And I learned how to drum by playing along to this.

/see ya, Mitch
//Moon and Bonzo are waiting to talk shop

Awesome headline, awesome album.


There are no great drummers left.

Mitch Mitchell was unique. His frenetic style made the drums more than a percussion time keeper. It was under his mastery a lead instrument meant to enhance the musical experience.

Only Keith Moon was comparable in approach in rock music.

I loved his work with the Dirty Mac.

RIP, badass.

Any Farkers out there listening to XM/Sirius can flip to channel 40 Deep Tracks. They're honoring Mitch all day by playing his stuff. Interviews too.
Manic Depression on currently.

Not to be picky on a good read, but Hendrix didn't "invent" the E7#9 chord in Purple Haze. It's been around for many decades. See: Jazz


Its use is somewhat unorthodox in that it is the I chord in what could be considered an I7alt-bIII-IV progression.

Point being, it's a familiar sound.

RIP Mitch, my second favorite rock drummer all-time.

/Jaki Liebezeit is my favorite
//like anyone cares.

peewinkle: There are no great drummers left.
A word with you. Mike Portnoy would like it.

H31N0US: peewinkle: There are no great drummers left.

A word with you. Mike Portnoy would like it.

He said drummers, not technicians.

wigglebiscuit: RIP Mitch, my second favorite rock drummer all-time.

/Jaki Liebezeit is my favorite
//like anyone cares.

i care, man. i care.

(jaki is the original human drum machine)

FTA: The crazed waltz-time rhythm . . .

Har. Manic Depression has always been my fave Hendrix tune and I was just sitting here thinking of it as the first song I ever really listened to in order to decipher the drummer's technique. You can hear Mitchell trying to reel Hendrix back in on several occasions.

Years later I noticed Martin Chambers doing the same to Chrissie Hynde on Tattooed Love Boys in the alternating 7/8-4/4 sections and I thought: "Man, it's Mitch Mitchell all over."

Talented guy. RIP.

Besides Ginger Baker and Charlie Watts, who's left from the great British Invasion of the late 60s? Drummers sure seem to have a shorter lifespan.

OldManDownDRoad: Drummers sure seem to have a shorter lifespan.

Well, Jimi went in '70, and Noel Redding is 5 years dead, so Mitch did OK here...

H31N0US: peewinkle: There are no great drummers left.
A word with you. Mike Portnoy would like it.

He said drummer, not attention-whoring non-grooving overplaying schtick drumset players.

/Gavin Harrison, otoh...

I like how you can hear the transformers in the amps trying not to explode during Manic.

Marla Singer's Laundry: ...Its use is somewhat unorthodox in that it is the I chord in what could be considered an I7alt-bIII-IV progression...



Ow, my brain just imploded.

ive never seen a more failtastic article linked.

peewinkle: Awesome headline, awesome album.


There are no great drummers left.

John Fishman, Vinnie Amico, and that drummer from that real Obscure band you never heard of would like to have a few high hat words with you.

Jimmy Chamberlain makes a strong case.

I learned one new thing today...

I'm not a music nerd.

FTFA:
"The music similarly encapsulates the head poundin' paradoxes of the period. For all the tremolo psychedelia of the drones, do they not evoke a piper's lament to the passing of the old days' old ways?"

What?

/It's music.
//Try not to take it so seriously.

peewinkle: Awesome headline, awesome album.


There are no great drummers left.

Yeah, cause every band has a Hendrix on the guitar.