Percussionists should be ridiculed just like DJs

**Loy Toy** · 19-07-2008, 11:37 PM

One of the most sort after musicians anywhere in the industry is Ray Cooper. He adds so much soul and feeling to any musical offering and when he rolls his drumsticks and or hands across his instruments.
What would latin American music sound like without the addition of percusion and Carlos Santana would not hold a concert without his 2 trusted musical legends in the background.

We all move to the beat of the drum!

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-07-2008, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

This is the kit I use: Familiar is it?

I used to one of these years ago:

Pathetic.

This is the kind of thing I used to use...

bkkmadness · 20-07-2008, 02:58 AM

**jizzybloke** · 20-07-2008, 03:48 AM

How about one of these

**flash** · 20-07-2008, 03:53 AM

A homeless?

**TizMe** · 20-07-2008, 07:55 AM

Arguably one of the greatest bands of all time, Led Zep, disbanded when the drummer died. If these "real" musicians believed that their percussionist was so important to their sound then I think that I'd believe them over the guy that has to press the "PLAY" buttons in the correct sequence.

**Texpat** · 20-07-2008, 02:20 PM

To be fair crap DJs can make for a long night. Sometimes people just want to hear the music -- not some wankstain's artistic interpretation of how he can improve on it. Thai radio DJs are absolutely the worst I've ever been exposed to. Listening to most Thai radio should be classified as torture.

**Topper** · 20-07-2008, 03:37 PM

I have a coworker thats a DJ. Last week he got paid 15K for two hours of work by Coke-Cola. No setup, nothing. Show up, DJ for two hours and go home.

Nice pay for two hours of doing something the guy enjoys.

**Loy Toy** · 20-07-2008, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by TizMe

Arguably one of the greatest bands of all time, Led Zep, disbanded when the drummer died. If these "real" musicians believed that their percussionist was so important to their sound then I think that I'd believe them over the guy that has to press the "PLAY" buttons in the correct sequence.

John Bonzo Bonham was truly one of the greatest musicians of all time and was intergral regarding the development of LED ZEPS early sound.

Charlie Watts, although not a wizard regarding parradidle tricks maintains such a steady and spot on rhythm and completes the stones sound.

Simon Kirke single handedly create the early Free and Bad Company "off beat" sound which is still copied by others today.

My favourite drummer today is Chad Smith who is just amazing as the heart and soul of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. My favourite bass man is Flea and from the same band.

What a rhythm section and I suppose this is what this thread is all about.

**November Rain** · 20-07-2008, 07:19 PM

What about Rick Allen?

After his car accident & the amputation of his arm, he refused to give in and he & the rest of Def Leppard went on to make one of their best selling albums - Hysteria. Thank God the band didn't have the same opinion of their extremely talented drummer as DJ Pat does of percussionists...

From Wiki:

On December 31, 1984, on the way to a New Year's eve party at his family's home in Sheffield, UK, 21-year-old Allen was driving his Corvette when an Alfa Romeo passed him. The driver had been egging Rick on and not allowing him to pass. In his rage to pass this driver, he did not see the turn up ahead and lost control of his car, which sailed over a stone wall, and into a field, causing him to be thrown from the car resulting in the severing of his left arm due to the seatbelt not being properly fastened. His girlfriend was left hanging upside down in the car. Luckily, a passerby was a nurse and helped Rick who had been wandering around in the field muttering: "I'm a famous rock drummer!"
Allen was then taken to a hospital, and when Joe Elliott got a call saying that Rick lost his arm in a car crash, he was so stunned he drove 180 miles to be with him. Elliott found an emotionless Allen opening and closing his eyes nonstop, which left Elliott himself in shock. Doctors had reattached his left arm, but due to infection it was removed again. Rick Allen left the hospital three and a half weeks after he was taken in, even though the situation he was in was expected to last for six months.
The idea to start playing without his left arm came to him in the hospital when he listened to music with drum beats. Allen believed that he could still play some of the stuff, and that in addition he would rather use his left foot, (typically for hi-hat pedals in common drumsets), to play the snare drum. Former Status Quo drummer Jeff Rich was a source of help and encouragement during Allen's convalescence, and following many hours of discussion they decided to develop an electronic kit Allen could play using only one arm. (The Ludwig acoustic drum kit he used on High 'n' Dry and Pyromania was later given away by Def Leppard's onetime management.) Working closely with Allen's camp, thetronic drum manufacturer Simmons created such a kit, and Allen made his post-accident debut in 1986 with a well-received set at the "Monsters of Rock" festival at Castle Donington. In August 1987, the band released their fourth album, Hysteria, which, after a relatively slow start in the U.S., ultimately became another huge success, selling over 15,000,000 copies.

**DJ Pat** · 20-07-2008, 07:24 PM

Nobody asked me if I could play an instrument. Nobody cares I guess.

Well anyway I can't. At school someone handed me a violin and I attempted to strum it. That's the closest I got to playing anything.

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-07-2008, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Well anyway I can't.

We know. That's why you're a DJ.

**DJ Pat** · 20-07-2008, 08:17 PM

I became a DJ because I saw that they got paid money just to stand there playing records and CDs.

A bit of crowd interaction at younger kids parties where needs be, as you often had to justify your fee to watching parents, if you were one of those DJs who could play anywhere, like me.

I did 'em all....

**Norton** · 20-07-2008, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

A bit of crowd interaction at younger kids parties where needs be,

bkkmadness · 20-07-2008, 08:39 PM

He did 'em all.

**DJ Pat** · 20-07-2008, 08:49 PM

I did all parties, from weddings to barmitvahs to company parties.

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-07-2008, 09:13 PM

That's me old mate, Eckie.

**Norton** · 20-07-2008, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

That's me old mate, Eckie.

Small world! Is that you in the blue T shirt?

**kingwilly** · 20-07-2008, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Nobody cares I guess.

same way that nobody on the worldDJ website cared it was your 30th birthday all those years ago....

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-07-2008, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

Small world! Is that you in the blue T shirt?

No - I'm in the khaki ensemble.

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