Close your eyes as Buddy is raging and you'll hear every great drummer to ever come after him. Particularly Niel Peart.

ANIMAL! ANIMAL! ANIMAL!

Rumor has it Mr Rich was kind of a dick to other band members. I've heard band members would tape his post-show rants.

BobtheFascist: Rumor has it Mr Rich was kind of a dick to other band members. I've heard band members would tape his post-show rants.


from http://www.cis.rit.edu/~ejipci/buddy_rich.htm (new window)

Audio One
(In a dressing room for the band)

BR-You think I'm runnin' fifteen farkin'...Close that door. (musician slams door) What kind of playing is being played here the past two nights? What is this? New phrasing, new bending, new sounds, no time! What the fark do you think I'm running here? What kind of playing do you call this? What kinda shiat is going on in the farkin'...(turns to the bass player) What kinda, what kinda setting do you got on the bass tonight?

Bass Player-Setting?

BR-I feel that's fairly much english.

Bass Player-It's the same as I've always had out there.

BR-What's with this, what's with this bending?

Bass Player-I decided...

BR-(interrupting) Who decided?

Bass Player-I did.

BR-Your deciding is wrong!

Bass Player-I didn't do it on purpose. I...

BR-(interrupting again) You're deciding what kind of phrasing. You're deciding who and what the leader is. You're gonna watch who you wanna watch...(turns to the rest of the band). Everybody's on two weeks notice tonight. I'm telling you, everybody gets two weeks notice tonight. I can't handle this anymore. You're all...(pauses thoughtfully) you're not my kind of people, at all. I don't understand this farkin' kind of music at all. I don't understand what anybody is doing up there. I'm workin' my farkin' ass off...(turns to a trumpet player) You put that farkin' mouthpiece into that bell again, I'm gonna take that farkin' horn and break it across my knee! Do you understand that?

Trumpet Player-I'll stay away, you can't hear a note though.

BR-I can hear everything! I don't give a fark what you hear. I hear it, and all I know is that you're blowin' my farkin' eardrum out! (turns to the saxophones) The saxophones, you can play the flute, there's no sound in flutes. All I hear is noise. If you get any farkin' closer you'll electrocute yourselves. What do you think I got a man with a sound system out there for? Sit down and play some farkin' music! You afraid you won't be heard, is that it? I'll turn the motherfarker off all of you, then see what kind of a band you got up there, without all the assistance. You can't play shiat! I'm accustomed to working with number one musicians. I'm not accustomed to working with half-assed farkin' kids who think they wrote the farkin' music business. You got a long way to go. You got a long way to go. Every one of you got a long farkin' way to go. Do you understand what I'm sayin'? You can't play shiat up there for me. What the fark you're doin' up there doesn't deserve to be called a "name" band. The farkin' kids out at the park there, they sounded fifty times better than any one of you! And that's without a rhythm section. Maybe they enjoy what they are doin' here. If you don't enjoy it here, fark you! And get off my band. Or we can find other ways to settle it. I'm just so farkin' tired of having to go through speeches with you guys. You're all a farkin' bunch of children. There's not a man among you, not one man who can go out there and play the job like a man. You're all up there, farkin' high school, bullshiat jive artists. You jived me for the last farkin' time. You got two sets to make up your farkin' mind or I get me an all L.A. band tomorrow night. Don't think that's not impossible. It's very farkin' possible. I've had it with you guys. I ought to give each one of you motherfarkers a cut in salary before I get out of this farkin' room!

(Exit Buddy, slamming the door behind him)

Needs more Krupa.

I had the pleasure of seeing Buddy Rich live in 1982. Just amazing. The guy could play a roll with just his left hand.

i bet i know what Buddy Rich got on his IQ Test...

... Drool

The universal truth all drummers agree on without having to discuss it: Buddy is the best there ever was, and the best there will ever be, period. Everyone else is forever competing for the silver.

This solo is amazing, I'd never seen it before. I can't comprehend how he moves his hands so fast.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-WgeX9iYOFSQ/drum_solo_by_buddy_rich_1970 /

The real Animal

MaxxLarge: The universal truth all drummers agree on without having to discuss it: Buddy is the best there ever was, and the best there will ever be, period. Everyone else is forever competing for the silver.

Louie Belson really gave Buddy a run for his money. I would have put them at 1 and 2 depending on what day it was.

Kashari
[1970 vid]

his snare is tilted at an odd angle, away from him.... neve saw that before...

very awesome link thanks!

elvisaintdead: BobtheFascist: Rumor has it Mr Rich was kind of a dick to other band members. I've heard band members would tape his post-show rants.


from http://www.cis.rit.edu/~ejipci/buddy_rich.htm (new window)


(Exit Buddy, slamming the door behind him)

There's two things I always loved about those tapes.

One is you rarely get to hear real Jazz slang in it's natural enviroment.

Secondly is I always found it amusing that in spite of the rant the musicians he is berating have to be some of the most talented in the world just to be there to get yelled at.

Oh, and this has to be one of the most repetitive greens on Fark.

MaxxLarge: The universal truth all drummers agree on without having to discuss it: Buddy is the best there ever was, and the best there will ever be, period. Everyone else is forever competing for the silver.

As a drummer I couldn't agree more, ps, I've been a drummer since 1969.
I also greatly admire Billy Cobham's rythmic ability.

Third_Uncle_Eno: Kashari
[1970 vid]

his snare is tilted at an odd angle, away from him.... neve saw that before...

very awesome link thanks!

Yeah and that part where he's tapping the end of the sticks on the rim is crazy.

That Rich cat was sick...

I saw Buddy in 1985 shortly before he died. A guy in the audience asked him to introduce his band.

