FIRST TIME Reaction Buddy Rich - Impossible Drum Solo || How Is This Even Possible!

[@setonhillstudios]

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[@lonniedunbar9775]

I'm a drummer too and there's nothing as humbling as watching Buddy Rich.

[@francodrummer1]

I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Rich on his bus once and saw him live 4 x as a child...my brother took me...he indeed did have a heart attack shortly after this solo...ultimatly he ended up having a brain tumor which eventually took his life in 1987. This man is a LEGEND...He is the GOAT. remember, legends never die. God bless his soul.

[@wls64]

And he's doing all that movement in a tuxedo 😮

[@Joseph-f9m7s]

Yes Buddy the GOAT drummer. I loved watching him play on the Carson late show back in the day.

[@katrinacash6393]

I also read about the heart attack during a performance. I'm not sure if it was this one but it toward the end of the solo. He still finished the performance. It's not hard to believe that he had a heart attack!

[@TheJCCroyle]

It is true - He was indeed having a heart attack.

[@markwilliams6394]

When you see the jazz greats, you realize how little you really know about music. I've never seen Buddy Rich live, but once I was at a Jazz festival and my friend and me went into a building to get out of the heat, and there was a drummer named Louie Bellson playing. The great thing about seeing him play was it was a rehearsal for their night show. You knew who the band leader was and watching him direct the other musician is something I'll never forget. The funny thing was there were only about 6 people in there watching this and 2 of them were my friend and me. My friend was especially happy since he's a drummer.

[@setonhillstudios]

💯 These guys are on a whole other level! Absolutely unreal! 🔥

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

I almost had a heart attack watching him!

[@setonhillstudios]

I know right! Dude’s a LEGEND! 😎🔥

[@reallymysterious4520]

Buddy was the Professor's Professor

[@coletedeux]

What a blast from the past! THANK you. I first saw him play when we were both much younger. Loved listening to him.

[@GrandmasGotGraceLW]

I grew up listening to both Buddy Rich and Benny Goodman. I've mentioned before, that my mom was "all about" swing (until she was in her 70s, when she discovered bluegrass). One of her treasures that traveled the AlCan (Alaska-Canadian Highway, now officially just called the Alaska Highway) with us in 1951, was the record produced by Columbia in 1945, called Rattle and Roll (you can find it on YT if you want to hear it). Buddy Rich was Benny's drummer at the time. During the 50s and early 60s, before I was 14, at times when we had electricity (when we were staying in town for the winter in an apartment or someone's empty house that Daddy was repairing or renovating while they vacationed, or when we had the money to buy fuel for the huge old-fashioned generator that Daddy had salvaged from somewhere) Mom would play that record and accompany it with her violin. Also, the song was on all the jukeboxes in town, at the bars. My dad was the usual repairman-on-call for all the businesses in town, and whenever I was with him while he was, for instance, refinishing a bar at one of the venues, the bartenders on duty would give me quarters to put into the jukebox, because they knew how much I loved music. That's how I learned to sing a LOT of the old songs, besides being glued to the transatlantic radio, at home. Mom's band would also play that song whenever they got together. She had a pretty darned good drummer along with the other really great musicians, in her dance band. Unfortunately, that record (along with a ton of others that included both Carnegie Hall appearances of Harry Belafonte...hmmm...suddenly I've come up with another pair of reaction requests) was one of the casualties caused by the earthquake in 1964. Listening to this drum solo brings back a LOT of old memories. Thank you, Steven! 😀

[@setonhillstudios]

Thanks for watching Linda! Such an amazing solo and the talent he has is unmatched! That’s so cool that you learned alot of those old songs that way! Love hearing those memories! 😁

[@patwelch8187]

Rich toured and performed until the end of his life. In early March 1987, he was touring in New York when he was hospitalized after suffering a paralysis on his left side that physicians believed had been caused by a stroke. He was transferred to California to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles for tests, where doctors discovered and removed a brain tumor on March 16. He was discharged a week later, but continued to receive daily chemotherapy treatments at the hospital. On April 2, 1987, he died of unexpected respiratory and cardiac failure after a treatment related to the malignant brain tumor.

[@setonhillstudios]

Wow! His drumming was insane on this and he is definitely one of the best to ever do it!

[@francodrummer1]

Yes, all true...and very sad. I was lucky enough to see him live 4x as a child. I even met him on his bus once...He is the GOAT...

