Your favorite Drummers, tub-thumpers and general noisemakers-living and deceased

drab · « **Reply #40 on:** 12 Jun 2011, 11:27 pm »

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If a Peart fan can link a YouTube solo to me that will blow me away, I'd appreciate it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWyABiUpihs

Peart on Letterman last Thurday. Of course the real star is the kit.

konut · « **Reply #41 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 01:20 am »

How could I have forgotten. If Kruppa is the grandfather, then Chick Webb is the great grandfather. Even Kruppa acknowledged this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yGiTxAyRQ

nathanm · « **Reply #42 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 06:27 pm »

I like a lot of drummers, but usually they cannot be isolated from the music itself. If it's just solo drums then Terry Bozzio makes some really interesting compositions (and facial expressions!).

likecoiledsteel · « **Reply #43 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 07:56 pm »

Danny Carey
Nikko Mcbrain
Dave Lombardo
Chad Smith

bprice2 · « **Reply #44 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 08:29 pm »

Quote from: martyo on 12 Jun 2011, 01:45 pm

Jack Dejohnette
Phil Lesh

jackman · « **Reply #45 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 08:56 pm »

Quote from: nathanm on 13 Jun 2011, 06:27 pm

I like a lot of drummers, but usually they cannot be isolated from the music itself. If it's just solo drums then Terry Bozzio makes some really interesting compositions (and facial expressions!).

I agree with you. Also, do you think drum companies look at Bozzio's kit and pray that it catches on with young drummers. I have no idea how a person can manage that many drums!

eclein · « **Reply #46 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 09:10 pm »

jackman- think of it like this, each drum sounds one note, one tone where as a six string guitar has 6 strings and however many frets so if its say 20 frets thats 120 different sounds from one guitar (not counting possible combinations of strings for now), we as drummers are only limited by stage space...LOL......I used to have one cymbal set up all the time for one note I played once during a performance. Same with guys tom-toms etc...they may only hit the little 8" drum once but they need that sound so they hang that drum for that performance...follow me....???

Devil Doc · « **Reply #47 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 09:12 pm »

Quote from: eclein on 13 Jun 2011, 09:10 pm

jackman- think of it like this, each drum sounds one note, one tone where as a six string guitar has 6 strings and however many frets so if its say 20 frets thats 120 different sounds from one guitar (not counting possible combinations of strings for now), we as drummers are only limited by stage space...LOL......I used to have one cymbal set up all the time for one note I played once during a performance. Same with guys tom-toms etc...they may only hit the little 8" drum once but they need that sound so they hang that drum for that performance...follow me....???

I'll tell ya, there were times I wished I took up the harmonica.

Doc

mjosef · « **Reply #48 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 09:13 pm »

I don't have favorites but these are the few that have stood out for me mainly in the jazz world...
Max Roach...Philly Joe Jones...Tony Williams...Al Foster...Hamid Drake.
I saw all of them live many times, except Philly Joe Jones.

zybar · « **Reply #49 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 09:25 pm »

Quote from: konut on 13 Jun 2011, 01:20 am

How could I have forgotten. If Kruppa is the grandfather, then Chick Webb is the great grandfather. Even Kruppa acknowledged this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yGiTxAyRQ

Neil is hands down the best I have ever seen.

Would have been great to see Bonham play...the videos I have seen show a raw energy and style that has never been matched.

George

jackman · « **Reply #50 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 09:35 pm »

Quote from: eclein on 13 Jun 2011, 09:10 pm

jackman- think of it like this, each drum sounds one note, one tone where as a six string guitar has 6 strings and however many frets so if its say 20 frets thats 120 different sounds from one guitar (not counting possible combinations of strings for now), we as drummers are only limited by stage space...LOL......I used to have one cymbal set up all the time for one note I played once during a performance. Same with guys tom-toms etc...they may only hit the little 8" drum once but they need that sound so they hang that drum for that performance...follow me....???

Thanks Ed! I get it but still don't understand how some drummers can have a really small kit (and sound fine) while others use a massive kit. There are some guitar players who play non-standard guitars with lots of extra necks and strings but they are relatively rare. Drum kits are all different shapes and sizes. That Bozzio kit is insane! He's got hundreds of drums to manage. Okay, it's pretty cool stuff!

I used to play guitar and jammed with several small garage groups in my old neighborhood when I was much younger. Drummers, like drum kits, come in all shapes and sizes but they all have something in common...they are completely nuts! This is an entertaining thread and I have learned a lot about those crazy cats who beat the skins.

