Moe's Drumming Style
White light, White light goin' messin' up my brain
White light, Aww white light its gonna drive me insane
White heat, Aww white heat it tickle me down to my toes
White light, Aww white light I said now goodness knows, do it
But there are no stars in New York sky, they're all on the ground.
This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
In the book "She's a Rebel" they interview Mo, and she says she first discovered Olatunji when Murray the K used some of his music as an intro during his show. She also said that he and a band of other African musicians atually ended up playing a show at her high school while she was a student.Pernod time wrote:Mo said she was influenced by Olatunji, anyone ever heard of him, or could share some tracks? I have a Coltrane CD recorded at the Olatunji centre, he must have been pretty influential back in the sixties?
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Strictly self-taught, Moe drew on her Bo Diddley and African Olatunji influences to create primal, mesmerizing backbeats. Just audit her playing on anything from "Venus In Furs," to "Sister Ray," and its easy to understand how vital her contributions were. Moe inaugurated the very idea of the female-as-instrumentalist into the collective rock n' roll consciousness, and set a lasting precedent. Rrrriot Grrrls, Schmmrriot Grrrls. If it wasn't for Moe, they'd still be playing with Barbie dolls and filling high school detention halls.
But there are no stars in New York sky, they're all on the ground.
This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
That interview answer is quite accurate,and explais very good Moe's drum playind style,I think.
I always play standing up because I then can get that style and sound I want. If you?re sitting you can?t (well, I guess you could if you had pretty long arms) use the bass drum as a cymbal, really. You ride along on the bass drum very often. I always hated cymbals. When I was first playing with the Velvets we did a lot of improvising stuff as opposed to structured songs, and I always hated cymbals. There?s so many drummers who are technically much better than I?ll ever be but they?re just so damn busy. I always think that the drummer?s just supposed to keep time?that?s basically it.
And of course Jonathan Richman point of wiew: http://www.drummergirl.com/interviews/moe.html
I always play standing up because I then can get that style and sound I want. If you?re sitting you can?t (well, I guess you could if you had pretty long arms) use the bass drum as a cymbal, really. You ride along on the bass drum very often. I always hated cymbals. When I was first playing with the Velvets we did a lot of improvising stuff as opposed to structured songs, and I always hated cymbals. There?s so many drummers who are technically much better than I?ll ever be but they?re just so damn busy. I always think that the drummer?s just supposed to keep time?that?s basically it.
And of course Jonathan Richman point of wiew: http://www.drummergirl.com/interviews/moe.html
But there are no stars in New York sky, they're all on the ground.
This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
There's also that Maureen interview on Perfect Sound Forever (http://www.furious.com/perfect/maureentucker.html)
Maureen wrote:You remember Murray the K? He was the biggest DJ in New York. He used to open and close his show with this African music and it was always the same song. Every time I'd catch it, I'd say 'oh man, this is great!' But he never said who it was. It was really frustrating. One night he mentioned it for some reason- 'that was Olatunji "Drums of Passion."' So I ran out and got it the next day. I LOVE that stuff.
It's funny because in '62, I was in the high school library when an announcement came over. 'Anyone who would like to sell candy to help pay for an African drummer named Olatunji to come to assembly to play, please go to office.' So I RAN to the office for that! So, in our silly little Levittown (Long Island) school, we got Olatunji and his full troop with ten or twelve musicians and ten or twelve dancers. It was just stunning. I've loved him for a long time. I asked the teacher for the next class after the assembly if I could get a pass so I could find him and get his autograph. She did let me go and I got an autographed picture which I still have on my bulletin board here.