Drummers In The Media

What’s wrong with me – yet again I’m not going to rant! Shout maybe but not rant…I was just thinking about how drummers are portrayed in the media (not helped by some of our own actions!) – then I got to see a clip of Sweep (Sooty & Sweep fame) playing the drums! A nice little four-piece kit (a bit like Matt’s) and some efficient solo work from the squeaking bad-dog. Sweep was always my favourite, like most drummers more than a hint of anarchy in his character!

As soon as you think of children’s TV and drummers of course then ANIMAL has to be the number one! None of that pretentious pseudo operatic warbling from THE PIG! Animal bashes it out in his fiery, manic manner – obviously inspired by Keith Moon and Ginger Baker – except Animal’s better! O and then there’s the intro music for Rainbow (no, not Blackmore’s outfit, it’s Zippy and friends’ TV show) – was there ever a drum break so classic; superior even to the break in Eastenders. Rainbow’s break is the sound of dull plastic boxes to Eastenders’ 80s synth.

Ah, I’m feeling nostalgic – must be the veteran in me… 

If only I’d kept that old video player… 

Tim