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  • I've seen a bunch of those videos with that monstrosity of a set and always thought "Huh? I don't get it." This video is the drummer I thought I would see... You don't have to burn that huge set, but break it up and sell it. Terry should always be on this size set.

  • You know, all over youtube, people gripe about drummers dropping their pinkies. Now that I see bozzio do it, I'm gonna stop worrying about it all together. If it's ok for him, then it's ok for us all.

  • lee kerslake is underrated also.

  • PORTNOY

    

  • @jblgti146 forget about that overrated asshole

  • @aakkoin I completely agree. I don't think that Mike is an "#*@hole", but I certainly think that he is a bit overrated. I prefer Mike Mangini over Mike Portnoy. It's not that Mike Portnoy isn't a great drummer, I just grew tired of his playing. To me, it all began to sound the same. In short, I think his departure from Dream Theater will benefit them in the long term, and allow Mike Portnoy to pursue his myriad of side projects.

  • @jblgti146 portnoy es mas de lo mismo, si, asi de literal; MÁS de lo mismo, una sobrecarga. nada original.

    en cambio bozzio sale del molde... me gustaria verlo en una propuesta mas avantgarde [contemporánea]. solo queda el recuerdo de lo que alguna vez hizo junto a zappita.

  • That was just beautiful

  • all of this is Triple stroke??

  • Triple stroke? Where? This is amazing, but TB seems to suffer from Bill Bruford syndrome: weird for the sake of weird, ie., Terry's trash cymbal sounds. I get it, but why not play open cymbals as well? That's just cutting off an entire section of your drumset. The polyrhythms are insane, but sometimes it's good to settle into a groove; I get the feeling that he's just thought this out way too complicated. Where's the soul? Terry's maybe the best there is, I'd like to hear more from the gut.

  • @blabbaboo well, you have to take into account that this was roughly 20 years ago, and only represents a blip of him. Search around YouTube and you'll find enormous varieties of material from him, and if you look, I guarantee you'll find the soul you seek. But the short answer to any of those questions at any given time is because that's what he wanted at that time. This applies to all art. An artist is not here to serve us, they'll do what they want and we can like or dislike it either way.

  • he was very ahead in his time

  • Akira Jimbo on steroids.

    Thanks for posting, I lost my old original VHS tape of this.

    Still have fond memories of Terry's clinic in San Diego where he played the four part solo note for note like the video.

    An amazing musician.

  • when Bozzio imagines he is Bruford.

  • 1 of the best ...messanger of drumming art.........great music

  • in your next life take up the piano for crying out loud

  • @jacko222333 Why would he want to do that?

  • Qui-Gon Jinn anyone?

  • this was made 17 years ago?

    and im 16?!

    so that explains why im here!!!!

  • love those comments...were all drummers lets uphold each other...each one has unique differences to offer..

  • holy shit.....

  • @deadly2426 i respect neil for "writing" those songs but just on a solo basis he can't and won't ever touch terry bozzio. neil is like a typewriter which is cool when you are playing those types of songs like limelight and freewill (and i have all of rush's stuff) but he will never be able to solo like terry

  • @associate434 Yeah. I dig both but Neil rarely does much polyrhythmic stuff in the way that TB does. He changes meters a lot, and sometimes throws in some contrapuntal things that excite, but he doesn't call very much upon some of the wildly extended vocabulary that TB does. Maybe it's TB's Zappa legacy, along with Colaiuta, et al. Neil is a great, advanced rock player with a jazz showman's sense and a good deal of precision but he doesn't really cross into this territory and stay for long.

  • Yeah Peart's cool in his own right but still not even a freckle on Bozzio's ass.

  • yall are fucking idiots if you think neil peart is better .. yall obviously have never listened to brecker brothers-heavy metal bebop. i'm tired of people ragging great drummers in the sense of so called knowledge. BUY SOME FUCKING RECORDS INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO TOM SAWYER ON THE RADIO.. YOU CAN'T LISTEN TO BOZZIO ON THE RADIO CAUSE ITS TOO MUCH FOR THE AVERAGE LISTEN TO COMPREHEND ON WHAT EVER HE'S ON

  • @associate434 Neil Peart and Bozzio are both awsome. But truley Neil has better solos in my opinion. And Tom Sawyer is a great song on drums, guitar, and bass. But listen to la villa strangioto, Great song on drums. Subdivisons, another great one on drums. Have u listend to spirit of radio? Limelight? Dude you must not listen to rush if u think neil aint awesome. Its just an opinion and i respect yours. But dont be callin people idiots if someone thinks another is better.

  • Neal Peart? Could you imagine Peart attempting to play behind Zappa?

    Laughable.

  • This is brilliant

  • Although this vid is old! I still have his vid on tape when he used this kit! IMHO he was better and said more with this kit than his current DW over the top USS Bozzio contraption! And the Remo's sound better than the DW's

  • Kickass. And in my opinion, Chad should be high on the list.

