buddy rich might be the only example there is where you can point to a particular musician and say "they were the best of all time" and literally anyone you ask will just agree, no questions asked
Buddy was incredible as a soloist, but equally great as a band leader - yes he was considered a PITA at times, but the guy always delivered an outstanding performance. 👏
when he was 65 he played a marvelous drum solo at the CONCERT FOR THE AMERICAS ...in 1982...he played while having a stroke in the middle of the solo ... yet he kept on playing till the end of the concert ...INCREDIBLE ! ... after the concert he suddenly went to the hospital and get a chest surgery which saved his life ... look for "BUDDY RICH IMPOSSIBLE DRUM SOLO HQ" inside RU-vid : hope you will join it ( >18.000.000 views )
His audience was always crammed with drummers. He always delivered the goods! Bandmates were the best that could be found, that wanted to travel the world for scale. College kids. Marcus, bass players, piano players were his special core. He knew equip. too. Ludwig Hercules hi hat. 13in cymbals. Early Rogers swivomatic pedal with a wood beater. Mid 40s Slingerland drums. The drums of his youth. Miss that band.
That was one of greatest I've ever seen. I'm always amazed when he works the cymbals but the sticks were over the top as well. Even Buddy's face seemed to acknowledge it was a great one.
Correct. When Donny Osborne Sr. - - then President of Slingerland, found out about it, he ripped Buddy a new one. He was livid, and rightly so. They were paying Buddy 25K per year to endorse Slingerland at that time, and Osborne was really pissed that Buddy pulled this on them. Buddy was also using a Fibes snare - - recoved in White Marine Pearl covering and fitted with Rogers hardware, when he was endorsing Rogers drums. Buddy loved a fiberglass snare.
this lead trumpet player is probably my favorite of all who played with Buddyl; as I recall he only played with the group a relatively short time. Killer chops and so accurate. I remember recording the DisneyLand performance in the mid-80's on PBS and I about wore out the VHS tape - I was heading into high school so these were still formative years.
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Not only his technique is amazing, he makes it look so easy and effortless as well.. and he's dressed like he's about to go golfing after playing the drums!
I'll try not to make this too long a story. I attended a concert that Cathy Rich hosted. She told the audience a story that Buddy tried to take up golf. He apparently got to a hole with a water hazard. He hit his ball in the water, got mad, through his golf bag into the hazard and left. Came back, got his bag out of the water, got his car keys out of the bag, threw his bag back into the water and left again!
When I was a kid living in California I saw him perform live many times at Disneyland. He was the greatest inspiration. We still love you Buddy. Check out my tributes to him on here (a few short drum solos of mine). To all the rock drummers out there, don’t lose touch with the past. There are many things to learn from the rich heritage all those jazz drummers left us “back in the day”. Richard Gray
Well said , Richard!! Buddy Rich is the only one in all the history of jazz music that played better and better as the time was passing away: the elder he was, the better he played. Expecially on cymbals . During the last 10 years of his life he did get such a class and such an elegance he hadn't in the fourties or in the fifties : altough at that time he would have been stronger and more powerful , he played with little less elegance on brushes or cymbals than the way he played in the eighties ...( for example take a look at THE IMPOSSIBLE DRUM SOLO-CONCERT FOR THE AMERICAS IN 1982 )
Growing up in San Diego, we as teenagers would drive to Disneyland just to see him . Back when you had to buy the book of tickets, we would just by them, go see Buddy Rich and leave. He was THE BEST drummer that ever lived.
@@gailhartig2443 Funny you should say that. I first saw him at Disneyland when I was 13 and my mom said, "Don't you want to go on any rides"? I said, "Yep. But not when he is here". My parents would look at each other as if to say, this kid is nuts. LOL
OMG, after Buddy was born, God indeed broke the mold !! He is the TRUE definition of the word INCREDIBLE !! There will be NEVER be another one like him !! I could practice for 1000 years, and not even come close to his abilities !! My jaw is on the floor !!
When i began learning drums in the 70s, this self taught drummer was known as the world's best as he set the bar at the time with his intricate hi-hat work and speed on his solos. He inspired the likes of Ringo Starr, Roger Taylor, John Bonham and Phil Collins. He was and still is in my opinion the king of the drumkit, though Peart, Bonham and the later stratospheric innovators took it to an even higher level.
I feel bad for anyone who didn't have that opportunity. The air was just electric. And in my opinion, nothing was as exciting in a concert as when the music faded, and a Buddy Rich drum solo began.
It could have been a favor or a gift from Paiste, since he was playing in Switzerland before. A post I read is that he took this cymbal with him to the States and then went back to a Zildjian ride.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once but the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times." The thing that makes Buddy Richs solos so incredible and really awe inspiring is his absolute mastery of the single stroke roll. He can do things with it that are seemingly magic to the untrained eye. But in reality its the simplest of patterns which he expands on ocassionally and knows how to do ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING with. Of course he knows all the other rudiments to, and hes a master of dynamics, pitch, phrasing and all that. But what TRULY made him Buddy Rich in my opinion is the single stroke roll.
Buddy had ridiculous speed and stick control but his solos were always similar. This one is my favorite cause he pulls out a lot of unconventional magic tricks.
ive actually seen buddys fibes chrome over fiberglass snare at steve maxwells one time. they also went by sqeak kings too this isnt a problem with the re issued ones i still love them!
