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- Delve into the brilliance of Vinnie Colaiuta, a Modern Drummer Hall of Famer whose unique technique and versatility have cemented his position as one of the greatest of all time.
Intro: 00:00
Frank Zappa: 02:16
Session Musician: 05:16
Philosophy: 08:37
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I had the pleasure of seeing Colaiuta play with Herbie Hancock at a festival a few years ago - fantastic performance + drummer. Do share any stories or your favourite Colaiuta performances down below along with any suggestions for other drummers/musicians you'd like me to cover. Don't forget to like and subscribe!
Arguably the greatest technical drummer of all time.
Wonderful video, thank you for that! I can only warmly recommend anyone who is not yet familiar with Vinnie Colaiuta to listen carefully to the album Secrets by Alan Holdsworth from 1989 - perhaps the artistic highlight of his career.
Did you see herbie play at love supreme fest?
@@jamieboylesdrums3978 I did indeed! They played a great set
@@OffBeatChannel did you also see the pharaoh sanders quartet play that year? Best gig I've ever seen - was like experiencing the classic coltrane quartet first hand.
Rest in peace a true legend!
Two of the best quotes: "Thought is the enemy of flow" and "Get into the character of the music over the patterns"....I agree 100%
Yep. "You can't think and play." ~ Joe Pass
Those are from Bruce Lee
It applies to so many things, not just music. People who are learning how to draw, for instance, are way too in their heads. I call it being "precious" about their drawing, when good drawing is loose and gestural and flowing.
As Virgo drummer, that's hard to do! LOL
His work on Allan Holdsworth’s Secrets is absolutely incredible. The fact he can play with guys like that then cut an album with Megadeth is astounding in stylistic range…
That's exactly why I think he's the best. What range.
anyone that worked with Allan was special
Greatest studio performance of all time.
he punched the card to do formulaic pop metal LOL
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 that's ok. He's earned it.
I met Colaiuta at rehearsal studio in NYC in the early 2000's. Beyond nice... A genuine and genius person. I had the privilege to watch him in a session with Herbie Hancock. Let's just say, Vinnie made Herbie smile multiple times.
I truly believe Vinnie is the world’s greatest drummer.
Listening to zappas guitarsolos when Vinne was in the band, I never get tired of it. His constant flow of new ideas and weird grooves, and then jumping on to a new idea from Frank in a millisecond, it is truly fascinating.
Check out Donait's live playing with Holdsworth!
Well, most of Zappa's album solos were pre-recorded years before they got on the album.
@@wolfgangdevries127What do you mean? Sure, some stuff on Shut up ’n play year Guitar where made by mixing two different locations together to create some interresting stuff, but most of the tracks are just solos taken from songs. And they are a real testment to Vinnies art. Or - check out Pick me I’m Clean from Tinsel Town Rebellion.
@@mykonomen all the solos on Joe's Garage.
@@wolfgangdevries127 Yes, they are. With very interesting results I’d say!
The outro on Keep it greasy, sounds like it’s being played backwards it’s unbelievably tight and technical but still retains the groove.
I think Toad O Line, also on Joe's Garage, was called the most complex drumming of the 20th Century by Modern Drummer.
The first verse in keep it greasy blows my mind everytime. Still cant wrap my mind around it
Edit: I'm a guitar Player though
It's unbelievable. It's in 4/4 + 3/16 or basically 19/16!!
Ten Summoner’s Tales sold me!
Great album. Vinnie plays a very big role in its greatness.
Agreed. So great on Seven Days.
@@davidmaida6453 I absolutely love his whole groove on ‘I hung my head’ on Sting’s Mercury Falling
Colaiuta's drumming on the System has Failed is some of the best Metal drumming- and he's not even a Metal drummer. That's how awesome he is.
DAMN, this guy is a compelling speaker and storyteller on top of being a stellar musician.
The first time I was aware of Vinnie was when I went to see Jeff Beck in concert in 2018. I didn’t know who he was at the time. But about three minutes into the first song I turned to my girlfriend and said, this drummer is amazing.
