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"Hey Vinnie show me the keep it greasy groove and tell me if you're staying with Gretsch. Some dude with a moustache will get really pissed off if you do not... "


https://tonylevin.com/road-diaries/pete ... sals-begin

[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkuFn1mpik[/youtube_https]

I´m enjoying this "recent" Joe Satriani albums (Vinnie on them. Some "Shockwave Supernova" tunes with Marco Minneman)
-Shockwave Supernova 2015
https://open.spotify.com/album/1X1lY69X2uo39szQfWy5VT
- Making of:
[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmul4prCbs[/youtube_https]

-Unstoppable Momentum 2013:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4oOWqLfZUACxyueli79Ram
- Making of:
[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPttJeawo1k[/youtube_https]

So I'm curious as to what you all think the essential elements of Vinnie's unique "feel" are: those special things that let you know that it's Vinnie you are hearing, even when you haven't actually read the credits on a given song or album.

To me, I usually can identify him by a combination of his snare sound, his beat placement, his little hi-hat and splash cymbal flourishes, and his ability to seamlessly incorporate odd meters and (often, though not always - the man is highly sensitive to the musical context in which he operates) highly technical, intense fills into even fairly "simple" songs and grooves.

Definitely a drumming genius...dare I say, a musical one as well!

A friend of mine played me a song by Lizz Wright, I did not recognize Vince...

Rene wrote:

"Hey Vinnie show me the keep it greasy groove and tell me if you're staying with Gretsch. Some dude with a moustache will get really pissed off if you do not... "


https://tonylevin.com/road-diaries/pete ... sals-begin

So is Vinnie doing backing vocals?

Rodge wrote:A friend of mine played me a song by Lizz Wright, I did not recognize Vince...

Been listening a lot to that record.

Going for a very different sound there. Wood hooped Club Customs and using rods and stuff, that I guess we don't hear him do much. The other side of what was sort of presented on the Jeff Lashway album. Not too many Vinnieisms, just documenting the style with a bit of freedom.

Vinnie has a weirdness that I pick up as well as purposefulness when playing the weirdness. It can be something subtle or something obvious. That Megadeth stuff displayed that. Confident drummers play differently than everyone else.

Dominic Miller wearing a Québec Nordiques T-Shirt THAT IS COOL!!