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Post by bumper on Mar 19, 2024 22:06:47 GMT -5
IMO Gary Husband should be on the great drummers list. I really liked some of the stuff Level 42 put out...don't think he was with them early on. definitely an excellent drummer as well as a keyboard player. pretty much equally proficient on both instruments. the guy played both at various times w alan holdsworth and john mclaughlin. hard to have better credentials than that.
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Post by bumper on Mar 20, 2024 12:45:53 GMT -5
gadd is like the godfather. when you can run the gamut from chick corea to eric clapton to james taylor to paul simon. that's pretty damn good. worked on projects and got to know neil peart & steve smith among others. a rock/prog guy haven't seen mentioned is mike portnoy. didn't work w but appreciate bill bruford. between yes and playing those knotty king crimson tunes, pretty amazing. a guy i always felt flew way under the radar is carter beauford from the dave matthews band. never took flashy solos but his drumming put those songs over the top. amazing deep groove.
consider myself mostly a jazz guy, currently a big fan of brian blade. obviously the list of greats is long. a couple of my other faves include jack dejohnette & elvin jones and absolutely love roy haynes. btw i'm a guitarist. Hey bumper...you got me interested in Zager guitars. Been checking them out, but I don't play enough, or well enough, to justify even their 50 Series guitars. Do you have any experience or input re their 20 Series. Are they any better than my S6 Seagull? sent a pm |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Mar 23, 2024 19:40:02 GMT -5
The late Hal Blaine was great drummer, he was part of the Phil Spector Wrecking Crew, he worked with Brian Wilson, Simon & Garfunkel's "Ceila". The Wrecking Crew documentary is worth taking a look at.
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2024 17:56:51 GMT -5
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 25, 2024 18:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2024 18:38:36 GMT -5
His accent made him sound decidedly black. Louisiana, a land of many accents. I forget the name of the island off hand but there is a separate accent that a dwindling MD island population has that’s so distinct that most Marylanders struggle to understand the inhabitants… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 25, 2024 19:05:44 GMT -5
His accent made him sound decidedly black. Louisiana, a land of many accents. I forget the name of the island off hand but there is a separate accent that a dwindling MD island population has that’s so distinct that most Marylanders struggle to understand the inhabitants… Britain. |
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2024 21:20:05 GMT -5
His accent made him sound decidedly black. Louisiana, a land of many accents. I forget the name of the island off hand but there is a separate accent that a dwindling MD island population has that’s so distinct that most Marylanders struggle to understand the inhabitants… Britain. The King’s English… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 26, 2024 11:55:47 GMT -5
Rizz maintains his 1.000 BA in pointing out Louisianans. Sportsman's Paradise, or so I have heard. I think the first botanical lesson I ever learned was that pokeweed was poisonous. It is quite abundant in these parts, and to a kid those purple berries look pretty inviting. Until that song came out, I never knew that people actually ate it, but like that blowfish that Homer Simpson tried, you have to consume it at precisely the right time or you will die a horrible death. I don't like those odds. Tony Joe White had one other huge hit that he wrote and recorded, but the hit version was done by Brook Benton in 1970, the year after "Polk Salad Annie." That would be "A Rainy Night In Georgia." Rizz can probably speak to this better than I can, but even though White is not a household name among most music aficionados, he was sort of a musician's musician and a stalwart of Swamp Rock. He worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris, Tina Turner, Booker T. and the MGs, Jerry Lee Lewis and JJ Cale of "Crazy Mama" fame, who to me seems a bit like White. Useless tidbit -- "Polk Salad Annie" was produced by Billy Swan, a one-hit wonder in his own right with "I Can Help." And circling back to Brook Benton -- he may be the most neglected hitmaker of the late 50s-mid 60s. Between 1959 and 1964, he had 23 songs that made the Billboard Top 40. Other than maybe Elvis, I can't believe there were many artists who had more, and yet he is barely known today. When he recorded "A Rainy Night In Georgia" he had been absent from the charts for six years, and after that song he never had another hit. I think partly because he wasn't really a rock and roller, and he wasn't exactly a rhythm and blues singer either, more like a soul balladeer with a lot of crossover appeal. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 26, 2024 12:25:58 GMT -5
