The 4-armed mohawk drummer is the drummer for Compressorhead. A fully robotic band who mostly plays oldschool punk covers. It also happens to be the new project of NOMEANSNO drummer John Wright.

@thomasdaugherty472

2 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@xangrycatmanx5104

2 жыл бұрын

I fuckin love Nomeansno

@jakee2094

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong is one of my all-time albums

@MantasticHams

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this. NoMeansNo are one of the greatest punk bands of all time IMO, i had heard of Compressorhead first, way back around when it first showed up online, and then NMN a while later, separately. I was kind of floored when i realized they were related lol.

@shenanitims4006

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, just made this comment too. Good looking out!

Could probably build a robot in less time than it would take to find a drummer

@ikarooz

2 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of drummers (and other musicians). It's the number of those with great talent that is lacking. ::heads to woodshed::

@2000.....

2 жыл бұрын

Then do it

@planesight1142

2 жыл бұрын

it takes practice & time to become a decent drummer. Even with raw talent, people still need to train for stamina. remember, an amateur practices something until they get it right, a professional practices until they Can't get it wrong.

@OGSontar

2 жыл бұрын

@@planesight1142 That applies to all instruments, really. For a rock band, yeah the drummer is the only one using all four limbs, I'll grant you that, but keyboards, guitar and bass all require a fair measure of stamina to play, and in all cases, endless practice. And then there's the marching band.. In my days as a rock keyboardist, we'd occasionally get asked how much practice did it take to sound solid, mostly by younger folks. Our answer was usually something along the lines of: Dozens of hours for minutes of music. It was easy to tell the people that either played or had kids/sibs that did, they'd be nodding their heads. The rest would call BS, but we'd take that as the complement it was. We sounded good, and made it look easy. All of us had talent, and were skilled (took surprisingly long to find 4 decent musicians), but that didn't change the need for practice, repetitive practice, practice with the band, and more practice at home. No, what changed was the level of practice. Learning a new song's basics and structure seldom took much time, maybe one or two passes and you got the raw chords and timing. Much more though, for complex original pieces. Then, since you want your own sound (any llama can just play chords), you brainstorm the music: you need to decide what you're going to play, what the other members are going to play, and how to fit all the parts into a cohesive whole. That's the part that really takes the most practice. You'll do yourself a solid if you record the sessions, as for many songs, one individual person's part might not sound like the song at all for much of the track. Then, you practice until you don't have to think about it. Practice until you no longer need a cue to make a change in the key/timing/etc. Practice until you can't play it wrong. Then practice again. And again. And again. (rinse repeat) Ah, good times, good times. Drove my first wifey absolutely batshit crazy. She didn't play, and couldn't understand why I'd come home from band practice and head straight for the piano. Scales and timing exercises drove her nuts, too. Something to think about if you get into a band and your SO doesn't play. Music is life, and life is music.

@vizeath

2 жыл бұрын

Wkwkwkwk you're damn right....

The year is 3000, Sam has transferred his consciousness into a Robot and is still blasting

6:43 as someone who works around these semi regularly, there's a reason most of these have large cages around them. They will rip you apart and paint the walls with your innards without a second thought.

@TheXVenus

2 жыл бұрын

Noice

@DFloyd84

2 жыл бұрын

WARNING: This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh, nor does it care.

@jbird4478

2 жыл бұрын

@@TinyFlyThing Yes

@CMT_Crabbles

2 жыл бұрын

yep, they look like industrial arms that would be used to make cars or something. I don't think theyre designed for anything but their task, so theyre not gonna stop for anything in the way; IE, your squishy body.

@Nyghtking

Жыл бұрын

The arms aren't sentient, they will do as they're programmed to do, and they lack the ability to care if you get in the way as they are performing their tasks.

From 4:00 to 6:35 is Captured! By Robots. JBot (the singer) has been doing this for 25 years+ now. The band has been through many iterations, at its logistical height also including a horn section, percussionist, multiple backup singers, and some other stuff I forget. He's a madman and a wonderful person.