RIP Dom. That was a great interview between two class acts
I saw Colaiuta at a clinic right after he left Sting. It was amazing, he wasn't really feeling inspired so he stopped playing and just rapped with us about life. He grabbed an ash tray, lit up a cig and sat in the front of the stage with a mic and had a killer conversation with us all. 👍(of interest, Dom Famularo "opened" and totally blew my mind away with his chops as well!)
cool story, thanks! I'm not surprised by that. He's genuinely a kind soul
It's how Vinnie handles his Cymbals that does me. Nobody has the touch, vinesse, and dynamics as he does. The coulors of a rainbow - that's him.
He Used To Cut The Grass is imo one of the most underrated colaiuta works
absolutely!!
Packard Goose too!
I've followed Vinnie since he joined Zappa for Joe's Garage. He is truly one of the greatest drummers of all time. The ONLY other drummer who came close for me is Vito Rezza. Ok, I'll admit my bias for Vito hahaha...when I was fourteen I started a rock band (1969!) and needed a drummer. I asked around the school if anyone knew a drummer. I met Vito, went to his house, squeezed into his tiny bedroom that had a drum kit crammed into it. Vito sat down and began to play. I don't think i was able to close my mouth for a week! So for the next year or so we played some highschool dances and outdoor events. Veets was the STAR! The girls would line up afterwards to meet Veets (OH the seventies!) Vito has gone on to a succesfull career as a highly sought after drummer and teacher. You can find him and his band '5 After 4' on TH-cam. We're both late sixties now and he's still going strong! Viva Veets!
Cool stuff. lol You're a good writer too.
The closing instrumental break of Keep It Greasey always gives me goosebumps.
That Zappa audition story was great, Vinnie recited it beautifully.
The GOAT!!! please do Dennis Chambers next I love this series
I saw Vinnie once when Dennis was there. I had met him before. He said Vinnie is killing it tonite. One of my favorite drumming moments.
Listen to Warren Cuccurullo's Thanks to Frank, and you will be amazed by Vinnie Colaiuta's playing. What is really cool is that the album was recorded live without any overdubs. Thank you for your video presentation.
As a lifelong, jazz inspired bassist and fretless at that, ON TOP OF being a ZAPPA fan.
Someone once told me Vinny was zappa’s favorite drummer. Never thought to question it. Probably would have if they said Zappa liked anyone more than him.
Hi. In The Real Frank Zappa Book he gives VC the grand prize (sic) for keeping up with Zappa's on-the-fly variations in rhythm. He subsequently gave a similar commendation to Mike (not a drummer) Keneally, though.
All best
His diversity in insane. Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Megadeth, Sting...crazy shit. Prob top ten drummer of all time.
If not top 3.
And Allan Holdsworth…Secrets
And with Jeff Beck
drumgod🔥
Vinnie and Thomas Lang. nobody else comes close.
Back in 1991 or so we were recording a demo at Mad Hatter. We were nearing the end of our session when a drummer rolled up in his SUV and started unloading. The engineer was working out some technical stuff so we offered to help. At some point while shuttling his gear into the studio I realized it was Vinnie who had played on an album a few years earlier by Nik Kershaw called The Works. Nik was one of my favorite artists and Vinnie had played on several of the tracks (Jeff Porcaro also plays on the last track, Walkabout). What a treat it was to hear about those sessions not to mention meet one of if not the greatest drummer of all time. Chick also dropped in during our session just to listen in, what a weekend! Thanks OB for your fantastic content and for sparking this memory.
Vinnie's playing with Sting was perfection.
"Thought is the enemy of flow." Wow! Loud and crystal clear!
I only subbed because Frank made me...:)...Great video about an amazing drummer...Saw Frank in 79 ...He's had so many amazing drummers! Saw Vinnie for the first time with Gadd and Weckle...As a fellow drummer; his left hand is to die for...Thanks for the upload..
thank you for your kind treatment of Vinnie and his playing
Thank you Vinnie!
Really well done video. Vinnie is the GOAT
Watched a 5 year old Buddy Rich tutorial and now here's a 4 hour old video about another drummer genuis I just heard of.
The Megadeth song "Back in the day" has some crazy footwork going on. Most metal drummers can't pull that off. Amazing drummer with a brilliant approach to the instrument.
One of my favorite drummers! Vinnie’s the man!
