Nice to see you back on the forum, Sam.

Oh man, that regular drummer. We've seen him before, in a much more flamboyant mood (if that's possible) in another video. He did more moves than a majorette. Opinion was split on how wise it would be to play like that in most bands.

I did something similar to that routine with my whole band in one concert. I happened to have a group where everyone doubled on other instruments, and we had one guest artist. We were playing Stanley Turrentine's tune, Storm. It went something like this:

Band starts
guest artist relieves pianist
pianist relieves bassist
bassist relieves guitarist
guitarist relieves trumpeter (me)
trumpeter (me) relieves tenor sax
tenor sax relieves second pianist
second pianist moves to flute

Solos continue even on doubled instruments. Never missed a beat.

The only one who did not switch was (and here's where it relates to your video) the drummer. But we had Joel Rosenblatt from Spyro Gyra playing, my regular drummer. None of us felt competent to 'relieve' him! Fun is one thing; stupid is another.

I hope I get to pull that off again someday.

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