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Man, there never will be ANYONE on the planet like Moon. Talk about LARGER THAN LIFE!!!!
He never played the drums. HE FUCKING ATTACKED THEM AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM!!!!
Hey, that is another thing I have noticed that bugs the crap out of me. I have checked out many collections of drum samples over the past 7 or 8 years, and some of them even boast that they are LOUD drums or whatever. But when I check out the snare samples, it sounds like a fucking little girl tapping on the thing.
I am one of those guys who likes the pistol shot snare. No, I do not want a 'ring', like fuckwad did on Metallica's St. Anger. I like a dry CRACK! that sounds like someone is angry and is whacking the snare! All too often I have checked out some snare samples, hoping to find a killer sample I would love to use, only to come to the conclusion that the drummer who was sampled was a limp-wristed pussy motherfucker.
Another thing I admire is drummers who have a background in jazz. For instance, I saw Mr. Big in the mid-90s in a 2,000-seat ballroom. Afterwards my friends and I hung out with them for awhile, and I told Pat Torpey "You like drummers like Buddy Rich and Max Roach, don't you?" And he said "YEAH!" And I said "I could tell just by watching you play. You base your style around the snare, and as a result, all your rack and cymbal work and your kicks are all just icing on the cake!". He was kinda surprised at that, and said nobody had ever told him that before.
A drummer who has got some kind of jazz background and incorporates it into his style could sit there with nothing but a snare drum and do a 20-minute solo on it and not get boring.
Ian Paice is like that. I saw him in a club playing in Gary Moore's band in Dallas, Texas in 1983. Man, the chance to see him play up close in an intimate setting like that was fucking awesome!
Back in the late 40s and early 50s there were a series of albums released that were billed as "Drum Battles". It was like "Buddy Rich vs. Gene Krupa", and "Max Roach vs. Buddy Rich" and shit like that. Those motherfuckers were the baddest of the bad.
Lastly, these days you have all these idiots that think that speed-metal drummers are the fastest drummers on the planet. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have heard some shit by Cab Calloway's swing band from the early 30s where those motherfuckers would make all other drummers look like they were playing on Quualudes. Swing drummers may not be playing a 4-on-the-floor 78-RPM deal or even 1 and 1 and 1 and 1. These motherfuckers are like 1/32 and 1/32 and 1/32 and 1/32 and 1/32......even though they are not hitting their snare that fast, the speed they are going is fucking as fast as any Slayer tune. Musta been all that old Devil Weed and some Cocaine, lol.
He never played the drums. HE FUCKING ATTACKED THEM AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM!!!!
Hey, that is another thing I have noticed that bugs the crap out of me. I have checked out many collections of drum samples over the past 7 or 8 years, and some of them even boast that they are LOUD drums or whatever. But when I check out the snare samples, it sounds like a fucking little girl tapping on the thing.
I am one of those guys who likes the pistol shot snare. No, I do not want a 'ring', like fuckwad did on Metallica's St. Anger. I like a dry CRACK! that sounds like someone is angry and is whacking the snare! All too often I have checked out some snare samples, hoping to find a killer sample I would love to use, only to come to the conclusion that the drummer who was sampled was a limp-wristed pussy motherfucker.
Another thing I admire is drummers who have a background in jazz. For instance, I saw Mr. Big in the mid-90s in a 2,000-seat ballroom. Afterwards my friends and I hung out with them for awhile, and I told Pat Torpey "You like drummers like Buddy Rich and Max Roach, don't you?" And he said "YEAH!" And I said "I could tell just by watching you play. You base your style around the snare, and as a result, all your rack and cymbal work and your kicks are all just icing on the cake!". He was kinda surprised at that, and said nobody had ever told him that before.
A drummer who has got some kind of jazz background and incorporates it into his style could sit there with nothing but a snare drum and do a 20-minute solo on it and not get boring.
Ian Paice is like that. I saw him in a club playing in Gary Moore's band in Dallas, Texas in 1983. Man, the chance to see him play up close in an intimate setting like that was fucking awesome!
Back in the late 40s and early 50s there were a series of albums released that were billed as "Drum Battles". It was like "Buddy Rich vs. Gene Krupa", and "Max Roach vs. Buddy Rich" and shit like that. Those motherfuckers were the baddest of the bad.
Lastly, these days you have all these idiots that think that speed-metal drummers are the fastest drummers on the planet. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have heard some shit by Cab Calloway's swing band from the early 30s where those motherfuckers would make all other drummers look like they were playing on Quualudes. Swing drummers may not be playing a 4-on-the-floor 78-RPM deal or even 1 and 1 and 1 and 1. These motherfuckers are like 1/32 and 1/32 and 1/32 and 1/32 and 1/32......even though they are not hitting their snare that fast, the speed they are going is fucking as fast as any Slayer tune. Musta been all that old Devil Weed and some Cocaine, lol.
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