Gene Krupa & His Orchestra 1947 Boiler Room Drum Solo from “Beat The Band” Red Rodney 

I feel what's missing in today's Club and Music scene can be found here in a video which shows some great music, a fire breathing drumming machine in Gene Krupa who can even get a tune out of boiler pipes let alone his magnificent, natural gift of timing. There is the example of Class., as shown in a Elegant, Attractive Singer, a Class Band with many, many talented musicians all dressed very smartly. A audience who is also elegantly dressed, both Ladies & Gentlemen, polite and appreciative of the music played. I was born in 1948 but watched many B Grade Movies of the Big Band Era as a kid and while I understand the cost and complex problems with staging Big Band Concerts today I feel very fortunate om Australia.we still have these examples of such a Era, Classy stuff at it's best. Cheers All, from Australia, Denis.

Gene was my great uncle on my mother and maternal grandmother's side. Their family ended up moving to Pittsburgh, and had their Polish surname Krupa Americanized into Cooper.

GENE KRUPA OPENED THE DOORS FOR EVERY DRUMMER IN THE UNIVERSE AND WAS ONE OF THE BEST DRUMMERS EVER !!!!!!!

😎👍🥁🇺🇸🇵🇱Happy Birthday Geno! Polish pride from Chicago's southside!

When Gene plays a room , He PLAYS the room!.... (IGMC)

I’m here because Ned Flanders beatnik parents said “Disciplining Ned is like making Gene stop drumming”

Not many things sound cooler than a cup muted trumpet.

Gene Krupa, the ULTIMATE swinger! Every time he takes a solo, it sounds like an invitation to dance.

Fun, creative film making. I love the fact that Gene always played Slingerland but never accepted an endorsement check. A real class act!

Corny yes, but it wasn't for the time. Gene had the flair, style and good looks that made him a star....but he also took the music and his contribution to it seriously. He paved the way and Buddy knew it and respected him for it as well. Great find and great post Drumuitar!

I am 26 and I’ve been looking for new inspiration and Gene Krupa going off the drum set to play everything else just blew me away

This is true great music with a beautifully voiced lady of a singer. I owe my thanks to my father for introducing to this classic , sorry ,vintage old school. This is truly grand

Growing up in the sixties it was funny that in discussions on music my grandparents would tell me matter of fact Gene Krupa was the best. Even playing guitar in a band I only knew I couldn't play drums but didn't fully understand what made them great. Seeing explanations and breaking it down I have a new respect. Also it seems the best drummers in rock were inspired by jazz drummers. Lately I find myself listening closer to drums and being amazed at some players.

Krupa was Mr. Cool!

Peter Criss (of the band KISS) said Gene gave his free drum lessons when he worked at the Metropole NYC! Gene was one of the nicest guys Peter said! It's so refreshing to hear this music that my grandparents grew up to and danced to!

Gene Krupa always blows me away. Some drummers have come close, but no one, even after all these years, can top him. Simply The Master!

When drums didn’t sound like plastic lids. Love the big open sound.

My husbands Mom was in his dance troupe in the late 30's-early 40's...

My parents music. Actually it's good enough to be everybody's music

This is music when music was music.

You can say both Gene and Frances have a set of pipes!

I read that Gene was good. I heard that Gene was good. Now, I see and agree that he, indeed, was good.

That would have been Gene Krupa at his peak. 38 years old and in top form.

Gene Krupa and big band drum solos are what inspired the drum/space portions of grateful Dead concerts. That's how I found this!

Thank you for a very educational film clip that highlight a time when movies included truly memorable music in their movies.

Great music can even be played in a boiler room. Never turn away great talent.

Gene Krupa was one of Neil Peart’s idols. R.I.P Neil. And by the way, in those days blondes could actually sing!

I began playing drums when I was 10 years old (1965) and Gene Krupa was my first "drummer idol." There have been many others since then, such as Buddy Rich, Ginger Baker, John Bonham, and of course, Neil Pert! But Gene Krupa was the first one to really IMPRESS me with his talent.

Frances is looking gorgeous!! Gene is great as always!

Nice. He made the pipes sound like bells. The B&W is great with the vent shadows. Cornball but cool!

Love this!! Gene drumming on the pipes and any thing he can drum on!! Great scene! Reminds of my days working at the DRF ( Daily Racing Form, a horse racing newspaper) well there was this guy in our office back in the 1980's and he was a hobby drummer etc and when he would come into our dept he would invariably drum on whatever was handy with whatever he could use as drum sticks. 😁 it was pretty cool and funny also but here is to you Carl Evanoff !!( was the fellow doing this) this )

Best drummer of all time. That's what my daddy said all the time.

Gene Krupa was a true legend and inspired many other legends. And, hotties were a lot hotter.

gene krupa the greatest drummer ever

4:10 Krupa was Einsturzende Neubauten before Einsturzende Neubauten.

Gene Krupa - the legend. This here a great digital restoration.

3:26 And that moment, led to using fog machines for visual effects!!! LOL

To think that every single person in this vid is dead. Legends.

gene krupas absolute genious

Any time you want to discuss music with a drummer just say "Gene Krupa!" it never fails! I gave his bio to a young pro drummer recently. it's doing the rounds as I type!

Gene Krupa syncopated style.

I’ve been listening to metal drummer my whole life,I recently discovered Krupa by a way of John bonham,and Krupa is the best ever!

Great Stuff !. Also Saves Sending The Band Suits To The Dry Cleaners !.

