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Life in the fast lane
A pretty comprehensive documentary on the life of Cozy Powell, who weaved in and out of the Purple family much of his career, and had played with… Perhaps it would be easier to list whom he hadn’t played with. It is lovingly put together from archival footage, contemporary and posthumous interviews with the people who knew him well. Enjoy!
Thanks to Edtrader Music & Entertainment for posting it and to Uwe for bringing it to your attention.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Thanks or posting this video, will commence watching it a little later. The Barbarian at the Gates (not my words, he he he). Cheers.
June 12th, 2025 at 02:31Yes, it is I who brought you a documentary of the (actually gentle) Barbarian at the Gate, all ye Cozy nutters! I am atoning for my sins having criticized your (hopefully only second-) favorite skinbeater in the past. 😆
Seeing him in a full-body condom dressed as a sunflower and reciting a children’s rhyme softened my heart, you have to see it for yourself (and trust me, you will never be able to unsee it afterwards 😂).
I didn’t know he was adopted. And never made that contact to his birth mother though the idea haunted him. Wrote postcards to the folks who adopted him while on tour. It puts his journeyman image into a new light, maybe he did want to belong after all.
It’s one of the best documentaries on a rock musician I have personally seen, it grabbed my attention that I actually watched all of it although I had other things to do.
That was one silly, unnecessary car accident death, let me tell you. Don’t drink and drive and for chrissakes wear a seat belt!
June 12th, 2025 at 02:35Cozy is my favourite drummer, after Ian Paice. He has (had) this great power when he hits. When playing live he tends to be a bit too fast, though.
June 12th, 2025 at 06:00Having played on Rainbow’s “Rising” makes him automatically a myth.
And do NOT talk on a mobile phone whilst driving either. I read that that is one of the reasons amongst the others you mentioned Uwe. Probably aquaplaned when hitting water, but that is back to point one and the two fast issue too. I seriously think that a seat belt would not have saved Cozy, by the sound of it. A shame indeed as many accidents are. He was a rebel no doubt Cozy, I can just imagine him telling Ritchie a thing or two back in the day, meaning ‘where to go’ etc. Thanks for digging this up Uwe, you have been partially absolved of a sin or two. Cheers.
June 12th, 2025 at 08:42He was catapulted out of the car at a high speed – that did it. Had he been secured in his Saab, a car that generally offered some crash security, who knows. Yes, the darn cell phone and the stress of consoling his significant other who was having marital issues (not with Cozy). It was all things at once – he wasn’t speeding on a rainy night just for the heck of it.
Who know if his tires were still any good either, at that point in his career his cashflow wasn’t great – like most drummers, Cozy didn’t write so royalties were scant + at the time of his death it had been a while since he had been with a well-paying band and I don’t believe you can play yourself rich backing a mentally ailing Peter Green on the UK club circuit. Add to that how Brits in general are lackadaisical re tire changes.
In the last seconds of his life a drummer lost grip – ironically tragic. 🙁
I always thought Cozy looked extremely cool with his haircut, sideburns and chiseled features. Those handsome cheekbones alone would have ensured him a job with Oasis had they been around. And the way he used (not always) traditional grip while hammering away was cool too.
Outside of Priest circles his work with Glenn Tipton is probably not well known, so here is an example
https://youtu.be/_970wFwdL4o
Mind you, Tipton‘s voice though pleasant and tuneful is not really heavy metal roadworthy, but Cozy‘s drumming was of course made for music like this.
June 12th, 2025 at 12:19Hello !
This is kind of yesterday´s news I think…better late…
…is there anyone other than Uwe wake nowadays?
: )
A true legend and very hard hitting master of the drums. Unfortunately I saw him only once live on stage.
Before I forget (courtesy of JL) …
…is this document somehow “official” ?!
I mean there was an official document coming years and years, under the name
“Dance With The Devil : The Legend of Cozy Powell”….?
https://cozypowellfilm.com/
I watched this video some months ago, and somehow it feels that some parts are from that “official” document project…?
They did have some teasers online (of the forthcoming document) of some interviews they did for it (Suzi Quatro, Roger Glover and Don Airey for example).
Whatever the situation is, it would be really important and fare to get the OFFICIAL
program done, so we all could purchase a DVD or Blu-Ray and if there´s someone related left to the late legend, they would get somekind of royalties maybe, too, if You understand what I mean.
