Best progressive drummer?

ivan_2068 wrote: I was going to mention him but being an ex-drummer (even if I was just an average one), I notice some things that non drummers don't. He has a great talent, good style and enough strength(not too much even though) but IMO has a poor feet work. This (again IMHO) disqualifies him as a top drummer because feet work is very important for a drummer. Iván

a lot of my drummer friends always talk about feet work, double bass.. etc. although many would think that death and thrash metal drummers like Lombardo (slayer - Testament) are the best in feet work but i think the best feet work drummer is Portnoy (dream thatre)

i'd like to know what do Ivan and vibrationbaby think about this.  

Menswear:

Re: Your NOT Prog rock drummers nominations. I couldn't agree more, especially Stewart Copeland and Keith Moon. Excellent choices. I used to think Copeland had a bit of a Neil Peart thing going on. Very tight and metronomic (great word, dont you think! - and how NP once described himself, and said he was trying to loosen up)

Dont know much about the Cranberries drummer, but I have liked most of what I have heard of their music.

Interesting comment about the 'feet work' Ivan.Whose the best in this respect? Neil Peart?...Bill Bruford? Carl Palmer was exceptional with the snare drum but less so with the bass drum which he used more in a percussive way.Peart was the first drummer I heard who could really manipulate a bass drum to the 'nth degree', a good example being the Permanant Waves album.But then BB's work with Chris Squire on the Fragile album is also great IMO.

Drummers are mostly the coolest musician to watch. Some are stylish, some are more reserved. But, many bands are crummy if you take off the cool drummer.

So the nomitations are:

PROGRESSIVE ROCK

1) Hans Bathelt---Triumvirat

2) Neil Peart----Rush

3) Pierre Van der Linden----Trace, Focus

4) Mattias Olsson----Anglagard

5) Phil Collins----Genesis, Brand X

I'm sorry but I have to vote for Mattias Olsson He just blows my friggin' mind off. In Hybris, he was only 18! For the love of god, what talent.

NOT PROGRESSIVE ROCK

1) Keith Moon---The Who

2) Fergal Lawler---The Cranberries

3) Stewart Copeland---The Police

 

 

Joren wrote: I didn't know that! Also on "Inner Mounting Flame"?

Joren wrote: headboy wrote:    Mr Billy Cobham!!    I saw him once on Mezzo (French music television)... he played a song called "Red Baron"... awesome! He also played with Miles Davis, right?

headboy wrote:    Mr Billy Cobham!!

I saw him once on Mezzo (French music television)... he played a song called "Red Baron"... awesome! He also played with Miles Davis, right?

I find Terry Bozzio really amazing! I just got his solo album "Drawing The Circle". Fantastic stuff! It sounds like he can play melodies with his kit... beautiful!

DoomHammer wrote: ivan_2068 wrote: Neil Peart (Rush): Well.....he's Peart and that is enough. Carl Palmer: Perfect drummer for a power trio, strong and fast, don't know if he would feel comfortable in a band with more members. plus Mike Portnoy of Dream theatre, he says he always look up to Neil Peart as his instructor.

The usual suspects:

Carl Palmer (ELP)

Neil Peart (Rush)

Phil Collins (Genesis)

Alan White (Yes)

Bill Bruford (King Crimson and Yes)

Mike Portnoy (Liquid Tension Experiment,Transatlantic and Dream Theater)

Paul Cook (IQ)

All great prog drummers IMO.Probably Neil Peart has the most all round ability and has a style balanced nicely between the powerfull aggressive approach of Carl Palmer and the more subtle approach of Bill Bruford.