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by Pocketplayer
Wed May 10, 2023 2:23 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Steve Smith
Replies: 60
Views: 27305

Re: Steve Smith

Just a thought...Steve is 68...sometimes I want to see him
play like it was 1981 again...he keeps in great shape...but
he is getting older like us all...some days might be off.
by Pocketplayer
Wed May 03, 2023 1:01 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Official Virgil Donati thread
Replies: 856
Views: 546045

Re: Official Virgil Donati thread

ineffable...
by Pocketplayer
Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Mr. Gadd
Replies: 182
Views: 185337

Re: Mr. Gadd

One of the BEST tributes I ever heard...
What would it be like to be Gadd for even
15 mins? To have the respect and adulation
of peers at this level?
by Pocketplayer
Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:29 am
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Assorted videos / YouTube thread
Replies: 2470
Views: 1194401

Re: Assorted videos / YouTube thread

OT kinda...anniversary of my dad passing today and his favorite was Dixieland.

Here's to you dad...this music made you smile;

by Pocketplayer
Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Assorted videos / YouTube thread
Replies: 2470
Views: 1194401

Re: Assorted videos / YouTube thread

Fables is one of my fav JLP LPs...
Rayford Griffin lays it down



by Pocketplayer
Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Steve Smith
Replies: 60
Views: 27305

Re: Steve Smith

Saw the 1981 Houston gig (Escape Tour) on AXIS TV... SO much better on TV than computer screen from Youtube. Smith was insane in every way. His relaxed control, his patterns, and that epic solo still blows me away 40 years later. His ideas were so ahead of the times. Then the drum sound he got (they...
by Pocketplayer
Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:35 am
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: VINNIE - The thread about Colaiuta
Replies: 2739
Views: 1659033

Re: VINNIE - The thread about Colaiuta

Free Download for XYZ https://www.bluecanoerecords.com/store/ ... t#/payment ORDER SUMMARY I kinda find this really depressing...Jeff puts out a new CD of his work with "A" players and has to offer it for free? Or, there is a Youtube video of all his tracks. :o Old news I know, but still,...
by Pocketplayer
Mon Apr 03, 2023 9:17 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: Official Virgil Donati thread
Replies: 856
Views: 546045

Re: Official Virgil Donati thread

Not sure if this was posted before... OTV Serious Young Insects was my first intro to Virg... Back around 1999 I was into drum corp...Internet was pretty new to me...I Googled drum corp drummers and there was a post in a forum, maybe a sentence that said there is this guy named Virgil Donati that ha...
by Pocketplayer
Sun Apr 02, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: Drumming Chat
Topic: OFFICIAL JEFF PORCARO THREAD
Replies: 194
Views: 141508

Re: OFFICIAL JEFF PORCARO THREAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTFfFr4xLQs This was from last year but posted a day or so ago... I had the honor of being at Jeff's funeral...Mike Porcaro told a story speaking for the family (I heard this 30 years ago) but it went like this; The Porcaro family was at a restaurant and this waiter c...

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