("Loon" meaning not a crazy person, but the beloved water bird)
Thoughts on various things from my perspective as a Latter-Day Saint, an idealist, and a generally curious person
great post. I love it when an attitude to instruments changes in ways that are completely anti or far away from the catalogue sales guff. A good drummer can get more out of less - always.
I'm thinking of that scene in Control, the movie about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis: the drummer is tooling around with this big silly kit with all the toms and things, and producer Martin Hannet puts him up on the roof with just a snare and bass, and tells him to just keep playing the beat. Which he does for hours and hours.
But also, yes, a good ride cymbal is something else. The way Bonzo holds down the ride rhythm, or even Robert Wyatt on his later solo albums... or jazz...
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great post. I love it when an attitude to instruments changes in ways that are completely anti or far away from the catalogue sales guff. A good drummer can get more out of less - always.
I'm thinking of that scene in Control, the movie about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis: the drummer is tooling around with this big silly kit with all the toms and things, and producer Martin Hannet puts him up on the roof with just a snare and bass, and tells him to just keep playing the beat. Which he does for hours and hours.
But also, yes, a good ride cymbal is something else. The way Bonzo holds down the ride rhythm, or even Robert Wyatt on his later solo albums... or jazz...
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