Author Topic: Songs that made you want to drum...  (Read 19998 times)


Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2014, 09:23:52 PM »
I'm older than most all of you. It wasn't songs, rather, it was drummers.
Sandy Nelson
Gene Krupa
Buddy Rich

I told you I was old. ;)

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2014, 09:46:09 PM »
come on - find a song from each that you particularly like...


Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2014, 10:09:13 PM »

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2014, 10:11:14 PM »
i admit i had no idea who he is but i looked him up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9esWG6A6g-k

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2014, 11:20:58 PM »
Now you should understand why. The others are on YouTube as well.

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2014, 11:23:10 PM »

Offline JimmyB

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2014, 11:45:39 PM »
Ringo Starr. I drum because the chicks dig it!
JimmyB

Offline Tom Hoop

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2014, 10:01:02 AM »
Iron Butterfly's In A Goda Da Vida is what made me want to get into drums when I was a kid.

Offline AlanK

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2014, 10:05:32 AM »
i admit i had no idea who he is but i looked him up...


Owwww, the pain, the insult...lol


My father knew I was into drums as a "tween" so he took me to see Buddy Rich so many years ago.. we saw him again shortly before he died... what a performance. Changed me forever..
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Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2014, 10:45:08 AM »
My father knew I was into drums as a "tween" so he took me to see Buddy Rich so many years ago.. we saw him again shortly before he died... what a performance. Changed me forever..

For any of the "youngsters" who don't know about Buddy Rich, I'd suggest they invest in part or all of this two and a half hour video about him. You'll not forget him. :)
http://youtu.be/kpu43w3fOW4

Offline Tom Hoop

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2014, 11:12:37 AM »
Let's not forget Gene Krupa.

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2014, 01:10:07 PM »

this will make you all cringe... but it was right for the time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9P8-B42cA

Offline tk87

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2014, 01:12:36 PM »
My father knew I was into drums as a "tween" so he took me to see Buddy Rich so many years ago.. we saw him again shortly before he died... what a performance. Changed me forever..

For any of the "youngsters" who don't know about Buddy Rich, I'd suggest they invest in part or all of this two and a half hour video about him. You'll not forget him. :)
http://youtu.be/kpu43w3fOW4

young or old, if you are a drummer how do you not know buddy rich...  :)

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2014, 01:15:31 PM »
owning a drum kit (or part thereof in my case) doesn't make you a drummer any more than owning a camera makes you a photographer!

perfection in rock...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4xwmZ6zi4

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2014, 01:18:33 PM »
Yeah, that's a real comparison.

Offline JimmyB

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2014, 01:22:38 PM »
Then later on in junior high, Max Roach for his style and Ed Shaughnessy for his double bass.
And then I went to a Yes concert when I was in high school. Bill Bruford blew me away!  Probably the greatest influence on the way I play to this day.
JimmyB

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2014, 01:26:26 PM »

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2014, 02:34:51 PM »
First concert I ever went to. Black Oak Arkansas. Their drummer Tommy Aldridge Just blew me away. I went out s bought a pair of sticks and a Ludwig Octa Plus kit and have been having a good time since!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGI_nh133U
Have a good time all the time!

Online Hellfire

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2014, 03:20:20 PM »
owning a drum kit (or part thereof in my case) doesn't make you a drummer any more than owning a camera makes you a photographer!

perfection in rock...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4xwmZ6zi4

Actually it was because of Rick Allen I got into electronic percussion.

Drumming in general, I just liked rock music and said I don't think I can do that guitar thing, but drums I might be able to fake. ;)

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2014, 03:36:50 PM »
OK, the question is songs that made you want to drum not drummers you admire most. This is going back a ways, but this is when I first got hooked on a drum beat and wanted to play drums (I'm leaving out the marching drum influence since I am from New Orleans and Mardi Gras parade band drumming caught my interest as a child).

Sometimes simple is best. Keep you ears open for the cool kick drum rhythm on this one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuqHlv1YPe0

Online Hellfire

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2014, 04:11:15 PM »
OK, the question is songs that made you want to drum not drummers you admire most.

I bow my head in shame and slowly exit stage right.  :-\

Carry on gentlemen.

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2014, 07:25:17 PM »
None of these major inspirational songs or drummers but both made me want to drum..


When I was 12 I was obsessed with system of a down, so of what I recently found (after getting a new kit after 7 years of not playing) I still enjoy playing to it. Will not be to every ones taste though.
Soad - toxicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywaBOMvYLI


Also this remains to be one of my funnest(is that even a word? :o ) songs to play too.
Hocus pocus live 73 - focus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ouPGGLI6Q


Offline JimmyB

Re: Songs that made you want to drum...
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2014, 08:02:21 PM »
+1 on Hocus Pocus!  Fun song to play
JimmyB