Comments on: A pick me up

By: MeMe

MeMe — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:00:24 +0000

Probably one of the best drum solos ever!
even Carlsburg could not produce a better one!

By: Xanthippas

Xanthippas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:31:45 +0000

Nickelback and “best” do not belong in the same sentence.

By: Kerry Reid

Kerry Reid — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:01:05 +0000

Er, that should of course be “leaving” cascades of flowers for Bush and/or Cheney.

By: Kerry Reid

Kerry Reid — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:59:58 +0000

Why are people, er, trolls so shocked, SHOCKED that a memorial service for a politican might get, oh, I don’t know – POLITICAL?

Are they similarly shocked when funerals for musicians or composers feature music? Would it be awful and pandering for a memorial for an actor to feature clips from his or her films?

Paul Wellstone lived his life as a fighting liberal politician—it was the greatest part of his identity. So did Ted Kennedy. If you’re going to have a celebration of someone’s life, you celebrate the biggest parts of that life. It’s not our fault that the GOP hasn’t produced any great politicians whose passing inspires people to terrific eulogies (even the Reagan services felt pretty phoned in—and can you honestly imagine anyone living cascades of flowers in memory of Bush II and Cheney when they finally slither off this mortal coil? If you want to be remembered well in death, try not being a total lying selfish shitbird in life.

By: Evinfuilt

Evinfuilt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:28:35 +0000

Let me give props to that Nickleback drummer for one bit. I’d say about the 4 minute mark he’s doing an amazingly quick bit on the bass. No question he had to double peddle it, but that was some impressive footwork.

By: DZ

DZ — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:33:47 +0000

When the first album came out, we considered Led Zeppelin to be ‘heavy music’ but it wasn’t heavy metal. Also, best drummer ever? WTF. Isn’t anyone old enough to remember Ginger Baker?

By: geg6

geg6 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:27:17 +0000

@NobodySpecial:

“They’re a precursor.”

I’m pretty sure that’s what I was saying. If that’s not how it came out, that is what I meant about all of the bands. They were precursors for the people who came along afterward.

By: NobodySpecial

NobodySpecial — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:13:09 +0000

Led Zeppelin would be heavy metal.

Wait, what? A third of their recorded music was acoustic! I mean, granted, Black Sabbath with Ozzy were hippies with tuned down guitars, but Zeppelin is NOT Heavy Metal. They’re a precursor.

By: NR

NR — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:10:24 +0000

When it comes to drummers, I always have to mention Steve Gadd. Listen to his playing on Steely Dan’s “Aja.” The fact that he walked into the studio and played that song one time, in one take, looking at the chart, solos and all, just blows my mind.

By: rs

rs — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:03:16 +0000

There's two kinds of music- good and bad.@JK: The most recent Rolling Stone has a profile of Ginger Baker. Interesting character.@gbear: I was sitting two rows from the stage at the Easttown Theatre in Detroit in 1970 or 71 when a band I'd never heard of opened for Traffic. I can still hear them doing Walk Awhile. Could have cared less if Traffic took the stage, and Traffic were pretty damn good. I've probably seen RT several dozen times since then. Saw Fairport a year or two ago at the Ark in Ann Arbor.@JK: Or Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Steve Earle..........

By: trollhattan

trollhattan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:01:15 +0000

Fermament, firmament, fur moment…whatddyawant?

By: trollhattan

trollhattan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:58:52 +0000

Forgot Aynsley Dunbar. A drummer’s drummer, with severe demerits for the Journey and Starship associations. On second thought….Nah, anybody who could drum for Zappa gets a star in the musician’s fermament.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:57:49 +0000

Oh, and here’s my favorite Nickleback moment – when they’re pelted with rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQzhOyHTarU

By: trollhattan

trollhattan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:52:38 +0000

Hmmm, drummahs. I guess the best I’ve seen are Bill Bruford and Billy Cobham. I don’t think there’s an “instrument” more hobbled by the recording process than drums. Have to see them live to get the real impact. Seeing versus listening to a recording of taiko drumming for example. Vastly different.

Keith Moon is the craziest I’ve seen, fer sure. He was permanently set on “11.”

Please preannounce any trolloff so that I may be out of the country (off the orb?) at the time, mmmkay? My sanity is fragile enough as is.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:45:52 +0000

Maybe Peggy Noonan will compose an article as Ted Kennedy writing from heaven preemptively scolding everyone who’ll be speaking at the funeral, therefore preventing the tragedy of politics entering the eulogizing of a politician so you “eeks, politics spoken at a funeral makes Jesus cry” pantywaists won’t have shed a tear while blogging about it.