Karen Carpenter Drum solo 1968 Dancing in the street HD
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I’m a drummer and I tell you Karen was right in there with all the great jazz and rock drummers of her day! I loved that she played traditional grip with the left stick on the snare and the hand speed she demonstrated around the kit! Of course most know her for her outstanding alto vocals but don’t be fooled because Karen was also a marvelous drummer! I learned a lot by watching her performances! Hats off to Karen Carpenter: drummer and singer 🎤🥁extraordinaire!
As a drummer I agree
Absolutely 🥁🥁🥁
Karen WAS a fantastic drummer and gorgeous singer!
Up there with other jazz drummers, maybe. But up there with rock drummers like John Bonham, Keith Moon or Mitch Mitchell? No.
As a drummer myself Karen was highly underrated.
I think maybe when Buddy Rich said she was his favorite drummer he may not have been kidding. No wonder she didn’t want to come out front. Crisp, accurate, tasteful, and that speed shows real stamina, particularly with that light a touch. She was a truly gifted singer but on this her drumming is better.
So Buddy Rich said she was his favorite drummer (when asked who his favorite drummer was) and John Lennon told her she had a beautiful voice. That’s quite a pair of endorsements.
You can definitely see the Buddy Rich influence with the drum setup (low hi-hat, position of the 2 crash cymbals) and the over and under crossovers.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@erzug That is a buddy Rich drum set!
When Keith Moon was 5 years old, he saw this.
The rest is history... 🤔😅
@@danielmconnolly7Moon wasn’t in the same league.
An absolute BEAST on the drums - Superb playing & while singing, NOT easily done. Can see that playing them brought her JOY!
no, shes not a beast on the drums. My god, the ignorant comments are a distraction from the actual talent she has.
That chick had some crazy chops.
Noy easy даже по отдельности если петь или играть на барабанах. А тут всё чётко.
yeah she beat out Buddy Rich one year in the early 70's in the Playboy Jazz Poll GET REAL!! LOL.. She was a good AVERAGE pro drummer who has a great voice. PERIOD!!
you ever listen to fanny? that drummer is unbelievable
Holy smokes. Sings like a bird and plays drum like a beast. So underrated. Too bad she passed way too young
How young?
@@ridleyroid9060she was 32, heart attack after struggling with anorexia
Yes, she truly left us too soon.
I had no idea, until relatively recent times, that she was that capable on the drums; practically no idea. She was great on the drums, clearly; and not only was she a great singer, but she could sing very well whilst playing the drums very well.
Super duper drumming AND singing the same time! Wow!
Karen Carpenter absolutely killed it with her drumming! To be so fast, crisp & precise all while doing lead vocals is really damn hard at any age and experience level, let alone at the tender age of EIGHTEEN (as she was in this performance)!!! A truly exceptional talent ❤
what the fuck
Yup, and undoubtedly she was a musical genius
i don't know how she hits those drums so delicately at that speed too
The drum company Ludwig made custom drums for only 2 drummers in those days. The 1st was Ringo Starr and the other was Karen Carpenter.
Not true. They made custom kits for Carmine Appice and John Bonham back then too.
Karen was the real deal on drums and had an amazing voice.
One of my favorite singers of time.
Absolutely ❤❤❤
lol, and the brother was the best pianist on the planet
What a talent Karen Carpenter was. She had such an angelic voice and she could really bang on those drums as well. She was so happy behind her drum kit until she had to come out to the front. A very sad end to Karen's life in the end. One of the most beautiful voices in music.
I am SO glad she came out from behind the drums!
Endings may appear sad...but she LIVED the rest of her gig...trooper 🎶✌
Wow! Awesome! I knew Karen for her voice so sweet and nice, but not for her super drumming! And she seems to take such pleasure in making both, with her smile and such apparent relaxation! The man on keyboards and the bassist are very good too. I heard Karen sometimes but I saw her very rarely, so thanks much for this video.
RIP Karen (gone much too soon)
I’ve known who Karen Carpenter was for decades.
I’ve heard her beautiful voice for decades.
How am I today years old and just finding out that she was a freakin’ magician on the drums?!?
Incredible.
She was a drummer before she was a singer
Unbelievable talent. Had I not just seen and heard this I wouldn't have understood.
You're not alone. I never knew she even held a drumstick until a couple years ago. Never paid that much attention to that kind of music nor the people playing it in those days and never actually saw any footage of her playing drums until very recently.
