For pity sakes. So fluid, so relaxed, so groovy. Steve, you freak me out. Who ever shot this, thanks for sharing. its not a great music video, but it is an AWESOME chance to hear the master at work...
@@daleford9606 You're right, Dale. Once you're a master, you can't get even better. Everybody knows Buddy Rich didn't keep improving through 70's and 80's =^F
@@alicenali4577 thats real cool...would have loved to see Gadd and the band up close....last time i saw gadd was way too long ago...take care..its obvious you know great music...and drummers :)
Gadd may not have the arsenal of chops like Vinnie or Dave, but you can't deny his sense of timing/pocket. In that regard, there's no other drummer alive who compares to Gadd. That's why musicians are still hiring him at age 70.
IIrc someone said Gary Chester considered Gadd to be one of a hand-full of drummers with 'perfect' time - and stipulated that it was about regarding the spaceing between the notes as part of the feel, which partly inspired his approach of 'singing' along with the exercises in his famous book, The New Breed.
Go to this site with the calculator and count Steve Gadd's achievements, then evaluate his playing. Also let me know if there is anybody else with the same contribution to the music in general. Steve considers him self as a RB musician, and then again he's on more jazz records then a lot of big time, "pure" jazz drummers. You might grow old before you finish listening of all the recordings. www.drstevegadd.com/discography.htm
..excellent drumming as ever..since decades he is accomplishing my life as a professional percussionist... but I am a little concermed about his skinny arms on this latest video... I hope, he is doing well...and that is only the camera perpective ..!
John Elfrank-Dana - I couldn't get any tickets for the shows. RTF with Lenny White was sold out too!! I was pissed to say the least!! But that's New York for ya!! The best players on the planet gravitate to that ground and the people come out to hear and see it!!
What pisses me off is how damned expensive these concerts and shows are now. I bet it was at least $150 for the ticket and two drinks. I was there for Steve Carlton with my son the last time. We also so McLaughlin's 4th Dimension there too. Barot was amazing on drums. But, $600 for my son's David Gilmoure ticket and about that for last seat in nosebleed for McCartney (which I told my daughter about opportunity costs) and it pisses me off.
The camera mic and limiter, and the position of the camera behind the drums are why the sound is that way. Drums don't sound like that live and from the audience perspective. Gotta see Chick et al LIVE. It's the only way, bro...
wait a minute....real problem here.....so many suffer from.....you are not getting the board mix, you are behind the drum wedge .....getting a camcorder mic picking up the sound.....the truth is .....you are only getting what the cell phone camera is picking up....not the true sound in the room.....if more people think this....this is why bootleg video is bad.....i love the sound by the way....its natural....not compressed and squashed.............
If we are being honest here, Steve Gadd's drums have always sounded like shit. I love his playing, but his philosophy on drums and tuning couldn't possibly disagree with my ears any more than it currently does. That said, I think we are just hearing horrible sound from the camera mic.
darkasthegrave...I'm going to suggest a comparison video to prove that these "new" R.C. are bad sounding. Go check out the Weckl video from the same venue a week before....he is playing a Phoenix kit. The video & sound is again from behind the drums. The Yamaha kit sounds fantastic!!! & Weckl is playing brilliantly!!!!! Gadd is great but those $6000 drums sound like complete shit!!!! Sorry!...The Yamaha people lost me when the Sakae master drum craftsmen left the company & Yamaha moved to China!!!!
