Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[Paulclem]

I used to drum with my mates - I wasn't very good, but it was a laugh. My very basic kit had a Pink Panther on the front. We once got a knock at the door at 3 in the morning from a woman who lived across the street asking us to be quiet as her husband was working early. They must have been tolerant- or scared. We were a bit rowdy, though we never caused bother for the neighbours. We didn't carry on if we were asked.

[Sancho]

My only experience drumming is on my desk at school with a couple of pencils, which generations from now be known as ‘Van Haling’ and nobody will remember why they call it that. (I also was asked to stop it)

Van Halen, Hot for Teacher:
http://youtu.be/-4GZFbCqx18

I’ll keep an eye out for the Tony Fletcher book. Thanks for the recommendation, Mark. I’d like to read it. My completion percentage on biographies is low, though. I tend to bog down. I’m still trying to get through Slash’s book.

My ear has always preferred John Bonham’s drumming to Keith Moon’s. But then, I’ve always preferred Led Zeppelin to The Who. I don’t know why - a matter of taste I suppose.

For Sancho’s money, the best drum solo ever:

Zep, Bonzo’s Montreux:
http://youtu.be/Sal1nVhYPiY
(I understand the electronic effects were added by Page after Bonham’s death)

[prendrelemick]

I sort of rate Kieth Moon on the drums. He had a distinctive sound, as though he thought the drums should play the lead all the time.

I once played the drum in the Boys' Brigade Church parade. They took it off me after that. My mate who was a drummer, told me Buddy Rich was the best ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrxHP36N1Q


Of course its a different genre to Led Zep and The Who.

[Sancho]

Uh-huh. Read on-line somewhere that he had borderline personality disorder, which would explain a lot. World-class drummer, no matter how you look at it, though.

Righteous Buddy Rich link, Mick.

Anybody know whatever happened to these guys:

Animals, House of the Rising Sun
http://youtu.be/bwAw9ThDQmk

[MarkBastable]

Uh-huh. Read on-line somewhere that he had borderline personality disorder, which would explain a lot. World-class drummer, no matter how you look at it, though.

Righteous Buddy Rich link, Mick.

Anybody know whatever happened to these guys:

Animals, House of the Rising Sun
http://youtu.be/bwAw9ThDQmk

The bass player ended up managing Jimi Hendrix, and the drummer worked for that management team too - as well as securing the copyright to the name of the band. The organ player had a few hits in the Randy Newman mould and wrote some noted film music. The guitar player didn't do much after the Animals split. The singer joined the California band War and also had a pretty good career as a solo artist. He was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

[Sancho]

Ah-hah, thanks Mark. That kid had a voice. I’ve heard that song probably a thousand times, but I never realized those guys were so young.

[MarkBastable]

Ah-hah, thanks Mark. That kid had a voice. I’ve heard that song probably a thousand times, but I never realized those guys were so young.

Yeah - he was about twenty-two when he recorded that, I believe.

[Sancho]

Well then, Electric guitar, drums, or keyboard?

Dave Chappelle (with the help of John Mayer) gets to the root of our musical leanings.

White People Can’t Dance? http://youtu.be/_9DcihpNYds

[prendrelemick]

Guitar every time for me.

I just love Brian May mucking about with Brighton Rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxqx...feature=fvwrel

ps. I am white and can't dance.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Two brothers who was / is pretty good at their trade...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjRg...eature=related

[Sancho]

Truer words have not been spoken, my friend. I used to catch Stevie Ray down on 6th Street during my undergrad years. Then I saw him for the last time in (of all places) Fairbanks, Alaska a few months before his death.

Little Wing

Stevie: http://youtu.be/k0zy0lqpOyc

Jimi: http://youtu.be/c_DTdFppN9c

[prendrelemick]

Little wing! Suddenly I'm 16 again - round at a neighbours with my mate and neighbour's two daughters lying on the living room floor listening to Ron Wood playing it on his (only?) solo album.


Music and memories, a potent mix.

[Paulclem]

Little wing! Suddenly I'm 16 again - round at a neighbours with my mate and neighbour's two daughters lying on the living room floor listening to Ron Wood playing it on his (only?) solo album.


Music and memories, a potent mix.

I've recently posted some pop from my days at the slaughterhouse. The radio was always blasting out radio 1, and thememories are inextricably mixed with the music. They're not ones I particularly like, but they are like the gaudy wallpaper in a house you didn't decorate, imposed but indelible.

[Scheherazade]

Music and memories, a potent mix.

Fills one with an urge to acquire a bandana, a pair of tight jeans, leather jacket and some boots, doesn't it?

Oh, not to mention a Harley.

[prendrelemick]

Fills one with an urge to acquire a bandana, a pair of tight jeans, leather jacket and some boots, doesn't it?

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Especially if you're in Dire Straits.