That guitar solo might actually be my favorite guitar solo of all time. Love the soundscape experimenting at the beginning and how it just slowly builds to that massive shred at the end. Just an incredible piece of playing.
The thing about solos like this, is you trust these guys. You know that although not every note is planned, they know exactly where they're going, and the darker the night, the more you appreciate the day. Bob took that guitar down to the depths, and you have to appreciate just how original every single solo on this whole album is. While not quite experimental, it's always surprising. That's so refreshing to me. Then the guitar comes up, everyone joins in and then they're rocking. They're properly, full-on rocking. And the way Bob hits the fills perfectly in time when we thought he'd lost the rhythm... It's difficult to put into words just how good some of this is. I have to say I'm coming from the perspective that, first and foremost, I'm not a drummer.
I wanna say the guitarist was deliberately 'quoting' a style from one of their legends during the intro to his solo, and then I saw him _refer_ to it when he started shredding! Setting up for the pitch, as it were
I saw an interview with Larnell. He uses a hydraulic top head, with a thin snare head, on the bottom for the low snare/tom. He switches, the snare on/off, to switch modes.
The beginning of the guitar solo reminded me of a track from Chicago’s first album called ‘Free Form Guitar’. As for Larnell, please be advised he learned early all the tracks for this album ON THE PLANE RIDE OVER as he was a substitute for their usual drummer who couldn’t make the gig as hiss passport wasn’t in order (This album was recorded in Holland, if memory serves), so all Larnell had was a MIDI file from Michael League to learn from. Yes, Larnell is THAT awesome.
Larnell Lewis is a beast and can do more with one hand (either) than many dtummers can do with two, though this one was prettty hard to tap a foot along with. I must say. Excellent take on this, Steve ! If you want to continue your journey here, you might consider Snarky Puppy feat. Jacob Collier & Big Ed Lee - "Don't You Know" (Family Dinner Volume Two), "Shofukan, and/or "Outlier" if you can ever find the time. Keep up the good work, please whever the journey takes you.
The reverse. It's just a large, low tuned snare that he has the snares off, until he needs that second snare sound. Every snare drum with the snares turned off sounds like a tom.
I think they did 4 performances of this over 4 consequetive days. Day 1 was the day Larnell arrived. I'd be intrigued to know which day's performance this was. Cory's sideways looks of mixed astonishment and glee at (i think) Larnell during this make me wonder if this was day 1. Or maybe day 1 and 2 weren't so hot so day 3 compared to 1 and 2 was the amazement. I'm a cellist proficiency-wsie, but also can play some piano and a bit of guitar, some bass. I party to psytrance. I tell you this because the "phrasing" of a psytrance mix (say an hour long set) is an interesting graph if you graph energy and tonal range against time. There's often a medium energy beginning to a set, and then a lull, then a build to high energy. This method syncs up the energies of the party-goers, which also ties into physical endurance/second wind type stuff. I'm finding the Snarky Puppy solos are also following a graph that's quite slow to build, and I definitely key into it. For me, the slow guitar stuff at the beginning of the solo is bringing the energy down and focussed, and then rising energy and expansiveness with the solo plus the other instruments joining. It's very interesting having you do these reactions Steve, thanks for another great one. I knew you'd like this one as Larnell is a big part of it. For me to like a song, it needs enough "musical food" to nourish me. You and I have different tastes, so it's not as easy to recommend a song but I think each track from this session is likely to have enough musical food for you as well, because even I notice Larnell's fills and choices, and Nate's percussion layers. So, I'm going to say "Sleeper" because I think there's enough Larnell technique and choices to give you the nourishment, plus there's the novelty of a man playing a hosepipe ;-)
Thank you very much for this detailed and insightful comment! There is definitely plenty of musical nourishment (well put) in what I’ve heard of these folks this far. I’ll add “Sleeper” to the list! Thank you!
@@ach31337 really? Haven't come across them. I'm specifically talking about the 4 days recording in Amsterdam, rather than live performances at other venues at other times
Yes Larnell is using 2 snare drums the second one is tuned like a floor Tom that gives him a lot of different options to add colors and dynamics to his playing
Just recently learned about Snarky Puppy and I cannot seem to get enough of it. Anyway, I love your reactions. Would like to see your reaction to Quarter Master.
