Music
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@Jett129 From my understanding, his first hits were in the UK (66) a year before the US and he only became popular in the US after the Monterey Pop Festival (67) a year after his UK hits. I don't know if this was due to the blues/rock bands having larger successes in the UK and foreign markets than in the US.
If I recall correctly a lot of the blues artists were also travelling to the UK at that time also. BB King was one of the experiencing success in the UK when at home his music was not as readily accepted.
This may have been due to racial tensions and bigotry concerning music and how many performers weren't given air time due to the colour of their skin...
Now, I can be completely wrong on all accounts and love delving into this kind of history to learn more.
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@goosehd Had to google this but the first time I saw Hendrix was in March of 1968,and I had just turned 15 a few months before. Axis was already out and to me and my friends he was a really big deal. BB King,and Albert King were playing at the Fillmore East from time to time and were always well received. But once again I’m 15 living in NYC and probably not really aware of what was going on outside of my world.
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@goosehd Ironically when I was 15, I wished that I was older so that I could go to the late shows,and get into some of the clubs were the musicians would go to jam when they were in town. Seeing Hendrix in a college auditorium,no less,at that point in my life was totally mind blowing.
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30 years (yesterday) since Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish - how did that happen?
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@jerkules As a life long drummer I would tell you that speed isn’t everything, and I don’t think he’s playing all that fast. I don’t know if you’d consider Travis Barker or even Dave Grohl to be from that era,but I wouldn’t put him in the same league with either of those two. Just my 2 cents.
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@Jett129 Even though I'm by no means a drummer I can hang with all 3 of those guys (chamberlain, barker and grohl) for different reasons - they all bring something unique to what they do.
I saw this a while back in an interview from grohl on taking influences from disco drumming on nevermind - I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff
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@Jett129 drummer here too! The album version of this track has very intricate patterns - Jimmy was a jazz drummer playing in a rock band. Lots of syncopated accents thrown in, constantly four limbed and all over the kit. The album version is also about a third of the speed of this live version, and he doesn’t miss a single stroke.
Grohl and Barker are both great, and this may sound arrogant but when I was playing regularly I could’ve played pretty much anything I’d heard by them (not so much nowadays as I’m rusty). That’s not to say I could’ve come up with what they did, but on a purely technical level I could probably come close to replicating it. For me, I couldn’t come close to matching Jimmy Chamberlain, his musicianship and technical abilities are beyond what I can comprehend. -
No worries @Jett129 , I hope you come to enjoy him but understand not everyone has to like what I like
. His style reminds me a lot of my old drum teacher. I’m not an enormous fan of drum solos, but watching this video below, from the neck down I swear it could be my old teacher ..
