Beat displacement

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January 4th, 2006, 03:23 PM
JohnDrum

This quote is from today's Independent, and made me laugh out loud. It's from a feature on the recent poll taken by BBC Radio 2 to establish which was the best year for music from the last 6 decades ( 1967 was the winner):

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"the famed blues band Ten Years After.... I have a curious memory of their set. On one tune the drummer was one beat out. He was paying the off beat on the on beat.The leader signalled to him to stop and start again, but the drummer's eyes were closed. So the nearest musician leant over, held the drummer's arm for one beat, then let go again, so he was now in the right place."

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January 4th, 2006, 03:59 PM
elpatricio

haha very amusing, lucky the musician didn't punch him instead!
January 4th, 2006, 05:10 PM
SSmithite

Wasn't there just a thread recently about "playing whilst intoxicated?" [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]
January 4th, 2006, 07:31 PM
CLWarunki

Hahaha, that's hilarious... I'd love to actually see that happen!
January 4th, 2006, 09:08 PM
piccupstix

LOL! Funny.....leant, those brits!
January 5th, 2006, 07:16 PM
got_a_matchgrip

LOL

Just don't try that with Vince, Weckl, Dennis, or Virg; for it would have meant that it was deliberate displacement...the arm-grab thing, that is...then again, maybe the 10 Yrs Aft guy meant to do it...& the other muso's just didn't "get it"... [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Just remember...Drumfucius say: a beat synchopated-accent-"displacement" on a top-40 dance gig for anything longer than a fill towards the end of a measure or 2 is akin to flatus in a diver's helmet [or in church]...warning - "white peeps dancing!" [j/k]...hence the name "top-farty" gig...

[ January 07, 2006 04:39 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]
January 5th, 2006, 07:35 PM
moosetication

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Originally posted by got_a_match_grip?:
... is akin to fellatus in a diver's helmet [or in church]...

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Ahem. I think perhaps Drumfucious he mean "flatus" actually. I'm not entirely sure how exactly you could do the other thing in a diver's helmet.

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January 7th, 2006, 12:31 AM
Morgenthaler

I've seriously had musicians (no drummers) saying to me that Ginger Baker was playing totally wrong in "Sunshine of your love" because of the strong 1 & 3 beat. Morons....
January 7th, 2006, 01:15 AM
Henry II

Quote:

Originally posted by got_a_match_grip?:
LOL

Just don't try that with Vince, Weckl, Dennis, or Virg; for it would have meant that it was deliberate displacement...the arm-grab thing, that is...then again, maybe the 10 Yrs Aft guy meant to do it...& the other muso's just didn't "get it"... [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Just remember...Drumfucius say: a beat synchopated-accent-"displacement" on a top-40 dance gig for anything longer than a fill towards the end of a measure or 2 is akin to fellatus in a diver's helmet [or in church]...warning - "white peeps dancing!" [j/k]...hence the name "top-farty" gig...

[ January 05, 2006 03:19 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]

Ehem! Ohhh kaaay! [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] (Backs quietly away).
January 7th, 2006, 08:28 PM
got_a_matchgrip

Heh, ya gots me moose. Moose, 1; gamg, 0. lol
[Couldn't tell ya what the heck i was thinkin'...]

I take it you liked that then, H2... [img]wink.gif[/img]

...Every now n then we all have our moments...
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...But perhaps, that wasn't one of 'em [mine]... /;-]

[ January 07, 2006 04:40 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]
January 7th, 2006, 09:22 PM
LDGuy

"Nurse, where did you put gamg's pills?"
January 8th, 2006, 02:13 AM
got_a_matchgrip

Right next to the lithium, zoloft, & ridlin...yeah... [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]