make money! look in their eyes only fun!! i love this! the real spirit of music!

[MrStratoManu]

Antes cuando la musica era real esa es la frase correcta George Duke y Billy Cobham. no puedo creer que ya estoy en el cielo y no supe cuando ha ya me acorde fue cuando presione PLAY sobre el video y creo que me quedare aqui asta que muera presionando el boton REPLAY

[Hammerofthegods86]

press 2 over an over again when it is playing, once with music then once without.

[hoffstetler]

Back when music was real!

[myroniousk]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!



[pelehasmo]

Wow... Is this where Massive Attack got the bassline for 'Safe from Harm' from?

[peteruertz]

@pelehasmo Yes.

[freeflow18]

@pelehasmo Yep, that's where it's from. Cobham wrote it.

[TheBelva85]

Listen to Stanley Clarke's "Silly putty".

[zildjian5o5]

This is awesome! What DVD or video is this off of? Thanks

[zakiyounis]

glorious constipation ...what a sigh of relief when the jazz bomb plops

[zakiyounis]

glorious constipation

[bassemhumm]

It's hard to imagine these two guy's getting any better than they were thirty years ago, but they are. The bass player kicks some some serious ass on this song too.

[freeflow18]

Who's the guitarist?

[hamjamnspamalot2]

@freeflow18 Carl Orr. He used to gig here in Sydney a lot quite a number of years ago. Try and find an album he did called "Mean It", which he did with some amazing Sydney jazz musos, great great album. Same with "Blue Thing".

[noconfig]

Does the song being called Stratus or Spectrum?

[Danglegin]

@noconfig The song is called Stratus. Spectrum is the name of the album. Cheers.

[HotCarNoMoney]

George Duke kills on that solo!

[ziotony87]

a' cap' rù cazz'!

[lubolado]

Thank you god to listen this!

congratulations from brasil.

[defe14]

Radio futuro! es0o

[MrMusic4love]

Not bad but, Jan Hammer and Tommy Bolin really put the icying on the cake with that tune. Would love to hear the orginal line up...esp Mr BOLIN !

[MrMusic4love]

Not bad but, Jan Hammer and Tommy Bolin really put the icying on the cake with that tune.  Would love to hear the orginal line up...

[GeneralEisenhower]

wtf is he playing a stratocaster

[ericvidaltercap]

spectrum

[Gnarly669]

Year after year the skill is still here. Great to see duke / cobham playing toghether :D

[SupaGlitch]

Ultra, ultra violent stuff.

[sotogiga]

Enough.I 'm going to bed now.

[funghighlsd25records]

HOPE THIS FEELIN NEVER ENDS

[3ohs0unds]

Great groove! Hot licks! Doesn't get much better than this!

[mapex75]

wow just simply amazing tune and amazing players here 

[beelzabubba]

Always good to see Duke and Cobham together... that single stroke snare drum roll at the beginning is textbook.....

[goo710]

George Duke and Billy Cobham is always a special jam and duo. Never hype, all true professional musicians.

[lucrativeelfmongrel]

So bloody good. Seriously bloody fantastic.

[Americanjazzlady]

God's richest blessings on George Duke!!!!

[Gigler43]

The Almighty MOOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No other keyboard comes close! Mr Dukey Stick is on fire...

[nazzare79]

it would have been a dream to see and listen Tommy Bolin with Billy C.

[cwphunky68]

Nothin' tops a real MOOG synth.

[freein2339]

That's what I'm talking about....REAL MUSIC....

[michoza1]

Greatest Stratus performing ever!!! Actually complete Cobham's performans on this festival is GREATEST EVER!

[viennastudio1]

excelent music.....awesome....we play good music too...BULLETS.....

check it out....tag=bulletsconce.......­..bullets medley....

[viennastudio1]

awesome.....very good......we play a lot of cobham tunes too......Bullets is our band.....we sound very good

[seriously111]

phat phat phat. cobham and duke. what's not to like?

