Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:10:28 -0000, liberatusvirus wrote:
>\ufffdJust for the halibut, to see what people think, despite their widely 
>\ufffddiffering approaches, Copeland and Ringo are similar in the almost 
>\ufffdmystifying uniqueness of their styles. Can anyone think of other 
>\ufffddrummers who seem to defy duplication in touch and intuition, 
>\ufffdregardless of how well you seem to know them, or how simple their 
>\ufffdgroove is?

Keith Moon. To this day, his style still mystifies and amazes me.

I have the DVD "Who's Next", which is a "behind the scenes look" at the 
making of the album. There are two really telling passages spoken about 
Moon on the video. One is by Glyn Johns (who produced/engineered the 
recording): He points out that Moon's style very often actually follows 
the *vocals* and that he'd never seen another drummer do that, then 
adds "brilliant!". Listen to "Won't Get Fooled Again" and you'll 
immediately hear it...

Another comment is made by Pete Townshend, who is reminiscing about 
taking his demo tracks (which he plays all instruments on) to the 
studio. As he describes his drumming and bass style as very simple and 
basic, then it becomes "The Who" when Entwhistle and Moon run with it.
He goes on "I certainly couldn't play like Keith... no one would WANT 
to." Quite amusing. I remembered back to my high school days, reading
the sheet music to some of the Who's tunes and thinking, "how the @#$%
does he PLAY that????" 

Matt