You probably know Robyn Flans, who's a wonderful author and whose interviews typically are and have been with drummers. She wrote a great book about Jeff, It's About Time: The Music of Jeff Porcaro. Her second book with Jeff Porcaro stories is going to be available for preorder in a couple of months from now. In one of Robyn's many interviews with Jeff, maybe for Modern Drummer, she conveyed a story that's very similar to the story you shared here about Vinnie and Jeff at the Baked Potato with a broken hi-hat. The difference is the story in her book had Vinnie playing, his hi-hat pedal broke, he looked down and there was Jeff, with a big grin on his face, fixing Vinnie's hi-hat. Wouldn't it be wild if this happened to both of them and karma stepped in, as if to say, "well, you helped me fix mine, so I'll help you fix yours!" Thanks for these great videos!
Right after Jeff passed, my drum teacher and I went to a Dave Weckl clinic. Dave came out, didn't say a word, and played the " Rosanna" shuffle for a few minutes. Not a dry eye in the place. Jeff was one of a kind and sorely missed.
My Dad graduated high school with Dave Weckl. He would say you would drive by his house and could hear him playing the drums. He said Dave was always practicing.
I went to an appearance Jeff did at a local music store for Paiste cymbals.. and he answered many questions from drummers there.. it was a great 2 hours Jeff spoke..played and entertained us guys and gals.. The rep for Paiste cymbals was off stage looking pissed because Jeff never once mentioned Paiste in those 2 hours,, suddenly Jeff looked at the rep and smiled.. and under his breath.. said ok..ok... Folks..here listen to these cymbals.. he then did a fantastic solo around the selection of cymbals on his set.. he got a standing ovation from us all.. he stood up and screamed PAIS1E CYMBALS.. I LOVE EM!!! we all; roared... after he signed autographs and i came up last to have a drumhead signed and asked him being tall if he ever gets sore in the legs and back when he plays... he brought me over to the set he played and told me to adjust the seat how i play... i sat abit high... he then said.. theres your problem.. lower the seat and bring is back like this... he sat so his legs were up a bit higher than the throne.. legs straight.. and he then said.. sit straight up.. and back.. make your arms do the work.. not your legs and back.. Never had a back ache again.... That was Jeff... he couldve said do it.. but he sat me down and showed me.. i just about fainted.. one of my favorite drummers giving me advice... he then hugged me and said keep playing maaan..
Toto was playing a concert at Blossom Music Center outside the Greater Cleveland area in the early '80's. The opening act was some unknown band with just an okay drummer. From our angle, stage left-4th row, we could see Jeff standing at the stage door behind-right to the drum stand. He just stood there for maybe 15 minutes watching the drummer, when the rest of the band was in their dressing room chilling out. The big lesson was that Jeff was a master drummer watching some young guy with the curiosity of a student. Bottom line..........to be great you have to live the music, live your instrument of choice. RIP Maestro.
I had the honor to know Jeff as a friend. I met in 8th grade a Millikan jr. High Sherman oaks Calif. we played battle of the bands against each other in 1968, guess who won. Grew up with the Porcaro’s stayed friends with Jeff and Mike all through Uss Grant high school Steve Porcaro was 3 years behind us. David Paich , Steve or better known as Luke) class of 72. A lot of bands came out of Grant. Quiet Riot, the Dickies, country Joe and the fish (Woodstock) kinda lost track of Jeff when he got the Gig with Sonny and Cher.have a fond memory of Jeff’s high school band Rual Stillife anyone who knew Jeff his hands would cramp up on him from time to time. I was standing on the side, Jeff saw me and waved me up to sit in. And finish the song fire by Hendrix, after I finished, I felt Jeff’s sticks poking me in the back saying I’m ok Kevin. What a privilege it was sitting in for the groove master. Still message Steve from time to time. RIP Jeff, Mike, Joe Porcaro . Jeff only lived 8 blocks from me in Sherman oaks.I’m 70 years young still playing for 57 years.
Mark B. sends greetings from Grant High School 1973 Kevin. Battle of the bands with Jim and Ben at the Paladium, the teenage fair. I saw Jeff with Steely Dan 50 years ago this month in Glendale, time flys, but we still have those very cool memories. BTW you're old.
