Re: [Harp-L] Ken Deifik on Craig Ferguson - YouTube

[Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Merola wrote:

> You sound great Ken, very tasty

Thanks so much, Steve.  Hopefully I'll be able to post the Grand Old Opry 
appearance soon.

> ...one question. Was the drummer using a suitcase as a bass drum???

He sure was.  The drummer is Sinclair Lott.  I suggested him for this gig 
because he has been so much fun to work with in the past - tremendous 
imagination.  We did a gig with Dave Hall a few years ago together, and he 
generally used brushes, beautifully, and on a couple of songs just used his 
hands, and it was just fantastic.  He's mainly a jazz guy, and he also 
worked with Frank Zappa.  He can leave the black pages at home when he's 
working with us, however. This music is obviously pretty simple.  He has 
perfect, swinging taste.  With Putter Smith on bass and Sinc on drums we 
can really float and blast ahead at the same time.

I'm very pleased with the rhythmic figure I came up with, originally for 
the recording.  However, here's something weird about it.  When we work 
with a drummer the figure works perfectly to drive things and add another 
layer of swing.

However, the few times I've performed the song with Dave without a drummer 
I've had to alter the figure, or else it drags a bit instead of kicking 
things up.

Ya learn something new at least once every decade, ya know?  -K