Musicians of the World

There are lots of different associations that can be made with the word “drum.” Depending on your age, where in the world you are from and what kind of music you listen to, you may picture anything from a Caribbean steel drum to a Chinese “fou” drum when you hear that word. Yes, there are a great many faces to the instrument commonly known as “drum.” But I must admit would be curious to know how many people, when asked what they associate with this word, would come up with the electronic drum.

Whereas a traditional drum of any vintage uses acoustic vibration to produce sound, an electronic drum uses an electronic waveform or sampler. Instead of being an instrument with a shell and a drumhead, these instruments have electronic drum pads. These pads contain either piezoelectric transducers (transducers that use crystals to generate electric potential in response to applied mechanical stress) or force sensitive resistors (two-terminal electronic components that can oppose electric current by producing a voltage drop). While this is perhaps more than most people want to know, the upshot is that when one of these pads is struck, a voltage change is triggered in one of these components. This produces signals that are then transmitted to an electronic drum module, or “drum brain.” The brain translates the signals into waveforms, which in turn produce the percussion sound that corresponds to the pad that was struck. So leaving aside all the technical jargon, electronic drums are used exactly like regular drums, except that you have to plug them in first.

Electronic drums have been around since the very early 1970s. Graeme Edge, drummer and songwriter for the band The Moody Blues, and Professor Brian Groves of Sussex University pioneered the first electronic drum kit for the band’s 1971 album. This kit and its early kin had a number of flaws, among them the fact that the sound produced was only a very approximate replica of the sound of an actual acoustic drum. There were also complaints of the restricted range of dynamic and tonal subtlety. As a result, the first electronic drum’s first decades were spent in the genres of rock, disco and techno, where they could be used to create a specific beat without having to worry about timbre.

However, recent advances have greatly improved the quality of acoustic drum kits. Pollard Syndrum, Simmons and Yamaha all now produce professional kits reputed to be nearly indistinguishable in sound from acoustic kits. Other manufacturers include Boom Theory, Drum Tech, Alternate Mode and a host of others. Improvements have included items like more realistic hi-hats, higher quality digital samples and dynamic impact detection.

As the electronic drum has improved, the ranks of its devotees have also swelled. Today, the list of professional musicians who use or have used electronic drums is a respectable one and includes: Phil Collins, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Roger Taylor of Queen, Stuart Elliot of The Alan Parsons Project, Bill Rieflin of R.E.M, Alex Van Halen and more.

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Duran Duran?

who loves the song”what happens tomorrow” by Duran Duran?

Saw them 3 times in concert and they gave such great shows! Luv you ,Simon! What happens tomorrow rules! Love all their other songs too!

Virgin Records issued 4 Simple Minds Box sets Volumes in 1990, each one containing 5 picture discs or ‘Themes’. These Box sets document Simple Mind’s music/sound in (nearly) chronological order from 1979 to 1990 by reissuing their early 12″ vinyls on CD for the first time.

Forget the comments found in certain rock-magazines: they are not a best of, nor a purely commercial rip-off. As mentioned on the Boxes themselves, they are an official collection of existing (vinyl) twelve inch singles, be it executed in original, aesthetically fashion (crucifix-shaped boxes).

Subsequently 19 of these individual Themes were individually sold as 5″ Theme-CD-singles, be it not as picture discs. Theme 20 – from Volume 4 – was taken from the live video Verona and never released separately. These individual CD-singles ought to be the official replica’s of the Themes from the Box sets, yet a few (significant) differences do emerge.

In 2009 the 4 original Volumes were re-released, together with a new 5th one.

In groups of 2 Themes at a time, we will review each song individually.

Volume 2 – Theme 9 – Speed Your Love To Me

Track listing:

1. Speed Your Love To Me [extended, 07:24]

2. Speed Your Love To Me [album version, 04:06]

3. Bass Line [instrumental, 04:41]

Speed Your Love To Me, 12 inch: the crème de la crème. Ab-so-lu-te-ly majestic. If the album version already turned you on, be ready for this one: top-drawer vocals, stinging guitars, the intro so fastidiously inviting, even the unborn want to join. Speed Your Love To Me (the maxi is an increase of 55% compared to the Sparkle edit!) is BIG. All but subtle, yet – placed in Simple Minds’ oeuvre – this cut really seems to come straight from the heart. Something Chrissie and Patsy proclaimed too. For a while.

Bass Line, the instrumental of Sparkle’s White Hot Day (the original working title of the album was Quiet Night Of The White Hot Day, btw), is collector’s B-list stuff. Unless your name is Stereophonics. Then you’d kill for such a track.

Volume 2 – Theme 10 – Don’t You (Forget About Me)

Track listing:

1. Don’t You (Forget About Me) [extended, 06:35]

2. Up On The Catwalk  [extended, 07:36]

3. A Brass Band In African Chimes [instrumental, 9:23]

Don’t You (Forget About Me): Nothing much to add. All is said about this career-defying Breakfast Club song. Originally turned down by Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol (who actually released it later – William, what is all that?). As far away from the 30 Frames A Seconds as possible, Don’t You still is a great track. No discussions about that, please. And at least it opened and filled the Minds’ Platinum Visa account in the US.

A mesmerizing 12″-bang of Up On The Catwalk follows. A must-have for your SM-collection. For the summing of names (towards the end of the song), someone suggested to add Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet). Thank God things turned out differently. The Natasha Kinski link probably came from the poster, which one of the band members had hung up in the recording studio.

A Brass Band In African Chimes has ‘class’ written all over it. Nearing the 10 minutes-border, this harder to find instrumental made the Theme 10-CD one of the longest un-repetitive official CD-singles around (more than 23 mins). Up until then, A Brass Band – an athmospheric, multi-layered triplet, the 3 parts divided by the fading out-trick – also was Minds’ most expensive recording. They didn’t mind. Nor do I. Or does my Stella.

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Coldplay?!?

I really like coldplay and its been a while since their last album came out and about time for a new one. Are there any new albums coming out soon by them?

Yes! The news of another album was released on their website about a month ago! It’s for sale on either June 16 or 17, I think it depends on what part of the world you live in. Should be available in all record stores.

It’s called Viva La Vida, which is literal Spanish for Live the Life.
The song list was released a bit later:
Life in Technicolour
Cemeteries of London
Lost!
42
Lovers in Japan/ Reign of Love
Yes
Viva la Vida
Violet Hill
Strawberry Swing
Death and All His Friends

I would kill to see them in concert. Only wish they’d come here… http://www.coldplay.com/index.php