Simon Phillips - Drum Solo Performance - Drum Fest 2009 Sticklibrary

[csrgatorfan]

I've always liked Simon's playing. I attended his drum clinic here in Tampa many years ago. If memory serves, it was at the old Sheraton Hotel on Hillsborrough Ave that has since been knocked down and replaced with the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. That was back in the day when Thoroughbred Music was still around. Anybody else out there remember the "good ol' days" of Thoroghbred Music?

[fretbored1974]

Looks like Bob Dylan but sounds so Simon. Love Simon!!!!

[mahatmacoatmahandbag]

this guy and steve smith = drum gods

[andrewyka]

SAnds so Great!!!Simon Thanks.

[teetomthomas]

Loving all that gaffer tape in the bass drums.

[wilsonelromantico]

QUE PASA CON ESTE PATA,SE VE QUE NO TIENE ESTILO LO QUE TOCA NO TIENE SENTIDO TOCA POR TOCAR NO ME CONVENCE PARA NADA SIMON PHILLIPSIS BAD BATERISTA.

[JazzyJonas]

7/8 is the new 4/4 :-P

[Psychodrummer01]

grøn

[andrewyka]

Simon Philips and his TAMA!!!BB sands Great!!!

[AS5A]

Great solo! Great sounding kit!

[AL3XAPOCALYPSE94]

if i counted corectly just counting the drums and no symbals its a 17 piece drum set! friggin extreem.

[AL3XAPOCALYPSE94]

@AL3XAPOCALYPSE94 typos^ cant type lol



[ddrums001]

Amazing Drummer! Caught my eye when he played on Stanley Clarke's Rocks Pebbles & Sand Album, and was incredible on Jeff Beck's There and Back album! Check out the cut Space Boogie. Simon rips it hard on that cut! One of the Baddest Rock/Fusion drummer I've ever seen

[racervan]

Simon es uno de los mejores bateristas, tal vez no haga los solos de bateria mas rapidos y espectaculares, pero su sentido de la musicalidad y buen gusto estan presentes siempre. Al igual que Steve Gadd quien muchas veces a sido votado por los profesionales como el mejor de todos los tiempos, NO necesitan hacer solos de bateria, su impecable manera de tocar asi como su estilo inconfundible hace que los mejores musicos del palneta los quieran en su alineacion.

[quidnick]

Thumbs up if you are listening to random drum solos.

[cathoderoy]

9 dislikes???!! Huh?!...are you fucking KIDDING ME???

[sunogiisan]

完全なグラッドストーン奏法だ！！

[boudou701]

why does he need such a big kit? ridiculous, it's not early 90s anymore

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

@boudou701 what does tiem have to do with anything? Simon makes great use of that kit.

[TheItalianoMafiosi]

@boudou701 why not? sure, a good drummer doesnt need a big kit and so on... but if he performs best with such a kit and makes good use of it (as XxStrongDrums1996xX said)

why shouldnt he?

[IgnisFatuusIX]

@gabbalabbawoop No one cares. Hahaha. That was such a pathetic/failed attempt to boost your ego.

[KaluNazi]

His idol might be Billy Cobham

[1957thack]

@KaluNazi Steve Gadd

[scoobes11]

@KaluNazi Amazing solo by Simon! Totally reminds me of Billy Cobham!

[DummkopfRadar]

i dont know..even if he is a progressive drummer.he reminds me of some good old boys like buddy rich somehow...great class in his playing!

[gabbalabbawoop]

@paddy689909 could also be his tuning method as he has both heads tuned high to the same pitch and both heads are clear ambassadors :)

[gabbalabbawoop]

my friend used to work with simon on the toto tours, and is still good friends with him to this day, they occasionally chat to each other when they both have time, and my friend says that simon is a really great guy to get on with :)

also said the same about jeff pocaro as he worked with him as well, wwas great to get on with :)

[xIceStylzzx]

Omg 4 minutes all the same O.o

[eqsmooth]

How many times have I seen him since 1981 w/Jeff Beck in 1981? How many minds has he blown in is life time? Lost count.

[socaldgafbro]

AWESOME INDEPENDENCE

[drummingofdoom]

what an amazing drumsound!! Just great!!!

[sloveniandrumer]

he doesn't have enough drums :D

[boboblue345]

Pure Beauty.

[WieteEdz]

HE FUCKZ HIS BABY GOOOOOOOD

[tarou4027]

amazing drum!!!!!beautiful drum!!!!!

[sticklibrary]

Hi all be sure to check out the interview with Simon Phillips & Gavin Harrison in Issue 1 of iDrum Magazine - the FREE interactive online magazine - check out a sample here /watch?v=ohmOQ9rUODk

[sroberds640]

@sticklibrary Smooth and precise.

[Bergamasco2958]

Listen boys.... listen.... it is all in the listening.... then go home and do some practice.

