And only other virtuoso jazz musician that immediately comes to mind that could do that would be Erroll Garner. Erroll could not read or write, either. And he had a photographic memory in terms of being able to hear a piece of music and play it all out on piano from memory. I read on his Wikipedia entry that after attending a concert by the Russian classical pianist Emil Gilels, Garner returned to his apartment and was able to play a large portion of the performed music by recall.
Interesting post. Although, Harry James was another musician who had a photographic memory. Even though he was the greatest trumpet player who ever lived and immensely talented and technically phenomenal, he didnt have the talent of Buddy Rich.
I saw every Buddy Rich concert from 1966-1973 at Colston Hall Bristol UK and still got all the programmes to prove it. I will always believe that i witnessed his greatest solo on West Side Story in 1966 , most of Britain's top jazz drummers were in the audience that night and Buddy must have been tipped off because he produced a 15 minute unbelievable drum solo the likes of which was indescribable , unfortunately no one was there to record it. That drum solo is still wringing in my ears. There were only around 200 people in the theatre that night which held about 2000 which also seem to annoy him.
So many people still don't understand how impossibly great Buddy's technique was. This is one of the the best examples of his untouchable single stroke work. Today's 60FPS digital filming might be able to keep up and capture just how insanely fast he played in sections of this solo, but barely.
No matter how many drummers I watch, I always come back to Buddy. To have seem him twice when I was a teenager, from about ten feet away, was a life changing experience.
I TOTALLY AGREE. I SAW HIM LIVE AT THE GOLDEN NUGGET IN A.C.. I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT DETERMINED TO INCREASE MY PRACTICE TIME AND AS A MATTER OF FACT I STOPPED SEEING THE GIRL I SHOULD HAVE MARRIED. ALL THIS BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS GOING PLACES. LET'S JUST SAY I DIDN'T END UP GOING ANYWHERE AND THAT GIRL TURNED INTO THE MOST PERFECT WOMAN AND WIFE EVER. ONLY SHE WASN'T MY WIFE. WOW! I REALLY MISS THAT DRUM SET.
Josh Masiello Nothing about playing in a suit if you mainly use your fingers and wrists to use the sticks. If you were to feel too restricted in a suit, you're doing too much movement. If your'e too hot and sweaty, your'e working harder than you would need to. Even under hot lights. Just saying. but I CAN say.
Out of all of the amazing things Buddy could do, the stuff he did on a snare drum was from another planet. He could pull the sound out of the drum, and push it back in again, going at a 1000mph. The accents were traumatizing when he came out of those rolls. You will never see this again from anyone, ever.
This man revolutionized drumming. His speed, coordination, technique and power changed everyone's view on drumming and the fact that he could keep it up for years speaks testaments to his work ethic and talent.
I've got to say only this, i have been drumming for 58 years now , and I've seen EVERYONE from Gene , Elvin, Max, Tony, Philly, Art Blakekey ,Ginger, Mitch Mitchell, Cobham, Weckl, Coliuata, Bozzio, Phillips, THOMAS LANG , DENNIS CHAMBERS etc. But I have never seen or heard a better drummer/musician than Buddy. Mr. Palmer thank you for putting up this video , you also correctly mentioned nobody even comes close to Buddy. I'd like to go a step further someone said he is not of this planet , i'd rather say he was not of this UNIVERSE. Man I miss this guy!!!!!! R.I.P MASTER
no, he just stopped watching evolution of drumming 40 years ago. Maby he doesn't know that the war in Nam is over too...Buddy Rich drumming sounds like beginner lessons comparing to any modern drummer (Matt Gartska, for example).
Man it ain't just Buddy---that orchestra is BLAZING!! INCREDIBLE talent in this band!! The more I watch this--the more this performance reminds me of the great 60's Woody Herman orchestras with that burning, hard driving tempo!! (PS--Jake Hanna, who was Woody Herman's drummer during roughly this same time-frame (maybe about 3-5 years earlier) was no slouch on the kit either!!)
And no one will ever come close. The guy had live music in his face & ears from 14 months old and naturally gravitated towards rhythm. Everything you see with Buddy is natural and the playing is only an extension of what he heard. A giant that the world will never see again. I am grateful to have seen him as many times as I did.
