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Poll Question: Who is the best or most important progressive drummer?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 19 2007 at 04:59
Ringo is the most famous drummer. Moon, Bonham, Paice, Peart, Barker, even Charlie Watts, don't come anywhere close.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 19 2007 at 06:03
Gotta go with Bill Bruford, if you really think about it, the guy that did more different works and explored the prog music and played with the best groups in the world was Bruford, although I would've gone with Neil Peart, only for his technical abilities.
For Bruford, that music from Spandau Ballet Gold is apropriate for him, eheh

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 19 2007 at 13:31
Carl Palmer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 01:15
i went with bozzio c'mon guys zappa,jeff beck....korn.....ummm yeah i think you were right
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 02:04
This is taken from Wikipedia: Portnoy has won 22 awards from Modern Drummermagazine, including "Best Up & Coming Talent" (one time), "Best Clinician" (two times), "Best Educational Video/DVD" (two times), "Best recorded performance" (5 times) and "Best Progressive Rock Drummer" (for 12 consecutive years), and is also the youngest person (at 37 years of age) to be inducted into their Rock Drummer Hall of Fame.

So, my vote goes for him. He builds up on great prog traditions and then he switches next gear and goes forward. Just listen to Systematic Chaos and you will know. Clap



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 08:17
The Most Important
 
 Bill Bruford
 
Yes, King Crimson his contribution is legendary.
 
The Best
 
 Billy Cobham
 
Without any doubt!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 10:33
Most important: tie between Carl Palmer and Bill Bruford. Palmer pioneered effects in drumkits (influencing drummers like Bruford and Peart, to name but a very few) and Bruford mapped all kinds of sonic territory
 
Best: Neil Peart, the only man who should be allowed to have a drum solo longer than two minutes
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:03
Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

Most important: tie between Carl Palmer and Bill Bruford. Palmer pioneered effects in drumkits (influencing drummers like Bruford and Peart, to name but a very few) and Bruford mapped all kinds of sonic territory
 
Best: Neil Peart, the only man who should be allowed to have a drum solo longer than two minutes

definitely untrue. listen to solos of Moerlen, Vander or Neumeier (which can all be found on YouTube)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:12
They're good, but Peart's ever-evolving solo way better IMO
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:19
Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

Best: Neil Peart, the only man who should be allowed to have a drum solo longer than two minutes


Sorry, but you can't have heard too many drummers.

But in a way that's good - you're at the start of a very fascinating journey of discovery
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:33
Why is it so objectional to people that Peart could possibly be someones favorite drummer. Since when did this become a polarizing issue.
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:42
^ Equality, please read what I wrote. I object to the notion of Peart having a monopoly on good drum solos and not to anyone's liking his playing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:46
exactly. I have nothing against people liking Peart, but people who go "Peart, Peart, Peart" all the time are like a record with a stuck needle. there are a lot of intelligent drum solos out there

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:53
Neil is GOD!!!!!
 
Peart, Peart, Peart!!!!
 
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He is awesome though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 11:59
I'd choose Moerlen over Peart anytime, hands down. Not because one is BETTER (how would you measure that, by the way? Beats per second?), but because his drum playing is a lot more original. Peart's fill-ins are rather ordinary, but you only have to listen to albums like "You", "Shamal" or "Gazeuse" to hear what I mean. Moerlen comes up with some really original stuff there. Things you won't hear from any other drummer.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 12:03
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

exactly. I have nothing against people liking Peart, but people who go "Peart, Peart, Peart" all the time are like a record with a stuck needle. there are a lot of intelligent drum solos out there
 
I'm sorry, I initially took your remark to be a little condescending. I wasn't speaking just of you though it seems to be becoming a more prevelant theme.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 12:04
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Things you won't hear from any other drummer.


[nitpick] There's loads of drummers playing things you won't hear from any other drummers [/nitpick]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 12:07
Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

Best: Neil Peart, the only man who should be allowed to have a drum solo longer than two minutes


Sorry, but you can't have heard too many drummers.

But in a way that's good - you're at the start of a very fascinating journey of discovery
I've heard a number of drum solos, and most are boring. Technical, challenging, but BORING. Peart's solo is actually fun to listen to, which is extremely rare. I didn't mean he's the only one who can sound good for more than tw minutes, he's just the only one who keeps it interesting.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 12:10
Fun longer solos aren't rare at all, though they're probably much more common in jazz than in (prog) rock.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2007 at 12:12
Haven't heard a whole lot of extended jazz drum solos. I listen to Buddy rich and gene Krupa, and they tend to do a lot in a very small time frame. Maasterful, those two men are
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