I'm not certain Gergo is pushing boundaries because I've not yet seen he has any. He's the quintessential "go for it" drummer right now. Every clip I've seen his playing is boiling over. I'm not sure he has a "simmer" setting. LOL

This would be the video in question. Astounding.

Sort of in wonder this debate goes on. There is no way to develop your own voice without first copying the work of others. At least, I can't think of any other. I suppose if you took five kids -- a drummer, a bassist, a keyboardist, a guitarist, and a saxophonist -- to a deserted island and fed them...

I gotta be honest, I respect him as a musician, and I will probably never reach the soles of his shoes, but Dafnis just doesn't do it for me. He doesn't move me, there's something that doesn't click IMO. I don't say it to flame, just expressing my opinion. I tried watching that long concert someone...

Kumbaya my Lord, Kumbaya ...

When things get bad, Gaddabout usually turns it around. Wow. I'm honored to be the official HoD rodeo clown. I keep telling people I'm going to get a t-shirt that says "comic relief," but I'm sort of terrified I'd have to live up that all the time. Anyway, *tip of the hat* to you, drum628...

FWIW, that live version of Josie feels about 6 to 8 BPMs too fast. That's not a song that I think works at that tempo. There's a needed breath in the rhythm guitar riff on verse between 1 and 2 every bar. That riff is the hook. You can't mess with the hook. But I'm just being nitpicky because I cut ...

It was! He and Dennis Chambers split the drum chair on the first ever official Steely Dan live tour. You should pick up the live album. It KILLS.

About the topic at hand, I still think Bob Moses really went too far with such stuff as "enemies". I just see where the guy is coming from, his motivations are partly legitimate to me, but not the manners. Hardest stuff I've read since the Metheny/Kenny G incident. Oh, I was totally with ...

At what point do you put jazz and its idols on such a high pedastal that no one's allowed to play one of its signature tunes and the genre dies from lack of interest? I get the impression, from Bob Moses' tone, that he'd rather see that heritage die than for lesser people to play those songs. I have...