Anybody got the Buddy Rich Bootleg where he yells at his band

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...on the bus after a show?

I hear it's unbelievably funny. Please help.

― your son pete, Friday, 16 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I have it on cassette—its greatness cannot be fathomed. it regularly suffuses my conversation…I reckon it'd be pretty easy to find on the international web…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS NOT THE FUCKING HOUSE OF DAVID

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

" have it on cassette—its greatness cannot be fathomed. it regularly suffuses my conversation…I reckon it'd be pretty easy to find on the international web… "

what title should I search?

― your son pete, Friday, 16 December 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cis.rit.edu/~ejipci/buddy_rich.htm

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

i have it - it's pretty great!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Some past celebrations:

Drummist.

Slave drivers

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Jeez, did Buddy Rich like ANYBODY???

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 16 December 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

I love the story of the musician who kept calling his widow asking for Buddy.

"I keep telling you HE'S DEAD!"

"I know, and I never get tired of hearing it."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Buddy's in the hospital.

Nurse: "Is anything making you uncomfortable."

Buddy: "Yeah, country music."

xpost

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

"uncomfortable?"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

I think about 95% of bands could benefit from that kind of rant every so often, just to remind them of how shitty they are. Actually, make that 99%.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

"Carlos fuckin' D., you're deciding what kind of phrasing. You're deciding who and what the leader is. You're gonna watch who you wanna watch...(turns to the rest of the band). Everybody's on two weeks notice tonight. I'm telling you, everybody gets two weeks notice tonight. I can't handle this anymore. You're all...(pauses thoughtfully) you're not my kind of people, at all. I don't understand this fuckin' kind of music at all. I don't understand what anybody is doing up there. I'm workin' my fuckin' ass off...(turns to a trumpet player) You tie that thing in a half-windsor again, I'm gonna take that fuckin' skinny tie and tether you to the nearest stripper pole! Do you understand that?"

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

I would kill to see that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

I think about 95% of bands could benefit from that kind of rant every so often, just to remind them of how shitty they are. Actually, make that 99%.

-- Matt #2 (matt-hoj...), December 15th, 2005.

Didn't someone post something here a while back that was a similar rant by a label guy or manager aimed at a band that played a shitty cd release show?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah dude from bobsled, was it the waxwings?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

the indie rock version of the Buddy Rich tape

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Ah yes. I kept thinking The Wrens -- I knew it was some "bird" name.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Re that 'indie' version, without wanting to raise the thread from its slumber...

Yeah, excellent asskicking, but! Shouldn't he have done this before the gig? Like, some time before? After all, it was a record release gig so it's not like he didn't know 1) the importance of it and 2) what they were (in)capable of.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

I think about 95% of bands could benefit from that kind of rant every so often, just to remind them of how shitty they are. Actually, make that 99%.

probably. but it's kind of telling that the "buddy rich tapes" are far more entertaining than any actual music he ever recorded. his work with nat king cole & lester young is an embarrassment, and an insult to cole and young. rich went swiftly downhill from there. no wonder he got his ass handed to him by both an alcoholic (keith moon) and a muppet (Animal).

the only thing funnier than those tapes is rich's 70s blaring marching-band funk.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2XHE6NMNBTG8O3PNK7RDW47ZSH

― Brakhage (brakhage), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I'm going home to get that!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I must have grabbed it from Bedazzled at one point:
http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/the_al_kooper_tapes/
Buddy sounds like a real charmer ...

― Brakhage (brakhage), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

This reminds me a bit of Arthur Lee and Love where on an alternate version of Your Mind and We Belong Together, he gets on the guitarist's case, as they record take after take.

― aworks (aworks), Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but at least Arthur praises him on his 'take' solo.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ssZeOZkWU

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:54 (thirteen years ago)

One of my links above didn't work so

Drummist.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

call me crazy, but while this guy clearly lacks social skills, i kind of like his attitude. there's such an overwhelming tolerance for mediocrity and half-assedness in the indie game, something like this is really refreshing. again, he probably ain't the guy to do it, but it'd be nice if someone who cared enough about music to start a label for once actually showed some Barry Gordy hussle to get their bands to look sharp and sound sharper.

I met Bob a few times, and he was actually a really nice and solid guy. I liked him. For whatever reason, I just can't picture his face and I wonder if I'd even recognize him. But I have to agree - he's right. For an indie label to put the sort of commitment into some of the bands that he did was either courageous or stupid, and I can see how he would feel let down Wonder whatever happened to him.

― crustaceanrebel, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

Wrong thread, oops/

― crustaceanrebel, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:21 (thirteen years ago)

iirc didn't james brown do shit like this too? which is why the JBs eventually ditched?

― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

James Brown did this shit his entire life

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:29 (thirteen years ago)

Well...

The band I was in decided to to a cover of "Gangsters", second go at it was spot-on, even caught the 'drum mistake' on verse two.

After that, band got sloppier, minor/major chord swap, I certainly felt like chewing them one. But, hey I was just the bass guy...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:28 (thirteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Billy Cobham said that he met Rich in a club as a youth asking him to sign his snare drum, but Rich "dropped it down the stairs".[35]

― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 21:13 (two years ago)

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