Meinl - a lot of new videos

[Schreck]

http://www.meinlcymbals.com/events/e..._Festival.html

[donu]

Tasty [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[maggimus]

Anyone familiar with Benny Greb? That dude sounds good!

[Oddtime]

I don't want to say anything against my own people, but I have the feeling, that all the guys becoming popular from the germanspeakiing parts of Europe do all pretty much the same? Of course, it's on a very high technical level, but I only see a lot of practice in that stuff, not a lot of playing with other musicians. After seeing the stuff ( the 100th time...) I think : " Wow, that's some fast hand-foot patterns", but not " wow, tha was a incredible touching solo".
What's funny with the new videos is, that they now all try to show that they can also play grooves in between their solo stuff.
If you compare ( which I know you should not do...) their solos with solos by Tony Williams, Vinnie, Steve or DeJohnette, I feel that the soul, the balls and the musicianship are a little bit missing there.
This should not be a post saying, all these guys suck. They are great in what they do. I just think there is nothing new or interesting said.
I know they are all still pretty young compared to the old cats, so there still a lot of way to go , but just compare it to Vinnie or Bozzio stuff with Zappa (for example : Shut Up and Play Your Guitar 1,2&3) when they were in their twenties.

[LDGuy]

Hmm. I'm amazed by the Benny Greb vid. That track is awesome, and his playing was great. Solo a little... chopsy, but the grooves were up there definitely. I reckon we're a bit biased towards Vinnie on this forum, though. He is my favourite drummer, but i dont think he's the ONLY guy who can do the stuff he does. And the Zappa stuff he did was cool, but i can't say it really touched my heart much (but that's not really Zappa's style). But these germans do do quite a lot of the old hand-foot patterns. I reckon if they played less, it would be cooler. They play loads, and it does gt on my nerves after a while.

On another note, those drums sound WICKED! How do they get such a massive snare sound! That's gonna be driving me crazy!!!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 18, 2005 11:54 AM: Message edited by: LDGuy ]</font>

[starclassic123]

hi fellas!

i've read your post about the "german" guys ;-)

when you talk about the music of benny greb think of the track he plays along to. all sounds you hear are sung by benny himself exept the guitar solo. its a composition of benny, a tune from his new CD "grebfruit".
you can check our the "making of video" on his website. www.bennygreb.com

all the best rudi

[delfs]

Wow! Benny Greb grooves _hard_! I really like his playing, but I must agree with LDGuy on his solo - a little too chop'ish...

Definitely great playing by BG though! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[juanexpo]

I really like the track that Benny Grebb plays in the Meinl Festival, and his "CD making of " is lovely:

http://www.bennygreb.de/BennyTrailer.mov

What I really don?t understand-like is Thomas Lang playing in Michael Jackson?s track in the 3 times I have seen him playing to this song recently (via internet).
- Chops: 1.000.000
- Grace/Taste: 0,0

An as always is a personal opinion.
Bye.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 18, 2005 07:17 PM: Message edited by: Juan Expo ]</font>

[Groovissimo]

Benny Greb will be playing the Montreal Drum Fest in November.
November 13. !!!

http://www.montrealdrumfest.com

Also check out several clinics in Ontario, Canada following Drum Fest.

[Kurt R]

Benny can groove. Play alot of insturments. And groove..!

Well he's not a new vinnie but I enjoyed him for something new. The solo was kinda "over the top" for the song but he did this at a drum fest right?

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 18, 2005 07:31 PM: Message edited by: Kurt R ]</font>