Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 02, 2020

Try John Bonham or Keith Moon.

Who’s the original drummer that the others are all different from, then? Gene Krupa? Or an ancient caveman ancestor of Ringo Starr?

According to Google: To ‘march to the beat of a different drummer’ means to act independently and to behave differently than what is expected or is the norm. Someone who “marches to his own beat” is a person who is not constrained by social norms or rules.

Dear Caulfield…even at a young age you can do something like this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_OkH30BXA&feature=emb_logo

Keep in mind that the first thing is an exercise….at 1:18 he’s hanging with the line on show music…and the corps went undefeated that year (2nd of 2 back to back undefeateds).

He was 12 here…joined the corps 4 years later and aged-out last season with 3 world championships, among other honors.

Good thing he didn’t try Keith Moon!

Try syncing with Joe Morello on Dave Brubeck’s “Unsquare Dance”!

Isn’t it the beat of a different drum?

It’s the marching part, …, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Again, and again, … How many miles are we going?

I see a lot of comments about certain drummers, Moon, Bonham, Krupa, Morello. Yeah they’re cool, but seeing who Caufield is I think he might go toward a Max Roach, or Jimmy Cobb, or Elvin Hayes, or Roy Haynes. They have something in common with Caufield that the aforementioned group does not have.

I march to the beat of a different Kazoo

Yes, Morello. He’s the one most given to unusual time signatures that would be hard to march to.

Well, now we know that Caulfield has better taste that Frazz……..

Back when, Buddy Rich did an album with Max Roach (Rich vs Roach, 1959) Hard to do better than that.

Try Preston Epps.

Ron wilson! https://youtu.be/XjiOtouyBOg

Clyde Stubblefield

try doing a paradiddle with your feet while you walk.

Neil Peart…RIP

Ringo Starr on Helter Skelter. “My fingers are bleeding!”

You can’t march to rock ‘n roll.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer., Henry David Thoreau

no Keith Moon I agree

Today is Karen Carpenter’s birthday.

I march to Nicko Mcbrain’s drum….

Buddy Rich was good, but what an egomaniac. Holy carp.

Isn’t the locus classicus “distant drummer”?

I have the well played CD of Ian Hunter “Shades of…”. The rhythm beat of the song Bastard makes me think of peg leg sailors marching.

shouldn’t it be “probably shouldn’t have started”? copyeditors must have day off — 3rd mistake i’ve found, and just got on here

Lots of great drummers. Peart’s worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa0C5Uxpd3c

I remember seeing Buddy Rich on TV when I was a kid, and being amazed.

Jef Mallett’s blog Posts · Frazz 14 hrs · Honestly, my favorite kind of drumming is the kind that you don’t notice until it stops. Makes sense, right? I’m a cartoonist; empty spaces matter a lot. But my other favorite kind is the kind where you can hardly notice anything else. Because I’m a writer, too, and the kind that can go on and on.But I can’t do anything like Neil Peart played drums.

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Pretty Ironic that the cartoonist’s name is Mallett (see: Evelyn Glennie and Gary Burton)…but doesn’t anyone on this string know any REAL drummers like: Steve Smith, Steve Gadd, JoJo Meyers, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Drum Corps International, etc…you guys have been living under the rock “drummer” rock (get it?) too long….I used to teach 4th and 5th graders to play better than 99.9 per cent of “rock drummers”, which BTW is an oxymoron! Phil Collins and Pert and VERY FEW others are the exceptions….see the two volume video set of the Tribute to Buddy Rich…..real drummers! Go to youtube and look up the guys I listed…if ya don’t get it then, then there’s no hope :-(