Well you get it then! This is quite an amazing accomplishment especially for those of us that basically worshiped Buddy our entire lives. I got the pleasure to see him a few times and actually meet him at a local club in Canoga Park when I was 12...this is man touched by God! Thanks for the support FYI. You have broken through some of the mystery of Buddy and thanks for doing this for all of us, brother! You are awesome... To the groove- Mark
I'd say Erik looks relaxed because he (or someone) had to study the Buddy solo, write it out, learn it, memorize it, practice it separately till it was perfect, then play along with the recording until perfect synch was consistently achieved, then turn on the recording gear and hope to get this perfect take. Whereas (I assume) Buddy just invented the solo "in the moment" and is gloriously banging away with glee. Great achievement to do this - congratulations.
Check it out at 7:15 when buddy's hi hat starts to get away from him he pulls it back with his left foot while he's playing as his hi hat was going crazy.And all this is done while he's facing in the opposite direction. I am now speechless from this point on.
After this, not sure which year, Buddy traveled with a piece of plywood that went under his drums. It had holes cut into it for each piece of equipment (bass drum spurs, cymbal stand legs, etc) to go into so nothing would move and everything would be exactly in the same place every night. The plywood was cut down the middle with hinges so it could be folded for traveling. I saw him in a small auditorium in March, 1976, when I was in ninth grade. He was amazing, and the show had a huge impact on my life.
He was on another plane than mere human drummers. Drumming was like chewing gum for Buddy. Not that it would be boring to him, but easy. I've only heard stories about Buddy arguing with a club patron while soloing and not miss not miss a beat.. or pretend getting his sticks stuck in the hi-hat while soloing and make it Sound good! I wish I got to meet him. Love you, Buddy!
Frank Zappa told a story about auditioning a young Vinny Colaiuta, like not even drinking age, and intentionally using an "impossible" song to play, "Keep it Greasy" in 19/16 time, to see if the kid could play. At one point in the song Vinnie reached up and adjusted his reading glasses, so he could see the sheet music, and without missing a beat. Frank threw his music sheet up in the air, in sheer amazement.
Buddy was a complete freak of nature with the things he could do! No one has really come close since... I would love to have just his left hand...the way he could bang out sick fast accurate singles with just his left was phenomenal...!
Easy to see the difference. Buddy's secret? He's using his body. Nobody talks about that but this is as important as your grip. Best lesson ever right there.
I never cease to be amazed by the gems of musicianship like this that you can discover quite by accident on UA-cam. Growing up and trying to play drums Buddy was always one of my serious 'go to' inspirations. West Side Story Suite still has to be in the top three of all time favourites. Anyway I just thought I would add my congratulations to a fantastic player in Eric. Brilliant stuff.
First comment I have ever been bothered to make. Thought I was nuts about getting his stuff together.....your truly another level of commitment. Bloody knock out.
A strange video. Fischer has cardboard cutouts behind him during his solo and Buddy has the real band. I wonder if Buddy recorded his solo at an earlier date and Fischer learned it and recorded take after take until it matched. Playing synchronized drum solos is pretty damn hard.
@drumfootage I just ran across this footage....... VERY nice work sir! It is now one of my favorites and I can only hope to be able to work it out. VERY impressive!
All kidding and mindless comments aside. This is a great demonstration. Just remember, any negative comments are from people that could never hope to achieve your level of playing the drums. Great work!
@@TheHellpoy I strongly disagree, Buddy was a very passionate drummer and he showed it, he was excited by what he played, notice how his whole body moves with his sticks literally throwing his body and soul into the solo (unlike the zombie on the other side) The showman of the day was most definitely Gene Krupa, he twirled his sticks and waved his arms around like an octopus and made a big fuss over not much.
Fantastic job. Also great choice of one of his solo's. Destroys the argument that all he could do was play hunched over the snare drum. I love it when he plays match. There's always something primal and primitive about it. I think he saved that grip for that kind of thing.
Buddy used to like to play the top 100 club, above the Starwood ,mid 70s..16 piece band mostly horns, One night he invites his friend out of the audience to come onstage and sing a song or two..The guy next to me gets up, its Mel Torme , the velvet fog...He did not disappoint..
