Sooner or later, you may want to check out the drum solo on "Power Failure" by Procol Harum. You will be amazed by drummer BJ Wilson on that one -- you've never seen anyone sit so low behind their kit. He was referred to as "the octopus in the bathtub" for his style of playing. ruclips.net/video/htyVq1yCgyE/видео.html
Louie Bellson is the reason I started playing the drums 60 years ago! He was the drummer on the Tonight show for many years. Thank you, Louie, because of you I have had a successful life as a touring drummer and a very full session drumming career. I was very blessed when I got the call to sit in on a show in Miami Florida with my HERO. Ambassador Jenkins
Louie Bellson and Buddy Rich were 2 of the all time greats. Buddy had the most amazing left hand of all time. I wonder how many prominent rock drummers looked up to them? That entire Tonight Show Band was great!
AMAZING!! If I Googled right this aired 3/6/1969 and I was about to turn 7! How many drummers then had a double Bass?? During the crazyness it appears Buddies right hand was Terminator Attack Mode! I need to watch full screen!! Just a occasional visitor here but you have cool channel , thumbs up 👍🏼 Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Wow, they kept at it! They would have kept going if the house band hadn’t come in! 😀 What a neat video. And pie…! I forgot that they did that. Thank you for that, Lee and Ambassador Jenkins!
I’ve seen both of these guys live. At separate times. Louie Bellson was amazing. Doesn’t get enough hype. Check out Mel Torme with Buddy Rich doing Love for Sale. 1979. Mel is a jazz singer. He scats really good. He and Buddy go back and forth. Cool stuff 😎
I'm 59 years old and have been a drummer all of my life. This can make you give up drumming. Seriously 😂 I had to understand that I could never play like them. Instead, I focused on how I play in my own style, or else stop playing music altogether. I still play drums. But, these guys are the Masters!!
Wow Lee,talk about syncopation,man this is lightning stick work,I was blown away when my drum teacher told me to research and study Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich back in the late 70s and I am blown away again ,how have I never seen this,geez all I can say is wow,wow.Well done and thanks to Ambassador Jenkins.Too cool,man.
Dude i just watched this over the weekend. There's a video on RUclips that has about 4 or 5 of Buddies appearance's on Johnny Carson's show. Anytime I seen he was going to be on, i made sure i watch. Buddy is just amazing, the best imo. And i felt the same way after seeing him, thinking to myself, I'm never going to be able to do that. Glad you got to see the Impossible solo also. I just watched your reaction to that also. And i believe he had the heart attack while he was playing. That's just crazy.
Love your reactions Lee. I hope all is good in your life. Another fabulous drum battle is on youtube and it involves Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. It is ridiculous. Take care, be well.
I remember watching this on a little B&W TV in my room. Pretty awesome. I pretty much knew what your reaction was going to be as soon as I saw it in your line-up for today. :)
Wow, first time i've seen this... Buddy and Louie in their primes...The two best left hands in drumming EVER...Thanks, as a fellow drummer; this must be a recent upload, in my nearly 20 years on here and seeing so many Buddy vs or Louie Vs...UNREAL!
Looks like Buddy was playing his 4" Slingerland snare here. He played a Fibes, chrome over fiberglass snare around this time and many brands (Ludwig, Rogers, etc.) over the years.
There were very few rock drummers who could match the hair-splitting precision of these two giants. Billy Cobham maybe. Mike Shrieve. Ginger Baker was one of the few who really understood music and the role of drums in it. But he was a jazz drummer turned "rock star" with a fondness for Afro-beats. He had a number of battles with other drummers, one notable one with Elvin Jones
One time on "The Tonight Show" in the late 60s-early 70s I saw Johnny Carsonplay with either Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson (spelling?), or Ed Shaughnessy (drummer in "The Tonight Show" band). It wasn't a duel, but just two guys playing. Johnny Carson was a pretty good drummer in his own right.
