Taye Unveils New Website Design
December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Click on over and check out Taye’s new site. Product info is easier to find now, and at the bottom of the homepage are some sweet audio files that demonstrate Taye’s drum lines. We have the GoKit groove on permanent repeat.
Get Your John Bonham Fix…
November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
at the official Led Zeppelin YouTube channel. The band (or rather its management minions) have uploaded a buttload of bootleg and rare videos, including some shot on spectacularly grainy 8mm. Start off with this performance of “Achilles Last Stand” from a concert in L.A. in 1977:
[via Music Radar]
Lars Ulrich Talks Mullets and Orgies
November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You know, we’re really up on this whole new media, Web journalism thing, but somehow we missed this fabulous Lars Ulrich interview that was published a whole 18 days ago. It consists entirely of fan questions, good ones like “Your girlfriend, Connie Nielsen, is smokin’ hot. Is she with you more for your money or your fame?” and “You once joked that Metallica’s video collection should’ve been called 15 Years of Bad Haircuts. Who has rocked the all-time worst do?” Our favorite, though, has got to be this one:
When you toured with Guns N’ Roses in 1992, what was the most batshit insane thing you saw Axl Rose do?
Axl’s a friend, and I don’t want to compromise that. But as for “fun” crazy: He wrote his [half] brother, Stuart, a $25,000 check every day to throw these lavish theme parties. It was like, we’re in Indianapolis, so there were Formula One cars everywhere, with all the girls dressed up in pit-crew uniforms. It was decadence at the highest level I’d ever seen, a Caligula kind of outlandishness. There were orgies, sure. Was I involved? Yes. Well, I was in the same room—we’ll leave it at that.
[via PerezHilton]
Dave Weckl Interview
November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The German-language site Jazzdrummerworld.com recently scored an interview with Dave Weckl, sticks down one of our favorite drummers ever. Scroll about half way down this page for the English version. Weckl chats a bit about his latest gigs (no new Dave Weckl Band album in the works, alas), the double-edged swordiness of the Internet, and why good musicians will always survive the tough times of a constantly changing music business. Go read it.
Big Drum Thump Blips
November 15, 2008 | 2 Comments
Though we haven’t quite recovered from Muxtape’s unfortunate demise, it was getting to be time to pull our shit together and stop rocking to sleep in the bathtub. We looked at quite a few services that would allow us to stream full songs without getting sued (or at least without getting aggressively sued) and went with the seriously awesome BLIP.fm, a kind of Twitter/Muxtape hybrid. Check out our station here, and if you create one of your own, be sure to friend us up.
Buddy Rich Memorial Concert Photos
November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Even if you watched the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert on the Drum Channel, you still need to check out these cool pics from Michael Lowe, owner of the equally cool website Neil Peart Drumsticks. Our favorite is the shot below of Neil and his cymbal-spankin’ face.
Buddy Rich Concert Pre-Show
October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We’ve been playing around with the various camera views available for the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert that will be streamed today at the Drum Channel. The drum cam view and video interface are pictured below. Image quality is very good so far, but we haven’t been able to get an audio sample yet. Sticks crossed for auditory fabulousness.
The show stars at 4:30 p.m. (PST). The concert schedule is as follows:
- Tommy Igoe performing “Preach & Teach” and “Little Train”
- John Blackwell performing “No Jive,” “Nuttville,” and “Mind of J”
- Guitar Center Contest Winner Donnie Marple performing a solo
- Terry Bozzio performing “Machine,” “Tank!,” and “Some Skunk Funk”
- Tommy Igoe performing “The Chicken,” “Willowcress,” and “La Fiesta”
- Nick Rich performing “Buelah Witch” and “Mercy Mercy Mercy.” Also The Beat Goes On with Cathy Rich.
- Chad Smith performing “Dani California,” “Hocus Pocus,” and “Birdland”
- Neil Peart performing “Love For Sale,” “Time Will Tell,” “One O’Clock Jump,” and “YYZ”
Update: Click Channel 5, called “Backstage,” for pre-show chatter with Bozzio et al. Audio seems quite good—a little out of sync every now and then with the video, but quite watchable. This will likely be affected by your connection speed, of course, and how many folks are logged on.
Update: Terry Bozzio is performing songs from Cowboy Bebop!
Buddy Rich Concert on the Drum Channel
October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Don’t forget to tune in for the Drum Channel’s live stream of the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert tomorrow. It starts at 7:30 p.m. EST (4:30 p.m. PST), and with Neil Peart, Chad Smith, Terry Bozzio, and lots of other greats performing, it’s not a show you’ll want to miss. We don’t want to hear any excuses: the live stream is freakin’ free!
The Drum Channel Is Going to Be…
October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
…goddamn unbelievably great. At least we hope so. Click on over for a peek at the introduction video featuring Terry Bozzio. From what we can gather, the site will have a strong social media focus (yay!), but there doesn’t appear to be an official, all-of-our-shit-is-live-so-you-can-play-with-it launch date yet (boo!). Stay stuck to the interwebospheres for updates soon.
Ask Chad Smith a Question
October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Music Radar is taking questions for Chad Smith. Just leave your query in the comments section here (though you do, alas, have to register first on Music Radar). One of our favorites so far:
Do you sometimes cringe when you read Anthony’s lyrics and WTF is a rockapotamus ferchristsakes LOL
