Request Line: Percussion

Good day to you!  Due to time constraints, I wasn’t able to write up a sketch for today’s Request Line.  That’s all right, that’s okay, I’ll write about the madcap adventures of the PRODUCER, CONNOR THE INTERN, DJ 3000, and WHATEVER CRAZY NUTBALL SHOWS UP AS A GUEST HOST some other day.  In the meantime, today’s topic is one that’s been on the burner for a long time: Percussion.  Load up the comments with songs that feature examples of your favorite drumming and other types of percussion.  Songs about percussion are welcome too. I’ll get us started with an example of the work of one of the finest – and maddest – drummers the music world has ever seen: Keith Moon.  Here here is showing off his signature rolls and fills (that’s a drumming thing, right?) on Tommy.

Reminder: In order to post videos so they will show up in comments, you don’t have to mess around with embed codes or anything, just post plain links as such: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkkVrlvgkc”.  When you hit refresh it should show up as embedded and you can rock out at your leisure.

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scotchnaut

How “Straight To Hell” got past you, I’ll never know…

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

scotchnaut

You want some drums? I’ll give you some drums…

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

Don T

Two hands, congas: Giovanni Hidalgo. It’s two minutes. Play it. PLAY IT.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-pmIRITTz8s

Don T

Ha! A GIOVANNI HIDALGO DOUBLE SHOT: with Tito Puente. Bonus: featuring the Stacey Lopez Dancers, or as we say in Spanish, “di Es Teisi López Danser S”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zoaJbRhyaxo

JerBear50

“Tito Puente’s gonna be dead, and you’re gonna say, “Oh, I’ve been listening to him for years, and I think he’s fabulous.”

Big Black Richard

My computer is loading this page very slowly. I’m going to assume that no one has posted Art Blakey yet, but given this crew, that may be a bad assumption, as I see someone already posted Buddy Rich.

Art Blakey forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccj6O2UeNfQ

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I went with Tony Williams instead of Art Blakey, but I fucking love Art Blakey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IQNPlnc9c0

ArmedandHammered

I have loved Art Blakey’s stuff ever since I heard it used in an anime which is set in the 60’s and has jazz as a major theme running through it. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_on_the_Slope

The anime is on Hulu and Crunchyroll I think.

Don T

From this year: Residente – Dagombas en tamale
Recorded with Dagomba musicians in Ghana
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y7HWRnSrNfE

Don T

This fucking guy… Franz Ferdinand
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BkfYjNEqY

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

/Hits shuffle on way to lunch

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS6-vI70oc0

Don T

Merengue, Dominicans’ gift to the world. That boo boo boobooboom shht shkt shkt boobooboom is par TAY.
Wilfrido Vargas – “Soy un hombre divertido” (I’m a fun man) second line: “I don’t know what sadness is”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=f4JXFTpU0Nw

Don T

And then there’s Tego Calderón, who can take a similar arrangement to couple it with the BOMM sh kt kt BOOM of reggaetón: “Tradicional a lo bravo”

If I were refined / I’d offer you wine. / Since I’m a farmer I drink the clandestine. ?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fthVTUIXihg

King Hippo

I can’t fookin’ believe this ain’t taken yet… (updated as finally found a good live version to illustrate how muy dificil this is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3px85ixf6lE

ALXMAC
ALXMAC

Re-Post but: A) DON’T CARE; B) this one is LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOsmG-sufNc

Don T

Tito Puente – Timbalero (which is like saying “Babe Ruth – ballplayer”)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F4rz10uCQfA

SonOfSpam

That’s fine, but this is Tito Puente’s greatest work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92hMAfwcTxA

Don T

Also acceptable: Sheila E

SonOfSpam

You’re right, she is quite acceptable.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

AHEM

Don T

This is how it all began: bomba y plena, the rythms slaves brought to the Caribbean before Plymouth Rock became a thing. Bomba is associated with barrel drums, and the lead drummer tries to emulate the dancer’s steps. The dancer is Manuel, a college buddy:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HZzLHdB71WE

