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Posted: August 29 2012 at 15:43
Rumblerod wrote:
Why can't I participate in the poll ?
You haven't made enough posts yet. Off the top of my head I think you need to post a minimum of 10 times before you can vote in polls but I may be wrong, it could be more!
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Posted: August 29 2012 at 15:36
Proggle Rock wrote:
Nick Mason was to Pink Floyd as Ringo was to the Beatles. The right drummer for them. But B.J. was remarkable and he gets my vote. The video posted above tells you all you need to know.
Right.
Mason is not an excellent drummer but Pink Floyd music would have been certainly different without him.
Sometimes, average musicians may give more soul to music ...
That is why I think that Dream Theater musicians are too good !!
I don't think that in either of these bands the drummer was the person of interest. Gary Brooker was (and always will be in P.H), and in P.F depends your point of view... For me was R.Waters... But as their drumming skills I think Mr.Wilson was a far better drummer than Mr.Mason... So I'll vote for him.
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Nick Mason was to Pink Floyd as Ringo was to the Beatles. The right drummer for them. But B.J. was remarkable and he gets my vote. The video posted above tells you all you need to know.
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 15:48
HolyMoly wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
HolyMoly wrote:
Nick sounded great with the Floyd (esp paired with Roger), but BJ Wilson is such a superlative drummer, that this was an easy choice for me. Wilson!
exactly BJ Wilson was often asked to join up bands while still in Harum
I think he was at the top of Jimmy Page's wish list for Led Zeppelin.
Correct. I remember hearing Robert Plant mention this in an interview. They couldn't get him, so they approached John Bonham and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 11:27
Mason's a fine drummer and timekeeper, but he's not a patch on the magnificent Wilson who was not only the perfect drummer for Procol but he made every great tune that much greater. That's a big part of what every drummer is obligated to do.
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 09:17
HolyMoly wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
HolyMoly wrote:
Nick sounded great with the Floyd (esp paired with Roger), but BJ Wilson is such a superlative drummer, that this was an easy choice for me. Wilson!
exactly BJ Wilson was often asked to join up bands while still in Harum
I think he was at the top of Jimmy Page's wish list for Led Zeppelin.
I seem to remember reading that Brooker was under constant anxiety that Wilson might accept an offer, and that after a while, BJ chose to pass silence over the offers he got, not to increase the tension on the subject
He wasn't really tempted in most cases... all these guys (the ex-Paramounts) were from the same neck of the woods (Southend On Sea) as he was....
let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Posted: August 20 2012 at 07:12
HolyMoly wrote:
Nick sounded great with the Floyd (esp paired with Roger), but BJ Wilson is such a superlative drummer, that this was an easy choice for me. Wilson!
exactly BJ Wilson was often asked to join up bands while still in Harum
let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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