{"id":2180,"date":"2021-02-03T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:58:15","slug":"a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue the percussion season &#8211; after yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;precision&#8221; today we have something VERY different &#8211; but equally impressive in its own way.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Its strange how sometimes something, seemingly insignificant, can get stuck in your brain. This clip is one of those for me. It contains one of the best percussion quotes that I know &#8211; &#8220;when I play a theatre, I PLAY the theatre&#8221; &#8211; you will get the context when you watch the clip. I have said this to many people over the years &#8211; don&#8217;t think any of them ever got it \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude02 they just looked at me a bit blankly!! Now they can see what I was talking about. Not sure when this was first broadcast &#8211; but I have never forgotten it.<\/p>\n<p>As someone says in a comment (to paraphrase) &#8220;you can tell this guy is good by the fact that even Animal stops to watch with his jaw hitting the floor&#8221; \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-EAa67EHg3M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buddy Rich : Drum Battle<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-EAa67EHg3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue the percussion season &#8211; after yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;precision&#8221; today we have something VERY different &#8211; but equally impressive in its own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[94,102],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-jazz","tag-percussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}