Fred Armisen is: Jens Hannemann
If you've even been inside a Guitar Center's percussion department, right above the bin of twelve-dollar-fruit-shaped plastic "shakers" on the checkout counter, you've probably noticed a twelve-inch TV/VCR combo playing a looping sample of some video featuring a foreigner clad in tight black nylon who is rambling through a thick accent about sticking techniques. And surely, said video features the latest in public access Video Toaster effects, like "mosaic" and stuttery-picture-in-picture. Most music instructional tapes are like this; caught in a weird 80's production value time-warp, and in desperate need of subtitling. Alas, one of my favorite SNL personalities (and comedians in general) had apparently taken notice in 2007, and now I'm late to the party, but a happy arrival nonetheless:
Ladies and gentlemen, Fred Armisen presents: Complicated Drumming Technique.
Someone told me about this video a while back, and for whatever reason I completely spaced on looking it up. It looks absolutely BRILLIANT and I dream that one day (mayhaps this week) I may own a copy on DVD. One day...
Dec 30, 2008
Reader Comments (20)
first motherfuckers
Sadly, Fed Armisen is one of the few remaining highlights on SNL.
AWESOME!!
It boggles my mind that a drummer would ever need THAT MANY drums surrounding them. Is the number of drums directly proportional to the amount of rocking that they can produce? :)
Armisen has grown on me over the years. nice find, KPer
Fred Armisen has become my favorite SNL cast member. The character (Nicholas Fehn) he does on Weekend Update where goes on tangent after tangent and can't even complete a sentence is my favorite.
you have a typo in the title. dont wanna sound like a dick, just letting you know. nice find
Thanks for the heads up Brady V. TYPO FIXED!
Sorry. I usually try to keep things consistently related to the posts at hand but I just came across this and thought of some of the many times you've made reference to it. Please enjoy.
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Oh and of course HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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I loved pikachu and james killed him that bastard die James Me u forever Pik :(
Highlight of the video: Serenity t-shirt. Fred Armisen is the man.
But isn't this just typical of the kind... I mean if you and I could go back... wouldn't you think that of all the regrets you have in life... it's like a songbird, and if you just fly with it... okay, this is microcosmic of the universe itself, I mean, the grand scale of it...
&/Nicholas Fehn&
Sorry, couldn't resist. >:-)
Great, my attempt at putting HTML code in there ending up sucking much ass. Sorry about that.
damn, maybe i gotta get one of those tapes. i'v been drumming for a few years and i suck nutz... at drumming...
This along with a few other similar videos are on the blue man groups latest DVD.
Hahaha, the best part about this video is the first comment someone left on youtube...Rhythm, you either have it, or you don't.
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