Backwoods Sideman - Buddy Rich

[tradmad58]

There's Ernie Wise in the audience!

[MrJthomas70]

my only beef with this footage is the filming of the audience as if they're to capture some extra nuance to the set itself---the audience is lame and you can see it in their faces and body language, and no wonder Buddy didn't live as long or longer, look at the amount of second-hand smoke that the performers were to endore those days from the audience members---other than that, Buddy Is King, not a one like him ever or sense, RIP.

[Easleytee]

Calism

No FOOKING talent!!

[calism23]

@Easleytee - LU w/90,000,000,000

No surprise that you have nothing to share on your channel

[Easleytee]

@calism23

Your stick tricks are positively ingenious.

Your playing has all the smooth of a Barium enema.

[tne321]

great！！

[odolany]

this one is really progressive, rocky

[Kristoffa9999]

Damn, that is some serious drumming goin' on!

[m015094]

This song makes my feet dance.

[bubses]

@StradMan37 I'm curious as to why you think this is funny? And where did you learn such off-color things?

[calism23]

@StradMan37 - I don't think so, buddy, I'm married. Real good discernment there, deacon.

[ishredu]

post "here's that rainy day' please! my tape was eaten years ago

[bubses]

@ishredu Did Maurice ever get back to you on this? This is the first I've seen this message - YouTube has so many glitches in it's system, we don't get messages alot of times. I have the tape here - we'll put it up.

[ishredu]

@bubses no sadly but would love to see it again it's a great take one of the best on this tape I think

[calism23]

@ishredu,

Hang in there, coming soon.

[bubses]

@ishredu Maurice's computer is on the fritz. He might have to get a new one. But we'll get it up soon (gonna put up Prelude To A Kiss, too). Just lettin' you know we didn't forget about you. Hang in there...

[fenix1597]

what a dumass

[StradMan37]

Great chart - just skip the 1st minute & a half...

[noisyneil]

if anyone hasn't heard it, you HAVE to buy The Man From Planet Jazz. it's a live recording of buddy and co at Ronnie Scott's in 1980. i have it on vinyl. quite simply the best live big band record i've ever heard. :-) if anyone has videos of that gig i'll give you my first born child in return for a single viewing (doubt you'd want anything to do with my offspring however; they're likely to be the kind that sit facing the wall, mumbling about coconuts).

[Raniers17]

No comment!

Strafighissimo!

[jesseroman3]

"Where a clean shirt, be on time and

SWING YOUR ASS OFF"

[tonilrogers]

@jesseroman3 As he once told Phil Woods.

[chrisbueno1]

great tune!!!!! amazing playing by Buddy and the Band!!

thanx for posting

[JLRappa]

Great inttro and Buddy was amazing as usual!

[whity72]

The incredible power starts at 4:00 - and leads into 5:13 ff. - the most powerful sound-pressure in Big Bands´ history! Ureached, this band...

[AirHendrix91]

Skill.

[sqwis]

wow, this is jamm'n.

i like buddy rich because the guy wasnt satisfied unless there was extreme effort applied. you had to be willing to bleed for buddy to be satisfied. and why not? buddy himself pushed it harder than anyone else.

you arent going to see anything like buddy rich again. its the old generation of performers who worked hard.

the music truly came first with buddy. everything else was secondary.

[WALNUTS52]

sucks...

[tragabicholapues]

holy mother of god.

[MICROBIAL]

great intro, and certainly GREAT "main feature"

[staticbob2001]

Damn impressive.

[drummerpablo1]

Phenomenal tricks but why so serious?

[calism23]

If you're talking about Bill, I think it's 'cause I was standing on this foot.

[bubses]

Just tryin' to keep it together.

[calism23]

Yeah, that's for sure.

[speedoflite1]

"Backwards Buddy" is a more appropriate title for this one.

[calism23]

Hey, I was just reading your two comments, then I was surprised to see that you seem to be a Buddy Rich fan - by all your favorites. I'm just curious.....having a bad day?

[speedoflite1]

i was actually surprised to find anything to criticize, which is why I went into detail. afterall, "news flash", BR (himself) was notoriously harsh with his band even though

he hand picked every one of them.

bad day? ...what does one have to do with the other?

btw: i'm still a huge fan.

[calism23]

Hehe, just curious to see what you'd say. But after your previous comments, I went to your channel and expected to see a whole bunch of heavy metal clips or maybe something else indicating bad taste, but that wasn't the case. So, it made me take your comment more seriously. By the way, you've got some good clips in your favorites.

[speedoflite1]

i just didn't favor thsi particular performance. again, i was actually surprised to find anything to criticize, which is why I went into detail. afterall, "news flash", BR (himself) was notoriously harsh with his band even though he hand picked every one of them.

bad day? ...what does one have to do with the other? btw: i'm still a huge fan.

