V1Battle 2015 | Bernard Purdie | Performance

Legendary drummer Bernard Purdie perform in Saint-Petersburgs' (Russia) largest Hip Hop festival. It's workshop and show in one.

[@cfrt999]

Two things- music is the universal language and, the space between the beats is just as important as the beats. Genius.

[@jdion79]

they were nice to pull out the B8s for a legend.

[@timpricedrums]

😂😭

[@txv611]

Absolutely the only drummer on earth now who can play drums alone only and make it sounds so full of soul and music.

[@marymacleod7222]

What a great crowd. You can tell that Mr Purdie appreciated it!

[@michaeltorres1263]

"This is so you can.. daaance" love that so much

[@lv1023]

Now this collusion is what I am talking about!

[@funklover24]

Fasinating to watch the faces of the people in the audience. Bernard gets them all. Me too ... ;)

[@brad42948]

Not only is this bloke one of the world's greatest drummers, he's also a great entertainer 🙌

[@lelandchapman1]

This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing!

[@RolandSeer]

Yoda of the drums

[@ИванМурыгин-д4о]

i love this man, his beats, his charisma, maybe i wanna get study of drumm lessons :D. Only Bernard Purdie and Shanon Larkin burn fire in my heart

[@mikeh66]

AWESOME! OUTSTANDING! THE POWER OF MUSIC!

[@professorhamamoto]

Funk be the international beat.

[@x302mw]

Такой величины фигуру увидеть своими глазами так близко это большая удача. Повезло зрителям.

[@BobSchoepenjr]

If you can sing it you can play it , so true!

[@trashcannon6453]

yo is that DJ Qbert in the bottom left? What a fucking treat this show must have been.

[@handidrummed]

I turned starting at 9:35 into a ringtone. Funky.

[@naamapalmupula]

Epic! Can u send it?

[@JesseP.Watson]

Absolute... Ab-a-sa-lute Gee-nee-usssss. Ab-a-sa-lu-tally. Huh! Maaakes my day, ev-er-y-tiiiiime. Huh!

[@zvensabri2533]

A love Bernard

[@Datsun510zen]

This man lives in the penthouse of a tower known as GROOVE. Ante nobody like him.

[@saxon8981]

Except benny greb maybe

[@samich57]

Music is Universal

[@rickhxc]

half of the audience : "what is shuffle ?"

[@russwilson7102]

It's more than half!

[@ciaronm.7694]

The man! He ‘splains it like a fucking God. Bernie!

[@boscopit]

St. Petersburg is a beautiful place. Cold as a fucker though. Coldest place I've ever been

[@timpricedrums]

Joyous!

[@lobmin]

This really got me wigglin' and bobbin'.

[@gregmann2143]

Keep it simple. He is Mr. Groove!

[@dorian2112]

love this guy, but i still cannot get his shuffle. frustrating. i can do the hands and feet seperately, but not together just yet, it just falls apart for me. maybe in time.

[@Boujonzu]

Ther'es tons of great tutorials online. Just keep at it. I learnt it in about 2 weeks with about 15/30 mins practise a day. Youll get it :)

[@JaymacDrums]

you'll get it!

[@WalkersLawn]

There's a Steely Dan video, The Making of Peg where he talks about it a little. Check it out.

[@stunt-]

Would be funny if the translator translated his ad libs

[@txv611]

He is the only drummer allowed to sing.

[@stevechrollo8074]

The drumset got pregnant from this

[@chsemaphor]

Блять, отдайте это видео в какойто драм мэгэзин! Это позор, что у такого видео 10 тыс просмотров за три года.

[@malachimarch956]

I didn't know black people could go to Russia lol. Now I know I gotta go meet Putin

[@jaylight944]

Well, it's a hip hop and and breakdance festival, it would be extremely ironic if the white Russians wouldn't allow blacks to the festival

[@MrNikolab]

Лучше бы не переводил...

[@russwilson7102]

The key here is, yet again, demographics and socioeconomics.

[@FirstLast-cf4mi]

Ha ha, this is why blues/funk/soul/jazz could never have been born in Russia. "Oh Yeah!" - - - "Gizde strazde bizdt ginoi tze drazde tze don phraurzdr arzztaazasrsrzzzysszzzzzdztzdttzdztz."

[@sergiuszwinogrodzki6569]

Wziął pałeczki i zaczął nastukiwać na barabanach, nie wiem czemu, ale to zdanie brzmi śmiesznie.

[@vieri031]

Russia is only place on our planet where you got to translate english for 'people'

[@danteuccello9550]

vieri031 ??

[@funklover24]

Basically Bernard speaks the language of music so well, that the audience doesn't need a translator. Unfortunately the thranslator himself realized this only in the second half of the clinic.

[@sanjieev]

Bobbleheads. Lol

[@Komplekservisru]

Ведущий противный чел🤮

[@АнатолийХохлов-з9и]

Пепсикольный русский

[@russwilson7102]

Using the adjective "lengendary" is a crime when speaking of Purdie. His drumming skills are much more closely akin to the typical Holiday Inn 'fill-in' drummer. His megalomania is apparently contagious.

[@musicis1]

How?

[@russwilson7102]

Unoriginal and unvarying. Easy marks are prey for his inflated sense of ability. Listen .. you will either hear the differences from true professional drummers or not.

[@musicis1]

@@russwilson7102 Agree to disagree on that.

[@lilkujo]

Yeah hes probably the most recorded session drummer in history because of his major megalomania and lack of unique talent and skill... opinions though, we got em

[@outside2585]

@@lilkujo Yeah, he clearly faked his way through those Steely Dan, Miles Davis, James Brown, Quincy Jones.... auditions. Musicality and "sense of ability" are very different things. But I digress.