[lbo-talk] end of OWS?

[Chuck Grimes]

Drummers are always a pain in the ass. They tend to fuck up, or control most 
music. They play loud to drown out other players, they dominant what they 
shouldn't and their solos tend to the asshole-spirit. Drummers need 
Stalinist containment by brut force. Nearly every band leader knows 
this...as you can tell if you really listen to the records. Duke Ellington, 
Count Basie, the bebop crews, the cool crew, even big John, who moved the 
beat to the massed piano of McCoy Tyner rather than Roy Haynes.

Every once in a while you have to go over to the drummer and hit them in the 
head with a baseball bat. Shut the fuck up.

The classic example is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Blakey ran it 
like a military combat troop. I love Blakey, but really man, back the fuck 
off. Jazz isn't drum hammers. It's brushes with an occasional kick, dock, 
dick like Philly Jones. Get it? What Miles did was threaten to kill the 
drummer and thereby invented the Cool.

On the other hand, what made Compared to What, depended on the clock work 
tic toc of the drummer like machine clicks. Beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzvlivbptXk

Every Sunday in lower Sproul the drummers hammered away where I could hear 
them three blocks away and be reassured Berkeley was still Berkeley.

Every family wouldn't be complete without the assholes. Trust me, they are 
used to abuse.

In my view drummers are a personality disorder symptomatic of hearing loss. 
They live in the beat and that is their psychosis. I do understand, its the 
time of existance throbbing in the mind, hammering away at the universe. But 
enough is enough. Dude.

Here is Charles Mingus, Moanin':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY

Capital as The City of Frenzy.

 CG