One of my favorite personal meetings ever with the names kind of involved with the topic here, is the hard hitting drummer himself, Mr Bobby Rondinelli.
It´s years since, but when I asked him, what did he think of the “touch” of Cozy´s drumming, he straight away was the same opinion as I : Cozy did hit HARD.
At the Ruis-Rock Festival in Turku 1983, I was truly afraid Cozy´s snare drum won´t make it. Somehow it did!
….and the gig was of course Whitesnake featuring Lord, Galley, Moody and Hodgkinson. I think Mr C.was there, too. They played there just a couple weeks before the filmed one in Donnington. And played then yet to be released song, Guilty of Love as a teaser.
Those were the days.
: )
Summer greetings to everyone there from Finland.
June 12th, 2025 at 15:19@ 6 – It doesn’t look or sound ‘professional’ to me at all. However, I am about half way through it and I am enjoying a fair bit of it. Just up to the ‘hair metal’ section at present, Whitesnake 1984 era. I thought I had better retire for the night at that stage, as I could end up having strange nightmares about all that permed hair and everything. I have noticed a few of these segment clips in other places online over the years. Cheers.
June 12th, 2025 at 23:00“Not me, not David , no one in Whitesnake ever had a perm.”
Neil Murray in Kerrang!, valiantly lying in 1984. 😂
June 13th, 2025 at 13:18I thought Rondinelli grooved a bit more than Cozy – Cozy was kinda harsh and rigid in his micro-timing, but of course that type of brutish drumming was his trademark and it worked well with certain types of music. Michael Schenker incidentally once said that while Cozy was a larger than life character and great drummer, he preferred his successor’s – Ted McKenna – style for MSG. Although a hard hitter too, Ted grooved more.
Hiza, I’m sure that what I found is perhaps an early stage – pre-final cutting room – of what should have been that announced official documentary (I didn’t know it never came out). Obviously, some of the editing is still very raw and the sequencing is ragged, but from the source material this seems to be way more than just a fan compilation. Just look here at the teaser for the official documentary …
https://youtu.be/_FxkkawMpVs
Cozy would really be deserving of a two or three CD compilation, compiling his work from the 60s to the 90s from all the different groups he played with and I’d really like to hear that shelved Jeff Beck Group album with Motown covers he played on, that must be somewhere?
Here’s a bonus for the Cozy fans amongst us, that (mimed) promo feature for Graham Bonnet’s Line Up album which also featured a faintly reminiscent guitarist and I think Ken Hensley on keyboards …
https://youtu.be/V0j4XTiBjKY
Plus a Cozy centric-shot of the Night Games vid …
https://youtu.be/Y6GtgNilCoA
He really looked great playing the drums, better than most drummers, as I said, Noel & Liam Gallagher would have swapped him up immediately for Oasis had he been their generation. As Noel once said: “To play with Oasis you first need a proper haircut and second wear what’s right!”
Finally, for those of you wondering what Suzi Quatro has to do with Cozy: They knew each other well (no romantic affiliation!) from their joint RAK/Mickie Most days
https://shop.memorylane.co.uk/p/767/for-love-suzi-quatro-21327924.jpg.webp
and it is Suzy’s bass you hear on Cozy’s first solo single hit “Dance With the Devil”. Their paths would continue to cross.
https://youtu.be/SJjqRaM9BBQ
Cozy ain’t forgotten:
https://youtu.be/2AIaFUDlIZQ
June 13th, 2025 at 15:24@ 9 – that is a very good cover of Stargazer there Uwe, thanks heaps for that and a nice start to my day and my coffee really enjoyed it too. I am quite particular when it comes to cover versions of great songs. I thought I recognised the drum kit, the look and sound of it, wonderful. A mighty song Stargazer is and I am going to say it again, on another level to anything Ritchie did before or since. Gates of Babylon too, just the feel and delivery and the lyrics and everything else. Bravo. Cheers.
June 13th, 2025 at 23:24Yes indeed Ted McKenna is a wonderful drummer and I am familiar with his liaison with Rory Gallagher. I don’t mind Bob Rondinelli either. I had no idea who Rondinelli was with the DTC album Rainbow debut, same with JLT. It all sounded much more together than the Down to Earth album, to my ears at that time and it still does. Rondinelli is also on Black Sabbath’s Cross Purposes album and tour, he is very good on that album. I have to say that Jon Lord looks rather out of place on those Graeme Bonnet song videos, he isn’t suited at all to that AOR style of music. Orchestral and solo, DP and the one off PAL and that is about it for me with Jon. As good as it gets. Cheers.
