Who knew? Cozy Powell replaced all his original drumming on Jeff Becks Rough and Ready album. So says the bands piano man Max Middleton: When we recorded Jeff Becks Rough and Ready, we only had eight tracks and we pretty much played live. We had two tracks for drums, so there werent too many tracks left over. [Drummer] Cozy Powell had been known in the session world around 1970 as a great timekeeper. We’d finished Rough and Ready and it was now time to put it in its box. Then Cozy announced to Jeff that he’d bought a brand new drum kit, it had just arrived, and he wanted to put it on the record. Jeff said, “Weve finished!” but Cozy insisted. Jeff thought about it and said, “Well have to rub all your drums off as you play because there are no extra tracks,”and Cozy said, “No problem. I’ll just play the whole album. Erase everything as I play.” They put the tape on and Jeff said, “If you make a mistake, I’m gonna kill you.” Cozy played the album from the beginning to the end with his new drum kit, straight up. That shows what a great drummer he was. You wouldn’t have known that he’d overdubbed drums on the whole album.https://youtube/watch?v=031Quer1N2A
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:18:30 +0000
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