[JonP1961]

George and Billy are about as synergistic as two musicians can get. They just know each other's moves and where things need to go for maximum groovage! I mean, take one tiny example: listen to that how that phrasing at 2:03 works with Billy's snare roll that follows it.

[seurng1fjpjkd]

Masterclass performance. Everything about this is cool. Meeting Billy and talking drums was one of the highlights of my life.

[Forch100]

sheer quality, they look like there having a blast up on that stage. The album version of this is awesome, been sampled to death, hell even ive sampled it!. That bassline! Damn it That bassline!!

[MrHeavysteel]

This is not a song, this is master piece and purpouse of life of four people on the stage doing what they do the best. I can't get enough of this song.

[bligstar]

Bass part sounds like Massive Attack - Safe from Harm

[angalgra]

@bligstar other way dude; that's where Massive attack ripped it off from,check the Spectrum album 1973/4

[bligstar]

@angalgra

Yeah, i dig it now))) I just heard the MA version first, so it was a bite of surprise for me that they sampled Billy Cobham))) Though they used a lot of sampling in first 2 albums)

Thnx for revommendation btw))

[inspiralroses]

@angalgra Yeah, Massive Attack show it up as well, but it's no rip off, you use a very unrespectful word, and I would shit against the wind that MA have great respect for Cobhams work, so how could they rip it off? Nutnutnut, dude, they melted it into something new, that's all, and that's absolutely legal!!! Not even one percent of all musicartists have never taken their inspiration from anybody else. And this rest, maybe the first of all, took it from nature's breath. So what?

[BTheChangeYouWish2C]

Jan Hammer is a genius, not George Duke. don't get me wrong he's very good but...

love the mini moog, sounds so 70s! The guy on bass is so so good.

[AntiPirateSquad]

@BTheChangeYouWish2C The mini moog was invented in the seventies. x

[JonP1961]

@BTheChangeYouWish2C

when forced to listen to most of what passes for music these days, i am then forced to smile when i hear phrases like 'sounds so 70s'. kinda sad how the industry has devolved, it's it?

[JonP1961]

@BTheChangeYouWish2C

I dig them both and have no need for labeling one other or the other in some sort of rankfest.

George can more than hold his own in jazz: to wit some straight up damn fine soloing on /watch?v=QG3NCg_Aa9w&fmt=18

[pokerpirat]

wooosh so good.. :)



[AndrewRyanful]

I love bass



[sunshamal]

@lesclaypoolslob 7 people don't have George Duke as a hero but he is cool to me

[sunshamal]

@lesclaypoolslob 7 people don't have George Duke as a hero

[shapukoy]

super...listen to lp..true to life...

[jabezscratch]

Stupid talent on display. Terms like "musical genius" are thrown around so much today and attached to silly hip hop and pop stars but anyone who actually plays a musical instrument knows (or should know) that these cats are the true geniuses of music.

[ArsenHOPAR95]

 To the world the masterpiece

[ArsenHOPAR95]

To the world the masterpiece)))

[winedrummer]

Loved Jan Hammer too, but George is still one of the all time greats!

[oatstao]

was it jan hammer originally? George has a great sense of humor in his playing. Super!

[mijonja]

This is one of the best bass lines...

[leovaeg]

crazy good!

[graynovskima]

what is that orange synth that George is playing lead on?

[dragonsagoth666]

@graynovskima

Minimoog. :D

[bonetmax]

@dragonsagoth666 yeah, minimoog, the father of the synths

[fess04]

Ah yes! There is a life behind the last note Billy played.

[jus7o]

HEY!...................i like this.

[hvymetaltaz]

I love fusion! Cobham, Duke, Jeff Beck, Mc Laughlin, Bolin, Hammer ... and Frank Zappa. Yes ... Frank Zappa. Ask George Duke.

[Hockeyevan9992]

@hvymetaltaz Zappa is god.

