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He doesn't mean that as an insult. Meehans distinctive drumming formed the backbone of The Shadows style and influenced a generation of younger musicians. what a joke. ", Born Sheila Escovedo, daughter of percussionist Pete Escovedo, Sheila E. was a drum-kit prodigy playing at a young age with the likes of Marvin Gaye and Herbie Hancock. Life moves fast for the in-demand drummer and producer and he wouldnt have it any other way. I did not see John Densmore of the Doors who I think is better then Ringo and Charlie. Personalmente Buddy Rich es el numero -1. Appice also wrote the acclaimed book The Realistic Rock Drum Method, which sold nearly half a million copies. Ahead of anybody?!? "His feel is really the heart and soul of the band." once told Modern Drummer magazine, I guess Im not really a Modern Drummer drummer. But the unshowy contribution he made to the band he played in is worth more than a pile of dusty VHS drum-instruction tapes (not that we couldnt watch that YouTube videowhere Jeff Porcaro explains how he came up with the Rosanna groove until our eyeballs turn to ash). There is no way that YOU are ignorant to the vast majority of music out there. Keith Moon was a very influential drummer BUT IMO does not belong in the top 20 and Lars Ulrich does not belong in the top 1,000 however Barry James Wilson should be in this list ! But not Nicko : (. Born Michael Peter Balzary, 56 singer Flea was born in Australia before moving to the US as a kid. Best Drummers Of All Time - Final Thoughts. Danny Carey. What the fuck. This omission deeply damages the credibility of the list. Youve serious credibility issues with mestunned to see the omission of Hunt Sales (David Bowie/Tin Machine, Iggy Pop, Todd Rundgren, Sales Brothers). "A drummer like Dale Crover, you can tell when Dale is playing in Nirvana because he's the best drummer in the world," said no less an authority than Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. I bang on things. On the subject of Ringo: Hes a good drummer. Gene Krupa no. 7) John Bonham No Fred Below (Chess)? Its too bad that people overlook some of the true greats. Also think Cozy Powell and Roger Taylor should be higher. oh yes and there are a few left out who have and are paying dues..How about Toss Panos!!!!! I always remember drumming as being easy, but I did nothing else, he said. "My story is recalled and written from my perspective on the drum stool, which I've always felt was the best seat in the house," he says. Former Chili Peppers drummer Cliff Martinez calls him "a monster virtuoso with a sophisticated, well-honed sense of what's appropriate." 40. His collaborations read like a Whos Who of modern jazz and include albums with Art Farmer, Sonny Stitt, Michel Petrucciani and Freddie Hubbard. HAHA!! too bad we all missed Steve Mitchell from San Francisco from back in the daytruly a monster After the band separated, Copeland went on to win a Golden Globe for his score for the Francis Ford Coppola film Rumble Fish. At least Carl Palmer wasnt on the list (was he?) The gig apparently isn't exclusive: When Skrillex, Diplo and Justin Bieber gave "Where Are Now" a live-band makeover at the 2016 Grammys, Jon Theodore was behind the kit. buddy rich is #1you people are trippin. His devotion and toughness were pretty impressive too: A 1984 Rolling Stone feature described a show opening for the Rolling Stones where Alex played the entire with his hand broken in four places. one of the best drummers of the 50s and still working today.!! This is just a mass of pathetic greatest drum lists, none are accurate, if they were,Buddy Rich would be at the top John Bonham and Pace would agree, simply untouchable . Check out: Behind The Lines, Ringo Starr, who was born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, on July 7, 1940, has had one of the most successful careers in music, gaining worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. No Bill Bruford or Danny Seraphine? We can all argue subjective things about who is best, who should be on the list, etc etc. Most people know American country musician, singer, and songwriter Willie Nelson for his hippie persona and messages of peace and togetherness. Check out: Lets Go, Londoner Michael Nicko McBrain, who was born on June 5, 1952, decided he wanted to be a drummer as a boy after watching Joe Morello perform on television with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Im obviously not a drum player, and do not have the technical vocabulary to describe what I hear, or do not hear when various percussionists play. Era il 1949! Just my opinion. The Arkansas-born (and renamed) Levon Helm achieved worldwide fame as drummer and singer for The Band. White was an excellent timekeeper as drummer and good at giving direction to a songs arrangement. Too many current drummers phenomenal drummers missing; Antonio Sanchez, Kendrick Scott,Brian Blade, Eric Harland, Lenny White!! Coming from the same Parliament-Funkadelic school that birthed Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood and Jerome Eugene "Bigfoot" Brailey, Dennis Chambers combined those players' funk acumen with the fusion of Tony Williams, in turn inspiring countless gospel and hip-hop drummers. Danny Seraphine, Barriemore Barlow, Pick Withers, Pete