And he NAILED the transitions.Alright, yeah, that was incredible. He stumbled for just a moment at the bridge around 3:40 but caught himself after just, what, 3 beats?
But, fuck, I don't like seeing Chad aging. Chili Peppers have always been kids in my head
This is the best thing I've listened to in a long time
Fucking love that song.
Oh, Steve Gadd's solo. This is the stuff of legends. He did it on the second time through, completely improvised. He was such an amazingly visual drummer that the other session players messed up because they were watching him and had to re-record. Gadd was one of the most incredible session players to pick up an instrument.
As a percussionist, I love these sort of simple, iconic, almost bombastic parts. Polyrhythms are fun, but honestly, I picked up the drums as a kid because of these loud, fun songs. Boom! Boom boom! Marching snare breaks. Fun! It should be fun.
I love that, though it took far to long, The Carpenters are getting their due for how absolutely frightening their level of musical ability was. Karen was a great drummer, and had one of the clearest, sweetest, most powerful contraltos in popular music. And Richard was brilliant as a producer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger, and songwriter. He also sang beautiful harmony with his sister. They wanted to do more, musically, but were pigeonholed at a time when the labels had all of the power, and calm, AOR, square music made money.
I was hoping someone would pick her
I regret I can only "love" this performance once.
I’ll judge you for being rad.
