As I have stated in previous blogs, during my musical career thus far, I have been very fortunate to play with very talented drummers. some from the past include Brent Cash, Pat McDonald, Scott Bachman, Matt Donaldson, and Brian Keaney And that certainly includes my current gig(s). Skelly, Chadwick, Rodney, Joey (when I get to play with him which is pretty much never.), all great drummers. But this post is about one drummer in particular. For those of you that have seen my "other" band, The Insatiable Stallion Brothers, then you have seen Larue Riccio behind the kit.
Larue is very much what I would call a song drummer. In other words, he is not up there just simply playing a drum part, while the rest of the band plays along. He is playing a song. He totally gets into the songs and feels the other parts going on around him. IN my experiences with such great drummers, with most of them, I have all ways experienced what I call "the lock". Pretty much locking in and getting in the pocket of a groove, whether it is playing the same thing as the bass drum or the opposite. It also means, doing things together, with minimal communication. Things like drastic changes in dynamics together. Knowing when to play less, so the other can play more. All of that with sometimes just a look. Well, Larue is right in there with those other guys.
The reason I am writing this is because a few weeks ago I ran across a video of Larue doing a drum solo in his old band Baby & The Pacifiers from like the early to mid 80's. He looks a lot different, but it is definitely the same high energy Larue that we all know and love. hahaha.
I am going to embed it here, but if that doesn't work you can either go to the Stallions myspace page to see it....... http://www.myspace.com/theinsatiablestallionbrothers
or you can go directly to the youtube page here........http://youtube.com/watch?v=_xfSBJZaJLs
enjoy!
j
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