[1964epsilon]

a real expression of very sensitive and delicate, one of the best drummer in the world, I loved working with Mike Oldfield (album Crisis) and Toto

[ProfGallo]

amazing

[Bergamasco2958]

What a hack! Well if the rough sounding roll doesn't put you to sleep the lame attempt to build a solo from it sure will. What a sad excuse for a drum solo.

[crabjuice23]

@Bergamasco2958 Show us how it's done than. 

[jds122567]

5 Tommy Lee fans maybe??

[elintillstrom]

5 PEOPLES DON´T KNOW WHAT A DRUM SOLO IS,

[Fallschirmjaeger29]

SP is a stud behind the kit. Man he's good !!

[GETILLapparel]

you know you have way to many drums when you can hide behind them..

[drumdirt]

What a sublime piece of work, it's rare to see that kind of control and difficult to make the drums sound so harmonious and melodic. He's a drumming ninja!

[PhantomDrums917]

One of my two faves along with Louie Bellson. His set up has never changed. Love it!

[Kinsman1991]

crazy angle on the hi-hat, love it! great drummer man

[ppvpz]

Fantastic!! In my opinion, he is one of the best of nowadays.

[rlp44444]

MegaDucky26, you have no idea what you are talking about, but maybe that's because your a bass play, mayby you should post what you got????????

[superandy456]

That is such a nice kit. not bad playing either ;)

[bassmanjoe]

I'm a bass player and i like drums more!!

[bassmanjoe]

4 PEOPLE HAVE NO CLUE!!

[JaKiNaBoX250]

@bassmanjoe 5



[uncool13]

@bassmanjoe up to 8 clueless people now

[aakkoin]

@bassmanjoe idiot... there are always few people who press dislike by accident, and you get all pissed.... about 150 000 views can surely have about 10 accidental dislikes... and what do you even care?! goddamned, 1 people doesn't have a clue...

[bassmanjoe]

@aakkoin Idiot?? Why not get pissed?? It's my opinion, don't call someone an idoit when you don't even know them. Mind your own business.

[aakkoin]

@bassmanjoe it's not your opinion, people press dislike by accident.

[bassmanjoe]

@aakkoin Ok whatever you say!

[Zodiacdrummer]

Simply awesome !

But he looks so small behind his drumkit^^

[triondrummer]

@Zodiacdrummer He IS a tiny fella ;)

[Deathmaul1]

and im proud to say his one of those people who played with Derek sherinian :D :)

[007CCIM]

The Art of Drumming at it's best! rip44444 said it best.

[rlp44444]

A drummers, drummer neat, clean, precise, simple but blazing - you rock.

[Megathrashdrummer]

Maybe Lars Ulrich should take some drum lessons from him, and also this says what Lars's Green St. Anger kit should have looked like! :P Btw I do love Metallica!

[JakXMaster990]

seen better

[drummerjim6977]

I believe the most musical drummer I have heard. Every note and beat has a musical purpose.

[geoff1424]

pure musical poetry!

[MegaDucky26]

BORING!

[bassmanjoe]

@MegaDucky26 Boring??

[beinndorainjames]

No wonder all the world's best musicians want this guy in their rhythm section.

[guy1zer]

Always a great performance, truly a great drummer!

[milesmetkodrums27]

I saw his kit, and I thought he would just play loud but it was very musical and interesting.

[StewieFavre]

he is my all time favorite

[BurningTheRoots]

This guy is a diddle maniac..., rolls like lightning and chops like a machine. But best of all is his control of it all. AND! Every piece of that kit sounds immaculate..but, the ride on his left sounds so effin' nice...what is it? The lathing looks like it could be a ReZo..Anyone know?

[KevWhitehead]

@BurningTheRoots ... Simon has been using some prototype cymbals based on the Zildjian Armand range, his ride being a 22"" version of that, and 17 18 and 19 crash's. They sound beautiful don't they!

[sirthanksalot100]

This guys a drumming Superman.

[sirthanksalot100]

This guy is amazing, he is what drumming is all about.

[reasonableman24]

Whoah!!! Its sad to think that if I practice everyday for 7 lifetimes, I still wont be able to pull this off!!!!

[cyclonedrums]

he is fucking awesome...always has been...love this guy

[vicspoel]

Shit Looks like he is playing sleeping

[iakinthoupetros89]

love he's drum set !

[jimpatra]

Smoothmusiconly-this i like to him my friend-the cleanest playing ever!

[NostalgicProcrast]

I think his big configuration is actually in the way of his talent. I don't get the run down the big dull toms...

[KotowTV]

This is the size of kit you dream of having when you're 15 and just starting. Now i'm mor ethan happy with a 5 piece kit with a double pedal.

[JHmusic4ever]

@KotowTV bass, snare, hihat, 2 toms are 1 tom replaced by a ride cymbal?

