It maybe just a little insensitive, especially as it regards the unfortunate Badfinger, but I've been listening to a 'best of' and I can't get past the appalling drummer with a serious John Bonham fixation. I don't remember noticing it on the radio back in the bad old days, maybe it's an example of modern remixing. I'm also listening to the Power Pop of the Cars and it's a smooth ride compared to the Gunshot Pop of Badrummer.
NP Todd Rundgren - Bang The Drum All Day
David Robinson (The Cars drummer) shines on the album Candy-O.
The difference between a great band and a mediocre one is often the drummer.
I've just listened to this and the drums are not so high in the mix... except on Love Me Do where the guitar sounds as though it was recorded in the next room.
Here is the culprit... did the drummer do the mix?? It sounds very scratchy on headphones.
Come and Get It.
Mike Gibbins always sounded more like (as you'd expect!) Ringo than Bonham to me.
Mick Pointer on Marillion's 'Garden Party' springs to mind. The whole song is thrown off by the way he plays on that IMHO. Bothers me every single time I hear that song.
Expecting someone to post about Phil Collins and drummers polls.
There's a Willie Nelson song, one of the hits, where the drummer tries this little shuffle every time before the chorus and thoroughly loses the beat each instance. It's so incompetent you'd swear it was that Shaggs drummer sitting in.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
It's a sloppy take all round, but Charlie Watts loses his way big time after an instrumental break on the original studio version of the 'Stones 'I'm Free'. It's one of those things where I'm amazed that nobody thought, 'hmm, maybe we should do another take of that'. (The US single version of 'Time Is On My Side' and 'Under The Boardwalk' are other examples in their early catalogue!) Still a great song though.
Jeez, how hard is it to count to four?
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
I've just watched the Deke Leonard interview where his first gig was nearly his last as his acoustic guitar was drowned out by the drummer. I'm listening to the first CS&N (Long Time Gone) at the moment and the drums are hardly noticeable. Badfinger had decent singers, they didn't need the (mixed to the front) rifle crack of the drums to keep them in time. I would burn that Greatest hits CD if I owned it.Originally Posted by progeezer
Come to think of it, who decided that Mitch Mitchell shouldn't be heard on Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock?
I never wanted to shoot Dave Holland while he was in Judas Priest, but I did feel he might have been a better fit for, say, AC/DC.
That whole recording suffered from equipment problems. They had more percussion that is totally non-existent.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
This one always drove me crazy, because all the cymbals (including the hi-hat) sound as if they are gated that cuts the decay but with a threshold point set way too early.....short decay hats and crashes
Worst drums ever=Blue Vino
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Re Badfinger, I have read it was Todd Rundgren's idea to have the loud snare in the single mix of "Baby Blue."
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