Here is what’s available of Vinnie Colaiuta’s performance at PASIC in 1985, which has since become somewhat legendary, and I was lucky enough to see in person. The quality is poor- plus there is such […]
Category: Vinnie Colaiuta
My Vinnie Year – part 3 – superimposed metric modulation
This is a technical piece by Vinnie Colaiuta, which accompanied his 1987 Percussioner magazine interview, and he now shares with us on vinniecolaiuta.com. I spent considerable time with this- way too much, actually, considering that […]
My Vinnie Year – part 2 – Percussioner magazine interview
Sometimes I think the whole purpose of this blog is just for me to gather all the things I ever did, heard, read, or listened to about the drums a put them in one little […]
My Vinnie Year – part 1 – “My left hand is kind of funky.”
It was actually more like three or four years closely studying Vinnie Colaiuta’s playing, but this sounds better. Anyway, ’87 was when I was really deep in it- or so I thought- and he happened […]
Vinnie Colaiuta interview – Percussive Notes, 1995
Vinnie with friend, c. 1982. From Vinnie Colaiuta’s web site, an interview from 1995 issue of Percussive Notes, by Rick Mattingly. My other big Vinnie thing on the blog is my Packard Goose transcription, which […]
Projects
Light posting for a couple of days while I proof a transcription/analysis I’m submitting to Drum! magazine– they’ve expressed interest in my Vinnie Colaiuta/Keep It Greasey piece (from the guitar solo in 19/16)- here’s hoping […]
Vinnie Colaiuta transcription – Frank Zappa’s Packard Goose
This is one of the hairier transcriptions I have ever done- Vinnie Colaiuta’s drum part from the guitar solo on Packard Goose, from Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage. I originally transcribed this- along with much of […]