The 4-armed mohawk drummer is the drummer for Compressorhead. A fully robotic band who mostly plays oldschool punk covers. It also happens to be the new project of NOMEANSNO drummer John Wright.
Came here to say this. NoMeansNo are one of the greatest punk bands of all time IMO, i had heard of Compressorhead first, way back around when it first showed up online, and then NMN a while later, separately. I was kind of floored when i realized they were related lol.
it takes practice & time to become a decent drummer. Even with raw talent, people still need to train for stamina. remember, an amateur practices something until they get it right, a professional practices until they Can't get it wrong.
@@planesight1142 That applies to all instruments, really. For a rock band, yeah the drummer is the only one using all four limbs, I'll grant you that, but keyboards, guitar and bass all require a fair measure of stamina to play, and in all cases, endless practice. And then there's the marching band.. In my days as a rock keyboardist, we'd occasionally get asked how much practice did it take to sound solid, mostly by younger folks. Our answer was usually something along the lines of: Dozens of hours for minutes of music. It was easy to tell the people that either played or had kids/sibs that did, they'd be nodding their heads. The rest would call BS, but we'd take that as the complement it was. We sounded good, and made it look easy. All of us had talent, and were skilled (took surprisingly long to find 4 decent musicians), but that didn't change the need for practice, repetitive practice, practice with the band, and more practice at home. No, what changed was the level of practice. Learning a new song's basics and structure seldom took much time, maybe one or two passes and you got the raw chords and timing. Much more though, for complex original pieces. Then, since you want your own sound (any llama can just play chords), you brainstorm the music: you need to decide what you're going to play, what the other members are going to play, and how to fit all the parts into a cohesive whole. That's the part that really takes the most practice. You'll do yourself a solid if you record the sessions, as for many songs, one individual person's part might not sound like the song at all for much of the track. Then, you practice until you don't have to think about it. Practice until you no longer need a cue to make a change in the key/timing/etc. Practice until you can't play it wrong. Then practice again. And again. And again. (rinse repeat) Ah, good times, good times. Drove my first wifey absolutely batshit crazy. She didn't play, and couldn't understand why I'd come home from band practice and head straight for the piano. Scales and timing exercises drove her nuts, too. Something to think about if you get into a band and your SO doesn't play. Music is life, and life is music.
6:43 as someone who works around these semi regularly, there's a reason most of these have large cages around them. They will rip you apart and paint the walls with your innards without a second thought.
yep, they look like industrial arms that would be used to make cars or something. I don't think theyre designed for anything but their task, so theyre not gonna stop for anything in the way; IE, your squishy body.
The arms aren't sentient, they will do as they're programmed to do, and they lack the ability to care if you get in the way as they are performing their tasks.
From 4:00 to 6:35 is Captured! By Robots. JBot (the singer) has been doing this for 25 years+ now. The band has been through many iterations, at its logistical height also including a horn section, percussionist, multiple backup singers, and some other stuff I forget. He's a madman and a wonderful person.
I was just coming here to comment this. I remember seeing them back in the early 2000s and it blew my mind. He has another band where its all teddy bears. Teddy Bear Orchestra.
The second robot, the entire robot band actually, was built by Jon Wright from the punk band Nomeansno. Really great band. Jon is actually a phenomenal drummer himself.
The guy around the 4 minute mark band is called Captured By Robots, basically the gimmick is the robots have Jay hostage and forced to play shows. they used to be a ska band then went metal. They got music out.
Well, C!BR was never a ska band, but Jay was the bass player for Skankin' Pickle and The Blue Meanies. They're the reason why he switched over to robots.
The mohawk drummer one is the band Compressorhead, there's plenty of live sets from them on TH-cam! They have a "singer" too, obviously it's a recording, but there is a robot involved.
The orange robots were just a test video. The entire band video is definitely worth checking out. It's called "Automatica- Robots Vs. Music" Nigel Stanford.
I have actually seen some robots play live. Like around in August I've been to a 'Circus' in Germany called FlicFlac. Maybe you are able to find a video of their performance. It was pretty cool but it wasn't on time because the engineer moved everything manually by switches.
Dude, how have you not heard of Captured By Robots? I remember seeing them live like 15 years ago, and he had a full horn section then. Shit's legendary
Can't wait to have the option the "reamp" the drums. Drummer records the midi, the robot plays it for you in the room of your choice with the kit of your choice.
