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xoxoxoBruce · 10/29/2020 2:44 am

Frances Carroll came up as she has just died but she was a real hot drummer with her own female band in the swing era.
It's near impossible to conduct and drum at the same time so she hired a hot redhead who could sing to front the band.

I accidentally came across this guy but not sure what his name is.
The name on the site was Firedrummer.

This is a long one but save it for later or you can jump in almost anywhere.
It's a compilation of Buddy Rich appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight show.
Of course he was always there to kick ass and take names.

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (10/29/2020 2:46 am)

xoxoxoBruce · 12/06/2020 2:37 pm

Santa's in a pickle, on the horns of a dilemma, between a rock and a hard place...

griff · 1/21/2021 5:46 pm

Lil'G has been working on this. We saw Pup on her 21st at The Haunt in Ithaca. These guys are all players.

TheNeverWas · 1/24/2022 12:30 pm

Re: Funniest Drum Solo Of All Time
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I did not know I could play drums like that.

xoxoxoBruce · 6/09/2022 11:04 am

Top notch drummers get honored in many different ways...

Diaphone Jim · 6/10/2022 2:56 pm

Last weekend some grandkids and their friends were over and I played them a YouTube I found of Gene Krupa.
It was his knockout appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1960.
I enjoyed it as always and was glad to see how much the kids did, too.
I thought to impress them with my knowledge of the group backing him, but think I missed.
When I checked, I still couldn't find the answer.
Anybody know who those guys were on what must have been Krupa's gig?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyAUKU_ImNg

Flint · 6/10/2022 3:31 pm

I can't find it handily but I'm interested to figure it out

xoxoxoBruce · 7/23/2022 8:51 am

Terminology...

Flint · 7/23/2022 10:09 pm

I appreciate this thread, in case I never said it. Bruce is a good guy. I've been playing a few gigs on the drums lately. After the lockdown, it's a real treat to get out and play.

xoxoxoBruce · 7/28/2022 10:54 pm

Don't be talking about me like that or you'll be cast from the favor of the controllers.

Diaphone Jim · 7/30/2022 11:30 am

Sorry I never got back to this subject I posted several weeks ago.
I have enjoyed the FunTrivia website for many years and even written some quizzes.
They have a feature (Ask Fun Trivia) that is the most amazing resource for finding arcane stuff I have ever seen.
"On the Ed Sullivan Show of June 26, 1960, Gene Krupa is showcased throughout “Sing, Sing, Sing” with his quartet which also includes Eddie Wasserman on clarinet and tenor, pianist Ronnie Ball, and bassist Jimmy Gannon."

TheNeverWas · 7/31/2022 5:49 pm

FunTrivia

That's totally NOT a rabbit hole. Nope.

Diaphone Jim · 8/03/2022 11:35 am

I'm glad it is not a rabbit hole. Uh, what's a rabbit hole in this context?
If you visit FT, look for player scalar's quizzes.

Flint · 8/05/2022 1:52 pm

So I heard this song and thought, "THIS is what I want to sound like," so I've been playing on really minimal kits and trying to stay as locked into the groove as the brilliant Bryan Owings on this track..

xoxoxoBruce · 8/15/2022 2:15 pm

All that jazz...

monster · 9/17/2022 10:54 pm

Diaphone Jim · 9/18/2022 11:36 am

I listened to a minute or so of the Foo Fighters vid. Should hold me for another year or two.

Flint · 10/20/2022 5:03 pm

I've been realizing that my perfect drumming style is exemplified on the Don Henley album, The End of the Innocence. Who plays drums? Sometimes Don Henley (duh), but also *Jeff Porcaro* + *Steve Jordan* + *Stan Lynch* and ALSO also, *Jim Keltner* and Lynch on percussion/additional percussion. I mean, look at this Personel,this is an all-out production extravaganza

I guess Danny Kortchmar plays drums too? Just read this--

Daniel "Danny Kootch" Kortchmar (born April 6, 1946) is an American guitarist, session musician, producer and songwriter. Kortchmar's work with singer-songwriters such as Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, David Crosby, Carole King, David Cassidy, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Steve Perry and Carly Simon helped define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Jackson Browne and Don Henley have recorded many songs written or co-written by Kortchmar, and Kortchmar was Henley's songwriting and producing partner in the 1980s.

Anyway, this is pretty much the feel I'm trying to cop, with all the single-hit tom punctuation--

Basically moving the time part to a tom phrase that "fattens" the beat

Last edited by Flint (10/20/2022 5:17 pm)

xoxoxoBruce · 10/22/2022 10:20 pm

There are drummers and then there are percussionists...

griff · 10/23/2022 5:40 am

I love how the rest of the orchestra seems to be bracing themselves. That looks like a commander, used to assemble post and beam.

xoxoxoBruce · 10/23/2022 8:54 pm

Everything sounds better with French Horns.

Flint · 11/10/2022 5:42 pm

This type of implement is called for, specifically, in Mahler's 6th Symphony
Mahler wanted something, “brief and mighty, but dull in resonance and with a non-metallic character — like the fall of an axe.”

xoxoxoBruce wrote:
There are drummers and then there are percussionists...

xoxoxoBruce · 11/22/2022 11:03 pm

Girls play drums too.

xoxoxoBruce · 12/10/2022 12:21 am

Told ya so, girls play drums...

Boys do too, and some are real full on percussionists...

Flint · 7/09/2024 4:18 pm

Bill Ward gets it. I've never put it into words as succinctly as this, but this is it, exactly.

I'm this kind of drummer. The only way I can usually explain it is to say, "I grew up around guitar players.."