All of this begs the question:
What would happen if Billy Cobham played with Kenny G?
*ducks*
Billy could get very syrupy smoooooooooth when he wanted to. If they soloed together, well then, that would be different....
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All of this begs the question:
What would happen if Billy Cobham played with Kenny G?
*ducks*
Billy could get very syrupy smoooooooooth when he wanted to.
Hey...
...Has anyone done this to a Rush album?
Edit: Bo, you have to leave Billys solos inside, otherwise there won't be anything left for me to transcribe.
I dig the act of transcription, and I haven't done it in a long long time (I probably can't anymore, that brain muscle hasn't been used forever), but I think there'd be a time when I'd rather hear what you played in that spot
Well.... certainly nothing that Billy hasn't played a gazillion times better before I guess. You know, I always thought about transcribing and imitating that it does lead to developing you own personal voice much more than starting to sound like someone else.
Babys learn to walk & talk through imitation, yet, everybody walks and talks different. You need to have your own creative mind and your own ideas though, but that has never been an issue with me.
And here is Dave zipping up and down in a fancy elevator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RgwM3VpIM ... as usual in fusion, the musicianship is top notch. Some would say the musicians are like Darth Vader, using their powers for evil rather than good .
Ok ok, that was the 90s! Who didn't sound like that in the nineties !! I remember a
Pat Metheny (!) live recording (Travels I believe) that sounds just as elevator-ish and
smooth jazz (!!) as the Dave Weckl Band may.
The Dave Weckl Band did evolve though, I have all their albums, and if you listen to
the live double album (which is mind-blowing by the way), there is a big difference to
the Back To Basics video link you provided.
By the way, I think you could even call that "pop music" what he played in that video.
Pop music sounded that way then, and Weckl's sound was heavily influenced by that.
Nope. That was the late 80s (1986, I think). [/I].
I blame Dave for the K/Z hats craze and for getting almost college freshman I met back then into 8" and 10" rack toms and trying to use them for everything.
Yep, "fusion" sized kit alonside the K/Z combination, I'm still using such a hats (they're lovely) and a 10" rack tom and 12" & 14" floor toms )
I blame Dave for the K/Z hats craze and for getting almost college freshman I met back then into 8" and 10" rack toms and trying to use them for everything.
I do remember the mad rush as everyone in town who had ever thought about playing fusion suddenly had to have a 13" pair of K/Z and a 20" K Custom ride.
You should have been on the college campuses then. I actually met three guys who each had their very own Dave Weckl Recording Custom kits. I thought it was bad when people started getting black Yamahas in homage to Steve Gadd, but to see guys with mullets and sleeve-less shirts carting around cherry red Yamahas re-defined clone-ism to me back then. I felt like an outsider and wept quietly
You should have been on the college campuses then. I actually met three guys who each had their very own Dave Weckl Recording Custom kits. I thought it was bad when people started getting black Yamahas in homage to Steve Gadd, but to see guys with mullets and sleeve-less shirts carting around cherry red Yamahas re-defined clone-ism to me back then. I felt like an outsider and wept quietly
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Well, I was working in drum shop that sold all those Yamahas!
True story: for years I lusted after a Yamaha Recording Custom in the red because they sounded great and looks cool (just not in Weckl sizes). But after selling for many Yamaha Recording Customs in red, and watching Weckl's videos & clinics, I just got to the point where the last thing I wanted a Yahama Recording Custom or any drum kit in red for that matter.
Which is what lead my purchase of the Signia's in Topaz. It sounded great, but didn't sound like a Recording Custom.
Did you at least have the mullet?
You have to admit that, as far as mullets go, Dave's was amongst the best. That's why it was influential - some of its permutations looked pretty good.