Taking center stage! Wow! A totally fantastic DVD. I got mine yesterday and I've watched it twice! If your a drummer, you need this DVD! It's huge!
Well done Bubba.
And this DVD is extra special to me for a personal reason. Saratoga performing arts center was a great night indeed! The memories of it all
I can't wait to get one! Money's been tight this month but it gives me something to look forward to.
Don't wait till CHRISTmas, get it now!
NBC, you are twisting my arm. Yes, I'll get it soon I promise. I have a special attachment to this video. Jobee has been such an educational force for drumming. I have studied with him (mostly Mike Sorrentino on LI-Joe is in NJ) at his home, met his wife and dad and have had the pleasure of participating with him and Mike in full day drum kit workshops here on Long Island. He is the real deal and has been a tremendous inspiration to Gio and me.
The fact that Neil and he are getting into the nitty gritty of it really gets me excited about drumming, music, composition. I love it. Now I really can't wait to get the DVD! I've just been so darn busy with work and two teens (three including our Korean exchange student). I'll probably order it right from this site.
Hey, here's a promo idea...
For any of us "regulars" at BBG who order the new drum DVD -which would be-what- a dozen or so?...get a personal note from Bubba himself. Nah, just kidding-that's way too much writing!
I promise I'll order it soon!
(11-09-2011 08:43 PM)Neilbubbachuck Wrote: [ -> ]Taking center stage! Wow! A totally fantastic DVD. I got mine yesterday and I've watched it twice! If your a drummer, you need this DVD! It's huge!
Well done Bubba.
I would add, even if you're not a drummer. Or even a musician.
I am only an appreciator of music, and also not particularly partial to one instrument over another band-wise; I tend to notice the whole more than the individual parts, in most any band. So, what I mean is, I don't follow drummers, or bass players, or guitarists particularly - I just enjoy what a band as a whole does (or not, as the case may be).
I had no plans to get it originally, but one of my friends had said they thought I'd like it. And I enjoyed the heck out of it - and learned a lot, too. Should probably note that I am the kind of person who enjoys the how and why of things in general - I can be flipping channels and hit something like "How It's Made" and spend a half hour watching how kayaks are put together - even though I'm not a kayaker and have never had even a fleeting thought to wonder about how kayaks are made, *grin*. But this, I also got something out of beyond just the trivial, and also beyond just entertainment.
It gave me a lot more appreciation for what Bubba does, for one - not that I didn't appreciate it before, but it added a lot of depth to that appreciation in terms of how he crafts his parts when writing/arranging a song, to what (all) he is doing behind that kit live. I enjoyed the perspective it gives also (both from an auditory standpoint, and a visual one - because it brings a perspective in both areas that you probably wouldn't notice if you aren't a drummer or particularly percussion-centric in your appreciation of this band or any other). And I'm finding that having taken it all in, it also adds depth to my listening experience for
any type of music now.
It's definitely worth more than just entertainment value even for a non-drummer, I think it translates quite well even as far as I am outside that target audience. So I also have to say, well done.
I can't wait!!
Tomorrow we are celebrating Gio's 14th Birthday. I can't believe it. I'm thankful. He's a great kid.
So here is his band, Among the Weak; their first release. Gio is 13 when this was recorded (still is ti'll Tuesday), the singer and bass player are 16, the guitar player is 14. This is the metal they're into. It sounds like hellfire, but it's usually about a girl. Not the stereotype of the genre when I was younger (that style was for twisted, demonic dark people). I still find it somewhat dark, but it's adolescent dark.
Ladies and gentlemen, Among the Weak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...zDyzewzviY
Some recent good fortune.....years ago at one of the RUSH Conventions I purchased a spare snare drum, as part of the days events allowed for punters to hop on stage and play guitar, drums, bass, keys, sing, (whatever takes your fancy), and there were some very good musicians who would turn up and play with people they did not know and blast out any number of RUSH songs. My kit was the stage kit, and I did not fancy a load of heavy handed drummers bashing seven colours of sh*t out of my lovely Gretsch, so I nipped into a local store and purchased the first and cheapest snare I could find for the job. A Yamaha chrome snare.
It was choked with gaffa tape and sounded awful - but it was cheap!
Since that gig it has been in a box unused for years.
The other day I got it out, stripped off the Gaffa tape, put on some Remo Ambassador snare and batter heads and tuned it. It had a very warm whack to it and sounded a bit like a Ludwig 402. When I looked closely at it I noticed it had quite a fancy snare strainer which looked like the super sensitive snares on a Ludwig, and what looked like expensive knurled parts.
Curious I spoke to Yamaha about it, and they asked for the reference number and serial number - turns out it is a 9000 series snare, the same as used by Jeff Porcaro of Toto on the 1987 tour and Cozy Powell in their day, and was made in 1985 - a right result!!! Especially for an old rocker from that same era.