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Sargeant Preston
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If I recall correctly, I'm certain that @Old Music Guy is a friend of Bryan Adam's current (or former) drummer.
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Old Music Guy
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Mickey Curry, is my sister-in-law's brother-in-law. Not exactly get on the phone and gab level, but we've has some good conversations. I dropped in a link of an interview. I'm not sure if he's with Bryan anymore. Last I heard, he was getting pretty tired of the road.
His back story is interesting insofar as he started out playing clubs with G.E. Smith in East Haven, CT. Someone drops a dime, and another drops a dime, and then , BOOM.
In the interview, he mentions Bernard Purdy. For non-drummers, "Pertty" Purdy "invented" a groove called the "Purdy Shuffle". You can hear it on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters" and a host of others. The slickest cop was Porcaro on "Rosanna". It's essentially your hands and feet playing syncopated triplets: a "Bo Diddly" bass drum hits, hit hat triplets (with a rest on the second tuplet) and a bossa nova snare with ghost notes. It's really, really hard, UNTIL you find the groove, and then it's only really hard. Worth learning.
Story goes that Mickey ran into a friend at some airport. Said friend asked Mickey if he would do a showcase at NAMM with a focus on "shuffles". He thought for a bit, and said, "No, thanks". Good answer.
As a drummer for nigh on 65 years now, I know shuffles. I can't tell you have many times I've heard "Just play a shuffle". My response is "Count me in and give me a 1 bar lead in"
Mickey Curry Interview
I had to drop this in
Purdy Shuffle
Mickey Curry, is my sister-in-law's brother-in-law. Not exactly get on the phone and gab level, but we've has some good conversations. I dropped in a link of an interview. I'm not sure if he's with Bryan anymore. Last I heard, he was getting pretty tired of the road.
His back story is interesting insofar as he started out playing clubs with G.E. Smith in East Haven, CT. Someone drops a dime, and another drops a dime, and then , BOOM.
In the interview, he mentions Bernard Purdy. For non-drummers, "Pertty" Purdy "invented" a groove called the "Purdy Shuffle". You can hear it on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters" and a host of others. The slickest cop was Porcaro on "Rosanna". It's essentially your hands and feet playing syncopated triplets: a "Bo Diddly" bass drum hits, hit hat triplets (with a rest on the second tuplet) and a bossa nova snare with ghost notes. It's really, really hard, UNTIL you find the groove, and then it's only really hard. Worth learning.
Story goes that Mickey ran into a friend at some airport. Said friend asked Mickey if he would do a showcase at NAMM with a focus on "shuffles". He thought for a bit, and said, "No, thanks". Good answer.
As a drummer for nigh on 65 years now, I know shuffles. I can't tell you have many times I've heard "Just play a shuffle". My response is "Count me in and give me a 1 bar lead in"
Mickey Curry Interview
I had to drop this in
Purdy Shuffle
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