New Altered CD Clip

[XNavyDrummer]

Real nice playing Steve! Drums sound great. Are those Emperors on your toms?

Andy

[ladanny]

Great playing as usual Steve!

Lovin' the quaility of the new digital camera too!

Looking forward to watching you play live sometime. PLEASE keep us posted.

Danny

[Manos]

Awesome clip. I'm looking forward to the album.

[Steve Holmes]

Quicktime version available right here.

I suck at making QT. The quality is noticably lower than the WMP one but the file size is slightly bigger. [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]

[bryan v]

steve...
that was great playing! thanks for sharing! I'll be buying a copy of that CD!!!
BV

[tombo74]

Yeah, Steve! This is the kind of playing I like!!

I hope you'll get success with your band.

And for you personally, I wish you a big break with a major artist. You clearly deserve to get more exposure!

And by the way, I'm curious to know what was your involvment with Celine Dion?
(She was our local little girl singing for grandmas and now an international artist.)

[blake1]

Nice Stuff Steve! Your drums sound great, especially that snare.
I've been checking out your video-
SHED SOME LIGHT- and really like your attitude on the last solo. Now that's the spirit of where I wanna go. I love it when you sit down and think for a split second and then just attack the idea. That was deceptive and a very nice intro to the solo.
A lot of drummers would just ease into it , but you take control it from the get go.

Now for the Altered clip-
I do think you should ax the Chicken. That's just played too much IMHO. Even if it's in 7.
Originals are the way to go for our generation.

I could be wrong but Weckl even played it recently. [img]graemlins/bat.gif[/img]

[Steve Holmes]

I think the chicken is a fun song (despite my bashing the DWB turning into a note fest) but I can see how one may think that.
NOTHING PERSONEL is the Jazz Cover Tune of Death for my generation I think.

TOMBO: I did some Hi Hat, BD, cymbals and other stuff on a couple tunes from Celines fairly recent release. That producer Gee Rosch calls me for kit stuff but 90% of his tunes are programmed.
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Here is a link to one of the tunes on her official site.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 26, 2003 11:02 PM: Message edited by: Steve Holmes ]</font>

[blake1]

Yeah, Nothing Personal and how many times have we all played Softly as a Morning Sunrise. (Real good burnout tunes though)
We should be writing the new standards for the next generation.
Sounds like you're in the right band. You get to play all the cool stuff.
The guitarist reminds me of Bill Connors and Holdsworth on some of the tunes, especially the first tune in 3.
What is that snare? It's nice!
Do you guys play with a click on any of those tunes?
Blake

[Steve Holmes]

We recorded 8 tunes. 2 of them were straight-ahead swing tunes. The other 6 we used a click on (no click on the jazz stuff, that would be silly I think.)
I Like Softy too but I think more so I like All The Things You Are.
Getting familiar with standards is one of the best things a drummer can do who wants to play jazz. One of my best friends is a jazz guitarist and I've done countless gigs with him and it was the best thing I ever did for my playing.