Performance Spotlight: Gregg Potter
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2016
- VF Artist Gregg Potter of 'The Buddy Rich Big Band' performs a video demo of three different Bruce Hagwood RBH snare drums!
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"ALL I HEAR IS CLAMS!!! CLAMMIN' ALL OVER THIS JOINT!!!!"
- Buddy Rich
The infamous Buddy Rich Bus Tapes. Look them up.
I just recently opened up for Gregg and the Buddy Rich Big Band with my high school Jazz Ensemble. Great show, great drummer, and what an amazing cat! In fact, his performance of this tune inspired the performance of Dancing Men on my channel. He's kicking this groove!
Yeah he’s kicking alright!!
As a big gigantic monotonal no, dynamics drone!!!!!
Buddy is turning in his grave!
I'm having trouble getting past the lesbian haircut.
ahaha so true
+IBitePrettyHardSH Yep looks like a Duran Duran gone wrong.
Some rock musicians will simply not give up the long hair, when a guy gets past 40 it just looks sad
^^^ probably coming from three hair follicle challenged scalps.
EPIC! Thank You Very Much!! for sharing this with the world!
This guy is absolutely awesome buddy would be so proud of this man leading his band
Hey Vic Firth--how about you send me the drummerless tracks so I can show Gregg how its done?
+Mr DDD3az yep i guess we can all show him that
Cathy and I used to chat and even met up with her a couple of time. But after I said Gregg was a Hamster, well, she kind f got mad at me.
+Mr DDD3az Yeah i have heard this before from other friends of Cathy, whenever they say anything negative about Gregg she gets pissed, it's really sad that she doesn't see that Gregg is completely wrong for the job, and just thinks that all us drummers are jealous.
I would have thought that after fore years of endless negative comments on you tube that Cathy would finally start listening to the internet drumming community and come to her senses and drop this guy.
Ah well i guess love is blind.
Perhaps she would have preferred ferret.
Greg is Cathys boyfriend, so i doubt she will fire him. She is in a tough situation...actually he can instantly play closer to Buddy if he practices the secret...some of you have figured it out....its called play like a jazz player...
EVERYTHING depends on pushing and fattening the beat...simple practice on fast swing...just play ride and hihat 2 and 4, until it starts sounding like a jazzer. 99% of all drummers , 99% all of their playing time, is just impeccable ride swing and 2 and 4 hihat...they are like 98%percentile experts at just ride and hihat...snare is just color after the hihat perfection.
i cant believe Greg hasnt played to a jazz bassist properly...dum, dum dum dum dum dum dum dum...
get that hihat crisp and perfect with a pro jazz bassist. ALSO his drums are not jazz...they are rock and not tuned properly, and cymbals sound like Sonar, or ZBT, not heavy high quality bronze
When I was a senior in high school, I played “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.” The version by buddy Rich and his band, and I swear, I watched this video over 100 times everyday for four months. It’s so inspiring! I actually got to talk to Mr. Potter through Facebook and he is the coolest and most humble drummer ever!
WHAT IS HE DOING TO THE POOR RIDE
Exactly, he is crash riding and hammering through the music
Great snare sound.
This is awesome! I wish i could Play like that😉
+Dominik Deimel Don't worry, in about five years you will be playing like that and better ;)
This just breaks my heart.
+thisthisthisisisismy so say we all
+Lukas Willaert yes correct, it's a good phrase, could even go as far as to say that "He's a Fraking Cylon" lol
Kool. Vic Firth please make the Buddy Sticks thinner like they were originally from Ludwig.
Wow!
Yeah wow how awful
Nice!!
Wow! Very surprised on the petty comments. Gregg never claimed to be a jazz drummer. He's always mentioned his rock influence. What he brings is a new approach and dynamic to the Buddy Rich band. Isn't that what music is about? I'm sure Buddy must be proud. Obviously Gregg is doing something right, he's got the gig. Everyone else is just watching him and criticizing. That's easy to do. Bravo Gregg! Keep swinging. 🎶🥁🎶
Were I configuring a Ludwig®/Conn-Selmer kit of similar scope, I'd be using two concert snare stands outboard of the hi-hat for both height and angles; I'm used to old-school traps extrapolated from the configurations of the 1930's. I also favor guts on all snare drums as an anti-buzz measure, e.g. an LC-S483-DX Coliseum Model in the center and LC-S471-DX and LC-S472-DX Symphonic Models on the left.
