I have been a " Buddy Rich " FAN! FOR YEARS!! Having just seen this particular SOLO! I think it is among his VERY FINEST PERFECT!!!! GENIUS! SEAMLESS!! PERFORMANCES!! The over head camera really captures A PERFECTIONIST!! AT WORK! " Buddy Rich " always gave 150 percent SHEERE PERFECTION! Without DOUBT! THE GREATEST DRUMMER EVER! PERIOD! His music will live on forever!!! Thank GOD! For " Buddy Rich! " Paul Budd Brightlingsea Essex England UK.
The overhead shot gives you an entire different perspective on just how fffffing fast this guy was. Not that I didn't know that. But you really see how perfect his left hand turns, and how much speed he generates from it. This is one of his very best solos. I think the early 70s was his best era.
In some ways I don't like the overhead shot, but like you say in another way I do, because it does give a mind-blowing different perspective on that incredible left hand.
I have seens about 100 different Buddy solo's, and this one takes top prize. He is so sharp this night that I can't believe it. What was he smoking??? HolyMoly He was on fire. Super human levels of speed and technique.
To the 10 people who disliked this performance I hope your hearing return's to you in your life time so you can give the performance the thumbs up it deserves, for me anyone who has sat with a pair of sticks behind a drum kit you can feel the power and dynamic's of the instrument, Buddy exploited it to its limits, a true master RIP
There were plenty of Drummers then & now, And then there was Buddy. The man was 53 years old here and had been playing drums for 51-1/2 years! He studied every bit of showmanship from Chick Webb. Copped the technique of Billy Gladstone. Socialized & idolized Gene Krupa, Jo Jones, Joe Morello & Jim Chapin. Once Frank backed his New Big Band in the 60's and Carson exposed him to the world, there was no stopping him. He became bigger than life and had the playing ability to back it up. I saw him too many times to count and never tired of his recordings. Even now when I see him play, I am newly amazed at something I never saw before. No matter how much technique drummers develop today, nobody could touch Buddy.
I know what you mean. As a drummer - starting in the late 70s & throughout the 80s - I collected these Buddy Rich videos on VHS so I could play them in slow-motion mode and figure out what he was doing. I wanted to play drums "just like Buddy Rich." It didn't take long to realize: Exercise in futility!
His hands are from another planet !!! Haha !!! Just incredible !!! I've been playing since I was a teenager and I have yet to see anyone who even comes close to doing the things that Buddy can do on the snare. Perfection !!!!!
Perhaps God gave Buddy all that talent to inspire us world of drummers. I know as a 14 year old, I was ready to quit just playing pop & that, then I heard Buddy & wow, that's what I'm talking about. I'm 66, & still playing.
Of course Buddy was the best of the best - I was lucky enough to get to see him just the once back in the UK and I swear the majority of the audience there were drummers who, like me, just sat with their mouths open in wonderment. Thank you so much for the upload cloudview!
You are very welcome for the upload. Interesting your mentioning about the drummers in the audience. I am in the US but I have in my collection a couple of those three shillings Souvenir Brochures from Buddy's UK Tours. In the one from 1970 writer Benny Green goes on about his vivid memory of his first Buddy Rich concert in 1967, before Buddy's popularity in the UK exploded. He writes about how overall the concert was poorly attended, but that there were at least 30 professional drummers in the audience. When the concert was over and the lights came on, he said he looked around carefully to study the faces of those drummers. He describes how they were all completely dazed: "Almost none of them were capable of conversation. One could not control his trembling hands. Those drummers constituted the most completely shattered audience I have ever seen."
Thank you for this Video. I have never heard the Organ before. I can only say that Buddy was an inspiration to me for my whole drumming career. I would say that 1986 at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Buddy amazed me more than ever. He was a poet at the drums. The things he was playing in relationship to the music was unbelievable. I had been seeing him live since I was 10 years old. At Disneyland many times. But that was the best. Just think..Buddy didn't read music...never went to school to learn music and played like that. There are a lot of great drummers. But the gap between Buddy and second best is a long way down.
