Gary And Stan Make Some Scrapple for the Rest of Us

Just wanted to appreciate the deep lesson in right hand development here....I know G has talked about this in his videos...and i have no idea why he goes down to three mallets here BUT. Can you dig how he plays with one hand? Gary's right hand and everything it implies in terms of phrasing, accents, (what it frees the left to do) all of it is super deep. I am so grateful for youtube....

Ah, the shift to three mallets. I can tell you why I dropped the mallet: on rare occasions, at least back in my youth, I would develop a blister on my right hand index finger, you know what I mean. And, in order to adjust to that impairment, I would drop the extra mallet on faster, louder tunes. I haven't looked at the entire taping of this concert, so I don't know if there are other examples of three mallet playing or not. I was 23 years old at that time, and already had been playing exclusively with four mallets for 4-5 years I would guess. I did enjoy listening to this and seeing it. Gosh, we all look so young, and the playing seems so locked in and confident. By that time, the band had been playing steadily for over two years, so we were pretty tight. I must say, though, I have no memory of playing Scrapple From The Apple with Stan's band, but obviously we did, and I'm sure it wasn't a one-time thing, especially for a BBC television production. Stan and roy and Steve sure sound good. - Gary