My favorite drummer of all time. Just amazing. No click, no protools, no BS. The real deal. His style and sound are easily recognizable. I'm just a simple songwriter and guitar player who loves drums... I read and play drums good enough to be in a bar band but more so learned to help my guitar playing. That's how I discovered Jeff. Call me crazy but I put him before Bonham. I love them all really for different reasons but Jeff is my go to whenever someone asks who my favorite drummer is.
Jeff is hands down my favourite drummer. I still find myself watching his instructional video after already watching it hundreds of times. The drums in that video are probably the best sounding drums I’ve ever heard in my life.
When the news came out about Jeff’s passing, I’ll never forget it. I was in Westchester county, New York, playing a jazz jam session with some great area musicians like guitarist Al Orlo. Most of us were hard-core jazz players but when we heard about Jeff, we all just hung our heads and really felt the sadness. The respect for Jeff crossed over stylistic limitations, he was just a great musician, a total master of his craft.
Thank you, thank you! I am an enormous fan of Jeff's work and watch anything I can find about Jeff Porcaro. To me, he was the best drummer of all time. His style, his timekeeping, his playing shaped the sound of the 80s.
Jeff is unquestionably one of my favorite drummers of all time. He could Groove like no other. And he did it in his own way. I remember what Greg bissonette was mentioning about the time that Jeff was featured in modern drummer. He actually felt that his time sucked. Are you kidding? I remember reading that article. How could this guy possibly think that his time sucked? He was brilliant. The man who gave us Rosanna. I've learned that Groove but will never be able to do it like Jeff.
Jeff's paintings for the record "Los Lobotomys" ... skeletons. Check out the Toto video from 1991 in Montreux ... he looks tired. Of course he plays brillant, but he looks tired.
I think my quote was misunderstood about Gregg bissonette comments about Jeff playing. Greg was not saying that Jeff timing sucked. He was quoting what Jeff said in the interview in modern drummer about his own playing. I read that article myself and I was quite surprised that Jeff would say that says he was so brilliant.
I remember hearing that Jeff's father had mentioned that his timing would be off slightly, but that it was more a matter of his speed, being high energy. Despite saying that, his father was so proud of him, and confident he'd soon correct the issue.
Love Jeff's grooves. The 'Feel' and 'The Soul' aspect was always there. No matter what. Aspects that can't truly be 'Taught'. One either has it, or they do not. Any style of music
i remember hearing about his death back on 92 from Mtv. His loss struck like i lost a member of my family. That happened once again to me in 98 with the loss of another amazing drummer.Carlos Vega.
What a tremendous loss..!! One of my all time favorite drummers… No one…! Played a better shuffle than Jeff…. NO ONE……!!!!! I miss him from Toto and locally playing at the Baked Potato…. I was on the phone with my wife, Slim when WCBS informed everyone of the sad news. It crushed me..!!! My wife knew about him from me. I talked about him all the time. It wasn’t fun…. About 12 noon when we all heard it… He would talk about the players he wanted behind the kit that he wanted to fill in for him… They were all great players…. But not one of them could fill his shoes properly… not one..!! And I’m sorry… Simon is killer good… and Keith also…but…!! None could fill his shoes….. He was that … Good..! God Bless you Jeff.. You were far to young to have God take you…
Not a big deal, but I was at the Grove school of music in Van Nuys in 89 and Jeff was the guest speaker/drummer for one of our Saturday morning 'master class' type things. He hadn't shown up yet so somebody called him and I heard he said 'oh - that thing is today...?' He got there about 20 mins later and it was cool after that. I remember him getting annoyed later on that we didn't know our motown as well as he thought we should....
Hi 🤗🥁 I was at Grove School to, in 88-89. I remember a clinic, where he played tunes with his brother Mike, and a guitar player. I was in a trance, cause it felt so great… Suddenly he came to where I was sitting - gave me his sticks, and said to me - you go up and play the tunes. I think David Garibaldi, who was my teacher at Grove, had mentioned me. David is the best and so kind, still is. I played a few tunes with Jeff Porcaro sitting close to the drums……. 👀. He was so kind, and made me feel really good about the situation. It was weird, cause I just heard him play some of the best drumming i Can imagine. Thanks Jeff ☀️💚
@@maixce Cool. Sounds like that was the year before I was there. We had the thing with Jeff but his brother was not there. Garibaldi was at Grove but left in the middle of the school year that I was there
When Jeff passed, I didn't hear about his passing until a couple of months later. The internet was not around as much and personal computers were not around as much either. In those days it was very rare for me to work on a Saturday, but I was on the commute home one Saturday listening to Rick Dee's Weekly Top Forty. Richard Marx's "Chains Around My Heart" had just finished playing when Rick said "that drummer was, of course, the late Jeff Porcaro" and I completely lost it. Wait!!! What did he just say? I remember Rick also saying that Jeff was his all-time favorite drummer as he was mine as well. I was in shock and mourning for quite a while... trying to come to terms with such a tremendous loss. Jeff's massive contribution to music he left behind keep his memories in our hearts and in our minds. RIP Jeff...
