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Poll Question: Best Drummer?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
55 [17.63%]
77 [24.68%]
21 [6.73%]
91 [29.17%]
4 [1.28%]
1 [0.32%]
31 [9.94%]
4 [1.28%]
3 [0.96%]
14 [4.49%]
7 [2.24%]
4 [1.28%]
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Points: 333 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2005 at 20:10

Is this not the hardest poll ever?

It's got to be Neil Peart.  The actual lines are as important as the technical ability.  Bruford on UK and Red by Crimson is pure class though.  Not to mention Mr Collins' work on Brand X...and Billy Cobham!

Check out John Theordore too from The Mars Volta........keeping it alive for us younguns....hehehe

 

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my vote goes to bill bruford in this list but overall my vote goes to bobby jarzombek

of spastic ink. the only way to understand why i voted for him is to see him in action at:

http://www.spasticink.com/

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check him in action

http://www.spasticink.com/bobaquanet.wmv
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still not sure he's got it! then check this out

http://www.bobbyjarzombek.com/video/PC.rm

http://www.bobbyjarzombek.com/video/School.rm

http://www.bobbyjarzombek.com/video/DS.rm
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Where is Manu Katche indeed!!!

Sorry folks but no-one not even the technical wonder of Bruford can come close to Mr. Bonham of Led Zeppelin fame.
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Originally posted by Moribund Moribund wrote:

Pierre Van Der Linden (Focus)

Oh and best non-prog drummer: Stewart Copeland
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Originally posted by Moribund Moribund wrote:

Originally posted by Moribund Moribund wrote:

Pierre Van Der Linden (Focus)

Oh and best non-prog drummer: Stewart Copeland



But Copeland was prog before he helped invent  regatta de blanc - he was the  last drummer of Curved Air - and somebody here reckoned he was married to CA's Sonja!
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I really like Carl Palmer. Listen to Toccatta and KE9 and the choice is simple. He is nothing short of Buddy Rich.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2005 at 15:51
Dave Lombardo (ex Slayer) is a fantastic and criminally underrated drummer, and Paul Whaley (ex Blue Cheer) developed an incredible (although arguably accidental) style. Lars Ulrich of Metallica also used to be an amazing drummer until around 1991...
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Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Dave Lombardo (ex Slayer) is a fantastic and criminally underrated drummer,

Or so I've heard, but there have to be some other recordings (other than those of Slayer or Fantomas) that showcase these skills?

Lars Ulrich of Metallica also used to be an amazing drummer until around 1991...

Really? I mean he sounds OK on the early Metallica albums, but to describe him as 'amazing'?
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I have just been listening to The Very Best Of Asia and had forgotten Palmer was the original drummer.
I'm on track 4 and can see no reason whatsoever why he would be considered the best drummer(obviously I am already familiar with his work with ELP).He is just a very good drummer no more no less.Comparing him with Bruford and Peart is wishful thinking.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2005 at 16:39
Dave Lombardo is a great drummer. Very underrated. He has the speed and technique, but also some creativity that people overlook.
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That australian dude...whats his name ohhh Virgil something and not to meantion that twelve year old boy, Tony Ruster, probably got that wrong, but that kiddo got THE speed.

But in the end i think it ought to be peart or portnoy  
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2005 at 17:53
Originally posted by Manunkind Manunkind wrote:

Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Dave Lombardo (ex Slayer) is a fantastic and criminally underrated drummer,

Or so I've heard, but there have to be some other recordings (other than those of Slayer or Fantomas) that showcase these skills?

There probably are - I detect an already cynical tone from your post. However, he does some incredible work on the Slayer albums. I guess you just don't hear it.

Lars Ulrich of Metallica also used to be an amazing drummer until around 1991...

Really? I mean he sounds OK on the early Metallica albums, but to describe him as 'amazing'?

OK to you, amazing to me. His playing is so sensitive to the music at that speed that it amazes me. I'm talking amazing as in feeling - the effects he produced to drive the music and become part of Metallica's revolutionary sound - not amazing as in some kind of anal virtuosic technique that's going to send me to sleep straight away like the guy from Dream Theater - whatever his name is. Mega-yawnerama!

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Bill Brudford

But Jason Rullo is amazing too.

 
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I'm sitting here looking at everybody blowing the trumpet for the best drummer...Why! I'll repeat what i've already posted:

I find it really odd that a poll could be put forward regarding a ''Best Drummer''.No such thing as a best drummer,every fan of their best loved band are going to vote for that drummer,it's inevitable.However each drummer has his own individulal style of playing,tricks,exemplary timing etc.Some drummers may pull off an energetic 30 min drum solo live,where as another drummer of a simular band may not entertain drum solo's,in either instance this does'nt make any drummer better than another.

 

 



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Originally posted by Xanadu Xanadu wrote:

That australian dude...whats his name ohhh Virgil something and not to meantion that twelve year old boy, Tony Ruster, probably got that wrong, but that kiddo got THE speed.

But in the end i think it ought to be peart or portnoy  



Virgil Donati? If so than +1

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Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I have just been listening to The Very Best Of Asia and had forgotten Palmer was the original drummer.
I'm on track 4 and can see no reason whatsoever why he would be considered the best drummer(obviously I am already familiar with his work with ELP).He is just a very good drummer no more no less.Comparing him with Bruford and Peart is wishful thinking.

As usual, you're way off base.  You can't compare his work in Asia to anything he did before with ELP or afterwards with ELP, Qango and his own band.  If you haven't heard it all, or seen him live, you really can't say that.

Carl did dumb down for Asia... he'll even tell you that. 

You're in the UK... you should attend one of his masterclasses.. and then come back and tell me that...

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