Vinnie's dress sense

Sorry guys - I'm still all giddy about the success of my first torrent download - the White Kit Clinics. I started to review this footage last night on my PC, realising that I'd already got a bit of the first one as part of Dr Funkenstein's Vinnie compilation DVD that my son got me as a gift, but I had to pause, rewind and review the part where Vinnie gets up from behind the kit to speak......those tracksuit bottoms!!!! what's all that about? I really appreciate that your wardrobe should have no bearing whatsoever on what your hands, feet and brain are doing on the kit - but,....there obviously wasn't a mirror in the dressing room....and I realise this might seem a trivial thing to notice amongst the drumming and verbal brilliance on this footage...and I won't even start on the mini-spare tyre protruding over his waistband!!! [img]wink.gif[/img]

Didn't you know, JD?!

It's a little-known & very-top-secret fact that those track pants are what makes VC play the way he does!

You see, it all started a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

...VC was visited by a spirit super-being from the cosmos [after they dropped off Shirley MacLaine - BORRRring], who turned out to be a super-duper-rhythm ace "alien" [who has also visited Virgil & Weckl since], who gave Vince the bottoms, but VC has little recollection of it! So you see, the pants are responsible! [He'll mess ya up with the ninja-sticks if ya try to take 'em]...

VC keeps the "rhythmic energizer pack" stored on his waistline...

The incident was so mesmerizing & transforming that, everytime he unleashes his full-tilt rhythmic assault, he looses some of that bulk [since]...

Evidently, unlike most mere mortals, the "alien" is far too advanced to be concerned about something as trivial as "fashion-sense"...

I jest...

OK, so he WAS visited by someOne...but we'll just leave it at that...

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ April 06, 2005 01:07 PM: Message edited by: got_a_matchgrip? ]</font>

It's rather shocking , I aggree. What's funny is the cameraman is obviouslt taken aback as well as the camera pans down to check the pants! Good stuff....

lol, I remember seeing Zildjian Day in NY for the first time and thinking, wtf is with the glasses and 'stache..and that cheezy keyboard backing track?? minor faux pas I guess.

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Originally posted by Avi_drums:
lol, I remember seeing Zildjian Day in NY for the first time and thinking, wtf is with the glasses and 'stache..and that cheezy keyboard backing track?? minor faux pas I guess.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's funny, 'cause I recall being totally blown away by his performance with Tim Landers. But then again, I saw it shortly after it happened, perhaps you saw it more recently. Times change and so different things go in and out of fashion. I don't see the point in criticizing the past. In it's time, it was incredible, and to me, it is still highly relevant.

Is this a drumming board or a fashion board?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exactly why I posted my first j/k one above... ;c)

I didn't say I wasn't blown away...in fact, the pj thing is kinda cool as it is the anti-thesis of pseudo jazz chic. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

Speaking of bad fusion fashion, the worst I've seen is on a CCEB DVD boot, Music on the Mountain. Gambale is wearing (what appears to be at first glance), a long draping gown (with high top sneakers). Pattitucci dons a one piece pastel body suit, that looks like something from a mental patient ward.

Have any of you seen the Yamaha ad with Vinnie in a pink one-piece mechanics get-up? I had to buy the poster off eBay for $20 because it was so hideous! It was the 80's!!!

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Have any of you seen the Yamaha ad with Vinnie in a pink one-piece mechanics get-up? I had to buy the poster off eBay for $20 because it was so hideous! It was the 80's!!!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let's not forget that Tony Williams had his signature one piece satin number that he always wore, and Keith Moon's one piece jump suit too.

The more outrageous the better I always say. Why be normal?

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Yeah i'm not into fashion too. These guy know WHO they are, they don't need to radiate it through the way they dress. Their identity is Drums and Music and that shouldn't be dictated by some sort of fashion of the time their playing represents.