Tinted Windows is the brainchild of Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and features Taylor Hanson, Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Shlesinger, and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos.
Truth is, the 26 year old said Tinted Windows, which put him alongside former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos and Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, was always just a side project and never intended to replace Hanson.
The track is basically rapped a cappella over Diplo's usual bag of tricks: whoops, drum marches, police sirens and even what sounds like a xylophone.
Born in Iowa and raised in Nebraska, the self-admittedly shy John William Carson learned magic tricks and drumming to learn how to control an audience.
When I was younger I thought they were fantastic tricks of drummer Jaki Liebezeit but they are in fact further overdubs on top of the beat on this section of an edit.
They look like fabulous caricatures of themselves: Jagger a prancing dandy, Keith Richards a mummified pirate, Charlie Watts a dignified gentlemen's tailor somehow tricked into drumming.
Others on the bill included Lee Ving of Fear, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Chris Goss of Masters of Reality, the guitarist Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, the drummer Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine and the Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.
Supported by a tar lute and kemancheh spike-fiddle, the lone singer accompanies himself - it's traditionally a male art - by beating a daf frame-drum, tricked out with metal rings and bells.
I use some other sneaky tricks to ensure that the drums sound pretty much quantized, but are deceptively not, and have slight amounts of consistent timing throughout.
To avoid confrontations and protect their crops, farmers in Africa and Asia have traditionally used several tricks to scare off elephants, like beating drums, firing gunshots into the air or bursting firecrackers.
As an MS Paint expert, we were curious -- does The Beatles drummer have any tips or tricks for fellow enthusiasts?