There’s a story that someone saw Vinnie at a grocery store with a basket on his arm holding a drum pad and practicing while shopping. He also played with Chaka khan. Zappas 555 remastered version with vinnie is the best
one of very few masters of his caliber! Vinnie in so many performances continues amaze and inspire everyone who witenesses his craft
One of Vinnie's earlier recordings was an album by Tom Scott entitled 'Desire'. It was a live-to-2 track project involving about two dozen musicians, recording 8 tunes over a couple of days in the early summer of 1982.
I think it's a good example of what Vinnie referred to with his 'as soon as the red light is on' comment (in the 'session musician' part of this video clip).
Inspiring post...thank you!
11:23 - finding your own style - love it. As Sly Stone said "in the end you'll still be you"
Wonderful video, thank you for that! I can only warmly recommend anyone who is not yet familiar with Vinnie Colaiuta to listen carefully to the album Secrets by Alan Holdsworth from 1989 - perhaps the artistic highlight of his career.
I was just about to write the same thing when I found your comment. In fact the whole album is amazing. And with Jimmy Johnson on bass, it is to die for
Zappa. Beck. Even if these are the only two he'd have ever played with, that would be beyond impressive...
Beck was the business.
Vinnie on Holdsworth's Secrets is the greatest recorded drum performance of all time.
My hero 😮!! UNBELIEVABLE player !! Vinnie is right the flow is the way to go!
My first exposure to Vinnie was, unfortunately, the Modern Drummer issue that paid tribute to the then fallen, Jeff Porcaro. I read all the tributes but Vinnie's always stuck out to me. Then "Ten Summoner's Tales" came out and Vinnie was EVERYWHERE lol. Mind you, I hadn't yet discovered Zappa or other things he'd done. THEN, I found his solo album (at a Zia Records in Phoenix) and still have it. Fast forward a bit to oh, 2005 or '06 (sorry can't quite recall) and Jeff Beck was playing here in Vegas at the Hard Rock. And guess who he had backing him on drums? Yep Mr. VC himself. I went of course. And as we were waiting for Jeff to take the stage, guess who literally, and I mean LITERALLY walks by me to get the stage?! VINNIE!!!!! Now, of course I didn't know it was him until he'd already passed me, and of course, I wasn't gonna "one of those guys" and try to "say hi' or anything. But man, that was a thrill! The musical dexterity of this man is just unheard of! And because of him, I got to know who a lot of the legends were, including the late, great and fantastic Mr. Tony Williams. Vinnie, you are a genius -mad but disciplined!
Saw him up close, playing a Zildjian clinic here in Edinburgh, years ago. That was an absolute eye-opener.
Great videos for all musicians and music lovers!
I have to remind myself that when he talks about technique, he's talking from the perspective of a master, and that my lesser skilled brain isn't skilled enough to grasp the real meaning of what he's conveying.
The greatest
yip first heard him with zappa...blown away 66 still listening
I can’t believe I just heard of Vinnie within the last year! I was talking to a local musician friend of mine. Vinnie and I are the same age and grew up 10 miles from each other!!! He probably went to school with cousins of mine in Republic, PA.
Cool video, thanks.
Thinking to much so true .such an excellent musician.
One of the Goats
If Zappa said it to Vinnie, I'll subscribe ❤😂
Bello/magnifico.🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🌡️
I'm so jealous of (but also happy for) people who find their callings, especially when it's early in life.
The Most versatile and perfect accurate player i ever heard
The man is music - if they ever come out with that brain hookup machine they used in the Matrix, Vinnie would be highly pursued
What an amazing drummer! 🤯😳🤘He’s an assassin
A classic example of when you know someone is world class but they just don't do it for you. It's crazy, he just doesn't float my boat even though i know he is incredible. Dave Wekkl on the other hand fires me up every time with his groove. I guess that's art. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
I'm the opposite
That is just you being intellectually and artistically honest. I wish everyone was.
I can go along with that. I know Vinnie is awesome, but when I hear him play Headhunter tunes, for example, I think he hits too hard and too solid. I prefer Harvey Mason's touch on those records.
Colaiuta was a huge upgrade for Zappa.
What a great drummer. ❤he’s style.
Great artist
good stuff
Dope 🎉
I saw him with Jeff Beck in 2019. They covered Mahavishnu’s You Know, You Know, and his solo verse was jaw dropping.
