Buddy Rich Spinning!

[longgun]

I guess Tommy Lee wasn't the first one to do this

[SparrowBeat]

Wow that was sick. Thanks for sharing, LG. I was expecting him to just rotate upright, but this was much cooler.

[Ketchup is a Vegetable]

Interviewer: "What do you think of drummers who do stuff like playing solos while hanging upside-down or tricks like that?"

Buddy Rich: "I think they are full of s**t."

[Texdrumr]

Way ahead of his time.

[Pearl MCX Man]

I never knew that wow.

[slinky]

does anyone know when and where this was done and more importantly how? How is he strapped in? It looks real but............

[longgun]

No idea how he did it..............I'd bet it was cool to see in real life

[Russ]

There was probably a support hidden behind the curtain is my guess. Secret to any good trick is keeping up the illusion, making it seem like you're seeing one thing while another is going on.

[drummer]

Very likely an illusion. He looks/sounds "very" comfortable while upside down. I'm not convinced he's actually upside down.

[Pearl MCX Man]

It sure is real at first I thought that maybe someone played around with the video you know. Then when I saw the cymbals moving from side to side and then upside down. That is Buddy alright amazing drummer.

[longgun]

Very likely an illusion. He looks/sounds "very" comfortable while upside down. I'm not convinced he's actually upside down.

At first, that's what I thought too..........but you can see his cymbals move like he's upside down............

I just never thought I'd see one of the "old-timers" doing something like this....................but Buddy was a showman

[SparrowBeat]

MD - About the thing on "What's My Line", you know, the playing upside-down thing?

BR - That was something that one of their directors thought of doing. I had never done anything like that before. Until you've tried it, I's very difficult to explain. You're playing against gravity and... it was a real challenge, it was interesting. I didn! know what to expect because I had never done that kind of thing before.

From an interview about it.

[drumsetsnide]

Very cool.

[Markadiddle]

Pretty cool for it's time. I believe this was done the same way the old time magicians used to "levitate" their assistants. A pole on a forklift is pushed through the back of the curtain slid in to a pipe that is attached to the back of the platform. So when the forklift lifts the platform, assistants behind the scenes rotate it.

When Buddy was spinning though, it looked awful jerky. It must be hard enough to play upside down let alone being jerked all over the place.

[drummer]

MD - About the thing on "What's My Line", you know, the playing upside-down thing?

BR - That was something that one of their directors thought of doing. I had never done anything like that before. Until you've tried it, I's very difficult to explain. You're playing against gravity and... it was a real challenge, it was interesting. I didn! know what to expect because I had never done that kind of thing before.

From an interview about it.

That's coming from the same guy that said he never practiced. Sorry, but I'm still skeptical.

[SparrowBeat]

That's coming from the same guy that said he never practiced. Sorry, but I'm still skeptical.

Lol, true. Although he did say he thought playing with a band was important and that would essentially be practicing.

[drummer]

Lol, true. Although he did say he thought playing with a band was important and that would essentially be practicing.

Yup, lol. I'll meet you halfway on this one because honestly, I have no idea.

[longgun]

That's coming from the same guy that said he never practiced. Sorry, but I'm still skeptical.

yep, that's hard to believe.........................some people are just blessed with the natural talent though.

For the rest of us mere mortals......................practice, practice and more practice...................

[Markadiddle]

Buddy may have not practiced, but he did rehearse. (and the difference is... what exactly?)

[peachyplace]

That is awesome.

[drummer]

Here's one of the Newsboys drummer spinning, though not upside down.

[BackStreetDrums]

On the BR spin, seeing is believing. Yet, he is too cool as he plays upside down. As a GREAT drummer he was, that kind of relaxed and continued playing while being spun would be even hard for a trained astronaut to 'sit' through...as much as I want to, I can not 'believe'

[slinky]

I agree with the skeptics on this one. I don't think it happened. It looks too jerky plus I don't see any tie downs. Wish we could get full proof.

[slinky]

on a side note here is a band that Mick Mars was in way before Motley Crue and his drummer did do it. 1975!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=QfMHmmJhNqg

[rickthedrummer]

The clip is real and it was on "What's My Line". He was a "secret guest celebrity" and his thing was that he was going to play the drums upside down.

Also, he never did practice. On Johnny Carson's show 1 night, he said to Buddy that, having been to his house, that there wasn't any drums anywhere to be found, in fact, there isn't anything there to see that would let you know what he did for a living.

Anyone who has ever traveled with a band would probably tell you that there isn't time to practice, at least not practice as I look at it, where you sit down a play for a couple of hours. If you are on the road, there really isn't time for it.