bp... the kat's a killer diller.(now the Gene Krupa/who's ur fav drummer thread)

[Oldfisti]

Bump. 

Just wondering if anyone watched the clips besides bp.


Cheers 



     

     


Notable firsts:

- First to bring the bass drum into the studio (1927)  Recording engineers previously thought it would overload the equipment!

- First to put a black musician in a white band

- Invented the modern tunable tom

- Invented the modern hi hat cymbal

- First to put the drums out front and use extended solos

- First celebrity to be busted with pot (2 years before Robert Mitchum)


- Louie Bellson, one of Gene's protoge's, is responsible for the first double bass drum set (Gretsch)     The two of them defined what the modern drum set would look like to this day.


"You want to know what I think of Gene Krupa? Well, where do you begin? Gene Krupa was the beginning and the 'end' of all drummers. He's a great genius - a truly great genius of the drums. Gene discovered things that could be done with the drums that hadn't been done before, ever. I'll tell you about Gene. Before Gene, the drums were in the background, just a part of the band. To put it in plainer terms, the drums didn't have much - meaning. Along comes Gene and the drums take on meaning and they're out of the background. The drummer becomes somebody, you know? Gene gets credit for making people aware of the drummer - of what he's doing and why he's doing it and he deserves every bit of that credit. Can you imagine jazz without Gene?"

- Buddy Rich