Afrique is my favorite tune on there - a great example of the old 6/8 4/4 with the addition of 3/4 as well without sounding too mathy. Anthony Jackson and Dave play the coolest groove on the outro too.
Yeah Jeff Beal on "Where's Tom" I think.

Rodge you know I Love me some Three Graces!

Listening to Hard-Wired on this Thanksgiving morning - remembering being a student at Musicians Institute in an apartment with Kurtis and geeking out about this CD 93-94. Good memories - fun music! Dave's first ever solo performance at Catalinas for that recording. John P on bass - killing dates! We...

Cool! Nice work!

Anton Fig at the Potato - cool!

https://www.thebakedpotato.com/events/w ... er-7-2024/

I'm not a Portnoy fan - mostly because he appears to have arrested development - which really irks me with guys that make it big but don't use it to their advantage to study with greats and elevate their drumming to noticeable next levels. I like that he used a smaller kit that band with Richie K an...

Anyone catch the John DeChristopher Buddy Rich Memorial 35th Anniversary live stream?
Interesting to hear Weck, Vin and Gadd talk about those times. It's not on his YT channel yet.

The drums sound is just about perfect on that Have Mercy video. Beautiful playing - the whole band is riding that groove wave. Love it!

Chick, Vinnie, Wallace, Bob B and John P - I had only every heard one recording of that - this is a different night with the drum solo I've not heard before. Pretty amazing.

Another stream bearing my soul to the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/live/HPbb4kMSKY ... i0c72TBS2p