[TheRatPack168]

Listen to the first minute and learn how a good snaredrum sounds.

That is a VERY correct tuned snaredrum!!

[phlyeguy]

A few tasty fills, perhaps, but takes too long to make his point.

[LawrenceKennard]

He's played with 801. I've seen him with Al Demiola, and he's been a BEAST for years. What a treat to see such greatness.

[klongyaw7]

Nice.I'll still take Gavin H. ,but nice.

[viktor29842]

Great

[Snickelaer]

Respect for his technical skills, but quite a boring solo.

[taijili]

@Snickelaer , a boring solo? hahaha



[MEGAMIGA]

One of the greatest, for sure.

[Siemens1400KL]

He is FUCKING SICK MAN!

[zerep11]

My Favorite Drummer of All Time.

[themrsunshineyay]

gotta love drummers that use tama drumkits:D

[MrSkydrummer]

I've been a fan of his playing for as long as I can remember. Not his best solo, but he always plays very musically

[Sthrudel]

I don't always watch drum solos all the way through, but when I do it's awesome solos like this one.

[unicorncop]

not that impressive

[ranlett]

is he doing triple stroke rolls on snare while he hits the different toms?

[tjfreak]

for a second I thought he was gonna break out in to "Feels like a good thing"

& I could finally see what that intro looks like

[thejustineaster]

@fivepiece i think it may have a lot to do with the angle your toms are at. Most hipster drummers these days keep their toms flat as dinner plates. Id rather angle them so that my natural arm/wrist motion hits them to produce just the right sound.

[fivepiece]

@thejustineaster

Each drummer seems to have his/her own personal "comfort zone" for tom height and angle, which seems perfectly reasonable. For me it has worked out to be roughly a 30' tilt with the lowest part of the rim being around the same height as my elbow (give or take a couple inches).

[aroutioun1]

SUPER

[fivepiece]

Those mounted toms are practically shoulder height. No way could I hope to play smoothly on a setup like that; I'd constantly be sticking the shit out of those rims.

[Konjaraful]

@fivepiece yeah i stared playing to very high toms and when i lowered them i gained alot of speed when doing a fill. So relax ;D it just takes time getting used to =)

[tjfreak]

@Konjaraful It's a pretty simple concept,smaller,closer,DBL PDL, is leaps & bounds EASIER.

[bentecho]

@fivepiece hes pretty short i think???, i have the same problem, i play 20" bass if i can get away with it and its fine, but struggle on 22", 24" is outa question unless i sit so high i feel like im gonna tip forwards...suks being short, that might be why tho.

[carlinsify]

fantastico. Nivel excelente

[sundsvall2009]

one person can't play drum!

[benaberry]

Legend

[Smoothmusiconly]

man this guy is awesome i have been sleeping on this guy for to long he is a true drummer and its clean not just a bunch of noise

[LawrenceKennard]

@Smoothmusiconly Have you every heard 801 Live? He plays with some great musicians. Great album!

[Techsified]

@Smoothmusiconly thats gross



[zappfripp]

Simon is the God drummer of our god´s drummers..

[thomaslejon]

I think simon philips is not awesome

[easter760]

I think Simon Philips is awesome and I know I'm no where near as talented as he is, but this solo was pretty shitty, especially compared to his other stuff. Sure its difficult but it sounds terrible.

[KONAMAN100]

6'56, delightfully classic SP

[galaxy68]

I like the 7/8, its just a fun time to play. Farther into it I started picking up some 13 before the BD rolls. I always liked his work in Give Blood with Pete T.

[SterlingRe]

There are a lot of amazing drummers out there, but very few of them can put together a solo like Simon. I could have listened to this for twenty minutes. Master Drummer/Great Soloist. I'll be watching this one about fifty times!!

[Wolfpunker]

This is the proof that overestimated drummers such as Joey Jordison, Chris Adler and me really suck.

Simon is the true Master!

[gsxracer1977]

@ KotowTV,

MP's kit is twice as big dude *D 

[KotowTV]

That kit is massive. Even Mike Portnoy would be lost on that !

[looneygxm]

i sooo pulled that off... but then i woke up...

if i could just have an ounce of his skills...

[MsRyanreza]

mantappps.....

[MrKMdrummer]

Master yoda

[prasence123321]

MY SIMON!!!!! MASTER CLASS!

[MrNickdrummer]

Some drummers make simple things look difficult. Simon Phillips makes the impossible look easy.

[ceHson]

@MrNickdrummer man what you said is Amen :-))...something like this i listen now a days more than music and songs

[yassenanimation]

@MrNickdrummer That's the best expression if ever read for his style :)

[JetPilotCI]

@MrNickdrummer I know what you mean, He looks like he's about about to nod off to sleep

[theFMLP]

@MrNickdrummer aint that hard : S