Your Favorite Drummers

[kaboom]

chris ward, pattern is movement
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN_QkTuPuus[/youtube]

clayton kunstel, so many dynamos
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_YB1UPbFQ[/youtube]

[kbit]

Oh yea, & Jon Karel is the shit.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9mBq9RPBhI[/youtube]

& I'm fucking pissed his Vic Firth Drum Clinic isn't on youtube anymore, but it's incredible & I found it on some random site.
He puts a hi-hat on his snare and plays around with it's positioning. So sweet.
http://videodisc.tv/video/38041742/befc ... rformance/

360p for better audio

[coldbrightsunlight]

Neil Peart (there, I said it)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJSfDtolRw[/youtube]
but hey, being in a shitty band doesn't make you a shitty drummer.

Even if they did kill an entire genre.

Meh, I like rush. And you can't really criticise a band for ruining a genre, because all they did was play some music, which doesn't change what anyone else is doing.

Anyway

Dave Grohl
Brant Bjork
Kumiko Takahashi (formerly of Chatmonchy)
Ralph Molina
Topper Headon

EDIT: Also Stewart Copeland, guy has a cool style, even though the police only had like 4 decent songs.

[D.o.S.]

Sol Amarfio & Lasisi Amao (Osibisa)
Butch Trucks & Jai Johanny Johanson (Allman Brothers Band)
Mitch Mitchell & Buddy Miles (Hendrix)
Brant Bjork (Kyuss & his solo work)
Ginger Baker (Cream)
Chris Haikus (Om/Sleep/Sabians)
Danny Carey (Tool)

And if we're shining light on all the dirty skeletons out of our closets here...
I've always liked Tre Cool's skinsmanship. That motherfucker has always played exactly the right thing in exactly the right place.

Best live drummer I've ever seen, though, is a tie between Terry Bozzio, Chad Wackerman, Dale Crover, and Danny Carey. I saw Bozzio & Wackerman play The Black Page, which was ridiculous. I've seen Danny tear shit up with Tool a few times and always leave me with a "how on earth" appreciation of his skill, but I think out of all the peeps I've ever seen hit anything no one does drumming better than Dale Crover. I've never seen anyone so conscious of the beats that he doesn't hit. It's fucking incredible. Words fail me. He's so conscious of space and time that it's humbling.

[warwick.hoy]

I concur Tre Cool,...

Probably underrated is Abe Cunningham from Deftones.

[kbit]

I concur Tre Cool,...

Probably underrated is Abe Cunningham from Deftones.

I don't have a ton of Deftone's albums, but his drumming on Diamond Eyes is really really really good.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Aww, can't believe I forgot Greg Saunier from Deerhoof. Dude is crazy, he can get more out of a 3 piece kit than most people could with terry bozzio's ridiculous kit.

[Adoom]

John Stanier
Abe Cunningham
Alex Sowinsky
Dale Crover

More, but this is all that came to mind immediately.

[Zounds Perspex]

quite a few awesome drummers mentioned. here's my favorites of dudes that have yet to appear here.

Ziggy Modeliste - Meters
Mac MacNeilly - The Jesus Lizard
Tony Allen - Fela's Africa 70
Jaki Leibzeit (probably my all-time favorite) - Can
John French aka Drumbo - The Magic Band
Steve Shelley - SY
Chuck Biscuits - DOA, Black Flag, Danzig
George Hurley - Minutemen
Klaus Dinger - Neu!
Alfredo Hernandez - QOTSA
Danny Taylor - Silver Apples
Britt Walford - Slint
Andy Ramsay - Stereolab

[kbit]

I didn't mention Josh Eppard. The fuck is wrong with me.

[Adoom]

Also:

Emil Amos
Chris Haikus

Lots of drummers. Lots of drummers are very good.

[warwick.hoy]

Oh yeah,...

Brain Mantia
and
Josh Freese.

[willc]

The most awesome drummer I ever saw live was Charlie Ondras of the Unsane.
Just give a listen to the self titled LP and the singles collection, fucking monster.
He had a cinder block in his bass drum and still had to position it after each song.
Sadly he died a couple months after I saw them.
RIP Charlie.

[alexa.]

Dino Campanella
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUQmarRzYA[/youtube]

Love what he does and how he does it. Also, destroys planets live.

[snipelfritz]

Aww, can't believe I forgot Greg Saunier from Deerhoof. Dude is crazy, he can get more out of a 3 piece kit than most people could with terry bozzio's ridiculous kit.

Good call.

Also, Tony Allen rules.