Drummin' film lovers and music-shaped movies

[Golgot]

Alright all.

Just trying to represent the shadowy heartbeat to music's meanderings here. It seems there's at least three of us drummers on MoFo, so come on - out of the woodwork!

Um, well, anyway. I've never played pro or anything, but i love a good jam, and i've done gigs in front of 200 or so people occasionally.


My favorite styles of music to (try and) play:


Funk - Blues - Esoteric-accidental-monkchanting-MobyDicking-responsive-ambient-to->pulseracing-messabouts - um - reggae/dub - jazz-influenced and "latin"-influenced music [lived in andalucia in spain for a few years] etc etc. + drum-n-bass attempts are always fun when you're miffed aren't they?


Bands i'm listening to:

-"The Seatbelts": They wrote the music from the manga exploit "Cowboy Bebop", which took me by surprise a while back [i saw one episode, on planet funk, or so it seemed]

-Raspigaous and Rasta Bigoud are two similar french-reggae bands who are top notch. I can recommend "mois d'aout" [or summink like that] by the first as a happy-go-lucky summer tune (nothing special bout the drumming tho ;))

-loads of dizzy gillespie, duke ellington, and a bit of monk at the mo.

-went to see laurie anderson recently, now she's a funny lady. She should run her own surreal-news-network these days.

-Um, mainly old funk aside from that - 45s collections and just old school stuff and modern afrobeat varients like The Meters/Femi Kuti etc


Films made by the music:

-Just watched "Baraka" recently: it's a voiceless set of beguiling images and soundtracks. Very engaging (tho slightly over long/repeats its point maybe) Good watch none the less.

-What did you think of the use of the sound track in "Pi"? Piling drumnbass etc, good layers of building freneticness? Or just standard? All i know is that it makes it impossible to get my mathmatically inclined but musically-moulded pop to watch it ;)


Any thoughts out there yon time-keepers?

[Piddzilla]

I would never call myself pro either but I once was in a pretty hardworking band with a record deal and I think we played in front of 15.000 people at the most (of course we weren't headlining or anything - it was a festival). Now I started to play in a "real" band and we rehearse a lot and are actually pretty ****ing good but no gigs so far. We're influenced by The Flaming Lips, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, and I guess also by some of the new swedish rock bands (Hives, Mando Diao) and some alt. country.

I like cool drummers. :D I think those who have influenced me the most are Dave Grohl and J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr/J Mascis & The Fog) and perhaps also the guy in Archers of Loaf (one of the most overlooked bands ever). Levon Helm (The Band) is another one of my favourites, but don't sound much like him.

I guess you can call me a punkrock drummer with a groove. I beat the **** out of the drums but it needs to have a beat, a groove.

I listen to all kinds of music, for the moment mostly reggae and especially root reggae from the 70's. But my all time favourites include Neil Young, Red House Painters, Dinosaur Jr, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Archers of Loaf, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, the list goes on.

Music in films are very important. I've mentioned RZA's work with Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai before on this site but it's worth mentioning again - I think the music plays a big part in that film's greatness. I would love to work as the guy who picks out what music should be used in different scenes! That would be a dreamjob.

Anyway.. got to go to work. See you later, drumlovers!!

[Golgot]

yeah cool. The Pixies, Flaming Lips and Pavement were a big part of my introduction to music really (well, vibrant intriguing music that made sense to my growing brain anyway)

Hmm, Archers of Loaf tho. Must look out for them. Never did hear enough of Dinosaur Jnr's stuff, tho lot of people raved about him.

Good luck with getting some gigs going then mate. I'm too tied up with other projects like breaking into the film/tv world. Maybe i should compromise and go for music videos? Who knows? :confused:

Um, if you want to hear some little wav-files from a very un-crisp jam i had a few years back, they're on my website under "chickpea special" (the name of an imaginary band my mate created on the web for a laugh) It's not the art at it's highest really (it was a half-hour mess-about, and my kit at the time included the oldest/most useless/rustiest hi-hat ever - i.e. it came with my first kit: a rusty 1950s kit from a junk shop. What ever name was on those bits of brass had worn off long ago.)

Still, no excuses for the bad-timing and rough edges. Hell, it was a jam. (and besides - i'm more of a left-handed "tune" player, in the mitch mitchel [sp?? u know Jimi hendrix etc] mode, but influenced by the big beats of people like Bonham from led zep etc. And then afrobeat of course)

Um, see if u think i'm still a drummer after listening to that ;)

Can't remember how the music slotted in/was used in Ghost Dog, but i remember liking the film/feeling it had a well established tone.

[Monkeypunch]

Yeah, I said it before, I'll say it once more (Cheesey 311 joke. I used to love them till they got on the radio and started to be more commercial....) I used to be a drummer but was sidelined by an injury. Then I took to singing in a really bad garage band doing Smashing Pumpkins and Metallica covers. We didn't even make it to our first show. I quit after the third rehearsal and was replaced by my room-mate, who was thrown out shortly after for not taking it seriously, then the bass player quit because she hated doing "Commercial" music, and the guitarist wanted to do awful Van Halen solos, and then......WHEW! Long sentence. Suffice to say, we sucked. :laugh:

As for music, I will listen to anything if it grabs me. I was always into 1970's and 80's punk (Richard Hell, X, Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, Ramones, ETC.), not any of the new Good Charlotte/Sum 41 type awful stuff, but then I do like Green Day, so I can't say it's all bad. Now I'm heavy into the NYC stuff, like the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeah's, but I also like The White Stripes, The Libertines, The Donnas, and The Flaming Lips.

And I loved the music for Fight Club. I forget who did that, but it was my favorite CD until it got broke into 5 pieces when I moved...D'OH!

[Golgot]

yeah, you end up playin for some funny bands dont you? When i started playing at uni i ended up with a couple of bands coz there were so few drummers (even tho i was utter ****e) - it just had to be whiney, droney, 4/4 kind of bands at first. Still remember the deluded guitarist from one - called "the jar" for his penchant for the odd drink or ten, for breakfast. When i first talked with him he told me of a marvellous gig he'd played in where he'd blown everyone away with his jimi covers (he was v.good at them, but exact-ish replicas of star-spangled-banner aren't all that are they). Our clashing memories of our first gig are classic. He remembers it as being crowned by his two or three solos at the end (that we just let him get on with). I remember people actually staying while we played (which was nice), a flukily nice funk jam me and the bassist did when the guitarist broke a string :D , and everyone leaving as soon as he started the first solo.

Bands eh?

Finding a balanced one would mean you'd just have to give up the day job and go for it, i'd imagine. Got lots of mates i love playing with, but i don't know if they'd work in the same room together. Regularly.