Thomas. My teacher always would talk about Joe Morello as his fave along with Steve Gadd. Hes one of only two band members to appear on every single Scorpions album. CLIFF !!! Did somebody heard of Huub Jansen from the Netherlands. from Elvis Presleys band in the 70s.. what a joke, No DJ Fontana great drummer who played for Elvis in the 50s He maybe no.1 cause i couldnt image what he had to do. Fontana was renowned for his power, speed and steadiness. Rod couldn't afford to blow the studio time so he recorded "Maggie May" anyway, with Waller's bashing so fierce and steady that critic Greil Marcus quipped that he deserved the Nobel Prize in physics. Check out: Have I the Right?, For Gavin Harrison, drumming is all about the groove. Thats what I was thinking. yeah right And where is Mat Abts?? #9 of 272. How does Fame constitute good drumming?. Where is Narada Michael Waldon on this list? YOU ARE AN IDIOT !!! Northern Ireland-born drummer Les Binks is best known for his time with Judas Priest, after he joined them on their 1977 world tour, following a spell with Eric Burdon. You could have him on the deck of a steamship in the middle of a typhoon in middle of a battlezone in the middle of a nuclear was and he would never miss a beat. Dennis was and John is an incredible drummer. And a drummer for Rory Gallagher Rod DAth? At some early gigs, she even used metal garbage cans after her drum kit was stolen. His personality. Someone messed up. Who has commented on this LIST !!! #1 by a mile! He argued to producer Brian Eno that a click track was a fraction of a beat off of the band after the drummer left the studio, Eno discovered it was askew by six milliseconds. "When we did the Amnesty tour [in 1986], I asked Manu Katch if I could sit down behind him and watch," said U2's Larry Mullen Jr. "He was freaked and didn't know what I was doing, but I just wanted to see what real drummers get up to!". Lee's frenetic clatter helped define the glam-punk appeal of Mtley's debut Too Fast for Love, while the earth-shaking beat that powered Dr. Feelgood's title track sounded as menacing and overwhelming as that song's tales of drug-fueled Eighties decadence. Without a doubt, Buddy Rich should be #1. This endlessly adaptable rhythmic pattern was the pulse of a decade and is still omnipresent wherever dancers are getting down. Compiled by people who know nothing about real music. Danny Carey is my personal favorite, but Bill Bruford, Neal Peart, Alan White, Carl Palmer, Phil Collins, etc etc. Cesar Zuiderwijk from the Golden Earing isnt even there ten times better then Ringo Starr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hne5B6nBKhg thats a drummer! Of course, it just HAD TO BE a Led Zep at number one. Ringo rarely stood out. Phillips is a technically gifted drummer who was introduced to music by his musician father, Sid Phillips. Vorrei citare 2 batteristi italiani. Heres my list. He said he learned his trade playing lots of clubs in Detroit. Check out: Haunting the Chapel, Stewart Copeland has been an accomplished producer and composer of soundtracks for movies and television, but he will always be remembered as the drummer for The Police, who achieved worldwide fame and chart-topping albums through the mid-80s (watch him talk to uDiscover about his time with the band). This musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter is known by most people as a guitarist and lead vocalist in the rock band Pearl Jam. Check out: Island Groove, Brian Blade, who is highly respected by modern jazz musicians, came to prominence with albums for Kenny Garrett and Joshua Redman. Buddy Rich was a drummers drummer, from which all the others are measured. Really, what more can be asked of a drummer? Michael Giles. Watts, who was born on June 2, 1941, in London, grew up loving Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and started out as a graphic artist. Jerome Brailey, the fresh recruit to Parliament-Funkadelic, proceeded to filter the style of JB stickman Jabo Starks through Bowie's hazy cosmic jive on "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)." No Chad Hugo (Neptunes) and Sly Dunbar (Sly and Robbie the Jamaican production duo)? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. #1 Buddy Rich #2 Neil Pert #3 is the drummer for carlos Santana at Woodstock!! What about Barrymore Barlow (Jethro Tull) and Mattias Olsson (Anglagard) ? Id have to agree with Bill Ward when he says he is not a drummer, hes a percussionist. WTF??? Tony Royster Jr. has performed with many of today's greatest R&B, pop, and hip-hop artists including Katy Perry, Mac Miller, Jay-Z, Joe Jonas, AWOLNATION, Residente, Big Sean, and Tori Kelly. Please! Gene Kruppa, the greatest drummer of all time, at 49?? Compare them with for example someone like Mike Mangini of Dream Theatre where enormous technical prowess is used or Tom Brechtlein from Robben Fords Blue Line. The first, a certain Gege Di Giacomo (nephew of the poet Salvatore Di Giacomo), the company Renato Carosone, who debuted alongside Peter Van Wood ringing glasses, cups, chairs, jars with amazement and success of the onlookers. It simply points out the folly of these lists. How about the thousands of drummers, men and women, who are unknown but love their instrument soo much that they make sacrifices every day to play their