@@teresaclark1508 Thanks Teresa! The best way to honor Jeff's memory is to not only watch his videos, but to listening to his musical contributions. 😇😇😇
Yes, it was the other way around, because Vinnie told that story himself.. Vinnie was looking down at Jeff working on the high hat.. Curt might’ve been at the sweet potato that night . Lol
It's all a blur fellas! More importantly is that we keep the torch lit for our drum hero. Had it not been for him, my life as a musician would be much different! RIP #groovemaster
I don't know if you can call this a story but... When I was 12 (1982) a friend was talking about Jeff Porcaro's snare drum. How good it sounded and that I should listen to it. I went home and listened and he was right. I knew Jeff back then, but little did I know that you could own more than one snare drum. Although I have to give him that the ones he had sounded extremely good.
There is plenty of them. Ricky Lee Jones was tripping on some bad drugs and tried to piss on Jeff. Several takes and she was breathing Satan Fire in his face. Until they tried the song again, came up to the fill she bitched about (plus everything else) where Jeff twirled the sticks in a flick and stabbed the rack toms with the sticks. And walked out the door. They called from the Studio when he got home and told him the Bitch was gonna sue him. Jeff was furious. "No one but no one speaks to me like that!' Some time later she called him in for a session and was sweet and normal.
Najlepszy maestro perkusista grupy Toto i muzyk sesyjny wielu znanych gwiazd muzyki rozrywkowej i rockowej wszechczasów.Jego granie na perkusji słychać w wielu znanych utworach .
I was in my first year of studying music and one of my class mates asked if I knew who Jeff Porcaro is? I said no. He immediately wrote a list of Jeff's most iconic grooves and told me "you need to know who Jeff is." He told me to listen to those grooves/songs and to start learning them. When I finally nailed the beat for 'Rosanna', I almost cried. Jeff became my idol. He is the master of playing time. More drummers need to study Jeff.
I wish more bass players understood the concept that if the drummer lays back, they have to stay forward. If the drummer is playing on the “back” and the bass player try’s to play on the back of that, then you get a piggy back thing happening where everyone is trying to lay back and then the whole thing slows down.
Vinnie recently told the same story that Curt Bisquera told here, about the hi-hat breaking in the middle of a song at The Baked Potato, except Vinnie said he was the one playing and Porcaro was the one fixing it. lol Go to 50:24 in this video ua-cam.com/video/QQt47lDShyw/v-deo.html
2:11 can someone explain what is meant by “pulling back”? Is it a term to describe a musical feel during a recording like “laying back”? Or is it a general session approach and attitude kind of thing?
Listen to Jeff's advice about recording to a click in this clinic starting at the 14:21 ua-cam.com/video/0LkStTRABpA/v-deo.html Playing "behind the beat", means a consistent pulse right behind the click or main time, it can be almost imperceptible, and it is controlled it is NOT sloppily dragging down the musical train. Its some smooth groove sauce added to the feeling of the section or the song. By contrast playing right on top of the beat would have a more driving effect to the music, and that may not work for the intended feel of the piece.
Dude, share away! We've all heard stories about how great, kind, weird and intense he was on the Jeff Porcaro Memorial Group, so it's not going to shock us :) What happened?
As much as drummers love the song Rosanna not many get the kick drum part correct. Nobody gets the Bo Diddley beat happening on the kick drum. Everybody always overplays that part.
Not sure if this is the forum for this, but when the news came out and the reports were saying Jeff passed away from exposure to pesticides, frankly, none of us were believing that… Maybe this isn’t the place for that conversation but we just weren’t buying that version of the story.