Cloudview 747... 1970... I don't know if I mentioned it, but this was the year I saw Buddy for the 2nd time (I was 15) at Paul's Steakhouse (since burned down) in Olean, NY. The 1st time was 1967 with my parents in Pittsburgh at the Civic Arena backing up Frank Sinatra. (I wonder if there is a video of THAT!) On his break Buddy was eating a steak dinner alone and I went up to him and asked if I could join him. He said "sure" and I sat with him for almost an hour asking him anything I wanted. The only thing he didn't want to comment on was when I asked him about having a Rogers snare drum, bass pedal and L-arm on his bass drum for the ride cymbal. He gave me kind of a funny look when I asked about the Rogers stuff on his Slingerland set. When he and the band went back for the 2nd set everyone was yelling up requests and I was yelling Channel One Suite. He looks and points at me and says "hey kid... how old are you?" I replied "15". Then he says, "Do ya want to live to be 16"? Everyone in the place laughed. He then went up and played Channel One Suite. I'll never forget that night.
Wow, that is a incredible story... To be that age and have a one-on-one hour-long conversation with the master of all masters is just too much, mind blowing! That must have been a surrealistic experience for you at that age especially.. did he give you any pointers or discuss anything interesting with his techniques I mean as much as a fifteen-year-old could absorb at the time...lol By the way, you were one hell of a 15 year old drummer knowing all about different hardware of Rogers and Slingerland kits you must have been quite a prodigy for your age most 15 year olds are lucky just to have any drum kit let alone ask Buddy Rich why he has Rogers Hardware on a Slingerland kit you were a pretty sharp kid at that age... you must have really freaked Buddy out bringing all that stuff up...great story!
great story Andy I think Buddy's steak was well done since Paul's burnt the place down! watched Buddy in concert at 15 too and at 67 I'm still getting over it! funny my Slingerlands had a Rodgers fitting on the 13" tom but that's where the similarity ends!
Greatest drummer ever. Some say they'd like to give up when hearing great drumming like this. It keeps me going because, he could get so much out of a set of drums & is a great inspiration!
+pinball1970 Even though it is a bit weird and takes some getting used to, it is interesting to see aspects of his hand/wrist/arm movements that normally would go unrecognized.
Back then if you put 2 - 20" Zildjian Medium rides together, they would sound different. It was not just the weights that varied, but where the cymbals depth of thickness was, so how it was spun & lathed. But it was great, cause you could go to 48th Street in New York and try cymbals at Manny's, Sam Ash, Alex Music, Joe Cusatis Modern Drum Shop & Barry's Drum World and try them out to really find your own sound. I always took pride in my picking out a one of a kind Ping Ride & a 20" Flat Ride that people would always comment on at gigs.
Buddy was either a god or an alien. No earthly person would be able to play in such a unique & technically perfect way & be that fast as well. Oh! Buddy how I miss you.
Rockin' T.C. He was neither god nor alien....but a man. His playing was not perfect...he often hit the sticks together when moving from drum to drum, he dropped sticks, sweated like crazy....he worked hard to get these results....he just made it SEEM it was easy for him to do.
Best drummer of all time! So amazingly mechanical in every rhythmic rudiment and movement that he makes are just far beyond compare. Mesmerizing! in every true sense of the word. ❤️ Love this download! Thanks!
Staggering is a great word for it. When I left the theater after seeing him live in early 1978 (seated in the first row about 12 feet from him), I seriously could barely speak on the drive home. I just kept shaking my head in disbelief and shock and awe.
How was Buddy able to do what he did one show after another and continually shock and awe all of us with one tremendous performance after another? It is scary but in a good way!! Never stop listening to Buddy. A lot of stick time and a lot of prayers and maybe one day we can truly understand the awesome power that buddy was born with.
John, what you point out by asking this question is truly one of the most unbelievable things about him. Those of us who have extensive BR audio and video collections find that he literally NEVER disappoints. It's just incredible. Most musicians have good nights, great nights, fair nights, bad nights. But Buddy? It seems he only had two kinds of nights: great nights, and ultra-great nights. He really was One Of A Kind.
Thank you so much for communicating with me. For those of us that had the chance to see him live to actually see him do what he did and then here what it was he was doing was enough to make us go home and burn our drums!! Haha. If it wasn't for the love of music drums and drumming and realizing drummers are born not made and of course I mean that in a loving way not to offend anyone I may have thrown away the sticks a long time ago!! Haha. Not really!! If I just learn one new sticking or one new pattern once a month at least I'm still improving period and like buddy would say it truly is a loving thing. Thank God we can revisit all those great performances and recordings. I would just say this one thing to everyone out there that plays drums, keep your chops up!!