drums. !Michael Shrieve1969 -1974. Doesnt matter they were both impossible to imitate. Also Michael Shreive should be above 24 certainly. We are thee most important member of the band because if we couldnt keep time or count time or play a phenomenal fill the entire band would disintegrate into a million pieces. Hes not only a talented vocalist but also a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and dancer. If he thought so much of his style of playing, why did he not show any confidence in him during their first recording session? Richard was a blues drummer, not R&R, and had magical technique, he played with many musicians and made many records and CDs. SHUT UP !!! One of his quirks is that he sometimes plays barefoot. He is the best singing drummer of all-time, No Jim Gordon (Layla) Its like leaving Patrick Roy off a list of top 50 Goaltenders. His flamboyant performances in concerts, as he flailed away at his snare drum, tomtoms and cymbals, made him a star. Drum players who also could play Ed Shaughnessy, Sandy Nelson, Dave Gaibaldi Got lessons from Buddy Rich when I was 19 and Clyde Stubblefield when I was 23. The rest of the list couldnt carry his sticks. He made his recording debut at 19, in a band led by Coleman Hawkins, and his groundbreaking work with Charlie Parker in the 40s showed off his amazing sense of form, allied to an impeccable technique and mastery of tempo. This wasnt him saying other currrent members were better drummers than Ringo, it was a play on the word, best, since Best was the last name of their first drummer. Prince is a musical genius who has produced 10 platinum albums and 30 hit singles over the course of his career. Ferocious D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains started life as a jazz fusion crew, and Earl Hudson kept his superb chops when the tempos were cranked up to light speed and hurled against a wall. YEAH RIGHT. He also made key songwriting contributions to the band's immortal canon, even penning "Blitzkrieg Bop," which Joey Ramone called a "call to arms for everyone to start their own bands." Beck Hansen, better known simply as Beck, is a talented singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who stands just over 57. Ringo shouldnt be on the listas a drummer, he is mediocre at best, >>>> TO EVERYONE !!! Phil Collins is a multitalented vocalist and musician who is known both as a solo artist and as the drummer and singer of rock band Genesis. Standing 51 tall, Gary Stephen Angry Anderson AM Australian actor, television presenter, and singer-songwriter. I have been playing for 55 years now and he is right about John Lennons comment on Ringo. Hamiltons own playing was notable for his ability to colour his music with different tonal shades. Amen to the mention Of Barriemore Barlow Mr.Gerry, indeed worthy of a top ten spot in my list as well. Cindy Blackman made a name playing with artists such as Buckethead and Joss Stone before branching out to work with artists like Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron . I heard that John Bonham is quite upset. More important.how is Carter Beuford left off of this list? Not too many arguments. Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Clarke?? Standing just over 57, Eddie Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III. When I was coming up in the 60s, Buddy was regarded as the greatest living drummer of the time, Steve Smith said. 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. Some of you may know Cindy Blackman as a drummer for Lenny Kravitz, some as the wife of legendary guitarist Carlos Santana. He started his music career as a member of the hip-hop group Goodie Mob and as part of the soul duo Gnarls Barkley before going solo. I had never fully believed them, but this kind of talk will continue to follow Starr. As Hitler said.tell a lie and repeat endlessly and people will think its the truth. His replacement was the excellent Brian Bennett. He returned to The Stone Roses for a reunion in 2012. When you omit Barbara Borden your list is faulty/ Im 86 and remember names not even thought of like Olatunji Glenn Walters. If it is meant for skill, Charlie Watts and Ringo should be nowhere near this list. The only member of U2 that actually resembles a rock star got his start in the late Seventies as a post-punk amateur with low job security: At one point, his bandmates considered kicking him out, a move encouraged at the recording of U2's first demo by a record executive aghast at Mullen's dodgy timekeeping. And NONE of you have the musical chops, to say ANYTHING about ANYONE !!!! YOU ARE A NUT JOB !!! White quickly sensed that the combination of his talent and his wifes primitive style was a winning formula. Doesnt singing ability count?? Some of his finest work was with Chick Corea Elektric Band, with whom he played from 1985 to 1991. In a 1975 Playboy magazine readers poll, Carpenter was voted the best rock drummer of the year edging out Led Zeppelins John Bonham, The Whos Keith Moon and The Beatles Ringo Starr. Even Bruce (who wanted to be a drummer himself) said that Clive was the better drummer for Maidens music. I hit the drums very hard. The energy in his playing helped songs such as I Fought The Law became hugely popular, and his style, which emphasised a simple bass-snare up-down