@bonflores5017

2 жыл бұрын

Captured! Is probably hands down one of the best shows you’ll ever experience. I catch him anytime he comes through my city.

@dolewite1355

2 жыл бұрын

I got to see him a few years ago. Great show.

@TheNewFNShow

2 жыл бұрын

I was just coming here to comment this. I remember seeing them back in the early 2000s and it blew my mind. He has another band where its all teddy bears. Teddy Bear Orchestra.

@MichaelMarucci

2 жыл бұрын

@@bonflores5017 goddamn right.

@benphillips3222

2 жыл бұрын

Saw Captured! Open for Ghoul... Great fuckn show

The second robot, the entire robot band actually, was built by Jon Wright from the punk band Nomeansno. Really great band. Jon is actually a phenomenal drummer himself.

@purgie

2 жыл бұрын

John is still in my top 3..

Pop musicians: “I’ll take your entire stock.”

5:00 Riccardo Merlini forgot to put on his human costume.

The guy around the 4 minute mark band is called Captured By Robots, basically the gimmick is the robots have Jay hostage and forced to play shows. they used to be a ska band then went metal. They got music out.

@FortyHurts

2 жыл бұрын

Well, C!BR was never a ska band, but Jay was the bass player for Skankin' Pickle and The Blue Meanies. They're the reason why he switched over to robots.

@nicholaspatterson5851

2 жыл бұрын

Your right my bad lol, rewatched the nardwuar video they did with captured. Thanks for correcting me.

4:45 1405 hits per minute: you should check out Kevin Paradis (Benighted). I mean, he only did 1037 in a minute, but apparently he is an actual human.

@konradose3170

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Tim Waterson

“Holy crap- The bass player has tank feet” is my favorite sentence now.

I have actually seen some robots play live. Like around in August I've been to a 'Circus' in Germany called FlicFlac. Maybe you are able to find a video of their performance. It was pretty cool but it wasn't on time because the engineer moved everything manually by switches.

The orange robots were just a test video. The entire band video is definitely worth checking out. It's called "Automatica- Robots Vs. Music" Nigel Stanford.

🤘🤘7:58 seeing him strap a doomstick onto his limb like a G🤘🤘... Brrrro.. drummers everywhere will shed a tear... priceless.. Epic video by the way!! 😬I put off watching it for a whiiiile lest I too quit 😂hahahaha

you're like the 'Weird Al' of death metal and I love what you do sir.

Can't wait to have the option the "reamp" the drums. Drummer records the midi, the robot plays it for you in the room of your choice with the kit of your choice.

The mohawk drummer one is the band Compressorhead, there's plenty of live sets from them on KZread! They have a "singer" too, obviously it's a recording, but there is a robot involved.

Loved the David reference too hahah seriously tho don’t know how people still make all these robots like has no one watched terminator, alien, irobot, soilent green, etc etc etc 🤦🏽🤷🏽💀 love your work brother wish we could collab some day!

Man Robots on drums is absolutely weird but hilarious the double pedal going fast that caught me off guard compare that to Aaron Kitcher’s drumming it would been a drum battle all of a sudden 😂 and hey Samus great video it cracks me up every time and they’re still the best. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Good god I love how over the top genuine this video is. I had fun because you had fun 😆

That plywood robot using drumsticks is the robot equivalent of a human using bones

7:27 of course his name is Gil WEINBERG

CAPTURED! BY ROBOTS!!! Jay is a legend. Love when he gets the recognition he deserves.

Dude, how have you not heard of Captured By Robots? I remember seeing them live like 15 years ago, and he had a full horn section then. Shit's legendary

@MichaelMarucci

2 жыл бұрын

Fucking right they are! J-Botttt!

