Mr. Torres has such a wealth of knowledge things needed as a live/studio drummer. Additionally, he very versatile as a drummer from jazz, rock and if correct Latin. I have great respect for Mr Torres and a accomplished DRUMMER!!!
This opened my eyes to Tico's place in the history of drumming and he's great! This despite the god awful mix where the snare is maybe 3x louder than the kick and toms.
It makes me wonder... The company set this up with him, determined his pay, made a contract, Tico shows up with his kit and the crew acts like they don't know how to mic drums? The snare destroys everything else and those splashy hats are ridiculous in washing over the kit. 🤔🎤🥁
But writing songs that sell is actually one of the hardest things to do. Don't be fooled by the 'simplicity' on the surface. The simpler a memorable hook is the harder it is to craft. The notes (and amount of) being used isn't an indication of how hard it really was to come up with. It's a gift that some people have the ear for and others don't. As far as I'm concerned, their songwriting is a massive reason as to why they are infact 'supremely' talented.
I remember watching this in 89 when I started.. "Listen to all types of music"& "Simplicity is genius" that's all I needed . seeing this today is funny because those drums sound very 88 LOL!
Tico is a fine drummer who was devoted to one band and thats way he is not well known but listen carefully to his clever drumming in the song " Always" and you will know his quality.
Tico was a well-respected session player in New York, when Jon asked him to join Bon Jovi. Being a few years older than the rest of the band, he already had a family and steady income, and had to convince his wife, that it was worth the risk to join up with JBJ and give it a go.
My favorite drummer ever. As a jazz drummer and being the oldest member in Bon Jovi, I would have thought he could have put much more of him in the band's albums. It's a shame Bon Jovi formulastic style stopped him from showing his skills. Don't get me wrong, I love the band. By the way, is that Richie Sambora talking to the dog in 41:04?
He looks like the carpenter, Clay Guida,fighter from the UFC, and he sounds like columbo,I like vic firth 5B, they say they have no bananas,and it's true,I rolled a lot of their sticks and never found one with a warp in it, regal tip sticks had lots of warps
If it was really your favorite then you'd know that it's "Living ON a prayer"!! I don't understand how people are too lazy to pay attention to what they write and post misspelled comments and typos. FYI, there's a convenient feature called "edit" to correct those mistakes.
This an interesting video, you know this is a pretty nice drummer. The only thing on this video its about those drums sound not according to his level. A curious fact: do you know the people from Costa Rica are called "Tico" as regionalism. hehehe.