Welcome to the Snarky Puppy fold!!! A friend who is also a metal drummer told me about Larnell, and that led me to Shofukan, which blew me away!! Side note, Fly eagles fly!! How in the heck did you wind up an Eagles fan in London??
I started watching NFL on late night TV about 15 years ago and the Eagles happened to be the first team I saw play twice so I started to recognise player names etc. That, and they wear green like my home country of Ireland’s teams, so I adopted them as my team. Many years later my wife and I went to Minneapolis to watch the live super bowl and had the most insane day ever. Go birds!
@@SteveOGRock First off, thank you so much for the response, apologies for my tardy reply! Phenomenal story and heck yes go birds!! I was adopted in to the Eagles family via marriage as my wife is an Eagles fan, and I am at heart a Giants fan, lol! It makes football season around here very interesting!! Love the channel, and thanks so much for all that you do!!
Actually, Steve, he's got 3 snares set up. You noticed 2 of them. The 3rd is all the way left of his hi-hat, with a symbol on it. I think he uses it on "Lingus" (among other peices in this session).
love your reactions! SP makes me happy, but also makes me sad, because it makes it so obvious that I'm a level 2 musician and these guys (and you) are 100+. no matter - I can also hit a golf ball around the course and pretend I'm Tiger Woods...
Although being somewhat hedonistic, they can really get you moving. As for Larnel.... If I could.... I would be....! Between Larnel and Aaron.... who does one pick to emulate?
Thats hilarious. I still catch "Fatman on batman" and Hollywood Babble On every once in a while. We're clearly cut from the same brand miscreant musical pop culture degenerate cloth.
Hey Steve, I know this was done ages ago, and that you might not wanna go back to these guys. I just feel obligated to mention the one that hits the most. Sleeper - czcams.com/video/kDXnPfA_5pY/video.html Cheers good man.
I’m still open to more of these folks, for sure. Would be for my second channel rather than this rock one. Due to time limitations and other priorities it’ll be a while though.
@@SteveOGRock you have two channels? 😳 I didn’t know! And I’m in NO hurry. Take your time. Besides all my suggestion is mostly for your attention because I can see you truly appreciate it. Not neccesary for content. You should however consider doing the two Aviations ones, so you hit it right when their new album is out. And.. also. Just pure joy. You will love it!!
Dude, it’s time to leave your “thing” behind, especially if it’s been limited to the cut-and-dried world of popular music. Most of the best music ever made is way past it, and you may as well let it do to you what it can, without preconceptions getting in your way. The skies are waiting to open up, if you just spread the wings.
That guitar solo might actually be my favorite guitar solo of all time. Love the soundscape experimenting at the beginning and how it just slowly builds to that massive shred at the end. Just an incredible piece of playing.
Favorite? I can understand it if that's the only guitar solo you've ever heard.
@@prltqdf9 how tolerant :)
The thing about solos like this, is you trust these guys. You know that although not every note is planned, they know exactly where they're going, and the darker the night, the more you appreciate the day.
Bob took that guitar down to the depths, and you have to appreciate just how original every single solo on this whole album is. While not quite experimental, it's always surprising. That's so refreshing to me.
Then the guitar comes up, everyone joins in and then they're rocking. They're properly, full-on rocking. And the way Bob hits the fills perfectly in time when we thought he'd lost the rhythm...
It's difficult to put into words just how good some of this is.
I have to say I'm coming from the perspective that, first and foremost, I'm not a drummer.
I believe the bassist here (Michael League) writes and arranges everything for Snarky what a beast
I wanna say the guitarist was deliberately 'quoting' a style from one of their legends during the intro to his solo, and then I saw him _refer_ to it when he started shredding! Setting up for the pitch, as it were
This is the deep knowledge I lack. Thanks for the insight.
what's crazy is the drummer had only 8hrs to learn all the songs during this performance. 8 songs. Incredible.
Larnell is the real deal! it's just galaxy level.
And a few others as well.
