{"id":2088,"date":"2024-09-01T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2024-09-19T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T08:52:50","slug":"music-phil-collins-drums-way-beyond-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/music-phil-collins-drums-way-beyond-the-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Phil Collins drums way Beyond the Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube decided to feature a couple of overlong videos about the legendary drum fill in &#8220;In the Air Tonight.&#8221; (I&#8217;m not linking to them, because the same information is in its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_the_Air_Tonight#Drum_sound\">Wikipedia article<\/a>, and just because YouTube pushes people to make 20-minute-long videos so it can cram in more advertisements, that is not a good enough reason for video creators to pad their videos. Your time and mine is valuable.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio alignright\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4f\/Intheairtonight.ogg\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What a drum fill! 1980s 4evar!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, a bunch of killjoys said &#8220;It&#8217;s not even a drum <em>solo<\/em>, it&#8217;s just a drum fill. There are plenty of drummers <em>much<\/em> better than Phil Collins.&#8221; Yes, yes, and yes, but it&#8217;s unarguably iconic and legendary. It&#8217;s not simply those eleven tom-tom hits, it&#8217;s the sound, the build-up in the song, the engineering that make it so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond the drum fill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behind the Lines (2015 Remaster)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dW2PsR0pNLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That drum fill doesn&#8217;t make Phil Collins a great drummer. What ensures his greatness is another song on <em>Face Value<\/em>, &#8220;Behind the Lines.&#8221; I knew and loved it for decades as the irrepressibly funky R&amp;B workout with Phil Collins nailing that disco-ish hi-hat plus finger snaps backbeat, with some explosive yet bouncy fills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behind the Lines (2007 Remaster)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ck41IH1FHO8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I learned from a YouTube comment that it&#8217;s a remake of a Genesis song off their <em>Duke<\/em> albume. WTH?? The original is pop-prog-rock: energetic yet lugubrious, and keyboard-centric. Still with great drumming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that it&#8217;s <em>THE SAME DRUMMER<\/em> makes Phil Collins one of the all-time greats. The fills, the timing, the way in the instrumental bridge of the song he hits a drum just as he closes the hi-hat, they&#8217;re different in the two songs, and it&#8217;s all masterful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which Brand X?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I liked the Genesis singles in the 1980s and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=25oYL8z6QgE\">&#8220;Tonight, Tonight, Tonight&#8221; in a beer ad<\/a>, but I had a bad experience buying the <em>Genesis<\/em> album on the strength of the singles &#8220;That&#8217;s All&#8221; and the wistfully great &#8220;Taking It All Too Hard&#8221;; I was disappointed by the other songs, so I never bought <em>Duke<\/em> and most Genesis albums. Likewise I knew Phil Collins was in the well-reviewed 1970s jazz fusion band Brand X, but I never heard any of the songs on the radio and I certainly wasn&#8217;t going to take a chance buying an album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that I can listen to almost any song for free, a few years ago I checked out Brand X&#8217;s albums, and some of the drumming is great, a third confident style from Phil Collins. But <em>I can&#8217;t remember which songs I liked<\/em>! They&#8217;re instrumentals so there&#8217;s nothing to tie them to a title. And when %$#@! YouTube Music shows me Brand X Top Songs or Brand X album tracks, it <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> indicate which ones I gave a thumbs up to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Painfully liked music<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you give a thumbs up to a song on YouTube Music it adds it to your &#8220;Liked Music&#8221; auto-playlist. So I should be able to download the list (currently 1,872 songs that I liked) and search it for BrandX songs. I just viewed my &#8220;Liked Music&#8221; playlist and clicked \ud83e\udc73 download&#8230; and the fans on this laptop quickly turned on. YouTube Music seems to be downloading an image for every single song in that list. It&#8217;s been going for 25 minutes at 130% of my CPU! I think it&#8217;s actually downloading all the songs&#8230; somewhere. Eventually Firefox hung and I had to restart it. ??! I guess I&#8217;ll never know which Brand X songs I liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Frank Zappa connection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-container-content-6884ef2a\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"More Trouble Every Day (Live\/1974)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x80av2qgdu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One comment claimed that Chester Thompson&#8217;s repeated drum fill on Frank Zappa&#8217;s &#8220;More Trouble Every Day&#8221; on <em>Roxy &amp; Elsewhere<\/em> was the inspiration for the &#8220;In the Air Tonight&#8221; fill. It certainly sounds similar but then another commenter said no, Phil Collins reused that drum fill on the live version of the Genesis song &#8220;Afterglow&#8221; (and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roxy_%26_Elsewhere\">the Wikipedia article agrees<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube decided to feature a couple of overlong videos about the legendary drum fill in &#8220;In the Air Tonight.&#8221; (I&#8217;m not linking to them, because the same information is in its Wikipedia article, and just because YouTube pushes people to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/music-phil-collins-drums-way-beyond-the-lines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}