|   Unmistakable Drum Beats or Solos in Rock songs | Rick H
Aug 23, 2001 6:09 AM | | What classic rock drum beats and/or solos could you identify if you only heard a few seconds of it- i.e., "name that tune" from the drumbeat only? Here's a few examples:
Rock and Roll- Led Zeppelin (the intro, and the break at the very end)
The End- Beatles- Ringo's solo
Frankenstein- Edgar Winter Group
I'm A Man- Chicago (the solo- I've always loved the way the toms go from left-to-right in this one, a great stereo spread)
When the Leavee Breaks- Led Zep - everytime this one comes on, I know it immediately just from the distinctive beat laid down by John Bonham
Jump Into the Fire- Nilsson - awesome solo by Jim Gordon
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Hey, great comp idea!
Rick H (Stuck in the 70's!:o) |
| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | Gurduloo
Aug 23, 2001 6:30 AM | | How many times have we heard that drum solo at high school pep rallies? |
| THUMP...THUMP...THUMP..."On a dark desert highway... | RPM
Aug 23, 2001 6:45 AM | | cool wind in her hair, warm smell of 'her clitoris' rising up through the air" :-D (that one still has me laughing!)
others:
bongos on Pink Floyds "Time"
"Jingo" - Santana
intro to Tom Sawyer - Rush
"Aja" - Steely Dan
"One World" - Police
Rick
NP: Rick H's favorites comp |
| Hahaha Wipe Out The Safaris (nt) | Over50
Aug 23, 2001 7:45 AM | | |
| We Will Rock You - Queen | joezemo
Aug 23, 2001 7:49 AM | | |
| Hocus Pocus By Focus (nt) | Over50
Aug 23, 2001 7:54 AM | | |
| Enter Sandman Metallica | Over50
Aug 23, 2001 7:59 AM | | |
| re: Unmistakable Drum Beats or Solos in Rock songs | kks
Aug 23, 2001 7:54 AM | | In The Air Tonight- Phil Collins |
| Little Miss Lover-Mitch Mitchell and... | ChipB
Aug 23, 2001 8:42 AM | | Lost in My Dream - Mike Kellie (Spooky Tooth)
A Tale Untold - Bill Lordon (Robin Trower)
Hypnotized - Mick Fleetwood
Desert Plains - Dave Holland (Judas Priest)
What Time Is It? - Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors)
There's also a great drum piece from a tune by Cold Blood on the LP "Sisyphus" but I don't remember the tune or drummer's name.
I could also pick at least half a dozen memorable beats by David Garabaldi of Tower of Power.
-Chip |
| Good call on "Hypnotized" | Rick H
Aug 24, 2001 4:35 AM | | I love that beat and thought of the song after I made the original post! Great tune. |
| DANCING MADLY BACKWARDS | MasterCylinder
Aug 23, 2001 9:05 AM | | by Mr. Caldwell of Captain Beyond.
A most incredible piece of work; a rock song done in 5/8 time.
I promise you can't dance to this one, but you would be tempted. |
| Great choice from a great album | Grblgrbl
Aug 23, 2001 9:50 AM | | |
| Great choice from a great album | MasterCylinder
Aug 23, 2001 11:24 AM | | thanks - - -
I thought somebody out there (with taste) would agree :) |
| Great choice from a great album | Grblgrbl
Aug 23, 2001 11:35 AM | | To me that album is one of the great lost classics, one of the best hard rock albums of the 70s. I'm also a big fan of Armageddon, also with Bobby Caldwell on drums, another lost gem, and maybe even better than the first Captain Beyond album. |
| Bobby Caldwell | ChipB
Aug 24, 2001 3:23 AM | | Caldwell was an outstanding drummer. He was on the skins behind Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer on the Johnny Winter And "Live" album and has been a part of some mighty fine line-ups. Back in the 70s, I saw him with the New Cactus Band (Mike Pinera of Blues Image and Iron Butterfly on guitar) and he was amazing--very animated and inventive.
-Chip |
| James Brown - 'Funky Drummer' | Masonjar
Aug 23, 2001 12:45 PM | | If you lived through the early 90's without hearing this sampled in at least 7 or 8 songs you lived under a rock. Plus, this one song pretty much laid down the beat that was to become modern hip-hop. I wonder if the guy who laid that down realized he was making history..
-jar
NP: Katatonia: 'Tonight's Descision'
(just assume I'm listening to Katatonia from now on..) |
| Willy and the Hand Jive | dave c
Aug 23, 2001 1:07 PM | | I don't know what you call that beat, but it echoes down the years and re-appears all over the place dum-dedumdedum..dedumdum. Usually played on the toms.
Surely the rock heartbeat.
I doubt my doctor would like me to have it though. |
| Here's another - Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (NT) | ALPHAKAYA
Aug 23, 2001 5:29 PM | | |
| And another Zep tune: Poor Tom | RickH
Aug 23, 2001 7:38 PM | | What a great beat that one has (from their "Coda" album). |
| re: Unmistakable Drum Beats or Solos in Rock songs | DustyChalk
Aug 23, 2001 8:15 PM | | "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon
"The Sheltering Sky" - King Crimson
don't know which song, but there's a great, completely insanely compressed drum solo somewhere on Nine Inch Nails' _Downward Spiral_ album. I read in an interview that he recorded it in a bathroom for that effect, and he couldn't hear the rest of the track, so he had to keep stopping to hear where he was, and that gave it a very particular stop-start quality that I love.
Synergy - "Revolt at L-5" -- I know this is just a drum machine, basically (actually, it's probably a modular set up, because this was before the days of drum machines proper), but the stumbling triplet figure is so close to my skip/walking when I'm rushing down stairs, that that motion can't help but trigger this song, so to me, it's very "impressive".
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned "When the Levee Breaks" (Led Zeppelin), the _second_ most sampled groove in history.
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" - Bauhaus
"Numbers" by Kraftwerk (another popular samplee)
"The Night is Very Soft" - The Church (getting a little off the beaten track, but inimitable, none the same)
"Mistral Wind" Heart -- there used to be a local group, Lava, that would do that really heavy break between the soft and the majestic sections as one of her breaks in the middle of song, sort of as an homage.
Lots of Rush -- the man _orchestrated_ his drum parts. "Road to Bangkok" comes to mind (also used as the climax to the drum solo on _All the World's a Stage_). |
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