I saw an interview with Larnell. He uses a hydraulic top head, with a thin snare head, on the bottom for the low snare/tom. He switches, the snare on/off, to switch modes.
“Jazz” straight to camera had me weak. 🤣
Steve, did you know Larnell memorized all these songs on an 8 hour flight from Toronto to Europe?
The beginning of the guitar solo reminded me of a track from Chicago’s first album called ‘Free Form Guitar’.
As for Larnell, please be advised he learned early all the tracks for this album ON THE PLANE RIDE OVER as he was a substitute for their usual drummer who couldn’t make the gig as hiss passport wasn’t in order (This album was recorded in Holland, if memory serves), so all Larnell had was a MIDI file from Michael League to learn from. Yes, Larnell is THAT awesome.
Larnell Lewis is a beast and can do more with one hand (either) than many dtummers can do with two, though this one was prettty hard to tap a foot along with. I must say. Excellent take on this, Steve ! If you want to continue your journey here, you might consider Snarky Puppy feat. Jacob Collier & Big Ed Lee - "Don't You Know" (Family Dinner Volume Two), "Shofukan, and/or "Outlier" if you can ever find the time. Keep up the good work, please whever the journey takes you.
hell yea. go birds
🙌🏻
Great reaction, you should do "Outlier" next time, from the same We Like It Here session
Outlier is amazing, shofukhan is just beautiful.
Outlier doesn’t get enough love. The back and forth between the sax and drummer during the solo is wild
@@colin8150 Outlier is the best track ever put on tape.
If you're looking for more from Larnell you should try "Coconuts". His soundscapes are so full and emotive. He's a master for sure.
Second snare to the right and straight on til morning
That was a tom with a switch to make it a snare, he had a video discussing who inspired him about that
The reverse. It's just a large, low tuned snare that he has the snares off, until he needs that second snare sound. Every snare drum with the snares turned off sounds like a tom.
I think they did 4 performances of this over 4 consequetive days. Day 1 was the day Larnell arrived. I'd be intrigued to know which day's performance this was. Cory's sideways looks of mixed astonishment and glee at (i think) Larnell during this make me wonder if this was day 1. Or maybe day 1 and 2 weren't so hot so day 3 compared to 1 and 2 was the amazement.
I'm a cellist proficiency-wsie, but also can play some piano and a bit of guitar, some bass.
I party to psytrance. I tell you this because the "phrasing" of a psytrance mix (say an hour long set) is an interesting graph if you graph energy and tonal range against time. There's often a medium energy beginning to a set, and then a lull, then a build to high energy. This method syncs up the energies of the party-goers, which also ties into physical endurance/second wind type stuff.
I'm finding the Snarky Puppy solos are also following a graph that's quite slow to build, and I definitely key into it. For me, the slow guitar stuff at the beginning of the solo is bringing the energy down and focussed, and then rising energy and expansiveness with the solo plus the other instruments joining.
It's very interesting having you do these reactions Steve, thanks for another great one. I knew you'd like this one as Larnell is a big part of it.
For me to like a song, it needs enough "musical food" to nourish me. You and I have different tastes, so it's not as easy to recommend a song but I think each track from this session is likely to have enough musical food for you as well, because even I notice Larnell's fills and choices, and Nate's percussion layers.
So, I'm going to say "Sleeper" because I think there's enough Larnell technique and choices to give you the nourishment, plus there's the novelty of a man playing a hosepipe ;-)
Thank you very much for this detailed and insightful comment! There is definitely plenty of musical nourishment (well put) in what I’ve heard of these folks this far. I’ll add “Sleeper” to the list! Thank you!
Some of the "alternate" performances are posted on YT, interesting to see the other takes.
@@ach31337 really? Haven't come across them. I'm specifically talking about the 4 days recording in Amsterdam, rather than live performances at other venues at other times
@@miff227 yes so am I, IIRC they were published on a DVD set or something and someone uploaded them.
Yes Larnell is using 2 snare drums the second one is tuned like a floor Tom that gives him a lot of different options to add colors and dynamics to his playing
Just recently learned about Snarky Puppy and I cannot seem to get enough of it. Anyway, I love your reactions. Would like to see your reaction to Quarter Master.
