Gene Krupa in "Fireball""

[walrus]

Neil Peart could swing!

Solo at 14:00.



walrus

 

[Rocky]

Jorma played a Thunderbird on the album.

Which Grace absolutely hated since it was all added in post-production. She thought it didn't sound like the band anymore. I admit for a long time I much preferred the production on After Bathing At Baxter's, the follow-up, which they had much more hand in producing.

I like "Pillow" more now than I ever did as a kid.

I love them both, just from the progress when you travel 3/5 of a mile in 17 seconds.

I actually think Jerry Garcia was responsible for all the reverb.

 

[fronobulax]

Jorma played a Thunderbird on the album.

Which Grace absolutely hated since it was all added in post-production. She thought it didn't sound like the band anymore. I admit for a long time I much preferred the production on After Bathing At Baxter's, the follow-up, which they had much more hand in producing.

I like "Pillow" more now than I ever did as a kid.

Jefferson Guild

Pictured (left to right): Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Skip Spence, Marty Balin, Jack Casady, and Signe Anderson in the studio circa 1965. Photographed by Michael Ochs. From the Jefferson Airplane Facebook page. Picture is from the recording sessions that created "Jefferson Airplane Takes...

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[Midnight Toker]

Neil Peart could swing!

Solo at 14:00.



walrus

Yes he "could", he was that gifted, but sadly rarely ever did w/ Rush. They are one of my fav bands and I can hardly think of a time he played behind the beat. He was Mr Metronome w/ them....complex, yet precise. IMO real swing swagger comes from a looseness that Neil had never "really" had. He's just to perfect to lag behind the beat.

 

[DrumBob]

Neil Peart could swing!

Solo at 14:00.



walrus

No, he couldn't. Not at all. I have seen that clip many times, and coming from a drummer's perspective, Neil Peart couldn't swing a big band at all at that point. His playing was stiff and mechanical. Just watch him in the video. It's comical. He was roundly roasted for that performance, not only by the musicians in Buddy's band, but by drummers as well. Peart knew he didn't swing, and stated in a Modern Drummer interview that while he was driving home to Canada, he realized he'd played poorly. That lead him to take lessons from noted drum teacher Freddie Gruber. Eventually, he developed a more relaxed approach using matched grip.

 

[West R Lee]

My Favorite.



West

 

[ReevesRd]

My Favorite.



West

I always loved playing In The Mood in my high school stage band. I think we played it every year.

 

[adorshki]

Mitchell for me, the jazziest of all.

I wouldn't want to have to choose.

 

[DrumBob]

My Favorite.



West

One of my favorite swing drummers. Maurice Purtill, a big influence on my playing. He was living in Fair Lawn, NJ in the 70's, and I found him in the phone book and went to his apartment. He answered the door and let me in for a chat, and autographed one of my Glenn Miller album sets.

 

[DrumBob]

I wouldn't want to have to choose.

Mitch was a monster drummer, one of the best, and definitely influenced by drummers like Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.

 

[adorshki]

Jefferson Guild

Pictured (left to right): Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Skip Spence, Marty Balin, Jack Casady, and Signe Anderson in the studio circa 1965. Photographed by Michael Ochs. From the Jefferson Airplane Facebook page. Picture is from the recording sessions that created "Jefferson Airplane Takes...

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Just a good pic of Jorma with the 'bird. He says in interviews he used it on "Pillow", to be clear.

I love them both, just from the progress when you travel 3/5 of a mile in 17 seconds.

I actually think Jerry Garcia was responsible for all the reverb.

Garcia's credited as "Spiritual Advisor" and did play on "Today" and other tunes as well, but I don't recall hearing the reverb was his "fault". IIRC correctly Grace blamed it on the producer aiming for a more "marketable" sound. According to the Wiki page, that would be Rick Jarrard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealistic_Pillow

Jorma's comments are interesting as well since he cites Jerry as having rearranged "Somebody To Love". And the Wiki page notes reverb was heavier on the stereo mix. Hmmmm....

 

[Guildedagain]

I wouldn't want to have to choose.

To me, Hendrix is still from the future, if music got good one day, it would sound like this. He's so incredibly futuristic @1:39~1:52 "the smell of a world that's burned, or umm, maybe just a change of climate", it's intense, to hear sing those words while the house is been buffered - shaking - by these intense - and new - winter high winds storms at the same time... Was there a prophet beneath the profit, as some claimed silenced. Maybe this 27 thing isn't the expiration date of a burned out rock star but more of a convenient excuse for the silencers.

 

[adorshki]

I always loved playing In The Mood in my high school stage band. I think we played it every year.

Continuing the "movie music" theme (heheheh), I nominate the divine Ms. Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"



IIRC she doesn't actually play the guitar, but at least learned the fingering for realism? I wonder how many students learned that tune on M20's?

 

[adorshki]

Another piece of immortality (that's immortality, not immorality) from the movies, "Theme From The Third Man:



Gypsy jazz, baby.
Gives the term "finger style" a whole new meaning.

Original movie version's better but no playing shots: