Topic: 50 Most Important Drummers Of All Time (Read 35892 times)

tkitna · « **Reply #60 on:** March 07, 2020, 05:26:27 AM »

I would love to. I'm just going to go with songs that I really like and respect from a drumming aspect rather than trying to come up with the 10 best. This is going to be hard, so let me get at it.

No particular order

Aja - Steely Dan (Steve Gadd)
Rosanna - Toto (Jeff Porcaro)
The Real Me - The Who (Keith Moon)
Fool In The Rain - Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
Goin Down - Monkees (Eddie Hoh)
Ballad Of Billy The Kid - Billy Joel (Ron Tutt)
Burn Down The Mission - Elton John (Nigel Olson)
Lessons - Rush (Neil Peart)
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police (Stewart Copeland)
Heart Of The Sunrise - Yes (Bill Bruford)
Inca Roads - Frank Zappa (Chester Thompson)
Make Me Smile - Chicago (Danny Serafine)
Nothing Is Easy - Jethro Tull (Clive Bunker)
Burn - Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase (Vinnie Parello)
Little Old Lady From Pasadena - Jan & Dean (Earl Palmer)
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tennille (Hal Blaine)
Call Me - Blondie (Clem Burke)

etc,,,,,I'm on a conference call at work and my list doesn't look good enough to me at the moment, but I just thought of those off the top of my head. I know I'm missing a million that should have been listed but I'm distracted. Like I said earlier, those are just some songs I like and not necessarily the best, but I like them for different reasons. Example - the 'More Today Than Yesterday' doesn't seem like a great drumming song, but concentrate just on the drummer and that guy is doing things with one bass foot that is just amazing. Others on the list have grooves while others have speed and so forth. Steely Dan and Zappa is kind of cheating as they both had a million drummers and a million different examples, but those were just a couple I picked. I'll come back to this tomorrow sometime after I slept.

stevie · « **Reply #61 on:** March 07, 2020, 03:05:16 PM »

Hey that’s awesome, Todd! I actually haven’t heard of a few of the lower parts of the list but I’ll check some out on YT.

Love Will Keep Us Together is one of the best songs of the 70’s; just crafted so well and the bass and drums are exquisite.

Some of my fave non Beatle drumming:
Won’t Get Fooled Again by Moonie and the Who - Behind Blue Eyes great too when the drums kick in

I love Charlie Watt’s drumming in the great Stones classics but a lot of their ‘lesser’ known stuff like Hand Of Fate and Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker Charlie is fine form.

I’m sort of picking out good drums by my fave bands here : The Rover by Zep is classic Bonzo.

Other various random fave drumming in songs would be:
Interstate State Love Song by STP
Coma by GNR
Don Henley’s work on a few Eagles tunes good too

tkitna · « **Reply #62 on:** March 09, 2020, 08:48:20 AM »

Nice little list there Stevie. I love the Rover too. It was the first Zeppelin tune I ever learned how to play. I like the drumming on 'Interstate Love Song' too. Great song. Henley was always tasteful with his playing although I always hated the sound of his drums. 'Coma' i'm not familiar with. Probably Matt Sorum I would imagine.

Just sitting here, I thought of a couple other tunes from the 80's that I love drumming wise.

Love Tony Thompson on this one.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6alVG9p-FQ" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6alVG9p-FQ</a>

Phil Collins and that groove

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OTPOzd16-4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OTPOzd16-4</a>

This is 1978 of course, but I like this one too.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEP45b9tBGI&list=PL1gLT2gwYzAHrPJaFj67VnW1GrtnVYCOA&index=4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEP45b9tBGI&list=PL1gLT2gwYzAHrPJaFj67VnW1GrtnVYCOA&index=4</a>

tkitna · « **Reply #63 on:** March 09, 2020, 05:15:56 PM »

Just listened to Coma, yeah Sorums a beast.

I really dig Kurt Reil from the Grip Weeds too. He's a monster.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNL3jHZNjr0" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNL3jHZNjr0</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBkEnb7jzdw" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBkEnb7jzdw</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0utX0_i-ndA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0utX0_i-ndA</a>

stevie · « **Reply #64 on:** March 10, 2020, 03:18:37 AM »

Hey nice Todd! Some great drum tunes there. I was trying to think of other songs I like the drumming in but I couldn’t focus on particular ones lol.

On a completely different topic

and being an amateur bass dude -

Do you think that Bill Wyman is massively underrated by music fans when the lists of the bass greats are mentioned? I think he is!!! But he - and Charlie - are the backbone of a lot of the Stones classics. He very rarely gets mentioned. It’s actually ridiculous

tkitna · « **Reply #65 on:** March 10, 2020, 02:20:53 PM »

Weird. Was just talking about Wyman the other night with my buddy while listening to Goats Head Soup. Great player. He might be a bit underrated as he is rarely mentioned among the great bassists, but I think its more of an issue with the other band members commanding all the attention as i'be never heard anybody talk bad about him. Anyways, he's an awesome player.

stevie · « **Reply #66 on:** March 10, 2020, 02:51:32 PM »

Yeah good points Todd. I feel perhaps he is taken for granted? Because he didn’t have the persona of Macca or Entwistle or JPJ to name some contemps of his. Like if you googled a list of the top bassists or bass songs, I bet Bill ain’t talked about nor many of his songs. It’s been a rant of mine for years.

