The obligatory DRUM SOLO

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: The obligatory DRUM SOLO

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Trolling for an "Inna Gadda Da Vida" post?

Well...you got it :blush:

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. "Today's hymn is by I. Ron Butterfly"...

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[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I. Ron Butterfly? Didn't he start Silencetology?

Nah, couldn't be. Drummers don't do "silence".

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[bluesbassman]

4. A guy saves his whole life for a tropical vacation....

Getting off the boat he notices drums pounding off in the distance. When he gets to the hotel lobby he asks the clerk what the drums are about. She justs smiles and says they are the spirit of the island. The man smiles back and makes his way to his room. Later as the man is walking around the island, he hears the drums pounding continuously. After several days of this he can't take it anymore and goes to the hotel manger to complain. "When the hell are those drums going to stop"? he asks.

The hotel manager gets a sad look on his face and says "You really don't want the drums to stop sir". "Why the hell not"? says the man. The manger replies...






































"Drums stop, next comes bass solo" :P

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Totally agree on Ringo and Ginger

but let's not forget Soul Sacrifice by Santana at Woodstock, Michael Shrieve. A Santana concert back then in a way was like an extended drum solo, lasting the length of the set.

And of course, Kenny Jones' monstrous solo in "I'm Losing You" from "Every Picture Tells a Story".

[Gabi Hayes]

6. uhhhh

roach, williams, jones, etc, anyone?

if you're more of the rockster bent, then Billy Cobham

and what about bernard purdie, the king of the groove?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlrI-sorec




http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2008/10/the-purdie-shuffle-and-the-greatest-drum-instructional-clip-ever-by-james-p-caldwell/

I'd like to take a moment to interrupt this liberal salon with a musical presentation. No, this isn't Matthew F. King drinking eight Sierra Nevada's and ranting about McCain, but I think you'll enjoy what I've got here.

First, a little shop talk. It's widely regarded that Steely Dan's classic 1977 record Aja is the '70s record before which all other '70s records must genuflect. If you dispute that you're either imbalanced or possibly Canadian.

I remember well driving around the crap hole of Western New York where I grew up, listening to the Dan in my black and red Astro van with all the back seats removed. For whatever reason, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's portrait of a white, wasted middle-aged culture of scotch and divorce papers stirred my sixteen year-old soul. Sure, a lot of the time I had no idea what these guys were talking about, but it sounded like where I wanted to be — at the end of the world, in loafers.

And being a drummer myself, well shit, this was the holy land. Steve Gadd's one-take performance on the record's title track is possibly the greatest face-melting take of all time.

But we're not here to talk about Gadd, that brilliant bastard. This post is about a lesser known but still wickedly awesome sticksman: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. Pretty is one of the coolest drummers ever. A lot of guys can hang with him technically, but few have his style, either behind the kit or in front of it. Sure, Pretty has stated, among other things, that Beatles manager Brian Epstein approached him to play on the majority of Beatles tracks from 1962-1964, and claimed that "Ringo never played on anything" during those years, but what the hell? I find it distasteful to begrudge a man as cool as Pretty his own version of rock history.

...........

more at link

and thanks for the thread

oh yeah....alphonse mouzon was pretty awesome back in the day, as well

[Gabi Hayes]

8. from a great DVD, this goes right along with the above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfdxlsc9hA

[madamesilverspurs]

7. Sandy Nelson, "Birth of the Beat"