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OfflineDarling Pretty

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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2018, 06:12:07 PM »
OES was DS strongest album in terms of Drumming.
So Porcaro/Katche

Terry was for sure the weakest. There were good reasons that he was replaced by Omar Hakim on the BIA record

Pick was very good on all the albums. He is a legend

Also I liked Chad Cromwell very much on MKs solo albums and tours
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2018, 08:17:29 PM »
Hard to tell. I fell in love with DS because of "On The Night" (and it's still my favorite live album ever), so Chris Whitten was the first DS drummer I've heard and saw on tape. But for sure, the most suitable for the band was Pick and the most technical are Hakim/Porcaro.

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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2018, 10:25:39 PM »
I don’t count session drummers in. These guys are all incredible but they were never really in the band.
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2018, 11:02:33 PM »
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2018, 04:35:07 AM »
I don’t count session drummers in. These guys are all incredible but they were never really in the band.

Exactly, and you're right, Pick was the best drummer in terms of sensitivity he was versatile... Terry was mister horse power at that time when the band needed energy.
I think today, Mark found his drummer, finally. 
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2018, 08:22:58 AM »
I don’t count session drummers in. These guys are all incredible but they were never really in the band.

Pick was the only one in the band. All the rest were hired guns.
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2018, 09:10:06 AM »
I don’t count session drummers in. These guys are all incredible but they were never really in the band.

Pick was the only one in the band. All the rest were hired guns.

I know but I’m talking about being in the band, playing live, showing their faces and so on. Terry and Chris were more than a name in the sleeve.
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2018, 10:06:17 AM »
I don’t count session drummers in. These guys are all incredible but they were never really in the band.

Pick was the only one in the band. All the rest were hired guns.

I know but I’m talking about being in the band, playing live, showing their faces and so on. Terry and Chris were more than a name in the sleeve.

Non of them played in any DS studio record, only Terry got to play in the Twisting EP and walk of life and MFN intro.

Chris was a hired gun for live concerts as much as Porcaro and Katche were hired guns for the studio record.

However we all consider Terry as a member because of Alchemy, the BiA tour and the Mandela concert, even he was just a hired gun for that period
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2018, 12:59:09 PM »
Terry was always the DS drummer for me for a few reasons:

played when the band were at peak of popularity
played at Live Aid
played on the famous Alchemy record/video
had a power and energy that lifted the rest of the band (many songs on the OES tour sounded lifeless by comparison)


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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2018, 01:20:39 PM »
Terry was always the DS drummer for me for a few reasons:

played when the band were at peak of popularity
played at Live Aid
played on the famous Alchemy record/video
had a power and energy that lifted the rest of the band (many songs on the OES tour sounded lifeless by comparison)

I agree 100% with you dmg!! For example, i prefer SOS of Alchemy or Wembley, instead of the OES Tour peformance..

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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #25 on: February 05, 2018, 01:25:14 PM »
Terry was always the DS drummer for me for a few reasons:

played when the band were at peak of popularity
played at Live Aid
played on the famous Alchemy record/video
had a power and energy that lifted the rest of the band (many songs on the OES tour sounded lifeless by comparison)

I agree 100% with you dmg!! For example, i prefer SOS of Alchemy or Wembley, instead of the OES Tour peformance..

Moreover, he just seems to be a good chap, like D. Cummings or H. Lindes for example among others.

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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #26 on: February 05, 2018, 02:52:21 PM »
In my opinion Chris can be seen as a non-official DS member rather than a session drummer. You see his face on a live DVD and in three or four videoclips, including Calling Elvis, with his own puppet. I didn't even know what Manu looked like before that infamous interview. I know Omar Hakim from his work with Sting and Jeff Porcaro's face was a mistery to me until 5 minutes ago.

In fact there's no right and wrong here, just different interpretations. I never liked Whitten's drumming anyway...  ;D
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #27 on: February 05, 2018, 03:01:09 PM »
Terry was always the DS drummer for me for a few reasons:

played when the band were at peak of popularity
played at Live Aid
played on the famous Alchemy record/video
had a power and energy that lifted the rest of the band (many songs on the OES tour sounded lifeless by comparison)

You just came up with the best word to describe Chris' drumming on that tour: lifeless. The very only song that was improved by his drumming was Money for Nothing. His playing was too bureaucratic and conservative to my taste, it felt robotic. I wonder what that tour would've been like with Manu or Jeff behind the drum kit and Vince Gill instead of Phil Palmer.
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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #28 on: February 06, 2018, 10:06:25 PM »
IMHO Chris was ok. He is by far not the drummer I have the most difficulties to listen.

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Re: Favourite DS drummer
« Reply #29 on: February 07, 2018, 11:20:07 AM »
IMHO Chris was ok. He is by far not the drummer I have the most difficulties to listen.

To me is why I find the OES tour live recordings boring as hell...
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