Yes i know and i feel the same mate. Thanks for that info on the "Tonight show 1966" it was great to watch knowing that was the year that really kicked off his legendary carrier. Some how you seem to find all the epic and exciting BR clips, you must have quite an archive. I also dig you drumming, you have studied the man real good, keep up the faith my friend :)
I've been collecting these videos for 35 years! And yes I studied him like a young man possessed. Buddy was and always will be The Man to me, and that's why I have posted all these videos & audios - to help ensure his legacy. My way of saying thanks.
Nobody in the next 4 billion years will get close to playing like that ....period. I,got quite close to Buddy over the years and the 161 times i seen him . I was given things by him and treated with amazing respect . When he went out of my life in 1987 ....a part of me died with him . I miss him so much every day .....
quite possibly the greatest musician who ever passed our way. I cannot think of any musician in history who can equal this mans mastery of their chosen instrument.
Its why he was called " the greatest technician in jazz " " probably in all music " " possibly of all time ". name anyone else that could get to one of those heights never mind all of them .
1967 to the early seventies i believe was his peak years for sheer speed and stamina, i witnessed his first British concert tour in 1967 at Bristol Colston Hall where he performed in front of many top British drummers and delivered an unforgettable 15 minute drum solo in 'West Side Story', i continued to see him every year up to and including1974 at the same venue.
Bernard ”Buddy” Rich [ ”ONE OF A KIND” ] 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️😘🎼 Thank You For The Honor Of Being In your Presence 6 Amazing Unbelievable Times!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🎼 ~ Marky Silva Tampa, FL 🎼
LOL, perfect description. Every time I watch a Buddy solo, I think BRUTAL, as in I'd never have the physical capability to copy 10 seconds of his unceasing licks and fill patterns.
The overhead view made me think that the video was sped up as it was expected of an old, black & white charlie chaplin show. Even the non-drummers dropped their jaws 🤯
Those single strokes are mind boggling. So clean and precise. There’s stories of how Gene Krupa used to tape a nickel to the center of his practice pad and work on just hitting that sound to develop speed, evenness and dynamics with single strokes. I know Buddy knew of this from Gene, but have no idea if Buddy adopted that as well. But I do know Morello said Buddy practiced single strokes like mad and believed it was the hardest rudiment to master. I think Buddy not only mastered them, but took it to another level.
I appreciate your comment a lot Lou, thank you. I didn't know the story about Gene practicing single strokes that way. Very interesting. Perhaps Buddy did the same? I guess we will never know; but regardless, I hope people will read your comment, because there's a myth out there that Buddy never practiced, and even Buddy himself at times said things that seemed to validate this myth. But if we take the time to carefully read the biographies, and read the magazine articles where other people who knew Buddy intimately talk about him, it becomes clear that he honed his craft with an incredible amount of dedication and hard work.
You do find some amazing videos. I for one like the overhead shots. That's not a point of view you get very often, and it clarifies some of his movement around the kit, in addition to showing the amazing control of landing at exactly the same spot each time at very high speeds!
Big Band Era drummers devoted so much of their soloing on the snare. Such a heavy influence from military drumming. Today's most famous drummers don't seem to have the same command of the snare that Buddy did (I'm sure there are a few freaks out there who do, but for the most part).
I suppose it's not a right or wrong thing, to have the snare as the central focus, just different. It's true that Buddy stated in interviews he felt the snare drum was his center. Like you say, most modern drummers have a more balanced focus in their playing, spread out evenly across the entire set. I happen to like the snare focus, musically, but I can appreciate the other also.
I am fairly positive that Buddy Rich would have been a metal drummer if he was born decades later. 'This is one of the best performances I've seen of him ever.
Love the top view of Buddy playing. Also, great wicked snare sound coming out of what looks to be a bit smaller snare than he usually played. I think this might be a new favorite of Buddy's playing of mine.
What you have here was the perfect storm so to speak. Parents started him very young . he took to it. He had very intense devotion and was obvious to me that he had exceptional ability. Very talented people today but he's the best I've seen.
There are indeed some very talented drummers today, no doubt. And I enjoy them a lot. But to my ear Buddy had a creativity and musicality to his drumming that was so special and unique, and it puts him ahead of the pack.