Man Robots on drums is absolutely weird but hilarious the double pedal going fast that caught me off guard compare that to Aaron Kitcher’s drumming it would been a drum battle all of a sudden 😂 and hey Samus great video it cracks me up every time and they’re still the best. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
That second one is way cooler than shown in this video it's from the robot band compressor head my favorite part is the little robot that works the high hat
Compressorhead (full robotic band / robot drummer with mohawk) is honestly quite good :P They even added a lead singer robot and recorded their singing (if I remember correctly) for it to use and they have an album "Party Machine" :P
🤘🤘7:58 seeing him strap a doomstick onto his limb like a G🤘🤘... Brrrro.. drummers everywhere will shed a tear... priceless.. Epic video by the way!! 😬I put off watching it for a whiiiile lest I too quit 😂hahahaha
I was really hoping to see nigel stanford's "automatica" music video in here somewhere. It looks like you got one of his videos showing off the robots playing the drums, but the music video has that plus guitars, piano, and synth. All played by those robot arms.
I know man. Anything that people can do, robots can do far better nowadays. Once people get upgraded via Neuro Link or something just like it, we won't be limited any more. Then, we'll become better over time.
You can play every note on a bass guitar with just your lowest string and 3/4 of your highest. You lose a lot of your variance in tones but for simplicity it makes perfect sense.
The robots at Showbiz Pizza played better than some of these robots, and that back in 1983. But on another thought, there is now some hope for Deaf Leppard drummer Rick Allen.
"House On The Rock" in Wisconsin.Has all kinds of Pre-MIDI, Pre-Computer Robot Musicians..There is even a Hall that has a full Orchestra..And they play in time..Together..They are Dressed in Old School Clothes..Not as Robots...Well Worth the Trip to see..Check it out -it's on TH-cam.I've spent the whole day there twice..
The Spruce Dude is pretty good, considering that most drummers I've worked with have lousy timing and a wooden personality...😁 The thing that Spruce Mon has over the guys I know, is that he at least understands the concept of DYNAMICS... Albeit if only the "quiet" mode. I've gotten a much needed HUGE KICK out of this video... And you're sense of humor seems really similar to my own...THANK YOU!
Yeah but can a robot trash a hotel room, fight in a bar or date super models? Just asking as a 61 year old Grandmom who grew up adoring Bowie, ELP, Zep, and The Who. I still remember my first Van Halen concert watching Eddie and Alex take huge swigs from a 5th of Jack.
Just wanted to point out that with the first robot band shown, Compressorhead?, the drummer’s part was actually written by likely one of the world’s best drummers, John Wright from NoMeansNo. And I give that first robot hella props, even if slightly off, cuz it’s made from fucking wood! Meaning, some kid was bored at a Denny’s growing up, glued together a humanoid figure out of dispenser toothpicks, then grew up into an adult and continued on his childhood Grand Slam dream.
6:45 that guy definitely stole his works robot arms😂 the plant my dad works at has those their made to assemble products on an assembly like their mainly used in automobile assembly either that or he got a discount on them because their used because they are expensive as sh^t!
Woah woah woah, you said 1405 hits in 1 minute ? I just did the math and that's 23 hits per second. And that's split between two pedals so that is just under 12 hits per second per foot (if a human was doing it). That's insane.
Because of the nature of music being that there are no keys that have been tried twice it is only the human being who can create the little errors that constitutes true music. We all understand what autotune does two and four of voice and we can hear it clearly and we can also hear clearly the effort and the little inefficiencies and artifacts in the natural human voice that cannot be replicated by a machine because machines do not make happy mistakes as bob said.
The 4-armed mohawk drummer is the drummer for Compressorhead. A fully robotic band who mostly plays oldschool punk covers. It also happens to be the new project of NOMEANSNO drummer John Wright.
Yep.
I fuckin love Nomeansno
Wrong is one of my all-time albums
Came here to say this. NoMeansNo are one of the greatest punk bands of all time IMO, i had heard of Compressorhead first, way back around when it first showed up online, and then NMN a while later, separately. I was kind of floored when i realized they were related lol.
Damn, just made this comment too. Good looking out!
Could probably build a robot in less time than it would take to find a drummer
There are plenty of drummers (and other musicians). It's the number of those with great talent that is lacking. ::heads to woodshed::
Then do it
it takes practice & time to become a decent drummer. Even with raw talent, people still need to train for stamina. remember, an amateur practices something until they get it right, a professional practices until they Can't get it wrong.
@@planesight1142 That applies to all instruments, really. For a rock band, yeah the drummer is the only one using all four limbs, I'll grant you that, but keyboards, guitar and bass all require a fair measure of stamina to play, and in all cases, endless practice. And then there's the marching band..
