Steve Gadd - Stuff live 1976 Montreux

[BenMrZin]

grooooooooooooooove.

[shanghaiKISS02]

he looks like a jew.. no wonder steve is gadd

[c0d3x001]

i want that hihat! ... ohh and those skills and ideas would be nice too :D

[voltototo]

brnot even the sucking sounding drumset can make his play worse o0

[zackvbra]

gadd is as gadd does. and gadd is greatness!

[MrMarkpark]

I really don't see the comparison with Bonzo. So diferent. Bonzo basically made the ''Big Beat'' Famous and with all his off-time stuff stood out. Ever kid wanted to play Bonham. The thing is; every half decent drummer can play the Bonzo stuff. But raise your hand if you can play Gadd. All the linears....yo. Don't get me wrong. I love Bonzo, He invented a style that made every drummer pick up sticks. Every single drummer can list him as an influence. You emulate Bonham, You marvel at Gadd

[beatcrazy14]

@MrMarkpark those were my two first influences as a drummer.

[PositivelyBored]

@MrMarkpark

I dunno....all it takes is maybe 1 to 5 years of Chaffees Red and Pink books out of  "patterns" and you'll get there.

[capoman1]

Ahh. The good old days when music was totally FELT, and everything was just easygoing. Tons of great music to hear these days, but the popular music is SO FAR OFF the level it was back then. Sad huh?

[cuzpr]

I would love to see a transcription of the groove he plays coming out of the solo. What a great feel.

[ironman77725]

'afro' gadd is always my favourite gadd

[vrdrums]

Who dares dislike this?

[HendrixcommaMartin]

This is sooooooooooooo 70's.

[yairsuperdrum]

i want t suck the balls of gadd

[dirte117]

thats a sick ass beat!

[downjones72]

That's the best sounding kit I ever heard.

[oaktubs]

Steve Gadd, master of classy drumming. It's a dying style and I'm glad that I'm 28 and teach it whenever I can, so that it never dies out completely. Not that I can play like Gadd. Just sayin'.

[FlyinVJs30RR]

their music might be light but as musicians they can kick any shredders ass any time man

[frixlm]

EARGASM from 0:00 to 2:12 and then again from 3:21 to 17:53...

[lelemac]

what´s the name of this song?

[hithatrollz]

@lelemac Boogie on Reggae Woman

[thenordicpulse]

Grooves like a moose!

[shardennefroider]

Just happy to be a slave to the rhythm ...

[Bluemoon4655]

that cowbell makes it groovy

[CrawfordDrummer]

Man this playing is amazing, it's not just as many notes as he can play at once, but an actual solo with dynamics, This is amazing what are some bands an aspiring drummer should look up Gadd playing in besides Stuff?

[mrJimCharles]

@CrawfordDrummer w/Paul Simon, and Steely Dan's Aja the title track (containing one of the most famous and admired drum solos ever), to name just two more

[hithatrollz]

He keeps that rhythmic pulse throughout the entire solo, it's brilliant.

[DobrePytanie]

Anyone has link to the full song?

[debbeat64]

... damn nice pocket ... miss this kind of playing

[MarkHarrellJr]

I love how afro's and big beards on white guys are back in style.

And this was pretty cool too.

[MrFootball102]

0:19.. I wonder what's wrong with that guitarist

[MrFootball102]

Holy sh**t.....

[MishuTaste]

I love the rhythm.

[sereja57]

I do know now, how Jojo Mayer wanted to look when he was making afro

[tomgadd]

@sereja57

yes, my thoughts too:-)

[sambrady92]

MORE COWBELL! love this solo so much respect for Gadd :)

[SmithRuel]

One of the greats!

[K20017]

Look at this face, he's looking right through everything. He's in the groove.

[snowsurfandstreet]

any white guy that can groove with black men is a true champ

[REFERENCESERIES]

fantastic snare sound...

[Samara92RR]

whats the name of the song that begins in the last seconds?

[hithatrollz]

@Samara92RR Do It Again. Not sure if there is a relation to Steely Dan though.

[Samara92RR]

awesome!!!!!!...... look how he execute the dinamics!!... is just awesome and beautiful!!!!....

[murdok620]

the 1:44 build up is soooo cool

[trasuranic]

right at 1:53 is one of the coolest beats iv herd in a long time

[rlevanony]

You know you can actually get an enlightment just by watching this video

[Chroposnos]

DAMN! o.o

[BlackXSouleStudios]

i like how you can sometimes hear his sticks hit together, it reminds you he's still a human being :)

[jackhammer10101]

what is the song after the drum solo?



