Music

[Linus van Pelt]

muso...drummer for about 40 years

Who are some of your favourite drummers (besides yourself of course)? Perhaps restrict to "mainstream" or well known drummers? I didn't grow up in Oz so won't know the local drummers.

This gets a lot of positive comments about the drummer in the comments:



I just like the look of an accountant banging on the drums

I'm not a muso, so I can only comment on what I like, not on what may be technically good.

 

[MovingAverage]

Who are some of your favourite drummers (besides yourself of course)? Perhaps restrict to "mainstream" or well known drummers? I didn't grow up in Oz so won't know the local drummers.

This gets a lot of positive comments about the drummer in the comments:



I just like the look of an accountant banging on the drums

I'm not a muso, so I can only comment on what I like, not on what may be technically good.

sticking to somewhat mainstream local drummers I really like these guys in no particular order (but there are more). Rob Hirst , Mark Maher, Allan Browne (because I really dig jazz), Scott Nadebaum and Lindy Morrison. There are a lot of drummers i really like for different reasons but the dudes I’ve called out are top of mind. I also don’t necessarily like a drummer just because they’re technically good, which can sometimes make for boring performance if just technically brilliant

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Jazz drummers are tops, & especially good when they cross over (probably for the money).

Hamish Stuart is so crisp, his work with the late Jackie Orszaczky was exemplary.

There was a student at ANU School of Music, Ed Rodrigues, early 2000s, I could watch him forever

 

[Linus van Pelt]

sticking to somewhat mainstream local drummers I really like these guys in no particular order (but there are more). Rob Hirst , Mark Maher, Allan Browne (because I really dig jazz), Scott Nadebaum and Lindy Morrison. There are a lot of drummers i really like for different reasons but the dudes I’ve called out are top of mind. I also don’t necessarily like a drummer just because they’re technically good, which can sometimes make for boring performance if just technically brilliant

I'll Google/YouTube all of these. I do love the drums and realise how much they add to the music.

One last question: who's the better drummer, John Bonham or Karen Carpenter?

 

[MovingAverage]

One last question: who's the better drummer, John Bonham or Karen Carpenter?

Since TISM dedicated a few lyrics in one of their better known songs to John Bonham, I’ll go with him being the better drummer But on a serious note I do like Karen Carpenter's vocals

 

[Linus van Pelt]

One last question: who's the better drummer, John Bonham or Karen Carpenter?

There was a bit of an inside joke on this, which if you knew you didn't comment on.

In 1975 Karen Carpenter won the Playboy Readers Poll as best drummer of the year, beating out Bonham, Moon, Watts, and others. Apparently Bonzo didn't take this too well lol.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=karen+carpenter+vs.+john+bonham+drums&atb=v151-1&ia=web

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=karen+carpenter+1975+drums

 

[MovingAverage]

There was a bit of an inside joke on this, which if you knew you didn't comment on.

In 1975 Karen Carpenter won the Playboy Readers Poll as best drummer of the year, beating out Bonham, Moon, Watts, and others. Apparently Bonzo didn't take this too well lol.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=karen+carpenter+vs.+john+bonham+drums&atb=v151-1&ia=web

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=karen+carpenter+1975+drums

I’d forgotten all about that. Must admit I really only ever think vocals when someone mentions Karen.

 

[Knobby22]

There was a bit of an inside joke on this, which if you knew you didn't comment on.

In 1975 Karen Carpenter won the Playboy Readers Poll as best drummer of the year, beating out Bonham, Moon, Watts, and others. Apparently Bonzo didn't take this too well lol.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=karen+carpenter+vs.+john+bonham+drums&atb=v151-1&ia=web

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=karen+carpenter+1975+drums

She is good, and versatile!
Wow. Didn't even know she was a drummer.

 

[ghotib]

Is it appropriate to talk about 'Hamilton' here? Anyone else been blown away by the movie, or seen a live performance? Anyone else going to see it in Sydney next year (Covid permitting)?

I haven't been so excited about a forthcoming performance since we got tickets for the Beatles Australian tour, when I was <ahem> not very old. I haven't been so unexpectedly knocked soxless by a show as I was by the Hamilton movie since - I think it has to be since the year after the Beatles Australian tour, when I saw a for schools production of "Henry V" with John Bell in the lead. I don't remember any music in that, but the live performance lifted Shakespeare off the page for me and somehow opened up views of worlds I'll never finish exploring. Looks like hip-hop might be one of them, a possibility I find remarkable for a not-quite white-haired lover of classical music, especially opera.

 

[basilio]

Chris Frantz from Talking Heads was a pretty cool drummer.
Check out one of his best drum performances on the Stop Making Sense concert.
It was third song in at around 10.25 minutes "You can talk like me "

 

[Knobby22]

Is it appropriate to talk about 'Hamilton' here? Anyone else been blown away by the movie, or seen a live performance? Anyone else going to see it in Sydney next year (Covid permitting)?

I haven't been so excited about a forthcoming performance since we got tickets for the Beatles Australian tour, when I was <ahem> not very old. I haven't been so unexpectedly knocked soxless by a show as I was by the Hamilton movie since - I think it has to be since the year after the Beatles Australian tour, when I saw a for schools production of "Henry V" with John Bell in the lead. I don't remember any music in that, but the live performance lifted Shakespeare off the page for me and somehow opened up views of worlds I'll never finish exploring. Looks like hip-hop might be one of them, a possibility I find remarkable for a not-quite white-haired lover of classical music, especially opera.

I am desperate to see Hamilton live, ghotib.
Joined Disney so I could watch the original production. Best musical since Lea Miz in my view. Really pumps you up. If the show happens and I am allowed out of Victoria, I will definitely go with the whole family.

 

[ghotib]

Hey Knobby,

If the show happens is right, and I have to admit to doubt about its going ahead. No point worrying about that now though.

There are so many aspects of the show to talk about that I can't get started, and I've been trying for hours. Best I've got to is this: You said Hamilton "really pumps you up". Is that Hamilton in particular, or is it hip-hop in general?

 

[Knobby22]

I think its both.
The story which is really about ambition but the hip hop enhances it.

 

[MovingAverage]

Who are some of your favourite drummers

Oh and I feel ashamed for not mentioning one of my favorite drummers...Dave Grohl

 

[Dona Ferentes]

that killed River Phoenix.......sorry I'm a TISM tragic

They're reforming!

Does that mean we're in for a Reformation, or are they off to Reform School?

TISM have reformed and will play the Good Things festival in December - Double J

The infamous, anonymous band announce their first shows in almost 20 years

www.abc.net.au

I remember them as This Is Serious, Mum. So bad they were good.

 

[MovingAverage]

They're reforming!

Does that mean we're in for a Reformation, or are they off to Reform School?

TISM have reformed and will play the Good Things festival in December - Double J

The infamous, anonymous band announce their first shows in almost 20 years

www.abc.net.au

I remember them as This Is Serious, Mum. So bad they were good.

I wonder if they could get away with being as offensive/controversial as they were BITD. If they have to tame things down a little to fit in with current day standards I'm not sure it will really be TISM. Hard to see them come back and not be offensive. Must admit--have very found memories of seeing them live, it would be good to see them again.

 

[noirua]

Musician plays saxophone through entirety of 9-hour brain surgery

Doctors in Italy removed a brain tumor from a patient who was awake and playing the saxophone during the operation. The surgery lasted nine hours.

www.foxnews.com

The man, 35, had the procedure performed at Rome's Paideia International Hospital on Monday to have a brain tumor removed. He was discharged from the hospital on Thursday. (Paideia International Hospital)