In my days as a rock keyboardist, we'd occasionally get asked how much practice did it take to sound solid, mostly by younger folks. Our answer was usually something along the lines of: Dozens of hours for minutes of music. It was easy to tell the people that either played or had kids/sibs that did, they'd be nodding their heads.
The rest would call BS, but we'd take that as the complement it was. We sounded good, and made it look easy. All of us had talent, and were skilled (took surprisingly long to find 4 decent musicians), but that didn't change the need for practice, repetitive practice, practice with the band, and more practice at home.
No, what changed was the level of practice. Learning a new song's basics and structure seldom took much time, maybe one or two passes and you got the raw chords and timing. Much more though, for complex original pieces.
Then, since you want your own sound (any llama can just play chords), you brainstorm the music: you need to decide what you're going to play, what the other members are going to play, and how to fit all the parts into a cohesive whole. That's the part that really takes the most practice. You'll do yourself a solid if you record the sessions, as for many songs, one individual person's part might not sound like the song at all for much of the track. Then, you practice until you don't have to think about it. Practice until you no longer need a cue to make a change in the key/timing/etc. Practice until you can't play it wrong. Then practice again. And again. And again. (rinse repeat)
Ah, good times, good times.
Drove my first wifey absolutely batshit crazy. She didn't play, and couldn't understand why I'd come home from band practice and head straight for the piano. Scales and timing exercises drove her nuts, too. Something to think about if you get into a band and your SO doesn't play.
Music is life, and life is music.
Wkwkwkwk you're damn right....
The year is 3000, Sam has transferred his consciousness into a Robot and is still blasting
6:43 as someone who works around these semi regularly, there's a reason most of these have large cages around them. They will rip you apart and paint the walls with your innards without a second thought.
Noice
WARNING: This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh, nor does it care.
@@TinyFlyThing Yes
yep, they look like industrial arms that would be used to make cars or something.
I don't think theyre designed for anything but their task, so theyre not gonna stop for anything in the way; IE, your squishy body.
The arms aren't sentient, they will do as they're programmed to do, and they lack the ability to care if you get in the way as they are performing their tasks.
From 4:00 to 6:35 is Captured! By Robots. JBot (the singer) has been doing this for 25 years+ now. The band has been through many iterations, at its logistical height also including a horn section, percussionist, multiple backup singers, and some other stuff I forget. He's a madman and a wonderful person.
Captured! Is probably hands down one of the best shows you’ll ever experience. I catch him anytime he comes through my city.
I got to see him a few years ago. Great show.
I was just coming here to comment this. I remember seeing them back in the early 2000s and it blew my mind. He has another band where its all teddy bears. Teddy Bear Orchestra.
@@bonflores5017 goddamn right.
Saw Captured! Open for Ghoul... Great fuckn show
The second robot, the entire robot band actually, was built by Jon Wright from the punk band Nomeansno. Really great band. Jon is actually a phenomenal drummer himself.
John is still in my top 3..
4:45 1405 hits per minute: you should check out Kevin Paradis (Benighted). I mean, he only did 1037 in a minute, but apparently he is an actual human.
Check out Tim Waterson
The guy around the 4 minute mark band is called Captured By Robots, basically the gimmick is the robots have Jay hostage and forced to play shows. they used to be a ska band then went metal. They got music out.
Well, C!BR was never a ska band, but Jay was the bass player for Skankin' Pickle and The Blue Meanies. They're the reason why he switched over to robots.
Your right my bad lol, rewatched the nardwuar video they did with captured. Thanks for correcting me.
you're like the 'Weird Al' of death metal and I love what you do sir.
The mohawk drummer one is the band Compressorhead, there's plenty of live sets from them on TH-cam! They have a "singer" too, obviously it's a recording, but there is a robot involved.
The orange robots were just a test video. The entire band video is definitely worth checking out. It's called "Automatica- Robots Vs. Music" Nigel Stanford.
5:00 Riccardo Merlini forgot to put on his human costume.
Pop musicians: “I’ll take your entire stock.”
CAPTURED! BY ROBOTS!!!
Jay is a legend. Love when he gets the recognition he deserves.
4:26 Instrumental slittercore now available.
I have actually seen some robots play live. Like around in August I've been to a 'Circus' in Germany called FlicFlac. Maybe you are able to find a video of their performance. It was pretty cool but it wasn't on time because the engineer moved everything manually by switches.
That plywood robot using drumsticks is the robot equivalent of a human using bones
Dude, how have you not heard of Captured By Robots? I remember seeing them live like 15 years ago, and he had a full horn section then. Shit's legendary
Fucking right they are! J-Botttt!
