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Stanton Moore (drummer for Galactic), "one of the deepest drummers around" and his solo disc III

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Finch Platte

There was a bitty blurb in Mojo mag about this CD, and they gave it 4 stars.
Check out this review!
Moore's renown as one of the deepest drummers around comes from his time in jazz-funk outfit Galactic and an association with eight-string guitar wizard Charlie Hunter and saxophonist Skeric. Moore can certainly do sophisticated but on this third solo album, he leads organist Robert Walter and guitarist Will Bernard through some of the greasiest grooves this side of the Meters. Achieving a fantastic woody sound by recording at the New Orleans Preservation Hall, the record blends Big Easy traditions with all manner of influences, notably John Bonham. Moore has never been so thrilling, while Walter (who wrote most of the blues-heavy themes) and Bernard unerringly balance the traditional with the intrepid. From the tearaway (Poison Pushy, Licorice) to the tender (Abdullah Ibrahim's Water From An Ancient Well), this band takes chances and takes charge; check out their superb soul jazz take on When The Levee Breaks.
Wow! I gots to have this.
YECH, you know anything about this guy? Anyone?
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I have his first two CDs - YECH 14:30:00 03/14/07 (2)
He's got that special rhythym thing that great drummers must have.It's in him and it's got to come out!
Great is not an overstatement of his talent.
Ya want copies Uncle Fester?
YECH
- Re: I have his first two CDs - Finch Platte 18:48:03 03/14/07 (1)
  Sure, Lurch.
  I'll buy the new one and trade ya. Deal?
  fp
  - No senor retardo. - YECH 14:50:52 03/15/07 (0)
    I'll burn ya copies of the two I have and mail em out to ya cause it makes me feel good inside to help the handicaped.You remind me of Borat.That's a niiiiice.I can see you now with yer son Huey Lewis.
    YECH
Stanton Moore is a master - markrohr 04:06:38 03/14/07 (6)
Particularly of that greasy, New Orleans second-line style. Give the man a bass drum, hi-hat, and snare drum and he'll keep you more interested in the drums than Neil Peart.
This record is very good, essential if you like the New Orleans jam-band sound. Recorded at Preservation Hall, sounds pretty good, too.
- Re: Stanton Moore is a master - Todd Krieger 20:06:44 03/14/07 (5)
  "Give the man a bass drum, hi-hat, and snare drum and he'll keep you more interested in the drums than Neil Peart."
  I presume you mean a variety in style that keeps the sound from getting monotonous. If that's the case, I have to kindly disagree.....
  The "variety in style", or at least a sense of it, is the very element that I think separates Neil Peart from the rest.... The good ones keep my attention for two minutes, the great ones keep my attention for five minutes. And those I think are the best seem to be able to do so indefinitely.
  There are not many younger artists who I think have this quality, but the link is to one I think who does.....
  - Rodney Holmes (Open in New Window)
  - Yep, I've been following Rodney for several years... - rlw 11:53:26 03/15/07 (0)
    Via the Steve Kimock Band. That YouTube video was of a Kimock song and it sure sounded like Kimock on guitar. If you like that kind of music, get on over to Archive.org, Kimock (and Rodney) has a huge number of FREE shows available for download.
    Look for ones done by Charlie Miller and Ariel Phares, those two *really* know their stuff!
    - More FREE music than you can download! (Open in New Window)
  - Rodney Holmes is great. - markrohr 04:10:42 03/15/07 (3)
    These guys are plowing different fields.
    Moore is playing a different style, that's all. Second-line drumming and second-line-influenced funk is perhaps an acquired taste. It's very much about subtleties of tone, ghost-notes, and the subtle bending of time.
    I would never disparage Peart. Within his own style he's amazing. Ultra-precise, thoughtful, powerful. (Alas, I can't really listen to Rush for long because I can't abide the singer.)
    But the point I was trying to make but didn't make very well was that drummers like Moore can pull more sounds out of a single snare drum than drummers like Peart/Portnoy/insert-favorite-here ordinarily achieve with mammoth kits. Which is no knock on them--these different drummers achieve their sounds in different ways.
    Also, Peart tends to work out very interesting (and wicked hard!) parts for the songs, then play them the same way every night. Whereas Moore is working the jam band scene, which is all about improvisation.
    To me this is one of the great things about music: both are great at what they do, and what they do is utterly different.
    - Re: Rodney Holmes is great. - Todd Krieger 11:47:55 03/15/07 (1)
      "But the point I was trying to make but didn't make very well was that drummers like Moore can pull more sounds out of a single snare drum than drummers like Peart/Portnoy/insert-favorite-here ordinarily achieve with mammoth kits."
      Ah, I think I get your point....
      But....
      I *still* disagree.... [-;
      And....
      
      Maybe This Will Change Your Mind [Watch Between 3:00 and 4:00] ...... (Open in New Window)
      - Great clip! - markrohr 18:25:28 03/15/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Rodney Holmes is great. posted by Todd Krieger on March 15, 2007 at 11:47:55:
        
        Thanks for that. I've seen/heard a number of things from the BR tributes. I think it's fascinating to hear these great drummers sounding just like themselves while emulating BR. ;-)
        Peart was brilliant--I don't know anyone else who can play with such precision and still sound human rather than machine-like.
        BR himself played with more abandon, taking more risks, and using about 49 kinds of stroke to coax even more sounds out of the snare drum. (NP would do well to use a coated batter head at these tributes!) I actually think Peart sounded most BR-like in the ensemble parts of the clip--his setups were set in stone. Fantastic.
        I love all these guys. Each has his own drum personality and is bringing that to his own kind of music. I don't think either BR or NP could possibly lay down a groove that sounds as sleazy as one of Stanton Moore's, or one with as much color in the snare drum. But I don't care--I enjoy them all for what they are.
    - Insert nods of appreciation here - plantsman 04:38:06 03/15/07 (0)
      To Ziggy Modeliste, the late but very great Ed Blackwell and Earl Palmer. Three fabulous but rather different drummers that all have that second-line feel.

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