Please ask and GET permission to use my photographs of Jeff in your video. The image at the end of this video has been used without permission or any licensing agreement. Not cool at all.
Hi Peter - we found this picture on Wikimedia under the free-use Commons license. We included a photo credit in the video description. Hope this helps!
Do you have a Jeff Porcaro story to share with us? Let's hear it in the comments👇
You probably know Robyn Flans, who's a wonderful author and whose interviews typically are and have been with drummers. She wrote a great book about Jeff, It's About Time: The Music of Jeff Porcaro. Her second book with Jeff Porcaro stories is going to be available for preorder in a couple of months from now.
In one of Robyn's many interviews with Jeff, maybe for Modern Drummer, she conveyed a story that's very similar to the story you shared here about Vinnie and Jeff at the Baked Potato with a broken hi-hat. The difference is the story in her book had Vinnie playing, his hi-hat pedal broke, he looked down and there was Jeff, with a big grin on his face, fixing Vinnie's hi-hat.
Wouldn't it be wild if this happened to both of them and karma stepped in, as if to say, "well, you helped me fix mine, so I'll help you fix yours!" Thanks for these great videos!
Right after Jeff passed, my drum teacher and I went to a Dave Weckl clinic. Dave came out, didn't say a word, and played the " Rosanna" shuffle for a few minutes. Not a dry eye in the place. Jeff was one of a kind and sorely missed.
Honorable
Dave is a great guy.......
My Dad graduated high school with Dave Weckl. He would say you would drive by his house and could hear him playing the drums. He said Dave was always practicing.
That was very nice and respectful of Dave to honor Jeff that way.. ❤
Right on...I was there and at Jeff's funeral...small world indeed
I went to an appearance Jeff did at a local music store for Paiste cymbals.. and he answered many questions from drummers there.. it was a great 2 hours Jeff spoke..played and entertained us guys and gals.. The rep for Paiste cymbals was off stage looking pissed because Jeff never once mentioned Paiste in those 2 hours,, suddenly Jeff looked at the rep and smiled.. and under his breath.. said ok..ok... Folks..here listen to these cymbals.. he then did a fantastic solo around the selection of cymbals on his set.. he got a standing ovation from us all.. he stood up and screamed PAIS1E CYMBALS.. I LOVE EM!!! we all; roared... after he signed autographs and i came up last to have a drumhead signed and asked him being tall if he ever gets sore in the legs and back when he plays... he brought me over to the set he played and told me to adjust the seat how i play... i sat abit high... he then said.. theres your problem.. lower the seat and bring is back like this... he sat so his legs were up a bit higher than the throne.. legs straight.. and he then said.. sit straight up.. and back.. make your arms do the work.. not your legs and back.. Never had a back ache again.... That was Jeff... he couldve said do it.. but he sat me down and showed me.. i just about fainted.. one of my favorite drummers giving me advice... he then hugged me and said keep playing maaan..
Toto was playing a concert at Blossom Music Center outside the Greater Cleveland area in the early '80's. The opening act was some unknown band with just an okay drummer. From our angle, stage left-4th row, we could see Jeff standing at the stage door behind-right to the drum stand. He just stood there for maybe 15 minutes watching the drummer, when the rest of the band was in their dressing room chilling out. The big lesson was that Jeff was a master drummer watching some young guy with the curiosity of a student. Bottom line..........to be great you have to live the music, live your instrument of choice. RIP Maestro.
I had the honor to know Jeff as a friend. I met in 8th grade a Millikan jr. High Sherman oaks Calif. we played battle of the bands against each other in 1968, guess who won. Grew up with the Porcaro’s stayed friends with Jeff and Mike all through Uss Grant high school Steve Porcaro was 3 years behind us. David Paich , Steve or better known as Luke) class of 72. A lot of bands came out of Grant. Quiet Riot, the Dickies, country Joe and the fish (Woodstock) kinda lost track of Jeff when he got the Gig with Sonny and Cher.have a fond memory of Jeff’s high school band Rual Stillife anyone who knew Jeff his hands would cramp up on him from time to time. I was standing on the side, Jeff saw me and waved me up to sit in. And finish the song fire by Hendrix, after I finished, I felt Jeff’s sticks poking me in the back saying I’m ok Kevin. What a privilege it was sitting in for the groove master. Still message Steve from time to time. RIP Jeff, Mike, Joe Porcaro . Jeff only lived 8 blocks from me in Sherman oaks.I’m 70 years young still playing for 57 years.
