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The wonder of jam bands

Last night, hanging out with Jukka and a handful of Americans, we spent a lot of time on YouTube, as drunk college kids are ever wont to do. After exhausting our store of favorite comedians, Jukka said we needed some tunes, and proceeded to wow us. He pulled a video out of the nether regions of the 20th century, by which I mean the 1970s, and I was duly stunned.

Now, I’ve posted before on instrumental technique I find fascinating, but this is substantially different. I’d really like to find a place for my ipck somewhere between the overly-precise Finnish style of guitar work and the obviously coked-out madness of Focus. That would indeed be the perfect formula to engineer, but I don’t know how long it will take me to pull that off. Time to get cracking, though.Another interesting thing I noticed is that on the YouTube page for the Focus video, there was a comment ripping on the drummer.

The part that bothers me is the lack of phenomenal drumming that is recorded in the studio version, usually drummers will take this opportunity to showcase their drumming abilities, pierre.. is still good but doesn’t even come close to the original recording!

I’ll agree that the drumming could be better, but compare with this utterly lame drum solo by the extremely technically proficient Marco Minnemann of Necrophagist.

I know who I’d rather jam with, that’s for sure. So here’s for keeping the heart in heavy metal, and not getting lost in technical proficiency.

But seriously, the Winter Madness solo is god.