Postby Robert Bluman » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:06 pm
Rodge you have deep ears my friend! Why is it you get what I'm talking about and others are ready to throw a negative vibe into my words? What's up with this place?
I'll tell what you I meant in my post. Cliff's style comes directly out of Dave. Like Gadd, Dave spawned hundreds of clones in his time. Cliff is the only one who has developed that Dave Weckl style into his own while becoming a name player. I can't think of any successful drummers who have come out of Dave directly like this. I still hear tons of Weckl circa 1984-1990 in Cliff's playing although it has become his own. Yes it's more aggressive and I think it's more complex at times, but still it comes out of what Dave developed and made popular. Don't turn this around on me, it's not a bad thing. I love Cliff's drumming.
John, I think you make a great point. I'll tell you, Michel Camillo plays the piano in manner that is not super respected by piano players. Who cares, he's amazing right? But still, its his technique they knock, and how he bangs on the piano. He's a very loud piano player, and that's what enables his drummers to play at such high volumes and blast like that. Like you said, you can't play piano trio like that in real life. All you will hear is the drumkit. Danilo Perez for example is pianist with this kind of energy, but he would never play with a drummer that loud. I think Antonio Sanchez was in his trio. Antonio is super soft.