[MattTrecartin]

In Gadd we Trust!

[willforty2]

this guy is possessed i think:

search "Amorphic drum" ...1st video result

[BJCResource]

So many modern drummers have no idea how to use silence as a musical entity like Gadd does.

[shanemc25]

He's like a quiet Bonzo!!!

[The4thGuy]

@shanemc25 Ha. Love it!

[jetfreak4]

@shanemc25 My thoughts exactly. He's just like Bonzo...his playing style is fairly laid-back usually, but out of nowhere comes this explosive god-like show of skill.

[PositivelyBored]

@shanemc25

Gadd was a master of dynamics, he went louder than Bonzo in his accents though.  John Bohnam actually became a much more groove orientated drummer later on, used those extremely heavy sticks too.

Very different drummers but do not discount Gadds power as well as finesse.

[drummerforreal1]

Where's the oxygen tank for this one lung missing sorta cool drummer?

[nkunal11]

beautiful solo

[39189]

amazing groove... what a great drummer//

[JoeJacari]

Groovy hair. I mean really Sasquatch!

[jazzcbr01]

Listen to the groove he plays at 1:53. Awesome!!

[zackvbra]

his grooves and feel is sooo buttery,

[mrbeans19]

sick

[calism23]

Good one

[beatcrazy14]

My drum Hero hands down

[BanyanTrees1]

Steve looks like he should be making a delicious pizza in this video. but for real that solo is killer and when him and gordon come back in after steve's solo I always go nuts.

[Samsgarden]

Gadd is the godfather of contemporary drumming.

[marcusder1]

BIUTI MISTRZUNIO!

[emokidx2]

@specialagentslowhand This maybe requires talent but people may think that Stuff like Lady Gaga, Coldplay and so on Sounds good. Or else people wouldnt buy their tracks. I belive its because the cellphones and the clothes all has to be mordern. This music groove is Old so people dont wanna hear it people want the newest of the newest

[otiasdsr]

It's one of his best solos.

[lydianflatseven]

Holy fuckin shit, this is tateful drumming at its finest!

[321wowzer]

Gaaaaahhhhhdddd!!!!! Love it.

[mattfrancomb]

Absolutely sick drumming

[LadyDarkWalker]

who are the other members? loving the groove on this track

[TUBEORATER]

The Clock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1122Dragon]

In today's popular music, being a drummer is just playing a simple back beat that everyone will forget. It's not like the old days where you felt the music and played to that feeling. It's all about money and fame now. Such a shame

[Kimmo788]

@1122Dragon To play simple backbeat, with good feel and with groove requires talent too.

[mackfmocattack]

@1122Dragon I agree with pretty much all of that, except if you play a simple back beat just right, i mean the perfect money beat.. you wont forget that shit. I mean take nothing for granted man even the real simple stuff. As Gadd said " the fills can bring the thrills, but the groove pays the bills"

[IC3M4N75]

@1122Dragon

May be going a little too far. There will always be talent around....you just gotta stop watching MTV and listening to your local radio stations.

[VisualDemonAr]

@1122Dragon It always has been like that in pop,so then stop being melodramatic,stfu and listen to jazz,if you don't shame on you. ;)

[StrawberryJungle]

@1122Dragon This is the thing that depresses me everyday. I'm 17 and I'm flipping downright ashamed of my generation musically. How can they sit there and just accept the awful rubbish being pummeled at them from all angles? They need to get an arsing backbone and bother searching the past for the good music. They seem to think that it's compulsory to have to listen to 'modern music'. It's not. I hate it.

[PositivelyBored]

@StrawberryJungle

turn off the tv, mainstream radio...open your minds -

learn what YOU want to learn, not what the system TELLS you to.

[dragonsdaydigital]

ohhh...gaddd------in pocket-keee-tO!

[daneeehhhh]

more cowbell please, Steve GOD

[Drumspiracy]

The guitar player always looks so pissed when Gadd solo's.

[Sysaphys]

For sure dude, that guy seems to be straight up hating on Gadd. Its the face of pure disgust and im wrapping my head trying to understand why the hell the guitarist is so angry??

[oRuTRa45]

That's Eric Gale baby

[leanfiend444]

haha the bassist

[geordierusso]

Can only describe this as BRILLIANT!!!! I met Steve Gadd in New York (Iridium Jazz Club)in Nonvember 2009,Good Guy,Fantastic Musician!!

[PatoEXM]

Oh, my Gadd! He is incredible!