June 14th, 2025 at 01:20“The Loner” is my favorite song of Cozy. Clem Clempson played it well jazzy …made famous by Gary Moore. “The Loner” A Stockholm 1987 DVD ? Gary’s guitar is crying, I’m crying…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-PtmcPyK0
Up there for sure…they jam well
June 14th, 2025 at 09:15Yes, Cozy’s legendary Yamaha drum “Fortress of Solitude”.
Little Ian always playfully fretted (with just a little vitriol for seasoning) about how you can buy HIS signature Pearl set – EXACTLY THE SAME QUALITY – in any drum shop while the signature Cozy Powell drum sets offered by Yamaha were nothing like what Cozy actually played, that was custom built by Yamaha for him according to his own specifications with reinforced construction and special quality materials. Apparently so expensively made, that it wasn’t commercially viable to offer something of the same quality to common folk, nobody could have afforded it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bamA0MnHwTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLsqdSGOuo
(Warning: Contains boring hardware mumbo-jumbo, interesting to seclusive drummer creatures during regional winter time only.)
June 14th, 2025 at 18:14Uwe a question, please that I think you would be able to address. Cozy Powell was originally supposed to play on Dehumanizer. Ronnie and Cozy weren’t getting along, I believe because Ronnie couldn’t get Cozy to leave Rainbow when he was fired. I remember reading that Dio told Iommi that Cozy was a great drummer for Rainbow, but the wrong drummer for Black Sabbath. At first, I took this with a grain of salt because the two weren’t getting along to begin with. I was surprised to find out that Geezer Butler found it difficult to play with Cozy, so then it seemed like a credible argument. Then of course Cozy broke his pelvis falling off of a horse, and Vinny Appice was brought back. Why do you think Geezer would find it hard playing with Cozy. I saw Cozy with Sabbath on the Forbidden tour and him, and Neil Murray played the Ozzy and Dio songs well, at least I thought so. Thanks Uwe.
June 15th, 2025 at 08:55A lot of musicians have custom made instruments that you cannot necessarily purchase, that is fine by me. What about Carl Palmer’s infamous metal drum kit from the early 1970’s? So heavy that about 6 men were required to move it, something like that. But then we also had that keyboard monstrosity from the late 70’s. I think John Paul Jones purchased one, the name escapes me at present. So hideously huge and ridiculously heavy and of course off the planet, financially speaking. We have to laugh, technology has its ways of sorting out the wheat from the chaff doesn’t it. Cheers.
June 16th, 2025 at 01:10@ 14- sidroman, don’t encourage Uwe, please, we have heard the Cozy ‘rushing the beat’ scenario so many times, with so many allegedly different musicians, ha ha ha. Seriously though, I do remember Geezer whinging about Cozy’s playing back then. Cozy would have been too busy for Geezer, (Geezer did say just that too). Geezer’s playing changed in that early 1980’s Sabbath with Vinnie Appice. Much more straight ahead and less inclined to be a little jazzy or dare I say it ‘progressive’, for want of a better description. Hence Vinnie being popular for that reason. Straight and slogging it out, much more suited to Geezer’s doom laden simplistic approach. Bill Ward was a jazzier player, hence my comments regarding Geezer ‘dumbing it down’ so to speak. And yes Cozy and Geezer probably wouldn’t have got along either, forgetting for a moment the Dio issue with Cozy. I was never expecting Cozy to be drumming in that Dio ‘Dehumanizer” era band to ever eventuate. I was hoping against hope it may, simply because I done’t like Vinnie’s style at all. Too much slogging, if that is the way to describe it. Each to their own. Cheers. There you go Uwe, a simplistic look at Cozy’s drumming along with Vinnie’s, without banging on about it, pun intended. Cheers.
June 16th, 2025 at 01:25Sidroman, as a drummer Cozy was simply a solitaire. He joked in interviews circa Rainbow era “but then I never listen to bassists anyway, that is at least what people say”.
