VINNIE - The thread about Colaiuta

[deseipel]

I wasn't analyzing VC in the slightest, I wouldn't even begin to. However, I was projecting how I might feel about it, being put in that situation. Not really sure what I was being passive aggressive about... I was just thinkig out loud about it too much, thats all.

[matthughen]

Hadn't seen this before:
Zappa from the Pasaic Theater in NJ Oct 13, 1978 (w/ Vinnie of course)
full show on youtube:



and full show available for DL from zappateers.com
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=25361


cool pic:

[renardvert]

His setup was really weird back then. So low!!!

[gretsch-o-rama]

Just goes to show his thinking was different from the very beginning. It's just that he had the rare combo of being different AND a genius.

[timmy]

this is what is funny . his kit is not that high .he just sits loooow ...i can't sit that low coz of my stomac , fuckin too big .(beer ?yes)
any way i was listening to the all show of the capitol , the very recent one , and i listened to another one , in 80 somthin .to me , vinnie became that genius (or let it pop out(thx frank) in those two years .after this time there is a lot of hihg level technique that he has been studiing or barely spend his life in .and then , when i listen into the clinics of the 87 or 89 .WOW .this is what i call progress .
i mean he is an evolution .not only in the sound of drums themselves , but in the playing , his musicality and his concepts , everything !!

[lildrummer10]

This a long shot... But a couple of years ago i seen vinnie with Herbie Hancock playing live at abbey road at a recorded programme on tv where there doing a sound check before playing and Vinnie does an insane china groove, that makes herbie and the band start laughing. Then they go in to some soft tunes with brush work, this is the first time i witnessed Vinnie the master. Has anyone got any footage of this? thanks

[JeremyNZ]

He looks like Benny Greb in that photo above. Or rather Benny Greb looks like '78 Vinnie.

[Juan Expósito]

About that SITTING LOW picture.
Has anyone seen someone sitting that low?
Unless you find a picture of that evidence, Vinnie has set a new record.

[JeremyNZ]

Yeah it's a good thing that seat height didn't last long or he might not be playing today. Lord knows what it could've done to his back.

[gretsch-o-rama]

I read in a VC interview it almost came to that, where he had shooting pain in his back and almost couldn't play. Funny, I think he almost sits too high these days....