@@Rhythmwatch You nailed it, after many years of being amazed at Gavin that is EXACTLY the reference! Bob Ross and Gavin Harrison make it look so easy be yet they are millions of miles ahead of all others !
I can't find the words to explain how his drumming makes me feel, it's just so emotionally joyous for me when I listen to him play, it moves me intensely. He's so so special, a one off, & I think we are all so privileged to be able to listen to & watch him play. I think he's the overall ultimate drumming package like no other before or currently.
@@82mangini You can be simplistic as much as you want and treat music as "faster=better", just don't expect other people to do the same. And even measuring "better technique" isn't as simple as "more notes". There's a reason why the vast majority of people supported the coming back of Portnoy to Dream Theater over Mangini some weeks ago. It's not just nostalgia. When it comes to art, being the fastest robot in town is far from being enough.
stop whining and practice. the only right way to react to superior drummers is to get inspired and try to learn what they are doing. (I personally get inspired by GH, due to his musical and dynamic playing) It will most likely take a lot of time and effort, but noone said, it's gonna be easy. There is always going to be someone that crushes everyone else, but that's not a reason to get dicouraged.
I've been playing drums for the past 20 years, tried every single style, practiced shitloads of hours...and after seeing this I feel like I've never touched a drum kit. Gavin's complexity is inhuman. The groove, the odd signatures, the technique, the passion. And it looks like he's playing a regular 4/4 tempo, which is unbelievable.
Seen this a hundred times and I still think this is my favorite drum performance ever. The killing mixture of feel, groove, odd timing and precision up to the 1/128 notes. In other words: the perfection of the beauty of drumming.
I was a late arrival to King Crimson and was kind of skeptical of how three drummers would work, I already liked Pat Mastelotto but missed Bill Bruford, and went out of my way to explore the work of every member of the latest lineup and holy shit, I love Porcupine Tree thanks to Gavin Harrison. Seeing King Crimson live in 2021 was enormous, I was on Pat Mastelotto’s side of the crowd for the show and Pat himself was absolutely on fire through the whole thing, but when Gavin played a three-minute improv solo during 21st Century Schizoid Man I was really blown away, some of the band applauded before they jumped back into action, and his solo on that tour’s album release was even crazier! He managed to sneak a bit of Smoke On the Water in the Mexico City concert Meltdown Blu-Ray, you could see Robert Fripp and Jakko Jakszyk having a shocked laugh while they watched him carrying along.
His playing fits just...so perfectly. Perfection is not a myth in Gavin's case. Perfect. That's the only word for this. So perfect I can't describe it in words. Literally.
That little tom-tom-snare backbeat fill at 2:28 that matches the phrasing of Steven singing "Won-ders off" is so fucking tastful I just had to stop the video and post this before continuing. The man is truly a genius.
thanks so much for uploading this version. it was taken down for a while from youtube for some reason. it is the best version live as far as i know for now...
Good Lord! I have always love this song just for what it is and how great a song it is without any visuals but seeing how this guy drums just takes it to another level! Awesome.
This is probablly the best playing to the song i have ever listen to. This is sooo good. WOW The sound of his drums is amazing. The ride, and crashes is so good sounding. WOW The snare is just magic.
that fill into the first chorus was so simple but just complimented the track so well. in my opinion he was ahead of his time with his playing introducing chops and polyrhythms just made the whole vibe of any track he played so incredible.
Amazing!! a lot of feeling 🤩. Let there be drums and there was drums. Gavin was born to play drums. Let there be the Gavin's light. His present for us...🌞✖️➕
I've been irritated as all get-out, and this mellowed me right out. How someone can play 7/4 with triplet fills and calm me down is nuts! I just want to see ONE person who gave a thumbs down try and justify it....maybe the video isn't clear enough...???
New learn for me and I must say it’s explained and unearthed a lot of stuff for me. Incredible to think it’s 7:4 and played with such ease. Like you say that’s what sets Gavin apart
@@captainminecraftist I personally think that Gavin used a misdirection tactic to make it sound good. He basically used the hi-hats as a metric for people to grab onto, as every person would lean towards using the bass drum and snare drum to 'find' the beat. However since the hi-hats are used as a stand-in (Or overriding, as Harrison personally calls it) for snare and bass drum, it works really well, as that is the most steady backbeat throughout the verses. He also has stated that using more half-time signatures make it far easier to override those odd times, as he could have theoretically used two bars of 7/8, rather than one bar of 7/4 over those verses, but chooses not to, for the sake of the listeners, and it would fit the laid-back feeling of the song to use a half time measure, such as the latter.
I am an average drummer....and it took me most of a day to get that intro lick down.....7/16th bass drum....is what perplexed me.....After listening to him over and over....I can only find one flaw......HE'S JUST TOO GOOD.....Everything is just impeccable....How do you like that sound too?? I just need a few more million hours to practice and I think have a shot....LOL
Great song also! Everything he plays is exactly what I would want to hear if I was the songwriter, producer etc. Just perfect funky yet a great rock edge with incorporating some very Slick drum stuff!! Magic Gavin !! Musical Magic!!!
I'm just so glad that he lives in an age he can get recorded so the next generations won't have to read about him in a book, but can enjoy his playing forever.
One of the best drummers of the modern era with one of the best songwriters of our era. They really did create some of the best and most underrated music. It’s sad that wilson has moved on from writing pt material. I get why he has and I don’t blame him. It just sucks.
