Phénoménal 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩‼️

Master Drummer, also Billy Higgins and many others ! Cheers ! 🥳

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Que belleza absoluta 🙏🏻

Hard to imagine these shows, Dick Cavett, The Tonight Show, had such great bands. Gone forever.

Boring ...stiff

It's a matter of preference. I played traditional grip for the first 10 or 12 years then I switched to match grip and still play that way. It's easier for me to get a clean strike on the cymbals on my left side, cross sticking on the tom & floor tom is easier. I also played tympani in high school and going between tymps was smoother & easier, just like between snare & floor tom or snare & rack tom. Some guy above this post said Buddy Rich approves. Buddy can be seen on video playing parts of his solo matched grip.

Wild!

Does in two minutes what it took John Bonham to do in thirty!

incredible! the stick broke in half, he turned the remaining half around, and then when he had an available split second replaced it with another stick!!! #OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedInformation

As much as I love the legends, I just don’t agree. Even Weckl has admitted that he’s wanted to switch to match grip but has just been playing traditional for too long. I once heard Weckl also say that Bill Stewart had him fooled into thinking that he was playing traditional grip before having ever seen him in person. I think a lot of it is placebo effect.

Amazing band. Bill Watrous on t-bone at right. Don't know anyone else.

There will never be another like this monster.

not bad for a pot smoker and heroin junkie

Funny to think about how FURIOUS he must have been when the stick broke

Cannonball Adderley on Alto Sax.

I heard he was really difficult to work with which cost him a number of big gigs back i the day. He also was self taught which is freaking crazy to think... Still, one of the best

Sorry, but I don’t hear how he’s enhancing the groove of the tune when the band is playing, which would seem to belie the name of the tune. Sounds like overplaying to me.

The speed and precision is unreal. maybe world's greatest drummer of all time.

He was the best drummer ever

Four drums and three cymbals. Let’s see modern day drummers top that with their stage full of equipment. No one would even come close, and he even holds the sticks correctly.

unnecessary noise.

He is not human.

✊ Not quite my tempo

B O R I N G ...as Leslie West said, of Mountain fame, with a much better drummer (Corky Lainge)..I hate drum solos!!

Camn good for a guy born 108 years ago!!!

He was the greatest drummer (that we know of) of all time. Period.

Showoff......😒 Lol

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)🤳💞💜💟🤎 The Best Drummer !! 🥁💭

Love his insane look on his face. Seen him on several shows, must've been better than Neal Pert of Rush! Drum's named after him.

So many great drummers out there today....But Buddy will always be the best IMO... That left hand ? Close your eyes..you would never know he dropped a stick. Drum god.

Amazing talent. The only problem is you have to listen to jazz to hear him play 🤮

AWESOME !!! 🌷

I decided to take up drums last week, watched this video, and now the whole set is floating in my pool. Thanks Buddy!!!!!! GOAT.

...and just think - he couldn't even read drum music. Incredible.

Being an a-hole aside, he was the best.

He's definitely better than Lars Ulrich!

I come from a family of three percussionists (grandfather, uncle, brother) so my mom was always enthralled when Buddy Rich was on the Tonight Show. I still enjoy watching him. Man can those hands move.

I imagine a 20-year-old Neil Peart seeing this...😮

"THE MASTER" ❤

One of the progenitors of stunt drumming that is now a KZbin career for many impressive technicians with zero musical instincts. Buddy Rich could at least play well to compliment the music if he really wanted to

What a workout!

He was the best.

I used to sing this song.

What was so incredible??? He had a new stick right there!!! What was incredible was his left hand doing some weird pencil grip and hitting the high hat with the wrongen of the stick!!!!

He never dropped the drumstick!

lon haired trombonist is cool, wonder who he was

When I was about 9 years old saw Buddy Rich play drums, during a Jerry Lewis show in Las Vegas in 1972, even though I knew nothing about playing drums he was mesmerizing.

So let me see if I've seen this right (as a non-drummer) - the stick snaps, he immediately flips it in his hand to grab it by the broken end (presumably to stop damage to the drums) and uses the back end for a moment, before compensating long enough to grab a new stick? Incredible stuff.

Mesmerizing