I’d like to see you play on a 4 piece Slingerland vintage kit, with Zildjian cymbals, for old times sake.A second floor tom..with or without a towel. 🙂
I do, with a third floor tom to the left of the hi-hat for good measure... I've been using one mounted, three floors for years. I'm an old style, rudimental swing drummer myself.
Is he on time?
+juanpaolomonosolegit yes he is on time right up until the ending were he falls out and is a beat behind
Nope. Nowhere near.
Terrible! Sounds like he trying to put out a fire 🤣
that ride is everywhere
Tighten it up a little or get a heavier one
+zackdoom yep, overtones are drowning out everything, just shows that he does not have a clue about jazz cymbals, very sad :(
Great left-hand dynamics Gregg!
How is ti I can''t find any recordings of this guy. It's weird that he's in such a iconic
band yet there are no recordings.
+Sam Mestas Well an album was made but was revoked due to bad sales (fact)
No, Buddy Rich WAS the Buddy Rich Big Band. Without Buddy, it does not exist, no matter what Cathy says. This is not keeping Buddy's legacy alive, it's prostitution.
He's not worthy of being recorded.
@Colleen Crawford It's YOU'RE, not YOUR, and you are incorrect on your assumption, but, whatever helps you sleep at night, Sparkette.
Buddy Rich must be turning in his grave to see this as bad as his replacement drummer
+Maicol Drums yes all us BR fans are crying for Buddy
childish lame reply
What do you blame him for, may I ask ?
What is the name of this tune and what album is it on?
+Robert Milanowski Dancing Men, found on The Best of Buddy Rich album
Oh well it is Buddy Rich. Lol. Not even 1 can be like him. Dennis Chambers did a good job though. Haha. Yea his timing is out a bit.
why 3 snares?😂😂
Young.Benji Gimmick
Young.Benji this video was originally a promotion of 3 Ludwig snare drums
What year is the Ludwig set?
I think he coulda played the ride cymbal ALOT louder...
Sure, why not kill it more
practicing afro cuban would correct any slur delayed feel and put those notes more open and pushed
GO GREGG GO!
+Matthew Paluch
You mean STOP GREGG STOP !
Fuck all these disrespectful comments, I am a a Jazz drummer and I know my rudiments, I can categorically tell you that this man has talent. So what he has a funny hairstyle, he's a really good drummer with good technique . If any of you know about drumming you will know he's awesome.
Lee Storey his trad could use work even if it is jazz he needs to be the slightest bit more tight
Michael Doudan nope I've analysed his traditional grip the motion is coming from his wrist. And his timing is on point
WOW...i mean you guys are wrong completely...let me tell you...i am 1 of the most over trained and over instructed human beings alive...i know more about jazz and percussion than you can possibly believe...not that i earned it...NOT that i am bragging...simply my brother had the BEST percussion instructors in the world, and he gave them to me....accept i went on to get more instruction from Tom Float legendary percussion instructor...and Stan Kentons lead Sax, Steve Wilkerson...he taught at Mt. SAC college...i brought my guitarist friend along to MT. SAC and there was Ron Anthony....Frank Sinatras guitarist teaching there for Steve Wilkerson...i also got taught jazz by one of the BEST jazz educators in the world, Don Gunderson, of 1970s Cal State Fullerton,CA ...he put Jazz on the educational map, over there...
whats my point? i will tell you what they say, not me...this is NOT MY opinion but fact...
Greg suffers from "METRONOME HANDS" its a thinning of the beat and backside of the beat....from too much electronic time...Jazzers PUSH the beat organically....its like practicing to todays music...and i practice to 70s music, like Boston, YES, police...or Dennis Chambers....i guarantee if you practice to Miley Cyrus' drummer and i practice to Dennis CHambers ,
who will be better if both our talent are equal? NO THEY ARE NOT APPLES AND ORANGES...
Gregs snare technique is actually ok, not bad...infact that is probably what fooled Cathy Rich...besides romantic chemistry....GPs time is off...its Rock slow on the backside...
he can tighten up much more, if he humbles himself and just plays to a jazz bassist 2 and 4....then records it, and finds out he is dragging or on the backside...
then hopefully the jazz pro bassist will tell him, he needs to push....get that hihat, on or ahead of the bass....just practice the hihat...tch, tch, tch tch tch....then just fast quarters on the ride 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.4. with an occasional ding, dock a ding....ding ding ding ding ding dock a ding ding ding...
and record...you think you are playing awesome , until you listen back to your recording...Buddys Schtick...is POCKET...its not because hes fast....its not because he has snare chops....its not because he is jazzy, its not because of anything but FAT POCKET....his slow 16th notes ARE MONEY because they are PURE POCKET...his triplets are MONEY because he is PURE FAT POCKET TIME... Greg has to be a PURE POCKET FAT TIME KEEPER.