[TylerT89]

IM SUPER RIPPED THAT WAS WICKED

[superdrum3]

Major props to every musician in this clip... Sidenote: Doesn't the bassist look like Ving Rhames?

[shittyshit69]

i sampled the fuck outta this

[Bomenpulp]

This is how a drum solo should be. Gadd is one out of very few people who understands that a drum solo is more than playing triplets or doubles or whatever as fast as you can. He plays in his own cosmos during his Solos combined with an extraordinary sense of rythm, technique and music!

(sorry if my english sounds weird, i'm not a native speaker!)

[coloRADodanimal]

@Bomenpulp no man your english sounds swell and you're right on with your statement!

[Bomenpulp]

@coloRADodanimal

thank you :))

[nikesb2406]

go ahead travis barker, i dare you to try it.

[bbstopit]

@nikesb2406 Why is it always: "Travis Barker?" He's like the default drummer to take a swipe at. Show me the clip where Travis talks trash about Steve Gadd. I would guess that he would be inspired by this playing too.

[kvee]

he's not very choopy but sure is groovy

[Bosphorus92]

i'd say he has them though

[thepolice911copeland]

@kvee Hes got chops like crazy hes just very musical and he's to good to just play fast

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

what band is this?

[LucaMoz90]

@equallyeasilyfuqyou stuff

[BigBoiJC]

oh...my...gadd!!!!

[BENTEVERYDAY]

@BigBoiJC  lmfaoo

[DancingSpiderman]

@BigBoiJC He's Gadd !

[EILIVdrummer]

@BigBoiJC  HAHAHAHA xD

[jf99151]

@BigBoiJC We're on a mission from Gadd !

[bcancun123]

wow!!!!!!!

[ripentheconclave]

this wop's even got the africans dancing

[funkycuban28]

he's soo musical with everything he does it's a song on the drums

[SoMuchKoolerOnline]

I'm in awe---he sounds as good years later as he did then.

[ksteiger]

Hey specialagentslowhand, turn your friends on to this kind of music. No computers necessary. I worked on amazing stuff at Elelctric Lady Studios between 1983 and 1990, but even then the writing was on the wall. Samplers, drum machines, midi,digital workstations and pitch correction all made their inroads at that time and are now are fixture in modern record production. There's still nothing like recording a room full of great musicians playing live in the same room. Pure heaven.

[specialagentslowhand]

Why has my generation turned away from music like this to the likes of Lady Blah Blah, Coldplay, and techno garbage. This music actually requires talent!

[gologabob]

Well coldplay and lady gaga does require no talent at all but for techno or electro and all of those songs alot of them require alot of talent but you just dont know that type of music so its under stand able but atleast dont talk about what you do not know.

[ACmushie92]

@specialagentslowhand Absoloutley spot on there, my friend! Modern music is tasteless, boring and insipid! anyone can make some techno crap on any computer this requires true talent. im only 18 and it makes me sad at how this music is being overwhelmed by crap music!

[emokidx2]

@specialagentslowhand This maybe requires talent but ppl may think that Stuff like Lady g g, Coldplay and so on Sounds good. Or else ppl wouldnt buy their tracks. I belive its because the cellphones and the clothes all has to be mordern. This music ''Groove'' is ''Old'' so ppl dont wanna hear it ppl wan't the newest of the newest...

[j444n]

@specialagentslowhand so true

[Croatch]

It's official...modern music has hit the shits.

[Spiderdridri]

@specialagentslowhand coldplay's not that bad

[Molopozotion]

@specialagentslowhand fuck you peice of shit look at muisc objectivly, not subjectivly

[MacReverb2]

@specialagentslowhand This music has already been done. What if Steve Gadd just kept playing Elvis songs and never pushed himself into the new music that was happening in 1975.

[phunkidruma]

@specialagentslowhand  relax bro...every generation says the same thing...we know WHATS really good....The Masses will follow....eventually:)...this will and can never b duplicated

[420jaymac]

@specialagentslowhand well said my friend

[Maninamask726]

@specialagentslowhand Check out JoJo Mayer he plays electronic music and that's no garbage. It's all opinionated man.

[AirsoftCritics]

@specialagentslowhand lady gaga was innovative, but you are absolutely right

[brumdedrummert]

@specialagentslowhand what's the name of the band?

[murdok620]

@brumdedrummert umm i think theyre called stuff

[drummakid101]

1:38-1:53 Made me Kill Myself!

