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I haven't posted in quite a while. Something that has been bugging me lately.
I am usually unhappy with most rock music that was written after 1990s. The 1980s was a spot of really good rock. When something bugs me for quite awhile I sometimes try and figure out why. I believe that I have at least scratched the enigma of why. The answer is rather simple: Where are all the good drummers that take drumming to an artform? For that matter where is the really good gutiar and bass gutiar in music today? But lets stick with the drummer. I have noticed in most music you lack a live drummer and differing drum beats. This one element can usually make or break a song (liricks aside for a moment).
What brought on this personal relavation? On the way home from work today my hands found my old Led Zepplin Song Remains The Same sound track album and I played "Moby Dick" by John Baunam the drummer of the band. Some out there are going "Ahh, so that is it. I remember that bit of music." Others have no clue. So here is a little bit of the song: It is mostly an Entire Drum Solo that lasts and keeps the audience listening for 12 minitues and 35 seconds. Let me back that up a bit...Over 12 minutes! This is Huge in the way of a song these days AND it is a drum solo. The start has about 30 seconds or so of Gutiar (Jimmy Page) with the drumming and also ends with about 30 seconds of him too. In between John Baunam does his stuff. He has a few really good riffs that is all done with out the benifit of electronic drums. It is all skins and cymbols. He even has a congo drum for a time. A few of the drum riffs are lightning like hits of the cymbols that make one feel like getting hit by lightning. Some of the riffs are like a power train building up speed and crashing. He even has some very subtle bits that can feel like rain and a storm. Then there is a beat that doesn't quit in it with a thump from the bass drum foot peddal that gives you the feeling of being hit in the stomach and thrums through you.
Ok, I digress. So this was a full Drum solo that was preformed in Madison Square Gardens in 1976. It contains much drum artistry. I ask again: In todays Music, Where is the DRUMMER?! (I know almost like where's the beef.) This critical part of music is sometimes seen as the heart or soul of it is missing.
Now before you all flame me with today's greats, I admit that I am not well listened on the recent music of the day. I usually try out listening to live radio once in a while and mostly I hear Rap or the more popular Hip Hop Rap. Both, I do not like. This usually results in turning off the radio in favor of CD's.
It is also my opinion that the iPod and it's creations is killing the stereo system. Some music cannot be apreciated on an iPod but must be felt in your bones.
Sorry for ranting at you all but I had to get that off of my chest. It has been bugging me subtly for over a decade as to why most music is just terrible noise to me.
Dave
I am usually unhappy with most rock music that was written after 1990s. The 1980s was a spot of really good rock. When something bugs me for quite awhile I sometimes try and figure out why. I believe that I have at least scratched the enigma of why. The answer is rather simple: Where are all the good drummers that take drumming to an artform? For that matter where is the really good gutiar and bass gutiar in music today? But lets stick with the drummer. I have noticed in most music you lack a live drummer and differing drum beats. This one element can usually make or break a song (liricks aside for a moment).
What brought on this personal relavation? On the way home from work today my hands found my old Led Zepplin Song Remains The Same sound track album and I played "Moby Dick" by John Baunam the drummer of the band. Some out there are going "Ahh, so that is it. I remember that bit of music." Others have no clue. So here is a little bit of the song: It is mostly an Entire Drum Solo that lasts and keeps the audience listening for 12 minitues and 35 seconds. Let me back that up a bit...Over 12 minutes! This is Huge in the way of a song these days AND it is a drum solo. The start has about 30 seconds or so of Gutiar (Jimmy Page) with the drumming and also ends with about 30 seconds of him too. In between John Baunam does his stuff. He has a few really good riffs that is all done with out the benifit of electronic drums. It is all skins and cymbols. He even has a congo drum for a time. A few of the drum riffs are lightning like hits of the cymbols that make one feel like getting hit by lightning. Some of the riffs are like a power train building up speed and crashing. He even has some very subtle bits that can feel like rain and a storm. Then there is a beat that doesn't quit in it with a thump from the bass drum foot peddal that gives you the feeling of being hit in the stomach and thrums through you.
Ok, I digress. So this was a full Drum solo that was preformed in Madison Square Gardens in 1976. It contains much drum artistry. I ask again: In todays Music, Where is the DRUMMER?! (I know almost like where's the beef.) This critical part of music is sometimes seen as the heart or soul of it is missing.
Now before you all flame me with today's greats, I admit that I am not well listened on the recent music of the day. I usually try out listening to live radio once in a while and mostly I hear Rap or the more popular Hip Hop Rap. Both, I do not like. This usually results in turning off the radio in favor of CD's.
It is also my opinion that the iPod and it's creations is killing the stereo system. Some music cannot be apreciated on an iPod but must be felt in your bones.
Sorry for ranting at you all but I had to get that off of my chest. It has been bugging me subtly for over a decade as to why most music is just terrible noise to me.
Dave
