The first is a captivating tale right out of Scooby Doo - The Mystery of the Garbage Can Arranger. Get the first-hand here and then here.
The second is a YouTube of this sick drummer named Marco Minnemann. In this clip, he is playing along to samples of voices from tv and movies (Futurama, Monty Python, etc), which of course are in all sorts of odd times. This guy is truly ill and needs too be attended to...
Thanks to Voxmoose and Dr. John for these.
3 comments:
Thanks for the props, Isorski. You should check other youtube videos of this guy. I would have posted two others but they did not have the code for embedding available. One of them is him playing with Paul Gilbert (I think he did a G3 album and played with Mr. Big) and some bass player and he does a pretty slick drum solo. At the end of the song, the guitar player shouts, "Marco Minnemann, the jackhammer!!!". The title of the video is "Marco Minnemann The Jackhammer", so I am not sure if that is the name of the song. I can't find it on iTunes. The getup in the spacesuits and the dry ice machine are kinda dorky, but the song jams and the solo is frightening (check out the double crossovers).
I very much enjoyed the Marco Minnemann vids you and Dr. John posted. However (I know this comment will not make some people happy), the particular vocal sample-driven video posted here is really just case of "the prog/mathrockers finally discover rap." Which is really cool, actually. Rap music has a very long history of very weird meters and tempo changes all driven by the rhythms of the vocal/spoken word. I'm not a big fan of rap in general, but do appreciate that element of it in particular.
In contrast, the jackhammer piece Dr. John refers to with Paul Gilbert is a raw shred piece that might even make Buckethead stumble.
Nice point Voxmoose. I too am not a big fan of rap nor do I understand it in depth, but I can see where you are coming from. In a recent interview in the June 2007 Modern Drummer magazine, he calls it "speech to music". He has a song on his "Contraire de la Chaison" album where he does a similar concept with guitars, keyboards, bass, and drums (all of which he plays) over top of the "what have the Romans ever done for us" bit from Monty Python's "Life of Brian". He says he was not trying to impress anyone, rather he wanted to do something fun and challenging. Ihave not heard the whole song, but the clips you can hear on iTunes are pretty trippy...
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