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Blondie - “Dreaming” (Top of the Pops, 1979)
Blondie’s second-most reliable producer-of-boners? Clem Burke.
Duh.
Fun fact about Clem Burke: He’s left-handed, but he plays a right-handed kit1. As a result, a lot of his sixteenth-note fills (on glorious display in “Dreaming” and “Heart of Glass”) start on the left hand, which means he hits that crash cymbal on 1 with his left hand as well.
So, remember, when you’re fifteen years old and playing along to Blondie albums, setting your kit up just like Clem Burke’s (with that mounted tom literally parallel to the ground) and starting your fills on the left hand will really help you become a successful musician. Obviously.
I might have more to say about this later on, but when we’re starting out with a musical instrument2, we emulate the people we admire, and more often than not we pick totally trivial (read: easy) things to copy, convinced that doing so will make us more like them. Yeah, sure. The key to Zeldman’s success is totally which model of Mac Pro he uses. You can just swap out talent for gigahertz on a 1:1 basis, can’t you? Yeah, I’m pretty sure it works like that.
Anyway, whatever. Blondie are great. Thanks for reminding me about them, Merlin.
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