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Drum it!
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Tina Ambrose was 17 when she started her career:
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<div>Really neat video. This discussion has been very enlightening! Here’s modern jazz group coming to a venue near me. Alison Miller is a highly respected jazz drummer. The first 45 seconds of this video I find facinating. So much rythym…sticks, clapping and tap dancing. </div>
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Hi Dave
You don’t see a lot of tap dancing used anymore for the rhythm aspect of it, very amazing.
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Thanks Dave, “Rivers in our Venes” is a really interesting attempt to combine archaic music elements like tap dancing and clapping with modern jazz music. Really successful. Maybe it would be a nice idea to let these elements run like a red thread through the whole piece. Do you visit these live events regularly?
There is a regular jazz festival in my hometown. This event is popular with jazz lovers from all over Germany. The following song was also performed there a few years ago. What I find interesting about this piece of music is that the guitar musicians give the drummer plenty of leeway to develop his playing.
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I’ve never seen how vinyl records were made before. Interesting how they are simply stamped from a machine like that, like making waffles.
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Yeah Jung, pressing records is indeed reminiscent of making waffles. The LP’s only sound better 😁. I assume that this pressing process was automated even more later. It’s a pity that many pressing plants were shut down with the appearance of the CD in the 80s and 90s. I’m not an LP fan anymore, since I got rid of my Technis record player many years ago, but I often hear and read that today’s LP’s sometimes have a bad pressing and sound quality. But I don’t want to start a discussion about what sounds better now, LP or CD. This discussion always leads only bad mood. The beautiful, often artistically designed LP cover I miss but in any case.
PS: Maybe a nice independent topic can be created from this: My/Your “favorite record cover”. Is there interest here in the forum? I am in.
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Hi Jurgen
That was absolutely fascinating, thanks for finding and posting it. I never thought so much handwork went into the process of making that master mold for the vinyl. It’s quite a process, and one minor error and you ruin so much work. Each vinyl is produced from those plastic pellets melted into a soft disc that is put in the molding machine where the master mold creates those precious vinyl albums. There is actually a lot more involved than I imagined in creating one vinyl album. In the end it is a very fancy sophisticated waffle machine! Now I can appreciate even more what went into creating our precious albums like Orange, and WHY? in the future. Our Orange albums looks like took a nice mixture of orange and white pellets, probably blended together first in a blender before going into the waffle machine. Learned something new today.
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I have a Great-Aunt who had her 108th Birthday back in the summer ( my late Grandma ‘s Baby Sister, youngest of all of her siblings , outlines them all ) and was on local news to be acknowledged of her Milestone Age….physically not good, now uses a wheelchair but her mind…still vivid/active , a few repetitive here and there but sharp
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That’s awesome, Jacki! My grandfather died of heart failure in 2020 at the age of 105, but he also was very sharp right up until the end. Conversations with him were so amazing. I hope your great-aunt remains in good health and reaches supercentenarian status (110 years).
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One of my favorite new drummers is Abigail Christea. She is the drummer for all sibling hard rock band Liliac from LA. She may not be the best technically but she sure beats the hell out of her kit. She’s always having a great time in the back of the band. Also, Liliac like MLT is a family outfit managed by their father who is a recording engineer and fine musician himself. Oldest child Mathew on Guitar, Abby on drums, middle child Melody on vocals and bass, Ethan on guitar and little Justin on keyboard. They are like a heavy rock Partridge family only they can actually play their instruments.https://youtu.be/apc5Q9NtsJE
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Hi Tim,
thanks for sharing that music clip of Abigail Christea. I was not familiar with her and Liliac until now. You’re right, she is drumming like hell. Very dynamic and full of life.
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And let’s not forget the MLT ladies years ago…Never watched this before but it is excellent!!
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Yeah Dave, a very nice moment. Our two young chef really let the wooden spoon dance. 😀
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The talent has always been there! They are so precise.
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This video averages just a little over one view per day on YouTube. It deserves a lot more!
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Even used the desks!! Love it when they throw that bun around and then into the crowd!!
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A great live gig by Phil Collins, Chester Thompson and Luis Conte. I have the feeling that Phil Collins is a musician who polarizes. You either like him or you don’t like him at all. Perhaps many fans also resented the fact that he developed from a prog rock musician in the early phase of Genesis to a cuddly pop poet in his later solo career. I like both periods in his life.
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Absolutely love when multiple drummers/percussionists play together. Something very earthy about it. Thx for that clip. I am definatley stuck in the 60’s and early 70’s when it comes to popular music so I don’t have a strong opinion about Phil other than I did enjoy some Genesis and his solo work. My younger brother, a drummer, thinks very highly of him as a drummer.
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Just for fun, I entered the search terms “George Harrison Drumming”, “John Lennon Drumming” etc. and was surprised that Paul apparently picked up the drumsticks regularly. He was probably already active with the Beatles (e.g. ‘Ballad of John and Yoko’) and later also with the Wings.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, Paul joined the band „Foe Fighters“ in 2007 and accompanied a track on their album at the time on drums.