  • Why is the number one comment here not a masturbation joke? The internet and drummers everywhere have failed us all!

  • I must say I prefer this solo to a lot of the others I've heard from him. The others were too avant-garde (for lack of a better word) for my tastes.

  • I saw Missing Persons in the early 1980's and was blown away by Terry's incredible playing ! ( and his girl Dales' vocals " " ) but after seeing what Terry has done in the past, before 2011, he is just a D*MN EXCELLENT drummer !!!

  • Genius.

  • His skills at the drums are so big that they leave his body every time he plays

    And that's how and why he dances while playing drums

  • to settle the drum war here, all of the drummers you mentioned are incredible, this isn't some competition, each of these drummers have something unique to offer to the drumming community and we need to be happy that there is so much talent for us to enjoy and learn from, everyone from buddy rich to peart, chad smith to bozzio to carter beauford and so on, all love drumming, and only competed with themselves, that's real drumming! enjoy the rhythms and stop the hate! we're all drummers!

  • @thellamashow agree

  • @Edgarbopp

    Terry Bozzio, Lenny White, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, and on and on... they are (were) all great and we must appreciate that they shared their gifts and talents with us admirers... and that we were fortunate enough to have lived during their lifetimes!

  • @thellamashow I could not have put it better myself:and I'm really good with words.

  • @thellamashow .......im just a loser is that okay? can i still watch.......(cue old spice commercial)

  • @thellamashow

    I totally agree with you except that Chad should not be on the list with those masters...

    not to mention about Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Smith, Dennis Chambers...etc

    I mean, he's good, but not good enough to that level.

    You see, many drummers play the similar stuff to him are also way better than Chad.

    After all, he's really an important element to RHCP and I like them.

    Just that put him together with those monsters is really overrated him.

  • @thellamashow except travis barker.

  • @thellamashow i also agree, tho bozzio has reached levels no other drummer has.

  • @thellamashow we're all retards, not drummers.

    (i'm joking, i totally agree with you but i really get sad and angry when i see those retarded discussions about "who is best in music")

  • @thellamashow nicely said

    

  • @thellamashow amen my friend. very well stated. Just sit back and enjoy the genius!

  • @thellamashow it will never be found out who is the worlds best drummer. those that compete with others will never get there, and those that are close to the top compete with themself.

    -killsaw the bjokk from Purveyor Of Death

    Use Dax!!!

  • seeing those fingers on his left hand work is fucking magic

  • Hi, if all the shit talking about who's better could stop for a second...does anyone know if Bozzio ever put out a video describing his elementary practice techniques? By the time he began with Zappa he already had incredible independence I am trying to learn if he has a "foundations" video out somewhere. Any help is appreciated.

  • only the people who truly know nothing about drumming think terry bozzio sucks. I still have lots to learn but i know talent when i hear/see it 

  • best chick drummer iv seen on YT

  • awesome

  • The older terry stuff is the best in my opinion.

  • i have to say, this guy always has the most interesting hardware.

  • Yep, I've come to the conclusion that anybody who talks shit about Bozzio doesn't have a clue. The guy played with Frank Zappa - that's all that needs to be said.

  • @SecretAgent068 vinnie was better! *runs*

  • @Str8Faced Oh, I won't argue with that point. Vinnie is the man and he is definitely in my top 10 list. He has his own style just like Bozzio has his. I'm sure they both respect each other.

  • if they put his brain in an octopus the octopus could have a chance.........to an amatuer it sounds like noise to a trained ear you can hear all the independence and different time signatures at once......the motor skills it takes to articulate this musically is just absurd

  • legend

  • O_o

  • Thanks for the post.

    Man, after thirty years playing, I still can't play a ostinato with one hand and freely solo over it with the other.

    Terry is truly a gifted drummer.

  • @chrismcm66 That's almost an exact "ditto" on this end.

  • @chrismcm66 That's almost an exact "ditto" on this end. I saw him here in Kansas City three days ago and actually asked him how long it took to learn that kind of independence. He told me it took years, and it was kind of a way he reinvented drumming so he had his nitch. He said don't practice what you're good at, but come up with some totally new challenging ideas no one ever thought of....

  • It's not a beat.

    It's melody. It's rhythm. It's a whole composition. It's genius.

  • where are the shit talkers now? 

  • @aakkoin a LOT of people talk crap about Terry and don't realize how gifted he is.................

  • @aakkoin RIGHT HERE!!! terry bozzio is a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of neil peart's shoe!! when terry bozzio gets asked to do the buddy rich tributes,,you let me know,, till then,,NEIL PEART HAS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE ABSOLUTE,UNDISPUTED GOD OF DRUMS,,PEROID!!! anybody who tries to dispute this is just ignorant!!!!!

  • @EXTIQUE if neil is god than buddy is on some other level thats incomprehensible

  • @EXTIQUE

    Omg your last sentence is a perfect repugnancy but to come to the point, bozzio can play all the stuff neil does, and neil couldn`t probably play a tenth of the stuff bozzio does without practicing years, because terry is the coordination master who simply played about every ostinato you have ever heard. Buddy does the same stuff over and over, he was an icon in his time but drumming evolved, so if you imagnined buddy in our time he wouldnt become that famous, im sure!

