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Best Drummer? I cant name just 1, but Peart, Moon and Baker are my top 3.

Most underrated drummer is a toss up between Charlie Watts and Mitch Mitchell. Watts can literally keep perfect time, he IS the human metranome. And Mitchell was always in Jimi's shadow, listen to The Experience live at the monteray pop festival, Mitchell has some amazing fills during "Like a rolling stone", super, super fast stuff.

Dave Grohl kicks ass! Any post 1990 Nirvana drumming always sounded above par, and his work with QOTSA and his own Probot project are top notch. Dale Crover of the Melvins is good too. Also, you can't forget the drummers from those kickass old bands. Nick Mason and John Bonham come to mind.

finally someone mentions Mitch Mitchell, thanks Shizukana. that took way too long.

keith moon changed my life. saw the kids are allright when i was 8 and knew exactly what i had to do.

in jazz, max roach my pick. all props to krupa and buddy, but chick webb deserves the real credit for laying the groundwork.

i'm also a big fan of billy martin from martin, medeski and wood.

Roach, you missed one of my favorites, Ed Shaughnessy, most known for his time with the Tonight Show Band, back in the day.... one of the truest greats...

People seem to have overlooked Latina sensation Sheila E. of "Prince" fame.

and yes, Neil Pert rocks! His innovation, along with Geddy Lee, in bringing "odd" time meters to Rock music leaves others often in the dust.

Lest you all think I am too old, let's not forget Cindy Blackman, She's performed with a list of Jazz, Funk and Rock greats long as your arm, recently Lenny Kravitz...

Lastly, and by no means least, is Allan White, from "YES"

Hope that gives some of you skins lovers a few names to look into more! for me, well, I'm a guitarist... <grin> I'll go back to teaching the bass player his part. (Kidding, c'mon)

Hey gibinus, I didn't read the last page, I find it amusing because I am currently listening to the Shack Man CD.... Props to you AND him!

neal pert = teh suck
jimmy stewart was in fact the best drummer ever. it is a little known fact that he picked up drumming from the four dimensional being Harvey the Giant Rabbit, who was actually mistaken as imaginary, during the filming of the movie 'Harvey'. Harvey trained under Moses and Grakor the Destroyer, the latter of 'Impaled Northern Moon Forest' fame, and passed down the mythical tom-roll of hatred, death, bunnies, and sunflower seeds to jimmy stewart. Once he learned this, jimmy stewart was unstoppable and began his ethnic cleansing. first to be ravaged by his confused and misguided ethnic hatred were the mole people of moleopolis, followed by the rat people of ratopolis and the cat people of Chicago. only by the grace of god and a half eaten twinkie were captain obvious and his sidekick colonel cleavland steamer able to stop the now half-man, half-robot movie star bent on becoming the next fuhrer. it is a shame. he would have made a great madman drum-based malevolent dictator.

1.) Danny Carey of Tool
2.) Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater

I gotta go with [in no order]:
John Bonham, Lars Ulrich, Tommy Lee and Mick Fleetwood.

A drummer that I find creative is Bobby from Orgy.
He is talented... not the most though

Rob Hirst from Midnight Oil.

?uestlove from The Roots would get my vote from current (last 15-20 years) drummers.

Danny Carey - Tool
Neil Peart - Rush
Carl Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

And then an obscure drummer most of you have probably never heard of:
Sami Kuoppamäki. He played in a Finnish legendary acid/proge band called Kingston Wall and has continued his career as one of the top percussionist in the finnish rock scene since then.

Peart. Technique, speed, precision. I can't think of anyone who can top that.

Moon and Bonham. Both lots of energy and power.


When discussing Peart, many bring up YYZ, but my favorite drum track by him is 2112. He has one section that sounds faster than a machine gun, it's just insane. This makes me wnat to que up Winamp and load 2112 intro, Four Sticks, and Won't get Fooled Again.

Finally, I'd like to mention a couple of bands on the opposite ends fo the spectrum - Nine Inch Nails and the Allman Brothers. Using two drummers at many times was a stroke of genius. I'm sure that other bands have done this on occasion, but they are the most visible to me. When you get a song where two percussionists are in sync and on their game, the precision sound is as sweet and delicate as any other.

Since all the drummers I can think of have already been mentioned, I really have nothing of value to add to this discussion, but I thought I'd throw in this quote from Freaks and Geeks:

Harold then goes on to introduce Nick to Max Roach and Buddy Rich, who of course he's totally impressed by.

Ginger Baker of Cream gets my vote.

Isn't there a rule that the greatest drummers have to be dead? Bonham, Moon come to mind for a start.

neil peart(rush), buddy rich(jazz drummer),alan white(yes)

Vinnie Paul - Pantera, Damgeplan
Danny Carrey - Tool
Joey Jordison - Slipknot
Mike Protnoy - Dream Theater
Cavallera - Sepultura )always forget his first name. He is Max's brother)

can't take anything away from the classics, but i think zack young from the band artificial intelligence is the drummer of the future. he plays a cybernetic mix of live acoustic drums and trickers from 1 mixed kit. i've seen it live and its amazing. he's playing drum n' bass and jungle alongside a band. and his sense of timing is so good he's almost doing chord changes w/ the drums imo.

John Bonham in my opinion is one of the greatest. The guy is amazing. Mitch Mitchell is to low on that list 99 is way to low.

yeah,john bonaham is great.he has created his own unique style.what a pitty he's dead.
but satyricon's frost is also an awesome drummer

not a huge fan of them but Travis of blink 182 can pound the shit out of the drums

You should all be paying respect to Elvin Jones!!!

Also check out Jeff "Tain" Watts who plays with Branford Marsalis.

mars volta
 

the dude from the mars volta.. for real!!!

Bonham's work in Moby Dick and other Zeppelin tunes makes me give him a shout out... Rest in peace

Jon Fishman of Phish and Stuart Copeland...

John Henry Bonham is the greatest drummer ever, IMHO.

Who was the guy that did the drumming to the Last Samuri adds?
My favorite drummer was Joe Morello. There's something about jazz drumming that gets to me.

gene hoglan
also like josh freeze for more popular stuff

Carter Beuford of DMB... I'm sure it's been said before. The reason I think he's one of the best is that he plays them like a true musical instrument. He's not just laying a good beat behind everything, he's weaving different sounds and feels into the songs. I think without him, DMB is just average. I also saw Gomez last week and thought their drummer was right up there. He doesn't let loose on the albums like he did live. He's a little more busy for busy's sake, and more of a banger than Carter, but still damn impressive.

Jimmy Chamberlain.... He is just an amazing drummer from technical standpoint and he is able to really get inside the guts of a song and move things forward.

Yes, I should have mentioned Matt Abts, and Stanton Moore myself. Completely different styles, but both phenominal.

I always liked Ringo. Never too fancy. He didn't play to show off his drumming - he played to create a foundation for the song itself. Much more impressive than a technically impressive player.

just my two cents

bonzo was absolutely amazing. too bad he had to self destruct, like so many others.

elvin jones - i was able to see him a couple of times in boston a few years back, and he was amazing. completely gone from the heroin use, but he could still do it behind the kit. i cant really think of a more talented/visionary combo than jones and coltrane.

ringo is the luckiest man on the face of the earth. every other member of the beatles was extremely talented, but ringo was clearly the fourth best musician there. not sure of the truth to the rumors, but supposedly there are studio tapes of mccartney getting fed up with ringo's inability to keep time, and ending up playing the drums himself on a few tracks.