I mean... if you read this, I think Buddy Rich was great. But to say no chance is anyone going to be great like Buddy Rich is irrelevant. And I have much respect for buddy rich because he is great and probably the greatest of all time. But still, you never know there could be somebody out their who will follow the path of Buddy Rich. Either way, I respect you opinion
Chaos Stone Ues I am a drummer. But I am not as much as a Jazz drummer like Buddy Rich. I’m not saying I will be a better dummer than rich. I don’t practice much Jazz but I’m just saying you never know there may be another great drummer like Rich. Please do not start talking trash please and thank you.
Buddy's concentration, skill, and genius have yet to be matched. There are a lot of great drummers out there, but Buddy Rich is in a class all by himself. I, like you, have watched these vids several times and they always amaze me.
I've been an amateur drummer for almost 40 years and everytime I see a Buddy Rich clip it makes me just want to quit. What I do isn't REALLY drumming--what Buddy does IS drumming...
James Patterson which karen solo ? remember in creem magazine in the 70s she was # 10 & john bonham #11. to quote bonham, "karen carpenter, what a load of shit, she could not 5 minutes with a zep number", karen was quite good & tasteful
1 hour ONLY, just 1 hour of my life, I want to play like Buddy. DEAR LORD I only ask for 1 hour, after playing drumzz for 56 years now, I only ask for 1 HOUR!!!!!!! please before the end!!!!!!!!!
i only wish technology had been as advanced then as it is now. imagine seeing him in 1080 HD with full surround. the ability to really see what his hands were doing would be fantastic. he was the best, period. he had his demons, but i think that in his last years, he was able, for the most part, to mellow and was actually having a great time playing music.
I agree with you about him mellowing in his later years---and I believe the last 10 years or so of his life he got more enjoyment playing music than at any other time!!
Noone could touch Buddy. I have dug this cat for 55 years. All you dudes that gave up music 'cause of whatever...start playing again. Watch this video and start playing again. Buddy was and still is the heavyweight champ of the drums plus a pioneer in jazz fusion. His bands were always the best. 'Til we meet again, Buddy!
Totally agree! Absolutely ridiculous! I forgot how great this clip was.... Its amazing how he flows around the kit..and don't forget..In a suit and tie with buttoned jacket no less! . This has it all...musicality, groove, speed, precision, power - Its just amazing. Thanks for posting.
I totally agree with the poster.Despite and understandably from Buddy's point of view,he always maintained towards the end of his glittering career that he was playing better than ever,let me say,no human being has ever come 'close' to what you are seeing here.This goes beyond genius level.In a thousand years drummers chins will still hit the floor when they watch this.After playing the drums for 40 years,please don't ask me how he does this because I'm damned if I can work it out. Maybe Buddy came down from another planet???
The “most outrageous drum solo” clip from around ‘70 (I saw it live) is superb, probably demonstrates his extremely high skill level even better, w/ a lot of stick crossing over at warp speed, which he doesn’t do here.
Excuse me, but was that a modified crush roll through the entire song?!?!?! I’ve been watching a few videos of him lately..I saw him at Disneyland (there is a video of one of his performances then at the same place in the park, same series of performances on RUclips) in the early 1980s. Unreal… Saw him back starting even before this on TV..yeah, that’s what we used to call it. He was simply the best.
I had a chance to see Buddy up close in Londonin my early days as a drummer; this changed my life dramatically as Buddy was my earliest principle influence along with Krupa! This man's ability to drive a band; his precision technique and power is unmatched! Today it's all stick tricks and stock in trade technical stuff; all very good but somehow lack the originality of these great masters! Buddy remains the drummer supreme for that style of drumming and pure artistry; contemporary drummers I would say there are a good handful around eg Chris Coleman/Tony Royston Jnr etc to name two but on different styles.
This is original Buddy Big Band line up, pre-Mercy Mercy mod clothes et al. I think that's Jay Corre on tenor and Bobby Shew on trpt, among others. What a friggin band. Thanks so much for posting this!
About 70 years ago I was listening to a short wave radio broadcast of a Voice of America jazz programme and the announcer introduced a band with Buddy Rich as the drummer. Even with that poor audio quality of the day couldn't get in the way of the sound this man created on drums. It was him and Gene Krupa that shaped the rest of my life even though I ended up wanting to play like Joe Morello. Buddy still blows me away.
watching this to me (i'm a just _barely_ musician) is like watching . . . i dunno . . . Michael Jordan, maybe. a clip of Michael Jordan's greatest hits. - the smashing purity of those snare hits - and this is just one clip. the amount of raw talent going on in this clip is - you're right - _outrageous._ i don't know how people could ever play like that. Buddy Rich, yeah, but the Sax, too. MAN. it's humbling. very deeply humbling. i can just _barely_ play my instrument.
