Dave is a genius who's always improving. Today, he'd play this song even better with more feel, more flow, and more swing. He's one of my all time favorites!
Smoothest drummer we've ever had. His flow is incredible, no one is even close to that aspect of his playing. It's like his fills just pour out of his hands. Like he's spraying them.
Dave weckl une merveille. Aucun batteur n'égale ce feeling d'être toujours ou il faut. Impressionnant ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Complexité, sophistiqué dans la finesse. La carrière de dave weckl à prouvé un talent très particulier présent chez aucun autre batteur
@@Gretsch0997 Thanks for cluing me in, Brian. From where I am standing, late 50's is young! ha ha At any age I'm sure this man will always sound good! SYLVIA - FL 7/8/19
all my life I thought dave was playing a fast 3 stroke with his right foot here 0:09 ...but now I realize he was using his double pedal with LRR sticking... god bless youtube for this.
Essa foi a melhor fase do Dave na minha opinião, segurando a baqueta na parte de trás, com mais feeling e raça, batia forte, um verdadeiro mágico na bateria. Não consigo ficar indiferente à isso!
@@joshuahornsby767 Buddy born 1917; Weckl born 1960! Could be why you think Weckl was more well rounded, and versatile? But on the same comparison, you could say Vinnie Colaiuta and Dennis Chambers, were more well rounded and more versatile than Weckl!
@@randallbrown3317 What do their birthdays have to do with anything? Buddy was an awesome jazz/big band drummer, but he never really went beyond that. Dave simply has way more styles under his belt....Fusion, hard rock, pop, Latin.... He's also the ultimate soloist. His solos always BUILD, it's never just "look what I can do". And NO drummer is more versatile than Vinnie.
@@joshuahornsby767 Buddy didn't have to go beyond that! Fact is he lead his own band for over 20+ years. He was considered the greatest drummer on the planet for DECADES! I am a big fan of Weckl, None of those drummers though could match Buddy's playing in those Memorial Tapes, when it came to playing with his band...NOT ONE OF THEM! As Steve Gadd said, Buddy's left hand was an entity of its own. To me his hands and feet were all equal in the sense that he didn't have a weak limb. His rolls on those tight heads, and especially on the snare left ZERO room for error. He was put on the planet to be a drummer! Remember Buddy for many decades has and still is the Benchmark, not Weckl, Chambers, Colauita, etc. etc.
@@randallbrown3317 The fact remains, versatility is a special skill and SHOULD be valued. Put Buddy in a Fusion band, or something requiring Latin grooves, and he'd have been lost. I'll gladly admit he was likely the most influential drummer of all time, but there are tons of more complete, well-rounded players. Regarding the BR tribute, that was Vinnie, Dave and Steve all bringing their unique styles and battling it out, not necessarily an attempt to copy Buddy note for note. Weckl is also far more musical than Buddy ever was, musicality was never his forte, not to mention his footwork was nothing above average.
@@staigh You'd have to transpose this yourself but its mostly just based on the original. This intro just leads straight into the start of where the sheet music would take you and from there they play around but mostly stick to whats written.
One of the hardest song to play for a drummer. He makes it look easy breezy but you better keep the tempo damn right or you’re gonna mess it up really bad in a blink of an eye.
Goddamn... I always loved that fill at 4:23, where he drops out of time for a moment and comes right back in perfectly.. everytime I try it I fall down.
Hi, Jay, yes it actually is the exact same track, only this video sounds not like a recording and all the process a track goes thru before it is released, but it's the same drumming, exactly. :) It was only an expression PV, hahaha, I just thought I was never gonna find out who the drummer was. :)
Not at all, Neil Peart was invited to the Buddy Rich Memorial 1991 and he and Cathy Rich hit it off as great friends and he produced the first of two Burning For Buddy DVD's where they invited world class drummers to play the tracks with the BR Big Band. Neil had no idea how to play Buddy Rich and he had to work hard to do it, where some of the more technical cats, like Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Gadd, and Dave could do it easily. Neil did well and had huge fan support, but it was after that he brought back the greats and produced the series, and in #2, he was fascinated by how great Steve Smith had gotten and asked him about it. Steve told Neil about Freddie Gruber. Neil said once that "anything Steve says is something I will listen to."
I’ve looked over tons of BR albums today and can’t find Mercy Mercy on any of them. ...What the heck? Did the Burning for Buddy album have tunes from other artists on it?
@djangorheinhardt "a tad faster"? funny... im sure Dave will try to pick it up for you next time. The guy is one of the top players in the world. You're gonna tell him he's dragging the tempo, given the chance?
@@scottawes921 This feels slow to me too. I’m used to the album version from live at caesars palace in 1968 which is definitely faster. It’s not an insult to dave to say this, I’m sure it was a creative decision by him or the bandleader to take it at this slower tempo.