He wasn't mentioned, and I don't recall his name (Dave Kusin?) , but I really like the original Pearl Jam drummer, from the album Ten. He was only with the band for that album and was already replaced by the time they came to Chicago. He had a loose style that was very cool, and did not use nearly as much cymbal work as the next guy, Dave Abruzzese. Abruzzese was an awesome drummer and was very good technically but I didn't feel he was a good fit with the band (too much metal -cymbals)!

Lastly, there are tons of great drummers out there and it's hard for me to pick a favorite. Unlike other instruments, as people have stated earlier, drummers need to be suited to the style of music their band plays. Keith Moon was brilliant but I don't think he would have worked well with the Beatles.

PS - I forgot to mention Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden. Check out this guys rolls with a single bass drum. How the heck does he do that???

J

wharfrat · « **Reply #51 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 09:56 pm »

Art Blakey! Listen to his drumming on "Night in Tunisia" from CD One night at Birdland.

Devil Doc · « **Reply #52 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:26 pm »

There are a few drummers who aren't limited by a style. They can play anything. Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine, and Dennis Chambers come to mind.
Then there are drummers who changed the way the instrument is played. Gene Krupa, Elvin Jones, Steve Gadd (again), Jon Bonham, and that fella that plalyed for the Who.
For me the best all around, call for any gig, live or in the studio would be Gadd.

Doc.

MttBsh · « **Reply #53 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:35 pm »

Keith Moon (has any list left him out?)
Billy Cobham
Frosty (from Lee Micheals band)
Alphonze Mouzone
Barriemore Barlow
Lenny White
Micheal Shrieve
Ainsly Dunbar
Buddy Miles
Jon Deitemyer

eclein · « **Reply #54 on:** 13 Jun 2011, 11:43 pm »

You got guys like Manu Katche--Peter Gabriel,Jan Garbarek Group who plays a cocktail kit I used to call them and he can do it because he is all about feel and dynamics-like I tried to be, I played a 5 piece. And you got Terry, and Mike Portnoy(Dream Theater) and they have huge kits and bang very hard constantly, same hard hit same big kit, Manu on the other hand can make one drum sound like 20, he is my kinda guy, my list is those guys except for Billy Cobham who was the first monster I saw but for me I'd rather be known as Manu rather than Terry...LOL

blutto · « **Reply #55 on:** 14 Jun 2011, 01:36 am »

Quote from: richidoo on 11 Jun 2011, 03:28 am

Awesome Dawson says it all!

....yes! yes! and yes! , a subtle monster if there is such a category...

...and would like to throw the following names into the ring....Fred Below, Dave Mattacks, Bernard Purdie, Panama Francis, Omar Hakim and last but certainly not least Lowell Sly Dunbar...

Cheers

blutto

likecoiledsteel · « **Reply #56 on:** 16 Jun 2011, 03:20 pm »

Quote from: jackman on 13 Jun 2011, 09:35 pm

PS - I forgot to mention Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden. Check out this guys rolls with a single bass drum. How the heck does he do that???

Agreed on Nicko. He lives only a few blocks from me and has a restaraunt in the next town over that we frequent. Hoping to run into him someday.

Matty_J · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 Jun 2011, 11:27 pm »

All of them, because I've tried to play, and wasn't coordinated enough. Lots of respect to all the drummers
who made our favorite bands who they are and always will be...

richidoo · « **Reply #58 on:** 18 Jun 2011, 01:16 am »

Quote from: wharfrat on 13 Jun 2011, 09:56 pm

Art Blakey! Listen to his drumming on "Night in Tunisia" from CD One night at Birdland.

That tune was playing on the canned overhead music in a super fancy 5 star restaurant last week when I was out to dinner with my wife for anniversary. I couldn't believe it! There is hope for this world after all. That is one hell of a record, launched many careers in jazz. Another great Blakey record is Free For All, and Night in Tunisia for great drum solos and comping from Buhaina.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #59 on:** 20 Jun 2011, 02:14 am »

- Matt Abts -- Plays with Gov't Mule. Period.

Video #1
Video #2

Unfortunatley, all the videos suck, and are from somebodies cel phone.

Ed, Check your library for Gov't Mule - Amsterdam, Netherlands #2 - "Drums" is the name of the track.

Also check out the tune "Thorazine Shuffle". Got woofer?

Bob