Incredible ... speed , power and ALL within the framework of the music and the band... This is all gone today ...now we have individual technicians ... talented.. .but they rarely can carry the band as well ...
My Dad took me to see him when I was 15 years old, in a similar version of this band. It was floor standing area, and I was right up front. Unbelievable concert, like this band, everybody was smoking hot, right along with Buddy !! I think Jack Wilkins was in that band, and was the first time I had seen a jazz guitarist stand up to solo, he too was burning !
The first time I saw this clip was on VHS tape at a friends place 1989 (I was 15 at the time). As I was watching, I thought to myself "holy shit... I've never seen anyone play like THAT"... Legend
3.17 to 3.29 .....If this happened today everybody would be crying FAKE FAKE that's not humanly possible. Thank god we had film back in the day to capture his incredible dexterity and syncopation.
INSANE! When I was a kid, my dad and his cousin, who played drums, but my dad didn't, always spouted about Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich being the best drummers ever--I was all into Neil Peart and all the rock drummers, and for sure they are also greats---no doubt about it! Then I look at this old footage of Buddy tearing it up, and say WOW!!!!!! My dad and his cousin were RIGHT! LLOLOL! :) Seriously, Buddy Rich was just the most incredible drummer ever to grace our planet! And Krupa was a VERY VERY close second! I only WISH I had 1/10th of his skills and technique! I can hold my own, and play some pretty technical jazz and rock stuff well, and am certainly proud of what I can do, but when I see this stuff it just blows me away! I also am learning trumpet--and Buddy's lead trumpeter is also insane! Wow--just amazing skill and talent!
He had the most absurbly fast hands I've ever seen. I've been playing for 27 years and consider myself pretty fast, but man, I will never be able to do what he did. Buddy was absolutely incredible.
Anyone who's played long enough and tried to master the single stroke roll understands how crazy this is. And he was so much more than those fast singles.
Thanks Louie, I had the pleasure of seeing Buddy live in 1980 during my early days as a drummer; on another level and not just speed but artistry and one of a kind.
Best drummer ever, once I bought a VHS videotape 20 years ago from buddy rich tribute concert, it has this solo on it , I still watch, mindblowing, there Will be no one coming close to him,Louie Bellson Come to St Peter at the gate and said, "I here this tremendous solo in the distance", St Peter said," thats God , he thinks he's Buddy Rich"!
This Made me want to be A DRUMMER 1967. I was 11 I play for a year and Decided my Car and being a Motor Head Mechanic ( Worked in a Garage in 1968.) was what I wanted. Got a 1956 Chevy in 1970 and Built it. Got Drunk at 16 and totaled it and Joined the Army.
What a crazy time in music history....You have The Buddy Rich Big Band ( with Buddy always pushing the drumming envelope) You have The Beatles, Miles' band and Coltrane's Band...Its just mind boggling to me that all this was going on and it was all popular !
This was a summer replacement show for Jackie Gleason called Away We Go, Buddy and the band were one of the hosts. I remember looking forward each week to seeing them play. BR and the band would usually play at least one tune, Buddy would not always play an extended solo though. Too bad the show was only a summer thing and not a regular weekly network show.
Indeed... this clip comes from that very show, which was, indeed, titled 'Away We Go'. My take is that Buddy was at his apex at this time; and that 60's band was to me his greatest. In the 1950's he bore that signature, Buddy Rich raw wildness, ay that lightning speed, yet in the 60's little if anything was lost, oh, no. Only all came together now, balanced. After the 60's his playing centered more on musicality, and in that regard his drumming grew better and better.
Im old enough to have seen him in person twice...still get goose bumps when I watch him play. The speed of his singles...definitely a once in a hundred year talent. The sounds he could have made with 2018 drums and cymbals...can only dream I guess.
I keep trying to play like this. I know...it will never happen but I keep trying (check out my clips on here). Thanks for posting this. Today we have an indigestible stew of mediocre playing and it's refreshing to see Buddy tearing it up like this. He was a musical phenomena and we will probably never see this type of playing again. Glad I got to see him play live back in the 70s & 80s.
Great upload! Ernie Watts wailin' on the longer alto solo. Chuck Findley is the trumpet soloist, I believe. What a smokin' trumpet section. Can anyone else help identify some of the other players? I don't recognize the gentleman on tenor sax. Buddy is in jawdropping form here, as usual.
