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I can't remember the amount of times I've been asked who's been the main inspiration behind my music only to be asked "WHO?" when I've mentioned Carlos...
He truely was my total drum hero! The reason I started, the reason I still play.
For God's sake, even the Grease soundtrack! Do the millions of girls the world over who get ready to go out by listening to the Grease album even realise it's Carlos that's responsible for much of the groove! Just listen to Matt Rollings album "Balconies", his playing is just off the wall... THE SINGLE most underrated drummer that ever blessed this earth...
Also, my sleve notes to Michel Camillo's Once More Once say that Dave Weckl played on that album...
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Tony beard is a great drummer. I used to go watch him with a british jazz funk band called morrisey-mullen years ago, and I've got him on one of their albums. At the time I was having lessons with gavin harrison who said tony was a bit of a gadd clone. Well, tony certainly had all the gadd chops down, but he played really great. He then joined 'Go West' and I never heard anything more from him. Oh yeah, I also remember him doing a clinic at a local venue which was actually a pub with a stage, and no other than akira jimbo joined tony for a double drum clinic. Was amazing. This is going back to the late 80's. I believe tony is in LA or new york? What's he up to? Sessions, touring bands?
Anyway, I nominate gavin harrison, tony, and also neil wilkinson. Neil is another amazing ex morrisey mullen uk player who now goes between USA and UK, doing the michael ball gig, and also recording. He also did a stint with the average white band.
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Tony lives in New York, met him just recently. He was auditioning for Spyro Gyra the sametime I was.
Balconies is such great CV playing.
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Groovemeister, there's surely an error on your liner notes. Weckl is not on "One more Once". Cliff and Smitty share the skins.
I don't know much about Gavin Harrison but I just read that he's about to release his 2nd DVD. It might interest some of you.
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One More Once is mostly Clif Almond, Smitty plays on a couple too.
Balconies is awesome. (Thanks RW)
I love Ponty's stuff. I have a great CD of his called Tchokola which has Brice Wassy on drums.
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No one seems to know him. Alex
Sanguinetti is one of the best
drummers that still is not known.
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Love all of Ponty's stuff, Brice Wassey kills it on that cd Roy.
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Great topic!
As I've posted previously, Danny Seraphine is IMO the most underrated/overlooked drummer ever. Great groove, pocket, and chops. He was my original drumming influence when I was about four years old. He owns the six-stroke roll...both on the snare and around the toms. His drums always had a cool and unique sound. If you listen to some of the more obscure Chicago records, you would hear him playing a lot of stuff that we didn't hear some other big name guys do until several years later. I've got some live tapes of Chicago from the late '70's and early '80's where he's really pulling out all the stops. Hell, Bissonette and Mangini list him as one of their major influences!
I also think that Peter Cetera was a terrific bass player, especially on the first 10 or 12 albums, in spite of his success as just a pop singer. I'll also throw in Terry Kath as one of the greatest blues/rock guitarists. Jimi Hendrix and Steve Lukather even said so! It's a shame we hear 100 times more about Johnny Lang and Kenny Wayne Sheppard than Terry Kath.
I'll admit I'm a big fan of Chicago ("no shit!?!?!"), but I name these guys based only upon their playing, not because they happened to be in a band that I like. Chicago has been a train wreck the last 15 years, thanks mostly to Tris "The Statue" Imboden, Jason "Kermit the Frog" Scheff, and the now out-of-control Bill Champlin. It wouldn't hurt Lee Loughnane and Walt Parazaider to take the socks out of their horns before the show, either, but I digress....
Anyways....a while back I posted about a local jazz drummer, but couldn't recall his name...........it's Joel W. Spencer. He's playing with Steve Smith at the Chicago Custom and Vintage Drum Show (see the back of the May 2004 MD) this month. That guy cooks in a small trio setting. Fantastic control and dynamics. He's underrated and undiscovered, and really deserves a feature in MD.
Jim Peterick (from The Ides of March, co-wrote "Eye of the Tiger" and "Hold on Loosely") is a tremendous songwriter, guitarist, and singer. He's got a following here in Chicago, but never seemed to hit it big nationally. It's cool that I can still see him play a few times a year at "summerfest" type gigs. I'm impressed with how well he sings live night after night, after over 30 years of it.
I always thought Bill Gibson from Huey Lewis and the News was solid. Great groove with extra chops and swing in reserve.
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Danny is one of the greats, for sure.
I remember Buddy talking about him on
the a talk show, along with Gadd...
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I maintain that Pete Townsend has never got the credit he deserves for all the classic Who tracks. Think about all the dozens of songs he has writtend along with the simply amazing rock opera Tommy and the Quadrophenia sound track.
His writing is great, his arranging skills are very underated - his use of french horns and bizarre instrumentation and his songs will stand the test of time for sure.
People mention Lennon, Hendrix, Clapton etc and seem to miss out Pete Townsend. I could listen to Tommy every day for ever - great stuff!
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