Top 100 Drum Performances List

terry bozzio - black light syndrome. best drumming i've ever heard. the independance in the middle section is incredible. and it's so tastefull!.

i'll leave it at that and just add that i'm a drummer and i can't satnd mike portnoy. the guy's a idiot with sticks. he's got no taste at all. that pattern he always uses with the offbeat triplets on the china while keeping the 4/4 rhythmn going is horrid. it's a party trick. i wanted to bang my head on the wall when he used it in a quiet section of transatlantic. he has plenty of chops, but in the pursuit of 'modern drummer' poll awards he's lost the plot.

Ticks and Leeches is progish. That song is f**king nuts.

 

Al di Meola's Drummers...

 

Edited by Rayzl

Reflection - Tool

Toccata - ELP

Instrumedly - Dream Theater

The last song on The Human Equation

ELP (Carl Palmer) - Tank

I gotta throw Jon Theodore in this.  I have a strong feeling that 20 years from now he'll be listed among the Progressive Rock drumming greats.

 

Drunkship of Lanterns

Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt

Enuch Provocatour

and that's just three.  I still haven't heard a  TMV song where he isn't in top form (IMO).

Zappa's song "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" has incredible drumming on the album Roxy & Elsewhere. Don't know the drummer but it may be Aynsley Dunbar, he played with Zappa a lot round the 71-74 era.

We can't leave out Tool whether you like 'em or not. I volunteer:

1) Ticks and Leeches    2) The Grudge    3) Third Eye    4) Merkaba (live on "Salival")    5) Reflection

And Neil Peart...

1) YYZ (also see live on "Exit...Stage Left")   2) La Villa Strangiato    3) Cygnus X-1 Book 1 (look up the drum fill on 8:27 and try and stop your mouth falling open in awe)    4) O'Baterista (live on Rush in Rio)   5) "Didacts and Narpets" sub-section from The Fountain of Lamenth

I can do 5 each realistically for several more drummers but i'm very tired...

I wouldn't say all of these are technically brilliant (although
most of the prog ones are) but they all feature ace drumming.

King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind, Starless
ELP - Toccata, Food for your Soul
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise, South Side of the Sky
Focus - Anonymous II
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite, The Time Machine
Greenslade - Drum Folk
The Nice - Brandenburger
Bodast - Nether Street

Non-prog:
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
Rainbow - Stargazer, A Light in the Black
Cozy Powell - Dance with the Devil
Deep Purple - Burn
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Keith West - On a Saturday

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I'm going to try to update this every Monday.

I forgot Phil Ehart (Kansas) on the "Two for the Show" live album, particularly in the song "Journey from Mariabronn". Great album and song!