Here we go! Check this out! Number 46 in this top 50. I have never heard of half these guys. It’s pathetic lol

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-bassists-in-music/

stevie · « **Reply #67 on:** March 10, 2020, 03:12:29 PM »

Hmm I guess a bit of a knock on him is that Keef played bass on some of their bigger tunes as Bill got tired of waiting in the studio for Keef to turn up lol.

tkitna · « **Reply #68 on:** March 10, 2020, 07:36:49 PM »

Quote from: stevie on March 10, 2020, 02:51:32 PM

Here we go! Check this out! Number 46 in this top 50. I have never heard of half these guys. It’s pathetic lol

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-bassists-in-music/

Yeah thats a sh*t list. Victor Wooten at 33?

Moogmodule · « **Reply #69 on:** March 10, 2020, 09:30:17 PM »

Quote from: stevie on March 10, 2020, 03:18:37 AM

Hey nice Todd! Some great drum tunes there. I was trying to think of other songs I like the drumming in but I couldn’t focus on particular ones lol.

On a completely different topic and being an amateur bass dude -

Do you think that Bill Wyman is massively underrated by music fans when the lists of the bass greats are mentioned? I think he is!!! But he - and Charlie - are the backbone of a lot of the Stones classics. He very rarely gets mentioned. It’s actually ridiculous

Bill doesn’t get a lot of attention. He’s to bassists a bit like what Ringo was to drummers, overshadowed by the flashier players of the sixties. Personality wise he never put himself forward either. Even after you’ve mentioned him my first thought of him is as rock solid, creating that tight rhythm section with Charlie to compensate for Keith’s looser guitar, rather than innovative or standout in his playing. Which is probably inaccurate. I’d be interested if there’s particular bass lines of his you think are particularly good and I’ll give them a listen.

tkitna · « **Reply #70 on:** March 11, 2020, 02:31:33 AM »

Monkey Man is my favorite Stones tune and he does a great job on that. Sway is pretty good too. Undercover Of The Night is another. He's a good player.

stevie · « **Reply #71 on:** March 11, 2020, 04:44:51 AM »

Quote from: tkitna on March 11, 2020, 02:31:33 AM

Monkey Man is my favorite Stones tune and he does a great job on that. Sway is pretty good too. Undercover Of The Night is another. He's a good player.

Yeah Monkey Man is a classic.

MM, my fave bass song’s of Bills are quite basic but so effective: Wild Horses, Rocks Off, Hot Stuff. My current fave Stones song - and I only recently realised how good it was - is Hand Of Fate from the 1976 Black And Blue album. Listen to it loud on headphones and it’s a just kickass rocker with Bill and Charlie locked intightly as usual, Keef’s simple but awesome riff and two great solos by Wayne Perkins who was ‘auditioning’ for the job that eventually went to Woody. A underrated Stones song except by the diehard fans

Lol I should’ve started a thread for Bill!!

Moogmodule · « **Reply #72 on:** March 12, 2020, 11:48:04 PM »

I put on some stones last night including the above songs. Turned the bass up. Yep no doubt a good player was Bill. Probably doesn’t get the notice he deserves.

stevie · « **Reply #73 on:** March 13, 2020, 01:32:57 AM »

That’s awesome MM. I’m sure that Macca and other bass players of that era appreciated Bill too

Moogmodule · « **Reply #74 on:** March 13, 2020, 03:18:06 AM »

I recall now reading Bills interview in Guitar Player back in the late 70s. From memory he had that odd playing style (holding the neck at a very high angle) because he had small hands. He also always used a short neck bass. He was pretty self deprecating. He mentioned seeing some guy at a local festival playing some amazing bass and wondering what a guy like that would think of him.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #75 on:** March 13, 2020, 04:06:05 AM »

I previously mentioned Honey Lantree, not because she was a great drummer, but because she can be considered an important drummer. She was probably the first professional female drummer.

Moe Tucker is another important female drummer...

https://youtu.be/cYaO-F4dCRw
The Velvet Underground Beginning To See The Light 1969

tkitna · « **Reply #76 on:** March 13, 2020, 09:57:10 AM »

Bringing up female drummers got me to remember Hannah Ford. I used to BS with her on the DrummerCafe forum years ago when she was young. At the time, she was taking some lessons from Danny Serafine (Chicagos drummer) and was just getting started in her career. Now shes married and has played at and with some cool people. DrummerCafe used to be pretty awesome. I used to shoot the sh*t with some cool drummers including Jon 'Bermuda' Schwartz from Weird Al and Chris Whitten from Edie Brickell and Paul McCartney fame but now theres not much traffic over there.

Here's a little video from Hannah.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LQ1dukhZrY" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LQ1dukhZrY</a>

Pothos · « **Reply #77 on:** March 13, 2020, 11:52:22 AM »

I have a lot of time for Sarah Jones (formally of Hot Chip)

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgAHDSMhQ1s" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgAHDSMhQ1s</a>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jones_(drummer)

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #78 on:** March 13, 2020, 10:57:21 PM »

Karen Carpenter...

https://youtu.be/ECEBexCwGwM

...another pioneer female rock drummer.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #79 on:** March 14, 2020, 02:13:49 AM »

https://youtu.be/sdHyzGXAJPg

Karen always referred to herself as "a drummer who sang."

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