@@hughjass1044 Same. When I was a child in the 70s, I even remember the ads on television for Carpenters' records, and making fun of them, because they weren't rock and roll. But digging into more of how they came about, gave me an appreciation of Karen's beautiful singing voice, and then to dig into how she played the drums, absolutely floored me. Cheers.
Not loving the tempo of this. And the keyboard and bass solos are gratuitous.
I feel confident that had Karen been allowed to keep on being 'a drummer who sang' (clearly in her element sitting behind a drum kit) the world would have been a better place - and Karen would have continued to enthrall us to this day. When first I discovered her drumming (only recently) I fell in love with her music all over again, 53 year after the first time! Since being a 10 year old - I had no idea that Karen also played drums on 'Close to You'! The first 'pop' song that inspired my imagination! What a huge talent, what a huge loss to the world. So young. I could cry..
Karen wasn't just a good drummer - she was a great drummer But she never played drums on any of their albums. Why not? Well when you walk into the studio and Hal Blaine is sitting there, well that kind of ends that conversation, right?
I'm with you except I do cry.
Yeah, I think Hal Blaine did the recordings. You can hear about it in the interviews with The Wrecking Crew. While Karen is good, studio drumming is different from stage performance. Hal was the master at doing it in the studio.
@@jimf.9822 Me too....,,
Same. Admire her voice since my childhood. Touched my inner beeing, pure healing to me.
She was an absolute SHREDDER on the drums!
Not really…..quite average really , but it is a skill to sing & drum together…..
@@jerrywallop5647 "Quite average"... Ohhhh, look at Buddy Rich over here....
@@dirkdarwin2571 your valid point….? …….
@@dirkdarwin2571 your obviously not a skilled musician….
@@jerrywallop5647 Don't you mean "YOU'RE" ? Maybe learn to spell before you try any more drumming buddy!
As a bass player, i must give respect to the bassist. Great chops, very tastefully played! No taking away from Karen or Richard, they are great in their own right.
Anybody know who he is?
@@igor2301some beatnik
@@toddgittins5692 HA HA it aint Mynard G. Krebs
Bill Sissoyev@@igor2301
@@igor2301 Entwistles nephew
I miss Karen Carpenter she was great. Died too young, a tragedy.
With those we have loved who have gone it is best to remember them when they were heathly doing what they did best and this is surely what we are seeing here. I am pretty sure our Souls go marching (singing, dancing, drumming, loving) on. Thanks to the Carpenters for all their great music.
There will NEVER be another Karen Carpenter. What a talent!!!! Thankfully, her brother knew that. 🎉🎉🎉
I can’t tell you how hard it is to drum that well WITHOUT singing too! Karen was such a talent. Great keyboards from her brother Richard Carpenter as well.
Richard Carpenter was a hella arranger, too.
It may have been called the Dick Carpenter Trio early but it was easy to see that Karen was the star.
Nobody could touch her vocally and she was an incredible drummer, but Richard was a highly-skilled keyboardist as well.
That is very true but Richard knew that her Talent was off-the-charts. So he stepped back and allow her to be in the spotlight and rightly so one of the best singers and obviously a monster drummer she was a beautiful woman unfortunately she didn't think so because of a snide remark by her mother I believe started all this
@@robertlongwill8856Her mom was way worse, it wasn’t just a snide remark that caused her anorexia, it was a mixture of her overbearing parents preferring her brother Richard over her, her mother possibly forcing her to diet from her high school years well until she moved out of their house in the early 70s, but of course it got worse when she was in the spotlight of being a leading singer and away from the safety of her drums.
When he tours now it's The Carpenter...
@@stephenstone8480Or, just "The Dick"!
So painfully sad, that she is gone.
Terrific voice, amazing on drums
😢
If she'd stayed on the drums maybe she wouldn't have died so young. Way happier it seems than as front woman.
She’s the reason I started playing drums at 8. My dad took us to see them at the Greek theater when I was 8. She was amazing.
🙏🏻♥️😞
I’m with @garylagstrom3864. I never realised how great a drummer Karen was. It makes it even more cruel that they took it away from her. She felt powerful and in control when she was playing, and there’s no doubt that it didn’t detract from her ability to command attention when she sang. I’m so glad female musicians don’t have as much pressure on them to be the pretty singer at the front of the stage. These days, her drumming would be celebrated, and she’d be featured on other artists’ songs.