You might have noticed: Cozy is rarely named as a member of a classic rhythm section (though he certainly was one with Neil Murray, more of that later), people focus solely on his drumming. In all my years I have never heard anyone here or elsewhere say:
“The way
Clive Chaman/Dennis Ball/Jimmy Bain/Bob Daisley/Jack Bruce/Roger Glover/Chris Glen/Colin Hodgkinson/Neil Murray/Greg Lake (you take your choice!)
AND
COZY POWELL
clicked as a rhythm section was simply a dream”.
Cozy didn’t really communicate or interact with bassists while playing, he had that powerhouse approach, followed the lead guitarist (or with ELP the “lead keyboarder”) and expected from a bassist to fill the (few) gaps he left and in general “to keep up” with him. As a bassist, all you could do with Cozy is submit and surrender to him like a galley slave to the beat of the galley drum if you wanted to achieve a certain tightness of the rhythm section. He was on drums what Clint Eastwood is as an actor in the movies, you don’t hire Clint to interact with other actors, you hire him to fill the screen larger than life. Bassists to Cozy were necessary sidekicks, not 50% of the rhythm section.
Wherever Cozy went, bassists were regularly hired as an afterthought only. With Rainbow, I believe he worked best with Bob Daisley. With Neil Murray he formed what was perhaps closest to a traditional rhythm section, but only because – and Neil has confirmed this – because Neil changed his approach to adjust to Cozy’s style, sacrificing all rhythmic and melodic nuances that had made his bass playing with Paicey so special (and the two of them such a groove monster of a rhythm section). Much has been made about Paicey saying to Roger Glover early on “I lead, you follow!”, but the reality is that Little Ian always listened very closely to what the bassists playing alongside him were doing, hence he doesn’t force them into a certain style, but rather gels with them. That is why Nick Simper, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes, Paul Martinez, Neil Murray and Craig Gruber (and Macca!, I truly don’t think Sir Paul would have invited Cozy …) all kept sounding very individual when playing with Paicey while even I have a hard time telling Jimmy Bain, Bob Daisley and Neil Murray apart when they played with Cozy. [Yes, you can of course pick out Jack Bruce when he plays with Cozy, but Jack Bruce has a style that doesn’t really lock in (with the drums) either, he basically solos over what the drums play.]
All that is not to put Cozy down, his style has his many fans and Neil Murray once said that what you lost with Cozy in expression on your own instrument you gained through the sheer physical excitement of playing with him. If I had to name a bassist who to my mind would have been perfect with Cozy then it is someone whose paths never crossed with him: John McCoy. John plays (or played) bass a bit like Cozy plays the drums. I think the two would have been a monstrous rhythm section – make way for Godzilla!
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And John’s machine-like accuracy coupled with his dominant style would have reined Cozy’s rhythmic imperfections in somewhat.
I’m not surprised that Geezer Butler had a hard time playing with Cozy. Cozy rushed and tended to be ahead of the beat, Geezer plays behind the beat and is used to swinging drummers (Bill Ward) or human metronomes (Vinnie Appice). Cozy was no metronome: He marched intrepidly ahead and tended to – as Bob Daisley so succinctly put it – “cut corners” in his breaks, jerking the timing back and forth to make it fit (“The bar is finished when I say it is!”😂 ). Gary Moore, an obsessive perfectionist and drum machine fetishist, couldn’t take that at all, hence Cozy was fired at short notice ahead of the After The War Tour and replaced by the metronomic Chris Slade.
So, to answer your question, yes, Cozy wasn’t easy to play with as a bassist if you wanted to get something of your own style across and, double-yes, the team Murray/Powell still worked best although a far cry from the beauty, elegance and sumptuous womp of Murray/Paice.
Now watch Herr MacGregor appear on the scene and tell us how I got it all wrong!
