[2014-03-11] Carl Palmer "The Solo" on DVD (Carl Palmer)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:18 pm

Product Description
The art film The Solo (directed by acclaimed art-filmmaker Andrew Cross), a 35-minute movie that portrays the drum solo as a work of physical art, and features Palmer behind his drum kit. "The film is not a Carl Palmer drum solo, as one might expect," says Palmer. "It explores how the drum kit and the person playing it can connect to create a live example of art."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HEM1NVW/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:19 pm

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

Carl Palmer onstage with ELP is the only drum solo that didn't bore me to tears.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

What about Neil Peart?? His is one of the few drum solos worth watching live.

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

What about Neil Peart?? His is one of the few drum solos worth watching live.

Dr Evil is correct in that Neil Peart one of the best drummers, a very technical, precise drummer which is required to play Rush's music.

But as Jimbo alluded, Carl Palmer, especially during ELP's prime was one of the best drummers I ever saw live.

Seeing them so many times during the 70's, especially during the "Brain Salad Surgery" tour made a memory that I will never forget. The spinning carousel drum kit that had engraved Chinese dragons imprinted etchings gongs would leap at you upon slammed.
WOW!

Rick A.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

Linda wrote:

This is amazing.

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

I really should have said "one of the few drum solos...." Pert is worth staying in your seat for, and when Mick Fleetwood was playing his body-drum-kit thing in concert, that was pretty extraordinary.

[2014-03-11] Carl Palmer "The Solo" on DVD (Carl Palmer)

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