Name: Bill Burr-Drum Talk
Uploaded: 2010-11-08T23:59:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr-Drum Talk' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2010-11-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr-Drum Talk' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2010-11-08. Transcript available.

Somebody actually asked me some drum questions.
I said, Bill, I got three questions for you after I heard your drum battle on
YouTube and you didn't suck.
You seem like a relatively good drummer and extremely good opinionator.
So I'd like to ask your opinion on some drum things.
What do you think are some of the hardest drum songs to play?
Well, for me, it would be just about all of them.
I, I, uh, the hardest ones I would say, I would say as far as like for, uh,
look, I'm
going to actually get into this a little bit because I really got hardcore into
sports, you
know, not even remotely concerned about people who could give a shit about
sports.
So I'll get into this a little bit for the musicians out there is I actually
found one of the hardest
things to do is to have the discipline to just sit down and try and make what I
could physically
play actually sound good.
Because I think one of the, one of the big things when you're learning an
instrument is when
you physically get something down, you move on to the next thing.
You don't, you don't stay with it until you can actually make it sound good and
make it
sound good to somebody listening to you play it.
You just, okay, I got that down.
Brr, bam.
Okay.
Now I'm going to move on to the next fucking thing rather than, you know, if
you learn like
a drum fill, you just get the fill down and you, yeah, you play a couple of
fucking beats
and then you just throw it in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got that down.
You don't really have it down.
So one of the hardest things for me was having the discipline.
Um, and it was something I learned when I was watching Steve Jordan play drums
and I was
listening to him play something and I was watching it going, I can physically
play what he's playing
and what he's playing is actually really simple, but I could not make it sound
one millionth
as good as he's making it sound right now.
Like he was playing a beat that would actually be considered lame if I played
it and the way
he played it, it sounded unbelievably fresh and it would make an entire arena
just start
smiling and get into whatever song was being played.
That was the fucking hardest thing as far as trying to get halfway decent at
drums for
me, but as far as, uh, just songs that are difficult, any of the shit by John
Bonham.
His foot is just so goddamn fast and you can catch up with speed, but you just
can't play
it the way he fucking plays it.
And I've had unbelievable arguments about people like, you know, the Coke and
Pepsi argument
with, with white rock drummers is who do you like better Bonham or Neil Peart?
This is way back in the day before all these, these other kids came along and I
just fucking
killing it.
And I always picked Bonham.
I didn't, I didn't think Neil Peart was anywhere near him.
I thought Neil Peart was like a fucking technician.
He played right on the beat and it was sounded very fucking robotic as opposed
to John Bonham
who could play once again, the simplest fucking Phil that I could physically do,
but could
never play it the way he pleased.
They're just, they're just the fucking shit.
It's like watching a great actor.
You know what I mean?
Who, who could just take like a really just basic fucking monologue and make it
the most
interesting goddamn, like a Christopher Walken or even John Goodman that I was
playing.
Like I, I, sometimes I forget what a great fucking actor that guy is.
Um, I don't know.
I don't know.
So, but I, as far as like songs that I would say is difficult, I would say, uh,
the Wanton
song is ridiculously difficult.
And I think most people play it wrong.
They actually leave out one bass drum note where he's playing three in a row
and they only
play two in a row at that fucking tempo was fucking ridiculous.
Um, out on the tiles, that second Phil that he does that ends where he plays a
fucking triplet
with one goddamn bass drum is fucking ridiculous.
And then I also got to admit, uh, that drum and bass shit and a lot of stuff
that like,
uh, I love really into like, uh, um, what's his face?
Uh, quest love the shit that he plays.
He's another guy where I think he took like the Steve Jordan thing to like the
next level.
Um, and he, he does shit.
I don't even know what the fuck he's doing, but I don't like fucking stuttering
here.
Cause I can't really think of any specific song.
I'll give you one here that I'm trying that I want to break out my double pedal
because
I don't play double bass.
I just play a single bass drum, but every once in a while, there's a drummer
comes along.
That's so fucking good.
It makes me want to play double bass.
And, um, I've actually really, uh, gotten into that band, Lamb of God.
And, uh, just to warn some of my older listeners, uh, this is the sort of that,
that kind of fucking
singing, but it's not as bad as some of the other guys, but they, they got this
song called
break you.
And there's, there's a double bass pattern in the end that I just think is the
shit.
I'm sure all you guys who play double bass, this is a fucking joke for you, but
this is
something, this is the kind of shit that makes me want to play double bass.
Let's see if I got this here, if I can get this.
See, it just sounds ridiculous the way he's singing.
All right, here we go.
Listen to this fucking double bass pattern.
This is Chris Adler.
This is one of my new favorite drummers.
I think this is the shit right here.
Listen to this.
Here we go.
That shit right there.
That fucking machine gun shit.
I actually figured out what the fuck he's doing, but that just amazes me that
the entire
band can be on fucking point like that.
And I know you guys are going to hit me with a bunch of other double bass drum
players who
are faster or whatever.
I like their band because the tempo that they play at, it's still fucking music
to me because
some of those other bands, I try to get into them, but it's, maybe my ear isn't
ready to
hear it, but the shit is so fucking fast that it loses its effectiveness, that
it stops
being music.
It just sounds like a jet that's like flying by, but never passes my ears.
It's just sitting there in my fucking ears.
So, uh, I guess that type of shit.
Does that make any fucking sense?
What did I do?
What did I do?
Um, let's get to the next question.
Who are some of the best recent drummers of the past decade?
Uh, I'll just tell you the guys that I like.
I like everyone from, uh, whoever played with those original Chuck Berries.
I like Ringo, Charlie Watts, uh, Phil Rudd, Alex Van Halen, Steve Gadd, Vinnie,
Vinnie Kaliuta,
uh, Steve, Steven Adler, Chris Adler, Quest.
There's so many fucking guys.
Um, and I'm going fucking blank on all of them.
I really should have made a list.
You know what?
I'll actually sense to, uh, the MM podcast.
I'll send you a couple of YouTube videos of some guys that I think are just
fucking amazing.
Uh, amazing drummers.
But, uh, I don't know.
Anybody who gives me the fucking chills when I listen to them and they, that,
that's like
the big thing.
And they make me wish that I could fucking do it.
That's, that's how I judge whether a drummer is good enough.
If they, if they play some shit and it's so fucking good that in my delusional
head,
I start driving down the street fantasizing that I'm doing it, you know, during
the middle
of the greatest HBO standup special performance ever, then, then, then that's,
I get into,
uh, I get into that drummer.
All right.
Number three is good times, bad times.
The only song that you can play.
I can barely play that song, but now this, I can play some other ones.
I don't know.
Did that bore the shit out of you music people?
Who gives a fuck?
Uh.