Eric, I loved this! I'd love to see the Hats worked into the first section of this amazing performance. A+ all the way! I studied with Carmine Appice back in the late 80'searly 90's. He had a studio in his Northridge, CA home (on Tampa & Safari). He attended Buddys funeral and still had the Memorial program on his fireplace mantle. He and I have enormous respect for his skill. Keep on rockin! Michael in Seattle
Eric's so calm and controlled - no wasted motion, it's all from his wrists and fingers - you can tell he's had good teachers. Buddy's playing with his whole arms - he looks like a kid playing drums who somehow manages to hit everything in time, and it's pure talent, no schooling, just a man doing what he was born to do.
It looks hard to do. I was figuring you were playing along to the midi sequence, but was not sure. Both ways are fun to listen to. At first I thought that we were going to just see a sequence of Buddy's playing! Thank heavens for putting his drums sound through too. Please do more, I'm subscribing just to see what you will come up with next.
When matched grip became popular, Buddy made a point of demonstrating how he believed it wasn't possible to take full advantage of the traps unless traditional grip was used. In 1948, there was no such debate, and here's Buddy, using matched grip!
When I first looked at Eric Fisher, I could have sworn that he was an authentic drummer from the 1940s. But then again, I looked at him closely and even though he sounds quite good and amazing, he sure looks like he’s from today’s era.
There was only one drummer who took no prisoners. That was Buddy Rich. Like I read from a story that one of his musicians in his big band. When Buddy got behind his drum set and noticed some prominent drummer in the audience All Hell Broke Loose. It was time to send a message to that drummer. Watch this. Buddy would pour it on. Many pro drummers left the concert that night in disbelief. Still to this date not one drummer out there can come close to the expertise of Buddy Rich. enough said.
If you liked this, you should look up his original recording of Not So Quiet Please with Tommy Dorsey's organization from 1941...the studio version is even more amazing, if you can believe that. You might not be breathing normally after you hear that.
Great job. You realize how theatrical Bud was (making everything look harder than it was for him) by seeing how relaxed Eric is. Personally, I love to see a relaxed drummer.
That's impressive to be able to replicate a Buddy Rich solo. Funny how Buddy is playing matched grip too. There's a video on youtube from his later years where he talks about how matched grip is only good for tympani and that's it, and that traditional grip is the way to go. Love ya Buddy, but did you forget you played matched at one time? ;)
Brian Harris Drummer he did use matched grip every once in a while to get a certain primal effect on the toms, but it was pretty rare, he snuck it in here and there.
Thanks for your response. I've been working on the transcriptions since I discovered them. Kinda nice to have some one else do the hard part. I know those tempo changes and odd time measures were hard to get, or I know they would have been for me. Funny that you were criticized for not being as 'showy' as BR. If you had tried to copy all the body movements, you would have been cut for that too. As if just playing the music were not enough!
He uses it on typani like classical tympani players do. Check out the video " Why Buddy doesn't use matched grip" I think it's called. It's in color too I believe.
Where is your hi-hat? Buddy Rich was pure talent. Ambidextrous. Who can compete? How many "Ambi" people take up the drums? You are very talented. Thanks. I love the drums!! More power to you!!
Wow. Great job - both the videos and the transcriptions! I've done a number of BR transcriptions......slowing records, 3 speeds of a big tape deck, Marantz to slow down cassette, now "Tascam Guitar Trainer" for cd's. There's a certain 'groove' you can get into when it's slowed down to 'understand' the parts better. What program did you use for the beautiful transcriptions? I did "Channel 1 Suite" in Modern Drummer, '87 - not the time- tempo changes you figured out - just 200mph.
Terrific. I noticed that the band members are as much in awe of your playing as they were with Buddy's. What I did see different is that Buddy is more active with his hi-hat during much of the solo.
Great job Eric...fantastic amount of work and meticulousness! Now the only thing I would suggest if I may is that I propose that since you got the notes correct and the midi interpretation so accurate, I would also suggest that you stress the importance of playing stuff musically and with passion! There is a passion that emits from Buddy...'how' he plays it and not just 'what' he plays. Great work, brother!
That's wild with the matched grip! Maybe the reasoning was he needed more power back then as he wasn't being mic'd so he had to pound that solo out with matched grip? Would be cool to see the whole video with the band, I bet he was swinging with traditional grip during the music...
Funny observation.... Buddy looks like someone mindlessly pounding the drums whilst Eric looks like someone trying to play the drums very carefully. But complete and total props to Eric for doing this : )
The only thing I don't like is the MIDI sequence part, but other than that, this is great. I may be mistaken, but it sure looks like Buddy is using a matched grip on this solo drum piece.
