Sonny Emory Throwback Thursday From the MI Library

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[@Mooi957]

The thumbs down have to be a slip of the finger! How can anyone not like, respect and be in total aw of Sonnys playing!! Fantastic!!

[@mmj2g3]

If this isn’t PEAK Sonny Emory, I don’t know what is!!!??? Blazing from beginning to end!!!!

[@jimdrums4life499]

I keep looking for the double kick pedal on his left foot. Nope. Doing TRIPLES that fast, even, powerful and clean? Wow

[@skinnyman1434]

Must be a pretty good feeling knowin' you're one of the Best drummers on the planet. Maurice is smiling like a mug. May GOD keep BLESSING you.

[@patbrady2574]

Love Sonny's playing.

[@eddavis8096]

Greatest of ALL TIME

[@tommix6461]

SONNY EMORY TOP OF THE TOPS !!!

[@SONORSQ2guy]

He’s so underrated 👍

[@Adumas51]

crazy talent !!!!!!!!!

[@joeyclark2485]

This has to be one of the best drum solos in all of human history! Not joking Sonny’s the real deal bro, fuggin mad chops

[@jimlassen9422]

He was great with Earth Wind and Fire playing solid material and is absolutely fab doing this stuff decades later. What a drummer huh? He can do it all I reckon.

[@j.p.lindsay6768]

Sonny Emory just plain kicks ass! :)

[@loveofthegame4395]

Stumbled on this video while attending MI back in the 90's. Watched it at least twice a week for the rest of my time at MI. I'm amazed that it has been posted on youtube, didn't think I would ever see the video again after graduating from MI. Thank you for posting!

[@alexmook6786]

Beautiful drumming.

[@chv307]

Sonny is a beast!!

[@jeighsonhester3822]

He's Still got it Then&Now! Beast

[@davidbyrnes6111]

Straight beast mode

[@megaforse]

So sick! What a master.

[@borgullet3376]

Pound for Pound, Sonny is The SICKEST Cat I have Ever seen...

[@jimmykipper3985]

Holy shit!

[@jarvismayes9544]

I still listen to him this very day he ain't having it😎

[@dubenstein6347]

Throw backs are best way to begin closing the week!

[@fachas54]

such a great player!! . Amazing!!

[@randyreed1284]

This is a man who has definitely mastered his craft very nice Sunny God-bless love and prayers awesome awesome musician ship

[@donaldham1218]

The musicianship he displays is always what I take away when I watch videos of Sonny. Amazing musician though

[@joebagodonuts3040]

The cat is like lint. Always in da pocket. !!! Sonny is da man

[@Britto7197]

O cara é um monstro. 👏👏 fera

[@s.goldberger4887]

Awesome!

[@jarvismayes9544]

the man is just pure funky straight up

[@martinbrandt3907]

For me - the best there is!

[@phillipfornett1802]

BEAST!!!

[@wolowolowolo]

Freakin awesome player!!!!

[@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel]

This video scared many people.

[@cj_ssfsm]

This rules 😊

[@danielroik6065]

Wow this is Great, just like all the other's, that are Extreme Mode.

[@dmitrybogatsky1734]

Great competence!

[@lavishd.4347]

Sonny is a monster !!!!

[@rewelldrums]

Such technique prowess , amazing

[@edwardwilliamsams6589]

Father of Gospel Chops

[@christantonugrohosir802]

Playin for EWF & Lee rit just enough to tell how good is he

[@NEWSKAIGAI]

I was there it was around 1990.

[@macthedrummer1]

i love those two crashes on his hi hat side.

[@FabianoOliveiraDrummer]

Muito bom, Toca Muito...

[@rong8280]

@ 13:30, he hit 'em with a little of that "razzle-dazzle"!

[@RandomThingsMan06]

six years since this has been posted.

[@lolocelulademinhavo7286]

Toca demais!!!!!

[@mariosnapp6383]

One BAD, "is all can say ",mother!!!. Never seen anything like him. Indescribable. ‽???????. Peace *

[@alpertmajor]

Best there is? I'll say! unreal! Never heard anything like it! Dudes in a different league! 18:05 18:05

[@steadypace747]

Effortless...and Sonny seems to do it with less effort. Even when bruh accidentally dropped the stick, if it wasn't video, I may have never known that he had dropped the stick, because his recovery was so smooth and, again, effortless. Love to listen to Purdy, Roach, Haynes, Jones, Rich, Gadd, Vinnie C. (Didn't wanna butcher'em), Chambers, Hakim, Katche, Royster, Beaufort, Erskine, Weckl, Peart, Bonham; but I see and hear stylistic and/or musical elements of them when I listen to Sonny Emory. Not just a great drummer, a phenomenal musician.

[@twowombmates]

had to be an key influence on Chris Coleman!? Love Sonny! M

[@j.p.lindsay6768]

Damn!! :)

[@leandroperez9271]

Kick ass . Funk it!

[@drumlessonspracticetime6166]

yes please upload Vinnie's appearances....

[@marianoreffino6724]

Ahhh.

[@user-yc7og7lv5q]

ВЫСШИЙ ПИЛОТАЖ .......................РОССИЯ !

[@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel]

What means that?

[@dmguk9931]

those single tom fills tho

[@rosanecarrion7849]

Comentem.alguma.pra.mim..

[@user-yc7og7lv5q]

ВЫСШИЙ ПИЛОТАЖ.......................................................РОССИЯ !

[@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel]

You posted that before, but with fewer dots.

[@rosanecarrion7849]

Fera..

[@jonmccallum4477]

Where is the foot cam at 4:50 ? Triplets on 1 foot

[@billbrandt1106]

Ur right! Amazing!! Not an easy thing to do - but he made it look easy.

[@twowombmates]

thinking Mike Mangini must've studied a lot of Sonny... M

[@5Antvin]

year ?

[@Itz-Ze-Dog0]

What year was this??

[@vittoriopetrina9937]

I ask to myself what is the year of this clinic, the drums is the Recording Custom or the Tour Custom?

[@michaljirasek3148]

He used to play Remo drums also in the past.

[@starryshadrach6803]

Wen was the video shot?

[@yahozna6161]

Year?

[@gmorton916]

not 4 sure of the EXACT year but most definitely late 80s or early 90s

[@paulharrison5560]

Great playing as always from a guy I had the privilege of seeing live at Ronnie Scott’s in London. But those drums sound terrible.

[@davidbyrnes6111]

You was good until you said that dumb s*** at the end the only thing sounds horrible is your mouth right now shut it