Love Rudiments
A meditation from Ty Segall on love, played on his first love: the drums. Delving deep into the melodic and orchestral possibilities of a full array of percussion instruments, from the trap kit to timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion and e-drums, Ty charts the waxing and waning of a love affair, to explore some of the most delicate space we know of – the private emotional location where only two can meet.
1973/1975
I met drummer Gary Torok in June ’74. We got together and jammed on Uriah Heep and Santana. Me, him, and his younger brother Peter on bass played my high school in January ’75. “Ready Eddie” is truly about Stenson Eddie Flowers coz he “loves that Southern bop.” The chords are “Brown Sugar” (’71) and Ten Years After’s “Choo Choo Mama” (’72). Let’s say “Ready Eddie” is Nixon-era rock. I met fanzine writer Scott Duhamel August ’74, so I musta said, “Have your poems set to my music.” Wrote “Juvenile…