Check out: Rosanna, When he was part of Benny Goodmans orchestra in the 30s, Gene Krupa changed the status of the jazz drummer, elevating him from being a timekeeper to a soloist. Steve Upton should be on this list by all means, but I think the others You mentioned should take place either. You guys will laugh but what about Karen Carpenter. Id have to agree with Bill Ward when he says he is not a drummer, hes a percussionist. He had a pulse, a steadiness, that kept the tempo better than a metronome, said Motown founder Berry Gordy. Neptunes literally reinvented hip hop and r and B and pop beats with Chad on drums. This list is obviously just a matter of opinion. ), In under a year, Elvis Costello moved from the wiry pub-rock of My Aim Is True to the bilious punk frenzy of This Year's Model, and he couldn't have made the great lurch forward without Mitch Mitchell fan Pete Thomas behind the kit. He said that many of the techniques he used throughout his career, including his snare hand technique, were learned from his first teacher, Chuck Brown. Little Feats drummer. Is it technique or style? I like Krupa and Cobham too. This is really way too stupid to be real I try to understand the singers point of view and see if I can enhance it, as opposed to thinking, Im the drummer, so I play a beat and everyone follows, said Kunkel. As great as The Beatles wereand they were greatpeopleespecially Beatles fans, must look at them objectively. FUCK YOU !!! And Ringos feel in the latter recordings from Magical Mystery Tour on, is virtually impossible to reproduce, even though the notes, his parts, are pretty simple. Christian Vander #1 Buddy Rich #2 Neil Pert #3 is the drummer for carlos Santana at Woodstock!! The two brothers are the only members of Van Halen who have been in the band for its entire duration. I can play circles around him. He was always modest and when asked about drumming technique used to tell fans to listen to Jim Keltner. Chester Thompson & Barimore Barlow (Jethro Tull). The band had a succession of hit singles between 1964 and 1970, sold more than 100 million records and starred in a hit film. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Dont know why JaRule is on the list. Im sure Charlie Watts is a nice guy, but, Its a crying shame that very few have heard Robert Wyatt (before his tragic back-breaking accident) play drums on the first 4 Soft Machine albums his audacity is liberating; whimsical yet profound IMHO. David Lee Roth is 61 or 62 according to ex-manager Noel Monk, Great list! Check out: Zombie, Pittsburgh-born Kenny Clarke, who was nicknamed Klook, was a founding member of The Modern Jazz Quartet, and one of the musicians who could have claimed to have helped start bebop in the mid-40s. As for the Poll- list as such:
Short Drummers? - DrumChat.com For the past 10 years he has been working on a personal project called Drums Of Compassion, on which he is composer, producer and drummer. Let musicians pick who are the top 100 and not some overweight office staff that works part time for some lame magazine. "We overdubbed the cymbals later, so you hear them more faintly," Stewart recalled. Anyone who can drum intelligently to that type of music has to be EXCEPTIONAL!!! He left school at 17 to tour with Sonny And Cher, and went on to play on records by dozens of leading stars, including Diana Ross, Etta James, Elton John, Robert Palmer and Bruce Springsteen. Why not go with only the opinion of drummers and who they find the best in their profession? Ringo Starr isnt even the greatest drummer in The Beatles!. that puts the whole list in question, Jimmy Chamberlain. As one of the best female drummers of the era, Hadjopoulos was a hot property for a time afterward: Laurie Anderson, Simple Minds, The B-52s and Cyndi Lauper all called on her for albums and. Being 57 didnt stop Johnny Cougar from marrying supermodel Elaine Irwin (511), releasing over 20 hit songs, being nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, and co-founding Farm Aid. And so do YOU, Billy Mieder. "That's what's so cool about Ahmir," guitarist Charlie Hunter, who worked with Thompson on D'Angelo's classic Voodoo LP, told The New Yorker. Excelente pagina, con toda la informacin importante de los artistas, msicos y gneros musicalesme encanto de sobremanera su estilo y diseo. The Who drummer, who also worked with Jimmy Page and John Lennon, had a reputation for wild behaviour, but was one of the most distinctive and influential drummers in the history of rock. Hes managed to snag himself a gorgeous taller woman who loves short men, though, with his wife, Ari Cooper. I remember back when there were Big Bands = 1940S = 1950S I heard Eric Delaney play LET THERE BE DRUMS NOW THAT S DRUMMING FOLKS also WIPE OUT AND AVAN AGEELA WILL TEST ANY GOOD DRUMMER TOO, I cant believe mick Fleetwood or nick mason is not on the list ..watch pink Floyd live at Pompeii 1971 track one of these days .nick breaks hes drum sticks & still makes the track, (too) often forgotten: Jon Hiseman could wipe the floor with a lot of these. Check out: The Golden Eight, French drummer Christian Vander is renowned for his intense, idiosyncratic style, developed in the 70s as the leader of the prog rock band Magma. Because theyve blown the minds of countless fans!!! Buckingham has praised Fleetwood's "instinctive" style and tells a story about the distinctive cowbell break the drummer added to the band's first single, "Oh Well." On the subject of Ringo: Hes a good drummer. Copy. Just letting the drums sing. . ", According to Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin showed up for his first rehearsal "wearing a pink T-shirt, stonewashed jeans and a mullet haircut. WTF, If anyone of you heard the drummer of the Band Spring Fever, from Minnesota, You would know that he (Beater) was one of the best drummers of his time. He occasionally sang on their albums, too, including on the song Yellow Submarine, and was a key part of their success. Different styles, different , music, different decades!! or the great Ronnie Tutt from the 70s.. And he had a presence and charisma beyond your typical sticksman. Lars Ulrich, Ringo Starr, but no Jojo Mayer ? I dont understand how the hell Ringo Starr gets a mention when the original drummer with the Beatles was Pete Best a much better drummer than Ringo could ever be. Want to share your opinion? As for Stewart Copeland and Phil Collins please! For the Beatles there was no better drummer than Ringo. JOHN BONHAM YALL CAN ARGUE ABOUT THE REST. Ill match anyones personality against Carl Palmers any day. ?take out Sheila E and slide in Levon. From kit-bludgeoning belters to dependable backbeat-riders and technically gifted geniuses, these are the best drummers the world has ever known. Touch, speed, sense of time and taste, incredibly exciting and explosive. Try mounting any toms offset to the left of the bass drum with a different mount. As a session musician he has worked with Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand, Chaka Khan and Jeff Beck. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Did you listen to Brand X? I have to agree about Ringos Style and ability to play to compliment the song, much like his great work on the song Rain. And Gene Krupa at 49? There's a physicality to our music. Oh yea . Joey Jordison Just enjoy it !! Truly paved the way for jazz drummers in rock!! But he became a major player in the electrified Chicago blues movement of the 50s and 60s as the staff drummer at Chess Records, where he recorded with Elmore James, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Etta James and Bo Diddley. Check out: Let There Be Rock, Tony Thompson made his name laying down some memorable disco grooves for Chic in the 70s, on brilliant hits such as We Are Family and Le Freak. The New York musician, whose mother was from Trinidad, was only 48 when he died of cancer in 2003. Ever. To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time, he said. "Max found a place where Bernard Purdie, Buddy Rich and Keith Moon intersected, and he made it his own," Bruce Springsteen said during his 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech. The fastest most technically gifted rock drummer ever. The drummer from Chilliwack? How in the world could they leave him off and put Meg White in front of him??? What does a drummer use for contraception? Drums, hand percussion, tuned percussion nothing is off limits for her. The thing about all 4 of these guys is, no one has ever been able to emulate their feel. You can play the same notes, but you cant imitate their Touch, sound & Feel, at all. Rush have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and his sculptured drum solos have been a celebrated feature of their live shows. El imbcil de Ringo Star mejor que Bill Brufford???????????? First off, ringo wasnt that great, second, I would put terry bosio and Neil learnt up in number one and two. In more recent years, his band Ginger Bakers Jazz Confusion, featuring James Browns and Van Morrisons saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis, has toured the UK and Europe. Check out: Ill Remember April, Nicholas Headon, who was known as Topper because of his resemblance to the cartoon character Mickey Monkey from Topper, was born in Bromley, Kent, on 30 May 1955. Phillips is a technically gifted drummer who was introduced to music by his musician father, Sid Phillips. MOST INNOVATIVE: Ringo, Bonham, Tony Williams, Cobham, Gadd, Krupa, the early Be-Bop players, Weckl & OMG, Matt Garstka!! I loved Keith Moon, but would be the first to admit that technically he wasnt in the same league as Ginger Baker. After a while you just scroll down past all the ludicrous comments about who should or should not be on the list, the loudmouth know-nothing who keeps telling everybody else to shut up, the same stupid debunked quote by Lennon and the insistence that McCartney was really a better drummer than Ringo, (Who cares? Shed kick most of these drummers arses! thanks for your time. Appice, who said he was heavily influenced by Gene Krupa, worked with Rod Stewart and co-wrote the song Da Ya Think Im Sexy? He later formed King Kobra for two Capitol albums in the 80s, a decade in which he played on the Pink Floyd record Momentary Lapse Of Reason. Tim Alexander, Harvey Mason, Glenn Kotche, Steve Jansen. As a composer, he wrote the score for the Daktari TV series and the films Young Billy Young and Trial Of The Catonsville Nine. The drums have to propel everything, he said. Style, longevity, fame do not a good drummer make! Unlike most drummers, however, Moon didnt like playing solos in concert. "That really, indirectly, is kind of running the show." Its too bad that people overlook some of the true greats. Although he is usually seen as a flamboyant, tight pants wearing front man, he is actually an extremely gifted mulch-instrumentalist who has won seven Grammy Awards. Keith Moon was a true original who left a lasting legacy. And Matt Garstka, from Animals As Leaders HOLY SHIT!!! ?ry cooder band and travelling wilburys think he s ace. 55 musician Bruno Mars has had an astronomical rise to fame in the past couple of years. Jon Hiseman of Colosseum and Brian Bennett of The Shadows, Two poles but Great drummers who should be on this list. Wheres Earl Palmer? Hal Blaine. As well as being a pioneering female rock drummer, she broke ground with her standing position, minimalist kit and preference for mallets over sticks. Must hear: Hot For Teacher 18: Chad Smith Check out: Radio Ga Ga, Sheila Escovedo was inspired by her percussionist father, Pete Escovedo, and godfather Tito Puente, and said in her memoir, The Beat Of My Own Drum, that she was taught from childhood how to keep good time on a drum set. Where the hell is Richie Hayward.?????????????? I was never really into any of his projects, outside Missing Persons. I, personally love Ringo and think he is a great drummer.