What would it feel like to be an absolute god at your craft? There can only be one greatest ever. I wonder what that feels like because I’ll never know.
You can't even see his sticks when he winds up those single stroke rolls!! For those of us that do recognize the depth of his musical and technical development, it's amazing that we did not go home and burn our drums after seeing him perform!!As it has been said before, one of a kind. He literally had that Divine spark. Thankfully we can see and hear what he accomplished in one lifetime. Buddy gave it everything that was within him to every performance and show. In respect and honor we should all try to do the same!!
Buddy made a deal with the devil. Nobody knows what Buddy got, but the devil got drum lessons.
Hahaha
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And only other virtuoso jazz musician that immediately comes to mind that could do that would be Erroll Garner. Erroll could not read or write, either. And he had a photographic memory in terms of being able to hear a piece of music and play it all out on piano from memory. I read on his Wikipedia entry that after attending a concert by the Russian classical pianist Emil Gilels, Garner returned to his apartment and was able to play a large portion of the performed music by recall.
Interesting post. Although, Harry James was another musician who had a photographic memory. Even though he was the greatest trumpet player who ever lived and immensely talented and technically phenomenal, he didnt have the talent of Buddy Rich.
Sounds familiar.
I saw every Buddy Rich concert from 1966-1973 at Colston Hall Bristol UK and still got all the programmes to prove it. I will always believe that i witnessed his greatest solo on West Side Story in 1966 , most of Britain's top jazz drummers were in the audience that night and Buddy must have been tipped off because he produced a 15 minute unbelievable drum solo the likes of which was indescribable , unfortunately no one was there to record it. That drum solo is still wringing in my ears. There were only around 200 people in the theatre that night which held about 2000 which also seem to annoy him.
Why do you have to prove it, you a known liar or something
@@drewanderson8291 Oh, a Lousy Stinking Dirty Rat of a Butt-Ugly Troll! We find them everywhere. CAUTION! Don't Feed the Trolls!
So many people still don't understand how impossibly great Buddy's technique was. This is one of the the best examples of his untouchable single stroke work. Today's 60FPS digital filming might be able to keep up and capture just how insanely fast he played in sections of this solo, but barely.
Damn, musicians back then were scary good. Everyone on that bandstand playing their heart out like there’s no tomorrow!
No matter how many drummers I watch, I always come back to Buddy. To have seem him twice when I was a teenager, from about ten feet away, was a life changing experience.
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I TOTALLY AGREE. I SAW HIM LIVE AT THE GOLDEN NUGGET IN A.C.. I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT DETERMINED TO INCREASE MY PRACTICE TIME AND AS A MATTER OF FACT I STOPPED SEEING THE GIRL I SHOULD HAVE MARRIED. ALL THIS BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS GOING PLACES. LET'S JUST SAY I DIDN'T END UP GOING ANYWHERE AND THAT GIRL TURNED INTO THE MOST PERFECT WOMAN AND WIFE EVER. ONLY SHE WASN'T MY WIFE. WOW! I REALLY MISS THAT DRUM SET.
that unrelenting swing was just so strong with him. a cut above the rest.
Had the good fortune to see him live in the City Hall in Cork city. i can die happy now. There is no words to describe him. He is just phenomenal.
Guys..... in a suit, IN A SUIT.
Yep---that's really the most astounding part of the performance--how in the name of God could he play like that IN A SUIT??!!!
haha right?!
nyterpfan He insisted on being a professional, not personnel comfort.
Josh Masiello Nothing about playing in a suit if you mainly use your fingers and wrists to use the sticks. If you were to feel too restricted in a suit, you're doing too much movement. If your'e too hot and sweaty, your'e working harder than you would need to. Even under hot lights. Just saying. but I CAN say.
Vue U He had to use his arms for his crossover moves.
Out of all of the amazing things Buddy could do, the stuff he did on a snare drum was from another planet. He could pull the sound out of the drum, and push it back in again, going at a 1000mph. The accents were traumatizing when he came out of those rolls. You will never see this again from anyone, ever.
AGREED! He was a Monster!
This man revolutionized drumming. His speed, coordination, technique and power changed everyone's view on drumming and the fact that he could keep it up for years speaks testaments to his work ethic and talent.
