Billy Cobham-George Duke Band (with John Scofield & Alphonso Johnson) - Montreux 1976

[kris]

Great STUFF!!!!

[P.J.]

I would not know this was Sco if I just heard this without seeing him.

[kris]

I would not know this was Sco if I just heard this without seeing him.

Interestingly, he plays a Gibson solid-body guitar here, I think Les Paul.
Which doesn't surprise me, because it's a very loud band.

[Litterick]

Interestingly, he plays a Gibson solid-body guitar here, I think Les Paul.
Which doesn't surprise me, because it's a very loud band.

I think it might be an Ibanez copy, a lawsuit guitar.

[alltunes]

I would not know this was Sco if I just heard this without seeing him.

Maybe the first time! ….usually Sco is so recognizable

[kris]

I think it might be an Ibanez copy, a lawsuit guitar.

This is Gibson Les Paul Junior Special.

[wolflen]

I would not know this was Sco if I just heard this without seeing him.

Considering its a 1976 vid..few may know its Sco..

[wolflen]

Interestingly, he plays a Gibson solid-body guitar here, I think Les Paul.
Which doesn't surprise me, because it's a very loud band.

VERY LOUD..fusion/funk band..with lots of MO cliche phrase endings.

[kris]

Considering its a 1976 vid..few may know its Sco..

Scof can be recognized by his style of play and characteristic phrases.

[kris]

VERY LOUD..fusion/funk band..with lots of MO cliche phrase endings.

I'm not interested in the endings, but in what happens in the middle of the tunes.

[wolflen]

I'm not interested in the endings, but in what happens in the middle of the tunes.

I like the middle of this tune..Sco on Fire...I was fortunate to see this in LA..someone gave me tickets for the show

[Bob_Ross]

Scof can be recognized by his style of play and characteristic phrases.

...and his slack jaw, practically drooling.

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It's funny, but I was a huge fusion fan in the 1970s, and when this album came out it struck me as "second tier" fusion...all the clichés and none of the charm or originality of the pioneering fusion bands.

But I listen to it now ...and I still think it's "second tier" fusion! But there's been so much third, fourth, fifth tier fusion in the intervening years, that this Cobham/Duke Band performance is practically a breath of fresh air!

My roommate freshman year at Berklee had this album, and we used to play "Almustafa The Beloved" and sing along at the top of our lungs out the window into the dorm courtyard just to piss off our neighbors.

[Sam Sherry]

This is Gibson Les Paul Junior Special.

Agreed. Taking it a step further, it's a "Special-ized" LP Junior (two knobs, no neck binding).
Best bet is that it started life with a P90 on the bridge.
It was the 70s. Those weren't 'vintage pieces,' they were 'old guitars.'