Gino Vannelli drummers

I saw Gino in London with Enzo Tedesco at the helm. You have to check out his playing and interpretations of the songs. Their is a live album of the tour he did but not sure if still available.
 
Whoda thunk that Gino would be the topic here on DW. I'd love to be in your class though. Totally cool that kids are digging on Gino. Lots of big hair, and hair in general in his 70s heyday. I only know the great hits, "I Just Wanna Stop", etc.

I always thought, ok, what other song than that one mentions the city Montreal? None... :)
 
Vannelli’s “Brother to Brother” has drum solos. In a hit pop song!

That dude’s a great singer who’s always surrounded himself with excellent players.
 
I'm new to this site and really surprised that Grahm Lear is not even on the Top 500 list?? Either Grahm did something to really piss off the maker's of this list or this is one the most incredible oversights I've ever seen. Grahm Lear played a bigger set better than I had ever heard even well into the 90's. It seems that everything he played just fit perfectly into the composition of the piece he was playing in. I thought he was spectacularly creative and he could get pretty complex with his riffs and all of it just fit into the overall sound so perfectly. I thought his versitility and creativity was up there with the best of them in the 70s. He played with Santana for 10 years, I believe. How a drummer could be so accomplished but yet so overlooked is beyond me. Oh, well, I certainly have gotten an incredible amount of enjoyment listening to him.
 
I'm new to this site and really surprised that Grahm Lear is not even on the Top 500 list?? Either Grahm did something to really piss off the maker's of this list or this is one the most incredible oversights I've ever seen. Grahm Lear played a bigger set better than I had ever heard even well into the 90's. It seems that everything he played just fit perfectly into the composition of the piece he was playing in. I thought he was spectacularly creative and he could get pretty complex with his riffs and all of it just fit into the overall sound so perfectly. I thought his versitility and creativity was up there with the best of them in the 70s. He played with Santana for 10 years, I believe. How a drummer could be so accomplished but yet so overlooked is beyond me. Oh, well, I certainly have gotten an incredible amount of enjoyment listening to him.


Yeah, the Santana chair isn't an easy gig!

I used to play Tulsa City Limits and there was a picture of REO Speedwagon on the wall. Apparently someone in REO marked thru Graham's face. I always wondered about that and where he disappeared to.

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Just digging out some old favs for my music playlist - and had forgotten about these outstanding vinyls I wore out back then - Gino Vanelli - Powerful People from 1974 and 'Storm at Sunup' 1975. Fantastic drumming by Graham Lear - who went on to play with Santana for a decade.. and then REO Speedwagon..
Powerful people, People gotta move, Jack Miraculous, etc .. all have some wicked grooves and chops.. funk, jazz, rock, latin, broadway.. whatever it was it was unique! Great drummer!
One example:
 
I feel like I've never read an issue of Modern Drummer from the 80s—and I've read nearly all of them, some even recently—where someone didn't talk about a Gino Vannelli drummer. And yet I don't think I've ever heard a single second of GV's music.

Off to YouTube to rectify that....
 
I feel like I've never read an issue of Modern Drummer from the 80s—and I've read nearly all of them, some even recently—where someone didn't talk about a Gino Vannelli drummer. And yet I don't think I've ever heard a single second of GV's music.

Off to YouTube to rectify that....

You are in for a treat! Seriously smooth and powerful grooves.


Still one of my favorites from Brother to Brother. Mark Craney's groove is undeniable, and Ernie Watts' sax solo... damn!
 
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I remember being inspired/influenced by some good local drummers growing up. One night I'm walking up the stairs to this local club to hear this band called Zero Ted. Two guitar players..bass..keyboards..and drums. The drummer had a double bass flat black ludwig kit. 12"Tom coming in from the right bass drum..via ludwig mount..13 from the left bass drum same way..16..18 floor toms and lots of cymbals. I'm sitting on the floor 5 feet in front of the drummer. They open with a burning! Rendition of Roundabout and the drummer was nailing it effortlessly. His name....Mark Craney. All my local hero's just faded after that.
 
.. I'd add David Garibaldi in there for sure.. Black Cars.. Wild Horses..That was played so much on the radio over the years it probably wore out my radio..
 
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