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Inspired by ATC #75, this isn't a "best drummer" / drummer debate thread. This is a thread about your favorite PJ drummer, what you think each brought to the band, and some of your favorite songs with each. For that, it doesn't have to be a favorite song, just a song where you think there is some really damn good drumming.
For me...
Dave K. - helped define the bands sound. Great drummer, that I really noticed with the BOB remix of Ten. Favorite songs: Porch, Alive, and the SOLAT demo from the Ten redux. He really drums his arse off.
Dave A. - Intensity. Cymbals. Always looked stoned. Favorite songs: RVM, Animal, SOLAT, Tremor Christ, Corduroy and Last Exit.
Jack - Harmony, mellowness, groove. Favorite Songs: Who You Are, In My Tree, Given To Fly, Faithfull, All Night, Present Tense, and Black Red Yellow (great use of the high hat).
Matt - Technical, fast, powerful, quirky song writing, a beast live. Favorite Songs: Insignificance, God's Dice, Sad, Hitchhiker (the drumming durning the breakdown is nothing short of amazing), MITS (I have a thing for breakdowns), and Got Some.
Joined: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:02 pm Posts: 6405 Location: DC Gender: Male
cutuphalfdead wrote:
How do we not have this thread already?
I know. Most seem to be "so and so is better" type threads and debates. I didn't see anything like it, but I didn't look very hard either. If there is something like this, mods, please merge.
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The mysterious “Jimmy” is one Mr. Jimmy Shoaf, Dave Abbruzzese’s drum tech at the time. TwoFeetThick asked Jimmy Shoaf for the lowdown. “Yes, that was me on Satan’s Bed,” Shoaf said. “It was the last day of sessions at Bad Animals in Seattle and Dave Abbruzzese was getting his tonsils taken out. I was supposed to be packing up the drums when Stone, Eddie and the recording engineer could not get a drum machine to work and called me in the control room to look at it. I got it going and it was a simple beat and Stone said get behind the kit and play that beat so I did. I did not hear any vocals or bass until the album came out and actually didn’t think it would make it to the record. I thought they were just getting ideas down to tape.” But Jimmy adds that the drum machine may have also gotten some air time on the track; he’s “not sure if it’s all me or me and a drum machine.”
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