Buddy called intermission, had the guy thrown out of the venue, and then came back for a ripping second set.

Awesome.

Sybarite:

"You can't play shiat! I'm accustomed to working with number one musicians. I'm not accustomed to working with half-assed farkin' kids who think they wrote the farkin' music business."

HAHA!

Beautiful.

Matches my feelings working with the know-it-all techy whippersnappers working out there these days.

Hasn't this been greenlit about 3 or 4 times already?

KrmtDfrog: Hasn't this been greenlit about 3 or 4 times already?

Yes. I don't mind though as its always a fun clip to watch.

I also enjoy watching this one

buddy rich is an absolute god but i never tire of the tirade recordings, they rule so much! check them out if you havent, and get rid of that beard.

Another one i enjoy For those that don't want to wait, go to 2:14.

KrmtDfrog: Hasn't this been greenlit about 3 or 4 times already?

Yes, but we get biatched at for pointing that out....

You think you're helping me? You're KILLIN' me!

Warning -- ADD-aflicted need not read.

Back in the swing era they actually had band battles at the speakeasies. One is considered so classic it's actually in history books.

It was Benny Goodman with Gen Krupa vs. Chick Webb ( who had Ella Fitzgerald singing ). Chick was a stunted, handicapped little black dude that farkin' pounded like no one on Earth. His band kicked Goodman's ass, even though Krupa is the more famous. That's because Chick's health was always frail and he died quite young.

You can read more about Chick Webb Here (new window), where the above story relates just how badass a drummer the guy was, and he had a messed-up spine and was the size of a child. A Farking Badass.

/ and he had Ella Fitzgerald? And played a song called, "When I Get Low I get High" about smoking pot!? Are you kidding me???? Holy Fark!

Link

The intro didn't impress me nearly as much as the groove behind the sax solo.

/I'd fire Buddy for "overplaying", oh I keed...

This reminds me of a joke I heard from one of my drummer friends:

One of Buddy's old sax players one day called Buddy's house. His wife answered and he asked to speak to Buddy. She said "I'm sorry but he's dead." He apologized and hung up the phone. The next day he called back and asked for Buddy and his wife said once again that he's dead so he apologized and hung up the phone. The third day he called back and asked for Buddy and his wife screamed and cried "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?! HE'S DEAD!!"

The saxophone player replied, "I know, I just enjoy hearing it."

/great drummer
//but also a bastard

cpete430

Which reminds me of the joke "What is the difference between a moose and the Buddy Rich Orchestra?"

On a moose the horns are up front and the asshole is in back.

/listened to "Live at Ronnie Scott's", over and over, still one of my fave albums ever.

Drum solos suck.

T.M.S.: this has to be one of the most repetitive greens on Fark.

At least every three months, but at least it's an entertaining clip.

bigbottom: I also greatly admire Billy Cobham's rythmic ability.

Love Billy as well. Spectrum is an incredible album.

GrammarPolice: Drum solos suck.

Then you've been listening to the wrong drummers. Or maybe during that part of the show you should just go get yourself a beer and come back in when the "La La La" crap starts back up.

GrammarPolice

Drum solos suck.

I agree.

Santana at Woodstock (new window)

Warning, NSFW hippie buttocks at the beginning.

Saw Buddy when I was in high school... great performance. But coming from a music background (saxamaphone for most of my formative years) Krupa was and is the king. Great timing, almost like he had a quartz crystal in his head, tone, rhythm and timbre. The man was a true musician... and that from a drummer, no less!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRjQzSwmEHw

The logical part of my brain admires the technical skill it took to play the drums like that.

The part of my brain that enjoys music thinks it sounded like a machine gun fell down the stairs.

I might as well dig up one of my few greenlights:

Ed Shaughnessy vs. Buddy Rich Drum Battle on Johnny Carson (new window)

Weigard: Santana at Woodstock (new window)

Warning, NSFW hippie buttocks at the beginning.

Nice! That's the clip I usually post in the drummer threads!

The_Philosopher_King: I might as well dig up one of my few greenlights:

Ed Shaughnessy vs. Buddy Rich Drum Battle on Johnny Carson (new window)

WOW

How many times does this greenlit? Jesus!

frostus: Then you've been listening to the wrong drummers. Or maybe during that part of the show you should just go get yourself a beer and come back in when the "La La La" crap starts back up.

Holy shiat, that's the most defensive I've ever seen someone get over a Troll. I've seen some huge bites, but I've never refer to the entire evolution of melody and harmony as "La La La crap" because of one.

Wow.

Eat drum! Eat drum!

Third_Uncle_Eno: Kashari
[1970 vid]

his snare is tilted at an odd angle, away from him.... neve saw that before...
It makes rim shots much easier. A good many old jazz drummers used to do that.

Rethorn: Holy shiat, that's the most defensive I've ever seen someone get over a Troll. I've seen some huge bites, but I've never refer to the entire evolution of melody and harmony as "La La La crap" because of one.

Thanks! As a drummer the most boring part of any song is when the vocals are happening. I didn't say it specifically in response to the troll, I say it to anyone who happens to be standing in my general vicinity. Ask my wife how many times she's heard me diss singers in the past 32 years.

/hint: she's kind of sick of it

GrammarPolice: Drum solos suck.

You've been going to the wrong concerts.

Most drummers can't solo because they assume that they have to stay in 4/4 time the whole damn way through. Jazz drummers play the set like a real instrument, not like a metronome.

Also,
Link (new window)

DayTripperIntro: Also,
Link (new window)

That was cool as hell. Thanks

I yell the same way that Animal does when I'm farking.