He is Top 2 for me. The other was Neal Peart. Interesting for the opposite reasons. Peart used an insanely maximum kit to its best effect. Greg takes barely anything and makes it sound huge.
HAha at some point he mentioned Lightning Bolt was his favorite band. I just imagine Bowie in disguise at a LB concert. Lol. Think he saw them when they were playing with Sonic Youth
It's amazing how they can make it sound so disjointed one moment and so cohesive the next. It takes skill to do that. Brilliant band and a brilliant song.
One of the best bands of the last 20 years in my opinion. Edge of your seat unpredictability and raw creativity that destroys musical cliches! Makes me want to be in this kind of band, but where are these types of players? I guess if it were easy to come by it wouldn't be as precious. I have been playing bass for other people for 10 years and have been going through a depression, but this brings me back to the feeling of excitement i once had for music! Great job guys! i really get this!
OMFG, I need a smaller drum kit! I swear Greg gets more mileage out of a 3-piece kit than any rock dummer I've ever seen. I love everything about this band. I could see a Deerhoof show every night and I'd never get tired of it. All fun and no pretense. I only discovered their music a couple of years ago and only just saw them live for the first time last week, but daaaaaam! I do not know how I somehow missed hearing about them for the first 18+ years of their career. Then again, it's kinda cool to discover a band after they've gotten this good and then finding out they have a dozen albums waiting for you to hear for the first time. It's sorta like finding a wallet full of money that you lost a decade ago and being like, oh wow, THEREs that wallet I lost a decade ago, and holy shit, look at all that MONEY in there! But seeing Deerhoof live is even better than that -- these guys know what the hell they are doing and they have fun doing it, and it shows.
If you like minimal drum kits, check out the work of Zach Hill with Hella and Death Grips, as well as solo material and wavves. To me, he is even more impressive.
He’s played 2-piece kits with even more fierce stick slapping. I swear I don’t know how he does it. He said somewhere in that what’s in my bag interview or something that he expresses his less dorky side through his drums then giggles in a Greg way. Dude is just great.
I may sound stupid, but this coordinated noise is actually impressive. I mean, it may sound like a mess, but it's actually organized, timed and tight. It's... confusing me. I can't actually like it, but I can't hate it either.
It's bloody brilliant. Saw them this past summer in Leeds and they are as astonishing as they seem. You put it very well - sounds like a mess but it is amazingly tight and poly-rhythmic. All. The. Time. Mind blown.
I'm so sick of older people (like me) saying music just isn't the same anymore, that all that was good stopped with Steely Dan or REM or Pearl Jam or whoever the fuck, pick the era. Deerhoof proves, definitively, that music is better than it's ever been, alive and well
i love deerhoof, my life has been crazy but deerhoofs music brings back the true vibes, im one who has been emailing you guys idunno if many do that lol, wanti!!! its real, the world is real!!
This a creative person's band. They are my oasis away from the left-brain world and their top 40 music. So thankful to God that I get it and I understand them. They rook.
Great performance, or though the audio on the video is a bit biased towards the left side of the stage, which kind of makes sense. Either that or it's soundboard but Greg Saunier was playing rather loudly...
Did they just have a jam and that's what this is? It doesn't sound rehearsed at all. At times it really locks in, and others it's kind of clashing. I'm not talking about syncopation. I'm talking about not all playing the same song. :)
I have to tell to Greg does he know Drum brand KUMU?They are made here in Finland.Hand made completely of course.Material is Finnish birch. Take a look for them.Best of the best I think(I am not drummer but guitarist). This video has best drum sound's that I have ever heard.Bass drum almost stop heart.What set it is?Anyone knows?
+Cocaine Meth Deerhoof uses drums and amp cabinets from the venue. Greg doesn't own a drum set, I think, maybe a digital one for recording. Only a keyboard to compose songs with. His skill is amazing. By the way, I loved you in Intervention.
Yes that was improve...but still following the general sound of the song "Panda". But then again, they improve EVERY time they play live...Greg doesn't adhere to a specific drum routine but he stays with the general sound of the song he plays. same goes with John, Ed and Satome.