[finserra1]

Spent so many nights in the 1970s in the thrall of Duke-Cobham.

[Bouchero]

Yeah it does look a bit like him.

[alvinferguson]

thanks 4 my ears heart soul mind thanks 2 these muso cats love

[craigy49]

What year is this?

[ollieplaysguitar]

is that Karl Pilkington on guitar?

[craigy49]

Carl Orr

[ollieplaysguitar]

@craigy49 You don't know who Karl Pilkington is do you?

[Bearthoughts]

After the beginning I all of a sudden wanted to learn the bass,drums, keyboard and guitar to this tune.

[adrian480]

awesome

glad to see the duke with the mini moog

[JudgeBluey]

My inspiration to keep playing after my young wife passed away (25), was Billy Cobham. Nobody wanted to play that stuff up here, till I got the local radio to play some Mahavishnu, and some other fusion, late night.......wow! Really caused a ruckus and changed the face of radio in Cairns.

25 years later, as a drumschool principal and promoter, I got the chance to bring Billy to Cairns, with Randy Brecker, Mike Chindamo, Carl Orr...man it was truly like all my Christmases came at once.

[hamjamnspamalot]

I used to see Carl Orr a lot in Sydney, places like The Harbourside Brasserie and The Basement, you should try to look up a drummer he worked with a lot, Andrew Gander, great great player. But I'm blown seeing Carl play live with Billy too!!

[KleePietro]

When Billy released his solo albums people used to criticize him for being loud, too busy and self-centered around the drums. Times have changed and now his music sounds tame in comparison wiith modern jazz-rock music. There are drummers today that are twice as busy, specially when playing double bass drums but that lack the touch and feel Billy always had and still has.

[rolfedrengen]

12 years after they did this performance, they still change the world for many people. Including me!

[Dravlah4sure]

THIS is the reason why i play drums !

[aviggiani1]

Dose it get any BETTER!!!!!!!!!!

[JonP1961]

2:53 - poor poor synth stand :D

[JonP1961]

squeezing every ounce of juice out of that synth!!!

[thehoffa]

Severe constipated look from keyboardist at 3.14 hahahahahhaa fkn love this song

[guitarzofhell]

must be every musicians favorite THIS IS THE SHIT

[videosvlad]

Gambale isn't was so good as Tomy Bolin, the in "Spectrum  álbum"!

[christon0123]

This is real music kids

[Dravlah4sure]

@christon0123 it sure is!

[steds1]

@christon0123 ... you obviously havent heard the latest Justin Beiber album OMG !!!! (sorry bad joke)

[Roger17drummer]

@christon0123 damn right!

[shantiphant]

i heared the record the first time when i was 14 in 1974

it changed my whole music feeling for ever

and im pretty thankfukk for that this is real music guys unbeatable............

i bought spectrum like 8 times in my life .-)

guess its the reason why i am musican .-)

[Yechimash]

Stratus is from Cobham's 1973 album Spectrum. Massive Attack sampled the bass line from Stratus for Safe From Harm which was on their 1991 album Blue Lines. Great songs and albums.

[LTdrumma]

damn that bass walkin all over the place

[actioncock]

same bassline as Massive Attack - Safe From Harm

[MCredshift]

@actioncock I'm pretty sure Safe From Harm has the same bass line as this song.

[actioncock]

@MCredshift yeah i see now, i had just discovered this video a few weeks ago, didn't know this song before... still exploring the music-world

[provider112]

JUSTE ENORME,MERCI, JE PEUX MOURIR MAINTENANT ET VIVE LE JAZZ FUSION!!

[TheFluktuationAcht]

Just go with the flow, dudes...

[xXFelixtheCatXx]

This > Stairway To Heaven solo.

There, I said it.

[quathar]

@xXFelixtheCatXx You really didn't say much, tho. It's pretty obvious that jazz/fusion solos > rock solos.