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gclin
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gclin
"Grandpa-diddle"
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9 March 2008
| OK... So let me spell his name right at least.... PAPA JO JONES.
Updated on 3/9/2008 9:28:28 AM ... This took me back in time. I've mentioned how different things were when I was coming up so many years ago. Frank Ippolito's Professional Percussion Center. Drummers just hung out there. Elvin Jones helped me choose a snare drum. Tony Willliams and he gave me a lesson I didn't ask or pay for just because they were there and noticed something I played on a set of hi hats.
Anyway, Jo Jones was once a partner and the shop in it's original form is in this video. Got me all nostalgic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtlktFiTjM&feature=related
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| servantrek
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| This is cool video! The drumming is great but the stage presence is greater,love the smiling face and the eye contact.
Billy
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drummer5359
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| Those videos are a treasure. I loved the double handed crossovers in the first clip. His playing was very fluid, beautiful to watch and listen to.
Did everyone notice all of the Slingerland, Gretch, and Camco drums on the shelves when he entered the shop in the second clip?
VERY cool Gene. Thanks for that.
-Mike of Baltimore
We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
If all the worlds a stage, I want to operate the trap door...
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gclin
"Grandpa-diddle"
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| First time I went there I was a teenager and was going to get a set of Rogers. CBS (I believe) had bought them, and Frank told me 'I'll get them for you, but they're not what they used to be". From behind I heard a husky voice say one word . Gretsch! It was Elvin Jones. After lifting my jaw the entire distance from the floor back up to my head, and waiting a few moments to be able to speak again, Elvin just cracked up. He took me back to one of the studios and played a set of Gretsch for me. He didn't endorse them for the money, he loved them. It really was a community where there were no casts. People hung for a while and shared. Both superstars and star stuck teenagers. You know where I fit.
I bought my first Gretsch set and that's how long I've been playing Gretsch (as well as some other kits along the way as you all know).
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drummer5359
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| Now THATS an endorser. About what year would have that been? I'm guessing that video clip was shot in the early 1970s.
Updated on 3/10/2008 2:08:35 AM I just watched the second clip again. There is a 1971 Gremlin in front of the shop in one of the shots, and the taxi that drives by was an early 70s Chrysler product.
-Mike of Baltimore
We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
If all the worlds a stage, I want to operate the trap door...
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Dukekamaya2
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10 March 2008
| Love the switching from trad. grip to matched grip - if I tried that the stick wold end up in the guitarists ear
Updated on 3/10/2008 4:18:00 AM Not neccesarily a bad thing
Luke
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gclin
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| I think 1970 is right,
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drummer5359
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| The Gremlin was released in March of 1970 as a 1970 1/2. It stuns me that I remember this. What did I have for lunch yesterday?
-Mike of Baltimore
We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
If all the worlds a stage, I want to operate the trap door...
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