Posted on 07/25/2011 5:47:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Imagine if Phil was the full time Genesis drummer, which he hadn't been since 1975, he only played during a few long instrumental stretches on their tours. And on the solo tours, he played some drums, but mostly sang up front, or played keyboards.
You don’t know what medical treatment he is under. Under the care of legitimate pain management, you may not be able to tell what he is taking.
In fact, I’ve noticed patients who don’t take their pain meds often act more “distracted” than ones that do. Once a person is habituated you often can’t tell they are taking anything. Pain is distracting.
And simply because he has to be helped doesn’t mean he’s not on regular meds. There are people out there in such bad shape that they have to be helped even though they are taking regular cocktails.
Pain is a serious problem in our society - I think so much of it comes from all the auto injuries people have throughout their lifetime. They are far more traumatic than people realize. It’s a growing medical field. That, and to get totally off the subject, diabetic endocrinology. That one is going to go off the charts in the next few years.
It would have been something to see Phil and Bill together during the 76 Genesis tour.
The best drummers I've ever seen have minimal kits.
The Folk Society includes all kinds of acoustic music. We do a lot of Latin American music, which requires percussion, and modern bluegrass can use a drum.
Phil could do 9/8 without even breaking a sweat.
Sorry I wan’t clear. My assumption is that Phil isn’t dosing himself up with everything he can grab. I would guess that he is following a prescribed pain management regimen which allows him to function well and helps deal with the pain as best as can be done. It’s the stars that chug bourbon as a self-prescribed pain management program that annoy me. As best I can determine, Phil is not one of those.
Got dobro?...............
Nope, not so far. We used to have a viola, but the girl went away to college.
I knew a lady named Viola, too....................
"The stage is level..."
He had a balanced breakfast............drugs and booze..................
Drummers sit on ‘thrones’ not ‘stools’ although they look alike.
Poor man.
Sad to read, but a 3 hour ceremony is really long for somebody who’s disabled. It was nice of him to try to show up for Ringo, but he should have just done a quick appearance right when needed, then left.
Is that like:
“I lost my ID in a flood...”
“I had a wife once named ID but I didn’t lose her in a flood...”
Cheers...
Can’t remember for sure, but it seems to me that they made an exception and allowed one drum on stage for “Bonaparte’s Retreat” by Pee Wee King.
It’s just you. This is a British writer; that’s the way they write. “Kit” in this sense means “equipment” or “tools,” in Brit usage.
If not the best, certainly the smartest.
FROM WIKI: GRAND OLE OPRY Controversies:
Another controversy that raged for years was over allowable instrumentation, especially the use of drums and electrically amplified instruments. Some purists were appalled at the prospect; traditionally a string bass provided the rhythm component in country music and percussion instruments were seldom used. Electric amplification, then new, was regarded as the province of popular music and jazz in 1940s. Though the Opry allowed electric guitars and steel guitars by World War II, the no-drums/horns restrictions continued. They caused a conflict when Bob Wills[17] and Pee Wee King[18] defied the show’s ban on drums. The restrictions chafed many artists, such as Waylon Jennings, who were popular with the newer and younger fans. These restrictions were largely eliminated over time, alienating many older and traditionalist fans, but probably saving the Opry long-term as a viable ongoing enterprise.
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