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Topic: Here's a new poll about Kansas and Bill Bruford Posted: May 14 2011 at 10:17
aginor wrote:
I focus most on drumming, then on bass and then I trick my brain to follow both keybord and guitar, and then I splitt my brain in 4 branches one for drum one for bass one for guitar and one for keybord, then i bind them together in one coheseve sound, I then listen to all sounds in four different layers I have even trained a skill to close of one instrument to focus on others, then I also can get a full pictrue of all the instruments silmuntainiously
What medication do you take for this condition?? And have you had a CAT scan lately?
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Posted: May 14 2011 at 01:46
I like Kansas fine as they are. Phil Ehart is an amazingly underrated prog drummer. Bill Bruford wouldn't work at all, there'd be no chemistry whatsoever.
"If Richard Williams was replaced by Andy Latimer, would you like Kansas more?"
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Posted: May 13 2011 at 14:20
Doubtful. Unless he started to write the music for them as well.
I mean, I do like BB, and his drumming style would certainly increase my appreciation of the two Kansas albums I know, but I don't think it would make me like Kansas. The drumming as is in Kansasa isn't the problem for me.
Edited by Man With Hat - May 13 2011 at 17:55
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Posted: May 13 2011 at 08:19
I often think of John Weathers as the opesitte of Bill Bruford but Ehart is also a good contender
yes i often thought Phil Ehart are binding the Kansas sound together much like a piece of glue,
just listen to the incanly fast rock groove on the GG song Way of Life, sound like standard rock drum groove, only its much faster and very pre-on beat
sounds like a AC/DC drum groove only much tighter and faster
I was listening to Yes and King Crimson after Kansas and I came to the conclusion that Phil Ehart's drumming is the "opposite," as it were, of Bill Bruford's.
Whereas Bruford is kind of loose with his snare, his rhythms, and even his sound (not a criticism at all), Ehart is far tighter. While Ehart is the rhythmic backbone of Kansas, Bruford seems to play around the other musicians in whatever band he is in.
I don't know if that makes any sense- it was just an observation I've been having over the past several days.
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Posted: May 13 2011 at 06:48
Maybe. I think Ehart is to Kansas what Squire is to Yes. But considering Bill went from Yes to King Crimson, did a live stint with Genesis, and then his own band, I'm sure he'd be up to the task. So no vote from me since you didn't make maybe an option.
Edited by Slartibartfast - May 13 2011 at 06:50
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aginor wrote:
And have you had a CAT scan lately?
In fact I had paired up a copy of UK UK with Bruford One Of A Kind on a single 90 minute cassette. They are really good as a pair.
