THE CLASH - TRAIN IN VAIN drum cover by IMSAYIN

IMSAYIN ( Scott Elderkin ) doing a drum cover of Train in Vain by The Clash.

Sorry, this was the first video I ever uploaded on here. I didn't realize I could edit the start, and end of my videos to get rid of the footage I'm not actually playing on...I learned quickly though.

I love this song...Always have.
Rest In Peace - Joe Strummer
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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/all-talk-and-no-stick/
by Scott Kenemore

Scott Kenemore names Topper as the most underrated drummer

1. Topper Headon Although his name isn't likely to ring bells, it's difficult to overestimate Topper's work on the Clash's London Calling (esteemed by Rolling Stone as "The Greatest Album of the 80's" and ranked eighth on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time). The physically diminutive, poorly-spoken, heroin-addicted drummer for the Clash was not the group's original skins man, nor was he its last. Topper was fired in 1982 when his drug use became unmanageable, even as the Clash toured in support of "Rock the Casbah" (a song Topper himself had written). Despite his personal failings, his contribution to the music was tremendous, and his drumming remains an undiscovered treasure for too many.

Rock fans everywhere recognize his opening beat to the Mick Jones song "Train in Vain." A typical example of Topper's excellent work, the beat is both catchy and deceptively complicated. Imitated in songs like "Stupid Girl" by Garbage (and just as widely sampled), one is lead to wonder where it would place if Rolling Stone did a "500 Greatest Beats of All Time": My guess is maybe third, after "Bo Diddley" and "Wipeout". Throughout his time with the Clash, Topper's drumming remained superb. It does what drumming is supposed to do: make great songs even better.

Across the Clash catalog, Topper tackles punk, blues, and 1950s rockabilly with a facility that is sometimes hard to believe. And while esteeming musicians for "the notes they don't play" is too often employed by apologists for bad drummers, Topper's use of restraint is both clever and musically satisfying. The notes he doesn't play, especially when those notes are cymbal crashes, leave the listener with the pleasantly funky sensation of ascending a staircase and reaching for a final, but nonexistent, step.

In the 2000 Clash documentary Westway to the World, Joe Strummer notes that the Clash auditioned an incredible 200 drummers before finding Topper. Little doubt can exist that he was worth the wait.
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" Decptively complicated " Uhhhh...Yeah, tell me about.

IMSAYIN proudly plays on Sabian Cymbals...MADE IN CANADA

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• CANADA

[ROCKASAURUS2011]

wow im not sure what to say. i love this song and you nailed it. really great job.

[IMSAYIN2010]

@ROCKASAURUS2011 Thank you very much for your comments. I really appreciate them.

[Eskimogirl15]

You are an amazing drummer. Very cute too.

[IMSAYIN2010]

@Eskimogirl15 Thank you very much for your comments, I appreciate them. Especially the " very cute " part. LOL... That's the first one like that I've received.

[enroos100]

u sing at the same time and few drumstick tricks at the right place ;)

[IMSAYIN2010]

@enroos100 Thank you again, for more of your comments. I appreciate them. I can't help the singing part. I always do it. I know the words, so I just sing...Sometimes too loudly, though.

[aerohawkproductions]

zero people are... wait, I mean, oh nevermind i guess

[IMSAYIN2010]

@enroos100 You said I was better than the drummer for The Clash.

Thank you very much for your comments, I appreciate them. I gotta admit though. Topper Headon ( The Clash 77 - 82 ) was a phenomenal drummer. I'm just a beginner, and will probably never be that talented.

[IMSAYIN2010]

@13headstones Thank you very much for your comments, I appreciate them.

Actually I had only been playing about 6 weeks, when I did this song. LOL ... I didn't realize exactly how hard the song was until I tried to learn it. I've found that out about alot of the songs I've learned now.

Once again, thanks.