Not wanting to stick up for *
ptui!* vocalists over drummers, but it's possible that his daughter's experience of the famous Buddy personality was not always miles from what his band mates experienced ... in which case a lame vocal version of his tunes would seem perfectly understandable
In the words of Buddy's old roommate ... "I did it myyyy waaaayyy!" [now that I'm able to].
If you mean she's stubborn about doing certain things her way you're probably right about that one. Problem is she was a decent singer in her day but not exactly one who shares the same higher qualified tastes and musical sensibilities of her father.
She also doesn't have the follow through her Dad had to finish something once started. All anyone need do is see the shredded, abused, and now mostly abandoned Buddy Rich site to understand how errant half hearted good intentions combined with bad thinking leads to bad things.
One of her most famous half baked plans was to make the Buddy site a monthly pay per view where she was going to offer all these perks and incentives, like rare videos you couldn't find on Youtube etc. Well of course that might interest some 40 and overs who have an emotional investment in Rich, but how does that lead to Rich picking up new appreciation among the younger up and coming drummers who could see any video of any other drummer who ever lived for free? I've been saying all along that Rich suffers from stupid historical revision among the 21 and unders who inappropriately judge him primarily on a half dozen youtube videos and an out of context bus tape. If I were Cathy Rich I would be thinking less about all the Vegas celebrity based
Dad hung out with Frank Sinatra type thinking and get to cluing young drummers on who her dad was and how that applies to them. But again, I don't think she gets all that.
Then she did all this pay for view stuff even when the base screamed for her not to...followed by half the stuff promised never materializing...So now the Rich site is a ghost town.
That's not the only thing. How about those Rich drum sets? They sure were hyped the week they came out at NAMM. Has anyone heard a peep since? Does anyone know of a person who actually bought one?
And yeah a lot of us heard about this Buddy scholarship money that was supposed to be out there. But to this day I've not seen one bit of information that explains how you even apply. I've also never heard of anyone who ever got one...and I looked hard to find out. That's why I thought the idea to combine some of the big name drummers with actual
Burnin for Buddy scholarship recipients was the way to go. The young guys don't want some evenly divided $500 scholarship allotment that's melted into a confusing financial aid document that's not even earmarked, they want to be on the concert with those drummers and that band.
Sure you have Peart do his bit since he's organizing the thing, followed by some more celebrity drummers...then the scholarship winner shows up and plays
West Side Story the right way...which would absolutely happen if you have that much to gain from something like that. That's how you make the scholarship work. Then you get a proportionate amount of those DVDs out to the high school band directors, so the 15 year old who's been binging on Joey's
Disasterpiece video all day long (for free I might add) sees a guy close to his same age killin' it with Buddy Rich and making that relevant.
See, the biggest problem right now with 15 year old drummers is they think Buddy Rich isn't cool...which to me is nuts considering he's the greatest shredder who ever lived. You have to educate younger guys to things like how Rich's last minute on
Channel One Suite was probably the first recorded blast beat etc. A guy in the 9th grade will relate to that. Right now it's too much Rat Pack
Love ya Baby kind of thinking...and to me this is where Cathy Rich (who I understand is a really nice person) misses the mark with her dad's legacy, which right now is far more important than bringing back some misplaced nostalgia issues.