Dino Danelli, Drummer for (Young) Rascals Passes Away

[Rickko]

A great drummer who played with passion. The Rascals were a group way ahead of their time self-producing their music for Atlantic Records. They were honoured by their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr...372.html/RK=2/RS=vRVTizu0reAGDPkB_YxjwVEmvMg-

 

[JerseyEd]

Very sad. He was one of my favorite drummers in the 60's. Loved watching his expressions while he played. Prayers for him, his family and friends especially Felix, Eddie and Gene.

 

[Audiowannabee]

RIP

Too many leaving

 

[Doug G.]

He was a real hot dog drummer - justifiably so. He was excellent!

RIP

Doug

 

[Quad Linda]

RIP

Caught Danelli w/his Rascal pals at the Cadillac Palace in Chicago. It was on the reunion tour that Steve Van Zant put together.

 

[GOS]

 

[elmer]

My first concert. 1968 - The Nazz (Todd Rundgen), The Vagrants (Leslie West) & The Young Rascals @ The Singer Bowl (now Louis Armstrong Stadium - home of the US Tennis Open). Dino was the gunslinger of American Rock drummers. Those were heady times…RIP.

 

[Doug G.]

Wow! You got to see Nazz live!

 

[5.1 4 Life]

I'm truly sorry to hear about Dino Danelli of The Rascals. Rest In Beats, Music, Power & Peace Dino.

 

[elmer]

Wow! You got to see Nazz live!

Unfortunately at the time, I was 14 yrs old - had no clue who they were. Can’t remember much about their performance.

 

[Doug G.]

So, at fourteen, you were still, "Under the Ice".



Doug

 

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[humprof]

For those who subscribe (or who haven't already read multiple articles this month), here's Clay Risen's obit from the Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/arts/music/dino-danelli-dead.html

Mr. Danelli, a protégé of the great jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, merged percussive virtuosity with a rock sensibility. Like Ringo Starr of the Beatles, he set the template for the rock drummer archetype: disciplined and precise, but with a flair that drew the crowd’s eye. He would twirl his sticks — a trick he learned from his sister, a cheerleader — and throw them in the air, before catching them without dropping the beat.​

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According to the obit, Danelli, a sort of crate-digger before the fact, "discovered" the Rascals' breakthrough hit, The Olympics' "Good Lovin'," at a Harlem record shop. Old story--though he and his blue-eyed-soulster bandmates also became popular with Black audiences, and they were the first white band signed to Atlantic records. (At the height of their fame, they also "included a clause in their [touring] contracts stating that they would perform only if a Black act was on the bill with them"--a stand that some people think damaged their career.)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rascals-the-blackest-white-group-of-all-189228/https://www.popmatters.com/young-rascals-cost-of-freedom

 

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