Again, mind blown!!! Note how his bandmates gaze on like they were beholding a god. Was this man really human? Well, he was mortal, though. RIP Buddy. You were the best.
There are great drummers out there of course, but I agree Buddy stands alone as someone who was just SO very special in a unique, incredibly musical/rhythmic kind of way. You listen to him back up and support a band and it sounds so right and perfect.
I thought I watched most if not all of the BR videos on YT, but definitely missed this one until just now. Buddy was on fire that night, awesome performance. In the 70's and 80's I luckily had the opportunity to see him a few times. Once at a tiny club about 1/3 mile from my house in Canoga Park, CA, and a couple times at Disneyland in CA. Thanks for uploading this video!
OM MY DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN.........................................Thank You BUDDY.............**********************************************************
Speed, accuracy, creativity......art form unmatched, RIP, Buddy.
Yes, to everything you said! 😊
One can try like hell to be nearly great as Buddy Rich, no one's ever exceeded his playing to this day, no matter the music, over 50 years later.
Many indeed have tried. But...
Amazing speed, technique and dynamics....no wonder he will always be the greatest.
:-)
I have been a " Buddy Rich " FAN! FOR YEARS!! Having just seen this particular SOLO! I think it is among his VERY FINEST PERFECT!!!! GENIUS! SEAMLESS!! PERFORMANCES!! The over head camera really captures A PERFECTIONIST!! AT WORK! " Buddy Rich " always gave 150 percent SHEERE PERFECTION! Without DOUBT! THE GREATEST DRUMMER EVER! PERIOD! His music will live on forever!!! Thank GOD! For " Buddy Rich! " Paul Budd Brightlingsea Essex England UK.
The overhead shot gives you an entire different perspective on just how fffffing fast this guy was. Not that I didn't know that. But you really see how perfect his left hand turns, and how much speed he generates from it. This is one of his very best solos. I think the early 70s was his best era.
In some ways I don't like the overhead shot, but like you say in another way I do, because it does give a mind-blowing different perspective on that incredible left hand.
The sound of those Slingerlands is awesome! I love the way they're tuned.
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I have seens about 100 different Buddy solo's, and this one takes top prize. He is so sharp this night that I can't believe it. What was he smoking??? HolyMoly
He was on fire. Super human levels of speed and technique.
This is indeed an astounding drum solo from The Master.
Absolute jaw dropping technique.Buddy is still the boss.
To the 10 people who disliked this performance I hope your hearing return's to you in your life time so you can give the performance the thumbs up it deserves, for me anyone who has sat with a pair of sticks behind a drum kit you can feel the power and dynamic's of the instrument, Buddy exploited it to its limits, a true master RIP
I agree 100%!
Buddy rich laid down the road for everybody else to follow he was the man
that left hand has a life of it's own...phenomenal
Indeed it does!
There were plenty of Drummers then & now, And then there was Buddy. The man was 53 years old here and had been playing drums for 51-1/2 years! He studied every bit of showmanship from Chick Webb. Copped the technique of Billy Gladstone. Socialized & idolized Gene Krupa, Jo Jones, Joe Morello & Jim Chapin. Once Frank backed his New Big Band in the 60's and Carson exposed him to the world, there was no stopping him. He became bigger than life and had the playing ability to back it up. I saw him too many times to count and never tired of his recordings. Even now when I see him play, I am newly amazed at something I never saw before. No matter how much technique drummers develop today, nobody could touch Buddy.
What Lou Contino said!
How can anyone wanna play after that performance? UNBELIEVABLE!
Buddy is intimidating to watch for sure. He has such total command over the instrument.
Buddy Rich was so far ahead of the rest of us!
No doubt! His physical and musical command of the instrument was astounding and breathtaking.
The Epitome of perfect technique. Smoothest 32nd notes!
This is the greatest solo of Buddy Rich I've ever seen!
I absolutely love it too.
I love the top view as well!
Here’s another from 1970: ua-cam.com/video/94DeieWZgTM/v-deo.html
I've watched this and that's it. I'll take up gardening.
I know what you mean. As a drummer - starting in the late 70s & throughout the 80s - I collected these Buddy Rich videos on VHS so I could play them in slow-motion mode and figure out what he was doing. I wanted to play drums "just like Buddy Rich." It didn't take long to realize: Exercise in futility!
YEAH I AGREE ALL THE WAY. NO ONE WILL EVER REPLACE HIM.
