Best Progressive Rock Drummer

Garion81 wrote: Reed Lover wrote: [     At least I did vote for Cobham.    But would you if Erhart's name had been there?

No, actually I think I would have voted for BC.  I like all those drummers up there and others have named (including Neil Pert )  and PE too but I saw BC at a drum clinic with the late Louie Belson and I saw him do things that were just crazy. First of all he gets on his huge kit and plays just like a machine then he gets on Belson's standard jazz kit and it was like a toy for him!  Then goes back to his kit and plays some rock beats with such power I haven't heard even some metal drumers achive. Kind of like seeing Stanley Clarke playing stand bass up then picking up an electric bass.  His hand spread is just amazing.  Stanley could probably bar chord his bass with no problem.

(1970? and 1973 Dreams with Brecker Bros (1973 album: Imagine My Surprise - brass rock with the  inevitable Traffic cover!!))

1974 - Recorded ‘Crosswinds" (Atlantic) and "Total
Eclipse" - (Atlantic) with the same band as (1973).

(I think you'll find the Brecker Bros (again) and John Abercrombie are on at least one of these albums).

(When were those Larry Coryell albums originally released by Vanguard Records in the 70's recorded?).

(Contributions on Stanley Clarke albums - e.g. Schooldays, Live at The Greek (the latter of which has a funky version of Spectrum)).

1978 - Recorded "Johnny McLaughlin - electric
guitarist" with Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer.

(but note Cobham is only on two tracks (?))

1979 - Toured and recorded with Tony Williams in
Japan at ‘live under the Sky" Jazz Festival.

(Album available of live gig in Tokyo, now available on Brian Auger's website, which includes a Williams/Cobham drum battle:

http://www.brianauger.com/discography/discography.html)

Performed on concert tour with John McLaughlin,
Jack Bruce, and Stu Goldberg in Europe.

(Caught the band at London's Rainbow Theatre - a great gig to finish the 70's. Alas only recordings available are bootlegs of this line-up in action in Germany)

1980 - Performed at Radio City Music Hall with the
Gratetul Dead. Performed on concert tour with Jack
Bruce and Friends.

1981 - Performed on tour with Jack Bruce and
Friends featuring: David Sancious - kys, Clem
Clemson - gtr, Jack Bruce - bs. Performed at the
International Percussion Festival in Seattle,
Washington with Tito Puente (Puerto Rico), Okuta
Percussion (Nigeria), Zakir Hussain and Ala Rakka
Kahn (India)

(I think at this time Cobham lead line-up of Bruce, Sancious, Lockwood and Holdsworth at Montreux Jazz Festival - good quality bootleg exists - while  probably only Holdsworth preventing it being legitimised wrt release. Could also be part of a Columbia all stars big band line-up recorded at Montreux - released on two double albums about the same time. And what about the Cobham/Johnson/Scott/Khan Anotherlivemuthaforya recording made at Montreux:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066J11/qid%3D11 07524937/202-3069264-5567066).

1984 - Co-produced ‘The World Of Rhythm"
television special and live concert in Lugano,
Switzerland, featuring Cheech and Chong, Herbie
Hancock, Ron Carter, Louis Bellson, Gil Evans, Bob
Weir and Bobby and the Midnites Michael Brecker,
Randy Brecker and "Glass Menagerie".

1988 - Recorded with Peter Gabriel "Passion"
soundtrack for Martin Scorcece film ‘The Last
Temptation of Christ".

1990 Performed in Isreal and Santiago, Chile with
Jeff Berlin and T Lavitz.

1992 - Performed and recorded and produced at
WOMAD Festival with Peter Gabriel and Okuta
Percussion (Nigeria), and Farafina (Bourkino Faso).

1994 - Performed with Peter Gabriel in Europe, and
U.S.A. on "US" TOUR.

1997 - Performed and recorded with Paradox – "The
First Second to be released on the Enja label
featuring "Wolfgang Schmid - bs and Bill Bickford -
gtr. Recorded "Spaces Revisited" with guitarist Larry
Coryell.

(I'm sure buried in my collection of jazzrock CDs I have a Enja recording by Schmidt/Bickford /Cobham simply called Paradox???)

(What the tours Cobham did with Gary Husband playing keyboards (and an album, Time Traveler(?) with only one track with Husband playing drums - to duet with Cobham?))

(And what about the period at the end of the 90's when Cobham uproots from the USA  to decamp to be resident in Sweden - recording a couple albums with only European musicians?)

1998- Performed with JAZZ IS DEAD and recorded
the c.d. "Blue Light Rain" (ZEBRA) - Performed in
Istanbul, Turkey with Paradox.

while touring, recording and producing more than
this with other famous jazz artists.

oh, the first track on Inner Conflicts is a mind blower,
billy drumming and playing with percussion
synthesizers, kinda like Carl Palmer meets Rick
Wright, but its just little Billy, woop, woop, woop!