Great link! I love those first two Talk Talk albums - good songs, made
even better by the combination of Simmons drums and Oberheim OB-Xa
synthesiser.
Now for possibly the most unlikely use of Simmons drums ever. Punk band
The Exploited on their "Horror Epics" album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0cvKEWAG0I love a bit of anarcho-punk, and this album is one of my favourites.
Hated by a lot of Exploited fans, since it tried to be a bit more
adventurous with not only the drums but a clearer mix. Some of the
tribal drumming goes a bit out in places on the title track, as drummer
Willie was not as technically good as he became on later albums like
punk metal masterpiece "Beat The B∗stards".
Chris
On 23/12/15 21:06, Scott Gibbons scott@... [Simmons_Drums] wrote:
> Lee Harris:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRvdXuMdfw&sns=em
>
> My love for Simmons drums was really cemented with Lee's work on the
> first two Talk Talk albums (I already loved Landscape's From the Tea
> Rooms of Mars, and Depeche Mode's A Broken Frame!) Lee and Paul Webb
> just worked so great together.
>
> This video, and there's another from Montreux in '86, capture their
> mastery & genius right before they abandoned electronics and embarked on
> a Miles Davis-infused Post Rock direction.
>
> all my best,
> - Scott
>