Gene Krupa“Music is sex.”
- Dick Dale

… I used to love to listen to Gene Krupa records, you know, and Gene Krupa drumming, because he was … you know, music is sex. It’s a sensual driving mode that affects people if it’s played a certain way, and Gene Krupa was smart enough to go, and for instance, study the natives … went into the jungle to study their fertility dances, what caused them to be mesmerized … the drummer played on a beat …. Gene Krupa wanted to know why … what is it that made people mesmerized. Now what it was was that the natives would create these fertility dances and they would use these rhythms on logs but they kept it simple and they kept it thriving and they kept it driving, they didn’t break it. They’d go ding ding-dah dah ding ding-dah dah ding ding-dah and they would keep that always going.

… Krupa somehow mesmerized the audience more so than any drummer in the world

… Gene Krupa had something. So he kept it going, just going doom bada doom bada doom bada doom badada he kept that going. So what happens when you go doom bada doom bada doom bada biddli-ba-da-doo, you wake people up …

… Sexual, sensual, guttural sound, that throbbing sound is where it’s at.

[Dick Dale @ roctober.com ]

Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar
See Also:

Dick Dale @ Wikipedia

Dick Dale Interview @ YouTube