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Topic: Favorite drum sounds on a recording |
Greg Vincent
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Folsom, CA USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2008 11:32 am |
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Hi folks,
I was listening to Jeff Beck's Wired the other day and thought the drums sounded just FANTASTIC. (That album was produced by some guy named George Martin.) 
Would be interested to hear what your favorite drum sounds on a recording are.
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Olli Haavisto
From:
Jarvenpaa,Finland
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Posted 4 Jun 2008 1:20 pm
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Today`s favorite:"Music for Money", Nick Lowe
Just one of many.....
Richie Hayward on the first three (especially) Little Feat albums,
Dave Mattacks, Tim Donald on Richard Thompsons stuff
and on and on and on on...
Bonzo, of course, Rudy Van Gelder`s stuff etc.
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Jim Peters
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jun 2008 3:32 pm
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Asia, Steely Dan, I love that recording. JP
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Dave Zirbel
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Sebastopol, CA USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2008 8:01 pm
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Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Joe Morello on drums. It has a real live organic sound to my ears and that guy could really play.
Last edited by Dave Zirbel on 5 Jun 2008 6:57 am; edited 1 time in total |
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James Martin (U.K.)
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Watford, Herts, United Kingdom * R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 1:02 am
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| George Martin was the arranger/producer of most if not all of the Beatles recordings! |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 2:38 am
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| In regards to drum sounds......my favorite sound is when they turn them down. |
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Gordy Hall
From:
Fairfax, CA.
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 5:22 am
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Two songs stand out for great drum sound:
'Let's Stay Together', Al Green with Al Jackson? on drums
'Calling Elvis' Dire Straits
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 5:56 am
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Ah soooooo many... YIKES
Ok the 1st to pop into mind is
Phil Collins In The Air Tonight.
When those toms kick in WOW!
Done in the 'Stone Room" at London recording.
Rudy Vandergelders stuff.
Steely Dan of course. Aja of course,
but also Kid Charlamiane album too.
Billy Cobham early albums
Little Feat too
Some of Bonham's stuff with Zep.
Ginger B in that time period
For primative but killer
Sing Sing Sing
NO one was doing drum rolls like that
and it still sounds good.
Most anything with Lenny White
Dave Weckle... Chick knows drummers.
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 6:38 am Indian drums
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Right now I'm listening to this wonderful CD of an instrument called tabla tarong. It's a circle of 13 melodically tuned tabla drums. The player (an old master named Pandit Kamalesh Maitra) sits in the middle and improvises melodies. He's accompanied by another great "regular" tabla player and a drone (sarod?) instrument.
They used two mikes on the tabla tarong, above the player's head. The effect is that you hear the drums as he does, with the melody moving around you from left to right according to pitch.
If you like classical Indian music, you would enjoy this CD. It's called "Tabla Tarong - Melody on Drums" and it's on the Smithsonian/Folkways label. Beautiful music!
Link to Amazon.com
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 7:04 am
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Any Stax recording with Al Jackson, especially around 67-68.
Rolling Stones "Between the Buttons"; people (including Mick Jagger) badmouth this album a lot but I don't think Charlie Watts was ever captured better.
I love the story about Glyn Johns, after being asked one too many times how he got the great Led Zeppelin drum sounds:
"Well, it helps if you have f****** John Bonham, doesn't it?!?!" |
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Greg Vincent
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Folsom, CA USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 7:41 am
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Great stuff, you guys. Keep 'em coming!
And thanks for the history lesson, James.  |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 8:20 am
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I'll agree on practically anything recorded in Rudy Van Gelder's studio and the Stax/Volt stuff with Al Jackson. They just set a standard for recorded drums, to me. Same with Buddy Harman's work in the Nashville studios also. It's hard to imagine any of these recordings much of any other way, to me.
I also agree on Joe Morello - the drum sounds on "Jazz Winds from a New Direction" are also phenomenal, to me.
Levon Helm's drumming on the first two albums by The Band.
In terms of what I want to hear, I sometimes have a hard time separating recording quality from performance quality. For example, the drum recording quality on Max Roach's Savoy sessions is not, to my tastes, at a high modern standard for clarity, but it doesn't matter - it fits perfectly, to me. That's because it's Max Roach, who always transcended whatever technology was happening at the time. The same goes for Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, and many other jazz drummers who just knew what to do to make it work. There are way too many examples to list here.
In general, I think rhythm section quality - overall performance/recording/taste/whatever - is a huge part of what separates great recordings from the others. I'd much rather listen to a solid set of players with a great rhythm section than a bunch of virtuosi with an out-of-control rhythm section, and I think the latter is a big part of what has happened with a lot of modern music. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 8:35 am
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| I wish today's engineers would mix drums the way they did on Elvis's Heartbreak Hotel. |
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 10:06 am
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| Eddie Kramer engineered a lot of great drum sounds, notably Mitch Mitchell with Jimi Hendrix. (Also five Zeppelin albums, Traffic, etc.) |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 10:16 am Re: Indian drums
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| b0b wrote: |
| Right now I'm listening to this wonderful CD of an instrument called tabla tarong. |
A percussion buddy of my just gave me that CD. Amazing. |
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Marc Jenkins
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 12:21 pm
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1. MOTOWN.
2. John Bonham
3. Ethan Johns, producer (son of Andy Johns, nephew of Glyn Johns) on Ray Lamontagne's 'Till the Sun Turns Black' and Ryan Adams' 'Heartbreaker'
4. Gillian Welch 'Soul Journey'
5. OLD JAZZ, mainly Blue Note in the 50's and 60's |
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Marc Jenkins
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 12:22 pm
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| By the way, these are mainly mono drum sounds. Yee-haw! |
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Andy Greatrix
From:
Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 4:19 pm
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| Does anyone remember a recording by Bert Camfaert(spelling?) called Wonderland By Night? There was this neat sound of upright bass, six string bass with a pick and snare played with brushes with added reverb. I always loved that sound. |
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 5:03 pm
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| For me it's Levon Helm on "King Harvest" with Richard Manual singing lead and especially Levon accenting the guitar solo on the fade. From The Band's second LP. |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 5:38 pm
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| Any record with Jim Gordon on it! |
Which would of course include the original Haggard cuts of "Lonesome Fugitive" and "Workingman's Blues" among others...  |
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 5:46 pm
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Tony Williams on Miles Davis' "Fille de Kilimanjaro".
Jim Keltner on "Bring the Family" and "Little Village".
Bernard Purdie on "King Curtis Live at the Fillmore West".
Joseph "Zig" Modeliste on the early Meters records.
The playing and the engineering in each case... |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 5 Jun 2008 5:57 pm
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| Joe Morello was about as good as it gets. I also really like Charlie Persip's stuff on "Steel Guitar Jazz". |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2008 3:52 am
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Pete,I had no idea Jim Gordon played on any of that Hag stuff...as you know,the Capitol stuff didn't have much in the way of liner notes...I guess the Bear Family boxes must include a lot more info...wow!Who played bass on"Working Man Blues"?LD and I were trying to guess one night-he said he would try to remember to ask James Burton the next time he sees him...thanks...and that King Curtis album IS great,ain't it?Do you have the Aretha Fillmore album(cut the same nite with the same band)?
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