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Sorry Brian, am about to hijack your thread. As today is "Hug a Drummer Day" it really seems appropriate that we should ask who is your favourite drummer? The following article comes from a NZ paper. Amazed no one picked this up before.
Friday Music Fred - II on 15:26 - Oct 10 by qprwpg
Hug a drummer day, you say? Fave drummer? Oh no, you shouldn't have done that Chambers
Cobham
bit of a grampa here, but still go it Bozzio
Colaiuta - my fave
These guys - start at 46:45
that's a start many more to come if I have time to post
Some great choices but being a jazz drummer and friend of Billy Cobham I feel I can say this guy is the best drummer of today by a mile: Ronald bruner Jr
And the best of yesterday is buddy rich, still the finest single stroke roll of all time:
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Friday Music Fred - II on 17:19 - Oct 10 with 1526 views
Friday Music Fred - II on 17:26 - Oct 10 by londonscottish
My all time favourite has to be John Bonham, a jazz drummer trapped in a rock star's body.
And much sampled in the original hip hop years.
@kin genius.
Love listening to his splashing, crashing, synchopated madness underpinning all that early Zep.
My old dad (a great drummer) always said it sounds like he's putting up a shed and love that expression. I always felt John Bonham was good but not great compared to the Jazz Drummers. Don't anyone mention Ginger Baker, an absolute hacker of a drummer and the most overrated one at that. This twelve year olds solo is a step up on the Bonham (not being funny).
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Friday Music Fred - II on 17:38 - Oct 10 with 1506 views
Friday Music Fred - II on 17:38 - Oct 10 by QPRMUSO
My old dad (a great drummer) always said it sounds like he's putting up a shed and love that expression. I always felt John Bonham was good but not great compared to the Jazz Drummers. Don't anyone mention Ginger Baker, an absolute hacker of a drummer and the most overrated one at that. This twelve year olds solo is a step up on the Bonham (not being funny).
12. Years. Old.
That's one of the most astonishng things I've ever heard.
Jazz musicians are on a different plane - and this guy has an entrirely different clock speed to most of them
Yeah, so I did over-egg it a bit on Bonham. i guess in a world often quite dull and formulaic/cliche-ed rock drummers he stood out because he obviously thought a bit more widely about the possibilities of drumming an incorporated some interesting stuff.
And "sounded like he was putting up a shed" - totally love that expression and am nicking it.
Friday Music Fred - II on 18:02 - Oct 10 by londonscottish
12. Years. Old.
That's one of the most astonishng things I've ever heard.
Jazz musicians are on a different plane - and this guy has an entrirely different clock speed to most of them
Yeah, so I did over-egg it a bit on Bonham. i guess in a world often quite dull and formulaic/cliche-ed rock drummers he stood out because he obviously thought a bit more widely about the possibilities of drumming an incorporated some interesting stuff.
And "sounded like he was putting up a shed" - totally love that expression and am nicking it.
Happy to share the expression with you Scottish, and I too liked Bonham and loved that he took Rock and gave it another perspective and for me that was his achievement, but some of these jazz fusion drummers now are truly mind blowing and on a completely different level to the rock drummers as we know them. P.S. I don't normally watch 12 year olds BTW. Only in this case.
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Friday Music Fred - II on 18:49 - Oct 10 with 1468 views
surprised nobody's mentioned Keith Moon yet. Maybe not technically as gifted as most of the above, but still a player with a style of his own in a genre where there are very few innovative drummers.
Also a big fan of Pete Thomas
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Friday Music Fred - II on 00:02 - Oct 11 with 1380 views
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