Submitted by : AA Wallace
When AA sent me this record, he tagged it by saying "this is what it sounds like when successful, talented people lose their mind." I don't think Hal Blaine lost his mind, but he certainly didn't heed to convention when he made this album.
Despite all the of the #1 hits Blaine played on (from Sinatra to Simon and Garfunkel, to the Beach Boys and Elvis) this is not an album of hits. It's even hard to just sit down and listen to this record straight through. It's imaginative, experimental and interesting, and I put it on here because essentially, this record is a drummers wet dream, and very few people could have accomplished it.
This record is 95% percussion. It consists of many overlapping drum parts, filled with bells, blocks, vibes, basically anything that can be hit with a stick. There are 12 tracks, each one representing a month out of the year, each one wackier than the last. Blaine has incredible skill and every part of his chops from rudiments, to grooves to dynamic playing gets attention.
You don't need to do drugs to listen to this album, but they would probably help.
Instead of trying to decipher everything, how about I just post a link to it?
Audio/Visual Evidence : Get the album
Despite all the of the #1 hits Blaine played on (from Sinatra to Simon and Garfunkel, to the Beach Boys and Elvis) this is not an album of hits. It's even hard to just sit down and listen to this record straight through. It's imaginative, experimental and interesting, and I put it on here because essentially, this record is a drummers wet dream, and very few people could have accomplished it.
This record is 95% percussion. It consists of many overlapping drum parts, filled with bells, blocks, vibes, basically anything that can be hit with a stick. There are 12 tracks, each one representing a month out of the year, each one wackier than the last. Blaine has incredible skill and every part of his chops from rudiments, to grooves to dynamic playing gets attention.
You don't need to do drugs to listen to this album, but they would probably help.
Instead of trying to decipher everything, how about I just post a link to it?
Audio/Visual Evidence : Get the album
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