Didnt realise what this was till the end ! Well done indeed. Did you through studying buddys solo come to an understanding of the very nature of drumming. I ask this as Buddys playing covers every style , every discipline , Inverted rudiment , and sheer exploration in drumming on a drum kit.
@jamesyavalon Really. This is so impressive. To match Buddy basically stroke-for-stroke is an impressive display of both picking out a somewhat lengthy solo first, and then flawlessly duplicating it. It's impressive regardless of who the original drummer is. But when it's Buddy, doubly so. Unfortunately, as I see above, there are Travis lovers/Buddy haters here too. Probably seven of them now. Or a combination of them, and insecure, intimidated drummers who trash ALL of their superiors!
Awesome work. My thought was this could surpass any current rock solo. Great hand-foot figures, even in the 40s. Very different Buddy, but what else would you expect. Thanks Eric for the treat to us drummers --along with the transcription. It's like a great drum lesson.
Fischer's was great, but Rich's was stronger and cleaner. Incredible how perfect a cadence they were both able to maintain, even with the tricky bass drum interplays.
wow.1948 as good as eric fischer is and hes top player.you can see buddys up there in the stratosphere!, probably gene krupa and {maybe louis bellson} are really the only other "mere mortals" who could give buddy a good run for the money. a one off is buddy rich
+TheHotSauce Shop if youre referring to the battle that sammy davis jr. hosted where gene is way out of his prime and buddy IS IN his prime, then you are insane
Well you get it then! This is quite an amazing accomplishment especially for those of us that basically worshiped Buddy our entire lives. I got the pleasure to see him a few times and actually meet him at a local club in Canoga Park when I was 12...this is man touched by God!
Thanks for the support FYI. You have broken through some of the mystery of Buddy and thanks for doing this for all of us, brother! You are awesome...
To the groove-
Mark
Truly remarkable but always remember Buddy did it first.
I'd say Erik looks relaxed because he (or someone) had to study the Buddy solo, write it out, learn it, memorize it, practice it separately till it was perfect, then play along with the recording until perfect synch was consistently achieved, then turn on the recording gear and hope to get this perfect take. Whereas (I assume) Buddy just invented the solo "in the moment" and is gloriously banging away with glee. Great achievement to do this - congratulations.
This may be quite true, but regardless, Buddy's playing always had more power and flash than anyone else, which was just part of his persona.
which is harder?
Amazing amount of work, Main difference I see is that is Eric is playing it, and Buddy is performing it. Awesome job.
Yes exactly, Buddy means it and then some!!
Buddy dogged it was even really close honestly
saw this video yesterday on a drumming buddy rich facebook channel...over 2 million views and counting...great job
Thanks Nunzio!
Check it out at 7:15 when buddy's hi hat starts to get away from him he pulls it back with his left foot while he's playing as his hi hat was going crazy.And all this is done while he's facing in the opposite direction. I am now speechless from this point on.
After this, not sure which year, Buddy traveled with a piece of plywood that went under his drums. It had holes cut into it for each piece of equipment (bass drum spurs, cymbal stand legs, etc) to go into so nothing would move and everything would be exactly in the same place every night. The plywood was cut down the middle with hinges so it could be folded for traveling. I saw him in a small auditorium in March, 1976, when I was in ninth grade. He was amazing, and the show had a huge impact on my life.
He was on another plane than mere human drummers. Drumming was like chewing gum for Buddy. Not that it would be boring to him, but easy. I've only heard stories about Buddy arguing with a club patron while soloing and not miss not miss a beat.. or pretend getting his sticks stuck in the hi-hat while soloing and make it Sound good! I wish I got to meet him. Love you, Buddy!
Frank Zappa told a story about auditioning a young Vinny Colaiuta, like not even drinking age, and intentionally using an "impossible" song to play, "Keep it Greasy" in 19/16 time, to see if the kid could play. At one point in the song Vinnie reached up and adjusted his reading glasses, so he could see the sheet music, and without missing a beat. Frank threw his music sheet up in the air, in sheer amazement.
Buddy was a complete freak of nature with the things he could do! No one has really come close since... I would love to have just his left hand...the way he could bang out sick fast accurate singles with just his left was phenomenal...!
Nice you noticed that good eyes my man
This is a tremendous accomplishment and a great inspiration to all of us.
I think it's pretty cool to see Buddy not using traditional.
I bet he fucking hated it.
Yup, and he had to simplify the entire drum solo so that Eric could keep up. Still a nice job by Eric, however, and he was nice and relaxed.