His accent made him sound decidedly black. Louisiana, a land of many accents. I forget the name of the island off hand but there is a separate accent that a dwindling MD island population has that’s so distinct that most Marylanders struggle to understand the inhabitants… Smith Island! Great for crabs and birding and the automobile graveyard capital of Maryland. Yeah, you have to listen closely when they talk -- it's sort of an old school Eastern Shore accent but with less influence from the outside. "Down" sounds like "Dane" and "Oil" sounds like "Ale." It's the only inhabited island in Maryland that can only be reached by boat. Last time I checked the population was down to about 200. The only real work there is being a Chesapeake Bay waterman, dealing with a declining harvest of crustaceans and molluscs. To get there you have to either have your own boat or take the daily ferry from Crisfield. And once you are there, unless you come to eat at the one restaurant or want to do some birding or kayaking, there isn't much in the way of activities. I haven't been there in probably 15 years, and if you spend the night as we did (at one of the two places you can get a modest room) you will have to provide your own entertainment and also your own alcohol, since the island is officially dry. You can't rent a car, only a golf cart (from the same guy who owns the restaurant) but on the other hand there is hardly anywhere you can go on a road so you're better off hiking. There is one school that goes to the sixth grade. After that, students take the one-hour boat ride to the mainland for Middle School and High School. I can remember when they used to have to spend the week on the mainland for school and come home Friday afternoon. Of course a lot of them just dropped out after about tenth grade anyway to make a little money from fishing and crabbing. I used to go there from time to time as a kid because my grandfather, who was born on the Eastern Shore, always kept a beach house down that way to escape from civilization and he had a small boat and loved to go over there to mix with the people and do some fishing or duck hunting or crabbing. They are quite poor for the most part and just as hospitable as can be. I love it when self-important visitors from the DC area make the trip and are expecting something quaint like Nantucket or even the nearby Virginia island of Tangier. Hah! One glimpse at the shacks and the weeds and the rusting cars and they're checking the schedules for the return ferry to Crisfield. I like it for the isolation, the muddy treks through the marshes and the great birdwatching. Plus the kind people who are quite aware of the limitations of living there and happy to embrace them. They have no interest in turning it into a charming tourist destination. |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 26, 2024 13:03:09 GMT -5
Not sure if he's been mentioned, and I honestly don't know much about him, but the late Howard Wyeth did some nice drum work on Bob Dylan's Desire Album.
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Post by azbob643 on Mar 26, 2024 13:09:54 GMT -5
Not sure if he's been mentioned, and I honestly don't know much about him, but the late Howard Wyeth did some nice drum work on Bob Dylan's Desire Album. Road trip thru Northern Minnesota. On the way back from Voyageurs NP quick stop in Hibbing to check out the childhood home of Robert Zimmerman*...  *Didn't know at the time that Roger Maris was born in Hibbing. Don't know if his childhood home would've been easily found. |
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Post by inger on Mar 26, 2024 15:11:54 GMT -5
His accent made him sound decidedly black. Louisiana, a land of many accents. I forget the name of the island off hand but there is a separate accent that a dwindling MD island population has that’s so distinct that most Marylanders struggle to understand the inhabitants… Smith Island! Great for crabs and birding and the automobile graveyard capital of Maryland. Yeah, you have to listen closely when they talk -- it's sort of an old school Eastern Shore accent but with less influence from the outside. "Down" sounds like "Dane" and "Oil" sounds like "Ale." It's the only inhabited island in Maryland that can only be reached by boat. Last time I checked the population was down to about 200. The only real work there is being a Chesapeake Bay waterman, dealing with a declining harvest of crustaceans and molluscs. To get there you have to either have your own boat or take the daily ferry from Crisfield. And once you are there, unless you come to eat at the one restaurant or want to do some birding or kayaking, there isn't much in the way of activities. I haven't been there in probably 15 years, and if you spend the night as we did (at one of the two places you can get a modest room) you will have to provide your own entertainment and also your own alcohol, since the island is officially dry. You can't rent a car, only a golf cart (from the same guy who owns the restaurant) but on the other hand there is hardly anywhere you can go on a road so you're better off hiking. There is one school that goes to the sixth grade. After that, students take the one-hour boat ride to the mainland for Middle School and High School. I can remember when they used to have to spend the week on the mainland for school and come home Friday afternoon. Of course a lot of them just dropped out after about tenth grade anyway to make a little money from fishing and crabbing. I used to go there from time to time as a kid because my grandfather, who was born on the Eastern Shore, always kept a beach house down that way to escape from civilization and he had a small boat and loved to go over there to mix with the