Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Imagine getting fired and still going on about it and complaining about it nearly 30 years later.

He might have a new and better role if he wasn’t pissing and moaning about that one job all this time.

Can you sympathise with his situation a little bit?

It's more than just losing one job. Attaining a career as a professional musician on that level of success is something that happens to a tiny handful of people and requires a combination of genuine talent with an immense dose of good luck (right place, right time, right band, etc.)

That career was taken away almost as quickly as it began in a way he didn't expect (and arguably didn't deserve) and he was right back to square one, no doubt suspecting he would never have a pathway to that level of professional success again.

I don't think everyone can dust themselves off from that and move on, at least not very easily.

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Imagine getting fired and still going on about it and complaining about it nearly 30 years later.

He might have a new and better role if he wasn’t pissing and moaning about that one job all this time.

Can you sympathise with his situation a little bit?

It's more than just losing one job. Attaining a career as a professional musician on that level of success is something that happens to a tiny handful of people and requires a combination of genuine talent with an immense dose of good luck (right place, right time, right band, etc.)

That career was taken away almost as quickly as it began in a way he didn't expect (and arguably didn't deserve) and he was right back to square one, no doubt suspecting he would never have a pathway to that level of professional success again.

I don't think everyone can dust themselves off from that and move on, at least not very easily.

96583UP wrote:a bit ironic though that Ed purged him bc Dave was too corporate/conformist and now Ed is the one palling around with billionaires doing private corporate gigs

tommy wrote:

96583UP wrote:a bit ironic though that Ed purged him bc Dave was too corporate/conformist and now Ed is the one palling around with billionaires doing private corporate gigs

I thought he was fired for smiling too much

tragabigzanda wrote:Let’s talk more about the Immortality drums.

tragabigzanda wrote:

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Let’s talk more about the Immortality drums.

Let’s. Brushes or reeds?

And they’re obviously mic’d differently than the rest of the record. More similar to Elderly Woman. And maybe Nothingman.

My vote is for reeds — those tom hits have too much girth for brushes.

Being pedantic, but I think probably it’s mic’d the same but mixed differently, with more of an emphasis on the OHs and space around the kit. It makes the song feel 3D in a way that most of Vitalogy doesn’t — to your point, you’re totally right, a lot like Elderly Woman; maybe not so much like Nothingman, where the drum ambience is more about a reverb effect.

McParadigm wrote:The song as written had no business turning out that superb. It is a textbook example of how playing (by all involved) can elevate a piece of music.

Strat wrote:ill ask