![]() If ever there was a man who could channel his persona into an instrument and permeate a whole room with infectious positive vibes, Bernard Purdie surely tops the list of such practitioners. Whether it’s the raw-nasty fill before “and now we need a pound of fat-back drums!” from King Curtis’ ‘Memphis Soul Stew’ or the warm, treacle-laced groove on Aretha’s ‘Rock Steady’ that draws you into Purdie’s world once he’s nailed your white-boy ears back, there’s no escaping his feel-good factor playing. Whatever the medium, it’s never too late for any drummer to discover Bernard Purdie. Maybe it was my final conversion to full-on Bonham awareness that made me re-explore the videos for answers to the ‘Fool In The Rain’ groove or maybe it was listening to Steely Dan’s ‘Alive In America’ album that prodded me to search for the original ‘Babylon Sisters’ studio take. “Well hell-oAlthough by the early 1990’s I’d seen snippets of both the Jeff Porcaro and Bernard Purdie instructional VHS videos, the aroma of wake-up call coffee didn’t hit me until the latter part of that decade. ![]()
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