BEST DRUM PERFORMANCE

Prog drummers I'd say Neil Peart and Chris Maitland from PT.

Metal drummers includes Danny Carey, Cato Bekkevold (Enslaved) and Ed Warby(Ayreon). Gene Hoglan does some amazing work on "Terria" by Devin Townsend as well.

One of, if not the best, metal drummers is Hellhammer (Or Jan Axel Blomberg, as his name is) from Mayhem, Arcturus and several other bands.

Terry Bozzio is freak. He is awesome

3 drumming performances spring to mind instantly :-

Bill Bruford - excellent work with King Crimson - especially on Discipline. 

Phil Collins - check out Three Sides Live (albeit with Chester Thompson) - In The Cage is awesome

Neil Peart - basically all this guy's drumming is phenomenal

As prog drummers, Bruford and Peart - but let's not forget Ian Paice!

Manunkind wrote: Jeremy Bender wrote: antibiotic wrote: Jeremy Bender wrote: Nicholas Barker: Blessings Upon The Throne Of Tyranny, Kings Of The Carnival Creation, IHybrid Stigmata / The Apostasy IndoctriNation, Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse, Allehelgens Død I Helveds Rike, Cataclysm Children How can you possibly consider a fully triggered kit and later touched up on computer a good performance? If this is what you consider a good drum performance, then I am easily as good as Barker.  I don't even play drums, but I could make a recording that sounds as good as he does given the same recording eithic. You probably like Opeth too? (He is a good drummer, I agree, but his recorded work can't really be rated as a performance. All of what you are hearing is quantized and artificially made to sound as clean and precise as it is.) Yes, you're right. Thanks for remembering me.... I saw a DVD from Dimmu and he played as fast and precise as on the cd recordings. But hey, maybe it wasn't Nicholas who played but a robot.... Precisely. If it can be reproduced accurately enough live, then it is a good performance. Antibiotic, you might as well have complained about the vast majority of the songs on your CDs not being first and only takes. Following up on that - Blackword, I wasn't trying to question Peart's skill. He obviously has plenty of it if he can reproduce those parts nearly perfectly live. But does that also mean that he (and Lee and Lifeson with him) don't do any live jamming at all?

No not really. I've heard them mess about a bit, but by and large they just play the songs. A lot of their songs started off as studio jams but once laid down in studio they're pretty much set in stone.

Kirk Covington (Tribal Tech) is greaat!!

 

Dazed and Confused, Stairway to heaven, Bonzo.

Let's see performances by the late, great Pierre Moerlen, John Marshall, Robert Wyatt, Phil Collins, Bill Bruford, and Pip Pyle are all noteworthy.  I am sure there are tons more, but those are the only ones I can think of right now. 

Carl Palmer - Toccata (ELP)

Alan White - Ann Of Cleves (Rick Wakeman)

Bill Ward - Never Say Die (Sabbath)

Keith Moon - Baba O'Riley (The Who)

Paul Cook - Widows Peak (IQ)

Bill Bruford - Red (Crimson)

Jon Hiseman - Valentyne Suite (Colosseum)

Neil Peart - Tom Sawyer (Rush)

Terry Bozzio - Carrying No Cross (UK)

John Bonham - Achilles Last Stand (Led Zep)

Cozy Powell - Stargazer (Rainbow)

Ian Paice - Burn (Purple)

Phil Collins - Dukes Travels/End (Genesis)

Chester Thompson and Phil Collins - Los Endos (Live) (Genesis)

Danny Carey - Schism (Tool)

Vangelis - To The Unknown Man

Brian Davison - Rondo (The Nice)

Corky Laing - Nantucket Seighride (Mountain)

Phil Taylor - Overkill (Motorhead)

 

...wot no Mike Portnoy?

ColonelClaypool wrote: Prog drummers I'd say Neil Peart and Chris Maitland from PT.

Chris Maitland was a good drummer but surely you are referring to Gavin Harrison...

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Gavin_Harrison.html