Buddy is the most famous, but Louis is my favorite by far. Now quite the chops of Rich, but his musicality is fabulous. Story for ya. In my younger drumming days, as a student in the 80's, I got to see these guys live a few times. I talked with Louis briefly and I asked him how much he practices, feeling pretty proud of my hour or two a day. He told me he and most of his contemporaries practiced about 8 hours a day. Yeah anyway, this kind of drumming with great chops, great rudimentary technique, good grounding in dynamics, man these guys told a story behind the kit. I feel like with triggers and blast beats, all anyone focuses on anymore is speed. Back in the day, my teacher has me do only snare drum technique for a year before I was allowed to play a drum set. Different times, different discipline. I feel like patience was more of a thing before the internet.
Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, better known as Louie Bellson, one of the greatest drummers who ever lived. I had the pleasure of meeting him, along with Dom Famularo back in 2000. Talk about star struck! I was stuttering like a lunatic 😅 Edit: do a reaction on Ed Shaughnessy, Johnny Carson’s drummer! He was equally brilliant as Louie and Buddy.
Bellson originated the double bass drum setup when he was 15. Rich was known for being a nasty boss, and there are some famous tapes somebody secretly made of him chewing out and demeaning band members on a tour bus. Jerry Seinfeld used a few lines from these tapes on his TV show.
Enjoy your videos a ton. One of the aspects of these older TV shows always and still annoys me were the video direction choices made back then. We're trying to watch two of the most iconic musicians in history and the director has the camera-- on the most part- focusing on Louie and Buddy's faces. I WANT TO SEE THE BOYS PLAY DRUMS. But that style of direction ran rampant back then. Check out some of the musical performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Those amazing bands from the 60s are playing (usually lip syncing... but ignore that for now,,,LOL) and the camera shots are always extreme close ups of the singer's/instrumentalists FACES. There was a cut of The Band performing a tune with Levon Helm singing lead. If you didn't know he was an amazing drummer, you'd never finds that out from the broadcast-- as all you got to see was Levon's face as he sang. Never once saw him playing his drums. Oh well... Anyway, thanks for a great video... Here's another amazing drum battle from the Carson show... this featuring The Tonight Show Band's wonderful Eddie Shaughnessy and Buddy battling it out-- although in truth, it's just a couple of old friends trading eights! ruclips.net/video/1QXdi25469U/видео.html
I encourage you to listen to Duke Ellington's Skin Deep. (even if you don't react to it) It's a song written by Louie Bellson, with the first recorded drum solo ever to utilize double bass drums. One of my high school physics teachers was a drummer, and he told me when that song first came out, nobody knew that Louie was using two bass drums, and "Guys were breaking their ankles trying to play that fast." LOL Louie was a real powerhouse and one of the guys who should be mentioned without hesitation in the same breath as Buddy Rich. Here's a link to the song on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/HSwaAiWA9lo/видео.html . As a drummer myself, I'll listen to this once every couple of weeks, just for the pure joy the solo brings!
Love those friendly drum "battles". Not really the same thing, but when I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I had the great pleasure of learning drumming with a taiko group in Tokoyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Playing with a group of drummers is a wild and wonderful experience. Top Secret Drum Corps from Basel, Switzerland is an example of group drumming at its best. A voluntary and non-military bunch of folks who somehow reach this level of excellence while still working their day jobs: ruclips.net/video/EJkPF7cub08/видео.htmlsi=HHUp84uC3LDfmJOD And, apropos of nothing maybe, Vancouver's own Phil "Wizard" Kim won gold for break dancing at the Paris Olympics a few days ago. A human body can also be a percussion instrument, in the right hands, feet, head, etc: ruclips.net/video/g6NlPFdghdQ/видео.htmlsi=Qz1bbHTpXL4ogSP8
Both those guys are ridiculous. I saw a buddy rich live at the Johnny Carson show in 1980 or so. I saw Louis Bellson live at an amphitheater in LA but I can’t remember the name of it., that was back in about 1975 or so. These guys are so good that I feel like you do., because I’m a drummer as well. After listening to them, I don’t even wanna look at a drum set again.. even though I’m an excellent rock drummer, compared to these guys I’m nothing. But we all have to have our inspirational dudes. So that’s the way I accept it. Nothing left to do but MoveOn and be the best I can be. Hopefully you feel the same. Love your videos by the way. Have a great one man.
