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04-21-2007, 11:10 PM
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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04-21-2007, 11:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: madison, wi | | | what a waste of space, they could've fit a killer bass rig on that mini-stage! |
04-21-2007, 11:23 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | That's as bad as some poser playing a bass with more than four strings. 
I agree.........thumbs DOWN.....lame!!! 
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04-21-2007, 11:28 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | frikkin' bozzio... what a clown.
though i can appreciate his melodic membranophone ideas. 
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04-21-2007, 11:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | What a dork.
I've transcribed a portion of his little 'interview' for our amusement.
"It's hard to get past the overwhelming impression that that kit makes but it isn't really about being big or about trying to, you know, get attention, uh, by having more drums than, you know, most people. It's really about, uh, "I'm trying to play music on the drums", and so if you're playing melodies you need notes and you can't just have two toms because you can only make two-note melodies..."
Fired!
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04-21-2007, 11:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wilmington, NC/Lynchburg, VA | | | Booo. I second the lame notion. |
04-22-2007, 01:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | I agree with Smash - this is practically the same thing as an anti-ERB argument. There's no doubt you can play "My Girl" on an 11 string bass... the same way Bozzio can play it on his contraption. How do you justify your ERB's? The same way Bozzio justifies his ER-drumset.
You have everything at your disposal... if a certain sound is in your head, your instrument allows you to obtain it... even if, 99.9% of the time, you can get by with a similar sound. Hey, for Bozzio, sometimes only a 15 inch thin crash will do, the same way a P with flats nails the sound in our head for a particular sound. You want it when you need it... why can't Bozzio have it? |
04-22-2007, 02:04 AM
| | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | hey, i dig the fact that he can make melodies on drums and cymbals... i used to run around the percussion rooms of the various schools i attended and do all kinds of weird sonic experiments... i'm always tapping on random things to see what kind of sound they produce... i'd love to HAVE that contraption of bozzio's, actually. it'd be awesome. and he really is quite an amazing drummer.
but i still think he's a clown. 
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04-22-2007, 03:44 AM
| | Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to... | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, California. | | | yeah... you guys should listen to him... he's pretty amazing, Virgil Donati tops him in technique but, he does play a lot of melodic runs and such with the guitars...
Listen first, criticize second.
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04-22-2007, 04:02 AM
| | | | Bozzio is OK. He's a good drummer. He's just hard to watch. Never seen someone work so hard to play drums. I'd far rather watch Dennis Chambers. Dennis just sits back on his stool, chews gum, and kicks ass. He plays more than Bozzio, and doesn't even look like he's working. Terry, on the other hand looks like he's on crack. He just works too damn hard to play. The kit? Who cares. More is more. |
04-22-2007, 04:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA | | | I generally prefere understatement, so Terry Bozzio isn't my favorite drummer - but I respect what he does. I've always wanted him to play something like ?uestlove's kit, just to see how he would play one of those. The drummers that have always impressed me are the resourceful ones that can produce melodic material with minimalistic kits
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04-22-2007, 05:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Leeds, UK | | | I thought it was fun - he does sanctify the kit a bit...
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04-22-2007, 07:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | I'd like to see Mike Portnoy or Neil Peart on that kit. |
04-22-2007, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | Pfff, drums is NOT for playing melody...
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04-22-2007, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by AmazingGracePlayer  Pfff, drums is NOT for playing melody... | I'm sorry, you'll have to tell Elvin Jones that.
IMO, a good drummer can play a melody with a 4 piece kit -- there's a guy here named Otis Williams that, I swear to god, you can hear the whole melody in his drum solo. Dude's ridiculous.
Bozzio long ago left behind being a "good drummer" and is, IMO, just trying to see the limits. I don't really dig his music personally, but I wholeheartedly support creative exploration and his drum kit offers one hell of lot of things to explore.
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04-22-2007, 09:39 AM
| | | | I never got why Bozzio actually needed a set that big. |
04-22-2007, 09:46 AM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Bozzio has been doing this style for quite some time, and he does come off a bit sanctimonious, but he, like any artist will have a tendency to do so.
I wouldn't criticize him anymore than I would criticize a 13 string solo bassist who has gone outside the traditional role of being a bassist.
Too bad the video did show him playing. It's was like hearing a one sided story with nothing to back it up. |
04-22-2007, 10:45 AM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SMASH Any of you play more than 4 strings?  | Why would someone have to? It's a waste.
-Mike |
04-22-2007, 10:54 AM
|  | I dreamt I was an old dog, stuck in a honey pot. | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Madison, WI | | Yeah that's actually pretty awesome.  |
04-22-2007, 10:54 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | I dig Terry's style. Who cares how many drums so long as I don't need to help pack and transport it! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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