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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2023 23:02:15 GMT
I know we've got a thread for comments, observations, and whatnot about bassists, but do we have one about drums? If so, I apologize and am happy to delete this posthaste. But if not, here is Hear the Drummer Get Wicked. But to kick it off, I've got something off the beaten path. This isn't Bonzo or Bozzio or Baker, but Bates. That's JT Bates. He (I learned literally today) happened to play on the Taylor Swift record Folklore during the pandemic. It's a purely personal fascination for me, since I happen to have been a part of the Minnesota All-State Jazz Band with him during high school in the early '90s. (I recall the director there referring to him as "James Time Bates.") He was the best musician there, by far, and he has gone on to a great career as a working musician. But I only today realized he was engaged as a session musician on that Swift record thanks to his connections with the Minnesota-Wisconsin scene around Bon Iver/Justin Vernon, and the National. Here is the interview that I've been watching about that. It's also interesting just in terms of how session work worked during the pandemic. But anyway, feel free to talk All Things Drums, Drummers, and Drumming here.
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Post by carllove on Jan 8, 2023 5:16:42 GMT
John Cowsill at 4:05 into the video. He was 10 or 11? I love the Cowsills and I’m always super happy to see him performing with Mike’s band. What a talented kid he was.
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Post by carllove on Jan 8, 2023 6:04:30 GMT
Joe Morello plays “Take Five” in 5/4 time and keeps this whole song together. Might be my favorite drum performance ever. Understated, yet perfect. Just how does he do this? Looking so cool all the while. Perhaps the best song ever in the history of songs. Loved this since I was was five. Stole my parents Time Out album when I went to college. Supposedly Paul Desmond wrote the song to showcase Morello’s ability to play drums in 5/4 time.
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Post by carllove on Jan 8, 2023 6:28:16 GMT
Here is a Joe Morello “Take Five” solo from 1961. What magic is this? Love this breakdown of his solo.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 8, 2023 15:03:37 GMT
Brubeck's Time Out must have been among the first 3-5 jazz albums I ever owned. I loved (and love) it. It was among my earliest introductions to unconventional time signatures.
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The Surfer Moon
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Post by sockit on Jan 8, 2023 17:29:07 GMT
The ultimate drummer's song to me has always been Roger Daltrey's 1985 tribute to Keith Moon, with over-the-top performances by 7 well known rock drummers:
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Post by lonelysummer on Jan 9, 2023 21:44:10 GMT
John Cowsill at 4:05 into the video. He was 10 or 11? I love the Cowsills and I’m always super happy to see him performing with Mike’s band. What a talented kid he was. That's amazing! Those kids were really much more talented than people wanted to admit. I agree about seeing John with Mike's band. Always love when he gets a chance to sing a song.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 10, 2023 18:54:04 GMT
(Hi-)Hat's off to the birthday boy, the late, great Max Roach, born on this day in 1924 (d. 2007). Inarguably one of the greatest, most influential drummers of all time.
Here he is doing a drum solo on just hi-hat, I'm guessing from the '80s.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 18, 2023 22:47:41 GMT
An interview by Rick Beato (with copious musical examples) with the great Steve Gadd. Who is Steve Gadd? Only a drummer for the likes of Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Chick Corea, Al DiMiola, and many, many, many more.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 8, 2023 22:56:01 GMT
A little tribute to arguably the greatest rock 'n' roll drummer of all time, Ringo Starr, by someone who is no slouch himself. Greg Bissonette has played with everyone from jazz guys like Maynard Ferguson and Larry Carlton, to shredders like Steve Vai and Frank Gambale and Joe Satriani and Jason Becker, to rockers like David Lee Roth and Ozzy Osbourne and Robin Zander, to popsters like Don Henley and Richard Marx to Duran Duran, to, yes, being the second drummer alongside Ringo himself in the All-Starr Band.
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Post by B.E. on Aug 9, 2023 0:02:45 GMT
Thanks for posting, Kapitan. I almost passed it up thinking it was the same as the “what makes Ringo Starr so great?” video he did a few years ago (which I’ve watched numerous times). This one covers a lot of the same beats, but it’s a longer video. Always fun. It certainly makes me want to listen to a few of those songs tonight with my headphones on and 100% of my focus on Ringo’s drumming!
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Post by B.E. on Aug 9, 2023 0:05:46 GMT
By the way, I guess it’s not all that surprising to continue working at one’s craft, but I was a little surprised that Greg said he still took drum lessons. I know singers take voice lessons, but I guess I just never thought of instrumentalists doing the same.
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Post by Barco on Aug 22, 2023 20:05:39 GMT
Pink Floyd's Nick Mason has been one of my favorite drummers for years now. In fact he's second in my list, after Ringo, obviously. It saddens me that a lot people either don't realise he's absolutely great or say that he is a mediocre drummer. Like Ringo, though, he seems to finally be getting the recognition he deserves after all these years. Off the top of my head, here are a few moments I think his drumming is astonishing
'Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk' is tremendously impressive when it comes to the drumming. The song is so chaotic and, with Syd Barrett on guitar, VERY unpredictable, but Nick somehow manages to hold the entire thing together with his playing. 'Biding My Time' is another early (1969) Floyd song in which the drumming really amazes me, especially towards the end of the song. The video is queued at about the 3 and half minutes mark, where he really starts cooking:
Next off, Echoes live at Pompeii. Apart from being obvious proof that he's as good live as he is in the studio, the performance showcases my favorite aspect of his playing, and that is that he plays for the song, not for himself. That may sound like a cliche but I can't describe it any better. The loose fills, how he quickly changes from noisy grooves to quiet, "melodic" playing if that makes sense... but it's during the first guitar solo (goes from 4:20 minutes to the 6:30 mark on the video) that he delivers some of the most beautiful and effortless fills ever. Queued at 5:35 minutes:
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Post by jk on Aug 25, 2023 15:56:26 GMT
Some pretty wicked drumming on this 29-minute Shakti track with the wondrous title "What Need Have I For This–What Need Have I For That–I Am Dancing At The Feet Of My Lord–All Is Bliss–All Is Bliss": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti_(Shakti_album)
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 4, 2023 14:33:25 GMT
This could fit in the bass thread, the guitar thread (if we have one?), the jazz thread...but this thread was handy.
This is a 1971 performance from seminal jazz-fusion group The Tony Williams Lifetime. And what a lineup!
Williams himself is on drums.
Jack Bruce is on bass and vocals.
John McLaughlin is on guitar.
Larry Young is on organ.
Powerhouse!
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