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Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’… The art of creativity using rim-clicks and hot-rods to originate timbral variations.

The verse pattern implies the crotchet quarter-note pulse using opposing accents (not unisons) between floor-tom rim-click, x-stick snare...

Van Morrison’s ‘Crazy Love’...

Love playing those brushes... hi-hat syncopation syncing in with the vocals and guitars and a solidback-beat (with ghost notes) and bass...

More magical moments with the late great John Baker...

“The Fugitive Kind”...seductive, alluring, dissonant, yet smouldering and sensual...The Baker Suiteat its barest and beautiful best....

Sydney a few weeks back (unplugged).

“Italian bloke works with me, and we swap laughs and company “ Sound checking ‘Long Run’ from Redgum’s ‘Virgin Ground’ album released in...

"Italian bloke works with me, and we swap laughs and company"

Sydney a few weeks back (unplugged). "Italian bloke works with me, and we swap laughs and company" Sound checking ‘Long Run’ from...

Sound checking in Sydney on Saturday evening with ‘Long Run’ from Redgum’s 1980 ‘Virgin Ground’ album.

Hot-Rods seem to work well on this groove for texture and note-width locking in beautifully with Jamie Harrison’s’s syncopated and...