In the following video clip, the sound was added to the image later and is therefore not syncronized (or Paul drums something else…😀). It doesn’t matter: the illusion is very entertaining because there are very few videos where Paul is seen on the drums. An unusual sight.
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Shortly after I first discovered the Beatles, Paul put out the following video, which I taped off MTV and watched obsessively. So oddly enough, I’ve viewed Paul as a part-time drummer from the very beginning.
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Yep David, Paul is drumming 😀. I saw the movie “Spies like us” in the late 80s, but I can hardly remember the plot. And I didn’t associate the movie with Paul McCartney at all. I think the video clip you sent was never aired in our country. MTV Germany didn’t start until 1997 and so Youtube is still a veritable cornucopia of ideas and music for me. There are so many music clips, from the 70s and 80s, that I’ve never seen before. Thanks.
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Ok everyone,
There is just no way i can let the subject of drums and drummers go by without
a contribution from the Grateful Dead.
Kreutzman & Hart would hold court for a half hour some times.
Here comes a voyage into space. Please enjoy.
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Thanks Tom,
greatful drumming. I don’t know much about the band, although I know it by name of course, but the gig is pretty cool. A bombastic space journey, indeed.
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Yeah Tim, that’s what I call a real drum set. Where did you find that? Does it belong to this guy here? It’s not exactly nice what he’s doing there, but he does it…
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Hi Jurgen, This kit belongs to Neil Peart of Canadian rock band Rush. One of my favorite drummers and brilliant songwriter. Sorry I couldn’t get my comment to load on this post yesterday. I hoped someone would figure it out. Peace my MLT friend.
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One thing I liked about Neil is he never thought he was the best or even “good enough”. He was always learning new techniques.
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Hi Tim,
I’ve been wondering who uses such a large drum kit. I would never have thought of the band Rush and Neil Peart. Thank you. I’ve found a live performance video where you can see Neil in action on this gigantic drum kit (maybe not exactly the same, but it looks similar). Real drumtastic 😀
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https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk Another video of Neil and his mates in their Canadian studio.
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Jurgen, I was smiling through that whole video. Neal passed away in 2020 from brain cancer. He is truly missed.
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Tim, I didn’t know about Neil Peart’s passing. This is sad news. His life’s work as a musician and the song Tom Sawyer will remain unforgettable.
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This is the first musical Jam Session in history. Or Hollywood’s perception of it anyways. From the movie Caveman with Ringo, Dennis Quaid and Shelly Long. Very funny. especially when they get the blind guy to scream by sticking his hand in the fire. Lol https://youtu.be/tYBNoFcvcWI
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What a great band Jurgen. It’s amazing what true artists can create when given the freedom to do so. Though a very different musical style from MonaLisa Twins they are very similar in the fact that they are not restrained by executives pocket books. They also, had a sense of humor. The washers and dryers on stage were not just visual props. It was the perfect time for the road crew to do laundry. They had available power and the time to do it while the show was in progress. It was a cool and unusual visual for the audience too. Lol.
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Yes Tim very entertaining, thanks. It might have been like that, part of human evolution: hunters and gatherers became drummers and flute players. I didn’t even know Ringo was in this movie. I wouldn’t have recognized him immediately either. He has integrated himself perfectly into the stone age…
By the way speaking of the stone age, here perhaps the first boy group in human history:
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Yes Jurgen, Caveman is pretty funny. The movie is free on regular YouTube in good quality. Ringo’s love interest in the movie is Barbara Bach (his wife in real life) but she belongs to the leader of the rival tribe of cavemen. I think they first met and fell in love on this movie set. There are other “first discoveries” on this movie too. The first poached egg, first roasted chicken and of course the first cracked back which enabled them to walk upright. It’s a fun movie to watch if you like silly, stupid comedies, which I do. Peace my friend.
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I loved the Flintstones growing up. I think they had the Rolling Stones on there once. I remember the girls going bonkers over Mick Jadestone. Lol
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Ah, so THAT’S where the Beau Brummels got their inspiration from!
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I don’t know if this post has been featured elsewhere on this forum (I hope not…). After all the possible intros that pieces of music can start with, here are some very nice and famous drum intros:
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Pretty cool video. The first one I thought of was The Stones version of “Ain’t too Proud to Beg”. Just a short roll but pretty cool. I loved Charlie Watts. Also thought of “Ballroom Blitz” and “Wipeout”. Even though I wasn’t a big Van Halen fan I do like Alex Van Halen’s drumming on “Hot For Teacher”. I guess everyone has their favorites. I like this discussion.
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Lol…. Flintstones influence ….
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And of course Pebbles and Bamm Bamm’s later group was a major influence for Brian Wilson:
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And from Flintstones as well ….
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Then…there’s this….lol …
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You’ve tapped into a rich vein, Jacki!
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Ah….I forgot to post these as well …darn it…ya beat me to it ….lol ….
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