OK SO WHAT NEXT?? Sorry for yelling, my jaw was on the floor. Can you help pick it up?
Larnell Lewis hearing and then playing Enter Sandman for the first time.
Sooner or later, you may want to check out the drum solo on "Power Failure" by Procol Harum. You will be amazed by drummer BJ Wilson on that one -- you've never seen anyone sit so low behind their kit. He was referred to as "the octopus in the bathtub" for his style of playing. ruclips.net/video/htyVq1yCgyE/видео.html
I saw Louis Bellson live back in 1990. He was incredible!
Louie Bellson is the reason I started playing the drums 60 years ago! He was the drummer on the Tonight show for many years. Thank you, Louie, because of you I have had a successful life as a touring drummer and a very full session drumming career. I was very blessed when I got the call to sit in on a show in Miami Florida with my HERO. Ambassador Jenkins
Louie Bellson and Buddy Rich were 2 of the all time greats. Buddy had the most amazing left hand of all time. I wonder how many prominent rock drummers looked up to them? That entire Tonight Show Band was great!
Buddy Rich besides being a great drummer he was such an entertaining guest and so funny. Being 67 I saw him a lot on Carson
Whew! Lotta drumming from two of the best. As Johnny said, too much.
Carson was a drummer and had Buddy Rich on constantly.
AMAZING!! If I Googled right this aired 3/6/1969 and I was about to turn 7! How many drummers then had a double Bass?? During the crazyness it appears Buddies right hand was Terminator Attack Mode! I need to watch full screen!! Just a occasional visitor here but you have cool channel , thumbs up 👍🏼 Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Wow, they kept at it!
They would have kept going if the house band hadn’t come in! 😀
What a neat video.
And pie…! I forgot that they did that.
Thank you for that, Lee and Ambassador Jenkins!
They still had commercials, just extra advertising for the show's sponsor.
I’ve seen both of these guys live. At separate times. Louie Bellson was amazing. Doesn’t get enough hype.
Check out Mel Torme with Buddy Rich doing Love for Sale. 1979. Mel is a jazz singer. He scats really good. He and Buddy go back and forth. Cool stuff 😎
Buddy Rich is off the charts..
he will always be the GOAT
There's also a video of a VHS tape from 1991 " Billy Cobham Meets Louis Bellson ".
& it's amazing..2 of my favs..
I'm 59 years old and have been a drummer all of my life.
This can make you give up drumming.
Seriously 😂
I had to understand that I could never play like them.
Instead, I focused on how I play in my own style, or else stop playing music altogether.
I still play drums.
But, these guys are the Masters!!
Wow Lee,talk about syncopation,man this is lightning stick work,I was blown away when my drum teacher told me to research and study Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich back in the late 70s and I am blown away again ,how have I never seen this,geez all I can say is wow,wow.Well done and thanks to Ambassador Jenkins.Too cool,man.
That was amazing
Love the sound of thin Zildjians.
And everyone forgets during the Johnny Carson era the Tonight Show Band was a group of some of the best musicians of the time.
Those drum-offs were always great episodes.
dude is wearing a freaking 3 piece suit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was so much fun. Thank you Lee ❤
Woah, man! They have what i'd call humming bird hands! THe amazing blurry spped of them!
blurry speed of them
Dude i just watched this over the weekend. There's a video on RUclips that has about 4 or 5 of Buddies appearance's on Johnny Carson's show. Anytime I seen he was going to be on, i made sure i watch. Buddy is just amazing, the best imo. And i felt the same way after seeing him, thinking to myself, I'm never going to be able to do that.
Glad you got to see the Impossible solo also. I just watched your reaction to that also. And i believe he had the heart attack while he was playing. That's just crazy.
I ‘m old. I actually remember seeing this on the Carson show back in the day.
Those rim shots Buddy is famous for are played on a 14x5.5" snare. Hence the higher pitching.
"Buddy's snare is not fair" - love that.
Love your reactions Lee. I hope all is good in your life. Another fabulous drum battle is on youtube and it involves Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. It is ridiculous. Take care, be well.
