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An amateur drummer on Youtube

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

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When I was a kid, I always wanted to play drums, but my dad wouldn't have it. Nope. He wanted me to play bass fiddle. Nothing against that instrument, but drumming has forever fascinated me. Something about the coordination required (which I do NOT have) is amazing to me.

I have seen quite a few of this guy's videos. He is good, very good, in my opinion. He used to have many other videos on Youtube, but for some reason removed them. But I think he's good. Note his facial expresssions!

NC

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If you like rock listen/watch a guy named MachineGunSmith on youtube. Awesome dummer, I only wish I had half his talent!
 
The guy in the first two vids is a very solid drummer...I'll give him that....but I kept thinking that he had a cartoonish quality about him. Almost like Dagwood Bumsted or Beetle Bailey was playing drums. It's easy to see from his facial expressions that the guy has one heck of a sense of humor.

And I really liked his shirt:

I'm not trying to be difficult, it just comes naturally.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
The guy in the first two vids is a very solid drummer...I'll give him that....but I kept thinking that he had a cartoonish quality about him. Almost like Dagwood Bumsted or Beetle Bailey was playing drums. It's easy to see from his facial expressions that the guy has one heck of a sense of humor.

And I really liked his shirt:

I'm not trying to be difficult, it just comes naturally.

OBIO
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I agree with you about his "cartoonish" quality. I wish he had not removed some of his other videos. One was a Phil Collins tune, and he really nailed the drumming in it. I emailed him months ago, asking what happened to those videos, but he did not reply. NC
 
By no means an amature ... but if you want to watch a drummer that makes faces ... you need to watch ol Mick Fleetwood.

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Snuffy said:
By no means an amature ... but if you want to watch a drummer that makes faces ... you need to watch ol Mick Fleetwood.

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EXCELLENT!!! Thanks!

And a reference to great drummers would not be complete without the likes of Buddy Rich!!

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Since Navy Chief already put Phil up in another thread, I gotta post my other favorite drummer.


Neil Peart

In High school my two favorite bands were Genesis and Rush...

I've seen Rush in concert three times.

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Brian
 
When I was in high school, there was a guy who fancied himself as a Neil Peart replica...had the drums that nearly formed a circle around him. That fella could bang some serious bongos...though the one time I told him that he got mad because he "was a drummer and not a bongo player". Dude played drums like most people breath...it was just natural to him. All the the kids in his family....25 altogether, cousins and such....played some sort of musical instrument or two or three or four. When they all go together out in the big barn on the family farm and got to jamming, it was really something to hear. Drums, guitars, keyboards, violins, flutes, claranets, oboes, zylophones....that family had its own private symphony. Old Man Klinker, the grandfather, started the Klinker Lumber Company in our home town wat back before the Depression. His wife was from New York City or someplace high flahooten like that, and she loved music. So, their 7 kids (4 boys and 3 girls) all learned to play instruments. And their 25 grand kids (17 boys and 8 girls...all the boys were built like tree trunks and the girls...well, we all wanted to "date" them but were too afraid of those 17 monstrous boys) all learned to play music.

I have no idea what the point of this post is. Sorry, too much soda pop this evening or something.

OBIO
 
Best album to start off with is either moving pictures or one of the live ones.

I highly recommend the R30 Live DVD (Where the drum solo is from) the only problem for a long term Rush fan like myself is that Geddy Lee can't hit the high notes like he used to.

Some good old and new rush...

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and

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and they even do the occasional cover

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Brian
 
rush is a "local band" here hahahaha. neil is often seen in the blockbuster over on the west side. i don't go there , so i never have. if you wanna check out rush, the easiest way is to get "chronicles" it's a 2 disc set that contains much of their best.
 
Thanks! Now I will be adding Rush to the list of "new" music. There are quite a few bands that began back then, but my tastes were different than now....

NC
 
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