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For those of you (and you know who you are) who might be interested, TMBG appeared on a special program about Robotics and computers on ABC with Ted Koppel last night.
Their drummer challenged a multipurpose robot named COG to a drumming contest.
Beat the silicon pants off it, too. This was to demonstrate how far robotics still has to come to equal human capacaties.. I think.
There was a nice song about the contest, though.
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Yup...there's six more episodes of that show left, and TMBG will be on three of those. They've already been on the first two.
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I can think of a lot of heavy metal drummers who could probably outdrum TMBG's drummer. I haven't heard one song that I can recall from the group, but I doubt they are very speedy. I also didn't see the program so most likely I'm talking out of my ass. But really, I think it would be stupid to make the contest so obvious that you knew the human would win. I mean let's say that John Bonham was still alive, or that robotics was quite advanced in 1972. Would you need to go ahead with the test to know that Bonham--indisputably one of the best drummers since the invention of drumming--would win? A robot that can play "Moby Dick" or "Bonzo's Montreux" flawlessly would be something to see and hear.
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Neil Peart of Rush. I saw them in concert when they passed through Toronto a few years ago, on their "Counterparts" tour, and was amazed.
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Well, not that it will count for much, I'll put my vote in for the best drummers. It's a three way tie actually and they are:
Jeff Hamilton Max Roach Jeff "Tane" Watts
Jazz drummers all.
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