Two of the best drummers on the freakin' planet-! Johnny had Buddy on many times
Absolutely amazing drumming!
I remember watching this on a little B&W TV in my room. Pretty awesome. I pretty much knew what your reaction was going to be as soon as I saw it in your line-up for today. :)
Johnny was also a drummer. The crazy thing is a network and the Carson Show gave them so much time to play.
I’m so glad they did! That was wild haha buddy is a damn animal back there. Louie is smooth as butter but cuts through like a 🔪
I remember watching this!❤
Try another Tonight Show battle: Buddy Rich vs Ed Shaughnessy
The very few who could top Ed Shaughnessy from the 'Tonight Show Band'. Stiil likin' Dave Lombardo's snare above all.
all the rock and heavy metal drummers were very big fans and influence by these big band drummers and other drummers !
Wow, first time i've seen this... Buddy and Louie in their primes...The two best left hands in drumming EVER...Thanks, as a fellow drummer; this must be a recent upload, in my nearly 20 years on here and seeing so many Buddy vs or Louie Vs...UNREAL!
What Carson was doing was the lead in to the commercial. Not the commercial itself.
Looks like Buddy was playing his 4" Slingerland snare here. He played a Fibes, chrome over fiberglass snare around this time and many brands (Ludwig, Rogers, etc.) over the years.
Yep, pretty insane talent🔥
So, so good!
There were very few rock drummers who could match the hair-splitting precision of these two giants. Billy Cobham maybe. Mike Shrieve. Ginger Baker was one of the few who really understood music and the role of drums in it. But he was a jazz drummer turned "rock star" with a fondness for Afro-beats. He had a number of battles with other drummers, one notable one with Elvin Jones
Johnny Carson ( host of the show)was also a pretty good drummer too,loved the drums.
Yes he was a drummer. Also did a magic act as a kid
One time on "The Tonight Show" in the late 60s-early 70s I saw Johnny Carsonplay with either Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson (spelling?), or Ed Shaughnessy (drummer in "The Tonight Show" band). It wasn't a duel, but just two guys playing.
Johnny Carson was a pretty good drummer in his own right.
Ginger Baker had drum offs (not battles!) with his favorite jazz drummers. They are worth watching.
Here are a few more really great jazz drummers: Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Art Blakey, Jack DeJohnette, Shelly Manne and Sonny Payne.
It’s in color and Johnny was still doing live commercials. I’d venture to guess 1965 or 1966.
Yeah early. Still in NYC maybe ?
1969 per the info on the video.
Giants!! I used Bellson's rhythm exercises for bass lessons. Buddy Rich was on tv alot: Carson, etc
Buddy is the most famous, but Louis is my favorite by far. Now quite the chops of Rich, but his musicality is fabulous.
Story for ya. In my younger drumming days, as a student in the 80's, I got to see these guys live a few times. I talked with Louis briefly and I asked him how much he practices, feeling pretty proud of my hour or two a day. He told me he and most of his contemporaries practiced about 8 hours a day.
Yeah anyway, this kind of drumming with great chops, great rudimentary technique, good grounding in dynamics, man these guys told a story behind the kit.
I feel like with triggers and blast beats, all anyone focuses on anymore is speed. Back in the day, my teacher has me do only snare drum technique for a year before I was allowed to play a drum set.
Different times, different discipline. I feel like patience was more of a thing before the internet.
If you haven't already, check out Buddy Rich vs Animal on the Muppet Show. Very fun.
Buddy ada heart attack in the middle of a drum solo - didn't miss a beat
WOWZERS! 👍
Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, better known as Louie Bellson, one of the greatest drummers who ever lived. I had the pleasure of meeting him, along with Dom Famularo back in 2000. Talk about star struck! I was stuttering like a lunatic 😅
Edit: do a reaction on Ed Shaughnessy, Johnny Carson’s drummer! He was equally brilliant as Louie and Buddy.
Insane
Wow 😮😮😮
Bellson originated the double bass drum setup when he was 15. Rich was known for being a nasty boss, and there are some famous tapes somebody secretly made of him chewing out and demeaning band members on a tour bus. Jerry Seinfeld used a few lines from these tapes on his TV show.
