pheno555
I came here for a few quick laughs, and some jokes about drumming. Instead there is 20 minutes about the different dialects in America. The stand-up parts were not funny at all, and some of them were so bad I just wanted to turn it off. The only way I would recommend this, is if someone has seen everything on Netflix, except this, and refuses to re-watch Friends or something. I did not enjoy it at all.
karelf-257-622132
I remember Fred from SNL. I like drums. I used to play drums. So when I saw this on Netflix, I was excited to have a great fun stuff combined with drums. Oh boy!Not sure what this was supposed to mean, but the show is painfuly slow, Fred seems uneasy most of the time and the jokes? Why on Earth, just after a hardly acceptable funny intro, he starts to mimic literaly all accents across US? Where's the connection? Just a stuff to kill the time.Then, we have the drums. Fred is OK on the instrument but plays quick snippets, but nevermind - he has guests. Cool - Tomas Lang, Tre. The joy is quickly over when you realize they're only playing sidekicks in a dialogues that do not even make any sense. And the ending bit, with everyone playing the same stuff? Come on, Fred!After 30 minutes into the flick, I was in agony. It was so painful to watch, that I nearly gave up. Bonus - there are only 2 funny bits - and those are the clips from visiting a drum/music store. When Vinnie Colaiuta showed up in the ending, I knew this was the only highlight for me.Totally wasted opportunity. Pitty.
accaulde
I'm a drummer and standup fan and this special let me down on both accounts. Topical drumming observations that often don't ring true, jazz bashing, pretty weak standup bits, and some drumming shoehorned in. Guy is a good enough drummer but this special just didn't really work.Edit: Also, he has his 3 guest drummers all on drumsets at the end and you think they're going to do some cool soloing or trading fours or something but then they literally just play the same simple rock beat for like 3 minutes... It'd be like if you had 3 professional guitar players come out and play the "Smoke on the Water" riff over and over. What a waste!
Fredo Robo
A show about drummers, sounds great! Oh dear... After a few somewhat decent impersonations of famous drummers, he decided to imitate nearly every single American accent, following -yes- a map. I'm not english native, but I promise you, it was pittiful. He then loses himself in a serie of unconnected 'should be jokes' to end up shivering on the floor, impersonating a dying fox, through time-lapse. Although I admit the idea seems unconventionally interesting, it was unfortunately poorly executed. Yes, we didn't talk drums for the past 20 mins now, and I don't even seem to understand what we've been talking about.
There it goes, showing us the pier in the crowd full of drums from every decades... but playing 4 bars on every kit with an unconvincing storyline has certainly not quench our thirst.
Surprise, some famous guests! Perhaps it is not the end!?
But it is one thing to embarrasse yourself, quite another to take some of the best drummers in the world down with you.
Even as a drummer, you shouldn't bothered, quite sadly.
AD
