Boz Scaggs, Lido Shuffle Drum Demo by Stephen Salamunovich

This particular rendition was an attempt to play the exact part that Jeff Porcaro played which involves an "inside" triplet snare upstroke just prior to the 2 & 4 snare backbeats. And those backbeats are NOT quarter notes. They're actually two 16th notes. The second of which is a grace note that functions as part of the "inside" triplet part of the shuffle pattern. You can hear the pattern better at the end of the song when the track fades out. This use of the inside triplet has largely been credited to Bernard Purdie having been dubbed "The Purdie Shuffle." Jeff himself did much to propagate that notion given the regular deflection of praise for which he was known. But the Silk Degrees album on which the Lido Shuffle appears, predates both Purdie's recordings of Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters" and "Home At Last" which prominently feature the inside triplet shuffle. Lido also predates Led Zeppelin's "Fool In The Rain" to which Porcaro also gave credit for having influenced his use of the triplet in his iconic drum part for "Rosanna" by Toto. The main difference is the fact that the Lido Shuffle is a straight shuffle and the other songs mentioned are all "half-time" shuffles meaning they're half the tempo of a straight shuffle considering the placement of the beats 2 and 4 in the measure.

This track was recorded at Davlen Sound just east down the street from our house on Valley Spring Land where it meets Lankershim. At the time, Jeff was living about 100 yards north of us. It was co-written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich who is a cousin of mine on my grandmother's side. So it's near and dear to my heart. And though Jeff and I knew each other by name, he was more of an acquaintance than a friend. But I thoroughly appreciated his amazing work and his graciousness whenever I ran into him. More so now at this stage of my life than ever.
If you choose to watch this, I hope you enjoy it. But you won't see any flash like on most of the other online drumming videos. The intention is to play the track and serve the song without any showboating. Having been raised in the heart of the studio music scene in the east end of the San Fernando Valley during the analog days, you had to bring it on demand with no excuses so that's the way this was recorded.There are no edits and it's all in one take. Thanks for watching!