Roger on drums and choir on Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1jeiC-JEsI

Roger kinda looks like Santa with that long beard and moustache, gives me a real christmas feeling ;)

Ho ho ho :-)

Doesn't even sound like him drumming.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

Doesn't even sound like him drumming. [/QUOTE]
I think he just went to be 3 seconds on the video and get more exposure for the song. It doesnt seem to be playing or singing!

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]
Doesn't even sound like him drumming. [/QUOTE]

I think it's a blend of programmed drums with live drums. Without seeing more (clearer!) footage of Roger, I can only assume he's gone for a tom-oriented beat.

Well from the looks of it he certainly recorded the track on the kit. However with different producers any musician sounds very different from there norm. Just listen to the Orbit mix... EQ is both a wonderful and terrible thing...

^ what he said.

They probably went as far as triggering his drums and put those funky samples on there instead.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]
They probably went as far as triggering his drums and put those funky samples on there instead. [/QUOTE]

That's very possible too! For that rush mix job they did, it's sadly easier to mix to samples than it would just live acoustic drums (which from experience I can tell CAN take a long time to balance, EQ, etc to get it "sounding right")

According to this wikipedia page, Roger plays everything on the song....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Aid_(band)#2014_musicians

Highly doubt that, though but wouldn't surprise me as he's the only person involved that has any kind of "proper" musical talent.

^^^ Interesting

Not related to the original post, but I think it's interesting that Adele chose not to participate in the 2014 version - [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11236278/Why-Adele-was-right-to-ignore-Bob-Geldof-and-Band-Aid.html]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11236278/Why-Adele-was-right-to-ignore-Bob-Geldof-and-Band-Aid.html[/url] - apparently Geldof sort of assumed she would participate and announced prematurely that she would be on it (premature ejeculation?), but she ignored his request to participate.

Quite nice to see some snippets from Rog in there, but would be even greater if we could hear him sing. Think his voice could fitted quite well in a small segment.
On a side note, I think this version is better than the Band Aid 20 version.