Who's Your Favorite Drummer? Bell Gardens' Charlie Woodburn

[In The Margins]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsoun ... rlie-wood/

4. Pete de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen)

He was the drummer from Echo and the Bunnymen and he was a really big influence on my drumming. He died in a motorcycle accident in the '80s... His drumming had a little something extra to it. It was really precise, but with a lot going on.

[happy_loss]

Nice that Pete still gets mentioned now and again. I read the article, the guy also listed Budgie. Pete, Stephen Morris, and Budgie all are at the top of my list.

[DivaDiana77]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/interviews/favorite-drummers-charlie-wood/

4. Pete de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen)

He was the drummer from Echo and the Bunnymen and he was a really big influence on my drumming. He died in a motorcycle accident in the '80s... His drumming had a little something extra to it. It was really precise, but with a lot going on.

AWESOME! Bell Gardens is a local LA band. They sound a bit neo psychedelic themselves. I'd say it's somewhere between 60s psychedelic folk and Dream Academy. The drummer is quite good.

http://bellgardens.bandcamp.com/

[tonywojo]

AWESOME! Bell Gardens is a local LA band. They sound a bit neo psychedelic themselves. I'd say it's somewhere between 60s psychedelic folk and Dream Academy. The drummer is quite good.

http://bellgardens.bandcamp.com/

sounded ok

neo-psychedelic means what?

[DivaDiana77]

sounded ok

neo-psychedelic means what?

Psychedelic music is supposed to resemble a spacey feeling like you would get on an acid trip. Whatever. Uses rage, modes and drones. In any case, it's a 60s sort of sound like what Will does with his guitars. Television, the Mamas and the Papas, etc.-- that sort of sound. Back in the 80s very few groups were doing it, a few more as time went on and now it's really making a comeback. In the 80s, the psychedelic sound had a strong post-punk influence (EATB, Teardrops, The Church, The Clean) which you won't hear in many of the more recent groups who are starting to delve into folk.