His hands are from another planet !!! Haha !!! Just incredible !!! I've been playing since I was a teenager and I have yet to see anyone who even comes close to doing the things that Buddy can do on the snare. Perfection !!!!!
I went to the library...best decision I ever made!
@@cloudview747 buddy rich said to play like yourself 💪
Perhaps God gave Buddy all that talent to inspire us world of drummers. I know as a 14 year old, I was ready to quit just playing pop & that, then I heard Buddy & wow, that's what I'm talking about. I'm 66, & still playing.
No doubt. Buddy inspired SO many drummers, myself included.
Of course Buddy was the best of the best - I was lucky enough to get to see him just the once back in the UK and I swear the majority of the audience there were drummers who, like me, just sat with their mouths open in wonderment.
Thank you so much for the upload cloudview!
You are very welcome for the upload.
Interesting your mentioning about the drummers in the audience. I am in the US but I have in my collection a couple of those three shillings Souvenir Brochures from Buddy's UK Tours. In the one from 1970 writer Benny Green goes on about his vivid memory of his first Buddy Rich concert in 1967, before Buddy's popularity in the UK exploded. He writes about how overall the concert was poorly attended, but that there were at least 30 professional drummers in the audience. When the concert was over and the lights came on, he said he looked around carefully to study the faces of those drummers. He describes how they were all completely dazed: "Almost none of them were capable of conversation. One could not control his trembling hands. Those drummers constituted the most completely shattered audience I have ever seen."
Thank you for this Video. I have never heard the Organ before. I can only say that Buddy was an inspiration to me for my whole drumming career. I would say that 1986 at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Buddy amazed me more than ever. He was a poet at the drums. The things he was playing in relationship to the music was unbelievable. I had been seeing him live since I was 10 years old. At Disneyland many times. But that was the best. Just think..Buddy didn't read music...never went to school to learn music and played like that. There are a lot of great drummers. But the gap between Buddy and second best is a long way down.
You are very welcome, and thanks for your comments - which I most definitely agree with!
After seeing this,I do believe now he plays 100 beats per minute. Insane speed and he never slows down or gets tired. Amazing.
It is amazing. And not just the speed, but how creatively and musically he plays.
Every single time I see this guy I'm speechless.
Welcome to the group. There's a lot of us like that!
Cloudview 747... 1970... I don't know if I mentioned it, but this was the year I saw Buddy for the 2nd time (I was 15) at Paul's Steakhouse (since burned down) in Olean, NY. The 1st time was 1967 with my parents in Pittsburgh at the Civic Arena backing up Frank Sinatra. (I wonder if there is a video of THAT!) On his break Buddy was eating a steak dinner alone and I went up to him and asked if I could join him. He said "sure" and I sat with him for almost an hour asking him anything I wanted. The only thing he didn't want to comment on was when I asked him about having a Rogers snare drum, bass pedal and L-arm on his bass drum for the ride cymbal. He gave me kind of a funny look when I asked about the Rogers stuff on his Slingerland set. When he and the band went back for the 2nd set everyone was yelling up requests and I was yelling Channel One Suite. He looks and points at me and says "hey kid... how old are you?" I replied "15". Then he says, "Do ya want to live to be 16"? Everyone in the place laughed. He then went up and played Channel One Suite. I'll never forget that night.
Great story, and it would be GREAT if there was a video of that night!
Amazing story. Buddy had such a great sence of humor.
Wow, that is a incredible story... To be that age and have a one-on-one hour-long conversation with the master of all masters is just too much, mind blowing! That must have been a surrealistic experience for you at that age especially.. did he give you any pointers or discuss anything interesting with his techniques I mean as much as a fifteen-year-old could absorb at the time...lol By the way, you were one hell of a 15 year old drummer knowing all about different hardware of Rogers and Slingerland kits you must have been quite a prodigy for your age most 15 year olds are lucky just to have any drum kit let alone ask Buddy Rich why he has Rogers Hardware on a Slingerland kit you were a pretty sharp kid at that age... you must have really freaked Buddy out bringing all that stuff up...great story!
great story Andy I think Buddy's steak was well done since Paul's burnt the place down! watched Buddy in concert at 15 too and at 67 I'm still getting over it! funny my Slingerlands had a Rodgers fitting on the 13" tom but that's where the similarity ends!
