Exception To The Rule
A few nights ago, I went to a pretty cool jazz bar. They had this jazz band there, and the drummer RULED. They had a pretty decent piano player, singer, some old, bored saxophone guy, and then this one guy playing a stand-up bass. And he SUCKED. He looked liked he played the bass for a month, or something, and the band was really hurting for a stand-up bass player. But then again, he was the only one who really sucked there, so can't complain.
Anyways, I was sitting there, drinking a bottle of wine, totally mesmerized by the drummer. I mean, I played a little drums before. Well, I played guitar, bass guitar, and drums, all very badly. I figured if I was gonna suck, then better suck at as many instruments as I can. When I look at other drummers at club bands, I can pretty much say with great confidence, that if I had a bit of time to practice, maybe a week or two, I can play the songs that they're playing. But when I looked at this jazz drummer, I was completely lost. He looked like he had the whole rhythm scheme mapped out in his head, and was improvisizing from that. If I played for like 10 hours a day, for a year, then MAYBE I can imitate him a little. And you know what, I would fuck him, yes fuck him, if doing that would make me half as good as him from the act of fucking.
I mean, as I sat there watching, I had this impression that he was Yoda from Attack of The Clones, and I was a federation droid. Or baby Anakin from Phantom Menace.