If you haven't already you should check out Larnell's Zildjian Live video. He goes ham and watching it makes me question my worth as a drummer! Lol
Welcome to the Snarky Puppy fold!!! A friend who is also a metal drummer told me about Larnell, and that led me to Shofukan, which blew me away!! Side note, Fly eagles fly!! How in the heck did you wind up an Eagles fan in London??
I started watching NFL on late night TV about 15 years ago and the Eagles happened to be the first team I saw play twice so I started to recognise player names etc. That, and they wear green like my home country of Ireland’s teams, so I adopted them as my team. Many years later my wife and I went to Minneapolis to watch the live super bowl and had the most insane day ever. Go birds!
@@SteveOGRock First off, thank you so much for the response, apologies for my tardy reply! Phenomenal story and heck yes go birds!! I was adopted in to the Eagles family via marriage as my wife is an Eagles fan, and I am at heart a Giants fan, lol! It makes football season around here very interesting!! Love the channel, and thanks so much for all that you do!!
This, Jambone, and Thing of Gold are my three favorite Snarky Puppy tracks
Amazing vid as always! If you like some more of this, you should really react to The Curtain, one of their most interesting tracks imo
Actually, Steve, he's got 3 snares set up. You noticed 2 of them. The 3rd is all the way left of his hi-hat, with a symbol on it. I think he uses it on "Lingus" (among other peices in this session).
Being a drummer myself and a huge fan of Larnell Lewis, I highly recommend you check out Larnell Lewis Zildjian Live video.
You are in luck Matt! Already done it! czcams.com/video/j_q7Y7pg-nE/video.html
Larnell also has an a solo album called Relive the Moment and on it is a song I would like recommend called Rejoice...you'll thank me later.
All the Snarky drummers are outstanding. Listen to Flood from the Tell Your Friends album.
love your reactions! SP makes me happy, but also makes me sad, because it makes it so obvious that I'm a level 2 musician and these guys (and you) are 100+. no matter - I can also hit a golf ball around the course and pretend I'm Tiger Woods...
Although being somewhat hedonistic, they can really get you moving. As for Larnel.... If I could.... I would be....! Between Larnel and Aaron.... who does one pick to emulate?
"Sir!"
always makes me laugh
I think I got it from listening to too many Kevin Smith podcasts many years ago. I do enjoy a good exclamation of “sir” here and there haha. 😅
Thats hilarious. I still catch "Fatman on batman" and Hollywood Babble On every once in a while.
We're clearly cut from the same brand miscreant musical pop culture degenerate cloth.
An excellent cloth indeed 🤘🏻
I beg you PLEASE listen to Marcus Gilmore Ziljian Live
Good lord its 18 mins long! Haha. I’ve added it to my to-do list but may take me a while to get the time to dedicate to it.
Do Snarky Puppy and Jacob Collier “Don’t you know”
Go Eagles!
Yas!
Sounds like early Jeff Beck stuff
One word. LINGUS.
It's supposed to look easy.
Hey Steve,
I know this was done ages ago, and that you might not wanna go back to these guys. I just feel obligated to mention the one that hits the most.
Sleeper - czcams.com/video/kDXnPfA_5pY/video.html
Cheers good man.
I’m still open to more of these folks, for sure. Would be for my second channel rather than this rock one. Due to time limitations and other priorities it’ll be a while though.
@@SteveOGRock you have two channels? 😳 I didn’t know!
And I’m in NO hurry. Take your time. Besides all my suggestion is mostly for your attention because I can see you truly appreciate it. Not neccesary for content.
You should however consider doing the two Aviations ones, so you hit it right when their new album is out. And.. also. Just pure joy. You will love it!!
@@jesperschultz5568 other channel is here btw: youtube.com/@steveogreact
@@jesperschultz5568 I appreciate your comments my guy 🤘🏻
Dude, it’s time to leave your “thing” behind, especially if it’s been limited to the cut-and-dried world of popular music. Most of the best music ever made is way past it, and you may as well let it do to you what it can, without preconceptions getting in your way.
The skies are waiting to open up, if you just spread the wings.