I’ve heard that recording before… he was brutal. Probably the greatest drummer of all time, but also a complete a**hole.
Dave Letterman had some of the top drummers on his show. Neil Peart, etc....
Another drummer that was quite famous was Gene Krupa. There was a movie made about him.
Starring Sal Mineo I believe.
buddy rich THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.....BAR NONE
Enjoy your videos a ton. One of the aspects of these older TV shows always and still annoys me were the video direction choices made back then. We're trying to watch two of the most iconic musicians in history and the director has the camera-- on the most part- focusing on Louie and Buddy's faces. I WANT TO SEE THE BOYS PLAY DRUMS. But that style of direction ran rampant back then. Check out some of the musical performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Those amazing bands from the 60s are playing (usually lip syncing... but ignore that for now,,,LOL) and the camera shots are always extreme close ups of the singer's/instrumentalists FACES. There was a cut of The Band performing a tune with Levon Helm singing lead. If you didn't know he was an amazing drummer, you'd never finds that out from the broadcast-- as all you got to see was Levon's face as he sang. Never once saw him playing his drums. Oh well... Anyway, thanks for a great video... Here's another amazing drum battle from the Carson show... this featuring The Tonight Show Band's wonderful Eddie Shaughnessy and Buddy battling it out-- although in truth, it's just a couple of old friends trading eights! ruclips.net/video/1QXdi25469U/видео.html
I encourage you to listen to Duke Ellington's Skin Deep. (even if you don't react to it) It's a song written by Louie Bellson, with the first recorded drum solo ever to utilize double bass drums. One of my high school physics teachers was a drummer, and he told me when that song first came out, nobody knew that Louie was using two bass drums, and "Guys were breaking their ankles trying to play that fast." LOL Louie was a real powerhouse and one of the guys who should be mentioned without hesitation in the same breath as Buddy Rich. Here's a link to the song on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/HSwaAiWA9lo/видео.html . As a drummer myself, I'll listen to this once every couple of weeks, just for the pure joy the solo brings!
If they play for an hour , I bet the drums burst into fire...or the drummers,
I was fortunate enough to see buddy 18 times and Louie 3 times
Stamina!
I'm pretty sure that was in the 60's.
Love those friendly drum "battles". Not really the same thing, but when I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I had the great pleasure of learning drumming with a taiko group in Tokoyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Playing with a group of drummers is a wild and wonderful experience.
Top Secret Drum Corps from Basel, Switzerland is an example of group drumming at its best. A voluntary and non-military bunch of folks who somehow reach this level of excellence while still working their day jobs:
ruclips.net/video/EJkPF7cub08/видео.htmlsi=HHUp84uC3LDfmJOD
And, apropos of nothing maybe, Vancouver's own Phil "Wizard" Kim won gold for break dancing at the Paris Olympics a few days ago. A human body can also be a percussion instrument, in the right hands, feet, head, etc:
ruclips.net/video/g6NlPFdghdQ/видео.htmlsi=Qz1bbHTpXL4ogSP8
Ties were getting wider. I'm guessing '70 or '71.
Both fantastic, but Buddy needed only one bass drum.
I want to comment, but that would entail the use of words, and I dont have any!
fast hands
Nobody could touch Buddy Rich in his prime, but Gene Krupa mmmm
The year was 1969.
After 70 years in 1987 Rich died of complication from surgery for a brain tumor
Both those guys are ridiculous. I saw a buddy rich live at the Johnny Carson show in 1980 or so. I saw Louis Bellson live at an amphitheater in LA but I can’t remember the name of it., that was back in about 1975 or so. These guys are so good that I feel like you do., because I’m a drummer as well. After listening to them, I don’t even wanna look at a drum set again.. even though I’m an excellent rock drummer, compared to these guys I’m nothing. But we all have to have our inspirational dudes. So that’s the way I accept it. Nothing left to do but MoveOn and be the best I can be. Hopefully you feel the same. Love your videos by the way. Have a great one man.