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I've seen a lot of concerts and huge bands in their "primes" and the drummer that impressed me most was Billy Joel's Liberty DeVito.
Not in how he had solos but in that he never showboated, he never went on a run for 15 minutes just playing badda bing chick a boom boom drrrrrrrr bam bam bam drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbam bam bam boom boom boom.
He just kept the tune going. When he did do a solo it was fast, had a point and the band moved on to the next song.
The few true drummers like Keith Moon that could play faster than machine guns are very rare. The rest, all sound the same, they may have big sets and more toys but in the end they all start sounding the same.
Now, give me a guitar solo and I could listen to it anytime. But drums like bass are for me just parts of the rhythm section and that's it. Guess that's why I max the treble and turn down the bass.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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