Robert Brian - The drumming on the album 'Telekon' played by Cedric Sharpley.

It's no secret that I love the drumming of Cedric Sharpley and this is a quick review of his amazing playing on the Gary Numan album 'Telekon' from 1980.
Check out my review of Cedric's drumming on 'The Pleasure Principle' from 1979:
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[@jordanstrang8056]

On “We Are Glass” the drums have a bit of gated reverb specially on the overheads and a tiny bit on the snare. As for the effect that you ask about, from the sounds of it there’s a subtle chorus and flanger effect that goes at the same rate as the tempo of the track so it doesn’t fall out of time with everything else on the track. I think the acoustic drums are also layered with a drum machine too which also have a subtle flanger effect on it too. The hand claps on the choruses are heavily overdriven on the point of distortion as well as being mixed with the big reverby sound to make for the industrial big warehousey reverb effect similar to that of the clap sound used on Metal from The Pleasure Principle. Out of all of Numans albums, Telekon is definitely up there with the best produced ones of his output! No wonder it’s considered one of his best, if you ask me it’s one of the best albums of all time!

[@rikgay857]

Seen gary in Belfast a few weeks ago doing the replica and pleasure principle..Cedric has always been a massive influence on me too. His drumming on the live album Skin Mechanic from 89 is a master class. Cheers..rik

[@theintruder5401]

The 14" & 16" hanging toms were concert toms, & on the 18" floor Cedric removed the bottom head & rim, so the whole Tama fibrestar 9 toms were concert toms! 👍

[@CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

Brilliant👏👏👏 Thanks again. Would be great if you could do on of these at your kit and break down the fills in more detail🙏