HW: Father and son

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, colm mcwilliams wrote:

> I have never been that impressed with danny thompsons style of drumming when
> he was in hawkwind. Strangley though when i saw him drum at the hawkestra
> gig for both hawkwind and bedouin i thought he was pretty good!

        I think there are two things going on here, the first being that
he has just got a lot better (and got a better kit maybe? He does need one
built to his size really... ) over the years, and the second that Bedouin
just goes faster. Danny's variation isn't huge but when you're going at
that speed what he does do by way of it comes across much more effectively
because the attack of it is that much greater. That's how it seems to me
anyway. He's still not as bad as Martin Griffin for lack of inspiration
though; okay his drumming on _Xenon Codex_ is nothing special but then the
production of it makes it so flat that one wouldn't care even if it
were. But compare it to Martin on _Choose Your Masques_, and... well, come
back Danny all is forgiven, you know? Yours,
                                             Jon

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