Holy crap, what a résumé. Such versatility. Chameleon is right!
And that "thought is the enemy of flow" quote is brilliant life advice. As someone who self-sabotages with overthinking, I need to take that advice, haha.
Gotta love Vinnie! One of his greatest tracks is the song Tattoo from the Nelson Kole album of the same name. What a groove.
Anyone Frank Zappa mentions in one of his songs has to be great.
Tremendous drummer. I used to enjoy the privilege of hearing him many Tuesday at The Flying Jib in Sherman Oaks, joining Dave Boruff, Pat Kelley, Neil Steubenhaus and Michael Fisher. Incredible jams for the price of a couple of beers!
I consume music for what it offers me, but I always felt like the music wanted something from me when I play.
Good collaborations demand a healthy dose of humility to be able to hear what is needed.
I've heard Colaiuta process a wide variety of situations so fast that it seems like he's reading minds ahead of time.
"one of the first things that Zappa allegedly said to Colaiuta was to subscribe to Offbeat" LMAO
Damn, drumming on Joe's Garage was sublime.
I caught him playing with AWB in New Orleans one year. Off the chain!!
I’m a guitarist/singer/composer, but that obviously doesn’t stop me from engaging and engrossing myself and pursuing most things that have anything to do with Vinnie!
This is great but you overlooked his amazing work with Allan Holdsworth.
7 days is not only a great technical achievement, but a very melodic way of complimenting the song
This guy is awesome and this video is amazing. Could you do Dennis Chambers next
I unfortunately did not get to start playing drums until I was 18. I did, however get to practice a lot as I was working nights and my parents were working during the day. Plenty of time to practice. I listened to Steve Gadd to get the groove. I’ll listen to Vinny to try to understand time. I’m extremely appreciative to both…
WOW.
I get him. You become one with the music. It’s a drama in play. Steve Via told young musicians to become the note.
I went to Berklee for a few minutes in the 80’s. I had an instructor who was a student when both Vinnie and Steve Smith were there as fellow students and he said they weren’t very special at the time. Good drummers not great but after leaving they both took off. Got a lot better in a short period of time.
If you were good enough for Frank, you were very good. You were top notch.
Man the beach boys really found their sound and stuck with it 😂
I've started wearing all stars when i play and it's really opened doors..
Great video!
The footage at 0:18 - 0:20 - could you please remind me of the video title? I remember it being incredible but I can't find it.
He's "kinda young, kinda wow"
"Kinda young kinda wow"
Crazy time signature in Frank Zappa's, "Keep It Greasy"....Saw Vinnie with Frank playin' it live. Listen to it and see if you can figure it out without googling it, good luck!
Coliauta is so apt when he addresses how he writes his parts around what he listens to. But I think I this modern world he falls short of accreditation of the writer of the original piece overall. Now, for the rest of you here it might be easy to discredit my opinion here seeing Coliauta has a record of great success. I will say though that my opinion expressed here is confidently done so because recently this year I was not only commissioned to write a drum part for a studio track but also I was commissioned to write the lyrics over a predeterminedelody part. Subsequently I'm so proud of my lyrics to this part that my acception to coliautas account on song creditadition is missing that lyric contributions
R.I.P. Dom
Find the King Of Drummers video with Colaiuta, Gadd, and Weckl.
I love Vinnie and Dave, arguably the 2 greatest ever, but Steve stole the show.
@@xxxYYZxxxSteve is king of feel and groove, no one comes close
Yeah Vinnie Paul
I saw Doms face up in there. Lol. He’s a character. Great Guy
I’ve recorded Vinnie on several occasions. One of the best.
“Go home and practice until you no longer have to introduce yourself “
A name that escaped me until I heard him..... Vinnie
If Zappa asks to subscribe, you gotta oblige!
Would love to have a beer with Vinnie.
I’ve seen him live many times. I’ve seen Cobham, Chambers, and others but I put Vinnie up there with the greats. What he plays just sounds different.
I've loved Frank forever Vinnie but what really got you into my DNA was Ronnie Scott's. I'm just a bumbling guy with a Strat after all. Your comment about "thinking" was well exemplified in a different artform when (yes, we all remember the film) Bruce Lee said "don't think, FEEL"
David foster called him greatest of all time just a couple days ago