Favorite Drummer

[dannyshenanigan]

Inspired by the favorite guitarist thread.
Don't feel obligated to post a drum solo, drum solos are not necessarily a good measure of how good a drummer is, and often times they can be a bit tedious. I think the video I posted is a good exception.

Buddy Rich was out of this world

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[azzaman333]

Dominic Howard (Muse)

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Probably Neil Peart (Rush) although Stuart Copeland (The Police) was excellent as well.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Im partial to Stan Lynch. Awesome stuff in this video. sorry that you have to click but embedding is disabled. Skip the intro if you dont like bad words (theres only one though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpG09PenZt8

 

[Disgustipated]

The atomic clock- Gene Hoglan. I really only know his stuff from the band Dark Angel.

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And this thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning John Bonham.


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[downtown]

David Girabaldi (Tower of Power), Max Wienburg (Bruce Springsteen), Carter Beauford (DMB) and ?uestlove (The Roots).

Bonham and Copeland are also awesome of course.

 

[bigdog5994]

Downtown

 

[trader/warrior]

Keith Moon

 

[Yoda Power]

Dave Lombardo (from Slayer, Fantomas, Voodoocult, Testament etc.) is the best drummer. Period.

 

[sophie]

Gotta go with Keith Moon


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Of course there's Mickey Hart as well.

But the guy I've always been a HUGE fan of that seems to go without notice is Mick Avery of the Kinks. An incredible drummer.


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He's not big and flashy like most drummers, but I love his style, and his scat-style drum fills are great. He's just fun to listen to.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Matt Helders !

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Ringo

Seriously though, probably Dave Grohl.

 

[madviking]

James Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins)

 

[Dachs]

Another vote for Stewart Copeland

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Ringo

Seriously though, probably Dave Grohl.

Ringo is certainly not one of the greatest drummers of all time , but due to his cheesy persona and the brilliance of his bandmates , is often underrated .

he has his own sound (which is hard for a drummer to achieve) and compliments Paul`s base perfectly .

Interesting to note that John Lennon still used him on his solo records .

And gotta agree , the guy from Slayer is amazing.

 

[bigdog5994]

Max Weinberg


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[sophie]

Interesting to note that John Lennon still used him on his solo records .

As did Petty, Harrison, McCartney and a whole slew of other musicians.

 

[dannyshenanigan]

Buddy Rich in a drum battle with Animal from the muppets.

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You've got to hand it to the guy for his showmanship despite this song being very simple on the drums. The robot drumming at about 2:25 gets me every time.

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[sophie]

You've got to hand it to the guy for his showmanship despite this song being very simple on the drums. The robot drumming at about 2:25 gets me every time.

It's simplicity is probably why he did that. Face it, people like to mess around and do ridiculous things when they're doing something simplistic/boring/easy in a group. Heck, even playing drums on rock band occasionally gets me bored enough to do crap like this.