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PS: Sometimes it’s little things/nuances, listen to how Ian & Neil play the syncopated triplet breaks in the singalong part of ANLITHOTC (what an acronym!) here @31:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuSWXK3OUe0&t=1678s
or here @03:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfiKl5h7AIE
and what Cozy & Colin do here @03:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSC_mB5Fok
or Cozy & Neil @03:21 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z5hk9nad2Q
(and you can also hear that Cozy’s snare work live wasn’t exactly always precise 😏)
That kind of rhythmic subtlety Little Ian showed just wasn’t Cozy. But to all forever 14-year-olds of this world he will always be the more impressive drummer, crash-bang-wallop, switch on the double-bass drum machine gun, ra-ta-ta-ta-ta … 🤣
June 16th, 2025 at 02:10Continuing on with the Cozy situation in Sabbath 1992. There is no doubt the horse riding accident saved Tony Iommi from being put in a difficult situation, as if he wasn’t already. Cozy would have been ‘let go’ in that ‘reunion’, for the obvious reasons. Geezer and Ronnie were adamant from what I was reading all those years ago. Not to worry as I enjoy a lot of the Dehumanizer songs and had the pleasure of witnessing a couple of them being played in 2007. Song quality over anything else is paramount, although I did loathe the drum sound of Appice’s on the album. He is a powerful drummer Vinnie and it was good to hear and see him performing the Sabbath songs that he recorded with them. Mob Rules and Dehumanizer songs plus a new one or two that were written and recorded for that box set of the Dio years in 2007. I am hoping to get these comments in before Uwe, landing a killer blow or something similar, striking while the iron is hot. Leaving him speechless, oh, sorry, that would be impossible wouldn’t it? Blame all the coffee I am drinking, Karin has a lot to answer for, he he he. Cheers.
June 16th, 2025 at 02:16Strangely, Cozy never seemed all that busy to me – Mark Nauseef was “busy“, a percussive firework, and Little Ian could be. My son’s significant other is a professional drummer playing with Suki Waterhouse and since – she’s American and only 27, cut her some slack! – she didn’t know who Ian Paice was (yes, she knew John Bonham, to my chagrin …) Leon played 🔥 Burn 🔥 to her at my request and the Detroit gal’s reaction was an unimpressed “Everything everywhere all at once!”. 🤣 (I have to rethink whether I’m really in favor of this liaison dangereux my son has entered … 😂)
Cozy drummed flashy, with overstated drama and his drum break cascades sometime threatened to bring proceedings to a screeching halt, but I never found anything he did overtly complex. His double bass drum work especially was simplistic, more physical than cerebral. Frankly, I have doubts whether he could have performed Burn (he was never required to). What made Cozy‘s drumming special was that- even when he was just laying the rhythmic groundwork – every beat from him DEMANDED ATTENTION !!! And I also do not deny that he had creative ideas in his drumming – that Stargazer intro might not be the most complicated drum sequence on earth, but coming up with it is another matter altogether! Cozy’s penchant for entering into breaks you would not always know how he would come out of them was also dangerous in an entertaining way (unless, of course, your name is Gary Moore and you as a sour-puss want everything to be repeatable with absolute certainty and accuracy).
Cozy’s style, though legendary, wasn’t for everyone, he ran into issues with it repeatedly: Gary Moore, Black Sabbath (Indisn’t even know about that until Sidroman mentioned it) and he was asked to even leave Peter Green’s band where his style was deemed “too heavy” by the other musicians – Neil excepted. (When Cozy met his fateful end, Neil Murray was still playing with Peter Green, but Cozy had already been asked to leave and they had a new drummer – given that Cozy was instrumental in getting Green out of his depression and back on the road, that was hardly a nice thing to do.) Greg Lake’s statement that Cozy’s heavy drumming was a total departure from Carl Palmer’s more cerebral approach ”but it never really gelled with ELP” seemed to indicate similar concerns.
Not a fan of Vinnie Appice either, Herr MacGregor, Cozy‘s drumming had at least humor, laddishness and a certain devil-may-care attitude plus he was always entertaining to watch.
A co-musician (I forgot the name, was it Doug Aldrich?) of Vinnie Appice once said that his particular strength was the way he heard riffs, putting the “1” and the downbeat often in the most unexpected places from the viewpoint of the writer of the riff. I can imagine that both in Sabbath’s and in Dio’s music that could yield interesting results. Iommi’s riffing is sometimes counter-intuitive (unlike Blackmore’s), that is part of his idiosyncratic charm and Sabbath’s success.
Overall though, I prefer Carmine’s style to his little brother’s. More swing and flash. Also very much rated by Little Ian.