A lot of what you say doesn't make sense, this "metronome hands" theory you came up with can't be a bad thing. Not all jazz players rush the time, it's good that you worked with all those people and have that knowledge but I am a professional jazz drummer and I'm telling you he's in time. It's not a complicated fact his ghost and accented notes are in the right places. That's your opinion certainly not a fact
He's playing to a pre recorded track gents. Gregs hands are GREAT and timing when they play live is pretty damn good. All the vendetta stuff against GP just because he was selected to fill in for the greatest drummer in the world that ever lived - NO one could fill those shoes, not BigBill, not Dick Cully, Not Roger Berg so on and so forth. Pretty sure Greg would be the first one to admit that he's no Buddy...
Less practise pad! More drums!
Love to hear Donny Osborne play this....he was the closest to Buddy’s style.
Carl Palmer would be great too...just about the best today.
Donny Osmond would do a better job! 😂
@@funkydrumshackyou mean Jay Osmond? He was the drummer (and really good).
CLAM CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The video editing is not properly synced......but I'll give Greg props, stepping into Buddy's shoes is no small job, and it takes huge balls to step up like he has.
On top of everything else, Greg was a rock player for years, so shifting to big band jazz is a Herculean task in itself.
Congratulations Greg!!!
Just Do It
No, quite honestly, he sucks at Jazz. He married Buddy's daughter, that's how he got the gig. There are scores of more qualified drummers out there.
Not quite right
Impressive! Great playing
with such a gorgeous classic set, it's really odd seeing evans heads and brilliant finish sabian cymbals
somebody get this guy some worn remos and old zildjian pies please
+mtndewman1022 Yes,the thin plastic evens heads make his drums too clangy and the Sabian cymbals are too sharp and quick
mtndewman1022 I would get this set, with another mounted Tom and move the ride cymbal to the lowest Tom spot, I like feeling more movement and excitement when I’m drumming, the kit isn’t bad at all but those are the only adjustments I would make to suit my needs😂
Was he rushing or dragging??
Whiplash again lol
all of the above
what kind of throne is that? xD
Oh dear. Still trying to figure out why the music was trying to accompany the drumming.
Absolutely fantastic Gregg!! World class!!
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Don't try to be a Buddy Rich because you are not and you will never be...
+Krunoslav Benko Aint that the truth
Fantastic Drumming, s9o Inspiring to All BRFans, Buddy would be so PROUD.
something is just so off...so off
Yep, all terribly WRONG !
This was perfect
Very weird to see someone choose to play the brighter AA cymbals in jazz over the darker cymbals.
Very very Good Playing Gregg. All you might want to to Add, is the fact Buddy would often have the High Hat playing on the 8th Notes, just like he was playing a Jazz beat.
over done.... 3 snares and a heavy metal ride?!
Reminds me of Buddy Rich. Like the cymbal choice too.
+Buddy Guy well you stand alone there mate
Speedy gonzalez
Where Max Klots !?!?!?
Everybody is an expert on jazz. I think we got a bunch of haters that are jealous this guy has the gig and they don't. This is not the worst interpretation of a Buddy Rich chart, that honor belongs to your "messiah" Neil Peart.
And Neil Peart would humbly agree, if he were alive to do so. You're a piece of garbage.
HACK
Amen, brother.
Big Swing Face Us Buddy fans can always rely on Dick calling out bullshit when he see’s it.
I ALSO WILL CAN MAKE A VIDEO FOR VIC Firth so.......
Great skills , to me , does not sound like he is playing to the music ... ( que Chris Coleman lol )
TIMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND INSANE OVER PLAYING. JESUS PALEASSSEEEE
the Cymbals really wash everything out here. Pity, he sounds like a great player.
yh they ring on to long
+Jabarichonicles agreed, not dark enough to highlight the ping (wood sound of the stick) he should have played HH (Hand (chaotic) Hammered (and not brilliant finished, polished, highligthing high overtones) like almost every jazz drummer!).
AA with natural finish for the ride at least, could have made it (like Buddy Rich did with Avedis Zildjian, quite close).
+Marc De Douvan totally correct sir
+BigBill Lucas thank you.
Simple historical and scientific facts explained here (and more fully) on my website:
marcdedouvan.com/en/instru.php?instru=cymbals#finishes
Please someone tell me this is a "How not to" video...
You can't be serious
Awesome drumming but fuck those are really badly mic'd.
