Mike Plays Drums On:
Hip Today
Leave Me Alone
No Respect
Style: Rock
Audio
Hip Solo Section
Leave Me Alone Verse>Chorus
Pat & Mike 'winged' the verse hits. The patterns on Leave Me Alone were formed during 1st 2 runs in the 94 tour rehearsals. How many hits to hit were determined by one of us holding up 1,2,3 or 4 fingers in the air right before the hits.
Produced Video Clips
Hip Intro Quintuplets
There are 5 notes placed inside each 8th beat to give a 'crumbling' effect; hence building scene.
HipVerseToPCtransition
Keep an ear on the guitar/drum locking.
HipPCtoChorusTransition
HipSolo 3:7 The section begins with a quntuplet bass drumm fill. During the solo, the china stack hits every 3rd note w/Nuno while the kick remains in 7 4 with Pat.
Chorus Outro of Hip Today
CynicalChorus
Mike Plays Drums On:
Hip Today
No Respect
Hip Today Edit
Style: Rock
Audio
No Respect end of solo into Outro. The drum fill is played with 1 hand & feet in order not to lose the beat on the hihat. The outro is based in the groove of the whole song.
Hip & Respect were Nuno demos. A couple of takes were done on each by Mike with Nuno playing along. The rest of the parts were formed in the studio. In a short time, 3 songs were ready for Punchline.
Extreme left the 94 European Tour early to get in the studio. Hip Today, Leave Me Alone, and No Respect were recorded while gear was still en route from Europe.
Mike used Nuno's kit, the same used by Paul, for all of Punchline. Leave Me Alone was the only one developed prior to the session as a band. It was written off Mike's 4-limbed-double hihat groove played in the 94 tour rehearsal. The hihats are set up in stereo. One closes while the other is opened. Listening with headphones is required.
Mike Plays Drums On:
Am I Ever Going to Change
Tell Me Something I don't Know
Naked
Style: Rock
Audio
'Change' simultaneous anvil & drum beat in bridge
the lock between Nuno & Mike defines their playing together. The tightness is no accident.
Many songs were conceived this way at soundchecks during the 95 Punchline Tour. They are on cassettes that are gone.
The Cherone/Mangini 'accent' connection was formed and is evident on these live recordings. It became a 'thing' that surfaced in every Tribe of Judah song performed live. Using coordination skills to both hit Cherone's accents and not lose the beat is Mike's style. This subtle technique can be noticed once you know it is there. "Gary's face would change during those moments." -MM
Mike Plays Drums On:
Unconditionally
Style: Rock
This version of Unconditionally is different from the Punchline version both rhythmically and melodically.
Mike Plays Drums On:
Unconditionally
Style: Rock
Mike Plays Drums On:
Leave Me Alone
Hip Today
Style: Rock
These compilations are it. Extreme, as the musical unit with Mike on the drums, ended in 1996 several months after the last shows in Japan in 1995.
Mike Plays Drums On:
Hip Today
Style: Rock
Mike Plays Drums On:
God Took a Picture
Style: Rock
GTaP is the song played during the credits at the end of the movie, "Highlander the Final Dimension"
Right, is recording session showing the kit. Listen again to the guitar/drum locking.
Mike Plays Drums On:
Fine By Me
Swollen Princess
Alternative Rock
The Dauz pads that can be seen in the Rush Tribute Video Clips & Pics, were the ones used in a dressing room of the Punchline tour to record Fine by Me. The entire warm up kit was made up of these pads.
Swollen Princes was recorded at Sound Techniques Studio in Boston; the same used for Punchline & Unconditionally.
Mike Plays Drums On:
EP version of Exit except has Sublime
Style: Electronic Rock
There are a LOT of intricate limb patterns that make up these simple sounding drum tracks.
The TOJ drums were meant to sound like a machine playing on real drums. This functional approach really didn't take full effect until the songs were rehearsed and performed. The hits for the studio are absolutely matched to the programmed percussion sounds. It is hard to tell what is what sometimes.
A helmet was needed for safety sake from some of the drum moves. >
Mike Plays Drums On:
Left for Dead
No One
East of Paradise
Thanks for Nothing
Suspension of Disbelief
Exit Elvis
Style: Electronic Rock
Audio
'Thanks' simultaneous multi limb ride, drum & percussion parts no overdubs.
'Thanks' 4-Hihat/4-Limb Verse The hihats are being 'stepped' and hit to make up the whole patterns used in the verses. Each verse is different.
Elvis Brushes Intro starts with a quintuplet, and then uses step hihats to softly accent.
Elvis hands & feet play simultaneous military solos it was done in 1 take after Gary described the lyrically story as 2 different armies marching simultaneously.
Mike Plays Drums On:
Perfect World
Difference
Style: Acoustic Rock
