Best Drummer? - Page 5

There are so many great drummers...I think you have to give the nod to Buddy as he just has the whole package.

I'm a huge Neal Peart fan, and he's one of the best, but as great as Neal is he's not a jazz cat at heart. He can't even perform a big band tune without running into his concert drum solo!

-spence

Why do youngsters insist on making lists of the best, the worst etc?
This tendency, it depresses one.

dave king
Bad Plus - Film

Because you were once young too....remember?

John Zorn regular Joey Baron.

See Kwik? I keep telling you I'm not old.

Ginger Baker for introducing two bass drums
Mike Portnoy has yet to be mentioned...

And my favorite, due to his amazing skill and ability to stretch over many types of music and styles:
Danny Carrey.
His drum tracks always sound so simple on the first listen, but relisten on nice headphones or a nice system, and you'll notice all of the subtle work he does. "Vicarious" has a couple extra dimentions due to tricks like ghost notes.

It's a simplistic way of assessing things, true, but"”so long as you read the lists rather than just writing them"”it's an efficient way to acquire references for good things you may have missed.

In order:

1. Danny Carey
2. Tim Alexander
3. Terry Bozzio
4. Jimmy Chamberlin
5. The dude from the first Mars Volta album

...and Aphex Twin.

I was afraid to say this

Paul Cook

I'm watching a lot of these drum solos and a lot of them seem really boring. My piano teacher always told me: "any idiot can play fast. But skilled musicians are the ones who can play slow." I think Carter Beauford is one of the few drummers who plays well even when he isn't playing a drum solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwAnCvoapfg

My favorites: Manu Ros Giddy Motors Tony Hajar At the Drive-In Matt Tong Bloc Party Jeremiah Green Modest Mouse

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