Music:
Member Since: 11/29/2007
Band Website: alfredodiasgomes.com.br
Band Members: O GNOMO(Alfredo Dias Gomes)
Alfredo Dias Gomes - Drums - Frank Gambale - Guitar - Nico Assumpção - Bass - Glauton Campello - Keyboards - Marcelo Martins - sax
JUNGLE(Alfredo Dias Gomes) Alfredo Dias Gomes - Drums, keyboards - Frank Gambale - Guitar - Nico Assumpção - Bass - Marcelo Salazar - Percussion - Widor Santiago - Sax - Guilherme Dias Gomes - Trumpet
ATMOSFERA(Alfredo Dias Gomes) Alfredo Dias Gomes - Drums, keyboards - Nico Assumpção - Bass - Widor Santiago - Sax - Guilherme Dias Gomes - Trumpet
CELEBRAÇÃO(Alfredo Dias Gomes) Alfredo Dias Gomes - Drums, Keyboards - Nico Assumpção - Bass - Julio Maya - Guitar - Widor Santiago - Sax - Marcelo Salazar - Percussion
JAZZY(Alfredo Dias Gomes) Alfredo Dias Gomes - Drums, Keyboards - Glauton Campello - Piano - Guilherme Dias Gomes - Trumpet
DRUMS SOLO Alfredo Dias Gomes - Drums
Influences: My first great influence was Carl Palmer, drummer of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I was ten years old when I heard the album Tarkus. To leave of that day I decided to learn drums. I started to learn all the songs of ELP, mainly the drums solos. In this same time I also listened a lot to Bill Bruford of Yes, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin and Keith Moon of The Who.
Reading on my idols, I discovered the idols of my idols: Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones.
And opening my head for the Jazz, I discovered Tony Williams and Jack De Johnette.
There Fusion came, that was fundamental in my formation. When I listened to Billy Cobham for the first time in Mahavishnu Orchestra, I didn’t believe in what I was hearing. For me Billy revolutionized the way to play drums.
Others that influenced me a lot: Alphonse Mouzon, Narada Michael Walden, Lenny White, Don Alias(
I had classes of drums with Don Alias), Steve Gadd, Harvey Mason, Peter Erskine, Terry Bozzio.
And my contemporary: Dave Weckl, Dennis Chambers, Omar Hakim, Vinnie Colaiuta, Simon Phillips and many other excellent drummers.
The brazilian drummers that more influenced me were: Airto Moreira, Paulinho Braga, Ivan Conti "Mamão" and the Picolé.
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