Morgan Agren

stasz

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I'm totally impressed by these new morgan agren videos. Thanks for the upload bernhard! I've never heard of him before and the music his band plays is something else, but I really like his style. His drums and cymbals sound fantastic and I really enjoy his soloing. When I heard those repeated flams in the drum solo I video I think Tony rolled in his grave! Great stuff, thanks again bernhard.

http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/morganagrensolo1.html
 
Does anyone have any idea what the time signature(s) are in the Meshuggah jam?

I found a longer clip of it on youtube: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hWmFS_9fGRY

and I thought I'd post this one too because it makes me happy: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LjinwnyZgnE

It's actually a medley of the heaviest bits from Fredrik Thorendals solo Album "Sol Niger Within", which I think everyone has to listen to at some point in their life. It's so weird.

As for the timings, from what I can hear (though I haven't given it much time) I think there's some 17, 9, 6, 19, more 9 and the last bit I'm not sure of. I wouldn't quote me on it though.

T
 
It's actually a medley of the heaviest bits from Fredrik Thorendals solo Album "Sol Niger Within", which I think everyone has to listen to at some point in their life. It's so weird.

As for the timings, from what I can hear (though I haven't given it much time) I think there's some 17, 9, 6, 19, more 9 and the last bit I'm not sure of. I wouldn't quote me on it though.

T

Oh I thought Sol Niger Within was the song name. I'll have to look for this cd.

And 17/8 and 19/8?
Sweet Jesus.
 
Meh.. He was much better in his "Trum" days. His playing was perfect for the kit. Now hes got too much to hit and his solo's are starting to lack. Just my oppinion.
 
Okay, so I've dug backwards a few pages and haven't found a thread for Morgan (which was expected) so I figured I'd start my own. If an existing thread IS out there obviously I have no problem with this one being closed, merged, whatever. Otherwise, dissect my inaccuracies at your own discretion.

Basically, I dug up a video after having known that he existed for a while that I found really cool from Carl King featuring interviews from a few other guys which basically explains part of what I may try to. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i2VK686JvA) The enclosed link is for a kickstarter which had already closed I believe so I don't think it really constitutes advertising or anything... but anyway.

From what I gathered, Morgan's excelled in most every genre of music I listen to. Mats/Morgan frequented multiple genres, although they were primarily prog from what I've heard, but you hear a lot of jazz and electronica as well by those guys. I think they were quite excellent, especially considering Mats Oberg (the keyboardist) is blind. I've heard touches of Crimson and Mahavishnu by those guys through the course of one song. His project with Devin Townsend is supposed to be pocket playing and I believe it's going to be rock with heavy traces of country... he's also played with eccentric geniuses like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart although those artists only had him for a song each iirc. In addition to playing with Frank, he was the guy to win the only Zappa grammy I could think of after Zappa had sadly passed away, he played with Dweezil on that album as well. Then there's Sol Niger Within, the predecessor to the Meshuggah "craze," which was imho a far more genuine attempt at the metal genre than Vinnie himself has made, although Megadeth was pretty nice too.

I realize he has received quite a bit of praise from professionals despite being unknown by virtually everyone I know. I'm not sure how many people share that experience, but I've always found that incredibly odd. I've dug up praise from quite a few guys other than the people on the video, including Zappa, Gavin Harrison, and maybe even Bruford, and I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few and there are more hidden in the shadows... but if you're interested in his story or this topic please feel free to add more (this is probably already bordering tl;dr,) he's personally tied with Coluita and Bozzio as my favorite Zappa drummer (if you could call him that) just because he's so exhilarating and versatile in his playing.
 
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Yes I do find it quite peculiar as to which drummers have threads created for them and those who do not. I can't say I look at this subforum much, however Ågren is very fun to watch! As you've noted he's also very versatile, I'd say he's certainly one of my favorite drummers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIvVL3bqvVE
 
Yeah, I think that's the one people see if people get to see Agren more often than not. I do love that track though, no doublebass and he can still make metal exciting like very few can, I'd say outside Carey but I'd think he knows better and he is apparently jealous of Agren lol (see link in the OP.)

So anyway, here's him playing something more towards the opposite end of the spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-CnRt9xb4
 
I love Morgan!

I have a mats/Morgan album and it's very interesting.

Also love sol niger within.
 
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