I've been a drummer since 1960. By far, the greatest drummer this world has and will ever see. #BuddyRichWorldsGreatestDrummer
I've got to say only this, i have been drumming for 58 years now , and I've seen EVERYONE from Gene , Elvin, Max, Tony, Philly, Art Blakekey ,Ginger, Mitch Mitchell, Cobham, Weckl, Coliuata, Bozzio, Phillips,
THOMAS LANG , DENNIS CHAMBERS etc. But I have never seen or heard a better drummer/musician than Buddy. Mr. Palmer thank you for putting up this video , you also correctly mentioned nobody even comes close to Buddy. I'd like to go a step further someone said he is not of this planet , i'd rather say he was not of this UNIVERSE. Man I miss this guy!!!!!! R.I.P MASTER
No one period will equal Buddy Rich..ever!
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please tell me you are joking...
no, he just stopped watching evolution of drumming 40 years ago. Maby he doesn't know that the war in Nam is over too...Buddy Rich drumming sounds like beginner lessons comparing to any modern drummer (Matt Gartska, for example).
Wow are you ever just plain WRONG!
Matooley O'Brien Are you sure about that
that echo in the concert hall combined with black and white footage makes it sound haunting. Like a time period long forgotten. Love it.
Man it ain't just Buddy---that orchestra is BLAZING!! INCREDIBLE talent in this band!! The more I watch this--the more this performance reminds me of the great 60's Woody Herman orchestras with that burning, hard driving tempo!! (PS--Jake Hanna, who was Woody Herman's drummer during roughly this same time-frame (maybe about 3-5 years earlier) was no slouch on the kit either!!)
Yep, Buddy had top notch guys in his band; even when I saw him live in 1980 the younger guys he had were superb.
And no one will ever come close. The guy had live music in his face & ears from 14 months old and naturally gravitated towards rhythm. Everything you see with Buddy is natural and the playing is only an extension of what he heard. A giant that the world will never see again. I am grateful to have seen him as many times as I did.
What the hell is this. The rest of us drummers should cower in respect. How can we be expected to follow this?! No chance. The greatest.
yep...............wb
I mean... if you read this, I think Buddy Rich was great. But to say no chance is anyone going to be great like Buddy Rich is irrelevant. And I have much respect for buddy rich because he is great and probably the greatest of all time. But still, you never know there could be somebody out their who will follow the path of Buddy Rich. Either way, I respect you opinion
Chaos Stone Ues I am a drummer. But I am not as much as a Jazz drummer like Buddy Rich. I’m not saying I will be a better dummer than rich. I don’t practice much Jazz but I’m just saying you never know there may be another great drummer like Rich. Please do not start talking trash please and thank you.
Chaos Stone Thank you! Wish you the best as well! And yes I didn’t mean to make it sound like that.
Chaos Stone Thanks! I’ll try to upload but I’m only 13 so I don’t have a whole lot of devices to use until I get a camera and stuff. But thanks!
I've watched dozens of Buddy Rich solos on RUclips. This is the most mind blowing.
Buddy's concentration, skill, and genius have yet to be matched. There are a lot of great drummers out there, but Buddy Rich is in a class all by himself. I, like you, have watched these vids several times and they always amaze me.
He seemed to shift in and out of a strange time signature during the solo, just incredible genius drumming.
It is, it’s incredible
It's like he had that extra 5% that night, and he went hard for it. I love a man who masters his craft and gives his all.
as usual, the others in the band are AWESOME too !.....
I've been an amateur drummer for almost 40 years and everytime I see a Buddy Rich clip it makes me just want to quit. What I do isn't REALLY drumming--what Buddy does IS drumming...
Lol, I know how you feel.
You don't have to play super fast to be a "real" drummer.
he must come from an alien planet, no human from earth can play like that.
I've always swore he was an extraterrestrial, ha!
@@dukenberg for real. I keep wondering how is it even possible for anyone to drum like that. His single snare rolls are just lightening speed.
Karen Carpenter's solo is just as good
James Patterson which karen solo ? remember in creem magazine in the 70s she was # 10 & john bonham #11. to quote bonham, "karen carpenter, what a load of shit, she could not 5 minutes with a zep number", karen was quite good & tasteful
@@billylincoln2088 look it up on RUclips the Karen Carpenter drum solo
1 hour ONLY, just 1 hour of my life, I want to play like Buddy. DEAR LORD I only ask for 1 hour, after playing drumzz for 56 years now, I only ask for 1 HOUR!!!!!!! please before the end!!!!!!!!!
I THINK I HAVE SAID THAT EXACT PRAYER.
