The (Factually) Greatest Drummer

dtguitarfan wrote: The T wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: he's actually more than just the fastest drummer in the world How the hell did we get to measure that?  Did ya watch the videos at the beginning of the thread?  I do recommend watching them, especially the Time Warp one, that is just really, really cool stuff, whether you like Dream Theater or Mangini or not.

Oh well I certainly haven't. I used to have a reputation here as a DT fanboy so you can expect me not to dislike the band. But from "fastest" to "best" there is a long distance. Besides that, I'm sure the number of drummers that have been measured is not equal to all the drummers in the world. 

dtguitarfan wrote: HolyMoly wrote: I set the speed record for dropping guitar picks. That must be an expensive record to hold.

Not really.  I can always use the picks again, as long as I pay someone to pick them up for me.

I set the speed record for dropping guitar picks.

Ambient Hurricanes wrote: Now, speaking of speed records; didn't Alex Lifeson at one point hold the world record for fastest guitarist, or am I mistaken?

I haven't heard that, but would be interested to know if it's true.  The only fastest guitarist record I've heard of was this one:
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/8/fastest-guitarist-world-s-record-broken-at-320bpm-547775

The T wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: he's actually more than just the fastest drummer in the world How the hell did we get to measure that?

They have a meter that counts how many individual hits on a snare you can execute in 60 seconds.  He actually did break the world record.  I guess that's the only quantitative metric they have.

rogerthat wrote: What is possibly more amusing than this thread itself is that some DT fanboys bashed the hell out of Mangini when he was touted as the replacement for superman Portnoy.   No sooner did the first DT album with Mangini hit the stores than Clark Kent got a new identity.

I think this is actually a testimony to how good he actually is - he's actually more than just the fastest drummer in the world, he's also a hell of a drummer who compliments the band's sound quite well.

This is a bit tangential to the OP (which is just silly), but I do seem to recall reading in various interviews, that there was something of a "competition" between prog bands back in the early days.  Wish I could find a reference to this at the moment, but I can't.

Anyway, obviously the greatest drummer of all time was Buddy Rich.  For prog drummers I'd have to go with Zoltan Csörsz (who, come to think of it, is actually a jazz drummer...........your run of them mill jazz drummer is probably far more skilled than any of the prog drummers mentioned in this thread).  

The premise of this thread is incredibly stupid. 

rogerthat wrote: What is possibly more amusing than this thread itself is that some DT fanboys bashed the hell out of Mangini when he was touted as the replacement for superman Portnoy.   No sooner did the first DT album with Mangini hit the stores than Clark Kent got a new identity.   Next thing you know, they will make Lars Ulrich the drummer of DT and he will be duly rewarded with a Guinness.

HolyMoly wrote: For some reason Bill Bruford's performance on "Trio" comes to mind.  He was actually given a co-composer credit for NOT playing for 5 minutes.  Now that's good drumming.