SINNER and DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR are absolute double-bass drum masterpieces!!

For a 19 year old, his drumming on that album was epic.

Deep purple “Fireball”the FIRST double bass drum metal song ever. Recorded in 1970! Released in 1971.

My favourite Priest album, and part of the reason is Simon's playing. BTW- Bill Ward used double kick technique on a section of Into The Void from Master Of Reality, released in 1971.

For all of his work and stature, he is so humble. Imagine not knowing the influence you have had on heavy metal drumming.

Sin After Sin deserves a lot of credit for Double bass drums over heavy music, I think people still sleep on how important COZY POWELL was to drumming. Rising by Rainbow had come out a year prior to Sin After Sin and it features a lot of intense double bass drumming!

Great musician. And very modest. Great influence - Tommy Aldridge is a beast of the drummer. 🤘

Guess I NEED to check out some Black Oak Arkansas for REAL, then! Coming from HERE in the Midwest? I HAVE talked to like, HALF a dozen people that "partied with BLA in the day" and have vague memories of Aldridge, 70s era.... Simply mind-blowing, the HISTORY of THAT dude, as well! 😮 🤘🔥🤘

Have to say that the drumming on this album was brilliant along with the 1st MSG album🤩👍👑

Simon is the ultimate maestro. It doesn't matter who was first, his double bass playing in Sin After Sin is simply on another level

Nice of Simon to give Tommy Aldridge credit for being one the first double kick drummers🤘

From Judas Priest to The Who to Hiromi is pretty cool 🔥🔥🔥

I could sit and listen to Simon talk all day, such stories and a wealth of knowledge, amazing

Of all the great drummers, Simon is THE MAN. And ftr, double-kick was used on Sabbath's Vol 4 in 1972: both Supernaut and Tomorrow's Dream have very prominent pounding double kick. There may be earlier uses than that in what we consider metal, but that's the earliest inarguable instance which comes to my mind atm.

I was so glad Simon mentioned Tommy Aldridge. There is so much revisionist history regarding double bass drumming. I even saw someone in the comments say Cozy Powell was somehow the guy who started all of what is going on today in regards to Rainbow Rising (1976), well sorry pal, but Tommy Aldridge was playing the way we currently know hard rock/metal drummers do in terms of utilizing double bass way before that. The Raunch & Roll live album by Black Oak Arkansas was released in 1973! And that was taken from a live recording that was presumably done well before it was actually released in record stores at the time. Tommy Aldridge is truly primarily responsible for the way drummers now think about playing with their feet. Again, he was already playing the way you hear him playing on albums like Speak of the Devil & the Ozzy Tribute to Rhoads album/s in the VERY EARLY 70's, and there is documented proof of this. Even Neil Peart (in one of his early Modern Drummer interviews) talked about how he thought about playing with his feet differently after first hearing/seeing Tommy Aldridge. And Peart's first album with Rush was in 1975! I think it's ridiculous when I hear people talk about guys like Lombardo being the "godfather of double bass". Really? In what alternate truthless universe? Look...when it comes to double bass drumming credit must be given to Ginger Baker and Carmine Appice as well. Both pre-dated Tommy and both utilized double bass to varying extents (Carmine arguably more so than Ginger Baker). But if you listen to the drum solo on Raunch & Roll by Black Oak Arkansas (again from 1973!) the idea that anyone was utilizing double bass in the way/s that Aldridge was at that time is suspect at best. And for record yes I'm well aware of Louie Bellson, but Louie was really only using 2 bass drums for "flurries" at the end of songs, it wasn't until the 80's that Louie really started working more modern (at the time) figures and patterns into his double bass repertoire. Tommy Aldridge is a legend, and he doesn't get near the credit he deserves. I actually met him in 1988 backstage at a Whitesnake show. Very humble soft spoken man. And all I know is if Simon f'ing Phillips and Neil f'ing Peart would have/had both listed me as an influence on them I would definitely feel like I could go to my grave as a drummer having accomplished something of real significance. Kudos to Simon for specifically bringing up Tommy Aldridge.

