Drummers receive a lot of flak. Wild and tumultuous, bands go through drummers as a Lothario does women. They are compared to animals and stereotyped as stupid. Oh, come great 88BOADRUM, asking us to fall in love with drummers again! Coupled with an electronic composition, singer, guitarist and bassist, 88 drummers thumped into the night in carefully plotted waves of thunder. But the most thrilling moments were when they pounded away in unison, creating a spiritual, invigorating force comparable only to the primitivism of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
To see all 8 pictures, click here. To see a T-Sides video of 8 minutes and 8 seconds of 88BOADRUM in NYC, click the jump.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBG-tC0bg4k[/youtube]
2 comments
Ryan says:
Aug 13, 2008
haha. i know who that beard in your pictures is. he is in No Neck Blues Band. HW played with them at Bard last fall.
quite the noodling beard indeed!
Taylor says:
Aug 13, 2008
Ooh, yes, I remember you talking about them. Thanks, Ry!