people and do some fishing or duck hunting or crabbing. They are quite poor for the most part and just as hospitable as can be. I love it when self-important visitors from the DC area make the trip and are expecting something quaint like Nantucket or even the nearby Virginia island of Tangier. Hah! One glimpse at the shacks and the weeds and the rusting cars and they're checking the schedules for the return ferry to Crisfield. I like it for the isolation, the muddy treks through the marshes and the great birdwatching. Plus the kind people who are quite aware of the limitations of living there and happy to embrace them. They have no interest in turning it into a charming tourist destination. I just learned more about an island in my birth state in this post than I ever did in my life. Pipps amazes again, he even hit the boonies… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 26, 2024 18:50:07 GMT -5
Smith Island! Great for crabs and birding and the automobile graveyard capital of Maryland. Yeah, you have to listen closely when they talk -- it's sort of an old school Eastern Shore accent but with less influence from the outside. "Down" sounds like "Dane" and "Oil" sounds like "Ale." It's the only inhabited island in Maryland that can only be reached by boat. Last time I checked the population was down to about 200. The only real work there is being a Chesapeake Bay waterman, dealing with a declining harvest of crustaceans and molluscs. To get there you have to either have your own boat or take the daily ferry from Crisfield. And once you are there, unless you come to eat at the one restaurant or want to do some birding or kayaking, there isn't much in the way of activities. I haven't been there in probably 15 years, and if you spend the night as we did (at one of the two places you can get a modest room) you will have to provide your own entertainment and also your own alcohol, since the island is officially dry. You can't rent a car, only a golf cart (from the same guy who owns the restaurant) but on the other hand there is hardly anywhere you can go on a road so you're better off hiking. There is one school that goes to the sixth grade. After that, students take the one-hour boat ride to the mainland for Middle School and High School. I can remember when they used to have to spend the week on the mainland for school and come home Friday afternoon. Of course a lot of them just dropped out after about tenth grade anyway to make a little money from fishing and crabbing. I used to go there from time to time as a kid because my grandfather, who was born on the Eastern Shore, always kept a beach house down that way to escape from civilization and he had a small boat and loved to go over there to mix with the people and do some fishing or duck hunting or crabbing. They are quite poor for the most part and just as hospitable as can be. I love it when self-important visitors from the DC area make the trip and are expecting something quaint like Nantucket or even the nearby Virginia island of Tangier. Hah! One glimpse at the shacks and the weeds and the rusting cars and they're checking the schedules for the return ferry to Crisfield. I like it for the isolation, the muddy treks through the marshes and the great birdwatching. Plus the kind people who are quite aware of the limitations of living there and happy to embrace them. They have no interest in turning it into a charming tourist destination. I just learned more about an island in my birth state in this post than I ever did in my life. Pipps amazes again, he even hit the boonies… Inger, I always found Maryland to be an interesting state. Even though it's not large, it has a lot of diversified regions -- defined by the Bay, but it has some ocean, a lot of interesting rivers to explore, a lot of opportunities to use different kinds of boats, mountains in the west, one major city, one of the most beautiful capital cities (and capitol buildings), a wonderful hiking trail with the Chesapeake and Ohio, home of The Babe and H.L. Mencken, quaint (but very different) villages on both the Eastern and Western Shore, an abundance of bird species, wild horses, important historical sites, but mainly it has Maryland Blue Crabs and many ways to prepare them, all of which are delicious. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 26, 2024 18:59:35 GMT -5
Not sure if he's been mentioned, and I honestly don't know much about him, but the late Howard Wyeth did some nice drum work on Bob Dylan's Desire Album. Road trip thru Northern Minnesota. On the way back from Voyageurs NP quick stop in Hibbing to check out the childhood home of Robert Zimmerman*... *Didn't know at the time that Roger Maris was born in Hibbing. Don't know if his childhood home would've been easily found. I doff my National Park Passport in your general direction, Bob, for getting Voyageurs into your travels. It is one of the two National Parks in the Lower 48 that I haven't been to (the other is Isle Royale) but I still hope to work them in. The Midwest is very underappreciated by people on the coasts. Great that you got to Bobby Z's house. In addition to Roger Maris who you cited, Hibbing was also the birthplace of Kevin McHale and Gary Puckett. Pretty good for a small town. I am a huge fan of Dylan, Maris and McHale. Gary Puckett not so much. Too many suggestions of underage sex. |
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