Yep first time I heard Simon was Sin After Sin and It's their best album still. Whenever I listen to it I have to listen to the whole thing, and of course I'm air drumming to Simon the whole time.

This is a very cool video! Thanks for doing this with Simon Phillips and sharing it with the world.

Simon drumming was superb on Dissident aggressor but who started the double bass drumming on heavy rock was Ian Paice.

Definitely one of my favorite drummers and albums. I think I’ll go listen to it now!

What a nice man, cheers ! And great seminal job !

First double bass drumming in metal that I recall was Into the Void by Black Sabbath in 1971. Bill Ward's double bass is all over the 'freedom fighters' section.

Kudos to the amazing Simon Phillips on Sin After Sin! Being born personally in 73, I discovered it in the mid 80s BUT...I HAD gotten a copy of Unleashed in the East in 1980 from my older sister (who "didn't like it") as THAT WAS my 1st actual introduction to METAL music. I "think? 🤔" the Unleashed LP was giving to me right after ACDC Highway to Hell was introduced, as I became an IMMEDIATE ACDC fan, and then of course Judas Priest 😏. And so, yeah...Ya think Simon's drumming on Sin After Sin is great (as it obviously IS). Just check OUT later drummer of Priest- Les Bink's interpretations of some of those tracks LIVE on Unleashed in the East 😏🤘... THAT'S thee LIVE album "I" grew up on 🤘🔥🤘

When it comes to heavy metal, Cozy Powell on Rainbow Rising was the first drummer who used double bass in the way we understand it now. We could go even further with Ian Paice on Fireball…

Either way? Despite "WHO 1st, used double bass in a song context"....I think, we CAN, obviously note - Simon's input for SUCH 😏... Plus? Simon also played double bass ALL OVER the album too, (as opposed to a part in a song etc.) 😏😎🥁🤘🔥🤘

Sin after Sin was a landmark album and Simon's drumming helped make it just that. Just sayin

He referenced Black Oak Arkansas! A magnificent band! Like a sort of rustic Rolling Stones. Genuine hillbillies, but with great humor and very competent musicians. Aldridge (who was a blow in from Florida) was the musician a cut above, though the bass player was also very good. The singer (Jim Dandy Mangrum) has a distinctive baritone that a lot of people hate but it fits the band. You have to love a band whose members lived in a cave in the Appalachians for a while, as fugitives from the law for stealing their first PA. They also have a song that starts with a recording of one of the guitarists taking a leak into a record studio ash tray. I think this is what is defined as 'raw' stuff, or street cred. I was turned onto them by 'Uncle Elijah' (actually pre- Tommy Aldridge) and then found lots of other songs sending up Bible Belt religion ('Lord Have Mercy On My Soul' and 'Everybody Wants To See Heaven'), as well as some great Southern Rock stuff like 'Hot and Nasty', 'I Could Love You' and 'Hey Y'all' (on KZfaq there is a great live video of this from Charlotte Speedway in 1974 and another from the Albert Hall in 1974 or 1975 -which might even be where Simon Phillips saw them). The first two MCA period albums are also really good, despite not having a great rep - songs like 'Bump and Grind', 'Strong Enough to Be Gentle', 'Wild Men From The Mountains' - just fantastic roots music. Sin After Sin has some great tracks and in the long run Simon Phillips might have worked out better than the drummer JP did get, who was a very good musician but had some nasty personal habits. I agree with SP's comments about breadth of musical exposure - I think it makes a better musician, because you can bring more to the session. You can be a very fine musician without breadth of exposure but there will be so many gaps. Whether you like jazz or not, almost all the great drummers have had some exposure/background in jazz, with its more common use of complex beats and rhythms, technical demands and careful listening and communication. But exposure to soul, blues etc. also really adds to the palate of colours a drummer can bring. Whether or not you need to live in cave and steal your first PA, I don't know - did Simon Phillips do either of these things and was this really behind his exit from Toto?

