Drumming

The posts examples:

Wow ... that Mike Terrana is far out ... would love to see some of the "great" drummers in rock music even try something like that, because all they know is count and hit the snare drum! They could not define or create something like that! 

Manoel Batera is neat ... I had seen some folks in Harlem that were pretty damn good drummers, and never used a conventional setup but man could they enhance the words and music! These guys tend to make drumming schools look really stupid even though this kid was evidently taught to play within a conventional context.

The only hard thing about all this is that we don't really have a clear understanding of what Bonzo did, or what Moonie did, so we could show it. It's what they did, and how it helped the specific moment in the music they were doing! That is way more important than "keeping" time! Many folks talk about it on the pig (toob!) but really, it's not the same thing ... folks still can't color their music like they did. Also valuable and not always given the credit, Ringo was pretty good at accents and simple stuff that helped a lot of the music he played in those early days. You could say it was way too economical drumming, but it was effective.