What are you listening to, right now................
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I'd rather go with someone who actually plays music a bit.
Session drummer D. J. Fontana recalled a 20 minute jam session with Ringo: "He never varied from that tempo - you couldn't move him with a crane. He has the greatest conception of tempo I've ever heard in my life. I have never heard anybody play that steady in my life, and that's a long time."
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@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I'd rather go with someone who actually plays music a bit.
Session drummer D. J. Fontana recalled a 20 minute jam session with Ringo: "He never varied from that tempo - you couldn't move him with a crane. He has the greatest conception of tempo I've ever heard in my life. I have never heard anybody play that steady in my life, and that's a long time."
One thing I will give him credit for is not playing boring drum solos.
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@mariner4life All I can think of is Office Space when I hear this song.
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I recently listed to a DJ set of nothing but 1960's French pop songs. Most of them were original, but notable were also this song (writen by Sonny, originally sung by Cher). I liked this way more than the original - I wonder how much of that is the sexy French accent...
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 cool is liking what you like and not giving a shit about other arbitrary views.
I do like that album. Fave track is suicide and redemption.
Oh I don’t but was just wondering all the same.
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“I want some of that. It looks… orgasmic!”
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This article from Quincy Jones has always irked me a bit.
How do you define good / bad musicians? Ability to play a tune or ability to write a tune?
Ability to compose / put together a song, or ability to play a very complex time signature?
He can talk about Paul McCartney being a shitty bass player as much as he wants. But he owned Glastonbury this year playing bass, piano, guitar and singing. At 80 years old.
Quincy Jones opinion here is worth less than used toilet paper.
He can be kinda snob dickish in his opinions, but I like to hear from genius unfiltered, and I always listen to what he says, he’s a musical genius. He comes from a jazz background, and for him the height of musicianship I suspect is probably throwing sheet music in front of a band and having them nail it on first inspection in the company of an ensemble, and/or to improvise in a live performance. That has always been the highest aspiration of rock drummers like Ginger Baker and Bill Bruford and Charlie Watts, to be taken seriously as musicians by their jazz contemporaries. you just have to see the credits on his records to see the supremely highquality of musicans he employed, the highest paid studio session musicians in the business, who could nail a hit record in one take in the morning, record live big band arrangements with Sinatra for lunch, and then recording a movie soundtrack in the afternoon. He could get pretty psychedelic too.
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Waylon. Now, see, that’s a man’s voice. A real man. Some damn fine pickin’, too.
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In 1967 Tony Williams was 21 years old, and had already been a legend since he was a teenager. This made many rock drummers deeply insecure, they were in awe and could only dream to possess such talent.
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