Who took what away from her ? Are you trying to make her out to be a victim ? She concentrated on her legendary singing and still played the drums when she fancied.
Men cannot handle strong women, especially if she has a great talent that a normally a man's profession
@jasonallen6081 women were not encouraged to do men dominant things. And she was bullied by many and the media. They called her chubby and it sparked her eating disorder and early death. No skirting the issue. Facts are facts
@susannpatton2893 Bullied by who ? Universally adored and feted as one of the greatest voices of her generation .You forget that bit. Her problem came from the pressure of fame . Elvis also had an eating disorder for the same reason. She could have had a drink or drug problem, but she fixated on her weight. You say, "They called her chubby," but they also said she was beautiful. You have to think about what it's like to have everybody look at you. I don't think she'd have it any other way. People with great talent don't usually have long, happy lives, and though she died so young, she's also achieved a kind of immortality. Don't make her into a victim.
Just watched another vid called Carpenters in concert - 1976 where she is flexing her drum talent fiercely. I don't think it was taken away from her.
This woman was a legendary talent in every single sense of the word. Even when she would sing, the birds sang as well. Talent like this is once in a lifetime.
her voice really lit up a radio in a car- so sweet!
Why do birds suddenly appear every time she is near? 😅
☺@@gary.h.turner
She was phenomenal. Such a loss.
What astonishes me is the sensitivity of her touch on the drums while singing at the same time. It's unearthly.
Female version of Animal in the solo
Anamal!
Animalia
Wow she is 18 here and clearly killing it. What a talent she was. But the price she paid for being forced into the spotlight was sadly her life. Very sad.
Huh , she didn't eat, she wasn't forced into any spotlight and yes there are pressures once you hit the big time.
@@recordguy4321 That's a nice, empathic statement, right there.
@@gutgolf74 thank you, likewise
@@recordguy4321 Yeah, go love yourself and pray you'll never have to endure what Karen had to go through.
@@gutgolf74🤓
Neil Peart got an award for being voted the best rock drummer in the world in the 70's. When asked how it felt to be the best rock drummer in the world he replied.............dunno best go ask Karen Carpenter
And John Bonham went moaning to destroy yet another hotel room
I grew up listening to the Carpenters in the early 70s. I knew Karen played drums but I had no idea how skilled she was. I'm blown away.
Wow! I had no idea they could be this jazzy. Or that she was this good on the drums. Outstanding
There was so many good musicians at that time that they didn't "outstand" that much... Imagine that 😅
Lovely, an actual live performance from the 60s. All three are very talented.
Yeah, all the lipsync stuff got old very quickly when I used to watch TV. They were from an era where most musicians actually were musicians and could do their stuff live. You just couldn't do "Studio Magic" because the effects and pedals hadn't been invented yet.
Yes, Richard Carpenter was good at playing with his organ but poor Karen was the only reason they were ever recording superstars and decades later, legends. Who knows if her life would have been different if she had gotten an ounce of support from her own family who thought Richard was the star. He wasn't. He isn't. Sorry not sorry.
Always the victim
@@mrzip3206ain't that the dirty truth
It's one thing to be able to play a jazz motif on the drums like that at that speed. For Karen also being able to sing while doing the rest is absolutely incredible, and something that no matter how hard I've tried to do it in the past, I just can't do. I have a hard time with the four-way limb independence needed to play drums at all!
Karen loved to play the drums and it broke her heart when they told her she had to come out from behind them. She was truly a jazz musician and was not at all comfortable with her voice but she loved playing the drums. I think Buddy Rich worked with her teaching and mentoring.
Uh, no he didn’t.
Uh...no. although that would be a cool story. However, someone asked Buddy in 1974 if there were any pop drummers he liked on the scene. Without hesitation, he said Karen Carpenter. This was a rather loud statement considering Buddy was notorious for hating every drummer on the music scene.