Don T

Plena is associated with the tambourines without the little metal cymbals (called “pleneras”), which annoyed plenty in the World Baseball Classic. Here’s a U.S. Army troop, made up of boricuas, playing “Puerto Rico patria mía” (PR my motherland)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vMAAWiCvz9w

Don T

We just call the rythm “bomba y plena”. Here’s Buya lighting up a ride in Chicago’s blueline in 2014:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nkK68RxqKAE

Don T

And conguero Ray Barreto, the hardest hands in salsa: “Indestructible”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIRUUZO3zmc

LemonJello

Another oddity, just because:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE-NLS47YMU

SonOfSpam

Ok, here’s a song with no drums but it’s about a drum. Oh, and instead of the original Stone Poneys version, it’s Susanna Hoffs and a guy who ate Matthew Sweet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRO5ZZuJGYI

laserguru

I dig some 80’s tribal rhythm shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hEn_rEDzp0

laserguru

Also, same rhythm section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tnYZ4xivTk

SonOfSpam

Nothing at all creepy about Malcolm McLaren “discovering” 13 year old Annabelle in Burma.

Spanky Datass

Tribe Called Quest: Can I Kick It?

What? There’s a drum in the video …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pyCGnZzYA

King Hippo

a drum machine is percussive!

LemonJello

And now for something a little different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8t0KTOeMPw

SonOfSpam

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nomonkeyfun

I didn’t mean to post the whole playlist. I just meant this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068AFYvd58E

Shogun Marcus

Also to go off of last night’s open thread, how about Mikkey Dee? On sheer power, little else compares.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qLtmeOdG2xc

Shogun Marcus

Seriously? I applaud all who’ve posted so far. But I give you JP Gaster, Dave Lombardo, and…this. Do this, then we can talk. Tomas Haake.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bAJ1WTGNISk

BrettFavresColonoscopy
SonOfSpam

Missing Persons deep cut (teenage me wanted something something deep Dale Bozzio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAhNkEy22U

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Hmmm, he did say percussion, not just drums…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYtrnr4chfU

Cuntler

Don’t drummers fucking love Neil Peart?

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

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

He’s great, but loses points for usually having a double bass drum.

BrettFavresColonoscopy
Don T

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E PAPA

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

How have we gone this far without even mentioning Travis Barker?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYH8qUbhkZo

Shogun Marcus

Quite easily as it turns out. The infatuation with him is something I will never understand.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Seconded

BrettFavresColonoscopy
Cuntler

The drum that kicks in during this song is simple, but it’ll do the trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li30NxCsJ7w

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

“I’ll fuck any drummer.” — Pamela Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Eo6htO4t8

Cuntler

I apologize if Four Sticks by Zeppelin is already up here. So named because Bonham played so loud his bandmates said it sounded like he used four sticks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJp27QMR2KU

BrettFavresColonoscopy

FTFY. You need a return between text and link, apparently

Duchess

All yall playing Grohl… his drumming sounds awfully like the Devils.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLr8gnYpVsg

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, I should probably back away and let others have at it for a while.

/also said at the Houston 500

nomonkeyfun
SonOfSpam

Jerome Brown’s theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13yZAjhU0M

nomonkeyfun
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Anyone that can sing and drum at the same time impresses the hell out of me.

Except maybe Phil Collins.

JerBear50

I use to cover Cripple Creek as an acoustic, but I dropped it because it doesn’t sound right without the percussion.

Duchess

I think this is Pual McCartney playing the drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NQF_QWvJo

ssi_bulldawg
Duchess

I f’ing love this song

laserguru
ssi_bulldawg
BrettFavresColonoscopy

I feel guilty not having included Steve Gadd yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZcGQX71w68

BrettFavresColonoscopy

And for the non-drummers, after you listen this, if you’re curious how he does it, this is his breakdown. Mind blown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7W33sLJi78

SonOfSpam

Damn, that’s a good one.

ssi_bulldawg
Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Ron Welty is the KING of the back beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZmVE6NaWVo

Brick Meathook

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