Great Drummers!!

[chromium]

Steve Gadd is awesome!


When I saw the thread title, David King from The Bad Plus came to mind:



as did Greg Saunier from Deerhoof:



and Jaki Liebezeit from Can:



Non to everyone's tastes I'm sure, but talented players nonetheless.

[bobyoung]

How do you post you tube clips? I just copied the URL and thought I saw the video when I first posted them.

[chromium]

How do you post you tube clips? I just copied the URL and thought I saw the video when I first posted them.

Ususally, you just do what you did- drop the link in your post, and it just works.  

That's happened to me a few times too, where the link displays instead of the embedded video.  Not sure how to fix it.

[gweimer]

I believe some videos prohibit embedding.

[Highlander]

Neil Peart's probably top of my list...

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Ginger Baker just turned 70 !!!!

Here's a short solo from a free concert Blind Faith did:

http://www.interestment.co.uk/2009/08/19/happy-birthday-ginger-baker-heres-a-drum-solo/

He was 29 when I saw him with CREAM in '68. I was 15.
He got me interested in playing Double Bass drums early on!!
I thot he was the Greatest Thing On Earth!! Maybe he was!! heh
Jack Bruce & Eric Clapton were AMAZING too!!

[Stjofön Big]

Anyone interested in drummers could read Max Weinberg's book of interwievs with famous drummers, The Big Beat. I never knew that Ringo Starr is lefthanded, until I read Big beat. That explains why his playing sounds odd at times - playing the beat righthanded, shifts into lefthanded in rolls and fills.
Earl Palmer, drummer on many of Little Richards 50's recordings, later boss of the Musicians Union, is also there. As D J Fontana, Charlie Watts, Jim Keltner. Plus Johnny Badanjek, drummer in the Mitch Ryders great band, The Detroit Wheels.

Me, myself, I really like what seems like simplicity in Levon Helms drumming, the controlled insanity in Keith Moon, and the absolute sweetness in Jim Gordons style. Among others...

[Freuds_Cat]

Simon Kirke.  even those songs that I've played to death over the years haven't jaded when I focus on his drumming.  To cross metaphors he would be my Desert Island Drummer.

[nofi]

jim gordon killed his mother with a hammer. that aside he was on a ton of records in the 60's and 70's. he was the go to guy.

[rahock]

Was he the guy on "If I Had a Hammer" with Peter, Paul & Mary
Rick

[Highlander]

Had the good fortune to see Johnny Bee Badanjek with Alice Cooper some time long ago... damn good drummer...

[Stjofön Big]

The poor guy, Gordon, was sick. Don't know why. And Phil Spector is sick... Where is this world heading? Please, tell me if you can, what time do the trains roll in? (Room for your answers: - Two-ten, six-eighteen, ten-forty-four! (Whoa-whoa!!!)
Now who wrote that tune? (Clue: It's not a drummer...)

Anyways, Mr Freud is absolutely right: Simon Kirke is a great and heavy drummer! The stuff he and Andy Fraser did is the best (and don't get me wrong about that one!).

[Freuds_Cat]

Was he the guy on "If I Had a Hammer" with Peter, Paul & Mary
Rick

Was he the inspiration for Maxwells silver hammer?

[Dave W]

The poor guy, Gordon, was sick. Don't know why. And Phil Spector is sick... Where is this world heading? Please, tell me if you can, what time do the trains roll in? (Room for your answers: - Two-ten, six-eighteen, ten-forty-four! (Whoa-whoa!!!)
Now who wrote that tune? (Clue: It's not a drummer...)

And he's not much of a poet either. 

[Stjofön Big]

You're fuggin right, Dave!javascript:void(0);