I am a big fan of Chuck Brown, one of Terry Bozzio's teachers, and mine.
Have to say I enjoyed this solo much more than anything I´ve heard him do on his big kit. Very inspiring how he gets so many textures from such a simple set up.
That's odd my non musician wife could appreciate the musical foundation of his solo performance.
Rhythmic foundation?
He plays ostinatos with his feet as the rhythm part of his solos. They are often in odd meters and they are often accompanied with his hands playing in different rhythms over top of it. They may be difficult to understand, but like I’ll defend his musicality to the grave, I will also defend that his solos have as strong a rhythmic foundation as anyone soloing. They are so founded in rhythm he rarely, if ever, goes into an out of time bombastic flurry of madness (which I know drummers and audiences love and what perhaps turns many of you off to his solos) and his tempo is incredibly solid through everything he does.
There is not another drum soloist who is more rhythmically grounded and focused.
The solos are advanced, they’re formulaic, you aren’t used to hearing melodies on drums and they may not resonate with you... But that’s all there is to it. To say it lacks rhythmic foundation is completely false.
I read this differently than you intended I guess...My problem is that I don't look for that kind of musicality in a drummer. I look for a different kind of musicality, one where the drummer is the rhythmic foundation and can use his drums, whether there are 4 or 15, in a musical manner that fits the music that is being played. Terry's approach is that he provides the tonality as evidenced by his solo approach to music. I see drums and their musicality as being part of a group where there is a synchronicity as well as interplay among the various instruments.
I read this differently than you intended I guess...
too busy to watch the whole thin right now but his Independence is astounding, the hi hat ( from the first few min) never missed its tempo no matter what he was doing elsewhere on the kit.
Wow.
So you, who mysteriously hasn't logged in in a long time, is somehow fit to question the intelligence of everyone here? Go flam yourself, punk.Please tell me there are intelligent enough drummers on this forum
Hmmm, a little bit odd to say the least... ? ?So you, who mysteriously hasn't logged in in a long time, is somehow fit to question the intelligence of everyone here? Go flam yourself, punk.