The first song you've ever played

[numeroUnoHODfan]

Never, by Heart
Your Love, by The Outfield
Working For The Weekend, by Loverboy
Throwing It All Away, by Genesis
then my brother saw my potential and got me the Moving Pictures album, and that was all she wrote... [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 21, 2003 08:04 AM: Message edited by: numeroUnoHODfan ]</font>

[drumgod1]

"Spring Session M" by Missing Persons-I couldn't play all of it, in fact, I faked most of it. Bozzio's playing did, though, give me a good understanding of opening the high hats in interesting places. On my first kit, all I had were high hats. No crash or ride cymbals thanks to my cheap parents! [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

I also used to dial through the radio stations and try to play with whatever was on. Usually Outfield, Boston, or Genesis.

Mike

[Jean-Paul]

First I started with originals and then covers, some of them were cool but others not. After a gig someone adviced me to find covers we liked because it sounded horrible. MMMMMmmmmmmmmm!!! But I can remember:
Police - Roxanne (damn hi-hat part)
Prince - The Cross (this one was easy)
Tone Loc - Funky called Medina (hip shit for 12 years old LOL)
Golden Earring - When the Lady Smiles (Dutch group but Radar Love was a hit in the USA long ago) JP

[brandrum]

the second one i learned was little guitars by van halen, i thought the intro beat was so cool at 12.

[BennyAndTheSkins]

First song I remember playing was "Jesus is Just Alright" by the Doobies, and putting in triplet fills every other verse (lick of the week, ya know)

[Steve Holmes]

Tom Sawyer from RUSH got me into drumming. Did my best at that song and rest of that TAPE.
Pop songs later that basically taught me the ropes:
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds.
Easy Lover - Phil Collins/ Phillip Bailey

ALso this reminds me, the Men At Work stuff (Business As Usual, then Cargo) were great stuff, JERRY SPEISER was a fantastic drummer. Great UNIQUE drum sound and very creative fills. He could play.
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[buga]

"Enter Sandman" by Metallica [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

[tombo74]

Funny that we all started of as rockers and moved on to the jazz thing . I guess it?s a natural evolution when you get better and develop your ears and taste for a music where you can play more freely and stretch out.

I?m asking myself if it?s possible for a kid nowadays to be attracted to mucic/drums by jazz.

In the 40s-50s, jazz was the hip thing for many people (parents or kids) and appealed a lot.
But since rock?n?roll took over in the 60?s, it?s different.

Today, unless you?re in the Marsalis family, I think it?s virtually impossible.

I used to only put jazz/fusion/latin music in the house or car but my kids just HATED it. Now they listen to what they want. I just hope that someday my little girl will ask me: ?Dad, can you buy me drums or guitar, I want to play Jenny from the block??

[Randy walker]

Men at Work was a kewl band but I could not watch Jerry play drums live, he had the oddest stiffest technique. But he sounded good on tape.
I too went thru a RUSH phase, Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres were 2 of my favs at the time, of course then came Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures. Then I moved on, it's only been recently I can listen to RUSH again.
1 thing that kind of killed RUSH was when Peart in an MD writing spoke of how he never played his parts start to finish and that they were spliced together.

[buga]

Tombo-I agree and disagree...

I don't really have the time to go through the "jazz" players looking down on rockers, because that has been widely covered and discussed before. I think in today's age everyone can have the ability to "expand" their idiom through a song, and not be cliched and "tied" to it(especially in ROCK where everything is pretty much up for grabs-especially in FUSION which I don't really consider to be jazz but HEY!)

Everyone has to start somewhere, and like u mentioned most bands mentioned here are ROCK outfits, and quite cheesy for today standards(Men At Work? GEEZ might as well mention GLAM and Culture Club right? and don't even get me started on TOTO)....tho Rush and The Police are still HOT in my book....and just about every rocker or so it seems from reading about player's influence on MD hehe...