Buddy Rich vs. Animal video posted + Buddy Rich s/d

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This was, no joke, the moment that inspired me, at age 10, to take up the drums. I hadn't seen it for fifteen years, until today:

http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=112648

Since that's not much of a thread by itself, how about an s/d on the work of Buddy Rich (as leader or sideman)?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone find an mp3 of the infamous "cursing out the band" tape?

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it's on one of the celebrities at their worst comps

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd only seen the drum battle once since the original broadcast, some years ago. Great to see it again. In a way it's a perfect counterpoint to That Notorious Rant because there's no side dudes blowing clams or anything, you could tell he was in his own perfect nirvana (and he wasn't going to let some Muppet outdrum him!).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read on his site that at 4 years old he was performing in a Vaudeville show as "Traps, the Drum Wonder."

By the way, out of typical Jewish curiosity, does anyone know if he was Jewish? He was born Bernard Rich and his parents were vaudevillians, after all.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Traps, the Drum Wonder
Yup. In fact, didn't Mel Torme write a bio of him with that title?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.carrothers.com/billyboy/actone.htm

― j. niimi (litotesia), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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