Any drummers here?

The best Setzer song ever to me:
"Chains around your heart". Everything is right on that song. Did you guys listen to the drums?
I hardly hear any crash cymbal.
You expect a crash now and then, but I don't hear any.
Anyone else dig this song?

Yeah, I'm not a drummer (maybe if I used one tentacle for each drumstick (lol)), but you're right that is a great song. The orchestration of that tune is really well done, maybe even foreshadowing some of the later Stray Cats/BSO stuff that was to follow. A lot of the early jazz drummers primarily used only their right hand on the ride cymbal, making the "tick-a-ting" rhythm very prominent. No offense, however, as I think we've had this discussion before, but, personally, my favorite is still "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".

the drummer on the album (and I assume that track) is Kenny Aronoff http://www.kennyaronoff.com/
He made his name with Mellencamp; but has since worked with every worthwhile act on the planet.
I met him when he was touring with Marshall Crenshaw. I'll spare the details; but I hung with him through a mutual friend for a weekend of shows. Amazing talent and one of the most high energy, possitive people you could ever meet. Real good guy; and he works/practices his tail off.

Aronoff is awsome!
I saw him with Jogerty in Munich about 2 weeks ago and I tell you, this man has a groove...
He kicks ass!!

I'm really pleased someone knows the musicians who played with Brian. i guess they're all hired help at the time, but there are some great players he's worked with. Jerry Angel played on a few tracks on the Live Nude Guitars album. I'd have loved to Brian to have used Liberty DeVito on some things back then. Whenever i watch Billy Joel live vids, i love Liberty's style and it would have fitted perfectly with Knife Feels like justice (just an opinion and no offence to KA)

Mikey the Tub Thumper

drums are cool

Hey,
yup, I'm a drummer myself to and to be honest, I don't like the drumming style on The Knife... the live shows were much better. I think the drummer, Kenny Aronoff played too much on that album, I mean, to many "notes" (if we can call it that way)

Bernie Dresel was the best drummer S-e-t-z-e-r ever had and I hope he's soon back with more S-e-t-z-e-r projects

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blimey, it is true, if you type "s e t z e r" without gaps you do get ******..

Dave wrote:

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blimey, it is true, if you type "s e t z e r" without gaps you do get ******..

But yet you can still input "The Brian"... hmmmmmmmmm...

Budgie wrote:

Dave wrote:

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blimey, it is true, if you type "s e t z e r" without gaps you do get ******..

But yet you can still input "The Brian"... hmmmmmmmmm...

So we can't use the "S" word around here, but we CAN use the "B" word? Got it!

I've also figured out that you can't type in ********, ****, & *******.

But yet "Yankees" works fine... go figure!