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Drummers you would love to play with...
- Thread starter bearhart74
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1. Earl Young! So I can play as much Philly and disco joints as I can, especially Love Is The Message, 992 Arguments, Just As Long As I Got You and every Philly ballad, there is...
2. Steve Gadd! So I can play every Grover Washington Jr track from Winelight and Come Morning!
3. Steve Ferrone: So I can play all the Chaka Khan cuts from Chaka, Naughty and Whatcha Gonna Do For Me!
4. Ed Greene: So I can play all the Barry White joints!
5. Yogi Horton and John Susswell: So I cam play all the Ashford and Simpson and Luther joints!
6. Wardell Potts: So I can be a poor man's Leon Sylvers, and play all the Solar joints like the Whispers "And The Beat Goes On" and Shalamar's "There It Is"
7. Lenny White: So I can just play "Fancy Dancer" and call my self 'Twennynine A'! Alright, I'll settle for Thirddy.....!
That means I would get to be Ronnie Baker, Marcus Miller, Anthony Jackson, Wilton Felder, Francisco Centeno, Leon Sylvers and Barry Johnson.....and be nowhere as good as them.....!
2. Steve Gadd! So I can play every Grover Washington Jr track from Winelight and Come Morning!
3. Steve Ferrone: So I can play all the Chaka Khan cuts from Chaka, Naughty and Whatcha Gonna Do For Me!
4. Ed Greene: So I can play all the Barry White joints!
5. Yogi Horton and John Susswell: So I cam play all the Ashford and Simpson and Luther joints!
6. Wardell Potts: So I can be a poor man's Leon Sylvers, and play all the Solar joints like the Whispers "And The Beat Goes On" and Shalamar's "There It Is"
7. Lenny White: So I can just play "Fancy Dancer" and call my self 'Twennynine A'! Alright, I'll settle for Thirddy.....!
That means I would get to be Ronnie Baker, Marcus Miller, Anthony Jackson, Wilton Felder, Francisco Centeno, Leon Sylvers and Barry Johnson.....and be nowhere as good as them.....!
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Roy Haynes
Jack Dejohnette
Narada Michael Walden
Jimmy Cobb
Andrew Cyrille
Dave Garibaldi
Zigaboo Modeliste
Stewart Copeland
...and yes, Ringo
(I picked living drummers that I haven't played with. Picking ones who have passed is opening a whole other ball of wax. There are several others I have very briefly played with I'd like to get another shot at.)
Jack Dejohnette
Narada Michael Walden
Jimmy Cobb
Andrew Cyrille
Dave Garibaldi
Zigaboo Modeliste
Stewart Copeland
...and yes, Ringo
(I picked living drummers that I haven't played with. Picking ones who have passed is opening a whole other ball of wax. There are several others I have very briefly played with I'd like to get another shot at.)
John Wright from Nomeansno. He's the best drummer you've never heard of. Tim Soylan from Victim's Family is a close second.
I got one more...Animal from The Muppets. He's like Kieth Moon but a little more tame.
Scott Travis. Neat story... my band at the time, a successful AC/DC tribute, was hanging at a local bar and we ran into Scott. We introduced ourselves and got to chatting a bit. He expressed his love for AC/DC and asked when we were playing next and could he show up? Hell yeah!
He did show and wanted to sit in. So I found myself playing bass with the drummer from Judah's Priest. It was mind blowing how huge he sounded on our drummers kit.
Very cool memory.
Jeez, so many to list, but at the end of the day, the top of the list has gotta be Bonzo.
