Stick-struck drums

[Fonotec]

Dogs don't leave the room when brush playing begins. It's when the sticks come out and start being struck on heads that animals flee. People with good hearing step back, far from the "artist" who paints with sound too loud to be safely near... ???

Yet, it would be preposterous to imagine Led Zeppelin's, John Bonham, playing his epic drum work with only brushes and the felt-tip mallet's cymbal flourish... Indeed, there is a part of music which is destructive, caustic while being created and sometimes even while being consumed (if fans get too close at live concerts). That makes it exciting. To sense that the player feels the music so strongly that he is willingly hurting himself while bearing down on his enjoyment of the rhythm... If it is only listened to in recordings, then the damage, that was, was contained to the drummer, or possibly only the micro-subtleties of the velocities which were achieved while using some form of "hearing protection" while they were being played suffered.

~The tabla are drums which on the other hand can evoke as much excitement as stick-struck military Western snare drums, but without damaging the hearing of the artist who is playing them. Perhaps some Art is wrong, in spite of being fun?

[THD]

When it comes to the recording of John Bonham's ( from Led Zeppelin ) drums, there was no close microphones, here you can hear John Paul Jones ( the bass player of Zep ), tell how they did it:

http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.no/2010/0 ... iking.html

I believe Mr Bonham must have been playing quite loud since they could put the microphones that far away from the drum-kit?

Not a good idea to have the "Black Dog"'s running around there when they recorded their drum sessions.......