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re: Best drummer of all time?
Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:22 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:22 am to Ace Midnight
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Meh. I mentioned Carey - I think he's a revolutionary drummer. I stuck with Tool because Carey's drumming is so impressive.
I missed that. Still, one in a sea of 70s.
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:30 am to Jester
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missed that. Still, one in a sea of 70s.
Fair enough.
Grohl - for all the crap he catches remains a pretty impressive post-70s drummer.
I like Chad Smith, too. Matt Cameron is a fantastic drummer. Brad Wilk is another guy I listen to his band's music secondary to his playing (I'm talking about RATM, not Audioslave).
ETA: And Chamberlin - really, really good drummer.
This post was edited on 10/23/17 at 11:31 am
Posted on 10/23/17 at 12:20 pm to Ace Midnight
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And Chamberlin - really, really good drummer.
Good call. He's always forgotten. He also has one of the best drummer led albums of the last 20 years:
Life Begins Again
That also reminds me of Matt Chamberlain. Guy has done session work on tons of great songs. His work with Fiona Apple is pretty stellar. He has a great swing to his playing: Limp
Posted on 10/23/17 at 1:01 pm to Ace Midnight
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On the other hand, you have guys that aren't necessarily great technicians - Ringo is the guy who comes to mind here (although he is better than a lot of people give him credit for), but also guys like Lars, U2's Larry Mullen (who is underrated as an all around musician), Charlie Watts (I'll get some pushback on this), Don Henley, etc., who are just right for their bands and either contribute to the music on a more global level and/or contribute in other ways.
Don’t forget Phil Collins. You would be hard pressed to find another drummer that has contributed more to a band.
On top of his solo work.
His ranking in total album sales is phenomenal.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 1:16 pm to sparkinator
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Don’t forget Phil Collins. You would be hard pressed to find another drummer that has contributed more to a band.
On top of his solo work.
His ranking in total album sales is phenomenal.
And also irrelevant. However his work in Genesis was very solid and his work in Brand X was amazing. Very underrated drummer but I wouldn't give him GOAT status.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 1:34 pm to MountainTiger
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Very underrated drummer but I wouldn't give him GOAT status.
His drumming was distinctive and he pioneered some techniques still used to record drums (reverse talkback, for example). He's probably underrated - overall - because of his work as a composer and producer. But, he's commonly mentioned with the "singing drummers" (usually behind Levon and ahead of Henley and Karen Carpenter).
I mean - let's just take Robert Plant as one example - Plant could have worked with any of 200 or so drummers for his solo albums in the 1980s. He picked Phil Collins. High praise, indeed.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 4:14 pm to Ace Midnight
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Couple that the fact that Moon wasn't really a drummer. He was an experimental musician who used the drum kit for expression. Ox was the bass player AND "drummer" (for lack of a better term) for The Who.
Moon and Entwistle had an incredible chemistry at the peak of The Who. I've been listening to it a LOT over the last few years, just great stuff.
Entwistle: "He found out that if he played something silly, I could actually go with him and match it precisely. He became confident in that, so he played a lot of silly stuff. I remember listening for the first time to Live At Leeds with Keith. We just looked at each other and went, “Did we play that? How in the hell did we play that one?” There were a lot of things that we played that only happened once, that slid together by magic and were gone forever."
Posted on 10/23/17 at 5:04 pm to Tigris
No Billy Cobham or Steve Gadd no care....
Phil Collins was asked to complete this joke
How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb?
His answer was one, but all the others would ask Steve Gadd how’d he do it !!!!!
Phil Collins was asked to complete this joke
How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb?
His answer was one, but all the others would ask Steve Gadd how’d he do it !!!!!
Posted on 10/23/17 at 5:17 pm to Pepe Lepew
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No Billy Cobham or Steve Gadd no care....
I actually was thinking the same thing. Buddy Rich is probably my answer but these two would have to be in the discussion.
This post was edited on 10/23/17 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 10/23/17 at 5:59 pm to Pepe Lepew
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Steve Gadd no care....
Yep, I left Steve off my list by mistake. Thought I included Cobham.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 8:09 pm to Pepe Lepew
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Gadd
Absolutely in my top ten, his sound and chops were jet stream. It's crazy how far back he sat in the pocket while gacked out of his mind.
"Stuff" with Edwards, Tee, Dupree and Parker was a quintessential NYC sound.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 9:18 pm to Tunasntigers92
Keith Moon
Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:04 pm to Ace Midnight
Old "thunder fingers" kept time for the band.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 11:27 am to Tunasntigers92
Meg. White.
Dave Grohl said it himself.
Dave Grohl said it himself.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 11:34 am to Kafka
I read somewhere that The Who never quite could record Moon's drums right....they were always muffled or buried in the mix. The real way to appreciate his greatness was to see them live. (And then after a certain point, his skills were diminished by drugs/alcohol)
I generally go with John Henry Bonham for these sorts of things. But I'm a hard rock/metal/punk guy.
It always annoyed me that Dave Grohl wasted his talents as the frontman for an OK band, when he could be the greatest hard rock/metal drummer on earth.
John Theodore, ex of The Mars Volta, now with Queens of the Stone Age, is a bad-arse. And listen to "Burner" by Motorhead and you'll be amazed by Mikky Dee (plus, he looks like a guy who retired from being in porn movies five years ago)
I generally go with John Henry Bonham for these sorts of things. But I'm a hard rock/metal/punk guy.
It always annoyed me that Dave Grohl wasted his talents as the frontman for an OK band, when he could be the greatest hard rock/metal drummer on earth.
John Theodore, ex of The Mars Volta, now with Queens of the Stone Age, is a bad-arse. And listen to "Burner" by Motorhead and you'll be amazed by Mikky Dee (plus, he looks like a guy who retired from being in porn movies five years ago)
Posted on 10/24/17 at 11:55 am to Ace Midnight
Clem Burke of Blondie was very good at what he did.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 12:10 pm to Tunasntigers92
Bill Bruford, Neil Peart and Bonzo for me. Billy Cobham makes me smile as well......
Posted on 10/24/17 at 1:52 pm to Tunasntigers92
Buddy Rich, Matt Garstka, Neil Peart
Posted on 10/24/17 at 2:00 pm to sparkinator
If you put Phil Collins in there , you can't leave out Don Henley.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 2:39 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Clem Burke of Blondie
Criminally underrated.
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