The Who - The Kids Are Alright (ISOLATED DRUMS) - Keith Moon
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Always loved how Moon goes nuts on the drums during the second interlude (around 1:57). Moon seems to utilize every single part of his drum kit all the time, even if it may be more natural to hang back and maintain a simple beat.
This guy man, what a legend who left us way too soon! We shouldn't forget it was Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince who inspired Moon, both personality-wise and as a drummer.
And the Pretty Things recorded the first rock opera too!
Sorry, kind of sloppy.
Of course it is - what of it?
I would rather be sloppy than a technical master that a handful of music snobs fawn over but no one else cares about 😂
Hopefully Keith can work on this the next time he is in the studio
"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable." - Ludwig Van Beethoven
@@JMarinelli ENTWISTLE: Well, Keith didn’t particularly keep time too well. If he was feeling down the songs would be slow, if he was feeling up the songs would be too fast, and if he felt normal the songs would be normal. I would get very frustrated because he couldn’t actually play hi-hat at all, just a mess of cymbals. I knew he was a one-off [one of a kind] drummer, but in the same way as the rest of us were one-off. We constructed our music to fit ’round each other. It was something very peculiar that none of us played the same way as other people, but somehow, our styles fitted together.
Who was the timekeeper?
I guess I held a lot of it together. I remember I sometimes had to play simpler bass parts to accomplish that. If Keith came out of a drum break out of time, I would sort of set a new time or go and look at his bass-drum foot to see what the hell he was doing. I mean, at times, it could sound like a drum kit falling downstairs [laughs].
What part of the kit did you listen to for the pulse?
Usually the bass drum and sometimes the snare, although the snare tended to be all over the place. I had to take an average between the bass drum and the rest of the kit. Of course, most of his drums all sounded the same. He tuned all the toms to the same note. The little ones, obviously, sounded higher and the floor toms sound lower, but apart from that, when he had the two-deep kit, they’d more or less be tuned to the same note, so if he missed one he’d get the other.