Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on February 20, 2018, 04:34:24 AM... Peter (who obviously got halfway down Page 1 before realizing it was a necro thread.....)

LOL!!

Peter (who obviously got halfway down Page 1 before realizing it was a necro thread.....)

I did the same thing! (lol)

I wish I had stopped reading when I realized it was raised from the dead - unfortunately I kept reading and picked up on some old bad vibes, at which point I stopped reading...


The recent posts were nice though!


I realize that what I really need is a drummer who plays in the pocket and who listens. That's not too much to ask, is it? 

70s Bill Bruford.

Quote from: David Houck on June 24, 2009, 11:26:50 AM
At the moment, I don't have a bass playing style.  Recent evidence suggests that if I keep practicing everyday, perhaps I might have one in another year or two, or three, or some other significant period of time.

I really enjoyed Dave's post here. 

My bluegrass and oldtyme roots were drum-less, but I've been lucky enough to play with a couple really good drummers along the way. My favorite (if I had to pick one) is a horn player who has double duty in our Christmas Band as a percussionist. He and I are always staged right next to each other, and man, that really helps me... the rest of the band is so far apart that it can be disorienting until the monitors get right.

In this day and time, the cajon is slowly becoming accepted into some traditional music circles too. One of our sidebar groups uses one, and the gal that plays it is like a sister to me. She's also a really good bass player, so we have a very similar sense of timing and where the downbeat is. The lock-in is just as strong as with having a good drummer, from my perspective at least. The other guys in the band often wonder what we're grinning about back there, but the truth is, we're just having so much fun that it's hard not to.   

Note proximity of the bass player to the 'drummer' in this jam scenario: (yeah, that's us) 

*If there was a parenthetical point to my rambling post here, it's that playing with good drummers has helped me to better understand what my 'style' is. 

I'd go with ANIMAL.

That's a very nice picture of the jam, Gregory.

Definitely Dennis Chambers...Jack !!!!

Carmine Appice. If he's not available, then it's Corky Laing

I think I posted in here before...John Molo would be my top pick


However lately I'm more excited about drummers that know how to groove well and can keep the groove going, that means no fancy rolls, fills or other stuff going on randomly in a song.

I play various genres of music . In a Grateful Dead genre I would say Bill Kreutzman or Joe Russo . In a Jazz Fusion genre Peter Erskine . For straight Jazz the irreplaceable Buddy Rich .  My list continues for other genres of Rock with other drummers as well . There is not just one in that list .

Gerry Brown.