What artist/song are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
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Song from an album I bought on vinyl in college and now own on CD. All are commanded to listen and order the CD! Or at least purchase the music online or something. A Kossoy Sisters recording was featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Erik Darling was for a time part of one of my favorite musical groups, The Weavers.
I've always found Mick Fleetwood's drumming style strange (in a good way) and he doesn't sound like anyone else. I love the weird drumming in the Fleetwood Mac song, Go You Own Way. I just read this article on Rolling Stone that explains how Mick Fleetwood came up with it (and explains his odd sound). Here is the excerpt:
3. Mick Fleetwood credits his dyslexia for the unusual drumming pattern on "Go Your Own Way."
While driving into the Record Plant one morning, Buckingham and co-producer Richard Dashut began to discuss how much they admired the syncopated drum fills played by Charlie Watts on the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man." Considering the matter further, Buckingham decided that a similar pattern would be well suited for his new song "Go Your Own Way." He passed the idea on to Fleetwood, who did his best to mimic what he heard, but the result was a disorienting, unsettled beat. Though very different from what Buckingham (and Watts) had played, the unlikely arrangement proved to be but a perfect fit for the track.
"[The] rhythm was a tom-tom structure that Lindsey demoed by hitting Kleenex boxes or something," Fleetwood said in Classic Albums. "I never quite got to grips with what he wanted, so the end result was my mutated interpretation. It became a major part of the song, a completely back-to-front approach that came, I'm ashamed to say, from capitalizing on my own ineptness."
Fleetwood believes that his so-called "ineptness" was actually the result of his ongoing struggle with a learning disorder. "Dyslexia has absolutely tempered the way I think about rhythm and the way I've played my instrument," he wrote in his memoir, Play On. "By nature, what we drummers do is manage a series of spinning plates … [but] my methods of keeping my plates spinning are entirely my own. I really had no idea, nor the ability to explain in musical terms, what I was ever doing in a particular song."
His style baffled other stickmen as well. When Boz Scaggs served as openers on a Fleetwood Mac tour, drummer Jeff Porcaro spent many nights in the wings, attempting to dissect the rhythms on "Go Your Own Way." Flustered, Porcaro finally approached Fleetwood one night after a show and asked him to reveal his secret. Unfortunately, Fleetwood himself didn't know exactly how he did it. "It was only after we continued to talk that Jeff realized I wasn't kidding around," he said later. "We eventually had a tremendous laugh about it, and when I later told him that I was dyslexic, it finally made sense."
3. Mick Fleetwood credits his dyslexia for the unusual drumming pattern on "Go Your Own Way."
While driving into the Record Plant one morning, Buckingham and co-producer Richard Dashut began to discuss how much they admired the syncopated drum fills played by Charlie Watts on the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man." Considering the matter further, Buckingham decided that a similar pattern would be well suited for his new song "Go Your Own Way." He passed the idea on to Fleetwood, who did his best to mimic what he heard, but the result was a disorienting, unsettled beat. Though very different from what Buckingham (and Watts) had played, the unlikely arrangement proved to be but a perfect fit for the track.
"[The] rhythm was a tom-tom structure that Lindsey demoed by hitting Kleenex boxes or something," Fleetwood said in Classic Albums. "I never quite got to grips with what he wanted, so the end result was my mutated interpretation. It became a major part of the song, a completely back-to-front approach that came, I'm ashamed to say, from capitalizing on my own ineptness."
Fleetwood believes that his so-called "ineptness" was actually the result of his ongoing struggle with a learning disorder. "Dyslexia has absolutely tempered the way I think about rhythm and the way I've played my instrument," he wrote in his memoir, Play On. "By nature, what we drummers do is manage a series of spinning plates … [but] my methods of keeping my plates spinning are entirely my own. I really had no idea, nor the ability to explain in musical terms, what I was ever doing in a particular song."
His style baffled other stickmen as well. When Boz Scaggs served as openers on a Fleetwood Mac tour, drummer Jeff Porcaro spent many nights in the wings, attempting to dissect the rhythms on "Go Your Own Way." Flustered, Porcaro finally approached Fleetwood one night after a show and asked him to reveal his secret. Unfortunately, Fleetwood himself didn't know exactly how he did it. "It was only after we continued to talk that Jeff realized I wasn't kidding around," he said later. "We eventually had a tremendous laugh about it, and when I later told him that I was dyslexic, it finally made sense."
I recently started binge watching the show Sons of Anarchy. I like it! I'm in the second season, and ay the beginning of one of the episodes, they played this song. (An all time favorite of mine!)
Between Mick's drumming and Lindsey's unique guitar picking style, that band was destined to be legendary.
Maddie
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