Mark B. sends greetings from Grant High School 1973 Kevin. Battle of the bands with Jim and Ben at the Paladium, the teenage fair.
I saw Jeff with Steely Dan 50 years ago this month in Glendale, time flys, but we still have those very cool memories. BTW you're old.
My favorite drummer of all time. Just amazing. No click, no protools, no BS. The real deal. His style and sound are easily recognizable. I'm just a simple songwriter and guitar player who loves drums... I read and play drums good enough to be in a bar band but more so learned to help my guitar playing. That's how I discovered Jeff. Call me crazy but I put him before Bonham. I love them all really for different reasons but Jeff is my go to whenever someone asks who my favorite drummer is.
Jeff is hands down my favourite drummer. I still find myself watching his instructional video after already watching it hundreds of times. The drums in that video are probably the best sounding drums I’ve ever heard in my life.
When the news came out about Jeff’s passing, I’ll never forget it. I was in Westchester county, New York, playing a jazz jam session with some great area musicians like guitarist Al Orlo. Most of us were hard-core jazz players but when we heard about Jeff, we all just hung our heads and really felt the sadness. The respect for Jeff crossed over stylistic limitations, he was just a great musician, a total master of his craft.
Jeff’s gone but his beat will live on forever ..never forgotten
Thank you, thank you! I am an enormous fan of Jeff's work and watch anything I can find about Jeff Porcaro. To me, he was the best drummer of all time. His style, his timekeeping, his playing shaped the sound of the 80s.
Jeff is unquestionably one of my favorite drummers of all time. He could Groove like no other. And he did it in his own way. I remember what Greg bissonette was mentioning about the time that Jeff was featured in modern drummer. He actually felt that his time sucked. Are you kidding? I remember reading that article. How could this guy possibly think that his time sucked? He was brilliant. The man who gave us Rosanna. I've learned that Groove but will never be able to do it like Jeff.
Jeff's paintings for the record "Los Lobotomys" ... skeletons. Check out the Toto video from 1991 in Montreux ... he looks tired. Of course he plays brillant, but he looks tired.
I think my quote was misunderstood about Gregg bissonette comments about Jeff playing. Greg was not saying that Jeff timing sucked. He was quoting what Jeff said in the interview in modern drummer about his own playing. I read that article myself and I was quite surprised that Jeff would say that says he was so brilliant.
I remember hearing that Jeff's father had mentioned that his timing would be off slightly, but that it was more a matter of his speed, being high energy. Despite saying that, his father was so proud of him, and confident he'd soon correct the issue.
Love Jeff's grooves. The 'Feel' and 'The Soul' aspect was always there. No matter what. Aspects that can't truly be 'Taught'. One either has it, or they do not. Any style of music
i remember hearing about his death back on 92 from Mtv.
His loss struck like i lost a member of my family.
That happened once again to me in 98 with the loss of another amazing drummer.Carlos Vega.
Except poor Vega blew his head off!! Great drummer,though!! Unfortunately had substance abuse issues which ultimately led to his suicide!!!
Ditto
@@sticktrik- Oh man, that's terrible! What a loss.
Without doubt one of my top 3 drummers. Definitely the best at making a groove.
Can we have more stories😭 these are awesome
2:31 - "don 't rush" ... sooooooo true! :)
What a tremendous loss..!! One of my all time favorite drummers…
No one…! Played a better shuffle than Jeff…. NO ONE……!!!!!
I miss him from Toto and locally playing at the Baked Potato….
I was on the phone with my wife, Slim when WCBS informed everyone of the sad news. It crushed me..!!!
My wife knew about him from me. I talked about him all the time.
It wasn’t fun…. About 12 noon when we all heard it…
He would talk about the players he wanted behind the kit that he wanted to fill in for him… They were all great players…. But not one of them could fill his shoes properly… not one..!!
And I’m sorry… Simon is killer good… and Keith also…but…!! None could fill his shoes….. He was that … Good..!
God Bless you Jeff..
You were far to young to have God take you…
Not a big deal, but I was at the Grove school of music in Van Nuys in 89 and Jeff was the guest speaker/drummer for one of our Saturday morning 'master class' type things. He hadn't shown up yet so somebody called him and I heard he said 'oh - that thing is today...?' He got there about 20 mins later and it was cool after that. I remember him getting annoyed later on that we didn't know our motown as well as he thought we should....
