A Snare Sound, A True Soul Sound!

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYd_OyROB8w

Al Jackson on the drums. Look at soul in action! Listen to that greasy snare drum! UH! It does not get better than this. Nothing gets better than this!

[Steady Freddy]

It looks like a 5 X 14 Supra. It has the raised rib around the middle. Can't make out the lugs very well.

Originally Posted by Steady Freddy

It looks like a 5 X 14 Supra. It has the raised rib around the middle. Can't make out the lugs very well.

Good eye, Fred. I concur.

Nope, not a supra. It's an Acrolite, according to:

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Al_Jackson.html

I don't know though. It looks more like a Supraphonic to me, because it's shiny, you know. I thought the Acrolite had a matte finish. Anyway, it sure sounds sweet.

[Ironcobra]

Can't say that I'm digging it. If it was recorded more recently we might be able to appreciate it's beauty a lot more easily, but I'm not a vintage fan so...

Originally Posted by Ironcobra

Can't say that I'm digging it. If it was recorded more recently we might be able to appreciate it's beauty a lot more easily, but I'm not a vintage fan so...

I have to say that I find this attitude to be very difficult to understand. "Not a vintage fan."
Al Jackson was the drummer for the Stax band. He was the drummer for Booker T and the MGs. His shuffle groove could make the walls sweat.
As to the recording quality, do you mean to say that you have not listened to or learned anything from listening to drummers whose work was recorded in the "vintage" days? If not, then you haven't heard or learned from any of the classic, great jazz drummers.
I should also point out that the recording technology used on that clip was the same technology that the Beatles and everyone else from that era had available to them in live-on-the-soundstage stituations.
You mean to tell me me that you cannot hear the sound, the "beauty," of Al Jackson's snare drum on that clip?
Man. Where do you draw the line where what's worth listening to is concerned? Something that was recorded since the advent of the 32-track machine, or maybe it has to have been recorded using Pro-Tools?
In one single phrase, "not a fan of vintage," you've just turned your back on a lot of great drumming. You're dismissing out-of-hand the very stuff that is the backbone of our profession, the way the masters put it all into play in the "vintage" days.
It seems so short-sighted to me.
Well, Ironcobra. If it's working for you, I guess...

[bobdadruma]

I agree with you Jay. I am always scanning the web for vintage clips like this. It was a pleasure to watch it. The snare sounded great. Al was great!

[Ironcobra]

Originally Posted by jay norem

I have to say that I find this attitude to be very difficult to understand. "Not a vintage fan."
Al Jackson was the drummer for the Stax band. He was the drummer for Booker T and the MGs. His shuffle groove could make the walls sweat.
As to the recording quality, do you mean to say that you have not listened to or learned anything from listening to drummers whose work was recorded in the "vintage" days? If not, then you haven't heard or learned from any of the classic, great jazz drummers.
I should also point out that the recording technology used on that clip was the same technology that the Beatles and everyone else from that era had available to them in live-on-the-soundstage stituations.
You mean to tell me me that you cannot hear the sound, the "beauty," of Al Jackson's snare drum on that clip?
Man. Where do you draw the line where what's worth listening to is concerned? Something that was recorded since the advent of the 32-track machine, or maybe it has to have been recorded using Pro-Tools?
In one single phrase, "not a fan of vintage," you've just turned your back on a lot of great drumming. You're dismissing out-of-hand the very stuff that is the backbone of our profession, the way the masters put it all into play in the "vintage" days.
It seems so short-sighted to me.
Well, Ironcobra. If it's working for you, I guess...

I meant I'm not a huge fan of jazz, or things like vintage drums, so my opinion is invalid or void.

Originally Posted by Ironcobra

I meant I'm not a huge fan of jazz, or things like vintage drums, so my opinion is invalid or void.

No, you didn't mean that. There is no jazz on that clip. It's classic R&B, but I guess you're not interested in that either. That's okay. But man! You're missing out on a lot of inspiration. Not that any of this is required to be a drummer, and no, your opinion is not invalid, but I don't see how any drummer wouldn't want to...oh whatever.

[Ironcobra]

I wasn't paying attention to whatever music it was, I was just listening to the snare, and I've been drinking for a few hours I don't know what's going on.

[PQleyR]

The video's gone now...I was looking forward to that...

Originally Posted by Ironcobra

Can't say that I'm digging it. If it was recorded more recently we might be able to appreciate it's beauty a lot more easily, but I'm not a vintage fan so...

Funny that, because right now we're going through a cyclical phase where old-fashioned recording techniques are becoming more and more fashionable. I still find it funny that I was the only guy in my year of 25 people at college who could set up and run a tape recorder with no instruction...

Originally Posted by PQleyR

The video's gone now...I was looking forward to that...

What a drag. It appears that the video was illegal or something. That's a damn shame. Oh well...

[Bassdrummer]

What tune was it?

Al Jackson was on so many hit tunes it's crazy!