@wtfamiwatching9728

2 жыл бұрын

Captured by Robots is one of my favorite live shows

@justinm2697

2 жыл бұрын

What.....robots were playing brass instruments?

@skinnee

2 жыл бұрын

hes grindcore now hahaha no more horns

I was really hoping to see nigel stanford's "automatica" music video in here somewhere. It looks like you got one of his videos showing off the robots playing the drums, but the music video has that plus guitars, piano, and synth. All played by those robot arms.

"And the drums at the gig look like that, eeeehhhehhhehhh" hahahaha made me laugh

4:26 Instrumental slittercore now available.

I remember when I was like 5 my dad showed me “Captured! By Robots” and now I’m obsessed. Thanks, Dad.🤘

00:03 There's a drummer that plays at my window during spring and summer twice a month as well. I realise that just now.

Compressorhead (full robotic band / robot drummer with mohawk) is honestly quite good :P They even added a lead singer robot and recorded their singing (if I remember correctly) for it to use and they have an album "Party Machine" :P

Robot: *plays really fast” Riccardo Merlini: “hold my drums”

HEY WEIRD AL, it's great to see you again, I was wondering what you were up to, waiting on a new album 🤘😎🤘

The timing was better than half the bar bands I've mixed live,,hahaha

03:00 I Saw those guys at the Boom festival 2016. It was amazing. Nice memories. Great shows

That was pretty entertaining! I think most bands will just stick with programmed drums for album recordings though 🤣

6:34 that is truly terrifying

That second one is way cooler than shown in this video it's from the robot band compressor head my favorite part is the little robot that works the high hat

That smile on its face is exactly as honest and meaningful as Meytal Cohen's perpetual forced smile.

Always enjoy your comments and drumming Sam, you are a funny and talented dude 😎🤘👌

The guy with the robots that singing the name of the band is called captured by robots and I've seen them live and it is freaking amazing

But can the robot drummer fart 22 times in a row?

From now on I will always imagine you with that creepy robot smile while you are drumming. Especially during diarrhea blasts.

reminds me of a line from Queen's track, Machines (or Back to Human) "When the machines take over It ain't no place for rock 'n' roll"

This is such an awesome video. I love everything you do Samus keep up the amazing work and know that we are all here to show you nothing but love.

It's so funny how at 7:27 it looks like your body is going out of the cam frame.

“fAsTeST kIcK dRumMeR iN tHa WORLD” * imitates fallout four Gatlin gun spitting all over friend*

4:28 HAHA double kick go BRRRRRRRRR

Yeah but can a robot trash a hotel room, fight in a bar or date super models? Just asking as a 61 year old Grandmom who grew up adoring Bowie, ELP, Zep, and The Who. I still remember my first Van Halen concert watching Eddie and Alex take huge swigs from a 5th of Jack.

The robots at Showbiz Pizza played better than some of these robots, and that back in 1983. But on another thought, there is now some hope for Deaf Leppard drummer Rick Allen.

Bringing the expression "Playing Heavy Metal" to the next level guys

3:30 thats Johny 5 off short circuit 😂

i love this video just because the creepy robot face smile thing... so entertained. thank you! made my day!!!

The Spruce Dude is pretty good, considering that most drummers I've worked with have lousy timing and a wooden personality...😁 The thing that Spruce Mon has over the guys I know, is that he at least understands the concept of DYNAMICS... Albeit if only the "quiet" mode. I've gotten a much needed HUGE KICK out of this video... And you're sense of humor seems really similar to my own...THANK YOU!

Octant was a Seattle band that used some weird robot drums and stuff.

0:02 that is so fast that actually sounds like a dragster! 🤣

Love that people build robots to make music, and the music they choose to use is metal. 🤘

You can play every note on a bass guitar with just your lowest string and 3/4 of your highest. You lose a lot of your variance in tones but for simplicity it makes perfect sense.