In my top 5.drummers ever.1972 toure Providence RI, I worked there. My Father rip.knew krup'. Gave my father a then new,slingerland.foot pedal.exterior.spring to give to me,which he did I used the pedal til 1980.no issues. Switching to a ludwig ghost.brand.new til1990 speedkings.ever since. Long Live The K

GREW WITH GENE KRUPA !THE BEST !

It's so nice to see actual production value. They don't make them like they used to. RIP Good Times.

Greatest drummer ever

He is still my Drum Hero! RIP MY BROTHER GOD HAS ALL OF THE BEST DRUMMERS

Oh to wake up on a Monday morning to hear this!!! Simply beyond brilliant!! Thank you for posting!!

It was Gene Krupa. It was Gene Krupa. They only were able to blackball him w/ the marijuana charge. Dude was THE king.

Gene playing the shit out of that boiler room.

Teddy Napolean (hope my spelling is correct) is Gene's fabulous pianist. Thanks for posting.

"I think everything I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa..." The great Bill Ward

The king the drums as drummer Mel Torme said!!!!!

Fantastic. One of the best musical movie sequences ever. Wonderful & complete ingenuity in drum soloing with a huge difference by Gene Krupa - my absolutely favourite drummer. Also love Buddy (Rich) & Joe (Morello). All of them speak drums to me. Chris 🎼

The steam doesn't seem to be effecting their playing.

Love these old drum movies.

Gene Krupa was to drummers what Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix were to rock guitarists - a big agent of change (for the better). He was given credit for inventing the modern drum kit. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Krupa. He was in his mid 20's when he played the drums on Benny Goodman's version of "Sing, Sing, Sing". He's ten years older in this movie, which was released two years before I was born. I remember seeing him on TV occasionally when I was a kid. There are young drummers today, each much younger than my trench coat, who have heard of Gene Krupa, despite the intervening years of Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Butch Trucks, Neil Peart, Phil Collins, Dave Grohl - whoever you'd care to name. I kinda liked my toms a little thuddier and less pongy, but whatever it is he does, I cannot do it! No autotune here, no drum machines, even if it's a studio recording inserted into a movie set. The man is a demigod!

This Krupa solo is superb !

Gene appears in so many venues. He was top-notch.

This is music, youngsters! Do yourself a favour and listen to more of it.

Drummer hero

Gene was a bad dude.

Ah, the original fog machine. Gene Krupa was a beast!!!

Best Drummer ever!

Now that's the fakest boiler room I've ever seen

UNE IDOLE POUR MOI quelle force de vie ! Quelle joie intérieure musicale !

That club owners always yelling. Even when on the phone!

Krupa. Ringo. Buddy Rich. Milt Turner. Clyde Stubblefield. Ginger Baker. John Densmore. Keith Moon. John Bonham. Ian Paice. Carl Palmer. Wayne Smith. Bob Caldarella. Liberty DeVito. Neil Peart.

I've played in worse places. Like Mississippi...

Amazing drummer

One of my favourite scenes with gene that rail solo is off the hook n the blonde is cute as hell

The first time I ever heard Francis was in the Bickersons with Don Ameche I am Canadian so that is my excuse. There were and are so many great drummers and Gene is a bit too wild for my taste I like Shelly Manne but Gene brought many to the instrument and took it out of a background time keeper.

Good times

this is the kind of boiler room set I like! Like if you agree

The set up of this clip, the way the quick story is told and done within 6mins is super impressive! For folks who are watching this for the 1st time go watch the movie..it was The Tops of the times!! Huge admirer of 40s movies so i thank you oh so very much for posting! Keep drumming everyone!!

I grew up with Gene Krupa the best ever!

With that kinda talent who needs a drum kit.

,,,,,, Gene - the Master !!!

During WW2 my Grandpas aircraft carrier CVE91 USS Makkassar Strait there was band and the drummer knew how to play just like Gene.

This is cool as fuck. Like everything Gene Krupa did.

Beautiful music thanks 👌😍😍😍🇦🇺❤️❤️❤️

Gene Krupa, the original Keith Moon. 😊

Wow what a beautiful music

GREAT BAND!

I recognise Ralph Edwards who was the host on TVs "This Is Your Life" and Donald McBride who was famous for yelling "Jumping Butterballs" throughout the Marx Brothers movie "Room Service".

Cuanto talento ahí 👏👏👏

A movie star for playing drums, yeah! Once I played at a jam on Halloween night. The drummer was Natman and he was good, and a good singer too. Now wouldn't you like Batman more if he played drums? I want to see Superman play drums

うは…クレージーキャッツのハナ肇ドラムコントの元ネタを初めて観たよ。文章ではジーン・クルーパの 十八番だったって読んだことはあるんだが…長生きはするもんだ(笑)。

Wow. Red Rodney on trumpet!!!

The first tune was titled: "Calling Dr Gillespie"..which was an homage to Kildare's mentor and of course...Dizzy!

Gene Kruppa could play drums in Slayer or Motorhead, but they were very slowly for him.

Can it get any better ??

Geeeeeennne.🔥🔥🔥🔥

Love the Krupa

I'm reading a book "Beast" about John Bonham, it says there young John was blown away when he saw in the cinema the part where Gene Krupa plays on steam pipes. Ever since Gene and Buddy Rich were his heroes.

So musical.

Gene Krupa Rocks!!!

Buddy did it later on the muppet show … and their legendary shows inspired myself as a drummer to “play the room” at a Halloween party… they loved it (btw Steve says hi!!)

I guess the moral of this scene is "If you can't win people's heart with nice words win them with controlled drumsticks"