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Just watchin some footage of Def Leppard concert 1988,

Drummers only got one arm!!!

plays more solid time than the drummer in my band!!,(who has 2 arms (and no sense of time!) are there any drummers better/as competent/able to read as well/play jazz? as versatile with one arm than 2 arms ,

or any one know of any bass players with one arm???

regards

Mark

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Check out bill clements on youtube. He's incredible and a total inspiration to all. There was also a christmas tune on this forum played by a chap with one arm. He outshone Mark King if I recall (floodgates open!!)

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Here's the crimbo tune I was talking about:

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=115070&hl=Christmas"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...mp;hl=Christmas[/url]

I gather def leppard chap uses plenty of pedals. I love tha fact that he not only play but he plays really well!

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[quote name='Johnston' post='1175254' date='Mar 24 2011, 09:18 PM']Does the Def Leppard guy (Rick Allen isn't it) not use a lot of triggered stuff??[/quote]
More often foot pedals, he has loads of them. Also if you listen he mostly plays straight beats although very tight and with a triggered 80's boing sound too :)

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[quote name='mrtcat' post='1175264' date='Mar 24 2011, 09:24 PM']Here's the crimbo tune I was talking about:

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=115070&hl=Christmas"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...mp;hl=Christmas[/url][/quote]

OT, unseasonal and probably highly unpopular I know, but I'm impressed with how Mark King sings that song lower down in the thread! All the more so since I listened straight after the anodyne, syrupy and humourless Mariah Carey version. Maybe if you cut off MK's slapping arm he'd be less polarising a musical figure.

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[quote name='4 candles' post='1175242' date='Mar 24 2011, 09:10 PM']Just watchin some footage of Def Leppard concert 1988,

Drummers only got one arm!!!

plays more solid time than the drummer in my band!!,(who has 2 arms (and no sense of time!) are there any drummers better/as competent/able to read as well/play jazz? as versatile with one arm than 2 arms ,

or any one know of any bass players with one arm???

regards

Mark[/quote]


Not a bass player, but I was once in a band with a one armed drummer.
I met him at a gig we played, and he joined us on stage at the end. I didn't notice he was missing one arm. My wife was there and she remarked on it, and I went "what are you talking about??". I had even shaken hands with him and chatted for a bit. Didn't notice a thing. He was very good.
Months later he became our drummer.

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