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Paicey provides his tour kit rundown for the Modern Drummer video channel. TMI for the most of us, but if you’re a drummer, dig in! Caveat: the sound engineer needs to figure out how to record the voice, not just the drums, so you might want to try turning subtitles on.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
What a kind and friendly man, and an amazing drummer 🤩
October 25th, 2024 at 11:21You have to admire drum talk, take note Uwe. Boom boom, splash, crash, doomph doomph, bam bam bam bam bam, rat a tat a tat, swish & kaboom, etc etc. So primordial (there is that word again). The sounds you would hear in a remote jungle perhaps, somewhere & at some other time. Seriously though a great video & thank you. What a nice drum sound overall. Will I say it? Do I go there, again. No I will not, for the sake of showing some leniency to certain Ezrin worshippers here. Ooops, sorry. Cheers.
October 25th, 2024 at 21:07Roadies hawking Paicey’s drums! Ha.
October 25th, 2024 at 23:48My admiration for Ian Paice knows no bounds, Herr MacGregor, you know that. His drumming – even all by itself or during the solo spots he used to do – is sheer undiluted music to me. I melt when I hear his bass drum patterns (it’s the one thing I listen most to with a drummer).
I actually find the hardware aspects of a drum set interesting, no joke. Mechanics fascinate me more than electronics, don’t know why that is.
Around the time of THOBL, I remember an interview with Paicey where he said that they were triggering his bass drum and snare sounds live.
What I also like about his equipment approach is that his personal Pearl set is the same as the Pearl Ian Paice signature set you can buy in a music store (although I’m sure Pearl gives the drum sets delivered to him a closer quality control look-over). That wasn’t the case with Cozy Powell’s Yamaha set for instance, what you could buy only looked like his set, but didn’t have the quality of build. Cozy didn’t care, Little Ian was adamant with Pearl that the same quality is offered in the shops.
And naming Ringo and Bobby Elliott from The Hollies as early role models rather than some drummer hero perceived “more serious” also endears him to me. Not that you can really go wrong with either The Beatles or The Hollies.
I didn’t know that it was Keith Moons bass drum they used on Fireball!
October 26th, 2024 at 01:33Yo,
Herr Ewe stated…( And this is most unusual )…
qt.”I didn’t know that it was Keith Moons bass drum they used on Fireball”!…
***Leiber Uwe, IG sings this fact in the opening lyric…
qt.I.G.”Golden light above you, tells me where you’re from”…
RIP Keith Moon !
Adonai vasu.
October 26th, 2024 at 11:32Little Ian is not a double bass drum champion, but his touch, his jazz touch, his incredible touch is unique and inimitable in the hard rock scene!
October 26th, 2024 at 15:11Most double bass drum players, especially in heavy metal, are terribly uncreative with it. It is rare that you hear a nifty bass drum pattern played by employing two bass drums while that overdone machine gun barrage approach is highly prevalent.
I’m from the (old) school that thinks that a bass drum should do more than just anchor the music, but rather hold an animated discussion with it. That is what people like Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell and Little Ian all did.
October 26th, 2024 at 20:59The drum manufacturers are no different to any other musical instrument maker. You get what you pay for, meaning quality in materials & finish etc. Pearl no doubt would look after Ian Paice & the top of the shelf drum kits would or should be of the highest quality. I was spoilt with my Sonor 1980 kit, all heavy duty hardware & the finest machining of all fittings etc. No doubt these days that may have changed, especially with lower price drum kits available. The same with Yamaha & other makers. Cozy’s drum kit would have been heavy duty hardware in all aspects. The worry these days with anything manufactured from metal & wood is where is it coming from. What quality is it & how well is it made. Regarding the bass drum playing yes indeed Paice & Bonham are very clever indeed, nice influences there for me. Steve Gadd & many others from across the pond are very clever with that pedal to the metal. Only one bass drum required in my book. Cheers.
October 26th, 2024 at 22:31I laughed when I read in a drummer mag that PAISTE made especially for him those RUDE series cymbals that were popular like for 10 seconds in the early 80s and then Cozy played them when they presented the first ones to him, winced and walked off from the set saying he didn’t like their sound at all! I could envisage the collective hearts of the PAISTE artist endorsement reps breaking, Cozy, a man who never minced words. 😂
https://www.cymbal.wiki/wiki/Paiste_RUDE
I didn’t like their sound either.
October 27th, 2024 at 20:30That is funny reading that Cozy just walked away, treating them with contempt. I remember seeing that series in the stores way back then, cannot remember if I ever tried a few out & lets face it, you cannot really give cymbals a work out whilst they are on sale in a store, not properly. Reading that listing of them & they were marketed towards the heavy rock & metal genre, that makes Cozy’s attitude towards them even more hilarious, or should we say just ‘rude’. I purchased the Paiste 2002 series 16″crash, 18″china & 10 “splash & later on a 505 series 20 inch crash. Ended up with some second hand old style heavy Zildjians, a 20” crash/ride & 24 inch ride which I then sold as it was too loud as a ride cymbal in any situation. Plus the same series Zildjian hi hats that all came with a Pearl second hand kit I purchased from a chap. All very noisy though at times, all cymbals are even back then when I was a younger lad with a ‘no future’ attitude. Thanks for the Cozy story, loved it. Cheers.
October 28th, 2024 at 01:35To me, the Rudes sounded like a not quite properly recorded and therefore slightly distorted cymbal/hi-hat. Just unpleasant. I could understand why Paiste thought Cozy might like them, but also why Cozy in fact didn’t! Too messy. For all his brute approach, Cozy liked a really squeaky clean sound on his drums as evidenced on his solo albums which have that sterile “drum clinic demonstration record” sound down pat. That hasn’t aged well.
I kinda liked the “dented” look though they had/have.
https://www.station-musicshop.de/WebRoot/Store8/Shops/64398533/64EC/7919/4300/8337/F624/0A0C/6D11/0BE2/paiste_rude-crash-ride.jpg
The Rudes came perhaps too early, had they been introduced around the time of Nirvana/Seattle Grunge, when rock music sonics became less clean and more murky/white noise on purpose, they might have fared a lot better commercially. They were made to sound nasty. Come Nirvana, that became en vogue.
October 28th, 2024 at 20:33