I hope I'm still playing like that when I'm 70.......

Very cool..... love the Rumba Mama cameo clip.......

"I watched it all - the Phil Collins doc - now. I was really quite moved by the whole thing. Really, really solid work by everyone involved." For sure - Nic will treasure that his whole life..... My observations: 1. I noticed he had Diplomats on all his toms. I wonder if that's what he alw...

^^^^ Cool Clip
I wonder why he went to that far right ride position for that period of time? It was only while he was with Ludwig too, wasn't it?

^^^ No one can swing harder with just quarter notes on the ride than Gadd......

Awesome - love the Gretsch before Omar's Yamaha endorsement came through... :-) Actually, I'm really surprised Zawinul would have agreed to go on stage with Manhattan Transfer like that....... I just remember the passage in Peter Erskine's book "No Beethoven", where Joni Mitchell asked all...

Probably posted before (long thread) but Im a sucker for good Q&A...enjoy listening to VC catching little nuggets along the way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pplyBZIPeBY Anyone recognize the last tune he played to? (6 years before it came out....) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1...

I was taking lessons from Wes Little (he's producing in Nashville now) in Raleigh back in '95.... I remember him mentioning a new guy (Zach) that I'd never heard of before, who Weckl and everyone else said was "on the level" as the new guy. So fluid, and so mature in his ideas, even as a 2...

Omar was a monster from the beginning. His "I Burn For You" solo on Bring On The Night was a seminal moment for me in '85, right around the time I discovered Vinnie on Zappa's Tinseltown Rebellion. That moved me from my Kansas/Yes/Rush phase into Jazz/Fusion stuff.

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Ultimate Facility...... no delay from feeling to idea to execution.... effortless....

Is that a wood hoop snare he's playing on?