[@michaeljohns3445]

He's playing like this in SUIT!

[@setonhillstudios]

I know right! I can’t even move in a suit! 🤣

[@robert-zr6vo]

He was having trouble with his heart doing his job

[@davidmazzell2332]

Dude was sick on the drums 🥁

[@setonhillstudios]

💯 Absolutely unreal!

[@dougellis8904]

Literally. He had a heart attack during this and was taken to the hospital right afterwords.

[@StanCostello-q3o]

I believe this was the performance where he had the heart attack

[@guidosarducci]

You are correct

[@setonhillstudios]

That’s so wild!!! 😳

[@StanCostello-q3o]

@@setonhillstudios oh I know I can’t even wrap my head around it!! And the fact that he finished that awesome solo!!

[@reallymysterious4520]

Even at around 60 years old he was still faster than anyone at ANY AGE

[@setonhillstudios]

I know right! So wild!!! 🤯

[@RichieRich980215]

He was 60 when this was recorded. I was lucky enough to see him over twenty times live with this band which was call Buddy Rich and his Big Band Machine! This Video is that Band. Also he already had his heart attack and had to get artery bypass on his heart, so he had already had a zipper on chest! He died at age of 70 with the cause of Brain Cancer at the age of 70. So many drummers stole a lot of his techniques to incorporate in the drumming, but bare he was doing with a single bass drum pedal!

[@warrenbrazina779]

If you like this solo then check out Buddy in Koln Germany 1979. That will BLOW YOU AWAY!!!

[@billmatthews2463]

Definitely traditional grip. As the old song goes, "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing."

[@Ozarkprepper643]

Thank you for this. When I seen him in perform in the early seventies it was in the band room at the junior college. Sadly there was only about 60 of us in there. Although it did allow us to sit close. And then he bothered to take time and interact with us all personally afterward. Now the solo that we heard was similar if not the same. I believe he was performing it. It just hadn't had a name early on. 🚜🤠🐂

[@setonhillstudios]

Thanks for watching! Such an incredible drummer and this performance was mindblowing! 😄

[@Victor-n1r]

Great video ! Love me some Buddy Rich for sure. To answer your question about stick holding, I started out match grip and then in high School marching band, a drum instructor from DCI showed us meaning the drumline all about traditional grip. We used to use the old thick or fat Ludwig sticks. More closer to the present, I prefer vic firth sticks

[@setonhillstudios]

I think traditional grip looks awesome! Drummers like Vinnie Colaiuta and Todd Sucherman just look awesome playing when they play traditional! I think it’s too late in the game for me to change now though! Thanks for hanging out and talking drums! 🥁

[@Victor-n1r]

@@setonhillstudios A standout drummer that start it out with a traditional grip and I'm sure still plays with a traditional grip is Stewart Copeland. Is the drummer for the police. Also, Neil Peart , drummer for the band Rush went from a match grip to a traditional grip later in his career.RIP Mr. NEIL PEART

[@setonhillstudios]

@@Victor-n1r Yessss! I just reviewed a live video of The Police yesterday on the channel and he was tearing it up! Stewart Copeland is such a beast!

[@patrickalpha1315]

From 7:51 - 8:03 he really reminds me of Animal from the Muppet Show. :-)

[@katiestewart5688]

Funny you mention that. Have you seen the Muppet show showdown between buddy and animal?

[@markjohnson4217]

You must check out Louis Belson, he was the 'other' guy. He was the first to include the double kick and in many ways he is even more nuts than Buddy. There is a legendary drum battle between Buddy and Louis on the Johnny Carson show. It does show that Buddy is more 'musical' and has more of a groove perhaps, but for sheer intensity, speed and syncopation, Louis Belson was that guy!

[@setonhillstudios]

Oh wow! Appreciate the info! Gotta check that out! Thanks! 🥁

[@markjohnson4217]

@@setonhillstudios I took another look at the Buddy vs Louie footage. It is from the 1975 appearance on the Tonight Show, and actually Buddy was much more aggressive and tighter sounding. He clearly took tbe title, Lol. But they set Louie up way at the back and Buddy up front, almost as if the title fight was rigged! Haha. The drummers holy trinity from the early era was Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson and Gene Krupa..

[@setonhillstudios]

@@markjohnson4217 🤣😂 The fight may have been rigged! I still gotta check it out though! Thanks!