Greatest drummer ever. Some say they'd like to give up when hearing great drumming like this. It keeps me going because, he could get so much out of a set of drums & is a great inspiration!
Trust me, I know for a fact this would make Buddy very happy. Many times he said he wanted to inspire drummers not discourage them.
overhead shots are just great
+pinball1970 Even though it is a bit weird and takes some getting used to, it is interesting to see aspects of his hand/wrist/arm movements that normally would go unrecognized.
Yep. They cared. Of that there is no doubt.
The DAMNEDEST thing any human has done. Simply other worldly
GREAT sounding Zildjians !! can't buy em like that off the rack.
Back then if you put 2 - 20" Zildjian Medium rides together, they would sound different. It was not just the weights that varied, but where the cymbals depth of thickness was, so how it was spun & lathed. But it was great, cause you could go to 48th Street in New York and try cymbals at Manny's, Sam Ash, Alex Music, Joe Cusatis Modern Drum Shop & Barry's Drum World and try them out to really find your own sound. I always took pride in my picking out a one of a kind Ping Ride & a 20" Flat Ride that people would always comment on at gigs.
@@loucontino4804 - You probably have incredible touch as well.
Buddy was either a god or an alien. No earthly person would be able to play in such a unique & technically perfect way & be that fast as well. Oh! Buddy how I miss you.
I am right there with you. Miss him terribly.
Rockin' T.C. He was neither god nor alien....but a man. His playing was not perfect...he often hit the sticks together when moving from drum to drum, he dropped sticks, sweated like crazy....he worked hard to get these results....he just made it SEEM it was easy for him to do.
Smoth as ice Stone cold fire. Let it ride my friend!!!
Best drummer of all time! So amazingly mechanical in every rhythmic rudiment and movement that he makes are just far beyond compare. Mesmerizing! in every true sense of the word. ❤️ Love this download! Thanks!
Sounds like you enjoy this video as much as I do!😊
Absolutely staggering, there was no one like him or probably ever will be.
Staggering is a great word for it. When I left the theater after seeing him live in early 1978 (seated in the first row about 12 feet from him), I seriously could barely speak on the drive home. I just kept shaking my head in disbelief and shock and awe.
How was Buddy able to do what he did one show after another and continually shock and awe all of us with one tremendous performance after another? It is scary but in a good way!! Never stop listening to Buddy. A lot of stick time and a lot of prayers and maybe one day we can truly understand the awesome power that buddy was born with.
John, what you point out by asking this question is truly one of the most unbelievable things about him. Those of us who have extensive BR audio and video collections find that he literally NEVER disappoints. It's just incredible. Most musicians have good nights, great nights, fair nights, bad nights. But Buddy? It seems he only had two kinds of nights: great nights, and ultra-great nights. He really was One Of A Kind.
Thank you so much for communicating with me. For those of us that had the chance to see him live to actually see him do what he did and then here what it was he was doing was enough to make us go home and burn our drums!! Haha. If it wasn't for the love of music drums and drumming and realizing drummers are born not made and of course I mean that in a loving way not to offend anyone I may have thrown away the sticks a long time ago!! Haha. Not really!! If I just learn one new sticking or one new pattern once a month at least I'm still improving period and like buddy would say it truly is a loving thing. Thank God we can revisit all those great performances and recordings. I would just say this one thing to everyone out there that plays drums, keep your chops up!!
Unreal! Wish he lived another 20 years!
Another 40 years
It is not about drums . This is pure MUSIC
It really is fantastic, incredible MUSIC.
Those Slingerlands are magic.
Tuned a little higher this time. They sound amazing compared to the the boomy, boingy modern kits.
Awesomeness -- great upload !!! 💫💫💫
Watching Rich's stamina makes my tendons ache !!!!
BR 👑👑👑
He really was jaw-dropping amazing. Unbelievable stamina for sure.
Here it is guys, the impossible bar that can never be reached.
All we can do is to look on in utter amazement.
:-(
Yes i know and i feel the same mate.
Thanks for that info on the "Tonight show 1966" it was great to watch knowing that was the year that really kicked off his legendary carrier.
Some how you seem to find all the epic and exciting BR clips, you must have quite an archive.
I also dig you drumming, you have studied the man real good, keep up the faith my friend :)
I've been collecting these videos for 35 years! And yes I studied him like a young man possessed. Buddy was and always will be The Man to me, and that's why I have posted all these videos & audios - to help ensure his legacy. My way of saying thanks.