I was familiar with the Carpenters. Never knew she had those chops. 😮
Not so much in this song but Karen Carpenter had one of the most Beautiful voices that I’ve ever heard ❤❤️❤️
although this song wasn't a great showcase of her voice, it was live. No studio filters or multiple voice tracks to enhance her singing. Despite this she sang on key and drummed and made it look effortless/
Her drumming is also so underrated, she was great, and it shows in this song
Love the drum solo! A cool performance from no other musician like her.
imagine being this good at 18? Perfect vocals insane drumming
Probably the most elegantly dressed drummer I've ever seen :)
Really great drums by Karen,she was a very good player and singer. An inspiration to men and women alike ! Thank you Karen 💖
"I feel like I'm disappearing
Getting smaller every day
But when I open my mouth to sing
I'm bigger in every way"
Rest in peace, Karen
Wow Wow Wow! I had read that she always wanted to just go back and be a drummer, but this is the first time I’ve seen how good she was. Thanks for that one.
She was a ONE OF A KIND. No female singer--TO THIS DAY, sounds anything like her; cannot compare.
The recording did her no service. I don’t know if this is a copy of a copy? I know they had better equipment back then.
She’s no Tay Swift
@@humantacos9800I hope that's sarcasm.
True, no female singer sounds anything like her. And all due respect to Ms. Carpenter, but plenty can compare, and even outshine.
@@ashleypg1708 lol
Wow she was a shredder!! my first wife is from Downey calif and she lived on the same block with Karen and her brother and they went to high school together and were life long friends with my ex wife!! she attended our wedding with her brother and family in 1971 when they were becoming well known!! sadly we divorced 3 years later!! but we were blessed with twin girls and she was the God mother to our little ones and it was sad when she killed herself with that dreaded disease. Very humble about their success...
That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Wow. I'm so sorry for your loss. She was beautiful and amazing...I never even knew she played drums- and singing while drumming is impossible.! ...at least for me. She smashed it!
I’d say her creep brother and manager were responsible for her anorexia. They were relentless about it, and both were jealous of her talent.
Which highschool did they go to in Downey?
@@peggyfrakes2394their mother fed Richard extravagantly, but restricted Karen's food. so there's that.
You say bad ass.....I say Karen Carpenter holds no one's beer 🍺
The drums sounded like three people playing, and Karen was so young! Unbeleivable and thank you for posting!
Unreal. The organ solo was unreal also with all the modulations and that run. Her drumming? Let's not even go there. Thx for this video. Subscribed. Just kind of sad it's ony 16k views after a year. But yeah. Lot of people not in my gen. have no idea who these people were.
I see my 16k as a win win anyway😅
It is not an organ, it is an electric piano …
Nobody is talking about that amazing organ solo. I didn't realize he was that good.
Damm, maybe she is better than John Bonham????
I’m sure he’ll kindly appreciate that comment! And not smash up a hotel room at the testament!
Pffff, that was amazing.... all 3 performed very well, they definitely were not 'just playing some chords'... and that drum solo showed her incredible talent...
Wow.. her fills are inventive and seemingly effortless.
Holy Drumsticks, Batman! They knocked that *OUT OF THE PARK!"* I knew that Ms Carpenter played the drums, but this is the first time I have *seen* her play. Same with her brother on keys.
It is a sad testament of our culture that the "cult of thin", led such a beautiful and talented woman to believe she wasn't good enough. Damn the "Cult of Twiggy"*. Damn it to *Hell.*
*I'm not blaming Twiggy, herself. She too was brutalized by the misogynistic world of fashion, comprised mostly of men.
Her brother controlled her.
@@harmoniabalanza Whatevs...
When she was 18, Karen Carpenter was voted at the Playboy Jazz Festival the best drummer alive. You kids have no idea what you're missing with her nuclear talent.
what nonsense. She was a virtual unknown in 1968
Yep. John Bonham of Led Zeppellin was voted 2nd. He wasn't pleased!
Popularity contest. She better than some cat who been doing it longer than she’s been holding sticks?
Yeah, that definetly sounds like a popularity contest, not a test of ability. They were both great drummers, but neither of them were The best drummer in 1968. They were no where near Billy Cobham, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Greg Errico, Jimmy Carl Black, John Mayhew, Jimmy Cobb, John Stephen French, Buddy Deppenschmidt, Tony Williams,Hal Blaine, Mickey Roker, Bill Bruford, and plenty of others. I'm talking strictly about Technical ability not album sales, fame or their impact on culture et cetera. Carpenter was a great vocalist and an underrated drum to boot, she made my second favorite Christmas album ever. John Bonham influenced many great drummers, likely more than the majority of my list, but like I said I'm only judging straight drumming ability.
