First, yes, this guy’s fashion sense is abominable. I mean, look at this get up….
But, man, can he play. His physical abilities matched with musical ones would make any self-respecting drummer or drumming fan twist over double backward. This clip is from one of his recent DVD tutorials and is just a snippet….
Watch his foot speed and overall ability to mess with the time with blinding skill and accuracy. Thomas Lang, you make me ill.
To a lot of drummers, Vinnie Colaiuta is a gold standard to gauge one’s abilities against.
For some.
Some of us, myself included, realize we will never be this kind of player or simply do not ascribe to be this kind of player. That said, even though I know this about myself I can appreciate his greatness and do. Often.
Here’s a clip of a fusionoid super group called Karizma with mega players like Michael Landau on guitar, Neil Stubbenhouse on bass and Dave Garfield on keys.
My man Vinnie obviously is slamming away on the tubs.
Google has dropped yet another bomb on the internet world with a new platform for collaboration called Wave.
It’s a merge of email, IM and social media under one construct with a host of API’s for developers to now leverage those API’s for inclusion into their own sites and for them to also make their own services and extensions with it.
The entire preso can be seen below:
It’s truly fascinating and represents the next revolution online.