LA Times Article on Session Drummers

[drum4fun]

In Sunday's (June 15) edition of the LA Times' Calendar Section pages E1 & E45, there was an article on the decline of session drummers due to the use of drum machines. Hal Blaine, Jim Keltner, and Rick Marotta were interviewed for the article.

[bouts]

hi,
is there a website where we can read this article? I'm from france and i don't receive the LA Times...
thanks

[JohnnyDrum]

I got the LA Times website up via Google, looked at today's online news, clicked on the
Calendar icon/sidebar...and there was the ( very interesting) article, which, if you search the LA Times'archive, they want to charge you $$$$ to read... [img]cool.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img]

[BennyAndTheSkins]

This seems like the same old story.... I remember seeing Phil Ehart, the drummer for Kansas, in a clinic back in 1984, and he was talking about all the off beat, creative stuff he does, in order to "Stay ahead of the drum machines". I still think there's no substitute for the subtlety, nuance, and groove that you get from a real person.

I would think that the more unnerving thing for studio musicians/drummers would be the advent of Pro Tools, where a drummer can lay down a few tracks that he thinks really sucked, and wants another go at the tune, but the producer says, " I have all I need. Thanks.", and proceeds to stitch together the track, and shift back beats, fills, etc as needed. (Franken-track!)

[XNavyDrummer]

drum4fun,

Can you give us a summary of what the article said?

Thanks!

[ladanny]

Here you go...

http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-ca-bo...,3854658.story

[PocketPlayer]

More on session drummers;

http://www.sessiondrummer.co.uk/

http://www.carlolittle.com/

[FuseU1]

Thanx - fun, johnny, danny, & PP for that/those...
...benny - lol, "Franken-tracks"...
while i agree w/ u, i will also say that i'd rather listen to a real drummer who's been "pro-tooled" than all those blasted top-40 tunes w/ those stiff-as-a-statues'-butt drum machine tracks...
But, now, those same machines in the hands of [& along w/ the playing of], say, a VC/DW/VD/DC/TL/RG [/great drummer], now THAT'S a completely diff story altogether [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]

btw - i had the fortune of meeting/briefly speaking to Hal in Orlando, FL, around '88 [along w Mike Terrana, Scott Travis, & Liberty DeVitto]; a very nice & informative guy... while self-admittedly "not a chops guy; [I'm] more of a groove guy," he nevertheless is an important part of the studio/recorded drums heritage... [however, i have never had the fortune of meeting Keltner or either of the Marottas] ;=) :=(

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 16, 2003 08:40 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

[buga]

link? anyways like Omar says its kinda sad but u just have to adjust with the times and needs...

Aronoff is probably my favorite LA Studio guy, his drumming is so uplifting, cheerful and inspiring like his character.

I was listening to his playing from Burning For Buddy awhile ago, killer playing especially for a rock drummer [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

[drum4fun]

Thanks ladanny for posting the link to the article.