SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby langmick » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:18 pm

Woah.

I've been home and listening to Yes non-stop, link fixed.

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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby Paul Marangoni » Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:55 pm

langmick wrote:Woah.


Huh? What does Simon have to do with that tune?

Here he is with Jon:
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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby langmick » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:17 am

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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby Juan Expósito » Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:27 am

Wise words from the man:
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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby langmick » Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:14 am

Found another, stumbled upon it really. Knew from the first measure. Good tunes.

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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby treeinrock » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:13 am

Simon's technique makes the most sense to me if you want to have freedom on the kit. Being able to play open like that would be so liberating. The trouble begins when you have already been playing professionally and have to re-learn all of the stickings...... It would be hard to find the time, but well worth it if one could.
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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby Juan Expósito » Mon Oct 19, 2015 2:54 pm

New Protocol work:




Drum solo. That bass drum in the air sounds amazing.
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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby Jim Richman » Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:11 pm

Wow. The Catalyst tune is like excellent fusion. Incredible drum sound. Awesome all around. Simon rules.
Keith Mansfield rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby Pocketplayer » Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:52 pm

Simon has an instantly identifiable style and sound...which is probably the greatest
compliment. Funny about music and artists...that Duncan Browne might as well
have been a Dire Straits record (talk about influence)...the Anderson solo record
was in line with the Simon today up to Protocol. His snare always sounds great.
Just gotta love his non-compromise on the large open sounding kit, keeping
double-bass in a DB pedal world.

What Simon does however is never get so inside his drum solos that it doesn't
communicate to the audience...his fills are big and "drum like" without
becoming too chops oriented dare I say, become boring and a chops fest.
All non-drummers secretly crave a drummer play the classic high to low drum
flurry down the toms at least a few times, and Simon satisfying this appetite.

First wondered who this Simon Phillips guy was on Judas Priest Sin After Sin
LP as a kid. Then he was gone, enter Les Binks era.

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Re: SIMON PHILLIPS - The thread about Simon

Postby langmick » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:29 pm

Gotta say, Ernest and Andy are damn flawless, got it all going on.


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