beat, accompanied by hi-hat flourishes, was highly distinctive. Check out: Good Vibrations, When Max Roach died in August 2007, at the age of 83, he was saluted as one of the most creative and influential percussionists in the history of jazz. Not even in the list !??? This has no merit. its impossible to pick!! Most people know this famous shorter man as the singer and main songwriter in the hit band Radiohead. "To Steven's credit, and unbeknownst to most, the feel and energy of Appetite was largely due to him," Slash wrote in his autobiography. He returned to AC/DC in late 1993 and played on another four albums his lean, mean trademark feel remained gloriously intact on 2014's Rock or Bust before derailing in his recent scandal. The two were like Yin and Yang, like Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Got a big problem with this list: Alan White at #39really?!! Peligro too.Rick Allen makes my list of greatest drummers of all time ! My teacher always would talk about Joe Morello as his fave along with Steve Gadd. Totally agree with the top three but in reverse. 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. Drummer Adolfo Fito . Measuring just over 58 in height, Axl Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone, NME, and several other media outlets. lot more good ones out there . No. Ringo Was Ringo Doin What HE Did Best -(Pardon The Pun )- All oF These Great Drummers Had The Abilty To Play Well But Were Part oF The Right Combination Of Band Members To Achieve That Greatness RIP To All Those Who Are No Longer With Us & May All Still Here Live Long & Keep On Keepin On !!!! Almost 30 of the 56 artists songs have hit the UKs Top 40 chart. Buddy Rich has all of those guys beat, Buddy was the best, hands down!! He worked with saxophonist Jackie McLean and then started recording with Coleman Hawkins in 1950, before working steadily with pianist Bud Powell in 1952. others to list. He has this perpetual place as the greatest drum-set virtuoso who ever lived, and that still stands up today. He leaves a legacy of great drumming, including playing on Robert Palmers Addicted To Love and Madonnas Like A Virgin. Absolutely deafening on a simple four-piece kit, completely locked in when fans are falling over his gear, he's a study of extremes that you can dance to and the unofficialambassador for a generation oftrailblazing 21st-century avant-rock percussionists that includes Zach Hill (Death Grips, Hella) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof). : I think that you have your names mixed up. A pity he was omitted. I just heard a Tony Williams/Billy Cobham duet that was absolutely GENIUS! My father was a rocknroll disc jockey, so I was always surrounded by music constantly. Got questions? Has whoever compiled this ilist heard him play??????? "If you're a rigid person, I don't think you can swing or make other people swing," he said of his technique. He comes out with an eclectic variety of music that ranges from folk to funk. . In his first spell, he played with AC/DC until 1983, and again from 1994 to 2015. ", Ahmir Thompson has taken on many roles neo-soul superproducer, polymathic author/raconteur, talk-show bandleader, Broadway musical consultant, celebrity superfan but those opportunities arose because he's foremost a wickedly versatile drummer whose playing has consistently upended expectations. Ginger Baker? He also created the deity-esqe persona that influenced some of the biggest rock-n-roll front men of his generation (and those to follow). Matt Garstka from "Animals As Leaders"2. "He can sit in that pocket and drive it and think in terms of a wider landscape. A prominent figure in popular music, he is .more. Robbie Dinsmor DOORS ? - Ian Paice. Bill Bruford should be #1. Stevie Wonder is an amazing drummer. You are wrong about Ringo Bottom line its a B S list. Most certainly not my top 50. Maybe because I'm physical. Im glad to see Jazz Age and Big Band Era drummers Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich included. 10) Anton Figg David Lee Roth is a great showman but Ronnie Van Sant was a legendary performer at another level. Honorable mention: Johnnie Bolin of Black Oak Arkansas, The Tommy Bolin Band and DVC. What makes a great drummer is a subject that divides musicians and fans alike: there will always be arguments over whether technical skill should preside over feel, or whether a classy sense of restraint is more desirable than flashy showmanship. Like Prince, Paul David Hewson is internationally known by his stage name, Bono. Check out: Giant Steps, New York drummer Maureen Ann Moe Tucker, who was born on August 26, 1944, made her name with the cutting-edge rock band The Velvet Underground. Clarke helped lay down the template for modern jazz drumming. This is rubbish, where is DJ Fontana or the great Ronnie Tutt The White Stripes were born, and Meg was acclaimed as one of rock musics most compelling stickswoman. He should be there. Roger Daltrey is a legend. Phhh Modeliste has been called The Godfather Of Groove and his grooves appear in hundreds of hip-hop samples. This talented musician was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time. These properties are crucial in the drummers world they cannot, and should not, be avoided, she said.

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