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December 2008 Archives
A search for "New Year" and "drums" on Youtube turned up these:
NHS Drumcorp New Years Drum Battle
Ian's Drum Fanfare @ New Years Eve
Baba Olatunji & his Drums of Passion- Akiwowo
Happy New Year from Tomtomtime
Happy Birthday to Zbigniew Robert Promiński (born 30th December 1978 in Tczew) better known as Inferno from the Polish death metal band Behemoth. He is considered one of the fastest and most technically proficient drummers in today's death metal scene.
Here's a taste of Inferno:
Happy birthday to the late Colin Flooks (December 29, 1947), better known as Cozy Powell, hard-working British drummer. Cozy played with The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath, Brian May, and many others.
Cozy Powell died on April 5, 1998 following a car crash while driving his Saab 9000 at 104 mph in bad weather on the M4 motorway near Bristol. He was talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone, not wearing a seatbelt and over the drink-drive limit.
Here's Cozy playing drums with a 9 year old kid on a TV show in the 70's:
plus a hairy pig!
Happy birthday to Terry Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) best known for playing with Frank Zappa in the late 70's, replacing Bill Bruford in the prog supergroup UK, scoring some hits in the 80's with his new wave act Missing Persons and owning some of the most absurdly enormous drum kits in history.
Man, look at this shit
Here's a young Bozzio in action with Zappa:
Lars Ulrich (born December 26, 1963) - tennis prodigy, multi-millionaire, art collector, copyright enforcer and sometimes heavy metal drummer.
Here's Lars on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"
searching for "Christmas" and "drums" on Youtube turned up these:
Bradon Christmas Drum solo
Carissa Christmas Belly Dance Performance and Drum Solo
drummer boy christmas wish-- drum only
Happy Holidays from Tomtomtime.
Happy birthday to Warren "Baby" Dodds (born December 24, 1898), the legendary jazz drummer best know for his work with Louie Armstrong.
Here is what could be possibly the first drum film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6N-A3owHDk
Happy Birthday to Sonny Emory (born December 23, 1962), best known as the drummer of Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Here's Sonny in action: Sonny Emory on Wikipedia
Happy Birthday to Ron Bushy (born December 23, 1945), drummer of Iron Butterfly - creator of possibly the most famous drum solo in history: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
Here's Ron in action:
Happy birthday to Barry Jenkins (born 22 December 1944, Leicester, England), best known for being a drummer for The Animals during both of that 1960s group's incarnations.
Happy birthday to George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20, 1945), better known as Peter Criss of Kiss fame.
Here's Criss in action '77:
Just a shout-out to Atsuo of the Japanese band Boris - one of the most entertaining drummers I've seen in awhile.
photo by Amy Dermont @ Jerky's in Providence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_(band)
Happy birthday to Frank Martin Strauss, best known as F.M. Einheit, the metal percussion dynamo of Einstürzende Neubauten.
The Commodores drummer, except when he sang Brickhouse. Couldn't find footage of him playing AND singing.
also known as King Roy Shirley, he invented the one-drop rhythm (if you believe what the internet tells you) Here's a King Roy one-drop classic accompanied by footage of George Foreman knocking Joe Frasier down over and over and over
The Twin Towers - VZO and 2x4 (blame Julian for the name) Watch more clips at http://www.youtube.com/tomtomtimetv
Here's Lady Ty at work: Watch more clips at http://www.youtube.com/tomtomtimetv
Happy Birthday to David Lovering, best known as the drummer of the Pixies.
After the breakup of the group, David turned his attention to stage magic. Here's him in action shooting smoke rings out of a drum:
Frank Difficult and 2x4 from Episode 4 - Season 1
Watch more clips at http://www.youtube.com/tomtomtimetv
Yes, the Beach Boys' drummer was a streaker and also gave his house to the Manson family. Everybody loved him. He wasn't satisfied JUST drumming, though.
But really, here's some fine BB footage.
If he were still with us, he turn 64 today. RIP
Ronnie Thomas Verrell (21 February 1926-22 February 2002)
THIS is the guy.
This is the guy who played all of Animal's (of The Muppet Show) drum parts. He's a British jazz drummer. We've all seen him battle Buddy Rich, but how about Harry Belafonte!?! WHAT?
This perplexed me.
So instead I listened to the Doors.
Densmore could flex time real well, and he can play a dirty blues stomp with all the necessary bombast. I'm listening to him go off on Live at Hollywood Bowl, and I'm getting full drum-journey satisfaction.
Check out his website: www.johndensmore.com
John Densmore wingin' it with Michael C Ford. He's sixty-four today.
Here's a guy who went to high school with Kim Fowler and Phil Spector! Sandy f-ing Nelson! His records are far out. Poor dude lost his right foot in a motorcycle accident. Here he is as a successful young drummist!
There's an abundance of great youtube footage of Sandy playing and ranting. Here's some:
Sandy turns 70 years old today.
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