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Author Topic: Funky Mike Clark clip  (Read 281 times)
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« on: June 19, 2008, 06:13 PM »

Mike Clark is funky. His kit also sounds great here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xglvBageLfk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/xglvBageLfk</a>
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 08:19 PM »

Thank you for sharing. I thought it was a good crisp sound. Very nice clip.
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2008, 10:51 AM »

It's amazing to me Mike Clark remains a background character in the Great Drummer Mythology of Great Drummers. I should have put his name in the under appreciated drummers thread.
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2008, 11:13 PM »

I think the guy has great chops, but the Bebop kit sounds odd when he's playing a funk groove.  The bass drum is boomy and rings so much that some of the articulation of his playing is lost.
 
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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2008, 01:55 AM »

I'd have to respectfully disagree about it sounding "odd," which is of course a subjective analysis, but I would also disagree that the articulation gets lost. On the contrary, I think each drum sounds great individually, and as a whole the sounds complement each other. They sound like drums in a day and age when sizes and materials almost become irrelevant with the amount of muffling/triggering etc. that goes on both live and in the studio.
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2008, 10:54 AM »

I think the guy has great chops, but the Bebop kit sounds odd when he's playing a funk groove.  The bass drum is boomy and rings so much that some of the articulation of his playing is lost.

This is the sound he's been using for 30+ years. It sounds odd because all the guys who followed in his footsteps copied his licks and not his sound.
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