He was the drummer for a band called The Relatives in 1968. Lynda Carter, later a well-known actress, was the band's singer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, and played there for three months.
This was the 2nd and last time Radar ever played the drums on the show. I wish they would have done more with that, since, as we can see here, he's damn good.
@@gispel7058 In german tv I saw him yesterday drumming behind Hoolahan singing and Alda playing a rudimental bass (I dont know the german word for it, in englisch no chance, a string and a longstick. There he play also a little solo. Gary is great, he paints pictures too.
@@kennyh558 The usual question is did Radar have the "bad" hand, or just the actor. For me, Radar does, it explanes why he wasn't fighting on the front line. But there are good arguments for just the actor.
@@colinmoore7460 he was either born with or later partial crippled with missing fingers in real life. If you slow down the video, you can clearly see his left hand is missing fingers.
the warcry as he ramps up.... then sustains over the really technical bits. when i watch this man play drums, i see a man who is doing what he loves and fully in the zone.
I love the sudden cringe he gets at the very end, like he feels like he just screwed everything up, but then the camera instantly cuts to a thunderous applaud.
Funny thing. I've known a few great musicians with characters like Radar. The only time they're not self-conscious and nervous is when they're fully concentrating on playing so they forget their inhibitions for a while and let you see their real selves. Not sure if Gary is like this, or just extremely good at portraying it - but either way he totally nails it.
I grew up in Delavan Wisconsin, Radar's (Gary Burghoff) hometown. He was good friends with two of my older sisters. He was voted the most talented of his class. The yearbook picture had him posing with an instrument. His mom was often the chorographer for the HS Musicals. He also starred in the Broadway production of "Charlie Brown". He also had a slightly deformed left hand. When you watch mash, he cleverly hides it in plain sight.
He's playing but he's not playing exactly what we're hearing, there are discrepancies between the sounds and the movements. They used an audio overdub.
This moment is an absolute favourite, and learning Gary Burgoff can actually play drums makes it even more awesome as others said you can see him really getting into it really in the zone and it’s absolutely beautiful!
I grew up way hung MASH, cuz my dad grew up watching it (as it first aired) and I've seen many, many episodes. It wasn't until I decided to watch the whole thing, beginning to end, that I found out Gary Burghoff was a jazz drummer. Saw this scene earlier tonight and was like, "Hot damn. He's not miming that. He's playing that!"
Tanner Zuzga Gary Burghoff is actually playing the drums as he is accomplished drum player in real life for a jazz band and recorded music with the band. Burghoff also cared for animals and paints in which shows on the show as well
Does anyone here know the name of the accordion music being played just before Radar begins playing the drums? I can't find any information on the Internet about it.
Now...if only Radar could play the bugle as well as Gary Burghoff played the drums! By the way, Radar is not a bad DJ either. Don't believe it? Check out "Your Hit Parade".
YES! GREAT Episode! "Just give me a minute to replace the FANG In the Ol' Tonearm Cobra!" GREAT LINE! And we will NEVER Forget... "Sentimental Journey"! :D
This isn't live b/c you can't hear anything outside and this sounds like a room. Also, he's playing crash several times and you don't see that here. I don't care. It's him playing. I can tell by his feel in his hands. Also, the drum kit is like 70s, but I don't care about that, either.
No it's not. It's from the early 70's But most people wouldn't know that, and it works. But yea a Nice "SLINGERLAND", or "LUDWIG", "LEEDY" or "GRETCH" Set from the 50's would have been more appropriate!
@@davidconrad3681 YES! Exactly! Gary even did some PSA's about birth defects back in the late 70's and he holds up his hand! He did SUCH a good job disguising his disability but it really wasn't a "Disability" for him! He worked around it!
At the beginning of the first episode they show his hand when he got a football, right before he announces the choppers are coming, in that famous scene that will initiate the episodes. It may be the only time the hand is not covered by something else.
Sorry .. disagree all you wish. His sticks completely miss the snare around the 32 second mark BUT YOU CAN STILL HERE THE DRUM ..Please ..I am a drummer .. I am not saying that he does not posses the skill to play .. he's JUST NOT PLAYING LIVE HERE
"Please ..I am a drummer". Yeah, so am I, since 1972. You can still "HEAR" the drum at the 32 mark because he's hitting it with his right hand, the stick you can't see because it's hidden by the rack tom. You admit he has the skill, so what would possibly be the point here of getting him to play along to a recording? They would not have wasted production time on this show filming endless takes of Gary trying to accurately replicate a recorded performance. YELL all you want, but it won't make you any more correct.
