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Post by spikestevens on Jun 9, 2010 16:27:12 GMT
Wow! What a guy! That's him on Paul Weller's latest single apparently (No Tears To Cry). And what is he, 73 or thereabouts? He must have played on more hits than any other drummer in the world, surely? I know Hal Blaine has had many - not just with the Wrecking Crew, but I reckon our Clem must be at the top of this particular tree?
I'm certainly no drummer and I don't know the first thing about the art, but I must doff my cap and pay tribute to this legendary sticks-man.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2010 17:19:28 GMT
Clem has definitely played on many records and around 44 No1 hits I believe. He was drummer with the Tornadoes and you'll hear him on Telstar and many of Joe Meeks others. Some of his tracks include include Shakin' All over, it's not Unusual, Everlasting Love, to name but a few. The other prolific Session drummer was Bobby Graham who was with Joe Meek's house band 'the Outlaws' at that time, you can see him on Youtube briefly on the original televised performance of the smash hit 'Johnny Remmember Me'. Bobby died a couple of years ago but both he and Clem played on thousands of records sometimes doing three recording sessions a day. In fact their discography gets mixed up as both could'nt always remember who played on what. But still it's fascinating and all they got paid was the going rate for a session. Just like Ernie Shear with that memorable lead playing on 'Move It' I think the biggest travesty of the session player was 'Vic Flick' the guitarist innovating the James Bond riff known all over the world and played millions of times. The royalties would have been enormous but poor old Vic got paid just under ten shillings for the session. Tony
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Post by peterbower on Jun 9, 2010 17:26:50 GMT
Tony Its sad but true that many of these session musicians got paid a pittance for their work.
Big Jim Sullivan who I have known for years and was my early influence, played on 1,000 top ten hits, and was Tom Jones lead guitar for 10 years, he is still broke.
Peter
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Post by GAJ52 on Jun 10, 2010 8:43:59 GMT
I have been trying for ages to create a midi file of the Tornados Jungle Fever but my big stumbling block is Clems Drum Rhythm which is basically the same throughout the tune, but can I get it right ! I have tried listening to the audio very slow but even that doesn't work, its almost as if its double tracked. The only other midi file available on the internet is totally different to how Clem played it. Oh well ....one day Glen
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Post by Alcopop on Jun 10, 2010 15:52:55 GMT
Hi Glen, it is double tracked you can split it up in audacity.
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Post by GAJ52 on Jun 10, 2010 18:22:29 GMT
Thanks for that piece of info, I didn't think of Audacity.
Your right, with the stereo track split and slowed down slightly, the drum rhythm is much clearer, I can even hear when the kick drum is played and the other instruments stand out more.
Glen
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