I love that John Bonham pitched a fit when he learned that she beat him in the Playboy Music Readers' Poll!
We know what the future holds for Karen Carpenter. The Carpenters probably wouldn't have achieved worldwide success had Karen not left the drum set and taken to the front of the stage as a vocalist. However, I think she was happiest when she was sitting at the drum set.
Well said.
Wow! amazing Jazz drumming skills and yet that ability to sing at the same time. Phenomenal!
This is the best recording of that performance *EVER* ! There's nothing even close to it. Thank you so much!
HA HA hilarious but i respect your opinion
@@recordguy4321 Not opinion, FACT, *of THAT performance* . Sigh.... reading comprehension is becoming a lost art.
@@davidhess6593 LMBO whose fact ,Yours? I'm glad you think it's the greatest I dont.
@@recordguy4321 I'm not surprised.
Love and miss you, beautiful Karen ❤️ R.I.P. dear lady 😘 !
I was a very little kid when I saw this on television and I instantly wanted to become a drummer! I sure do miss you Karen! ❤
The Carpenters kinda destroyed her. I think if she hadn’t had that incredible voice she might’ve had a long and joyous career as a drummer. That’s to over simplify of course, but yeah. A huge talent diluted by the fact that pop sensibilities weren’t taken seriously.
Ok the drums are amazing but my guy on the keyboard *killed it* with his solo, I could listen to that all day
Quoting "The Shadow of Your Smile" in his solo....
Yea, the guy on the keyboard being her brother, of course.
My mom loved the Carpenters and I grew up listening to that in the '70s and I had no idea anything like this existed. This is fantastic. I'm going to enjoy exploring her music.
Karen was a jazz drummer. This video doesn’t show what she could really do. Drumming was her happy place, not singing although she is one of the best of all time. It was a stroke of genius for Richard to have her sing in her lower contralto voice which is the lowest of all female voices and extremely rare. Cher, Patsy Cline, Tina Turner are all contralto. Karen is the essence of a female crooner style like Billie Holiday. I love her work and wish she been able to have more control over her life and avoid her eating disorder.
She could rattle them drums like. She could sing, what a talented lady
Omg she is so beautiful. So sad she passed.
Richard was killing it with the ott keyboard at times.
It must have been a devastating blow to him, gifted with such an extraordinary talent
to be out-talented by his sister, on dums and vocals.
Awesome. She was such an accomplished jazz drummer.
Wow! I had no idea Karen Carpenter played drums. She did it well.
I absolutely love Karen! She was such a talented musician! She still, in my opinion, does not get the recognition that she deserves. She lives on!😍
What a performance! At a time when women who played drums could count on the fingers of one hand, Karen Carpenter was a real fireworks. By making her mark, thanks to her immense talent, we can say that Karen has opened the doors to many female artists, both vocal and percussion. We immediately feel such a passion, such joy overflowing with energy when she plays that we can only let ourselves be contaminated, for our greatest pleasure.
And, in this recording, her brother Richard, on electric piano, and the bass player really do not give their place either. When we know the tragic end of this gifted woman debt, at only 32 years old, in 1983, and the battle she had to fight for years against a terrible illness that was little known at the time, anorexia nervosa, we look at this video with pleasure, of course, but also with a twinge of sorrow. Rest in peace, Karen. Even forty years after your untimely death, your audience, young and old, do not forget you.
Amen break
The Carpenters were 70's giants. Beautiful song arrangements!
Karen's voice sends shivers and such an amazing drummer!! Richard's keyboard work was brilliant. They don't make em like this Anymore ❤
Oh yes they do.... Esperanza Spalding, Camille Thurman........
@@jlvjazz yes Spaulding and Thurman are great as well as many others. The difference is that many don't have the genre diversity that the Carpenters had to launch them into huge commercial success !🎼
@@tonyspada2744commercial, yes. Talent and ability, I beg to differ. They still make 'em!!!
When a drummer is playing traditional grip, you know they’re pretty damn good at their craft.
She must’ve been a Buddy Rich and Max Roach fan. She has a bit of both- the power and speed👍🏾👍🏾❤️❤️
And Louis Bellson too.
Traditional grip means nothing towards talent, she was just good.
@@DeafeningCha Traditional grip means she’s had training and all jazz drummers play that way. Jazz drummers are the best at their instruments.