[drumbot23]

hey drummakid101, what he does there is just a ratamacue. he does the single and the drag on the snare, then finishes it the high tom, floor tom then bass. if you listen you can get it. it just take a looooootttt of practicing. once you get it down, it'll sound just like the master himself ^

[tubolardy]

I was playing with the Eric Burdon band that night in Montreux, and I think that Gaddy used one of the two house kits (the other was a Ludwig kit) and cymbals which were provided by Zildjian and Paiste - they were on cymbal trees in the band room (under the stage). Basically you picked what you wanted. The band were unbelievable - what a bass player - and Gaddy the best drummer I had ever seen.Terry...

[username672]

anybody know wat ride he was using for this gig?

[humbledrumah]

it has the hammering like a K. that was his cymbal of choice.. but in '76, i don't know what they called it. but i looks like the K. peace.

[YoHuckleberry]

I'll be seeing Mr. Gadd in february. He's coming to Nashville with Slowhand. Even though I'm a guitarist, when I found out Gaddy was coming I freaked out. He probably won't get to do much like this though unfortunately.

[mdrummanWS]

LUCKY!!!! But I am seeing Steve Jordan with John Mayer so that is ALMOST as good..... Almost being the key word.

[yoshika69bones]

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NordReportage]

2:00min so great yes

[rbjax2001]

That should be illegal its so fucking good.

[kuntreefan08]

between him and bonzo....they were LAYIN them grooves down!!!

[methodplusmind]

Fantastic !! Vintage Gadd, nothing like him......

[ChainlinkServant]

Is that a six stroke roll at 1:15 ?

[PositivelyBored]

@ChainlinkServant

It looks like it's an accented 6 stroke pattern. It is not called a 6 stroke roll, that is a rudiment. It is a 6 note phrase, what my first instructor called sick six. RllrrLRllrrLR, a revolving pattern used in jazz alot. LrrllRLrrll

[username672]

@ChainlinkServant @ChainlinkServant one of the things i love about gadd is how he uses so many rudiments, especially to get those extended fills for solos, kind of like wat bonham did with the triplet patterns that went on for ever haha, i think it makes the fills much more interesting with all that rudimental variety if u know wat i mean?

[mrtuckercalhoun]

that left foot heel-toe at 1:46 is effn awsum. sounds like the kick pattern on a samba

[drumfoomaster]

i love the spaces he leaves for the solo to breath.

[ins7777]

Killer!

[funkywhite]

Best part: 1:54 when he starts back into the groove. All of it is amazing, but that's my favorite part.

[curiousnomad]

Check out the Hi Hat at 1:48.

[daneeehhhh]

ooooooooooh YES

[drumbot23]

1:32-1:35!!!!!

awesome!

[dbray1]

damnnnnn carlo your dad is the fuckin man.

[Holomounza]

true African rythm! god bless the people of the sun!

[xxxswoodyxxx]

i love his sound on this. so wide open and fat. he's great.

[drumbot23]

i love the bouncing when he comes back in

[fnkdrmmr]

Stuff, I wish I paid attention to these guys when they were out. Hearing the pop stuff, makes you appreciate a group like Stuff.

[royrand]

haha..he is definitely a legend, a pioneer..doing this way back in 70s..must have been one of his kind

[brotherstan28]

The beat he breaks out at 1:54 is absolutely non-human....the dudes drumming is immortal

[tnifty]

holy sh*t! Yeah, that was nice!

[1019drummer]

yup!

[barcodegeneration]

Amazing.

[ChristianGastl]

SO COOL when gadd counts in at the end of his solo ( about 1:54 ) but the guy on bass is movin to the groove that hard.. he doesnt even notice ((:

[schippo69]

there has never been nor will there ever be anyone who plays the drums the way steve does..

GENIUS

[oliverecords]

get on the good... :)

[MaracaTastic]

Not as good as Jeff Indyke

[kz1000ps]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha WIN!

[smoukondeuoter]

please....don't be blasphemous ^_^

[MaracaTastic]

C'mon guys it was a joke.

[nemrac76]

and it was a damn good joke! LMFAO!!

[JoeJacari]

Hey, my cat, Ears, is twice as tasty as this drummer.

Ears can really dig deep and pull out some fat pocketed snare and bass drum modalities.

There was a contest for cheers from the audience, and Ears got the most screams from the women for his percussive excellence.

Many drummers have quit playing after hearing Ears tear it up. And rightly so, who wants to play second fiddle to a talented cat? Ha, ha!

Gadd is good, but Ears is better. Gadd can make hot soup for a living. Real.

[giantsquid93]

blasphamy

[ilovethenewdaze]

Its all in the fro

what is he doing at 1:45???

is he doing some triplet thing or is he just going around the toms using singles..any help??