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Re: Zappa, Bruford, and electronic percussion



<<But he did have a tendency to jump into new
technology before it had really matured (the
electronic drums on the '84 tour, ewwww....but
then again, a lot of people where using those
then.)>>

I'll have to listen to the recordings I have from
the 84 tour, and get back to you on that one. I
will admit that drum solo on Does Humor Belong In
Music is a bit too...well, I'm not a fan of drum
solos in the first place, but I sometimes think
the sounds that Chad came up with there sound
more like a product demonstration that something
you wuold present to a record buying or concert
attending public. 

On the other hand, I always liked what Bill
Bruford did with electronic drums, and was a bit
dismayed when I saw King Crimson in 95, and saw
that he had moved back to mostly using an
acoustic drum set. I've since reversed myself,
because, though he probably was one of the more
interesting people I've heard use electronic
percussion, he's also just as interesting and
amazing when he plays an all acoustic kit. I
remember being thoroughly impressed with his drum
solo that opened the early show at The Knitting
Factory in NYC on the BLUE tour (I'll always kick
myself for not attending the late show, as well).


But getting back to Zappa, I once read where he
said one of the head of R&D at New England
Digital (the company that manufactured the
Synclavier) accused Frank of pushing the
instrument past it's capablities on purpose, or
something to that effect. 

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