It's pretty cool to hear Buddy using MIDI too...
Don't think Buddy was doing that as much as it was far after the fact. They didn't have midi back in the day.
Well, he was playing the Toms.
Just found the pdf of the transcription...WOW...very nice of you to make it available for everyone! Off to my practice room....
Easy to see the difference. Buddy's secret? He's using his body. Nobody talks about that but this is as important as your grip. Best lesson ever right there.
Wow, almost had me fooled for a second, I thought both guys were really in 1948. Great job with the video and drumming.
No matter how far in the past we go Buddy Rich is always the best :-)
dude, thats some serious work you've done memorizing his drum pattern and then exactly coping it! PROPS.
Rare to see him playing without using traditional grip...thanks for posting!
Hi Eric. Great playing!
I never cease to be amazed by the gems of musicianship like this that you can discover quite by accident on UA-cam. Growing up and trying to play drums Buddy was always one of my serious 'go to' inspirations. West Side Story Suite still has to be in the top three of all time favourites. Anyway I just thought I would add my congratulations to a fantastic player in Eric. Brilliant stuff.
pretty cool to see Buddy playing with matched grip
...the man was a genius, no doubt
and thank you for posting this video
First comment I have ever been bothered to make.
Thought I was nuts about getting his stuff together.....your truly another level of commitment. Bloody knock out.
Superb work recreating that. ❤️
it looks like buddy really enjoy playing, you can see his head & body shaking all time..
A strange video. Fischer has cardboard cutouts behind him during his solo and Buddy has the real band. I wonder if Buddy recorded his solo at an earlier date and Fischer learned it and recorded take after take until it matched. Playing synchronized drum solos is pretty damn hard.
This sounds very similar as the solo Buddy Rich used when battling with Animal in The Muppet Show. Simply awesome.
@drumfootage I just ran across this footage....... VERY nice work sir! It is now one of my favorites and I can only hope to be able to work it out. VERY impressive!
All kidding and mindless comments aside. This is a great demonstration. Just remember, any negative comments are from people that could never hope to achieve your level of playing the drums. Great work!
Buddy is the best ever. Period.
This is an astounding work of dedication. I am reading Mel Tormé's biography of Buddy Rich, and was very pleased to find this. GREAT WORK!
No drummer, but NO drummer connects like Buddy did! The passion, the energy, the aggression, the luv!
Great job syncing this up,and great job learning the solo!!
Thank you Charles!
Superb work! Thanks for elucidating that solo, and your reproduction was marvelous!
am not a drummer--and dont know much about it.....but..This Is Astounding. Congrats!
Fascinating that Fischer looks more relaxed while Rich looks like he's really hitting the drums.
Rich was stronger and more athletic. Better, in other words.
Rich was a showman. Everything he did had to be visually appealing.
@@TheHellpoy
I strongly disagree, Buddy was a very passionate drummer and he showed it, he was excited by what he played, notice how his whole body moves with his sticks literally throwing his body and soul into the solo (unlike the zombie on the other side)
The showman of the day was most definitely Gene Krupa, he twirled his sticks and waved his arms around like an octopus and made a big fuss over not much.
maybe because Rich was improvising too, i mean you have to concentrate more
Eric,
This is uncanny. You worked many hours to get this together. Congratulations!
Fantastic job. Also great choice of one of his solo's. Destroys the argument that all he could do
was play hunched over the snare drum. I love it when he plays match. There's always something primal and primitive about it. I think he saved that grip for that kind of thing.
Man this was awesome you did a great job at mimicking Buddy. Much success
Buddy used to like to play the top 100 club, above the Starwood ,mid 70s..16 piece band mostly horns, One night he invites his friend out of the audience to come onstage and sing a song or two..The guy next to me gets up, its Mel Torme , the velvet fog...He did not disappoint..
The band members are so still. Amazing.
stereopolice I thought it was a fake background photo! :-)
genuineuni Me too.
stereopolice .. seems to me it is...
Adrian Kilbourne holy shit... these guys move... unbelieveable...
Adrian Kilbourne Yeah, they move ... a bit.
Eric, I loved this! I'd love to see the Hats worked into the first section of this amazing performance. A+ all the way!
I studied with Carmine Appice back in the late 80'searly 90's. He had a studio in his Northridge, CA home (on Tampa & Safari). He attended Buddys funeral and still had the Memorial program on his fireplace mantle. He and I have enormous respect for his skill. Keep on rockin! Michael in Seattle
Left hand starting at 5:25. Buddy Rich was a prodigy. He will never be equaled.