[@samright4661]

Fun Fact Animal from the Muppets was a modeled after Buddy Rich! The OG of drummers

[@setonhillstudios]

Oh wow! 🤣 Makes sense now that you say it!

[@samright4661]

@@setonhillstudios Now you know why Animal was always acting wild lol

[@AaronJoseph-t4b]

No,no,no actually & factually he was modelled after "Mooney" Kieth Moon of the Who,dig,dig,dig you'll discover Jim Henson himself (Creator of the Muppets) was quoted as such

[@samright4661]

@@AaronJoseph-t4b No you’re wrong

[@critterwatcher8009]

@ about 4:20 on your video you can see his face flinch a bit. If you watch his face towards the end you can see him breathing hard willing himself through to the end.

[@setonhillstudios]

Shewee! That’s wild! Thanks for the insight!

[@GibsonHeavy]

They took him straight to the emergency room after this.

[@setonhillstudios]

Wow! Thats absolutely crazy! He absolutely killed this solo! 🔥

[@GrandmasGotGraceLW]

@@setonhillstudios Glad it didn't kill HIM! (Sorry...couldn't resist.) 😂

[@setonhillstudios]

@@GrandmasGotGraceLW 🤣😂

[@drewnelson5046]

Undoubtedly the best drummer ever. Another great drummer to check out is Joe Morello. I personally think Joe morello is just as great as buddy rich

[@MRCATL3]

Dude had a heart attack during this. His breakfast was cocaine and cigarettes

[@setonhillstudios]

Oh snap!! 😳

[@JoeCruz-hs2yt]

rush neil peart all -time drummer hero !

[@setonhillstudios]

Neil Peart is a legend for sure!

[@grahamreed8774]

Apparently Buddy Rich and John Bonham never had drum lessons- so mostly self taught.

[@setonhillstudios]

That’s wild! Two legends for sure!

[@robert-zr6vo]

Both but my left hand is still weak

[@bberger5902]

But you are awesome and so is my favorite little drummer boy, Jackson.

[@setonhillstudios]

Hahaha 😂 Well thanks!

[@johnbember3425]

Big fan of Neil Peart but Buddy Rich is the GOAT. Played drums professionally for 15 years until hauling and setting up a drum kit became too much of a PITA.

[@rachelbrachman1510]

Now you've got to check out Gene Krupa!

[@setonhillstudios]

For sure! This was insane! 🔥

[@barberjeff67]

I use both. Depends on the gig.

[@setonhillstudios]

Gotcha! I wish I could! Traditional grip has always felt uncomfortable to me. Thanks for hanging out fellow drum bro! 🥁

[@barberjeff67]

@setonhillstudios you're welcome, fun videos! First time I saw Buddy on tv was in 1981 on the Boston Pops PBS show. Blew my young mind! About 7 years ago , I started practicing traditional grip only. Took awhile to get comfortable with it but now it's natural to me. Btw, tomorrow I'm filling in with a 17 piece big band! Looking forward to it 🥁

[@setonhillstudios]

@@barberjeff67 That’s awesome! Swing back by and let me know how the gig goes! Good luck!

[@barberjeff67]

@@setonhillstudios will do, thank you! There is some big band stuff on my channel.. and don't expect any "Buddy" stuff from me! Lol

[@setonhillstudios]

@@barberjeff67 Oh cool! I’ll definitely swing by and check it out! Hoping to get some drumming up on this channel soon! Thanks for letting me know!

[@glassontherocks]

Mr. Bean "Invisible drum set"

[@guidosarducci]

I do believe that Buddy was Neil Peart's idol. MAN, you can't do stuff like that. Or CAN ya?

[@williambaxter4628]

How old was he here?

[@setonhillstudios]

Great question! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@stevekeener6528]

He was 64 years old at the time.

[@stevekeener6528]

From the book Traps the Drum Wonder.....Buddy could not read music nor did he ever practice. He would listen to a new chart with a stand-in drummer. Then according to his piano player he would apply his interpretation to the chart. According to one band member you could make one mistake, two and you were gone. He demanded perfection because he was a perfectionist.

[@setonhillstudios]

@@stevekeener6528 Wow! He definitely had them walking a fine line but oftentimes people that are this amazing have that trait!

[@scottrap]

No doubt, Buddy was the greatest of all time! Bonham, Peart, and Paice sounded a little average in comparison and I love those guys ❤️

[@setonhillstudios]

All incredible drummers indeed! LEGENDS!!! 🥁