Yo! Anyone mention the guy from Pelican yet?

Of course they did. And I didn't check.

Seeing them play was like a watching bunch of thirteen-year-olds jamming slowed-down Slayer riffs (because they can't play them any faster) with "the only kid with a drum kit" guy. This guy's playing hurts this band.

someone told me I should call Pelican and threaten someone until they give me that spot.

I thought they were just joking. I have not heard this band, but apparently there's a weak spot in their game.

jimmy spako wrote:

Jujyfruits wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:

Jujyfruits wrote:The drums in Dragnet are awful, but amazing in the context of the album. The drums in Live at the Witch Trial on the other hand are just awful (that album has the arguably ugliest drum sound ever).

I love the drums on Live at the Witch Trials. Karl Burns fucking kicked ass!

The ugliest drum sound ever? Possibly Green River's Rehab Doll. Holy christ, it is vomitessent. I think Prindle referred to it as "the worst gated drum sound in history," and he's right.

I don't know, I swear that the sound of the drums on that first Fall album barely ruins the album for me, making it the only Fall album I don't love.

with all due respect, you are insane. at the very least temporarily. that is one obnoxiously cool drum sound on that record. just right. & how he manages to play so tight & sloppy, so cromagnon & clever at the same time...simply beautiful.

in fact half of you are insane & the other half of you are incredibly insightful. ahem, when it comes to picking the proper drummers to beat on.

I've always thought the drumming on this album was a bit ridiculous. The fills and the quantity of fills are hilarious overkill at times, but they give it personality. It's kind of, sort of, a little bit similar to Rey Washam's drumming on Two Nuns. But then again, probably not at all.

I'm a pretty shit drummer. I am not as good as Ringo Starr, but I am at least as good as Meg White.

Proof of Lars' drum ineptness can be found in this live performance of Seek and Destroy from 1989. He drops beats all over the goddamn place trying to shoehorn fills into where they totally don't belong.

ERawk wrote:Then you can move back to Chicago and live in the new and improved RP.

(Side tangent: where did your wife get that awesome orange paisley blouse that she wears in that picture you always post of the two of you? I love it. If it's from some hippie lady in Athens, then I would consider paying her to make one)

Lisa tells me that it's a gift from our friend Holly. I will see her this weekend and ask where it came from. She tells me it's basically a scarf with a hole in it, it's so unstructured.

I will PM you with details when I have them.

Boombats wrote:Brain is a good drummer but I really hate his tone.

I prefer Tim Alexander.

dontfeartheringo wrote:

Benny wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:

ERawk wrote:Tipcat Dave- "Heroin" is Mo Tucker's shining moment, yes.

I dated Moe Tucker's daughter a hot minute a LONG time ago. I never got to the point where I was invited home to meet mom.

if that is true, you're the best human being that was ever born.

I met Mo Tucker at a club in Columbia, SC a few years ago. She was playing drums in a band called Magnet. I asked her about her time in Phoenix when she played in the band Paris 1942 with some future Sun City Girls. As she was telling me about it, people interrupted us to have her sign their VU banana LPs.

Anyway, you aren't going to find a more down-to-earth person than Mo Tucker.

Eric Spicer (Naked Raygun)- Sorry Eric, I do like some aspects of your drumming, but do you have to rush almost every fill in every song?

Bobby Strange (Naked Raygun)- I don't think I have to explain this one.

Steve Plouf (The Wipers)- A step down from even Brad Naish. Pretty much the same damn beat in every single song. No creativity. I love the Wipers, but the later albums with Steve are often a chore to listen to.

lemur68 wrote:I'm a pretty shit drummer. I am not as good as Ringo Starr, but I am at least as good as Meg White.

I would say this is about accurate for me.

But, I'm a girl, so I am everyone's favorite band member when we play anyway.

SecondEdition wrote:

that damned fly wrote:i generally don't like tempo issues.

the fall's tempo issues tend to drive me nuts.

I don't quite get what you're talking about. They're on time, aren't they? (Well, okay, not on Dragnet. But that album still rules...even if it's obvious the band doesn't have enough chops between them to make up an appetizer.)

they speed up. often.