The bass player is Michael League and he is the band leader/primary composer. The band has a revolving door of cast members over 30 strong that come and go depending on availability for touring. You must do their song Lingus from this same album!

@michaelgwfrogwelge

Жыл бұрын

The current (August, 2022) membership is 19... bass, 3 guitars, 1 violin, 2 saxes. 2 1/2 trumpets. 3 1/2 keyboards, 3 drummers, 3 percussionists... (Justin Stanton plays keys & trumpet.) In live performances, lineup is usually 9-12 players with bass, 1 guitar, 1 drummer, 1 percussionist, 2-4 horns, 2-4 keys... the one constant is leader Michael League on bass. On the set with the video viewed here, the strings and 2 percussionists were added, while keyboard player Cory Henry has left the band & the then-main drummer, the current main drummer, 2 percussionists & 1 keyboard player did not make the trip to Europe for this album.

This is the ONLY TIME EVER I have seen reactor(s) play a Snarky Puppy tune all the way through without stopping to comment... EVER...

The drummer's name is Larnell Lewis check out his Zildjian live performance.

A couple of weeks ago I saw Steely Dan out here in Phoenix and Snarky Puppy opened for them and I was throughly impressed. They kicked ass! I mean these dudes cook! I am a fan!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

They’re excellent!

Larnell Lewis on drums. He wasn’t supposed to be part of this session, but something happened to make the scheduled drummer back out. They had Lewis fly over, and gave him some demos to listen to on the plane, all new songs he was unfamiliar with. I think he went straight from the airport to the recording studio and laid it down. Genius! The bassist, Michael League, is the band leader. They have a large, revolving cast of members. This song is no fluke, they are all this good!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for the info Mark! That was great!

@markdrechsler5660

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark they have a new album due out in September, and just dropped the first song from it, called “Trinity.” You should check it out. I enjoy your channel!

To say those cats are machines is not giving full credit to their mastery. Within this piece the drummer is outta this world and that guitar was packin insanity.

I love Snarky, discovered them in their early days seeing them playing live at North Sea Jazz Festival. Yes they're awesome. Basically they are a music collective, with lots of rotating members and bassist Michael being their artistic leader. It would go to far going into names but most members by now have impressive solo careers and are considered music pioneers and virtuoso in their own right. Interestingly (for me anyway) I believe they are the drivers of a new jazz fusion rebirth and evolution. I actually like to call it "neo fusion" or jazz rock revival, and since Snarky Puppy became successful many other musicians have taken off where Weather Report, Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Herbie, Chick and many many others left (or not). Those guys changed the face of Jazz from early seventies to early nineties and this new generation is kicking it too.

See their video for "Lingus (We Like It Here). The keyboard solo is a standout.

@maruad7577

2 жыл бұрын

"Lingus" is legendary.

I was so worried that you had seen a Snarky Puppy video but didn’t realize it. So glad you guys dig them. Next time they come to New York you gotta check ‘em out!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely!

The drummer was a last minute fill in .. had 2 hours to write and rehearse his parts . Larnel lewis is a beast of a drummer

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so crazy! He killed it!

What a band! Phenomenal musicianship all around. Very jazzy groove. I'm sold.

Bob Reynolds (alto saxophone) has a great video about the recording of this album where he talks about the horn section doing EXACTLY what you described and being white-knuckle after every solo thinking "we CANNOT mess this up" lol. And the beauty of these recordings is that they really were just regular people that flew in from all over the world to attend the live sessions. This entire album is legendary. Period.

There was a local listing of all the concerts coming to my town and when I looked it over, I was only interested in two, Dead and Co. and Snarky Puppy (who was an opening band) they'er so bad ass (kind of modern day Return to Forever). Larnell Lewis is the drummer. A great player. thanks guys

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve!

Check out their new vid Trinity- Extended Version

Ok Sight After Dark, next do “Lingus,” then “Something” with Lalah Hathaway, then … AWESOMENESS!!

I can´t ad to that, you said it all.