Perhaps the Wikipedia article on Gary Burghoff (which UA-cam won't let me link to here) has enough proof to convince you: In the "Later Career" section it states: "In the M*A*S*H episode 'Showtime,' Radar is seen playing a solo on the drums; he was actually performing, and the music was not dubbed." A source article is cited. I'm done arguing.
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He was the drummer for a band called The Relatives in 1968. Lynda Carter, later a well-known actress, was the band's singer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, and played there for three months.
Huh. Neat.
As in Wonder Woman, that Lynda Carter?
@@faolan1686
Yup
They have two shows On sat night at the sands....i know I was a showgirl there for 6 months..)
Thanks 4 that info.
I love how he gets ALL into it, straight badass, then when it's over, straight back to shy old Radar. Lol great!
This was the 2nd and last time Radar ever played the drums on the show. I wish they would have done more with that, since, as we can see here, he's damn good.
Think the first time is when the 4077th was having a talent show. He played alot longer in the episode with the USO.
@@gispel7058 In german tv I saw him yesterday drumming behind Hoolahan singing and Alda playing a rudimental bass (I dont know the german word for it, in englisch no chance, a string and a longstick.
There he play also a little solo.
Gary is great, he paints pictures too.
His left hand is an actual stub of a hand. He was born with only 2 fingers. He secretes very well.
@@kennyh558 The usual question is did Radar have the "bad" hand, or just the actor. For me, Radar does, it explanes why he wasn't fighting on the front line. But there are good arguments for just the actor.
@@colinmoore7460 he was either born with or later partial crippled with missing fingers in real life. If you slow down the video, you can clearly see his left hand is missing fingers.
As a fellow drummer, I always love watching this scene. Radar can wail on those skins!!
I was just starting to play as middle-schooler and this was dynamite!!👍
I just scrolled down in youtube and found this :
ua-cam.com/video/tozobpsxn8s/v-deo.html
Gary apparently actually plays
You can tell his drummer side is having a lot of fun ,but his actor side is trying to stay in character. I love this clip .
the warcry as he ramps up.... then sustains over the really technical bits.
when i watch this man play drums, i see a man who is doing what he loves and fully in the zone.
I love the sudden cringe he gets at the very end, like he feels like he just screwed everything up, but then the camera instantly cuts to a thunderous applaud.
I think it's more of a "Oh shit, everyone is watching me" snap back into reality reaction.
Funny thing. I've known a few great musicians with characters like Radar. The only time they're not self-conscious and nervous is when they're fully concentrating on playing so they forget their inhibitions for a while and let you see their real selves. Not sure if Gary is like this, or just extremely good at portraying it - but either way he totally nails it.
So it's not their real self if they have inhibitions? You're an idiot
I grew up in Delavan Wisconsin, Radar's (Gary Burghoff) hometown. He was good friends with two of my older sisters. He was voted the most talented of his class. The yearbook picture had him posing with an instrument. His mom was often the chorographer for the HS Musicals. He also starred in the Broadway production of "Charlie Brown". He also had a slightly deformed left hand. When you watch mash, he cleverly hides it in plain sight.
Cool as ice. You can tell hes actually playing live if you watch the symbols, take into account any minor dubbing lag.
The applause, however, was ADR'd!
CYMBALS!!
He's playing but he's not playing exactly what we're hearing, there are discrepancies between the sounds and the movements. They used an audio overdub.
@@johndipinto4084 Dude, if he even FAKES it looking this good, I frankly don't even care.
@@johndipinto4084 wrong
I have played since 1974. The man can play. Cheers "Radar"!
I never knew he played! He played very well. Loved it.
The way he holds those sticks is old school!! I just saw this episode on tv tonight and checked to see if it was on here.
@@Darotini How did he lose a finger
@@Darotini ah, ok.
Walter "Radar" O'Reilly on the Drums!
FYI: Bob Crane, from Hogan's Heros, also played the drums. He's uncredited with the military drum intro to every episode.