His shirt is so hypnotic
2:05 that upstroke tho
No big deal, simple trick really.
Ok then, the upstroke is cool and i do use it myself quite often.
Buddy Rich debe estar revolcándose en su tumba por tan desorganizado baterista como gregg potter demasiado reguero
+Maicol Martinez ENGLISH PLEASE not everyone can speak Spanish or whatever
+BigBill Lucas ok good thank's!!!!
here let me solo over dancing men.
+Mark Kilmer i'm sure you could do better :)
I'm not able to blast away with the amount of technical ability he has, but it doesn't take anyone special to know that this has no musicality, and that he's just using dancing men as a back track to show off his technical ability. So yes I think I could do better.
wtf
I've read some of the comments and I will try to stay neutral here. As a drummer I do respect the stick time Mr Greg has put in. However my first thoughts have always been a rock drummer trying to play jazz. I don't mean that to offend it's just that some guys are great players and some guys play great. Greg plays great. He plays jazz but I do not believe he truly is a jazz player. Again I mean that with all respect. Sometimes it's not fair to make comparisons.Try to leave a little room for understanding he's doing his best to play Buddy's charts and as we all know, there is no one that can play them like buddy did!!
Some serious jealous hatters posting while this Cat just seriously tore-up 5:27 of Ludwig's!
(keep practicing fellas)
Just because you can't spot the faults doesn't mean we can't.
I love this song but his version of playing is not particularly to my taste. Great player though!
Really ? You stand alone mate.
+BigBill Lucas looks like 86 others stand with me... I think he is over playing this song compared to how I am used to hearing it. Difference of opinion that's all...
How embarrassing...
+Eric Bailey
Isn't it just
timing...
The mix is terrible
am I the only one noticing this guy is sitting on a fucking stand tom?
Thats actually an canister drum throne.
Its a mixture of a hardware case and an actual drum stool.
These were pretty notorious back then.
who the fugde needs 4 floor tom's
+Thingsandstuff he clearly has three and one auxarilly snare
+August Burns Red bro its three snare drums and 1 floor tom
+5rotflol wait 2 floor
+5rotflol jesus idk it's too much tjo
+Marc Ekker wow
Not quite my tempo.
Every drummer has their own style..Gregg has his…so what ..?
Gene Krupa was very different to Buddy, as was every great drummer.
People make fun of Gregg’s unusual hair.
Many made fun of Buddy’s many wigs, as well, but concentrated on his drumming.
Greg if you read the message below, I want you to know that I wrote it to another person/drummer talking badly about you. I want you to take to heart what I wrote about you. I personally don't want you to lose Cathy or be bad mouthed behind your back forever because you are just about my Favorite New Drummer Because you sound closer to Buddy that any other drummer that I have ever heard. You seem sincere but, you have to be respectful of his Big Band Players. Just watch the video that you and Dave Weckl played at Ronnie Scott's and look at the faces on the musicians and then look at them after Dave played with them. I'm a nobody, but even a nobody can be right once. You can be wrong a million times but you only have to be right ONCE... Please listen to me as a brother who really loves and cares for you. I've been playing since the 80's as a rock drummer and I will never be able to play like you because I'm 67 and although I have the will and talent, I can't afford to live next door to Ted Mackenzie and get lessons 3 times a week to play like Buddy, which is my lives dream. YOU CAN, so please listen to my message to you with my heart brother. Sincerely Joseph.
Close, but no cigar.
No.
his chops are not bad, its just it sounds like there is a delay...and there is definitely NOT a pure jazz feel...this band has a BIG JAZZ feel....i can explain it ...there is a hair difference...jazz is pushed...no back beat feel...and also more technical...no space just tight articulation...
Too much for me! I heard about this guy and I've watched a few RUclips videos of him but I just can't get into his busy Style. I have been playing for over 40 years, and other than a beginner drummer, I think this is the only drummer that I just can't listen to.
Lotsa negative comments here.. Few drummers are as good as Buddy Rich was. Buddy was a NATURAL TALENT. One of those people BORN to play drums. Greg Potter? I'd never heard of the guy, but...he plays much better than I do, and I'll leave it there.
Just because he's better than you does not make him good. Wake up.
Where is the musicality in this?! Greg is just another rock drummer trying to play jazz. 😡 This is very disappointing...I'd probably have to walk out of the venue if I ever saw this guy live.
Hard hitting arms flailing rock drummer Gregg Potter has never and will never adapt to the subtleties of jazz and only plays the simple rock BR charts like Dancing Men and Birdand, you will never here West Side Story or Channel One because he can't play it .
