The Great 2006 Sensitive Drummer Thread

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right now enjoying Acapulco Roughs, the set of earnest AM radio-friendly piano ballads by Colossal Yes (aka madman Comets On Fire drummer Utrillo Kushner)...and also thinking about the surprisingly sensitive solo work of the late Epic Soundtracks and the later Dennis Wilson...and wondering if there are other examples of drummers (preferably in "wild" bands) who released solo work with similar confounding/surprising melodic sincerity...and why, I wonder, is this phenomenon seemingly limited to "the drummer"?

hank (hank s), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Phil Collins seems pretty damn sensitive

(all jokes aside)

can't think of any specifics (Jeep Macnichol's solo work? ? )
but it is interesting. I wonder if there is a pent-up need for the drummer to transcend the merely "percussive".

J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm...I also recall Ringo's first solo LP was called Sentimental Journey, and was all cover versions of standards/torch songs...

hank (hank s), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Don Henley - not sensitive
Chris mars - uhm, not really
Skip Spence - only briefly a drummer, and more mad than sensitive
Dennis Wilson is the only one I can really see right now

timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/images/product/4649.jpg

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Buddy Rich stopped playing for a minute to sing standards.

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Criss!

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

some more fodder:

I recently saw a “music” video for Tommy Lee’s latest solo album, and I thought “Hot Damn Tommy, you sensitive crooner you…”

Rick Allen (of missing-arm-Def Leppard fame) was credited with co-writing the soundtrack to a Disney TV-Movie

I am struggling here. I think Peter Criss is the best you’ve got…

J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Stewart Copeland? He did orchestral soundtracks for years.

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Foo Fighters do a totally pussy-ass ballad that one time?

mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, that Colossal Yes album rules it, hard.

And Phil Collins gets a bad rap, says I. If you cut out the cheesy ballads (which were around 1/3 of his output), his 80s work is pretty sweet.

Ed Corcoran (ecorcoran), Thursday, 1 June 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ed--

Respect is due to Phil Collins..I agree.

But still..I am convinced the Phil owns Adult Contemporary Radio.
Not convinced? Go to the grocery store. By the time you hit the produce section, you will have heard Phil direct you on the finer points of love..

It isn't so much what Phil created (most of it being very well done), but it reflects the mawkish rubble that society tends to glorify. As for people trashing and flaming my comment: I can feel it coming in the air tonight.

J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)


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