Nobody in the next 4 billion years will get close to playing like that ....period. I,got quite close to Buddy over the years and the 161 times i seen him . I was given things by him and treated with amazing respect .
When he went out of my life in 1987 ....a part of me died with him .
I miss him so much every day .....
Wonderful to hear of your experience with Buddy. And I miss him exactly like you say you do - so you are not alone.
quite possibly the greatest musician who ever passed our way. I cannot think of any musician in history who can equal this mans mastery of their chosen instrument.
Its why he was called " the greatest technician in jazz " " probably in all music " " possibly of all time ". name anyone else that could get to one of those heights never mind all of them .
Paganini
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Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy..
@@nerychristian Bach, Scarlatti, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Heifetz, any number of modern-day musicians.
I love watching Buddy Rich! This is more musical than some of his crazed frenetic solos.
1967 to the early seventies i believe was his peak years for sheer speed and stamina, i witnessed his first British concert tour in 1967 at Bristol Colston Hall where he performed in front of many top British drummers and delivered an unforgettable 15 minute drum solo in 'West Side Story', i continued to see him every year up to and including1974 at the same venue.
As always brilliant and the sound of the drums,beautiful,great job sound tech.
Bernard ”Buddy” Rich
[ ”ONE OF A KIND” ]
🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️😘🎼
Thank You For The Honor
Of Being In your Presence 6 Amazing Unbelievable Times!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🎼
~ Marky Silva
Tampa, FL 🎼
Knew him miss him. A hole in my soul
Unmatched talent...
👍
Buddy will always be the greatest.
I’m not sure, who is now….alive today..!
An insanely gruelling and gruesome display of absolute mastery. Ouch.
I know what you mean.
LOL, perfect description. Every time I watch a Buddy solo, I think BRUTAL, as in I'd never have the physical capability to copy 10 seconds of his unceasing licks and fill patterns.
Realy the best drummer of the univers @!!!@!!
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At 9:05 he adjusts his floor tom during one of the most intense moments of the 2nd solo and of course doesn't miss a beat
I know!
Masterclass ..
Oh yeah!
A perfectly syncopated single stroke role is a thing of audio beauty played as clean as anyone ever on this rock. 128th notes smokin"
You are SO right.
The overhead view made me think that the video was sped up as it was expected of an old, black & white charlie chaplin show. Even the non-drummers dropped their jaws 🤯
Great! So much energy!! Can't be touched..
Buddy, and Slingerland, the two best.
This is a good example of why Buddy Rich is the greatest drummer that ever lived. This solo alone is amazing. Buddy was the best. Period.
It is a great example. Glad you like it as much as I do.
this guy had GROOVE ideas. I mean he was SOOOOOOOOO. BADDASSSSSSS!
His inventive ideas seemed to be just endless.
Un batteur extraordinaire , vraiment !
Those single strokes are mind boggling. So clean and precise. There’s stories of how Gene Krupa used to tape a nickel to the center of his practice pad and work on just hitting that sound to develop speed, evenness and dynamics with single strokes. I know Buddy knew of this from Gene, but have no idea if Buddy adopted that as well. But I do know Morello said Buddy practiced single strokes like mad and believed it was the hardest rudiment to master. I think Buddy not only mastered them, but took it to another level.
I appreciate your comment a lot Lou, thank you. I didn't know the story about Gene practicing single strokes that way. Very interesting. Perhaps Buddy did the same? I guess we will never know; but regardless, I hope people will read your comment, because there's a myth out there that Buddy never practiced, and even Buddy himself at times said things that seemed to validate this myth. But if we take the time to carefully read the biographies, and read the magazine articles where other people who knew Buddy intimately talk about him, it becomes clear that he honed his craft with an incredible amount of dedication and hard work.
Got to see him several times in the early 1970s and was always amazed.
GOD HIS DRUMS SOUND SOOOOOOOO GOOD
After hearing this masterpiece, I am selling my Camero. Damm what a drumming . All time head ache 4 me
R.I.P. Buddy.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥁
This is the greatest drum solo I've ever seen! Buddy probably has 100s just as good or better. No equal to date.
Only the best prima done drummer ever!
Buddy Rich- Greatest drummer of all time. Intro sounds like that one weezer song which is funny.