Sorry, fella, you’ll have to get in line.
pray to Jahbulon
I kinda hate to admit it but that performance brought me to tears as a drummer of course
What material was used for the sleeves of his suit. Might be useful for NASA’s heat shields.
i only wish technology had been as advanced then as it is now. imagine seeing him in 1080 HD with full surround. the ability to really see what his hands were doing would be fantastic.
he was the best, period. he had his demons, but i think that in his last years, he was able, for the most part, to mellow and was actually having a great time playing music.
I agree with you about him mellowing in his later years---and I believe the last 10 years or so of his life he got more enjoyment playing music than at any other time!!
Second alto saxophone is Ernie Watts, an absolute legend that is complete gentleman to talk to and play with as well during his workshops.
Thanks so much for keeping this alive , nothing today is on this level.
Noone could touch Buddy. I have dug this cat for 55 years. All you dudes that gave up music 'cause of whatever...start playing again. Watch this video and start playing again. Buddy was and still is the heavyweight champ of the drums plus a pioneer in jazz fusion. His bands were always the best. 'Til we meet again, Buddy!
Glenn Holloway None not Noone “
Totally agree! Absolutely ridiculous! I forgot how great this clip was.... Its amazing how he flows around the kit..and don't forget..In a suit and tie with buttoned jacket no less! . This has it all...musicality, groove, speed, precision, power - Its just amazing. Thanks for posting.
Thats what I call a drum solo, out of this world. The master drummer at his brilliant best, thanks for putting this back on you tube.
Amen
I totally agree with the poster.Despite and understandably from Buddy's point of view,he always maintained towards the end of his glittering career that he was playing better than ever,let me say,no human being has ever come 'close' to what you are seeing here.This goes beyond genius level.In a thousand years drummers chins will still hit the floor when they watch this.After playing the drums for 40 years,please don't ask me how he does this because I'm damned if I can work it out.
Maybe Buddy came down from another planet???
The “most outrageous drum solo” clip from around ‘70 (I saw it live) is superb, probably demonstrates his extremely high skill level even better, w/ a lot of stick crossing over at warp speed, which he doesn’t do here.
you would wonder what forces those old ashkenazis were in touch with.
After watching this, I'm inclined to agree with the title. It also reinforces my belief that Buddy was, indeed, The Greatest Drummer Ever! Wow!
I'm feeling exhausted just watching this!
HOLY FUCKING GOD!
@2:46 are you kiddin me? With that speed and those accents....greatest drummer ever.
buddy was so on,on this solo i'm surprised that him and his kit didn't take flight in mid solo,Damn!!!
There were human drummers. Then there was Buddy Rich.
GREAT....I LOVE IT.
Amen
I adore jazz its new to me but fucking WOW
Buddy and Gene Krupa.
How does he do it. Incredible just incredible. The greatest.
Buddy was like Haley's Comet....talent like that comes along only once in a great while
I disagree , there isnt a while that great to this day. I cant believe my eyes when I watch this.
1 in 100 years..
I've said it before and I'll say it again: This is what the phrase "stupid good" means.
Artistry in motion at the speed-of-light.
Excuse me, but was that a modified crush roll through the entire song?!?!?! I’ve been watching a few videos of him lately..I saw him at Disneyland (there is a video of one of his performances then at the same place in the park, same series of performances on RUclips) in the early 1980s. Unreal… Saw him back starting even before this on TV..yeah, that’s what we used to call it. He was simply the best.
😳❓️Seems impossible ... but there it is ! 🎶
@@jamescalifornia2964 YUP!!
I know we're all here to comment how fucking amazing buddy is but...... can we just appreciate that trumpet soloist's hair!!!!
I had a chance to see Buddy up close in Londonin my early days as a drummer; this changed my life dramatically as Buddy was my earliest principle influence along with Krupa! This man's ability to drive a band; his precision technique and power is unmatched! Today it's all stick tricks and stock in trade technical stuff; all very good but somehow lack the originality of these great masters! Buddy remains the drummer supreme for that style of drumming and pure artistry; contemporary drummers I would say there are a good handful around eg Chris Coleman/Tony Royston Jnr etc to name two but on different styles.
Without a doubt, the absolute best, greatest, most everything drummer ever to play the drums, and yes, I can say that.
correct !!!!
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This is original Buddy Big Band line up, pre-Mercy Mercy mod clothes et al. I think that's Jay Corre on tenor and Bobby Shew on trpt, among others. What a friggin band. Thanks so much for posting this!
I think that Ernie Watts was part of the emsomlbe as well.
