Drum benifit[views:20538][posts:57]Ocean State Percussion Benefit (Woonsocket, RI) - [bernard_purdie][clave_logic][derek_roddy][dom_famularo][go_quartet][jonathon_mover][mance_grady][osp_mega_drum_group][rick_morin_and_the_rythm_room_kids] _______________________________________ [Jul 18,2004 11:57pm - the_reverend ""] such a good and positive event. everyone seemed to just be having a great time and doing it for the right reasons. go quartet: I walked in during the last bit of their set. it was a bunch of young kids playing jazz. dom famularo: he was the speaker for the event. he spoke in between all the of the acts. his set was neat cause of style he had. he hit the sides of his cymbols and looked like he was thinking a lot. jonathon mover: he fractured his foot not too long ago, but still came in. he played a simpler and more traditional set, rock oriented. mance grady: played some weird single drum instrument. I guess he makes them. clave logic: they actually had some other name. I think it was a puerto rican, a cubano and a white guy in this incantation. it was a mix of caribean and american rock beats. they came out playing taditional africa gourds, but then put them down and started playing on their sets up. each got to "solo" for a while showing off their tallent and then they came back together to continue. one of the guys had insanly fast hands on a bong. they also had like 30 cowbells... my fever for has been cured. bernard purdie: probably the most venerable of the drummers at this event. he's recorded about 3000 lps. his set was so simple. it was a simple steady groove that he went off on. he was so humble too. after his set, some guy offered to donate $40 for the sticks he played on. rick morin and the rhythm room kids: 8+ kids and one older gent on a bunch of instruments. they switched around a lot. derek roddy: god damn... he started out with some stuff that people said was from the new HE cd, but I don't really know. it was insanely fast and tight blasts. at one point, his was fixing his hi hats while doing 200+ bpms on the double bass. after a few minutes, the blasts fadded out and he went into some progressive grooves. as the set went on he turned towards jazz drumming. he said he was looking around Florida to start up a jazz-ish band. there was a long and mostly hilarious auction that lasted for about an hour. dom mc'd it. a 50-year snare donated by purdie which was played on 25 hit albums ended up being the winner. it kept going up in value and as it did, some extras got added to it... like an hour leason with dom and purdie in NYC. ended up going for $1300. osp mega drum group: EVERY drummer sat down and started to played along. it was really cool cause the purdie's shuffle lead everyone through for a few minutes. a bunch of the staff also jumped on some of the drums. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 19,2004 12:02am - the_reverend ""] yes I was the one with the porphyria shirt. I should get paid for the advertising... time for rttpbillboard.com... hm.... |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 19,2004 1:39am - TheGreatSpaldino ""] where's my sexy leg shot? talk about a show stealer. also Rev, you missed me whipping the ass end of my car out a bunch of times i the grass/dirt. it was amazing. |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 19,2004 1:41am - TheGreatSpaldino ""] also... i think that Bernard Purdie has some nasty groove going on. it was so thick that it was almost palpable. so nasty. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 19,2004 2:11am - anonymous ""] thanks to aaron and everyone who showed up, it was an amazing day. some of the sections that derek played during his 'set' we're from the new hate record. its going to be an awesome album. i have to say myself, bernard was something else man, such a pocket and groove, dom was amazing as always, and jonathan mover was great too. thanks again to everyone who went. theres a huge chance that we will be doing this again next year, and hopefully the cryptopsy thing can be worked out! |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 19,2004 9:24am - handinjury ""] jonathan mover , he wailed, then when he was done, he limped away. What a guy. |
| ______________________________________________________ [Jul 19,2004 9:23pm - representing alot of people ""] please do try and do it again next year! |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 20,2004 1:50am - anonymous ""] we will. we felt bad because it was hard to believe that cyptopsy was infact slated to play this benefit, and then it ended up not happening. but if we do infact do this next year, tell everyone about it! and hopefully cryptopsy can make it. check out oceanstatepercussion.com for more pics of the event, and for news about planning for next years! (the updates may not start for a while). |