The (Factually) Greatest Drummer

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.

Dean wrote: ^ absolutely - the measure of a dummer is in the emotional responses he creates in the audience, solo's aside (which unless you are a drummer can be butt-numbingly boring), it is how their drumming compliments the music that matters.

A solo would be needed for the study, though, to make sure it was only the drumming influencing the brain of the subjects, not any of the other parts of the music.

If you really wanted to, you could also measure the drummer's effect on people's heart rate or something, or you could measure how hard he hits, or how loud he is, or how long he can keep a double bass rhythm going before his feet fall off.  But, for now, I'm happy with the fact that Mike Mangini holds the record in the only quantitative measurement that anybody at all cares about.

Dean wrote: where he manages to hit everything in his kit except the gong

Edited by Padraic - September 21 2012 at 08:36

^ absolutely - the measure of a dummer is in the emotional responses he creates in the audience, solo's aside (which unless you are a drummer can be butt-numbingly boring), it is how their drumming compliments the music that matters.

dtguitarfan wrote: Ambient Hurricanes wrote: Horizons wrote: dtfan likes trolling the community with his love of Dream Theater I'm pretty sure the OP wasn't strictly meant to be taken seriously.  If it's trolling, then it must be a good side of trolling, because this thread is ridiculously funny. Nah, I don't see how saying you love a band can possibly be trolling in any way.  Now, what Mr. Dennis Moore is doing?  That's trolling.  By the way - Eric Johnson is boring, and Joe Satriani puts on a good show....

If my impression of him is right, Dennis doesn't mean anyone to take everything he writes seriously, either.

Snow Dog wrote: DT isn't a genre.......yet

Well, if you believe the DT haters, EVERYTHING that is part of the Progressive Metal sub-genre is just a Dream Theater Clone.  Most overused, ridiculous, and lazy criticism ever....  As I've said before, it's kind of like if you criticized every guitar based band as being a "Led Zeppelin clone" - DT and LZ have very widely varying styles that they have shown throughout their career, so are you saying that band sounds just like this song, or that one, this album, or that one, this era, or that?

tamijo wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: So I found out (surprised I hadn't heard of this until now) why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!    You just can't stand that they have THE (FACTUALLY) Greatest Drummer alive!   (Queue the "well so and so is more 'tasteful'" comment bs, heh heh) Current record: Former record: And an awesome breakdown:   Why dont you just post : Hey listen to this its great !! A lot more possivive than : So I found out why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!   Dont know about others, but not the way to get me interested. I dont Hate DT. Its just not my favorite genre in Prog.

dtguitarfan wrote: So I found out (surprised I hadn't heard of this until now) why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!    You just can't stand that they have THE (FACTUALLY) Greatest Drummer alive!   (Queue the "well so and so is more 'tasteful'" comment bs, heh heh) Current record: Former record: And an awesome breakdown:

I never need them.

DiamondDog wrote: "Factually" greatest? Does saying it that way somehow give a mere opinion more credibility?

He is the greatest in the only measurable way, and it is a fact!