@@jt1929I love jazz, went to jazz school. High level jazz musicians are technically masterful, no doubt. However, I think classical musicians are capable of the same level of proficiency or maybe even more. I think the spirit of improv, paired with technical and musical mastery, is really what makes jazz great. I wish classical musicians would improvise like how they used to during the composers lives!
Her idols were Joe Morello and Buddy Rich.
She was as beautiful as her voice ❤
So beautiful and very blessed, her and her brother Richard. I love to see her happy.
born in 1970 and she was one of my first crushes. RIP Ms Carpenter.
@@snap403 * Rest in Peace "
She's impressive and only 18 here.
She died before i was born so was never on my radar until i lived in Japan, where they're weirdly obsessed with the Carpenters - at least some of their more saccharine songs. I think i saw one album cover that had that boring 70's vibe with them just staring out and that didn't help me understand why they are so popular there.
So I thought she was just a slightly sappy singer with an admittedly great voice but a downer of a story.
Until right now, I had no idea she had soul or that she could kill it on the drums! Or on a more frivolous note, that she was totally smoking hot...
The next time you call some one a Karen, think of her before you do.
Holy cow, it's like she's 2 different people, one singing magically all composed and another just rocking the hell out of that very basic drum kit. I had never actually seen her play the drums, but, dang, she's got the beat!!! Awesome
I never ever had a clue that Richard Carpenter could render perfectly such furious keyboard lines!!!
I had no idea she was SO GOOD on the kit! Damn!!!
Karen Carpenter's laying out Amen Breaks and Funky Drummer style beats.
just wow! i didn't know Karen Carpenter was such a talented drummer, playing jazz on a kit no less, singing well at the same time in go go boots and very pretty as well.
To blast this out at this level, live and perfectly, she was brutal. Just, wow!
Wow I’m in my 60’s and I had no idea Karen was such a fantastic drummer.
The drumming was quite impressive, but the song overall was atrocious!
We used to laugh at our dear freind Mark Skelly (RIP) when he quoted the Carpenters as his top band ... Mark, they were so cool and I wish you were around to hear me admit it!🤘🏴☠️👍🙏
She had a perfect technique in playing drums. Formidably.
The bass player is so cool!
Karen wasn't just a good drummer - she was a great drummer But she never played drums on any of their albums. Why not? Well when you walk into the studio and Hal Blaine is sitting there, well that kind of ends that conversation, right?
Amazingly talented performer. What a loss.
I never heard this before. Karen nails the vocals. Not to mention drums.
Obrigada Karen
A música ficou mais pobre sem ti ❤😢
So talented. She was an amazing soul.
The singing was fine, but the microphone didn't pick up the voice as she turned away to play.
Very nice trio all round. Each member's talent was brilliant. Who of us had seen such talent from them demonstrated publicly? We had no idea!
I was so smitten with her voice as a teenager and had no idea she could play drums like that 😱 but so sad she left us so young 😥
As being a drummer/singer myself I got so say: I'm stunned. Really, really good!
Dang, Karen was so so cute, so beautiful and so sexy there...RIP Karen, your rare amazing talent is so missed..
I would have enjoyed seeing her perform this with David Bowie.
It surprised me to hear the Carpenters perform this rock classic - and do it so well. Let's not forget that Karen was only 18 when this trio made this television appearance.
Dang! Never knew she could play drums. Way cool
It's very clear from this video that from a young age she was a virtuoso on drums. What a talent! And I can tell you that singing and playing the drums at that level is no easy feat. She makes it look effortless.
John Bonham complained about how she was - one year - considered as the best drummer in the world in a newspaper’s ranking instead of him. No matter how good he was but John didn’t sing when he played drums.
Except that he sang harmony when he played drums.
I'm 75,a huge fan of band ,never,ever heard them called dick carpenter trio👀🎶
WOW, I never knew this about Karen, drumming.
In fact, awesome play by all three !
The control of those sticks while keeping perfect time and singing all at once. She would have been a beast if she only played drums. But her voice is so hypnotic and beautiful when sang without the drums. She is missed
This is an amazing performance, most of all because, in this particular case, Karen’s voice was *not* the centerpiece - the song, delivered at this tempo, simply doesn’t suit her pipes 😮!
Everything else is spectacular, including Karen’s drumming 🥰!
P.S. The Karen of about 5 years later would have slowed it down, transposed it down a fourth, and nailed it 🙂.