Drum Solo's

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Originally posted by Jeff Clarkson:
All this talk on drums & not a wword of Keith or John Bonham?

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Bonzo was tremendous foundation for Zep, but on his own, as very thoroughly demonstrated on "Moby Dick", he was dull dull dull.

Haven't heard any solos from the Loon, but he could fill fills better than anyone!

Pete.

Hi
One drum solo I can listen to and enjoy is on the Tony Williams album The joy of flying on the live track Open fire with Ronnie Montrose and Brian Auger spellbinding stuff!.
I attended a live concert in the early eighties by the tenor saxophonist George Coleman who featured Billy Higgins on drums who was amazing in all of his fairly short solo's with a particularly mesmerising work out using only one cymbal to fantastic and varied effect.
Regards
Jim

He is really worth a listen, especially in his solos. A friend of mine being a lifelong admirer of Toto (I forgive him), I have ended up at two of their concerts and I have never experienced any dull moment in Phillip's solos, not even for a second.

His most thrilling solo I ever heard (and saw on video) was at some surround-sound show at a local HiFi fair. Throughout the solo, which lasted for at least 20 minutes, he overlayed two or three (mostly african) rythm schemes better than any afro-american drummer could dream of in his entire life ! Drums alone can very well make music.

What I have more trouble listening to are contrabass jazz solos. Uh ! pa-too-too-foo-foo-pow-doo-doo-bow-bow-poo-poo-poooooooo-padadadweep-tadaaaaaaa-pfowwwww

Cheese

I share Fred's view. For doubting Garys try a KJ trio concert. You won't get 20 mins of Jack tout seul admittedly, but a couple of mins here and there ... quite sublime.

Stewart

I like Ringo's minimalist solo on 'Birthday'. Tiny, no showing off [in fact the reverse]& actually drives the song forward, which you can't say about many.

throb

Carl Palmer, live, is awesome.

I've never seen such power and skill in a drummer, and for him to carry on for 10-12 mins is beyond belief.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Steve Hall:
Carl Palmer, live, is awesome.

Dead right - in the early days of E.L.P. Carl's solo spot was always one of the shows highlights and his track "Tank" (?) on their 1st album is an excellent piece of work especially at volume on a good system.

My all-time vote for a performance captured onto whatever media you use is Moon on "Live at Leeds" though.

Anyone remember Jon Hiseman?

Be seeing you

Ron

See above...

Saw him with Colloseum II, with Gary Moore on Guitar, at Sussex Uni in the late 70's, small venue, great gig.

One of the downsides of Jazz for me is the extended drum solos. I'll make an exception for Elvin Jones on 'A Love Supreme' where he gets close to completely losing it.

I see Elvin has recently collaborated on a book with Ashley Kahn on 'A Love Supreme: The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album' - I hope it's as good as Kahn's previous effort 'Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece'

[This message was edited by David Hobbs-Mallyon on TUESDAY 10 December 2002 at 15:03.]

By the way, why are so many people here writing solo's with an apostrophe? It should be solos ... a simple plural, yes? Neither apple's nor orange's. Was there a memo on a change in English grammar that missed my mailbox?

This is what piques my tiny reptilian mind. Perhaps I've heard too many drum solo's.

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Originally posted by fred simon:
By the way, why are so many people here writing solo's with an apostrophe? It should be solos ... a simple plural, yes? Neither apple's nor orange's. Was there a memo on a change in English grammar that missed my mailbox?

This is what piques my tiny reptilian mind. Perhaps I've heard too many drum solo's.

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Maybe it should be spelled soloes.

Cheers

Keith.

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Originally posted by Kit:
I have a Shakti live album with a 25 minute unaccompanied tabla/clay pot duel. I'm sure it's all a sacred spiritual communion between musician, instrument and audiance but it really does sound like a load of excruciating wank.

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This has set the alarm bells clanging. I was about to begin exploring Shakti, but I'm anxious to avoid the clay pot extravaganza. Which album is this on?