The Big Beat
Senior Member
i love gadd's set, idk theres just something so simplicitly beautiful about that raven black yamaha
My question is: Can someone please recommend an iconic Gadd album or two for me to buy and listen to over and over and over again?
Can someone please recommend an iconic Gadd album or two for me to buy and listen to over and over and over again?
But why does he look so damn miserable..
This Sunday Steve played with his Gang (Joey de Francesco - Ronnie Cuber....)
here in Basel Switzerland. Nice pictures from the lobby....no black sticks..
Bernhard
Careful. He is also the spitting image and an identical twin to the founder of Drummerworld Bernhard Casteglioni.
Meat the beat isn't talking about physical looks, he's talking about Gadd's pissed off expression on his face. I assume it was all the drugs at the time, as his moments of looking the most miserable was when he was at the pits of his substance dependency. And since he cleaned up circa 1987 he's been much more "normal" looking in his expressions.
For example, watch Grover Washington Jr's 1981 "In Concert"... Gadd smiles I think twice during the entire hour-long set.
I've been listening to and watching Steve Gadd on Youtube for quite a while now, and during that time he has become the embodiment of everything I want to achieve as a drummer.
My question is: Can someone please recommend an iconic Gadd album or two for me to buy and listen to over and over and over again?
I saw him perform with L'Image in Febuary this year, they were performing at the Iridium in NYC when I was visiting. What an opportunity to see this dude live!Here's a real gem... Gadd playing in what must be L'image back in '77: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6To4jBk6c&feature=related