This moment is an absolute favourite, and learning Gary Burgoff can actually play drums makes it even more awesome as others said you can see him really getting into it really in the zone and it’s absolutely beautiful!
I grew up way hung MASH, cuz my dad grew up watching it (as it first aired) and I've seen many, many episodes. It wasn't until I decided to watch the whole thing, beginning to end, that I found out Gary Burghoff was a jazz drummer. Saw this scene earlier tonight and was like, "Hot damn. He's not miming that. He's playing that!"
Great story. Enjoy the ride. Time to do the same bingewatch.
His face at the end :D back in the character
Woah. I never knew Radar can play drums.
Yup, Gary Burguff(not sure of spelling) is an expert drum player. That was really him playing.
He neither.
Joking, he is very talented.
Tanner Zuzga Gary Burghoff is actually playing the drums as he is accomplished drum player in real life for a jazz band and recorded music with the band. Burghoff also cared for animals and paints in which shows on the show as well
Yes he can. Before MASH he played drums in a Vegas act. The vocalist was a teenaged Lynda Carter.
Bob Crane (rest his soul) look out! Gary Berghoff could give you a run for your money!
Radar was a great talent! He could do anything!
Great solo !...He sat in with my friends, NRBQ maybe in the '80s.
This makes my heart happy.
Brilliant drums!
Nailed it. And nailed it with proficiency and taste.
I could listen to this over and over again, holy shit
Radar Rocks the kit!! Legit!
WOW!! Gary Burghoff is JAMMING here--great solo--(definitely has a Gene Krupa influenced style!)
He rocks.
cool!
radar laying it down ! never saw that scene b4
Musicians do have great intuition. Its instinctive.
Great Solo
A rare time you get to see his left hand.
Radar is an awesome drummer!!
He's just killin' it!
Does anyone here know the name of the accordion music being played just before Radar begins playing the drums? I can't find any information on the Internet about it.
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" I think?
He’s Buddy Rich when he flies off the handle!
Buddy Rich style! Nice :)
And a little Gene Krupa thrown in.
@@MichaelandCathy1999 Last rock drummer to do that stuff was Doug Clifford in Creedence
I am jamming out as a metal head like 50 years after this came out lol
Little Soul Sacrifice on that drum solo.
He has a drum cd with his band....check it out 😎
Hidden talent 😀🎨🖌️🙏🇺🇸🇩🇰🗽
When the Doom music kicks in - Gary Burghoff style 😂
No overdubbing no track that is gary showing off his drum talent since he was a drummer in a band
Love it 😍
Phenomonal
Radar is the best on the drums
Thats damn good.
Radar/Gary had a jazz style of playing and obviously was a very good drummer.
Так от откуда идея снять фильм “Одержимость".
Now that's a good drummer I don't care what anybody thinks
hahahaha wtf that was so awesome
Like a man possessed on those skins.
I like how the camera begins to get closer, as to say this is worth watching.
Yeah. Go Radar!!
yes it is actually Gary Burghoff playing.
Name of song: "Big Noise from Winnetka"
You saved my night!! Thank you I knew I know the song but could not remember the name!!
Now...if only Radar could play the bugle as well as Gary Burghoff played the drums! By the way, Radar is not a bad DJ either. Don't believe it? Check out "Your Hit Parade".
YES! GREAT Episode! "Just give me a minute to replace the FANG In the Ol' Tonearm Cobra!" GREAT LINE!
And we will NEVER Forget... "Sentimental Journey"! :D
If that's not really Gary Burghoff banging away, he sure did his homework!
That was actually him playing. He is a drummer.
@@Summer_Reigns Sweet! I thought as much.
Give me some Radar Love..
That was Gene Krupa's kit that he bequeathed to Gary in his will😮
One of the rare scenes you can kinda see his deformed left hand
He was obviously a fan of Gene Krupa.
Interesting fact - Gene gave drum lessons to Peter Criss!
@@kevinjokipii4260 Oh, that was a success
Yep. As are we all.
0:42 "I like to play...."
🥁 🙋♂️
EAT THAT, HAWKEYE!!
CLASSIC ;)
Check out Gene Krupa here! Goddamn, Radar.....that was nice.
So Radar should have been in the Army band, far away from Korea!
He does the Keith Moon thing when he is screaming under his breath
Too bad they couldn’t get the singer from his old band to do a guest appearance here, Linda Carter.
