This calls for a drum fill that goes over the bar
23 Sep
Posted by brightlight in the In the News department.
via Obama Porn, via Pundit Kitchen
In case you don’t actually happen to live in my misguidedly referential brain, the title of this post was inspired by the drum fill that launched a thousand (mostly ill-fated) drumming careers in the early 80’s. Yes, goddamn it, I’m referring to the drum fill in Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” Listen closely, kids; whoa, that shit ends after the one. I mean, it’s revolutionary. It’s like, you know, he totally fucked up, but didn’t. So jazz. For serious.
Why is this on my mind? Because for some reason it’s the first thing that popped into my head when I got the news that our lord and savior Barack Obama has landed at St Pete-Clearwater airport. I knew there was a reason that my hangover miraculously disappeared, and no, it’s not because I’m on my fifth Zima. Yes, there is definitely something in the air (let’s just forget the part about that Collins song actually being horribly depressing), and it’s something a lot more legitimate than the vortex of vanilla-flavored mediocre suck that The Today Show’s presence left in Tampa this morning. ZOMFG! Could gravity be a danger to your child? Find out after one of us interviews someone, interrupts them a lot, and then gets duly outraged by anything we don’t understand so that we can score higher with our target demographic.
Wait, what just happened? Oh, right, so yeah, in case the rock you’ve been living under had an inexplicable media outage, Barack Obama is going to be in Dunedin tomorrow rallying for change, and I for one could use the change, mostly since they installed all those freaking meters downtown.
Anyway, event details are here, and special parking details from Dunedin are here. Be careful not to get distracted by the announcement that the city of Dunedin has proclaimed that May 1st is SILVER STAR BANNER DAY. Holy SHIT, that sounds AWESOME.
One last thing. Did you know you could vote for Barack Obama right freaking now? If you’re like me and have an irrational fear of sudden, accidental death, then you might want to get your vote on sooner rather than later. Why not get an absentee ballot and just mail that shit in right now? You can. Seriously. Go here and make it happen.
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5 Responses
I love your blog and particularly like the graphic on this post — first saw it on the personal blog of a friend. But as a longtime drummer and Phil Collins fan, i’m going to have to disagree wth you on one point.
If you listen to the fill at he end of In the Air Tonight, it is a four-count phrase that starts on 1 and ends before the first downbeat of the next bar, which is the next 1.
In other words, it’s not a fill that runs over the bar. It ends before the next bar starts.
But hey, I’m just happy to read a post that references Phil Collins in an almost complimentary way….
Awwww, man. It should be apparent to everyone at this point that I’m a guitar player.
. . . I mean, you know, unless some other drummer with a different view on this wants to back me up . . . anyone? Hello?
I don’t love it… I’ve been absolutely crazy for this bit and for the whole song for 26 years now!
It’s Phil’s signature drum roll, on Phil’s signature song, and it’s the most anticipated moment of every concert he plays.
I will never, ever forget the first time I heard it live in Milan in 1994, as well as when he played it in that very same venue three years ago. That night, since it was the opening night of the First Final Farewell Tour, no one knew exactly how the stage was yet, and as the second verse approached I expected Phil to get closer to his drum kit, as he used to do on all the other tours. Now it’s a scene we all know well because of the DVD, but I was so surprised when Phil started to walk up the stairs and got farther from his drums. In a few seconds, all the rumours about his deafness came to my mind and I really thought he wasn’t going to drum on that song. Then suddenly, when it would have been too late to go back, that drum kit with no cymbals popped up just in time for Phil to sit on it and to give us his heart once again while he drummed the song to its end…
::sniffle::
have you seen the cadbury commercial with the gorilla as phil?