Favorite Drum BANDS!

[Rimshot]

Yep, rather than resurrect an 8 year old thread about drum brands when half of the people thought it was DRUM BANDS. I figured I'd be the jerk that actually created a thread about favorite DRUM BANDS ( and there are quite a few) but they are usually "World Music".
Here's one video from the GREAT Guinean "djembefola" Mamady Keita with his group Sewa Kan (This was their first public performance in 1989 in Brussels, Belgium).

Enjoy:

 

[dintymoore]

... half of the people thought it was DRUM BANDS...

How about a thread for musicians that can't read?

That's some cooking shit - hell of a wedding band!

What are those big ears on the drum below?

 

[Rimshot]

How about a thread for musicians that can't read?

That's some cooking shit - hell of a wedding band!

What are those big ears on the drum below?

They're called Ksink Ksinks or Yanyama. They are sheet metal inserts that are fit with many metal rings around the edges and they impart a mild snare-like sound when played.

 

[dintymoore]

Cool!

Me, not knowing those type of bands, would probably think of Santana as my favorite "drum band". Or maybe the Buddy Rich Big Band. Zeppelin?

It kinda pissed me off that Carlos went into the commercial stuff he did awhile back, not because was commercial, but it wasn't very "drum band". It seemed very contrived and money driven. I wish he went more for the Soul Sacrifice sound where it was just unbelievably cooking with long perc breaks.

 

[Rimshot]

Here's another style of Drum Band

This is a video made a few years ago in Cairo when some friends of mine from New York (Raquy Danziger, Rami El Aessir, Veronica Gautier and a few others) joined Egyptian master Said El Artist and his drum orchestra for a performance at the Cairo Cultural Center.

 

[Rimshot]

And now for some thing a bit more Western........................

This is a video of one of the most "friggin' awesome" and theatrical Drum Lines that I have seen. Watch the whole thing, these guys are KILLER !

 

[grimtraveller]

It kinda pissed me off that Carlos went into the commercial stuff he did awhile back, not because was commercial, but it wasn't very "drum band". It seemed very contrived and money driven. I wish he went more for the Soul Sacrifice sound where it was just unbelievably cooking with long perc breaks.

I agree with you there. To me, "Santana" and "Abraxas" are still the best things Santana did, combining heavy, jammy, psychedelic, nascent progressive, San Francisco late 60s rock with the spicy rhythmic content of Hispanic/Latin and to a lesser extent Afro percussion. It was new, it was original and it still sounds great.
As for the actual thread subject, I have to say that I find purely drum/ percussion bands boring. Not because they aren't brilliant, cooking and driving, but because they isolate in a way that for me makes the music lopsided {having been involved in such, I find them alot more fun to play in than to listen to}. Now, every now and again over the years, there have been pieces by such artists/ aggregations that I think are fantastic. But I can't listen to whole albums by such, any more than I could listen to whole bass albums or entire accapella albums. Of course there are always exceptions and so many different combos of elements.
I use alot of percussion in my own stuff, ironically.

 

[Rimshot]

I agree with you there. To me, "Santana" and "Abraxas" are still the best things Santana did, combining heavy, jammy, psychedelic, nascent progressive, San Francisco late 60s rock with the spicy rhythmic content of Hispanic/Latin and to a lesser extent Afro percussion. It was new, it was original and it still sounds great.
As for the actual thread subject, I have to say that I find purely drum/ percussion bands boring. Not because they aren't brilliant, cooking and driving, but because they isolate in a way that for me makes the music lopsided {having been involved in such, I find them alot more fun to play in than to listen to}. Now, every now and again over the years, there have been pieces by such artists/ aggregations that I think are fantastic. But I can't listen to whole albums by such, any more than I could listen to whole bass albums or entire accapella albums. Of course there are always exceptions and so many different combos of elements.
I use alot of percussion in my own stuff, ironically.

I think that it's a different strokes kind of thing. If you don't like it, you don't like it. I have a very large collection of percussion recordings which I listen to a lot and they are in different genres, ranging from West African, Arabic, Turkish,Latin American, Indian, Balkan, Eastern European, drum lines. and of course I have a whole lot of drum technique recordings, but I'm not counting those. I am referring to groups which are primarily percussion musicians.