Captured by Robots is one of my favorite live shows
What.....robots were playing brass instruments?
hes grindcore now hahaha no more horns
Can't wait to have the option the "reamp" the drums. Drummer records the midi, the robot plays it for you in the room of your choice with the kit of your choice.
“Holy crap- The bass player has tank feet” is my favorite sentence now.
Man Robots on drums is absolutely weird but hilarious the double pedal going fast that caught me off guard compare that to Aaron Kitcher’s drumming it would been a drum battle all of a sudden 😂 and hey Samus great video it cracks me up every time and they’re still the best. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
00:03 There's a drummer that plays at my window during spring and summer twice a month as well. I realise that just now.
I remember when I was like 5 my dad showed me “Captured! By Robots” and now I’m obsessed. Thanks, Dad.🤘
6:34 that is truly terrifying
That second one is way cooler than shown in this video it's from the robot band compressor head my favorite part is the little robot that works the high hat
Compressorhead (full robotic band / robot drummer with mohawk) is honestly quite good :P
They even added a lead singer robot and recorded their singing (if I remember correctly) for it to use and they have an album "Party Machine" :P
🤘🤘7:58 seeing him strap a doomstick onto his limb like a G🤘🤘... Brrrro.. drummers everywhere will shed a tear... priceless..
Epic video by the way!! 😬I put off watching it for a whiiiile lest I too quit 😂hahahaha
That was pretty entertaining! I think most bands will just stick with programmed drums for album recordings though 🤣
4:58 is just Dave McGraw from 2012
Bringing the expression "Playing Heavy Metal" to the next level guys
That smile on its face is exactly as honest and meaningful as Meytal Cohen's perpetual forced smile.
7:27 of course his name is Gil WEINBERG
reminds me of a line from Queen's track, Machines (or Back to Human)
"When the machines take over
It ain't no place for rock 'n' roll"
I was really hoping to see nigel stanford's "automatica" music video in here somewhere. It looks like you got one of his videos showing off the robots playing the drums, but the music video has that plus guitars, piano, and synth. All played by those robot arms.
I know man. Anything that people can do, robots can do far better nowadays. Once people get upgraded via Neuro Link or something just like it, we won't be limited any more. Then, we'll become better over time.
03:00 I Saw those guys at the Boom festival 2016. It was amazing. Nice memories. Great shows
The guy with the robots that singing the name of the band is called captured by robots and I've seen them live and it is freaking amazing
Holy shit... my company sells control arms to Kuka.. that's what they're doing with them?!
Nice
HEY WEIRD AL, it's great to see you again, I was wondering what you were up to, waiting on a new album
🤘😎🤘
Ohhh yurrrr....So glad I membered up. Samus a true man of the people... Myeah...
This brought back some fond memories of Animusic. Great stuff.
Love that people build robots to make music, and the music they choose to use is metal. 🤘
Good god I love how over the top genuine this video is. I had fun because you had fun 😆
Robot: *plays really fast”
Riccardo Merlini: “hold my drums”
This is such an awesome video. I love everything you do Samus keep up the amazing work and know that we are all here to show you nothing but love.
From now on I will always imagine you with that creepy robot smile while you are drumming. Especially during diarrhea blasts.
"And the drums at the gig look like that, eeeehhhehhhehhh" hahahaha made me laugh
Always enjoy your comments and drumming Sam, you are a funny and talented dude 😎🤘👌
I need that robot band. I'll finally have a band that doesn't have a problem scheduling jam sessions.
J-bot, the lead singer, told me that he built his band because he was tired of bandmates overdosing. Robots are jerks but they don't do drugs.
Bro ur awesome man this world would suck without you
Captured by Robots. Greatest Robot band ever!!
You can play every note on a bass guitar with just your lowest string and 3/4 of your highest. You lose a lot of your variance in tones but for simplicity it makes perfect sense.
The robots at Showbiz Pizza played better than some of these robots, and that back in 1983. But on another thought, there is now some hope for Deaf Leppard drummer Rick Allen.
Thank you for your video comrade Rasputin
Saw "Gandalf of the drums" - Subscribed 😝👍🏼
The timing was better than half the bar bands I've mixed live,,hahaha
Just an FYI, VPNs do not protect against hackers. They can protect against your ISP trying to peek at your internet activity though.
It all lowers your creative expectations and destroys your dreams. Like 10,000 different synths to choose from.
5:08 true master of the blast beat, so precise it’s robotic
i love this video just because the creepy robot face smile thing... so entertained. thank you! made my day!!!