I think the Tpt solo is Chuck Findlay. But this is pretty much the band he had when he broke it in 1966?
About 70 years ago I was listening to a short wave radio broadcast of a Voice of America jazz programme and the announcer introduced a band with Buddy Rich as the drummer. Even with that poor audio quality of the day couldn't get in the way of the sound this man created on drums. It was him and Gene Krupa that shaped the rest of my life even though I ended up wanting to play like Joe Morello. Buddy still blows me away.
All good things come from above. When I watch Buddy Rich videos over & over I always think - behold the handy work of God.
He is faster than the camera, the frames per second cant pick up most of the stick strikes!
watching this to me (i'm a just _barely_ musician) is like watching . . . i dunno . . . Michael Jordan, maybe. a clip of Michael Jordan's greatest hits.
- the smashing purity of those snare hits -
and this is just one clip. the amount of raw talent going on in this clip is - you're right - _outrageous._
i don't know how people could ever play like that. Buddy Rich, yeah, but the Sax, too. MAN.
it's humbling. very deeply humbling. i can just _barely_ play my instrument.
Incredible ... speed , power and ALL within the framework of the music and the band... This is all gone today ...now we have individual technicians ... talented.. .but they rarely can carry the band as well ...
THE greatest left hand to EVER hit the drums!!!
Buddy at his best. Utterly savage playing. NOBODY at the time was doing anything close to it. And that band was ON FIRE!
"Do you want a beard or do you want a job?"
i will love Buddy Rich forever.
thats a remarkable performance no question, even JoJo Meyer would be sweatin' to get this speed surely!
My Dad took me to see him when I was 15 years old, in a similar version of this band. It was floor standing area, and I was right up front. Unbelievable concert, like this band, everybody was smoking hot, right along with Buddy !! I think Jack Wilkins was in that band, and was the first time I had seen a jazz guitarist stand up to solo, he too was burning !
Thanks for posting, I was bummed when it was taken down the first time. I thought we lost if forever
OldSchoolDrummer101
Sheeeeiiitttt!!!🎉
How's he DOING that??!!!😮
The first time I saw this clip was on VHS tape at a friends place 1989 (I was 15 at the time). As I was watching, I thought to myself "holy shit... I've never seen anyone play like THAT"... Legend
3.17 to 3.29 .....If this happened today everybody would be crying FAKE FAKE that's not humanly possible. Thank god we had film back in the day to capture his incredible dexterity and syncopation.
INSANE! When I was a kid, my dad and his cousin, who played drums, but my dad didn't, always spouted about Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich being the best drummers ever--I was all into Neil Peart and all the rock drummers, and for sure they are also greats---no doubt about it! Then I look at this old footage of Buddy tearing it up, and say WOW!!!!!! My dad and his cousin were RIGHT! LLOLOL! :) Seriously, Buddy Rich was just the most incredible drummer ever to grace our planet! And Krupa was a VERY VERY close second! I only WISH I had 1/10th of his skills and technique! I can hold my own, and play some pretty technical jazz and rock stuff well, and am certainly proud of what I can do, but when I see this stuff it just blows me away! I also am learning trumpet--and Buddy's lead trumpeter is also insane! Wow--just amazing skill and talent!
Alto soloist - Ernie Watts, Trumpet soloist - Chuck Findley
Taps: what a FREAK...of nature! Always fascinating to watch. The speed, the dynamics...otherworldly.
He had the most absurbly fast hands I've ever seen. I've been playing for 27 years and consider myself pretty fast, but man, I will never be able to do what he did. Buddy was absolutely incredible.
Anyone who's played long enough and tried to master the single stroke roll understands how crazy this is. And he was so much more than those fast singles.
❗️Amazing. The volume produced is also unbelievable ... 😳 🎶
That microphone and drum sound, unadulterated,out fuckin standing
Wow! Great clip. I've been watching on repeat!
There was no one better on the drums,he was the master of time and speed on the instrument he performed.
A fabulous clip. Thanks so much for posting.
I've seen Buddy play live twice and I met him and I still have his autograph. The perks of growing up in a house with 3 drummers.
OMG! Is this the original speed of the video? So crazy and awesome. love it.
there are forces other than human at play here.
The man is DRUMS. 👏
Man. Imagine the ear and coordination it took for the band to come in at the end of Buddy’s solo?? Spot on. Just amazing
Thanks Louie, I had the pleasure of seeing Buddy live in 1980 during my early days as a drummer; on another level and not just speed but artistry and one of a kind.