BR with the histrionics and Fischer nonplussed, the editing makes for the a weird but fascinating vid
I'm surprised to see Buddy Rich using matched grip. He always spoke against it.
Eric's so calm and controlled - no wasted motion, it's all from his wrists and fingers - you can tell he's had good teachers.
Buddy's playing with his whole arms - he looks like a kid playing drums who somehow manages to hit everything in time, and it's pure talent, no schooling, just a man doing what he was born to do.
It looks hard to do. I was figuring you were playing along to the midi sequence, but was not sure. Both ways are fun to listen to. At first I thought that we were going to just see a sequence of Buddy's playing! Thank heavens for putting his drums sound through too. Please do more, I'm subscribing just to see what you will come up with next.
Buddy Rich was the Best of the Best.....King of the Drummer World.....ever.....
Thanks made my day!
When matched grip became popular, Buddy made a point of demonstrating how he believed it wasn't possible to take full advantage of the traps unless traditional grip was used. In 1948, there was no such debate, and here's Buddy, using matched grip!
When I first looked at Eric Fisher, I could have sworn that he was an authentic drummer from the 1940s. But then again, I looked at him closely and even though he sounds quite good and amazing, he sure looks like he’s from today’s era.
There was only one drummer who took no prisoners. That was Buddy Rich. Like I read from a story that one of his musicians in his big band. When Buddy got behind his drum set and noticed some prominent drummer in the audience All Hell Broke Loose. It was time to send a message to that drummer. Watch this. Buddy would pour it on. Many pro drummers left the concert that night in disbelief. Still to this date not one drummer out there can come close to the expertise of Buddy Rich. enough said.
I'm curious as to why Buddy was not playing traditional grip in the clip?
If you liked this, you should look up his original recording of Not So Quiet Please with Tommy Dorsey's organization from 1941...the studio version is even more
amazing, if you can believe that. You might not be breathing normally after you hear that.
this is so f**king awesome, great job dude !
Great job. You realize how theatrical Bud was (making everything look harder than it was for him) by seeing how relaxed Eric is. Personally, I love to see a relaxed drummer.
That's impressive to be able to replicate a Buddy Rich solo. Funny how Buddy is playing matched grip too. There's a video on youtube from his later years where he talks about how matched grip is only good for tympani and that's it, and that traditional grip is the way to go. Love ya Buddy, but did you forget you played matched at one time? ;)
Brian Harris Drummer he did use matched grip every once in a while to get a certain primal effect on the toms, but it was pretty rare, he snuck it in here and there.
AWESOME
Thanks for your response. I've been working on the transcriptions since I discovered them. Kinda nice to have some one else do the hard part. I know those tempo changes and odd time measures were hard to get, or I know they would have been for me. Funny that you were criticized for not being as 'showy' as BR. If you had tried to copy all the body movements, you would have been cut for that too. As if just playing the music were not enough!
THAT took dedication and amazing chops. Way to go man!!
He uses it on typani like classical tympani players do. Check out the video " Why Buddy doesn't use matched grip" I think it's called. It's in color too I believe.
Buddy was known to use a matched grip for typani or floor toms to make a jungle like feel.
Even in 1948 Rich was playing things that only Krupa could dream about.
Where is your hi-hat? Buddy Rich was pure talent. Ambidextrous. Who can compete? How many "Ambi" people take up the drums? You are very talented. Thanks. I love the drums!! More power to you!!
Wow. Great job - both the videos and the transcriptions! I've done a number of BR transcriptions......slowing records, 3 speeds of a big tape deck, Marantz to slow down cassette, now "Tascam Guitar Trainer" for cd's. There's a certain 'groove' you can get into when it's slowed down to 'understand' the parts better. What program did you use for the beautiful transcriptions? I did "Channel 1 Suite" in Modern Drummer, '87 - not the time- tempo changes you figured out - just 200mph.
The _Electro Buddy_ part is simply genius and hilarious!
Terrific. I noticed that the band members are as much in awe of your playing as they were with Buddy's. What I did see different is that Buddy is more active with his hi-hat during much of the solo.
Great job Eric...fantastic amount of work and meticulousness! Now the only thing I would suggest if I may is that I propose that since you got the notes correct and the midi interpretation so accurate, I would also suggest that you stress the importance of playing stuff musically and with passion! There is a passion that emits from Buddy...'how' he plays it and not just 'what' he plays. Great work, brother!