I heard the drummer had only learnt this from a demo on the flight to the session. Whatever, absolutely awesome track. I saw them in the UK a few years ago at a festival. They spent an age getting their sound balanced between all the instruments, to the point that the audience was starting to slow hand clap, but when they started.. Wow!! You should also check out Michael League’s side project Bokante, also amazing in a different way. He’s the bass player and main driving force in SP.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Tim!

Wait a minute... these guys are all older that high school age. I thought this was a high school band summer camp. I guess this is what Branford Marsalis was referring to as "half baked" in an interview while performing with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at Lonesome Pine Specials. Look up Flight of the Cosmic Hippo.

Snarky Puppy are crazy good, so tight, so creative…every single one of them is on fire! 🔥 It reminds me a teeny bit of Dirty Loops, a trio from Sweden, who do, well anything from crazy covers to their own outstanding originals and collaborations with many other musicians (Cory Wong, Knower, Jacob Collier, just to name a few). I would absolutely love for you both to do a reaction to their cover of MJ’s “Thriller”. The amount of skill, musicianship and arranging skills which went into the making of this, are just insane… (not to mention the funk and the groove 😎). Thanks 🙏 And yeah, I’ve subscribed ☺️👍

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and for your support Fiddlestix! We hope our patrons choose more from them!

Aware of SP and have surely heard them but this was also my first time checking them out. I do have to check out some more. This is what Pandora and Spotify are made for, no?

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

For sure!

'I thought the drums could've been better' Good one!. With the exception of the string section and the 2 additional percussionists all the musicians are in the band, in reality they're more of a collective than a band as when they play live the musicians rotate alot because they play and record with other artists.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

☺️thanks for watching Mr Cooper!

I could watch and listen to Larnell Lewis on the drums all day long...killing it! Great bunch of musicians....good one guys

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Ken!

I like Snarky Puppy. But, I’ve always loved Skinny Puppy!!

@graylynclaiborne4268

9 ай бұрын

Yes sir!!! "Stairs and Flowers" all day!!!

took you long enough to get the puppy...this is influenced by what zappa did in the early 70's...for a start the drum is front and centre and the unusual time signatures...They are well worth watching some of their musical compositions on video.Michael League the founding member of Snarky puppy claims he never followed Zappa as an adult but his dead was a Zappa head who constantly had Zappa on rotation as he grew up.

Sa-mokin'!! I'm reminded of Chuck Yeager's autobiography and his highest term of praise..."He flew the way he did everything - balls out!" Everyone keeps zipped up here, but otherwise, swinging pretty free!!

Damn is right! Incredibly tight band. Percussion based sound... RUSH ZAPPA....

Haha..I wrote my previous comment before Sifa said " I thought the drums could've been better".....🤣

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

☺️gotcha!

@kengregory6026

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark 😆

I've watched the video of Larnell Lewis covering Enter the Sandman by Metallica. VERY IMPRESSIVE! He seems to host a few videos on Drumeo. He has a great personality! I would actually love to know what he thinks of the drumming in the last Paw reaction, "Couldn't Know."

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

☺️thanks for sharing Joe! Hope he thinks it’s awesome!

I'm an old guy and heard that kind of music too much in about the mid 70th until the mid 80th. We simply called it Jazzrock. Today it's a kinda cold music for me. I was a bit surprised about the Snarky Puppy hype, but hey. I think it's for young people that don't know of Jazzrock from the 70th. Examples: Tony Williams Lifetime, Billie Cobham, Stanley Clarke, Pierre Moerlins Gong, Al Di Meola, Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Miles Davis and many many more. 😉🇩🇪

@mikedemike5393

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nick-mt4wk but they draw on fusion of sounds...weather report were considered world music in their day...

@davehagi9883

2 жыл бұрын

Then that´s cool Andreas, this is what leads people to find all the artists you mention.

Don't mind these guys. Can see why they open for steely dan, it's so 70's jazz/rock fusion. Good musicians but nothing original for me. Wouldn't buy anything by these but would rather listen to this than some of the other offerings on here.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

☺️thanks for watching Paul!