Hearing Sam say a blast beat is "to fast" is like hearing an ork say "to much dakka"
3:30 thats Johny 5 off short circuit 😂
Minute 5:06 I got who Riccardo Merlini dad is!!!
Still better and more realistic drumming than Infant Annihilator xD
Yeah they're 🗑️
"House On The Rock" in Wisconsin.Has all kinds of Pre-MIDI, Pre-Computer Robot Musicians..There is even a Hall that has a full Orchestra..And they play in time..Together..They are Dressed in Old School Clothes..Not as Robots...Well Worth the Trip to see..Check it out -it's on TH-cam.I've spent the whole day there twice..
The Spruce Dude is pretty good, considering that most drummers I've worked with have lousy timing and a wooden personality...😁
The thing that Spruce Mon has over the guys I know, is that he at least understands the concept of DYNAMICS... Albeit if only the "quiet" mode.
I've gotten a much needed HUGE KICK out of this video... And you're sense of humor seems really similar to my own...THANK YOU!
Man, the guy from Def Leppard could have used some of this technology.
Should check out the music video of Automatica by Nigel Stanford, pretty awesome even if a lot of it is special effects.
0:02 that is so fast that actually sounds like a dragster! 🤣
It's so funny how at 7:27 it looks like your body is going out of the cam frame.
But can the robot drummer fart 22 times in a row?
And this is exactly why I love you samus
the 4 armed Mohawk drummer should be the drummer from Compressorhead, the worlds heaviest metal band! (by weight)
Lol, I am no drummer, but the reason why to introduce the sponsor, made me click subscribe. That was just perfect.
“fAsTeST kIcK dRumMeR iN tHa WORLD” * imitates fallout four Gatlin gun spitting all over friend*
I’m surprised you didn’t include Automatica by Nigel Stanford. God tier music video.
Yeah but can a robot trash a hotel room, fight in a bar or date super models? Just asking as a 61 year old Grandmom who grew up adoring Bowie, ELP, Zep, and The Who. I still remember my first Van Halen concert watching Eddie and Alex take huge swigs from a 5th of Jack.
I think the question you were pondering is, can you program a robot to love?
Yes 😉
That craigslist drumset setup! So funny so true!
The drum hand prosthetic. I made a similar lower budget one that works ok
Sci fi sexy times. Finally this channel gets to what I'm into.
You missed the best and most creepy one of them all... Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham's 'Monkey Drummer'
Wow. I'm speechless. can't ya tell? Speechless.
2:55 General Grevious playing drums
next up - robot record label executives, robot ticketmaster, robot audience suckers, and the circle will be complete
If you haven't already, check out what Nigel Stanford made with KUKA and Sennheiser.
There's a whole album called "Automatica".
4:28 HAHA double kick go BRRRRRRRRR
Just found this channel and as a drummer myself, feels like I found a new spot to kick it and be accepted
Captured! By Robots is so damn amazing.
I'm totally thinking about the Deadly Hexakicks from Metalocalypse😂
Just wanted to point out that with the first robot band shown, Compressorhead?, the drummer’s part was actually written by likely one of the world’s best drummers, John Wright from NoMeansNo.
And I give that first robot hella props, even if slightly off, cuz it’s made from fucking wood! Meaning, some kid was bored at a Denny’s growing up, glued together a humanoid figure out of dispenser toothpicks, then grew up into an adult and continued on his childhood Grand Slam dream.
Octant was a Seattle band that used some weird robot drums and stuff.
6:45 that guy definitely stole his works robot arms😂 the plant my dad works at has those their made to assemble products on an assembly like their mainly used in automobile assembly either that or he got a discount on them because their used because they are expensive as sh^t!
I'm so old, I remember when one-armed drummers really only had one arm.
The KUKA robots look like they were tactically acquired before they could be installed in a factory
Terminator Musician's very rad & most definitely futuristic 🤘😎....
Woah woah woah, you said 1405 hits in 1 minute ? I just did the math and that's 23 hits per second. And that's split between two pedals so that is just under 12 hits per second per foot (if a human was doing it). That's insane.
Because of the nature of music being that there are no keys that have been tried twice it is only the human being who can create the little errors that constitutes true music.
We all understand what autotune does two and four of voice and we can hear it clearly and we can also hear clearly the effort and the little inefficiencies and artifacts in the natural human voice that cannot be replicated by a machine because machines do not make happy mistakes as bob said.
6:20 only two strings?
Dude, the Bassist from Danish D-A-D has played a 2 stringed bass and made a career out of it for 35 years 😂😂
Me surrounded by robots.. check then out 1 guy like 4 to 5 robots touring the country.. mad props to that guy