Nicko McBrain retires

BludBrutha said:
Oh shit I hope it’s not Jason Bonham. That guy’s awful.
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I’ve never been impressed with his drumming. He did well on Celebration Day imo, but I’ve not cared for his drumming anything else he’s been on.

Specifically, I don’t care for his playing on Van Halen songs with Sammy Hagar. His style is just so different than Alex Van Halen’s and it doesn’t work for me
 
matic22 said:
Jason Bonham was curiously left off the Hagar residency in Vegas and replaced by Kenny Aronoff... Just saying.

He stated that he was shocked about it, but we have seen stranger scenarios. Jason would make sense as a lot of Nicko's bass drum playing was influenced by Bonzo.
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Sammy fired him. Jason’s mother got cancer and he had to fly home to tend to her. Kenny Aranoff is musically a much better fit for Van Halen music, Bonham was too heavy handed. That being said, it was a low class move by Hagar to tell Bonham they were continuing with Kenny in that situation, and you could tell by Bonham’s statements on social media he didn’t see it coming and wasn’t happy about it.
 
Ruflux said:
You don't need to temper your statement with an at least this is what I think when you're literally right. This isn't a matter of opinion. Maiden's sound is entirely defined by its rhythm section. Anyone arguing against that is simply wrong.
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If that were true then replacing Adrian with Janick and Bruce with Blaze wouldn’t have made any difference to their sound. Which is clearly absurd.
 
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BludBrutha said:
Sammy fired him. Jason’s mother got cancer and he had to fly home to tend to her. Kenny Aranoff is musically a much better fit for Van Halen music, Bonham was too heavy handed. That being said, it was a low class move by Hagar to tell Bonham they were continuing with Kenny in that situation, and you could tell by Bonham’s statements on social media he didn’t see it coming and wasn’t happy about it.
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Kenny Aronoff is not a better fit for VH music... They can say whatever, but the musician in me doesn't agree. Aronoff is a great drummer but he doesn't play nothing like AVH...

As I said, there are 2 scenarios, but letting go a drummer of 10 years after a family emergency is strange...
 
matic22 said:
As I said, there are 2 scenarios, but letting go a drummer of 10 years after a family emergency is strange...
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Yes well, Hagar swears that he was abducted by aliens in the 70's and subjected to medical experiments at their hands so... :p
 
matic22 said:
Kenny Aronoff is not a better fit for VH music... They can say whatever, but the musician in me doesn't agree. Aronoff is a great drummer but he doesn't play nothing like AVH...

As I said, there are 2 scenarios, but letting go a drummer of 10 years after a family emergency is strange...
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I actually prefer the way Aronoff plays Van Halen music over Bonham…
 
Dick Brucinson said:
As long as it's not Phil Collins, I'm fine with almost anybody. He once butchered the Zeppelin reunion during Live Aid by his ego, and I think Jimmy Page doesn't speak a word to him up to the present day.
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That's a load of bollocks. It was LZ who fucked up by not rehearsing and then changing the song arrangements at the last minute without telling him.

It didn't help that he had just got off a Concord flight from the London half of Live Aid after performing there with Sting.

Also, Phil has been disabled for some years now and can barely walk. The chances of him playing drums ever again are slim.
 
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