Post by d***@nowhere.invalidWith all the great matched gripped players taking over today, it's
nice to see the trad gripped players still kicking....although this
vid looks to be from years ago.
Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Gadd
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb0_1284766400
Referring to another older video here...
In his Back to Basics video, Weckl actually addressed matched grip vs.
traditional grip (he refers to traditional grip as "conventional grip").
The relevant segment starts at the 8min 15sec time point and ends at the
8min 47sec time point on the VHS tape. (I don't have the DVD version but the
time points should be about the same.) That segment seemed to be telling
matched grip players that whatever goes for the right hand goes for the left
hand, he played both grips but did not use matched grip as much because he
spent most of the time learning conventional grip, when he used matched grip
it was an emotional decison, for players not to get hung up as to whether it
was technically right or wrong to play matched grip, and he did not think
one grip was better than the other.
That's a summary, not a verbatim transcript, but that's what I understood
out of that segment.