One drummer...2 hours.

You don't have to say, "thanks." "Right on," suffices fine and doesn't disregard or fib. It works fine for me to get past that and either shake hands and walk away or talk about something else. It's also my complimenting phrase too, no need to thank me for saying it or wonder why I think that.
 
Keith Moon would be great fun, and probably a lot of trouble.

Bill Berry (REM) would be interesting too. I am sure he would have great stories about going from college radio to one of the biggest bands in the world who really brought Alternative Music to the forefront.

Dave Grohl, I think he would just be cool to hang out with.
 
Sully151 said:
Bill Berry (REM) would be interesting too. I am sure he would have great stories about going from college radio to one of the biggest bands in the world who really brought Alternative Music to the forefront.
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If I could have a really in-depth interview with just one living musician, Bill Berry would absolutely be my choice. I'd love to know stuff like why he sang so many backing vocals for the first few years but progressively less with each passing year, stuff like that. But I suspect he would be too circumspect to really let loose.
 
GretschedHive said:
If I could have a really in-depth interview with just one living musician, Bill Berry would absolutely be my choice. I'd love to know stuff like why he sang so many backing vocals for the first few years but progressively less with each passing year, stuff like that. But I suspect he would be too circumspect to really let loose.
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Dunno if this has anything to do with it, but Mike Mills was their secret weapon in the vocal department, much like Michael Anthony with Van Halen.
 
timmdrum said:
Dunno if this has anything to do with it, but Mike Mills was their secret weapon in the vocal department, much like Michael Anthony with Van Halen.
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See, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about: everyone says Mike Mills was their secret weapon, which kinda makes him not? Like, everyone knew Mike was by far the best musician in the band. And he became the one most likely to do interviews in their last decade. Not to mention, in any live footage from the Green tour on, he's very much visible singing. (The Nudie suits also weren't exactly camo.) And his high, keening vocals are much easier to pick out than Berry's generally lower vocal lines.

Meanwhile, if you watch live footage from the first three or four years, you can see Berry is singing very nearly as much, he's just not nearly as visible, being the guy in the back, and with the camera rarely focused on him—even on the official stuff like Tourfilm and Unplugged, the camera often catches him singing, but he's in the back, not the focus. For the first three or four albums, Berry sang pretty much an equal amount of backing vocals as Mills, but pulled back for his last decade, and that's the sort of stuff I'd love to talk to him about, especially given that Michael Stipe himself said Bill had the most conventionally attractive voice of the three.

It's no coincidence that several of their best and most famous songs — "Fall on Me" and "It's the End of the World as We Know It" and "Find the River," for instance — had not just one backing vocalist, but two, with the lines frequently being independent of each other and intertwining and meandering apart.

Don't get me wrong, I love Mike Mills. But the guy who wrote the music for "Perfect Circle" and "Driver 8" and "Everybody Hurts" and "Cant Get There from Here" and sang the countervocal on "Get Up" and even most fans never noticed? And then quit at the height of their fame and popularity to become a farmer? Now that dude's a secret weapon.
 
Danny Carey.. He's my goat. Id like to drink with John Bonham tho
 
GretschedHive said:
And in the People Are Very Different category: I would hate that so much. That would demo me, especially right after the buzz of playing.
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yeah...I am weird. I come off the stage with a list of stuff that I could have done better after every show. Discussing it with people would be relaxing because I could get that list off of my chest, and then make a plan for the next practice session. I experience the buzz of playing in the moment while on stage...not after the show.
 
GretschedHive said:
See, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about: everyone says Mike Mills was their secret weapon, which kinda makes him not? Like, everyone knew Mike was by far the best musician in the band. And he became the one most likely to do interviews in their last decade. Not to mention, in any live footage from the Green tour on, he's very much visible singing. (The Nudie suits also weren't exactly camo.) And his high, keening vocals are much easier to pick out than Berry's generally lower vocal lines.

Meanwhile, if you watch live footage from the first three or four years, you can see Berry is singing very nearly as much, he's just not nearly as visible, being the guy in the back, and with the camera rarely focused on him—even on the official stuff like Tourfilm and Unplugged, the camera often catches him singing, but he's in the back, not the focus. For the first three or four albums, Berry sang pretty much an equal amount of backing vocals as Mills, but pulled back for his last decade, and that's the sort of stuff I'd love to talk to him about, especially given that Michael Stipe himself said Bill had the most conventionally attractive voice of the three.

It's no coincidence that several of their best and most famous songs — "Fall on Me" and "It's the End of the World as We Know It" and "Find the River," for instance — had not just one backing vocalist, but two, with the lines frequently being independent of each other and intertwining and meandering apart.

Don't get me wrong, I love Mike Mills. But the guy who wrote the music for "Perfect Circle" and "Driver 8" and "Everybody Hurts" and "Cant Get There from Here" and sang the countervocal on "Get Up" and even most fans never noticed? And then quit at the height of their fame and popularity to become a farmer? Now that dude's a secret weapon.
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I totally get all that; I just meant that Mills & Anthony brought a more recognizable and individualized sound/tone to their bands' vocals than the average band member who's not a frontman. I'd put Richie Sambora in that category also, albeit maybe not to the level of these two.
 
Let’s all just admit REM was one of the greatest bands ever. All four of them contributed to the music in the right way and literally changed Alternative Rock. Hell, some would say they invented it.

I have been listening to their first 5 records a lot lately (Murmur-Document) and I can believe how good they are. That was before the became the biggest band in the world.
 
I'd like to sit in on a hang with Paul T. Riddle and Chick Webb.
 
GretschedHive said:
If I could have a really in-depth interview with just one living musician, Bill Berry would absolutely be my choice. I'd love to know stuff like why he sang so many backing vocals for the first few years but progressively less with each passing year, stuff like that. But I suspect he would be too circumspect to really let loose.
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EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear the one I love I'm waiting for that very last fill Berry does. Not just the fill itself but the SOUND of it..near goosebumps.
 
Bozozoid said:
EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear the one I love I'm waiting for that very last fill Berry does. Not just the fill itself but the SOUND of it..near goosebumps.
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"There's no drummer like Bill Berry on Earth. None. I have a lot of drummer friends, and they all ask me the same thing: 'What's his secret?' And I can't tell you, because I don't know. My theory is that he uses the space between the high hat and the snare drum in a kind of disco-y way, without being too disco." — Peter Buck
 
timmdrum said:
I totally get all that; I just meant that Mills & Anthony brought a more recognizable and individualized sound/tone to their bands' vocals than the average band member who's not a frontman. I'd put Richie Sambora in that category also, albeit maybe not to the level of these two.
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I would put Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton of Queensryche in this category as well...they were pretty much nailing all of Tates background vocals back in the day...
 
Sitting down with Pete Best would be interesting. Gotta be some good stories of the Beatles early years slogging it out in clubs.
 
Steve Smith and the Journey questions I'd ask that everyone was afraid to. I'm positive we'd both drive away after the two hours leaving our beer fest with our middle fingers up yelling F! Steve Perry. 😃.
 
Gavin Harrison- how do you get to be that talented, tasteful,( & have King Crimson's Robert Fripp say that you're a step above pretty much every drummer he's ever worked with :rolleyes: ) AND have the best-sounding drums EVER?

The guy's an absolute genius, he even has the good grace to answer questions on this very forum to all-comers, & never with anything less than a down-to-earth attitude and respect for his fellow drummers. Wish I had a fraction of his talent & humility...:D(y)
 
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