Along with Ableton Live, Jonah Sharpe was using two Korg KAOSS pads for effects and such. It was actually a pretty lean and mean setup. In the Dead days, Mickey needed racks and racks of gear to do what he wanted with looping, effects, etc. Now the whole thing can be done with a laptop. The album was made the same way: using Ableton to capture loops, and then building songs onto those loops. So the live show was both pre-looped stuff and things Sharpe did live as the percussionists played.
"is it just me or did the whole planet drum thing become infinitely less cool when they started putting a back beat to it?"
It's just you. Every version of Planet Drum has had backbeats and drummers, from David Garibaldi to John Molo. In fact, only this latest incarnation doesn't have a drumset player. Mickey has a marching-band snare, and much of the rest of the "backbeats" are supplied by Jonah Sharpe, who was running a program called "Ableton Live" for live looping and playing samples.
I once listened to this song at the peak of an LSD trip while watching the night sky and thinking, and the end of the song (starting at around 5:40) changed my life.
Along with Ableton Live, Jonah Sharpe was using two Korg KAOSS pads for effects and such. It was actually a pretty lean and mean setup. In the Dead days, Mickey needed racks and racks of gear to do what he wanted with looping, effects, etc. Now the whole thing can be done with a laptop. The album was made the same way: using Ableton to capture loops, and then building songs onto those loops. So the live show was both pre-looped stuff and things Sharpe did live as the percussionists played.
lovecraft2001 6 months ago
"is it just me or did the whole planet drum thing become infinitely less cool when they started putting a back beat to it?"
It's just you. Every version of Planet Drum has had backbeats and drummers, from David Garibaldi to John Molo. In fact, only this latest incarnation doesn't have a drumset player. Mickey has a marching-band snare, and much of the rest of the "backbeats" are supplied by Jonah Sharpe, who was running a program called "Ableton Live" for live looping and playing samples.
lovecraft2001 6 months ago
is it just me or did the whole planet drum thing become infinitely less cool when they started putting a back beat to it?
3rdofcatjay 9 months ago
I once listened to this song at the peak of an LSD trip while watching the night sky and thinking, and the end of the song (starting at around 5:40) changed my life.
MrJas1991 11 months ago
@MrJas1991 I had a similar experience on heroic fungus adventure!
Omarateastwind 6 months ago
This album is a masterpiece.
drstrangeluv1680 1 year ago
A great project with great percussion!
pdj116 1 year ago
this is definitely not the grateful dead
phrr3 1 year ago
Bravo! I have to get this cd asap.
Thank you very much.
JeffreyHellman 1 year ago
please post more,
Kaknelson 1 year ago
Awesome track..!
jayantgchauhan 2 years ago