Durch einen Insta-Post von Gary Husband habe ich entdeckt, dass Billy Cobham sich (zumindest) in den Jahren 1996-98 auch mal ein paar e-Pads über die Rack-Tom-Reihe gehängt hat.
Bei diesem Stratus Intro-Solo wird ihnen dann ab und an auch ein Spezialeffekt entlockt:
Und Gary Husband erinnert sich vor allem an das Pistolenschuss-Sample in laut!
Wenn man tiefer gräbt, findet sich auch folgender Abschnitt des musicradar Artikels „Billy Cobham on his stellar ’70s solo run and gear evolution“:
>>Inner Conflicts, the last of the studio albums for Atlantic, saw Cobham incorporate electronic percussion into his kit. „Yeah, but that wasn’t the first time I used it,“ he says. „The first time I used electronic percussion was in 1968 with a company called Meazzi. They had electronic drums in Italy [Tronicdrum], it worked out pretty nice but it’s not the same. It was just the very beginning, not only me but Jack DeJohnette, Max Roach and Tony [Williams], they approached the four of us. I went with the electric set, a set that you would never see go on a plane anymore.
„It came with a speaker cabinet as big as a door, we put a big bonnet-hat square case over it. It never broke down. It was so poorly made. That was the beginning of it. It all sounded like ‚pew, pew, pew‘ or ‚dat, dat, dat‘. Even the bass drum. There were no different sounds. You had four buttons but they all sounded like ‚dat, dat, dat‘.“<<
Auch in die Entwicklung der Tama E-Drums wurde er wohl mit einbezogen, wie es vor 40 Jahren im Modern Drummer Mag zu lesen war (>>I have something in the works with Tama but nothing to really talk about at this point.<<)
