Check out Colm O'Coisage from My Bloody Valentine.

Steve Shelly was the first one i noticed. I dont think I'd use the word monster but hes very special. Love his early work wioth catpower too. Everyone in SY is so unique but Steve does stand out to me, especially on more subdued songs. I can see how someone would use "monster" on the more energetic songs. I also think SY's more subdued sound is so full of energy so its hard fo me to come up with the right descriptive word. But yeah, he deserves much focus and props.

I was just thinking that. Steve Shelley was such a HUGE influence on so many drummers (myself included), but hardly gets credit for it.

what are you talking about ? the drummer ? your on crack and your taste sucks. have you ever heard of John Fishman, Bill Brufard, Terry bozzio , Tim Alexander ?

He is excellent. It took me a long time to realize that the drums were the main reason I liked this band.

He was the original drummer in the Crucifucks.

i laughed so hard

100% agree hahhahaaha

Like Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick.

even tho hes younger than kim and thurston 😭

It's an oxymoron to say that they certainly became more 'conventional' after he joined

@@sexobscura They were already moving away from no wave by the time Steve joined, the move towards an alternative sound was just a result of the band's evolving sound.

@@beautifullights8484 Even though they 'emerged' from that milieu, I wouldn't never be so bold as to class early Sonic Youth as 'No Wave' in the purist sense. Sure, they were 'noisy' and 'unconventional' but they forged their own musical path. I just meant to highlight that Shelley helped define a more 'conventional' type of songcraft to their playing ('Sister' being a prime example)

Hes definitely the most underrated member of the band

@@sexobscura Yeah, I dont know about thast. Steve Shelly was definitly there during some very chaotic/beautiful performances. I never saw a conventional SY performance live, myself. Started seeing live in late 90s-early 2000s and i did miss these performances. The shows i saw were pomoting albums that really disappoeared through the cracks but wee so great. They were like the polar opposite of goo or the incredibly popular 100%. I like those two songs but they're not so experimental. I associate Steve Shelly with quite expermental music. But i definitely would use monster or beast to describe really any SY member but probably especially not Steve Shelly. Graceful, weird, energetic and powerful, but not beast lol. Also, itd be weird i think if he were a particulaly beastly drummer. Wouldnt work. No monsterous/beastly drums on the SY SY album. That was Richard Edson. Starkly different drumming and overall compositions. But beastly??? I dont get thst personally. Do you not enjoy what youre calling thier more conventional Steve Shewlly involved work? Do you think its better or worse...or just different. Not tryin to actually argue about a deciptor but i am curious. Have a nice one.

Everything!!!

LoL not really.

Previous drummer was the sleazy car attendant in “Ferris Bueler’s Day Off”

not

Not an accurate story...but funny nontheless

@@politicaltroll8920 Whoa!!! TIL

@@politicaltroll8920 Richard Edson

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Got that right. 1974 in the house

Sounds about right

what

@@swaggermcjagger4266 who

bleed on me is all i ask of you.................................. shit on my head..........................

@@Psychol-Snooper ok

“Haven’t watched the channel in ages” Yeah, that’s why they changed it. Ratings started slipping. Despite what KZfaq comments will have you believed, more people started watching when they switched over to reality TV. So why would they go back to playing music videos that you can watch on KZfaq for free?

Now it just means masonic

You’ve seen quite a little then.

@@faz0482 there's always one

...puh...

@@ichbins8588 pshh...

Meow man peace and love ✌️

The Koolest. 🙏

do you drool most of the time ?

This isn't a jam....... Kool Thing is a well known SY song; very much in tune with the album version.

😂 wouldn’t it be funny if people actually believed you? But seriously that’s bullshit.

@@wellesradio lol like Sonic Youth would have been on the radio & involved in a contest like that back then

@@ioncewasmikey They might have been. You never know. But the point is that is not how Steve knew them.

@@wellesradio But if you know Steve didn't get the position by being part of a radio contest, along with their history & reputation, it's a pretty safe bet Sonic Youth didn't get invited to play a radio station contest in their pre-Shelley years in particular. That'd have been prior to any mainstream level success they achieved. Point being it's obvious the whole story is bullshit just as you pointed out.

Steve Shelley was the drummer for Crucifucks before this so no the story isn’t true.

Big difference from the majority of what we see now huh👍 Sometimes I need to be reminded

They call it streaming now

Well, to be fair, MTV spotlighted a lot of underground music, starting on 120 minutes, then into mainstream if they were a hit. But you'll notice it's only the College Radio friendly SY songs, not the thrash nonsense.

@@planomathandscience Yeah, but it was not only Sonic Youth, it was also The Cramps, Butthole Surfers, Nick Cave and others. Suddenly they were all hip, probably thanks to grunge.

I've always loved his playing. Daydream Nation was the first album of theirs that I owned, and it was immediately apparent how much he added to the music.

I've been drumming along to Steve Shelly a lot in recent months and this song is a beast to play. Very fun but you have to play absolutely relaxed or you vapor lock. Fantastic underappreciated drummer along with MacMcneilly of The Jesus Lizard who was another phenomenal drummer.

More warm tones with less projection with a slightly less "bouncy" more controllable rebound than a single typical single ply clear head. Also the feel between the snare head and the tom batter heads will feel consistent and at the speed he's playing with the need to so paradiddle rolls etc. to mimic single stroke rolls across the kit that same "feel" is essential.

Ωραίες εποχές!!!

Kool

Nice

Nice crush! Don't let him/her go away!

@@Xcalator35 he started to date someone else 😭

Literally how I got into them, too. Good/bad times, lol.

5:00

1:33 intermission is Kool, but many people are sleeping on the drummer; he’s going insane

Drummer so awesome@@nna1u39

Yeah he said the riff of Everlong sounded like their song schizophrenia

And incredibly beautiful at the same time 🤔