The Most AMAZING Thing You Have Ever Seen?

Uhhhh.... Tommy Lee playing a drum solo upside down!

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LOL - I was waiting for someone to mention the Tommy Lee solo - WHERE CAN I SEE IT!?!?

and...

WHAT ABOUT KEITH MOON!? He did some CRAZY things in his time, that's for sure. (explosives in his drums, goldfish and water in them too etc).

Oh, I forgot, we are being tasteful here! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I have a Tommy Lee video but doubt I'd be able to post it here.

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lol

Yea, I'm betting not

I thought this would make for a very interesting thread:

What is the most amazing thing you have ever seen (or heard) a drummer do and who was it?


For me it might have to be:


-Virgil Donati "splitting his body in half" and playing a single paradiddle between his left hand and foot while playing a double paraddidle groove between his right hand and right foot! Sick.

-John Blackwell Jr.'s dazzling performance on the MD 2002 Fest. (Holy Showmanship Batman!)

-Mike Mangini drum clinic, his speed, stamina and agility is inhuman.

-Recent Terry Bozzio (one of a kind!)

-Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny) playing left foot clave in odd time signatures, while playing clave on a block or cowbell in yet another time signature/pattern - while playing/soloing around these concepts!

I could go on and on... and will be back later!

YOUR TURN!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 14, 2004 12:50 PM: Message edited by: CLWarunki ]</font>

hey everyone, i'm back!!!!!!
Here's a Few Good Ones....

Peter Erskine with Bass desires--Sco, Frisell, M Johnson---Blew me away

Sean Rickman at Columbia Station with Fred the keyboard guy with Michelle Ndcello{sp?}

Derek Roddy and Flo Mounier at Jaxx. killer

Joel Rosenblatt with Michel Camilo at Wolftrap in the late 80'.

Tony Williams Quintet at Wolftrap. My bro and I were broke and we went to hang out at the gate and listen. Tony started the first tune with a killer roll. Then some guy walked out and saw my brother and I jumping up and down. He asked if we wanted to buy some tickets and we only had 2 dollars. He gave them to us. 5th row center. Amazing--Tony was the loudest drummer I ever heard, among other things.

Billy Cobham--Warning Tour Blues Alley. There was a monster roundhouse fill in Mosaic, and when Billy got to it, he did a silent air drum fill---sooo cool.

CCEB reunion show. Eric Marienthal is a monster. Chick's eyes were glued to Weck--the man.

Quiet Riot--Black Sabbath tour. The Cap Center was on fire that night.

Tommy Aldridge playing Boom Boom Out Go The Lights with Pat Travers live, opening for Bob Seger Stranger in Town tour.

Rush Grace Under Pressure tour---wow.

Flam, how in the hell did you see Derek Roddy with Flo Mounier!?!? Was this that weird NYC Art thing? Please give me the details!

some amazing moments there to say the least [img]smile.gif[/img]

i particularly related to Dereks

Virgil at a clinic about a year before the MD festival. (I went because it was free. There were maybe 12 people there and we were all like, "who the f*ck is this guy gonna be?" followed by, "OMFG."

and Andys

Bill Bruford - listening to his One of a Kind album 457 times.

and most of the others as well

my most amazing drummer moment would have to be walking off stage one night and hearing an incredible noise behind me ...when i turned around to see what could be making such a loud cacophany i was somewhat surprised to see our drummer destroying my guitar by repeatedly jumping up and down on it with the volume on the amp up full. [img]graemlins/cry_smile.gif[/img]

*dennis chambers - at my place '92

w/ mike stern, bob berg, lincoln goines. middle of a burnin fusion tune, dennis drops a stick. on his hat side, leaning on stage were all PIT guys. a 4 bar break comes up, and the PIT dudes looked at eachother with sly grins. dennis, perhaps noticing, does a flurry of 32nds w/ one hand, criss crossing everywhich way... then lands on 1 with his trademark upstroke cymbal crash. heads drop in unison onto their arms on hat side of stage. HILARIOUS!!!!


vinnie - '89 potato

doug cameron (fusion violinist ala jean luc ponty) w/ tim landers (whatever happened to that guy?, eric johnson. vinnie playing an uptempo 16th fusion groove. me enjoying the music when off the corner of my eyes i see him receiving something with one of his hands. a guy on a table right next to him hands him a glass of oj. (vin is thirsty) to my disbelief, he's drinking oj and playing this crazy groove and making hits w/ one hand! puts the juice down after finishing and never misses a beat!



dennis chambers '89 - wiltern theatre

buddy rich memorial scholarship concert. after the first set, everyone in theatre during intermission is asking WHO IS DENNIS CHAMBERS?WHERE DID THIS GUY CHAMBERS COME FROM?

omar hakim '87 - video "sting: bring on the night"

his solo on the tune 'i burn for you'. the most musical solo i'd ever seen.


kirk covington 2000 - la velee

w/scott henderson and bassist for yanee (yes, yanee). just the whole night, danny carey (next table) holding his head, saying expletives beneath his voice on just about every tune. HILIARIOUS!!

virgil making mike mangini look like lars ulrich at a dual clinic in boston.