Larry,
From what I've seen written here concerning Thomas Lang, "he's nothing but an emotionless machine," he'd be a good canidate.
I was thinking along the same lines last night, but a little broader. If you stick to just 2 drummers you have to ignore, or reject from the get go the idea that maybe "feel" or "groove" has nothing to do with drumming let alone technique. Maybe it's a predispostion people have to varying degrees. We may even be born with it.
I orginally minimized "groove" to people enjoying what they are doing and, "getting into it," and the resulting joy they felt. To me "groove" was an internal intangible that people were trying to transfer to the external. Is the added charge from "groove" something an average audiance could or would pick up on? If so, is it fair to an audiance to hope that they get to catch those fleeting nights when the "groove" is on?
With so many here, so adamant that "groove" is much more then my orginal assumptions, the emphirical evidence suggests I'm wrong.
Anway, with the number of drummers here, at all the differing skill levels and some in and some out of the music business, it seems there should be enough information available to actually organize emphirical data for some possible answers. Just have to figure out what the right questions are.
From what I've seen written here concerning Thomas Lang, "he's nothing but an emotionless machine," he'd be a good canidate.
I was thinking along the same lines last night, but a little broader. If you stick to just 2 drummers you have to ignore, or reject from the get go the idea that maybe "feel" or "groove" has nothing to do with drumming let alone technique. Maybe it's a predispostion people have to varying degrees. We may even be born with it.
I orginally minimized "groove" to people enjoying what they are doing and, "getting into it," and the resulting joy they felt. To me "groove" was an internal intangible that people were trying to transfer to the external. Is the added charge from "groove" something an average audiance could or would pick up on? If so, is it fair to an audiance to hope that they get to catch those fleeting nights when the "groove" is on?
With so many here, so adamant that "groove" is much more then my orginal assumptions, the emphirical evidence suggests I'm wrong.
Anway, with the number of drummers here, at all the differing skill levels and some in and some out of the music business, it seems there should be enough information available to actually organize emphirical data for some possible answers. Just have to figure out what the right questions are.