Every time I just played the 🥁🪘🛢drums so my teacher teach me how to play the drums or the talent show when I played the drums for kiss band.
Bob Crane of Hogans Heros was also a fine drummer
He was also a famous DJ before getting into acting
@@WaynePerkins42ndsquadron Did not know that. Thanks.
He also made some great videos.
Crane played drums on the Hogan's Heroes theme.
@@bobcole612 lots of those actors have multiple talents. Fred Astair known for his dancing of course also was a fine drummer.
Always thought that was out of character for Radar, a young, timid farm boy from Iowa in the 50s.
Never knew he worked w lyndia carter
yep
Gary Burghoff woulda been perfect for the movie Whiplash if it was made in the 70s
Too bad he couldn't play the bugle as well as he did the drums.
Why does he remind me of George on Seinfeld.
GARRY HIXON DRUM SOLO
And unlike Bob Crane Radar did NOT get caught with a bunch of homemade porno tapes to ruin it all.
Krupa style
Man he was flying!!!!!!!
Bob crane drummer
Too bad they used a Drumset from the 1970s in a show based in 1950.
The accordion is an Excelsiola. I believe that was from the 60’s.
I'm not bothered by it.
There may be a point to that
@@KISSHOOTERS6969 Historical accuracy.
Even more impressive when you learn one of his hands is fucked up
It was unlike radar. But so Gary
There are a lot of actors who play drums. Gary was much better than all of them.
💗🌈💗🌈💗
Very good acting. No musicians surely believe he plays what they hear.....
This isn't live b/c you can't hear anything outside and this sounds like a room.
Also, he's playing crash several times and you don't see that here.
I don't care. It's him playing. I can tell by his feel in his hands.
Also, the drum kit is like 70s, but I don't care about that, either.
Yeah, SOlo you can't hear it.
poor hihat
That doesn't look like a drum set from the early 1950s...but I'm no expert.
No it's not. It's from the early 70's But most people wouldn't know that, and it works. But yea a Nice "SLINGERLAND", or "LUDWIG", "LEEDY" or "GRETCH" Set from the 50's would have been more appropriate!
@@j.s.connolly8579 both Slingerland and Ludwig factory buildings are in Chicago and still up.
He does have a deformed left hand. Wow, never noticed.
Polands syndrome
@@davidconrad3681 YES! Exactly! Gary even did some PSA's about birth defects back in the late 70's and he holds up his hand! He did SUCH a good job disguising his disability but it really wasn't a "Disability" for him! He worked around it!
At the beginning of the first episode they show his hand when he got a football, right before he announces the choppers are coming, in that famous scene that will initiate the episodes. It may be the only time the hand is not covered by something else.
😔
Nice.. even with the crippled hand
Polands syndrome
Doesn't seem crippled to me
@@RideAcrossTheRiver he has 3 deformed fingers on his left hand.
@@NEEDCheese I know; but he's not crippled
@@RideAcrossTheRiver whatever you want to call it.. it doesn't move normally.. which is the definition of cripple..
He certainly looks like he can play the drums and perhaps he pre-recorded the drum track and played to it but that wasn't LIVE ... very easy to tell
Disagree. He's playing everything you hear, and you can see it in the hits he's making. No way he could so accurately "play along" to a recording.
Sorry .. disagree all you wish. His sticks completely miss the snare around the 32 second mark BUT YOU CAN STILL HERE THE DRUM ..Please ..I am a drummer .. I am not saying that he does not posses the skill to play .. he's JUST NOT PLAYING LIVE HERE
"Please ..I am a drummer". Yeah, so am I, since 1972. You can still "HEAR" the drum at the 32 mark because he's hitting it with his right hand, the stick you can't see because it's hidden by the rack tom. You admit he has the skill, so what would possibly be the point here of getting him to play along to a recording? They would not have wasted production time on this show filming endless takes of Gary trying to accurately replicate a recorded performance. YELL all you want, but it won't make you any more correct.
We can agree to disagree
Perhaps the Wikipedia article on Gary Burghoff (which UA-cam won't let me link to here) has enough proof to convince you: In the "Later Career" section it states: "In the M*A*S*H episode 'Showtime,' Radar is seen playing a solo on the drums; he was actually performing, and the music was not dubbed." A source article is cited. I'm done arguing.
Not quite my tempo.