Wow Bubby for sure! Amazing !
Buddy Rich is a man possessed ..He plays like a man on fire ...
this man is an animal
Fuckin Eh Amigo ....He's killin it ...
A freak of nature!
That's wild with the matched grip! Maybe the reasoning was he needed more power back then as he wasn't being mic'd so he had to pound that solo out with matched grip?
Would be cool to see the whole video with the band, I bet he was swinging with traditional grip during the music...
Unusual to see buddy not using the trad grip
three dudes back of fisher are stunned
Another one of Buddy playing match grip, something he later said wasn’t the right way to hold the sticks!
Brilliant video !!
Good job!!!!
Thank you!
That took alot of work! Good job!
5:21-5:24 sounds like a meshuggah beat
qwareverse that sounds like meshagas to me
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Funny fun amazing work .
These guys are playin in suits man.... no gimmicks to be seen - and they're the best...
and The WINNER is BUUUDDDYYYY RIIIIICH !!!
+lucky slevin Buddy was so precise, never be another like him RIP !
"Buddy Rich is the greatest drummer to have ever drawn breath."
~~~ Gene Krupa ~~~
MorbidManMusic this is like a right way and a wrong way to do it video. The kids a slouch haha
Very cool man! With the midi you can really pick out the beats distinctively.
Jeff Gover eeeccchhhh....it's completely dead and lifeless. Sounds like a dead duck's ass.. horrible.
Funny observation.... Buddy looks like someone mindlessly pounding the drums whilst Eric looks like someone trying to play the drums very carefully. But complete and total props to Eric for doing this : )
Time.
Meter.
Click.
Metronome.
These guys have them all, and then some.
Hand speed is godlike. ❤️
Thankyou!
Amazing,thanks.
The only thing I don't like is the MIDI sequence part, but other than that, this is great. I may be mistaken, but it sure looks like Buddy is using a matched grip on this solo drum piece.
Eric seems much more relaxed
And Buddy is feeling the music =]
You mean he seems more soulless.
WOW ... you very RARELY see Buddy using matched grip for that long during a solo.
Look!...Buddy playing matched grip!😄
buddy playing matched grip.
ANd an electronic kit------weird.
I agree, I don't think I've ever seen Buddy play matched grip
for that long a time.
the other band members are very disiplined
Yup! It's a photo'!
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Buddy make that kid like he going in slow mo.
Buddy Rich is a ferocious animal. He seems to get stronger the longer he goes. Badass!
my dad was born in 1948..
Didnt realise what this was till the end ! Well done indeed. Did you through studying buddys solo come to an understanding of the very nature of drumming. I ask this as Buddys playing covers every style , every discipline , Inverted rudiment , and sheer exploration in drumming on a drum kit.
@jamesyavalon Really. This is so impressive. To match Buddy basically stroke-for-stroke is an impressive display of both picking out a somewhat lengthy solo first, and then flawlessly duplicating it. It's impressive regardless of who the original drummer is. But when it's Buddy, doubly so. Unfortunately, as I see above, there are Travis lovers/Buddy haters here too. Probably seven of them now. Or a combination of them, and insecure, intimidated drummers who trash ALL of their superiors!
4 people have to be very bitter to give this video a negative rating.
Awesome work. My thought was this could surpass any current rock solo. Great hand-foot figures, even in the 40s. Very different Buddy, but what else would you expect. Thanks Eric for the treat to us drummers --along with the transcription. It's like a great drum lesson.
LOVE IT!
Fischer's was great, but Rich's was stronger and cleaner. Incredible how perfect a cadence they were both able to maintain, even with the tricky bass drum interplays.
amazing, they use 2 sticks, make beautiful sounds, i can't use fork or knife
wow.1948 as good as eric fischer is and hes top player.you can see buddys up there in the stratosphere!, probably gene krupa and {maybe louis bellson} are really the only other "mere mortals" who could give buddy a good run for the money. a one off is buddy rich
barry fitzgerald seen batlle with gene and he kills gene...simple as that.... think for swing some like ar tblakey come closest...
barry fitzgerald
search for the drum battle between Buddy and Ed Shaughnessy on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. You will enjoy.
+TheHotSauce Shop if youre referring to the battle that sammy davis jr. hosted where gene is way out of his prime and buddy IS IN his prime, then you are insane