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Was watching some 80's videos on youtube, and
Posted on 12/20/15 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 12/20/15 at 2:47 pm
noticed something while hitting hairbands and bands who continue to play the fair circuits.
38 special LINK
they had 2 drummers, is that normal? Any other bands who had 2 full time drummers?
38 special LINK
they had 2 drummers, is that normal? Any other bands who had 2 full time drummers?
This post was edited on 12/20/15 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 12/20/15 at 2:57 pm to stlslick
I believe the Allmans had 2 drummers at one time, along with some other bands of the '70s
and bands with Latin influence like Santana might have a conventional rock drummer plus various other percussionists
This is not including an act like The Beach Boys, who put Dennis Wilson out on stage but would often have a 2nd drummer offstage and miked since Dennis was so undependable
and bands with Latin influence like Santana might have a conventional rock drummer plus various other percussionists
This is not including an act like The Beach Boys, who put Dennis Wilson out on stage but would often have a 2nd drummer offstage and miked since Dennis was so undependable
Posted on 12/20/15 at 5:37 pm to Kafka
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I believe the Allmans had 2 drummers at one time, along with some other bands of the '70s
Butch Trucks and Jai Johnny Johnson (Jaimoe).
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:05 pm to stlslick
You've never watched the Allman Brothers?
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:17 pm to stlslick
NIN and SBTRKT have both done it.
Posted on 12/20/15 at 11:11 pm to stlslick
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is that normal?
Not really. It is one of the things that made them unique.
Brookins and Grondin - they played together, on and off, for 13 years as tandem drummers.
Posted on 12/21/15 at 9:21 am to Ace Midnight
Lynyrd Skynyrd used two drummers for a while when the first reformed. And after Peter Gabriel left Genesis and Phil Collins took over the duties of the front man, they'ed usually have a part of their set that featured two drummers where Phil would take a momentary spot behind a kit.
This post was edited on 12/21/15 at 9:23 am
Posted on 12/21/15 at 11:50 am to Sayre
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Lynyrd Skynyrd used two drummers for a while when the first reformed.
As .38 Special is the "little brother" band to Skynyrd, that makes a little sense. But the reformed band had lots of employees/hired guns/touring musicians.
ABB, .38 Special, The Melvins all carried 2 no kidding drummers as full-fledged members of the band. And I'm not talking about a second guy who plays world percussion or what have you, but 2 full kits (although The Melvins drummers were right and left handed and set up like a mirror image - sometimes sharing a floor tom).
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Genesis
Interesting bit - although Chester Thompson was never a formal member of Genesis, he was handpicked to backup Collins by Collins himself - and the endorsement carried over to Collins' solo career. It is strange for a "touring" musician to have such a sustained, 4 decade relationship with a band without ever becoming a "member" but such is the life of a rock and roll band.
There are, of course, a number of examples where a band employs a number of drummers, not necessarily at the same time. On Eagles tours, the band's "drummer," Don Henley, likes to play drums on some songs live and moves to the front of the stage for others. More or less the band's "front man" - it is a challenge (Phil Collins similarly situated, although Collins has been unable to play the drums for some time, recent back surgery may have him back behind the kit before we know it) to carry out drumming and singing duties simultaneously.
As Henley once put it, "If you're singing and drumming at the same time, in my opinion, you're not doing either of them well - or at least not as well as you could do if that's all you were doing."
This post was edited on 12/21/15 at 11:52 am
Posted on 12/21/15 at 3:02 pm to stlslick
King Crimson in the mid 90's had a double trio.
The easiest way to describe the Double Trio incarnation of King Crimson is to say it’s the 1980s Crim with two added members, although that’s an inaccurate account of how it came about. But the roster includes Fripp, Belew, Levin, and Bruford, with newcomers Trey Gunn (Stick and Warr guitar) and Pat Mastelotto (drums and percussion).
After the 1980s Crimson broke up, Robert Fripp nurtured his Guitar Craft school. Eric Tamm’s Fripp biography covers the Guitar Craft experience so well that I’m not going to bother writing about it, but I should note that GC was where Fripp began using the so-called New Standard Tuning, based on fifths instead of fourths. I should also say that the League of Crafty Guitarists’ Intergalactic Boogie Express is a truly amazing album. And finally, Guitar Craft is where Fripp first came across Trey Gunn, who eventually moved on to Chapman Stick. (And later, the Warr guitar, another tapped-fretboard instrument.)
Fripp and Gunn were part of a short-lived band called Sunday All Over the World (an album came out in 1991), and Gunn played with the Robert Fripp String Quintet, which also included the California Guitar Trio. It’s safe to say that Gunn was “in” with Fripp, if not an exact protege. In playing live with David Sylvian in 1993, they worked with drummer Pat Mastelotto, a pop-rock veteran. So the new members of King Crimson had already spilled live blood with the leader.
Why a six-piece? Mastelotto could provide Fripp with the “rocking drummer” he desired, leaving Bruford free to terrorize the rhythms as he wished. Gunn could find a middle ground between Levin’s low end and the Belew-Fripp guitars. It didn’t always work out so simply, but the expanded Crimson had plenty of arrangement options, to say the least.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 3:10 pm to bleeng
Posted on 12/22/15 at 3:14 pm to stlslick
38 Special might be the only band where I pictured what I thought they looked like and they turned out exactly that. Bunch of long-haired, bearded good-timers.
Posted on 12/22/15 at 3:14 pm to stlslick
duplicate. delete.
This post was edited on 12/22/15 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 12/22/15 at 3:38 pm to stlslick
Adam and the Ants had two drummers, back in the era of Burundi beats.
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