  • @MrMasterindahouse He gave a clinic in Kansas City in October. He actually told me the best thing to do if you really want do something different is to come up with something that's never been done before. How many of us do that when we practice? He said he would spend hours learning stuff that no one ever thought of.

  • @MrMasterindahouse dude, im gonna lose my mind with all of these neil peart guys!! neil peart is a good drummer, not great, not unbelievable, good. then there are guys who are great, then there are guys who are unbelievable(antonio sanchez, horacio hernandes, vinnie, dave, buddy, chris coleman, etc. etc.) these neil peart guys only have 1 ear or something, idk

  • @MrMasterindahouse You sound retarded dude, how can you even say that? Come on get over and accept Bozzio is a kid compared to those other 2 guys.

    Neil is better in several ways, His band, Rush is 45,678,090 times better than Korn or even Zappa.

    His drumming, we both know neil can do this shit with his eyes closed and im not saying that bozzio cant do what neil does, well he might not.

  • @Mubofan1693 Please don't be so stupid, music is not a competition.

    But if you would take your fanboy-glasses off, you would see that Bozzio really is over-the-top.. amazing technique and independence, rock solid time, real feeling, original sound and rhythms all around... I love Peart and Rush also, but c'mon man, can't you see how insane Bozzio is?

  • @Mubofan1693 Zappa is and will always be the greatest musical genious that has ever walked this earth. Peart is a fantastic drummer, but Bozzio is not human. his limb independence is unrivaled!

  • @EXTIQUE

    Neil is awesome!! BUT.......I believe VINNIE is GOD!! not that you can compare the two though. just sayin!

  • a drummer friend took me along to a workshop of his. Pretty much an hour long solo. Didn't want it to end.

  • @jackspinoza He's coming to Kansas City October 20th. I live here. That rocks.

  • Terry Bozzio eats rhythm for breakfast.

  • this has got beauty just oozing out of it... he doesn't even look like he's trying either!

  • I am a big BOZZIO fan.. pop by my channel and say hi!

    I have some vids up there if you would like to see..

    Take care and keep rockin boyz !!

    Click my name and pop by and say hi !!!

    Love this video !!!

  • Wicked!.Would love to hear him play this solo with a flamacue/Gary Chafee linear with his BDs..=)

  • è un grande!!!!!

  • wow this is actually really good. most of his solos nowadays are really boring

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  • Did most of you know this was done about 17 years ago? He was so far ahead of everyone else. He paved the way for Minnemann, Lang, Kenny ADJ as well as many others. He is the true master of independence, and melodic drumming.

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  • @patrickforpresident Bill Bruford was doing melodic drumming way before Bozz, but Bozzio is also a master of all those things.

  • @PoeticJustice05

    Bruford an Bozzio both come from the same era (Progressive Rock bands of the 70's) . None was ahead of the other. As a matter of fact Bozzio was the replacement for Bruford in the band UK back in 1979. I guess Bozzio was the only one who could play what Bruford was doing at the moment.

    But Bozzio has come so far ahead over the years with his symphonic approach to drumming. That is so mind blowing.

  • @patrickforpresident I couldn't have said it better myself. I might even go so far as to say that Bozzio is the most important and influential drummer of the past 25+ years. He redefined what was possible on the drumset and shaped the world of percussion to come.

  • @patrickforpresident .... almost everything people are doing today comes from Terry Bozzio .... the ostinato`s especially ... the call and answer between hands and feet ... the linear patterns ... odd groupings of 16th notes ....

    other things he " invented " ..... stacking cymbals .. i had never seen anyone put cymbals on top of eachother before Terry ..... using the roto tom spokes as musical instruments themselves ... Terry Bozzio is arguably one of the biggest innovators and influences

  • @sweetfly66

    er..........the ostinato idea came from Max Roach

  • @STIXAHOY ... .well , he is famous for ostinato themes ... what i meant was literally accompanying yourself by playing an ostinato say with the left hand and right foot and soloing with the other two limbs ...Max did not do that ... he is famous for that tom theme that he came up with , and yeah it is an ostinato but so is any repettitive phrase ... in this context it means playing and soloing over an ostinato simultaneously ...terry invented it

  • @patrickforpresident ya wanna talk about music ? search vai bozzio zappa more trouble every day.....steve vai just ate a guitar.....travis barker and jimmy page my ass

  • @patrickforpresident Not saying Bozzio sucks or anything like that, but i would say Neil Peart is a better choice for one who "paved the way".

  • @patrickforpresident

    the best drummer in the world in my opinion

    Use Dax!!!

  • this man is a metronome

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  • excellent!!

  • Thanks ! Thanks ! Thanks ! ! !

    :)

  • THANK YOU!!!PURE GOLD!!

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