so i have been playing with a new drummer recently. he\'s a cool dude and into phish and thinks umphrees is great and has heard OF the Breakfast but hasn\'t heard them. So i am planning on burning a CD for him and was wondering what songs you all thought display adrian at his best, either in studio or live. also i was going to add a drum solo to the disc so which drum solo on archive do you guys think is best?
ok...my favs..tribal off deuce...over exposure...moxy..puppetry pb..any drum solo thats over 5 mins.
I love a drum solo that has a easy to hear melody, so bonzos montreux, any and all of the rush solos fromthe last couple of live discs (a show of hands or more recent), and so on. The rush ones are two songs he wrote for the drums, the first is called pieces of eight, the second is mombo\'s dance party, but both of these back to back IS the drum solo on all the live albums. More recently he\'s also added a point where he triggers an audio file of a big band and does a mediocre I wish Iwas as good as buddy solo to end. A drum solo can be really technical but if you don\'t understand and they are tuned too close to each other, you wont be able to appreciate it. However if they have a wide enough range of tones then you can hear a melody in the solo and it becomes much more accessable.
and if you want technical, the black page part 1 from frank zappa\'s "in new york" is the ultimate in screwing with time. Stuff like a whole note triplet, where the first note of the triplet is a quintuplet, the second note a quntuplet, and the 3rd note a sextuplet, or the half note 19-tuplet runs in the last 2 bars.
first a bar of 4/4
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
not count the whole note triplet:
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
* * *
1 2 3
and then the qunituplets and sextuplet
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
* * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6
zappa=madman
Neil Peart solos are boring as
****! I saw Rush 3 or 4 times. I like Rush and all but I have more respect for him as being a drummer who is the key songwriter in a band. Very sterile. Black Page is all the rage for technicality, but again kinda boring and sterile. I like guys like Dennis Chambers in terms of being techinical but still having a lot of feel. Then, you get a guy like Keith Moon who was probably the most unorthodox of drummers, probably didn\'t know (but DID know) what he was playing or how to write it out. A guy like that played \'music\' not \'drums\'.
oh and for thatguy\'s stuff...I always like Frankly Po Zest. The fills remind me of Steve Gadd on Aja.
ok...my favs..tribal off deuce...over exposure...moxy..puppetry pb..any drum solo thats over 5 mins.
I guess you won\'t get a better answer than that...
psygn album version=THE SER
last night\'s entire show would be a good mix for your boy