Going Against Type.

You often see comments on YouTube bemoaning the state of modern popular music and claiming that the good stuff began and ended with the sixties. That’s rubbish. OK, the sixties produced The Beatles and psychedelia and now we have Justin Bieber, but in general terms modern popular music is a lot more varied than the sixties stuff. It’s freer, more imaginative, more sophisticated, and musically more skilful than most of what was produced fifty years ago. Motown was nice, but it’s so naïve.

The track below is an illustration. Imagine trying to play that drum riff on a sixties drum kit. It couldn’t be done even if there was a drummer capable of doing it, which I doubt. Omnia’s drummer should be canonized.