MATT ABTS;JOHNNY NEEL
''X2''
2002
50:27
1 /X-1
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/8:48
2 /Pearl
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/5:38
3 /Inside, Outside
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/2:31
4 /Digi Funk
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/3:53
5 /Morning Twilight
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/4:40
6 /Devil's Soiree
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/12:34
7 /Over the Wall
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/2:14
8 /That's the Fact
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/3:44
9 /X-Too
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/6:25
Review
By Robin Tolleson
Matt Abts has received a lot of exposure with Gov't Mule. But drumming-wise, this funky duo jam is perhaps his riskiest and most rewarding release yet. "X-1" and "Devil's Soiree" sound like epic tales from the Rudess-Morgenstein playbook, full of adventurous arranging and musical drum snippets. "Pearl" features some big Bohnam-ish stickwork from Abts, while the fusion-istic whirlwinds "Inside Outside" and "Over The Wall" approach musical chaos, but never fall in. Keyboardist Johnny Neel is excellent on organ, piano, and clavinet. Like Matt, he is intense, melodic, and soulful, filling and allowing space.
Biography
From Wikipedia
Matt Abts (born September 30, 1953) is a Grammy Award-nominated American drummer best known as a member of the band Gov't Mule.
Abts attended high school in Panama where he started playing music. After moving to Virginia, he played in local bands for eight years and then moved to Florida. There he played in and recorded an album with Chuck & John and the News, a local bar band from Bradenton, during the early 1980s. In 1984, he took on the role of drummer for Dickey Betts and Chuck Leavell. Abts recorded Pattern Disruptive with the Dickey Betts Band in 1988 which also included guitarist/vocalist, Warren Haynes. Abts joined Haynes and Allen Woody who had both been musicians with The Allman Brothers Band to form Gov't Mule in 1994.
Abts has also played in the Pink Floyd tribute band Blue Floyd which was known for its blues versions of Pink Floyd songs, and with bassist Jorgen Carlsson in Planet of the Abts, a 2011 offshoot of Gov't Mule.
MATT ABTS OFFICIAL SITE
JOHNNY NEEL OFFICIAL SITE
''X2''
2002
50:27
1 /X-1
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/8:48
2 /Pearl
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/5:38
3 /Inside, Outside
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/2:31
4 /Digi Funk
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/3:53
5 /Morning Twilight
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/4:40
6 /Devil's Soiree
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/12:34
7 /Over the Wall
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/2:14
8 /That's the Fact
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/3:44
9 /X-Too
Matt Abts / Johnny Neel/6:25
Review
By Robin Tolleson
Matt Abts has received a lot of exposure with Gov't Mule. But drumming-wise, this funky duo jam is perhaps his riskiest and most rewarding release yet. "X-1" and "Devil's Soiree" sound like epic tales from the Rudess-Morgenstein playbook, full of adventurous arranging and musical drum snippets. "Pearl" features some big Bohnam-ish stickwork from Abts, while the fusion-istic whirlwinds "Inside Outside" and "Over The Wall" approach musical chaos, but never fall in. Keyboardist Johnny Neel is excellent on organ, piano, and clavinet. Like Matt, he is intense, melodic, and soulful, filling and allowing space.
Biography
From Wikipedia
Matt Abts (born September 30, 1953) is a Grammy Award-nominated American drummer best known as a member of the band Gov't Mule.
Abts attended high school in Panama where he started playing music. After moving to Virginia, he played in local bands for eight years and then moved to Florida. There he played in and recorded an album with Chuck & John and the News, a local bar band from Bradenton, during the early 1980s. In 1984, he took on the role of drummer for Dickey Betts and Chuck Leavell. Abts recorded Pattern Disruptive with the Dickey Betts Band in 1988 which also included guitarist/vocalist, Warren Haynes. Abts joined Haynes and Allen Woody who had both been musicians with The Allman Brothers Band to form Gov't Mule in 1994.
Abts has also played in the Pink Floyd tribute band Blue Floyd which was known for its blues versions of Pink Floyd songs, and with bassist Jorgen Carlsson in Planet of the Abts, a 2011 offshoot of Gov't Mule.
MATT ABTS OFFICIAL SITE
JOHNNY NEEL OFFICIAL SITE
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