Hi 🤗🥁 I was at Grove School to, in 88-89.
I remember a clinic, where he played tunes with his brother Mike, and a guitar player.
I was in a trance, cause it felt so great…
Suddenly he came to where I was sitting - gave me his sticks, and said to me - you go up and play the tunes.
I think David Garibaldi, who was my teacher at Grove, had mentioned me. David is the best and so kind, still is.
I played a few tunes with Jeff Porcaro sitting close to the drums……. 👀.
He was so kind, and made me feel really good about the situation. It was weird, cause I just heard him play some of the best drumming i Can imagine.
Thanks Jeff ☀️💚
@@maixce Cool. Sounds like that was the year before I was there. We had the thing with Jeff but his brother was not there. Garibaldi was at Grove but left in the middle of the school year that I was there
@@homerinchinatown2 I hope you had a good time at Grove :-) I sure did.
Who took over after David left?
So, yeah. An hour more of this would be just fine. :-)
We're so glad you're enjoying these stories. We're looking for more to share with you all soon...
@@drumchannelI have the feeling Larry Carlton could tell us some stories. He and Jeff shared a lot of sessions and he’s also a huge fan of Jeff.
When Jeff passed, I didn't hear about his passing until a couple of months later. The internet was not around as much and personal computers were not around as much either.
In those days it was very rare for me to work on a Saturday, but I was on the commute home one Saturday listening to Rick Dee's Weekly Top Forty.
Richard Marx's "Chains Around My Heart" had just finished playing when Rick said "that drummer was, of course, the late Jeff Porcaro" and I completely lost it. Wait!!! What did he just say? I remember Rick also saying that Jeff was his all-time favorite drummer as he was mine as well.
I was in shock and mourning for quite a while... trying to come to terms with such a tremendous loss. Jeff's massive contribution to music he left behind keep his memories in our hearts and in our minds.
RIP Jeff...
😪
@@teresaclark1508 Thanks Teresa! The best way to honor Jeff's memory is to not only watch his videos, but to listening to his musical contributions. 😇😇😇
Great to see the great Lang here, he has the love of drumming and appreciation of Jeff and his history.
very good tribute.
Love this
Man I love hearing the real cats talk about Jeffrey. More please! I'll be in the woodshed:)
Jeff is so inspiring to me. Gone way too soon.
Curt Bisquera story was the other way around I believe, Vinnie was on drums, and Jeff came to help fixing Vince's broken hi-hat.
Correct - I was at that very show.
That's what I was thinking.
@@dankenton Lucky you !!!
Yes, it was the other way around, because Vinnie told that story himself.. Vinnie was looking down at Jeff working on the high hat.. Curt might’ve been at the sweet potato that night . Lol
It's all a blur fellas! More importantly is that we keep the torch lit for our drum hero. Had it not been for him, my life as a musician would be much different! RIP #groovemaster
My favorite Jeff story has to be the one about the notorious Roberto Carlos session. "WHAT THE F%^& IS A FOXTROT?!"
Tell me about it man?
@@emersonsantos120602 check out Lee Sklar’s interview with Michael Thompson. MT recounts it there. Hilarious!
@@sethcashman1011 Awesome! I’m from Brasil and it’s so nice to know that musicians like Jeff with our king Roberto Carlos!
I don't know if you can call this a story but... When I was 12 (1982) a friend was talking about Jeff Porcaro's snare drum. How good it sounded and that I should listen to it.
I went home and listened and he was right.
I knew Jeff back then, but little did I know that you could own more than one snare drum. Although I have to give him that the ones he had sounded extremely good.
Jeff was the best.
There is plenty of them. Ricky Lee Jones was tripping on some bad drugs and tried to piss on Jeff. Several takes and she was breathing Satan Fire in his face. Until they tried the song again, came up to the fill she bitched about (plus everything else) where Jeff twirled the sticks in a flick and stabbed the rack toms with the sticks. And walked out the door.
They called from the Studio when he got home and told him the Bitch was gonna sue him. Jeff was furious. "No one but no one speaks to me like that!'
Some time later she called him in for a session and was sweet and normal.