[speedoflite1]

Altogether sloppy. drum intro is same as

"Time Being" pt. 1, blaring horns are a hot

mess, band looks uninspired & unhappy, solos/overall arrangement lack clarity, nobody's playing together; sound is often incoherent and rambling, incl. Buddy fills. jokes fall painfully flat; a comedian he is not. Overall: D-

[longfade]

Certainly entitled to your opinion, but "uninspired" and "lacking clarity (????)" are not qualifiers that I would apply to Labarbera's performance here.

[speedoflite1]

(?)I didn't single out Labarbera. Read my (detailed) opinion/critique below. Buddy (himself) introduces the chart,"Backwoods Sideman," and he then jesters, "whatever that means?" We can only speculate on whether or not he thought it was the band's best performance. Like it, or, not: While introducing the title, Buddy indicated that he didn't know what it meant.

[longfade]

Whatever.

[speedoflite1]

please don't take offense again but you sound like a Valley Girl. BR is the greatest

(5.31-6.48), and his (handpicked) band members achieved universal acclaim.

[ishredu]

@speedoflite1 I agree actually not the best I've heard them by a long shot..but this recording is also pretty darned muddy as well which didn't help matters

I wouldn't D- it though lol D-?

and you brought up the point that the drum intro is the same as time being

um so what?

[madchops82]

BUDDY WAS THE GREATEST ROCK DRUMMER

[whity72]

HELL YEAH! Rich´s band was anyway the most powerful Big Band ever in the world, but THIS number blows the first 10 rows of the audience straight to the moon!!! Powerful horn sections, marvelous... Great posting, thanx! Ba ba ba ba ba baaaa...

[lorister]

Buddy had one hell of a band!! Did you ever notice on any of his videos no one dare cracked a smile in the band? Make one mistake and Buddy would embarass and fire you right during the performance. Just like one of many incidents at "Cesaers Palace"!

"Buddy" was one of the "best" drummers around and had a solid band that drove, but I often wonder how any band member could put up with his cruel and rude personality!! GREAT JAZZ DRUMMER!!..and a mental case as well.

[whity72]

Mental case? Do you think pro sports trainers or Marines drill instructors are gay dragqueens? No, they are hard as iron, otherwise you don´t reach world leading positions. For this you oftenly must treat your band/team/pupil... like shit. Good man, did everything right...

[longfade]

Maybe, but I never heard any stories about Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, or Stan Kenton berating and humiliating their band members. A big band is a big band, not a frigging combat unit or 'world leading position'. I listen to those tapes of Buddy and just think, "man, that's BS and I don't care who you are".

[MarkR1957]

Duke had virtually NO dicipline in his band. I saw a video of Paul Gonzalves actually asleep on stage. Buddy would never tolerate anything even close.

Many early Big band leaders were just like Buddy. Both Dorsey Brothers, and several others. Do some research.

Kenton, Basie, Duke - they had bands made up of seasoned pros, for the most part. Not college kids. BIG difference.

Buddy gave young, aspiring players a chance to play Jazz on a PRO level and to work with the best.

[longfade]

I love Buddy's bands, for sure. In many cases I like the band itself more than Buddy's drumming. Maynard Ferguson was also good about recruiting and developing new talent. That cracks me up about Gonzalves sleeping on stage!

[phase901]

@lorister You're a fuckin mental-case !

[notsogooddrummer]

Is he wearing a Donny Osmond pin? You get a close up around 6:00. I figure D.O. would have been popular around then and that would seem like his humor.

[imtromplayer77]

its hard to believe that john hoffman (on trumpet) is now my teacher at uni. WOW

[nealbfinn]

I saw this band live in '73. Pat LaBarara was a good led tenor for this gig. I liked Creaa, too. More of a blues type player where Laarbara was more into Coltrane. I heard somewhere Crea had passed on.

[drummerfan277]

This is my favorite song off the "Roar of '74" album. The album version is great, but this one is even better with the drum solo.

Why can't we have a big band like that today????

[calism23]

Yeah, why not?

[mikebuddy1]

in no paticular:talent,interputation­,culture,different time,disaplan,professionalism,­love of the music.financial.

[mynamisdan]

my god the whole band can get down! GET DOWN!

[retrop75]

The piano's a little high in the mix, but the player is gettin it on!

[katella12]

Thanks for this. Would love to see more from this broadcast.

[deknow]

Pat Labarbera just schools everyone he plays with Crea didn't stand a chance.

[longfade]

Yeah, Labarbera is SMOKING. I forgot how much I like that guy. Like you said, Crea just sounds irrelevant after Labarbera's choruses. All due respect to Crea, of course.

[tonyfreejazz20]

Awesome stuff. Thanks for that.

[MrZol]

looks like buddys playing a 14x26

[ishredu]

close it's a 14x24