2:55 General Grevious playing drums

You missed the best and most creepy one of them all... Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham's 'Monkey Drummer'

That software that composes music al pop songs is coming along nicely. In the end it will be death metal robots vs the kpop robots

Saw "Gandalf of the drums" - Subscribed 😝👍🏼

I'm totally thinking about the Deadly Hexakicks from Metalocalypse😂

That craigslist drumset setup! So funny so true!

I need that robot band. I'll finally have a band that doesn't have a problem scheduling jam sessions.

@punishedmatteson7108

2 жыл бұрын

J-bot, the lead singer, told me that he built his band because he was tired of bandmates overdosing. Robots are jerks but they don't do drugs.

It all lowers your creative expectations and destroys your dreams. Like 10,000 different synths to choose from.

3:20, is it me or the robots are playing Ace of Spades?

Ohhh yurrrr....So glad I membered up. Samus a true man of the people... Myeah...

5:08 true master of the blast beat, so precise it’s robotic

I'm so old, I remember when one-armed drummers really only had one arm.

The one handed drummer from Def Leppard is like "man these robots suck"

Just wanted to point out that with the first robot band shown, Compressorhead?, the drummer’s part was actually written by likely one of the world’s best drummers, John Wright from NoMeansNo. And I give that first robot hella props, even if slightly off, cuz it’s made from fucking wood! Meaning, some kid was bored at a Denny’s growing up, glued together a humanoid figure out of dispenser toothpicks, then grew up into an adult and continued on his childhood Grand Slam dream.

This smile of the robot at the end caught me 😂

A robot bass? Somewhere an Itlaian Jimmy has been rustled.

3:17 This is how I feel like the Chuck E. Cheese band looks like without the skins

Just found this channel and as a drummer myself, feels like I found a new spot to kick it and be accepted

Lol, I am no drummer, but the reason why to introduce the sponsor, made me click subscribe. That was just perfect.

This brought back some fond memories of Animusic. Great stuff.

I know man. Anything that people can do, robots can do far better nowadays. Once people get upgraded via Neuro Link or something just like it, we won't be limited any more. Then, we'll become better over time.

next up - robot record label executives, robot ticketmaster, robot audience suckers, and the circle will be complete

I think the question you were pondering is, can you program a robot to love? Yes 😉

Bro ur awesome man this world would suck without you

The drum hand prosthetic. I made a similar lower budget one that works ok

The KUKA robots look like they were tactically acquired before they could be installed in a factory

Holy shit... my company sells control arms to Kuka.. that's what they're doing with them?!

@jean-lucpicard3012

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

"House On The Rock" in Wisconsin.Has all kinds of Pre-MIDI, Pre-Computer Robot Musicians..There is even a Hall that has a full Orchestra..And they play in time..Together..They are Dressed in Old School Clothes..Not as Robots...Well Worth the Trip to see..Check it out -it's on KZread.I've spent the whole day there twice..

Hearing Sam say a blast beat is "to fast" is like hearing an ork say "to much dakka"

that double bass kick drum sounds like my phone vibrating on top of a washing machine.

Those robots are Riccardo Merlini's wet dream 🤣 he also plays 1400 bpm, then adds the other hand, lmao

The Third one remind me of the Drummer from Henker he is so fast that the notes form a new note

validates all the times I've said to a friend, "you're playing like a robot."

Me surrounded by robots.. check then out 1 guy like 4 to 5 robots touring the country.. mad props to that guy

3:54 when you are a drummer who doesn't have any friend ;)

This is pretty funny. We do need an all robot band.

Love your vids man, they're a beam of light. Thanks!

Sci fi sexy times. Finally this channel gets to what I'm into.

That drum kick could replace Aaron Kitcher lol.

Kicks go BRRRRRRRRRRRT!

Did you ever react to the Nyango cat guy? "Overqualified drummer at kid's concert in Japan"

Bro the Craigslist drum set comment is so brilliant.

The fastest kick drum in the world just sounded like someone’s ass exploding