The rhythm is gonna get you - but first a big Look Smart forearm-bump to @llangley, who won yesterday’s Blurry NBA Logos quiz. The logos in question, unclouded, were:
@DennisG2014 I have trouble identifying some of the white drummers of that era before the period where they all started wearing really horrible toupees, lol.
@UncleVinny I agree…quads are the best part, but if you have a group of various bass drums you can get a coordinated quad-like effect. That vid above wasn’t the best example…
/youtube quad drum line
@medz ok, I’m gonna slightly amend my grouchy comment from last night. Cymbals definitely suck, and xylophones are dumb as hell. But quads alone aren’t enough. What I really crave is quads + snare + bass…and not too fancy! Just kicking ass.
Sadly, most of what’s on YouTube is a bunch of nonsense, imo. This is pretty good, if a bit fancy:
I’m gonna say something weird now: for the first time in my life, I miss something about high school! Our marching band drummers were awesome peeps, and I miss hanging out with them.
@kdemo@medz At the Christmas thing at the amusement park they had a 4 drummers drumming show. Very cool, 2 of the guys were more into acting and 2 were kick ass drummers. They were all dressed as tin soldiers and three of them had their faces painted pale with red circles on their cheeks like dolls. The fourth had five o’clock shadow, smiled all the time, and was really hot. Thanks for remembering the moms, amusement park.
@EdgarAllenPope@sammydog01 I totally guessed on number 4, but I can state with almost 100% certainty that isn’t Buddy Rich. Rich is a pretty unique looking individual with his freakishly large teeth. I am also skeptical that he would ever use that configuration of drums.
@steelopus Dammit! I knew there was something wrong about any of the white drummers I was thinking of playing on what I knew was a set of timbales… How could I not have thought of ‘El Rey del Timbales’?!?
This was and probably will be the only one of these trivia quizzes I had any chance of winning, and I blew it over a really dumb oversight!
Tito is the only one of them aside from Keith Moon whom I actually have in my music collection, too.
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!
I’m pretty excited to have recognized Karen Carpenter (who, I’ve heard, would have preferred to have stayed a drummer instead of singing…) and I didn’t know any of the others. I don’t usually care about drums or drummers, but one of the great joys of my life was to have seen Sleater-Kinney in concert a few times. Every time I went I was more ‘n’ more mesmerized by Janet Weiss…heckuva powerful presence on the ol’ bongos.
Mike Shrieve the be all and ed all of drum solos. If you’re wondering why 10 minute rum solos went away in the mid 70s this is the answer, no one else could keep up.
The rhythm is gonna get you - but first a big Look Smart forearm-bump to @llangley, who won yesterday’s Blurry NBA Logos quiz. The logos in question, unclouded, were:
@JasonToon thanks for the lay up!
@lichme Love the Chuck E Cheese animatronic drummer impression.
Not going to cheat, so a couple of these are total guesses:
Wow! I actually got here before someone got the correct answer… I think…
The only one I’m not sure about is #4, so maybe the person above me has it right… Here goes:
@DennisG2014 I have trouble identifying some of the white drummers of that era before the period where they all started wearing really horrible toupees, lol.
Nooooooooooo - drum solos are first world torture!
@kdemo
/youtube ringo drum solo
drum lines, OTOH, are the tits.
/youtube sweet drum line
@medz
@medz
@medz um no. Drum lines are only cool without cymbals and fucking xylophone shit. Quads rule. Everything else is superfluous bullshit! I have SPOKEN.
@UncleVinny I agree…quads are the best part, but if you have a group of various bass drums you can get a coordinated quad-like effect. That vid above wasn’t the best example…
/youtube quad drum line
@medz ok, I’m gonna slightly amend my grouchy comment from last night. Cymbals definitely suck, and xylophones are dumb as hell. But quads alone aren’t enough. What I really crave is quads + snare + bass…and not too fancy! Just kicking ass.
Sadly, most of what’s on YouTube is a bunch of nonsense, imo. This is pretty good, if a bit fancy:
I’m gonna say something weird now: for the first time in my life, I miss something about high school! Our marching band drummers were awesome peeps, and I miss hanging out with them.
@kdemo @medz At the Christmas thing at the amusement park they had a 4 drummers drumming show. Very cool, 2 of the guys were more into acting and 2 were kick ass drummers. They were all dressed as tin soldiers and three of them had their faces painted pale with red circles on their cheeks like dolls. The fourth had five o’clock shadow, smiled all the time, and was really hot. Thanks for remembering the moms, amusement park.
@UncleVinny Army seems to use just enough symbol, while Navy has way too many here:
@medz whooooooah, navy got their doors blown off
Karen Carpenter
Keith Moon
Elvin Jones
Some Dude
Sheila E
karen carpenter
keith moon
elvin jones
buddy rich
sheila e
@EdgarAllenPope I thought Buddy Rich too.
@EdgarAllenPope @sammydog01 I totally guessed on number 4, but I can state with almost 100% certainty that isn’t Buddy Rich. Rich is a pretty unique looking individual with his freakishly large teeth. I am also skeptical that he would ever use that configuration of drums.
@DrWorm @EdgarAllenPope I really enjoyed watching him play on Youtube anyway.
I feel like this is a trick question as only clip 3 and 5 went solo. Also… how did John Bonham not make the cut?
This was really fun- I got to research a bunch of big band drummers. Thanks, @JasonToon!
Karen Carpenter
Keith Moon
Elvin Jones
Tito Puente
Sheila E
@steelopus I think you got it!
@sammydog01 I knew being an Italian, with a hispanic last name, with a degree in music education would eventually pay off… and here we are.
@steelopus Congrats!
@steelopus Dammit! I knew there was something wrong about any of the white drummers I was thinking of playing on what I knew was a set of timbales… How could I not have thought of ‘El Rey del Timbales’?!?
This was and probably will be the only one of these trivia quizzes I had any chance of winning, and I blew it over a really dumb oversight!
Tito is the only one of them aside from Keith Moon whom I actually have in my music collection, too.
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!
Oh, and congrats, @steelopus! Well done.
But… DAMN!
/image add Steve gadd
@stinks
I’m pretty excited to have recognized Karen Carpenter (who, I’ve heard, would have preferred to have stayed a drummer instead of singing…) and I didn’t know any of the others. I don’t usually care about drums or drummers, but one of the great joys of my life was to have seen Sleater-Kinney in concert a few times. Every time I went I was more ‘n’ more mesmerized by Janet Weiss…heckuva powerful presence on the ol’ bongos.
Mike Shrieve the be all and ed all of drum solos. If you’re wondering why 10 minute rum solos went away in the mid 70s this is the answer, no one else could keep up.
@JasonToon Is there anything I need to do to claim my… err… “prize?”
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