Not even an octopus after downing a case of red bull could keep up with buddy. The man's insane!!
To funny...classic
Best drummer ever, once I bought a VHS videotape 20 years ago from buddy rich tribute concert, it has this solo on it , I still watch, mindblowing, there Will be no one coming close to him,Louie Bellson Come to St Peter at the gate and said, "I here this tremendous solo in the distance", St Peter said," thats God , he thinks he's Buddy Rich"!
You just made my day. Thank you for this video. A real gem and food for my Buddy Rich soul.
This Made me want to be A DRUMMER 1967. I was 11 I play for a year and Decided my Car and being a Motor Head Mechanic ( Worked in a Garage in 1968.) was what I wanted. Got a 1956 Chevy in 1970 and Built it. Got Drunk at 16 and totaled it and Joined the Army.
Bruce Lee of Drummers!
Leaves me breathless!
What a crazy time in music history....You have The Buddy Rich Big Band ( with Buddy always pushing the drumming envelope) You have The Beatles, Miles' band and Coltrane's Band...Its just mind boggling to me that all this was going on and it was all popular !
Buddy makes all other drummers look like chumps.
And I love so many other drummers!
This was a summer replacement show for Jackie Gleason called Away We Go, Buddy and the band were one of the hosts. I remember looking forward each week to seeing them play. BR and the band would usually play at least one tune, Buddy would not always play an extended solo though. Too bad the show was only a summer thing and not a regular weekly network show.
Indeed... this clip comes from that very show, which was, indeed, titled 'Away We Go'. My take is that Buddy was at his apex at this time; and that 60's band was to me his greatest.
In the 1950's he bore that signature, Buddy Rich raw wildness, ay that lightning speed, yet in the 60's little if anything was lost, oh, no. Only all came together now, balanced.
After the 60's his playing centered more on musicality, and in that regard his drumming grew better and better.
Im old enough to have seen him in person twice...still get goose bumps when I watch him play. The speed of his singles...definitely a once in a hundred year talent. The sounds he could have made with 2018 drums and cymbals...can only dream I guess.
I keep trying to play like this. I know...it will never happen but I keep trying (check out my clips on here). Thanks for posting this. Today we have an indigestible stew of mediocre playing and it's refreshing to see Buddy tearing it up like this. He was a musical phenomena and we will probably never see this type of playing again. Glad I got to see him play live back in the 70s & 80s.
Great upload! Ernie Watts wailin' on the longer alto solo. Chuck Findley is the trumpet soloist, I believe. What a smokin' trumpet section. Can anyone else help identify some of the other players? I don't recognize the gentleman on tenor sax. Buddy is in jawdropping form here, as usual.
Buddy Rich was so f*****g amazing on the skins.You might ask yourself...Was he from another dimension?
What would it feel like to be an absolute god at your craft? There can only be one greatest ever.
I wonder what that feels like because I’ll never know.
That was INSANE!
What a fucking bad-ass clip!! Thanks!!!
Kills me how the band knows Exactly when to come in! Astounding! Astounding perfection! Go, Buddy Man.
Jerry Mammoser
Watch Buddy, he is counting them in.
They'd better. Buddy expected absolute perfection from his band.
Goddamn. Sigh.. back to my para-diddles.
Thanks for uploading, Reni from The Stone Roses brought me here
Yet another incredible performance.
Larry, Taiwan
Absolutely incredible. Buddy Rich is definitely one of my all-time favorite drummers.
I never could figure out how his drums didn't catch fire and disintegrate! The man was beyond incredible.
was watching Bloc party til this was in my recommendations I love the 70's and I play with a slingerland kit even rhis is '67 nice video
Buddy has his snare nearly flat.
Never seen him playing that angle.
Like it matters for the best drummer that ever existed
Full Tilt Boogie. And after the solo, without a break or an apparent cue, the band comes in right on time. Holy shit.
Watch Buddy, he counts them back in.
That is one heck of fast machine playing drums. Just kidding, Buddy Rich is out of this world.
There are some great drummers out there that I love. With that said Buddy was beyond great, he was SUPERNATURAL!
You can't even see his sticks when he winds up those single stroke rolls!! For those of us that do recognize the depth of his musical and technical development, it's amazing that we did not go home and burn our drums after seeing him perform!!As it has been said before, one of a kind. He literally had that Divine spark. Thankfully we can see and hear what he accomplished in one lifetime. Buddy gave it everything that was within him to every performance and show. In respect and honor we should all try to do the same!!