No feeling sorry! This guy is a Hack!!
Steve Smith would've been the best replacement for Buddy's band not this guy imo.
Greg Patterson
NO...Carl Palmer is better, but Donny Osborne is the closest to Buddy’s style
Simple explanation: passive-aggressive father-daughter relationship here. Daddy was absent her whole life, she gets back by marrying this guy and giving him lifetime tenure....he takes the bait and glory and is a drumming used car salesman. Not interested in drumming history or preservation, probably never listens to his father-in-law...my gosh she marries two drummers, Steve Arnold and now Potter...talk about living in Daddy's shadow.
BOOM! Nailed it.
Painful on many levels.
On every level.
I found this really great, but I don`t think there was anything special about it.He still seems to be pretty good though, so I will just shut up
Sad!!.... Buddy deserves better than this.. :-(
Agreed!
Big Swing Face, You're right about what you said about Buddy that he
didn't want his band to be a ghost band, but, in a way, you are wrong
about Greg Potter because,,,Greg practices Buddy's tunes very close in
sound and talent but when he plays live, he seems to be having to much
fun playing because he is very gifted and he plays over the band too
much. I watched him for the first time last week and he was even playing
too much when the sax players were soloing. That's RUDE, but I don't
think that he thinks about that when he's playing. Cathy or someone like
me, " IF I WAS THERE" Needs to tell him that so he doesn't get hated
instead of loved. I watched the musicians face when he played and I
watched their faces when Dave Weckl played and it was day and night.
Dave played his own style but played with the utmost respect for the
band and their expressions showed with smiles of relief and
appreciation. That's the sad part about Greg's playing. Greg sounds as
close to Buddy as I've heard from ANY DRUMMER TO THIS DAY. He needs to
be told diplomatically or it will not end well for him and that would be
a shame. With that being said. I love his playing ability. I wish that I
had it but my days are over. I'm 67 now and have a brand new 1972
Slingerland Buddy Set with all pretty new Paiste Giant Beat Cymbals but I
don't have Greg's gift. What a shame.. Maybe in the Afterlife with
Jesus if it is allowed.
aghh&th this side snare stuff is getting ridiculous his time SUCKS
music is too loud. sax drowning him out. not crisp enough. more practice and better mixing. ty
Gugu X
you seem nice.
+Gugu X Drummers are not jealous of this freak, it's just he's a total disaster
BigBill Lucas
he knows I'm not jealous, that's the best his ego could come up with.
@@BigBillLucas And what qualifies YOU to speak on it?
@@daleeckart6786
Forty years of playing drums!
Sick over playing. Time!!)? Jesus god horrid. And I am a nice guy but. Wtf
I do not! like! it!
I am sorry but this is unacceptable! He is not even a random jazz drummer.
For Gods sake someone give this man a metronome and a haircut, there is world of difference between an innovator and an imitator.
I am not one to put drummers down but WHERE IN THE FUCK IS THE DEFINITION TO BEAT STRUCTURE? EVERYTHING IS WASHING AND FLYING AND LANDING WHERE? WTF IS THAT UNDEFINED RIDE CYMBAL WORK. I'M SORRY GREGG IN REALLY NOT TRYING TO PUT U DOWN MAN THOUGH IT SOUNDS LIKE IT...
PLEASE CHECK OUT.
YOU TUBE...
ED ELLIS DRUM SOLO BUDDY RICH TRIBUTE.
not trying to play like Buddy just hope you all enjoy and thank you!
This is so difficult. Yes he can drum. Yes he has speed. Yes he has a command of rudiments. BUT in every other way his drumming sucks because his feel and dynamics are so poor. Many many less technically able drummers are far more musical. His playing should be a big eye opener as to what not to do. Very sad. :-(
+Gordon Kerr
Thank you Gordon, you speak the complete truth.
Basically Potter is a hard hitting all arms rock drummer who cannot or will not adapt to the intricate subtleties of Jazz, his playing is just far too loud and wild for the big band genre.
To watch him smash hammer the crash cymbals with his flying arms breaks my heart.
Put this guy back in a Heavy Rock band because that is were he belongs, don't you agree ?
Absolutely but there are far more subtle rock players too. I have seen video of him try to play some Led Zep stuff and he can't hold a candle to John Bonham. Even rock drummers need dynamics and sadly Greg Potter has a very poor ability with light and shade. Such a pity.
How..... is this transgender the drummer for the Buddy Rich big band haha.... fuck me get Dave Weckl or Jojo Mayer on things
Worst video +Vic Firth has ever put their name to
Diarrhea