You do find some amazing videos. I for one like the overhead shots. That's not a point of view you get very often, and it clarifies some of his movement around the kit, in addition to showing the amazing control of landing at exactly the same spot each time at very high speeds!
Exactly! The overhead shots gives an entirely unique perspective.. Shows how lightning quick and GRACEFUL he was. He was graceful in how he played...
The master at work 🥁
Amazing ! I LOVE these videos.
Big Band Era drummers devoted so much of their soloing on the snare. Such a heavy influence from military drumming. Today's most famous drummers don't seem to have the same command of the snare that Buddy did (I'm sure there are a few freaks out there who do, but for the most part).
I suppose it's not a right or wrong thing, to have the snare as the central focus, just different. It's true that Buddy stated in interviews he felt the snare drum was his center. Like you say, most modern drummers have a more balanced focus in their playing, spread out evenly across the entire set. I happen to like the snare focus, musically, but I can appreciate the other also.
I am fairly positive that Buddy Rich would have been a metal drummer if he was born decades later. 'This is one of the best performances I've seen of him ever.
Glad you like this excellent performance.
THE CYMBALS ARE AWESOME SOUNDS
The way Buddy's sticks just dance on the drums... Wow!
This particular video really shows off the "dancing" you are talking about.
Omg. It cannot get any better, but then it does. The greatest ever, ever!!!!! And ever.
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Buddy Rich...what a musical machine he was...just fantastic...
I know. It was almost completely beyond belief.
MAGNIFICENT!!!.
Oh yeah!
Love the top view of Buddy playing. Also, great wicked snare sound coming out of what looks to be a bit smaller snare than he usually played. I think this might be a new favorite of Buddy's playing of mine.
Impressionnant !
His left hand made him sound like he was playing with 3 hands!!
Best drummer ever
And this solo is certainly one of the excellent showcases of his greatness!
What you have here was the perfect storm so to speak. Parents started him very young . he took to it. He had very intense devotion and was obvious to me that he had exceptional ability. Very talented people today but he's the best I've seen.
There are indeed some very talented drummers today, no doubt. And I enjoy them a lot. But to my ear Buddy had a creativity and musicality to his drumming that was so special and unique, and it puts him ahead of the pack.
Again, mind blown!!! Note how his bandmates gaze on like they were beholding a god. Was this man really human? Well, he was mortal, though. RIP Buddy. You were the best.
I know what you mean when you ask, was this man really human?
Insane!
Drum sound is phenomenal!!
My favorite solo. Period!!!!! The rhythm!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is absolutely fantastic!
I guess for myself though, I can't pick a favorite because Buddy has SO MANY incredible ones.
The Best Ever !!!!! That's It. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing!!!!
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There was only one - no other ever came close, no other ever will.
There are great drummers out there of course, but I agree Buddy stands alone as someone who was just SO very special in a unique, incredibly musical/rhythmic kind of way. You listen to him back up and support a band and it sounds so right and perfect.
Great video...and audio is pretty decent considering how old this is. Love this example of his playing. What a musical genius.
I love this example of his greatness also.
Wow!!! First time I saw this, not much I haven’t seen of Buddy!! Thx what a treat!!!
My pleasure.
Sir Buddy was and always be a Greatest Drummer for me
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Extreme to the max...❤
Phenomenal. What a man!
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i love the phrases......in the drum...singing along......that song never ends :)
I know exactly what you mean!
Thanks for the post
It was EPIC!
Just love the 4x14"
Slingerland snare w/stick
choppers!
+Matthew Paluch Agreed!!
WAS THEN and IS NOW the greatest drummer of all time!!
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Can't LIKE this performance enough!
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I thought I watched most if not all of the BR videos on YT, but definitely missed this one until just now. Buddy was on fire that night, awesome performance. In the 70's and 80's I luckily had the opportunity to see him a few times. Once at a tiny club about 1/3 mile from my house in Canoga Park, CA, and a couple times at Disneyland in CA. Thanks for uploading this video!
My pleasure!
I really like the bass drum mic and the overhead mics
OM MY DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN.........................................Thank You BUDDY.............**********************************************************
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Fantastic camera work.
Absolutely ridiculous. Watching him play never fails to make watching the impossible an actual reality.
Realmente FANTASTICO
Complete command of the set. Buddy Rich was from space.
Complete command of the set describes it perfectly.