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Back in 2004-05 Deen was ranked by either Modern Drummer or Drum (can't remember which at the moment...) as the fastest double-bass drummer currently playing professionally. And if you've heard any of his stuff with Joe Taffola it's really not surprising. Journey's catalog is by far the tamest he's ever played professionally. When it comes to speed metal, Castronovo is part machine and part animal!

HOWEVER....

THIS GUY, holds the world record for double-bass kicks with 1530 strikes in 60 seconds!
Granted, this is simply making contact a whole bunch of times in a given time frame - there's no rhythm or style to it but still.... DAYUMM!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUeF8pbhj8A

Alex Van Halen does something similar to this in the "Live Without a Net" drum solo. Always wondered how they got that sound.

conversationpc wrote:Alex Van Halen does something similar to this in the "Live Without a Net" drum solo. Always wondered how they got that sound.

I saw that show. I thought it was bullshit, but now I'm not so sure. That's freakin fast!

Rick wrote:

conversationpc wrote:Alex Van Halen does something similar to this in the "Live Without a Net" drum solo. Always wondered how they got that sound.

I saw that show. I thought it was bullshit, but now I'm not so sure. That's freakin fast!

Oh yeah? Well I know someone who could do the same thing but with just one bass drum......Chuck Norris.

conversationpc wrote:Alex Van Halen does something similar to this in the "Live Without a Net" drum solo. Always wondered how they got that sound.

You've gone all these years not knowing what double-bass drumming is?

Rick wrote:

conversationpc wrote:Alex Van Halen does something similar to this in the "Live Without a Net" drum solo. Always wondered how they got that sound.

I saw that show. I thought it was bullshit, but now I'm not so sure. That's freakin fast!

It was bullshit. In Live...Right Here, Right Now), the cam zooms in on the riser at the end of Alex's solo during the hyperspeed part. That shit at the end was a sequencer.

verslibre wrote:

conversationpc wrote:Alex Van Halen does something similar to this in the "Live Without a Net" drum solo. Always wondered how they got that sound.

You've gone all these years not knowing what double-bass drumming is?

No, I know what double-bass drumming is. I was first introduced to it on Judas Priest's "Painkiller" album. I love the sound but it's way overdone in the power metal genre. Anyway, the double-bass thing I was referring to in Alex Van Halen's drum solo really didn't sound like a double-bass drum to me.

conversationpc wrote:but it's way overdone in the power metal genre.

Couldn't agree more with that - (Ref. Lars Ulrich for example) Deen and Sucherman sometimes push the envelope of what's "appropriate", for lack of a better term, with regard to the genre of music they play.... That's not to say either of them sound out of place or that they change the dynamic of any given song they play - that' would be absurd. There are definitely times when they go a little nuts with the d-bass i.e., Deen's outstanding and always impressive performances on Mother Father - twice during that song there's a very intricate roll-off after the word, "...believe" that the roll-off Deen plays includes somewhere in the neighborhood of 127 contacts (feet and hands) in a 2.5 second time-span (this was discussed a few years ago after someone slowed it down enough to actually count the hits...)