June 16th, 2025 at 14:05@ 19- your son can do NO wrong Uwe, he is a Zeppelin aficionado. Just relax and everything will be fine on that stairway to heaven, he knows the way to all that glitters is gold. Regarding the Cozy and Geezer conundrum, too busy for Geezer is what I read and of course he is, when compared to Vinnie Appice. That also could have been an excuse to start things off. Geezer was never happy about Iommi continuing on with other lineups, he would have loathed staying on for the Cross Purposes album and tour. Grumpy Geezer, grumbling Geezer, oh well. Then he joined the O$$y circus and left and grumbled about that. I also prefer Carmine Appice to his younger brother, Carmine is old school, say no more. It was a ‘shock’ to say the least, turning up in November 1980 to the Sabbath concert and an unknown drummer (Vinnie) on the drum seat. He did well though all things considered, being thrown in at the deep end. It was disappointing though from a musical perspective, simply because Bill Ward was on the new album (Heaven and Hell) and of course all the 70’s songs. Returning to 1992 and Dio would have been on about Cozy right from the go no doubt, and Geezer probably didn’t even know Cozy and let’s face it, their personalities would have clashed big time. Geezer doesn’t come across to me as a up beat type of character, Cozy definitely is just that. If I could choose who to have a chat with over a drink or two, Cozy would be my choice. Geezer tends to be much more introverted and, well enough said there. It’s all Heaven and Hell, black and white, positive and negative, etc etc. Total opposites in so many ways. With the Peter Green gigs and Cozy leaving, yes, after a while that was probably inevitable don’t we think. I tried to watch some of that from those links that you sent last week, it was painful in many ways, not to worry. Cheers.
June 16th, 2025 at 22:12Thanks Uwe. Btw, one bass player that hasn’t been mentioned is John Entwistle, Cozy played with him on the Tipton Entwistle Powell album Edge of the World. As much as I love these 3 players, I never cared for that album. I love Tipton’s guitar playing but I think his vocals are awful. I wish they had gotten a proper singer in with them. One of those albums that I think of what could have been.
June 17th, 2025 at 03:20John Entwistle was The Who’s lead guitarist one octave lower, but he wasn’t really a rhythm section team member. He didn’t play so much with Keith Moon as over him (and vice versa) which had its moments of course, but only because Pete held things together. Kenny Jones once said: “The Who had two lead guitarists, but no bassist except for my bass drum!”
Yes, Glenn Tipton’s voice could have perhaps worked on a singer-songwriter or British folk album, but had no business singing heavy metal. And JAE wouldn’t have lasted an audition with JP, so anathema is his style to Ian Hill’s whose goal in life is not to be heard with his band, but only noticed via his absence. Compared to Ian Hill, even Cliff Williams of AC/DC is a show-off. 🤣
Herr MacGregor, your drummer brethren Vinnie wasn’t a complete unknown when he proceeded to drum with the Sabs, in more civilized parts of the world he was known from his work with Derringer (the band that also gifted guitarist Danny Johnson to Alcatrazz)
https://youtu.be/V6v50tg-CiY
and he played with Axis too:
https://youtu.be/Aoaq7VLh64o
He’s not a bad drummer.
June 17th, 2025 at 10:48@ 22- Speaking of Rick Derringer, he passed away a few weeks ago. I was aware of Rick from Edgar Winter’s ‘They Only Come Out at Night” album way back in the day and also a connection with Steely Dan, among others. A very well respected musician and producer and he was connected with many high profile musicians throughout his career. However a little later on with Derringer, I don’t recall knowing about their drummer, Vinny ( I just realised our incorrect spelling). Not at that time. It was early days though and Carmine of course was a much more higher profile drummer. Vinny is a good powerful drummer, I just don’t get into his playing that much. He suits the Dio era Sabbath though, especially after the debut H&H album. I did enjoy watching him from close up in 2007. Hearing him with his original drumming in Sabbath is much better for my ears. Mind you as we all know, no other Sabbath drummer would have Bill Ward’s feel. That is an old school jazz sort of thing. Cheers.
https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/rick-derringer-all-american-boy
June 18th, 2025 at 01:08We cannot mention the late Rick Derringer here without his lasting contribution to video art of the more expressive kind. Sometimes less can indeed be more.
https://youtu.be/WbZq5idUJcI
Purple never had good life-affirming videos like this, lamentably so.
June 19th, 2025 at 17:48Thanks for the Rick Derringer clip Uwe. I noticed the removed comments due to certain people’s take on things. I did listen to the other two Derringer songs that you sent, that Sweet Evil song is a good one. I could hear a little of Budgie in that. A few commentators mentioned they could hear Metallica in that song too. From my memory Metallica were influenced by Budgie and no doubt Derringer too by the sound of it. Cheers.
June 19th, 2025 at 23:50