Michael Giles- King Crimson. Cozy Powell-Rainbow Rising. Both predate that album. And much love for Simon from me BTW 👍🏻 A huge influence on me and many others I’m sure.

Humble amazing drummer ✌️

Love it.

Black Sabbath had double bass since Master Of Reality. Budgie had double bass. Fireball by Deep Purple had double bass like Judas Priest or Motörhead in title track. Maybe not what you would call metak today although it was part of the begining but Cactus albums with Carmine and BBA had some nasty double bass stuff. Even some early Jazz rock albums like Mahavishnu Orchestra had things pretty metal to me, the distortion, heaviness, the " i don't give a shit " almost uncontrolled punk attitude and double bass stuff by Cobham were metal, thrash in a way. Jeff Beck with Cozy Powell had double bass, Ive got feeling thats fast, its like a pre shalalala by thin lizzy, other prototype in the genre. Trapeze had double bass in some songs like Jury ( very Judas Priest in what they did in SWOD ), Medusa, Your Love is alright,Black Cloud and the melting intro proto thrash of Keepin'time . Rainbow albums with Cozy had double bass.

I think the first drummer to consistently be hitting the double bass and using it on more than just a single song was Cozy Powell. I mean great chance I am wrong, but 1976's Rainbow Rising was pure epicness. IMO the first "Power metal" album, and just a huge inspiration in metal. "Light in the Black" with its doublebass patterns driving the tune. Whereas Bonham, Ward and Paice truly inspired many rock and metal drummers, I think it was Cozy that inspired the guys that would be leading the NWOBHM and most euro metal bands as well as the trash bands to come.

Ian Paice, Tommy Aldridge, Carl Palmer, and Simmon Phillips might introduced double kick on rock or metal genre but Louie Belson pioneered double bass playing,..my opinion as a fusion drummer myself too.

100%. he literally invented modern metal drumming (by accident) on this record.

Sin After Sin is a great album and Simon is one of the reasons why.

Reminds me of the days of Steel Dragon. It was during that era right about the time Pookie went Ka Poots ! 🐝🐝

AHH '77, Bought sin when it came out at 16

So humble. Actually there was also a Nazareth song in the early 70's that had double bass drumming on it, I don't remember which one...

Roger Glover producer of sin after sin was the best idea in the world at that time.

Deep Purple Fireball recorded in 1971 pure double bass

“Let it Roll” by UFO has double bass in 1975. Not that their drummer was in Simon’s league.

Lucifer's Friend - Ride The Sky (1971) 6 years before Judas Priest Sin After Sin album

louie belson,keith moon,ginger baker,carmine appice,brian downey.

Definitely a great Drummist,and I bought that album. He had no bearing on double pedal playing tho' IMO😂

🤔Let me say this... Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, and Stained Class are seriously underrated albums.. If anyone thinks any of those albums are not fantastic examples of heavy Rock, then they really are not in tune with the vibe..😉👨🏻

Thin Lizzy's Sha la la predates by three years. Not even close. Brian Downy and Cozy were doing full double kicks songs long before everyone else caught up

Sorry for the great Simon Phillips, but he wasn't the first to play double-bass in Metal. Ian Paice was one of the first (in Fireball) and, of course, Cozy Powell on Hammer-Bedlam records. Obviously also Tommy Aldridge with BOA, but especially Mick Tucker from Sweet. RIP

You obviously haven't heard of Rainbow and Cozy Powell

Philthy Animal.

also Alice Cooper Killer funeral dirge

Simon Philips= The best technical drummer Judas Priest ever had. Les Binks= The best all around drummer Judas Priest ever had.

If he wants to credit Tommy, that's fine, but Tommy didn't play metal.

Simon is way too good for Judas Priest.

Darrell Sweet of Nazareth on 1973's 'Razamanaz', incredible double bass drumming. However, Purple and Sabbath even before that.

Glad scott travis got that gig! Coulnt imagine you behind the kit.