Mint Condition (video clip)

[CLWarunki]

Yeah pretty crazy with all the accents and beat displacements - not to mention GROOVE!

Why was there TWO kits though!?!? Was there some hot double drumming at some point in this show?

[Shawn40]

Hey Chris,

The second kit is for Stockley the lead singer who is also a great drummer/musician.

Yeah sometimes they do some incredible double drumming, I will post some tonight, very impressive !!!

Peace.

[got_a_matchgrip]

Originally posted by Rodge:
The second kit is for Stockley the lead singer who is also a great drummer/musician.
Yeah sometimes they do some incredible double drumming, I will post some tonight, very impressive !!!
Peace.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] Cool, THANKS [in advance], Rodge [img]cool.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 07, 2005 12:35 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]</font>

[likedachuch]

vewy vewy funky, hahahah.....

thanks for the link [img]smile.gif[/img]

[drumfreak0714]

Thankx for the links and mp3s!!!!That stuff is funky as hell!!I'd never before heard of Mint Condition- I'm definitely gonna be checkin out more of that!!Thankx again 4 sharing! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[Muphkin Man]

Saw this posted on another forum, enjoy!

'an underrated and somewhat mythological figure, here is chris dave at the montreaux jazz festival with meshell ndegeocello!

http://membres.lycos.fr/meshellndegeocello/bootlegs.htm

click "HOME", then scroll to the bottom and click "VideO streaming".'

[spaceotter]

Hi All--New guy here. Greetings!

I've been reading HOD for a couple months now, hanging back behind the beat. I'm a little nervous after watching some of the recent ...umm..."heated discussions"...so go easy on me if I misstep. "We come in peace."

MeShell/Chris Dave got brought up (even if slightly off-topic from Mint Condition) so I'm taking the plunge of my first post here. I saw Chris last year with MeShell on her "Comfort Woman" tour at the Fillmore in SF--had never heard of him but his playing was unlike anything I'd ever heard. He drove a 4-piece kit with a couple cymbals straight into some crazy infinity I'd never visited, playing so far outside sometimes that it sounded like he wouldn't come back...which made it all the more brilliant when he did. MeShell was also deep in it, both on bass and vocals, singing so far back on the beat it sounded like she was preachin'. Intense.

My friends and I--all musicians born and raised with jazz/fusion--just gaped at each other, only to stumble out afterwards feeling used up and thrown away. You gotta love that feeling when music takes you so far into the groove that you feel wrung out when you're done.

Many of the same musicians from the killer Montreaux clip Muphkin posted, including the aforementioned Chris Dave, are currently touring the US with her Spirit Music Jamia septet. A group of friends and I are checking her out at Yoshi's in Oakland on July 1 (also to celebrate my 35th--wihch will be a really nice present). I think she & crew go back to Europe in the fall.

If you have the opportunity, I would recommend checking out this tour. These cats know how to play, and furthmore have more soul than is probably legal. And if any No.Cal. HODers show up at Yoshi's, I'll see you there.

Thanks for all the great posts, everyone. Peace...

[got_a_matchgrip]

Welcome otter...nice post, mate. [Sorry that you have to have the prerequisite of walking on tenderhooks to come in here! [img]wink.gif[/img] ]

But the question still has yet to be technically answered by anyone...is that Chris Dave [or no] in the Breakin' My Heart vid-clip posted firstly at the top here by Rodge?! [img]confused.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

[spaceotter]

Originally posted by got_a_match_grip?:
But the question still has yet to be technically answered by anyone...is that Chris Dave [or no] in the Breakin' My Heart vid-clip posted firstly at the top here by Rodge?! [img]confused.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I actually think this *is* Chris, pre-dreds, judging from the feel, the style of some of the fills, his setup, and the Sabian Evolution Ozone crash I've seen him play. Though as Drumaddix pointed out some of these guys sound similar and use similar gear--I don't have enough experience in the genre to know all these players. Whatever...the playing is tight and I'm down.

So, just sent an e-mail to the site to verify. Perhaps they will know and/or answer, and our mystery will be put to rest.

[musikluvr]

To give everyone a definate answer, that is not Chris Daddy Dave in that video clip. His name is Terrance Lewis. If you purchase Mint Condition's newest CD (don't remember the name) it comes with a DVD that shows a live performance of them in D.C.