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Rock drummers with some skills and who use them in ways I appreciate: Ringo Charlie Watts (I know many don't think so, but he works for me in that band) Micky Waller Keith Moon Mitch Mitchel that guy from the Hollies - Bobby Elliot? - nice 'n crisp hal Blaine (and lots of other session players, no doubt) on a related note, R&B/blues drummers who play for the tune: Al Jackson Jr all the Motown drummers - too lazy to look up their names to make sure I don't leave any one out James Brown's drummers - Clyde, Jabbo, etc. Fred Below Odie Payne, Jr. Sam Lay (almost forgot) just a little positivity for a change...

"...influence can not be understated" Don't you mean 'can not be overstated', i.e., no matter how big you state his influence to be, it is in reality all that and more? Or am I really not following? don't really have much of an opinion 'bout Phil, one way or the other, don't listen to the right stuff to know how influencial he may in fact be.

Gotta love a band called the Rockin' Highlanders who performed in kilts...McDuff, McGriff - maybe we're on to something here...

I'm on record here regarding my ambivalence towards all things ECM, BUT make no mistake, Conference of the Birds is fine music by any standard!

Thanks for the link, and for reminding me that Sonny Boy Williamson #2 recorded a version of "Drunkard's Special", although I can't find my copy right now or remember what title he used...

Since it had/was a hit, I'd love to see Visions re-issued, perhaps in tanden with the unissued session from slightly earlier which, IIRC, also has a rendition of "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is".

Green Onions

I thought the cover was the worst thing about Blue Mode, which I like if not quite as much as On Broadway or Love Bug (shich also has a cheesey cover).

Thanks for all the responses, I'll have to chec at work at the library tomorrow and see if we have any of your suggestions for further listening....

Recorde in 1980...I'm sure I'd like it better if it was 15 years earlier, but still...

I like Lacey just fine (although none of his records do justice to his sound, i was at the gig that produced The Rent), and might like Potts by himself if I ever heard him, BUT I can't stand them together...it's kinda like the two guys who played with earl Hines at the Apex Club (?), fine on their own but they just don't blend well for me, YMMV, etc.

Reuben, of course, doing "Hot pastrami", yeah! I gotta not post when I'm tired and hungry...

the band on Visions isn't much and the material is off the wall (pop pop and Mozart) but Grant's sound is just glowing, not sure if he'd switched ax or amp for that one or what...

...back to the Hollies, I kinda like the Dylan trib, maybe because it doesn't really make any sense, and Has anyone here heard their later day Buddy Holly tribute album???????????? ...back to the Hollies, I kinda like the Dylan trib, maybe because it doesn't really make any sense, and Has anyone here heard their later day Buddy Holly tribute album???????????? ...back to the Hollies, I kinda like the Dylan trib, maybe because it doesn't really make any sense, and Has anyone here heard their later day Buddy Holly tribute album????????????

I think we've been down this road before.... and while I'll be the first to say the're not 'all good', I don't think the're generally lame either...a good one whould tell you something(s) new about both parties. Some Trib's I like: Lefty Frizel Sings Jimmie Rodgers To Lefty From Willie Ray Charles Modern Sound in C&W Music (a trib to rednecks) King Curtis Plays songs Made Famous By Sam Cooke Sam Cooke - Night Beat (a sort of trib to Charles Brown) Thelonious Monk Plays Due Ellington Ellington - And His Mother Called Him Bill Arthur Blythe - Light Blue (Monk, without piano) Albert King - King Does the Kings Things (Elvis) VA - Amacord Nina Rota enough for now.

Another great musician named for a sandwich...or maybe I'm just hungery. Anyways, I too love Philly Joe. Just not quite as much as I love Roy Haynes.

Don't know if it's been on CD, but it would be a shame if it wasn't...but then it seems to be the opinion of some here that I'm overly fond of grease 9although this is only moderately greasey, by my standards, YMMV, yada yada, blah blah blah). Gotta love a guy named after a realy great sandwich...

Allen, Ever read Lester Bangs rant re what BS "Joey" was/is? Get better, I already thought you was pretty good...? Dana

i've been struggling with a back injury which makes playing v. painful, not that we're in the same league, so my heart totally goes out to him...seen/heard stuf by him I loved and some not - doesn't really matter in this context.

"worried", used properly, is a perfectly fine descriptive with a fixed, definite technical meaning, eg 'Otis Redding worried that 'gotta' like a dog with a bone'. n'est pa?

love the pants...

I would never hire Mo Tucker as a session drummer, but she often fit what the Velvets were doing and even if not it doesn't bug me. Now John Bonham, he bugs me. As do lots of other perfectly competent drummers, when they don't listen...

"albums that are too greasy", sorry does not compute...grease cold, or otherwise wrong place/time I get. I kinda like "Look of Love" and its companion, "Always Something There". But then I bought one of them in Drumheller, AL one of the first times Bren' went to S'toon with me. Still not as much as I like "Rough 'n Tumble" or "Jubilee Shout", but to me it's no nevermind whether Stan's playing Gershwin, Bacharach or Jobim, to name 3 writers he did good stuffs with. My feeling is that gthe Mingus is listenable but not much more and the abovementioned Monk really doesn't work.

I've worked at bothe the Electric Fetus in Mpls and Music Millennium here in Ptld, sometimes shop at the Vinyl Resting Place.

This made me google the title to find the lyrics - Clarke is listed first as composer with a couple of other guys. But here is the funny thing - This lyrics website references CCR, yet AMG doesn't list CCR as having ever recorded it, and of course whatever the similarities it doesn't look like Fogerty ever made a copyright violation claim. So WTF is up with that site. Anyway, TK, you can get the lyrics at that link - at least I think they are close to accurate. I don't think there's anything even close to a copyright violation there, it's just a style thing, someone with better transcription and analysis skills would be needed for more detail. Nonetheless, the inspiration/similarity seems obvious to me, YMMV, etc. I was unaware that the Beatles hated them, perhaps they were too close to the unhip, hicks from the sticks side of the Beatles...personally I love that side of both bands, the unfettered enthusiasm tht left them both when they got 'hip', but we've been down this road before re my aversion to all things 'hip'...