Axenrot is awesome.
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Rocky Raccoon
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Mumblefood said:
I agree with this. He is definatley a good drummer and i wont take it away from him. But if you go on various drum sites and stuff you will see their are far more technically supierior drummers with more style. You just gotta listen to more. Martin Lopez is not the height of drumming and isnt that special. But he can pull off softer and heavy material with confidence and articulation. There are better though.
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Technically, yes, there are better. But I still haven't found another drummer whose patterns were so consistently... 100% perfect for the music they were backing. Lopez had the concept of what fit the music DOWN, and great (and technically superior) as many drummers are, Lopez had a musicality that I'm struggling to see matched.
Perhaps not the greatest, and perhaps not irreplacable... but a natural talent. You can have all the training and technical skills in the world... but you can't fake natural musicality.
Perhaps not the greatest, and perhaps not irreplacable... but a natural talent. You can have all the training and technical skills in the world... but you can't fake natural musicality.
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Liquid Diamonds said:
Mikael on a post on this forum did say that he was involved in every drum beat. But this issnt ment to take anything away from lopez
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Well, I'm hardly surprised that he would be involved. He did write all of the melodic material, it would seem unnatural for a songwriter to put so much effort into something and then allow someone else to take 100% charge of the drum patterns. I imagine that the beats were developed through suggestive discussion. I also don't doubt that, had Mike been totally in charge and programmed the beats on a drum machine, they would have sounded rather different.
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Tumn said:
Yikes! hehe.
The day ain't far my friends, when Mike will be seen washing Lopez's dirty laundry, begging him to come back somehow
Heh, seriously, lets hope Axe is good in the studio. And come to think of it, I don't see much stuff in Bloodbath I can point and say "that's surely written by the drummer himself". Anyway, we'll see. :Smokin:
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I think Axe does a great job, now having seen him perform live. Awesome, no (at least not yet with Opeth). A new drummer means a slightly different band, yet, with Axe I still feel it's Opeth and not something else, and that's a good thing.
My personal preference, at least at this stage, is I liked the feel of Martin Lopez's playing more than Axe. He added a touch/flare that is a style unique to him. I can't really compare Axe and Lopez because they are just different.
My personal preference, at least at this stage, is I liked the feel of Martin Lopez's playing more than Axe. He added a touch/flare that is a style unique to him. I can't really compare Axe and Lopez because they are just different.
Well, maybe Mikael can "train" Axe to play more loose with Opeth material...less robotic, more fluid and groovy like Lopez. We'll see.
B Crouch
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I pretty much agree with everyone that while Axe isn't as good as Lopez, he is bloody good in his own right.
Axenrot is a great drummer, but he plays too clean. More suited for deatmetal than Opeth I think, but I will see how he will grow.
I will miss Lopez's latino groove
I will miss Lopez's latino groove
Yeah he was better than I thought he'd be. But he couldn't pull off the fast double kick at the end of Deliverance.
Or maybe it was just the shitty sound guy turning the kickdrum up so loud that it just destroyed the speakers. He also had Peter on mute.
Someone give that guy a pat on the back. Good job.
Or maybe it was just the shitty sound guy turning the kickdrum up so loud that it just destroyed the speakers. He also had Peter on mute.
Someone give that guy a pat on the back. Good job.
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gatedropper said:
I always wondered how he got that special double bass sound!
Thanks for the clarification!
gumtree
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Comparing musicians who replace others is stupid, especially in a live situation. Lopez has been playing these songs for many years now, and Axe has pretty much just started learning them compared to Lopez.
As far as I'm concerned Axe is an awesome drummer, he was pretty much spot on when I saw them in Sydney, and I beleive he will get better at the songs as they he plays them more.
As far as I'm concerned Axe is an awesome drummer, he was pretty much spot on when I saw them in Sydney, and I beleive he will get better at the songs as they he plays them more.
