It's the simple things that do it; not having listened to Jimi Hendrix's "Band of Gypsys" in some time, I cued up the album and was re-introduced to a very important thing. In the first track Jimi begins "Who Knows", playing under the MC's intro, then turns up the gain and Buddy Miles hits the snare - thwack, thwack, thwack! That is what a properly tuned snare drum should sound like, ladies and gennumun, not that ping ping shit like an aluminum baseball bat. Get that weak amateur sound out of my ears. The real sound is what gets your attention; that sharp poke which, in Weezer's words, reminds you:

"I don't wanna be a old man anymore
It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
Shakin' booty, makin' sweet love all the night
It's time I got back to the Good Life
It's time I got back, it's time I got back
'n I don't even know how I got off the track
I wanna go back, yeah!"