8Mile
Platinum Member
Buddy was pretty good at that "boogaloo" type of rock playing. The early rock innovators all had a touch of that in them -- Bobby Columby, Mitch Mitchell, Ansley Dunbar. The funk guys like Purdie, Grady Tate and Clyde Stubberfield had it in a "tighter" fashion. They were the best. But around the middle 70's, playing in general got heavier and more precise. Bruford, Cobham, Porcaro, Harvey Mason, Steve Smith, Peart, Garabaldi -- were all doing things that were alien to Buddy and his generation and he could not make the transition.
Yeah, I agree with this.