I remember reading that story in a Modern Drummer interview, but I don’t think he said who the artist was. Don’t do (bad) drugs, mm’kay.
@@BamBam_PDX Name was dropped in Inside Musicast podcast with Robyn Flans recently but I heard it through the grapevine earlier.
best drummer ever! toto best band ever!
Awesome video!
Thank you!
Curt that was a great story. Don great point!! Gregg peach it brother! Luis - yo, David. haha. Great stories guys. Jeff man...
There are a bunch of stories about Jeff in Steve Lukather's book.
Love to know that!!!
Does Luke say anything about Jeff partying with a few of his high school friends and Steely Dan at a club in Glendale for 2 nights?
Najlepszy maestro perkusista grupy Toto i muzyk sesyjny wielu znanych gwiazd muzyki rozrywkowej i rockowej wszechczasów.Jego granie na perkusji słychać w wielu znanych utworach .
I was in my first year of studying music and one of my class mates asked if I knew who Jeff Porcaro is? I said no. He immediately wrote a list of Jeff's most iconic grooves and told me "you need to know who Jeff is." He told me to listen to those grooves/songs and to start learning them. When I finally nailed the beat for 'Rosanna', I almost cried. Jeff became my idol. He is the master of playing time. More drummers need to study Jeff.
Isn’t that story about Vinnie fixing Jeff’s hi hat story the other way round? Vinnie said that Jeff fixed his hi-hat.
Yes
Yes, I think so.)
I wish more bass players understood the concept that if the drummer lays back, they have to stay forward. If the drummer is playing on the “back” and the bass player try’s to play on the back of that, then you get a piggy back thing happening where everyone is trying to lay back and then the whole thing slows down.
Se ve poco material vhs de Jeff. Siempre es bueno ver y escuchar a este capo.
Nice
We all love you, Lenny, and we know you loved him.
Vinnie recently told the same story that Curt Bisquera told here, about the hi-hat breaking in the middle of a song at The Baked Potato, except Vinnie said he was the one playing and Porcaro was the one fixing it. lol
Go to 50:24 in this video ua-cam.com/video/QQt47lDShyw/v-deo.html
Right! That's how I remember it as well!
rip groovemaster
I need subtitulos en spanish please!!!!
I wish we could hear what he would be playing now.
Hmmm, this is strange...the Baked Potato story was told by Vinnie and it was Vinnie playing and Jeff fixing his hi hats...
2:11 can someone explain what is meant by “pulling back”? Is it a term to describe a musical feel during a recording like “laying back”? Or is it a general session approach and attitude kind of thing?
Listen to Jeff's advice about recording to a click in this clinic starting at the 14:21
ua-cam.com/video/0LkStTRABpA/v-deo.html
Playing "behind the beat", means a consistent pulse right behind the click or main time, it can be almost imperceptible, and it is controlled it is NOT sloppily dragging down the musical train. Its some smooth groove sauce added to the feeling of the section or the song. By contrast playing right on top of the beat would have a more driving effect to the music, and that may not work for the intended feel of the piece.
I have a Porcaro story but, it’s not a musical one!!! We’ll leave it at that!
Share it!
Dude, share away! We've all heard stories about how great, kind, weird and intense he was on the Jeff Porcaro Memorial Group, so it's not going to shock us :) What happened?
If it's what I think it is, don't tell it!!
@@justthedrummer330 which one? The coke stuff and weed stuff, the peeing stuff, or the naked stuff?
Please answer, nothing human is unknown to us. Jeff was very creative.
Sounds like he had no time for the BS, was like pull it together or I'm outta here. LoL.
As much as drummers love the song Rosanna not many get the kick drum part correct. Nobody gets the Bo Diddley beat happening on the kick drum. Everybody always overplays that part.
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Not sure if this is the forum for this, but when the news came out and the reports were saying Jeff passed away from exposure to pesticides, frankly, none of us were believing that… Maybe this isn’t the place for that conversation but we just weren’t buying that version of the story.
Please ask and GET permission to use my photographs of Jeff in your video. The image at the end of this video has been used without permission or any licensing agreement. Not cool at all.
Hi Peter - we found this picture on Wikimedia under the free-use Commons license. We included a photo credit in the video description. Hope this helps!
Jeff Porcaro was a great drummer. One of many great drummers, and that is about it. This kind of pandering hero worship would probably make him vomit.