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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: AndyR on July 29, 2012, 06:42:20 PM
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A little beasite that the older ones among us either loved or hated in 1978 or so (I loved it - I've been trying recently to get a woman I know to cover it with me for a laugh, she's not buying, though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVP9yM-Vi8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVP9yM-Vi8)
I've just found out who's drumming because I wanted to get Mr Friedman's first two albums - the CD arrived today, and I was just browsing the credits for the second album... Had to do some searching, but yes, it's the same guy.
I was dumbfounded - didn't know this at all. He plays all the drums and percussion on Well Well Said the Rocking Chair
[blasphemy]I actually prefer his work on this album than in the band he's famous for[/blasphemy] :o :lol:
So, do you know who it is?
Answers on a postcard to "Auntie Sharon" :lol:
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I haven't a clue about the drummer, but I remember the record very well - it's from that period when I listened to Radio 1 all the time, so I probably heard it four times a day. I don't know if I actually like it or not, but it's burned into my brain..... and I know all the words! :lol:
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Oh god, now I'm thinking about "Never Let Her Slip Away" by Andrew Gold and "The Pina Colada Song" by Rupert Holmes....
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You didn't notice the "Auntie Sharon" in my post then?
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You didn't notice the "Auntie Sharon" in my post then?
Actually, I did - and it gave me a thought, so now I've found the answer. I wouldn't have known otherwise! :lol:
But is it definitely the same person? I guess the timing makes sense, and I can imagine him wanting a change from his "day job". I know he released a solo album, which I've never heard but I believe the style was very different from his band's music.
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Bob Holness?
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was it Princess Margaret (bless 'er soul)?
I heard the Queen had to keep her session work quiet for reasons of state security.
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:lol:
I reckon Frank knows...
Yep, Philly, I found "worked with Dean Friedman" on a "CV" of his - now unless that's someone has compiled it and jumped to the wrong conclusion, I reckon it is the same chap that Sharon seems to love so much.
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I never knew she was a drummer...
(http://wa2.cdn.3news.co.nz/3news/AM/0-Articles/199800/sharon-stone_600.jpg?width=460)
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is it Michael Douglass?
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:lol:
I nearly went "It's ----" a few posts back...
Now, I'm going to leave it for a while, the fun will end when I do.
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This album was a firm favourite of my ex wife-it was around the time when we first met that it came out and it was one that she liked a lot. I wasn't so keen though I think he is ( was) a great song writer. I remember that it had Tony Levin on bass ( me being a bass player and all at the time). I think I might know the answer to this though I am not entirely sure that my memory is that good.
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It'll probably turn out to be some seminal heavy metal drummer with a bit of a jazz background
someone you'd expect to be drumming for Ozzy Osbourne rather than an artist like Dean Friedman
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_fx1WshCA
? :D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_fx1WshCA
? :D
No think of an older era of Black Sabbath and I don't mean Bev bevan
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Vinnie Apice or his brother you reckon..?
(by the way, regarding that Cozy track, I've always really liked the intro)
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Oh I give up! I felt sure someone would have got it by now. :lol:
Bill Ward.
Bill Ward is the drummer and percussionist on Dean Friedman's Well Well Said The Rocking Chair, including the singles Lucky Star and Lydia.
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Oh I give up! I felt sure someone would have got it by now. :lol:
I'm pretty sure Jonathan was hinting that he knew it! :wink:
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Never would have guessed it! I suggested Cozy and Carmine since I know they were session drummers with a bit of a jazzy twist and a metal connection.
By the way, Miss gwEm says: "thats a terrible track with terrible drumming, why are you bothering guessing that!"
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Oh I give up! I felt sure someone would have got it by now. :lol:
I'm pretty sure Jonathan was hinting that he knew it! :wink:
Yeah - i'd looked it up , but didn't want to spoil it too much for others
Friedman was a bit too sub-Billy Joel for my tastes though
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Friedman was a bit too sub-Billy Joel for my tastes though
I'm inclined to agree, it's all a bit sugary. But looking at reviews of that particular album, it seems to be extremely well regarded (if you like that sort of thing, presumably! :wink: )
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Yeah, I liked Billy Joel as well but, for me, he hasn't got the same sense of humour or feel for the human (male) condition (or some such bollox anyway :lol:).
I've been listening to Dean Friedman and Loudon Wainwright III all day. LW III has same sort of approach but is more self-destructive, and a lot funnier. I'm realising, though, I know absolute nothing about his kids Martha and Rufus except that "Rufus Is A Tit-man" and other fine insights to be found in their father's songs.
I was truly shocked to find it was Bill Ward on "Well, Well" though.
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Well I kind of knew inasmuch that I was aware that "a" Bill Ward played drums but I can't honestly say I knew it was "the" Bill Ward. My memory was more about Tony Levin as he was of more interest to me at the time.
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I'm realising, though, I know absolute nothing about his kids Martha and Rufus except that "Rufus Is A Tit-man" and other fine insights to be found in their father's songs.
I know Rufus didn't grow up to be a "tit-man"..... :|
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Is this an album Bill Ward recorded when he was (in Brian May's words) "pursuing other interests" (greatest smoke screen ever for a bloke being a raging alcoholic) :lol:
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Are those Brian May's words about Bill Ward, or someone else?
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Are those Brian May's words about Bill Ward, or someone else?
Seeing as the description/remark and the humour behind is drier than the Gobi desert, sprinkled with salt and paper towels on a particularly hot Tuesday afternoon, I'd wager it's Brian May alright.
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Are those Brian May's words about Bill Ward, or someone else?
Seeing as the description/remark and the humour behind is drier than the Gobi desert, sprinkled with salt and paper towels on a particularly hot Tuesday afternoon, I'd wager it's Brian May alright.
I know it's Brian May, I meant was he talking about Bill Ward, or was he talking about someone else?
Good description of his humour though. :wink: