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Neil Pert.

There, I said it, everyone else can go home now.

wyltoknow: Neil Pert.

Peart.

/FTFM
//Buddy Rich

Danny Carey owns. Plus he's hot.

Dana Carvey

Saw this awhile back on uTube. He really pounds them skins. Nice if they included a cleaner version of it on their highly anticipated live dvd. That they were supposed to release. Someday. Mostly.

Neil Pert is great, but overrated IMHO.

My list of top 3 would be (in no order)

Danny Carey
Gene Krupa
Buddy Rich

He is a talented musician and there are many other talented percussionists

I've always thought Carl Palmer was a good drummer, then I found/saw these two clips [drum solos]... now i think he's a freakin wicked great drummer...

[both are clicky pop]

1970 Isle of Wight "Rondo" [drum solo in middle][past all the crazy wankfest keyboard stuff by Emerson]
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Live in Belgium 1971
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Of course, he's still not as good as

Carl Palmer.

He's not bad, he's just in a terrible unfunny joke of a band.

MICKAH WALLACE?!?!?

/obscurrito

Chris Johnson

Old video.

Chester Thompson.

Chad Smith

Nick Mason is my favorite but Carey is awesome.

Mike Portnoy.

This kid

A.C. Slater

Prince of Pluto

MICKAH WALLACE?!?!?

/obscurrito

He's a fookin' savage.

for rock 'n' roll, my faves:

john bonham
ian paice
ringo starr
keith moon
ginger baker
stewart copeland
charlie watts
jim keltner
prairie prince
brad elvis
ric menk
kenny jones
mitch mitchell
david lovering

oh, and COUNTRY DICK MONTANA

/RIP

I am also a big fan of Topper.

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Heh- just as I was reading this, "Spirit of Radio" started playing on the radio. Coincidence? I think not. Carey is farking awesome, but...

it's Peart FTW.

Nastyboy: Prince of Pluto

MICKAH WALLACE?!?!?

/obscurrito

He's a fookin' savage.

But e's OUR savage.

oh, and ....
- early Genesis Phil Collins
- 1973/74 King Crimson era Bill Bruford
- Pompeii era Nick Mason

FTW

Music is an artform, so there really aren't any superlatives. I'm a musician, not a drummer (HAR HAR) and I have fave drummers who impress me in different ways.

For straight-up rock, it's Keith Moon. Explosive, unpredictable, tireless and savage. I like him much better than Bonham.

For his eclectic approach and displaying tremendous craft, it's gotta be Bill Bruford.

For all-out speed, timing and bravado across a wide range of styles, it's Carl Palmer. Sorry, Peart.

For laughs and a beer glass raised, it's Ringo. Go Ringo!

carmody: He's not bad, he's just in a terrible unfunny joke of a band.

You go to hell...you go to hell and you die!

It's not just that he is a great drummer....it is that he is so innovative. Listen to something like "Eulogy" or "Triad"....he comes up with parts that no one else could. It isn't that you couldn't find another person to play it....it is that no one would have thought to play it.

Plus his mastery of electronics and integrating it into an acoustic kit. He developed his own electronics (Mandala pads) which are amazing....

How the hell do you come up with a drum part like the break down in "Rosetta Stoned?" No one is even on his same level, IMO.

Bozzio :-p

Keith Moon
Cozy Powell
Tommy Aldridge
Kenny Aronoff
Ian Paice
John Bonham
Billy Cobham
Neal Peart
Johnny "B" Badanjek
Frank Beard
Stephen Jo Bladd

Peart and Portnoy

/thread

Meg White.

/don't feed...

This guy has an awesome beat-heavy style.

I just wanted to say that there is no "better", there is only "worse". If you can keep a steady beat and stay in time - this is what doesn't make you "worse". You can be better in the sense of more professional, reliable, quick to learn, good music sense, etc...

But, when it really gets down to it: it's about songs - it's not about how many notes you can acrobatically play.

This drummer here fits with Tool. If a drummer plays through a song with one bass drum hit, then one snare hit, repeated while while riding the hi-hat in time: this is what will fit the song. It's not a competition.

Neil Peart is great because he can do all of the slick drumming while incorporating it into a song. His drumming is "more impressive" than the average drummer, but it doesn't make it "better" in the context of a song.

If one continuous sound is expressed; that is what it is.
Many choppy sounds is not necessarily more pleasing to the listener; although it can be.

I'm glad to see [insert drummer here] get some props. He's much better than [drummer with similar style] and a HELL of a lot better than [more well known drummer]

/comment
//comment referencing Weeners
///comment referencing the fact I'm using virgules to distinguish between postscriptal comments.

Jimmy Chamberlin
Matt Chamberlain
Matt Cameron

Whut? No love for Alan White?

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Gavin Harrison.

/thread really over.

thesubliminalman: Whut? No love for Alan White?

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Is the same dude? WTF? Was he in the Animals too?

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mudpants: thesubliminalman: Whut? No love for Alan White?

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Is the same dude? WTF? Was he in the Animals too?

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NO, more like this dude.

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Lots like this dude.

Michael Giles is superb and I never hear him mentioned. Ever.
Terry Cox, Moon, and Mitchell are some of my other favorites.

And let's not forget Bobby Gillespie. Two piece drum kit FTW.

Brann Dailor from Mastodon is also a pretty bas ass drummer.

Oh and apparently he is cool enough to play with recent tribute bands. I liked Relayer as the best Yes album and his solo Ramshackled.

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Erik "Smelly" Sandin.

Seriously, just listen to "The Decline" and try to disagree.

Tomas Haake from Meshuggah

MATT DAMON!1!!



/and Rat Scabies

wtf....i tried to submit this two months ago during the "my favorite drummer is better than yours" week in videos.it would not let me submit because the vid had been submitted like three months earlier.so whats the farkin secret?

i cant believe he was pimping lenny whites first solo records, hes so right about that.