To me, Weckl is one of those drummers who not only possesses phenomenal skills , but also displays those skills like "poetry in motion"...the sticks dance in his hands... This video appears to have been taped within a week of Dave's 64th birthday (Jan. 8) - and he still oozes graceful movement...a pleasure to watch...
And if I can…how do I tell you? Never mind, it was a rhetorical question. He always plays displaced, even when he doesn’t. I know his stuff enough to know that. But that’s the whole idea anyway, for the listener to just count quarter notes thru anything being played. And in so doing, you hear the inventiveness of the player.
