Snarky Puppy Drummer Plays Metallica

[Censored by Laurie]

https://metalinjection.net/video/jazz-drummer-hears-metallicas-enter-sandman-once-plays-it-perfectly?fbclid=IwAR12sk_BBbm_qJ_SSK7UlCIAgTlXBVIeamVCUsXZzVvsplKuBiGxJcAQwRY

for those unaware, Snarky Puppy is a Grammy Award winning jazz/funk fusion group that got it's start at UNT/Denton back in the early 00s. the drummer here, Larnell Lewis, listens to Enter Sandman once, then completely crushes it. worth the watch for any music fan/nerd...especially you @greenminer

[Stix]

What's really impressive to me is the way he absorbs it and thinks out what he's heard.  While I've never played the song before, I've heard it plenty of times, and I wouldn't have gotten the nuances of the song the way he does - I would have just played along, and while it would be "good enough", it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as what he does.

[greenminer]

I've seen this.  SP drummers...whew boy.

I've met Sput.  JT, too.  Heck I've done a jazz set with JT.  I showed up to a Dallas venue for my bandleader and there's JT on drums! It put me on cloud 9.  Total pro in performance and behavior.

...I have never met Larnell though.  This is the second video in this series (I think the first one he does is a jazz/fusion setting).  It's amazing.  One takeaway: Lewis strikes me as the most cerebral/academic of the drummers for Snarky Puppy.

All 3 are world class.  Here's a personal fav.