Garibaldi - Wishful Thinking

[Vdrummer]

The excerpts my buddy asked for are done. I'll leave them up for a couple of days. Enjoy all,

Brad


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[davfrancis]

Its interesting that this has just come up. I have been going through a major Garibaldi phase recently. Digging out all my Tower CDs and dusting off my copies of Future Sounds and The Funky Beat. Also Tower of Groove Pts 1 & 2, Timba-Funk, Talking Drums etc...

I ordered the "Best Of" Wishful Thinking CD. I forget the proper name for this - train of Thought maybe?

Anyway it was abrand new experience buying a CD that Vinnie was on in order to hear the 'other drummer's' tracks!

Some cool stuff on there.

I still can't play Garibaldi's grooves to anything near an acceptable standard. Oh well - back to the practice pad!

[got_a_matchgrip]

Yeah, DG is the shedt.

His linear 'jazzy'-funk grooves are just bee-hatchin'. When i think of 'silky' grooves as are Gadd, Ersk, Vega, Jeff, Marottas, Purdie, I also think of him.

I still have to warnm up Oakland Stroke for 15-20 mins to get it going properly [those LH accents around the kick]. What a completely bitchin' groove it is.

I assume Weckl's Tower of Inspiration off Master Plan is a direct influence & tribute to both DG & TOP [so it's been said].

I learned something from recording a DG clinic long ago [seen him twice]. He plays the grooves alone w/out the backg music, & it's good [all the ghost strokes even, etc], but not all that 'energetic' & exciting, like some other drumrs can make it sound by itself. Then he turns on the music & lo & behold, it becomes the friggin' shedt. Often an isolated drum track alone can seem to 'lack' the pizazz [or total musicality] that the entire playback contains. Peculiar, yet understandable. I've heard final products of my own recording that sounded fine, but when isolated in the control room, i was squirming in my seat. [Likewise i've also heard the inverse in my day. Doh.] /:-[ /;-P

I used to have a couple of the WT's on analog/cassette tapes [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img] , dubbed for me long ago by a now 'famous' pro-Nashv drummer b4 he 'hit the big time' [img]wink.gif[/img] ; the one w VC, awa 1 w DG, but they have long since worn out [img]frown.gif[/img] & vanished into carbon ash i presume. Need to find 'em on disc.

'Happy jazz,' eh? Is that a sub-genre of 'smooth [-moove] jazz?' [img]tongue.gif[/img]