The difference between playing with Otis Redding and James Brown? I didn’t get fined when I played behind Otis.
Tag: drumming
You’d make a mistake while he was singing, and he’d turn around and say, “Ten dollars.”
Drummer Gene Krupa performing at Gjon Mili’s studio. NYC, 1941
*Amazing* photographs from LIFE Magazine’s photo archives. Originally featured in the July 9th, 1941 article, “GENE KRUPA SHOWS HOW TO PLAY DRUM IN THESE FANTASTIC SOUND PICTURES.”
In these unusual shots Krupa illustrates some rudiments of drumming. They were taken by Gjon Mili’s multiple-exposure camera so you could follow the track of Krupa’s drumsticks whizzing through the air. But they are interesting also as impressionistic portraits of sound, suggesting the rhythmic pandemonium of a Krupa jam session.
….As a drum historian, he likes to tell how Napoleon Bonaparte was once defeated by Russians who were roused to a fighting frenzy by Cossack drummers. Says Krupa proudly, “I have Cossack blood myself.”
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Scene from the 1971 George Englund film Zachariah
So Elvin Jones walks into a saloon, shoots a dude dead and then plays the fuck out of the James Gang’s drums, basically fulfilling every fantasy you ever had. Because, yeah. Also? WHAT DIMENSION IS THIS FROM? I DON’T EVEN. I CAN’T. OMGGFNFG
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New toy. Now I can finally put those tabla lessons by Venkat to use. Which reminds me…
A Drummer Showing Up At The Wrong Gig. Haha. This drummer is ridiculous. (via)
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Japanese drum notation for “Dienst Mars” (Service March) by Inukai Kiyonobu, 1865. Western Military Drums in Japan.
Mark Larson 