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Re: sale! (was. switcher)

>From:  Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@chromatic.com]
>Sent:  Tuesday, March 24, 1998 3:23 PM
>
>The people who are really confident in their music skills seem quite able 
>to
>get on stage with really simple gear, and they are the ones that usually 
>end
>up impressing hell out of me. I'll never forget the time I saw Max Roach
>play with the bare minimum of a drum set, and keep an auditorium full of
>jazz musicians fully entertained for an hour and a half.

Oh boy. Here's my favorite minimal-equipment performance.  The Art 
Ensemble of 
Chicago was playing at this funky jazz joint in Seattle, and drummer Eric 
Gravatt was sitting in.  There were exactly five pieces in his kit, count 
'em: 
bass drum, tom, snare, hi hat, ride cymbal.  That's it.  Traveling light, 
but 
oh man, the incredible variety of sounds he coaxed from so little.  He 
sounded 
a hell of a lot gutsier, too, than a lot of rock drummers with mondo kits. 
 (What's that in my back? Adrian Belew's drumstick?)

Back to my rack 'o toyz, which desperately needs another echoplex....

laurie



>From lists@slip.net Tue Mar 24 17:48:40 1998