Buddy Rich in the '70s

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You can hear the pimped-out lapels and gold chains on these records. Listening to Buddy Rich play funk tunes is fascinating...on one level he looks down at it because it's kids' music and doesn't actually hit a backbeat through an entire song , but on another he plays the hell out of it because he's BUDDY FUCKING RICH.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"You guys are gonna be back in New York on the bread line so fast you won't even know that you were on this fuckin' band. How dare you play a fuckin' set like that. Since when did the fuckin' trumpet players become the leader of this fuckin' band and decide how long they're gonna hold a chord? What the fuck do you think you're doin'? You think you're playin' with some kid up there? I expect one-hundred-and-ten percent fucking perfection every fuckin' tune, you got that? If you can't do it, get off my fuckin' band to-NIGHT! You had a day off yesterday and you come back like this and you suck! What the fuck kind of music do you think you're playing here anyhow? And who do you think you're playing for? You think I'll tolerate that shit? You're worse than any fuckin' high school band I ever heard. You come in wrong because you leave one fuckin' beat out, you can't find one!? I don't know what kind of drummers you think you're playin' with, but you'll play with me or you'll get out! And I mean NOW! I don't need this shit. I have a home in Palm Springs and I can go sit on my ass the rest of my life and not worry about a fuckin' thing...and don't have to meet your fuckin' payroll, and pay you for playin' like a fuckin' high school dropout! How dare you do that! ASSHOLES!! You can't play a
simple fuckin' tune; you can't hold a chord; you can't play time when you play solos. What kind of solos am I hearing tonight? (as he turns to the Trombonist) You want to rehearse and practice, get a fuckin' band in Sydney and play the kind of shit you want. Over here you play TIME!!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

(At least this is how I always envisioned Buddy in the seventies. But then again there was the Muppet Show appearance where he outdid Animal completely, of course.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the thing though, he was a grumpy old man, but he kept hiring kids out of college for his band and playing surf rock tunes! Deep down he was not a hater of fun.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, the Muppets convinced me of that! Nobody who appeared on that show could hate fun, surely.

I am getting this image of Buddy Rich doing the soundtrack for Shaft in an alternate universe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that time being album cover is utterly fantastic.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You really have to keep the horn section in line some way.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am getting this image of Buddy Rich doing the soundtrack for Shaft in an alternate universe.

That's what it's like! I've got tracks with wah-wah guitars and everything.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What an asshole.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 22 October 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I had an double LP set on Groove Merchant but fuck if I've played in over in a decade. I don't remember it being too funky (at least, not as hot as other contemporary stuff on the label); I remember it being half poorly-recorded big-band stuff. I'm not sure if I still even have it, I'll take a look and reassess. I remember really liking the LP called Buddy Rich Plays and Plays and Plays on RCA, but I'm not sure if that's from the 70s.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Buddy Rich/Animal duet was the reason I asked my parents for a drum set. Seriously.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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