Phil Collins vs Nick Mason

Snow Dog wrote: octopus-4 wrote: ) richardh wrote: There are 16 insane people on the loose. Help! Phil Collins is a better drummer but I can't stand his face, do you remember the video of "On the air tonight"? He looks like Death in a Bergman's movie...I feel more sympathy for Mason and the butterfly on his t-shirt at Pompeii (well it was in London but the director didn't tell). Out of his band Mason produced (and signed) a Carla Bley album and a not so bad collaboration with 10cc's Fenn. Think to what Collins did alone. Mason never danced with a high-pitched disco performer. Collins is a great drummer, the problem is that he write songs and sings them. If he was limited to drums he'd have received my vote.  Don't ask me if I prefer Picasso or Bowie as painter. (because I prefer Bowie ) Last but not least, Nick Mason has still some hair. Phil Collins doesn't. All irrelevant as this poll asks for the better drummer. Any other take on it is deficient.

richardh wrote: There are 16 insane people on the loose. Help!

I'll take that as a compliment.

Nick Mason for me. Phil Collins is unquestionably superior in purely technical terms, but Nick Mason is one of those rare examples of a drummer who is absolutely perfect for the band that he is in (like Ringo, another non virtuoso without whom...).

Syzygy wrote: Nick Mason for me. Phil Collins is unquestionably superior in purely technical terms, but Nick Mason is one of those rare examples of a drummer who is absolutely perfect for the band that he is in (like Ringo, another non virtuoso without whom...).

Snow Dog wrote: octopus-4 wrote: Snow Dog wrote: octopus-4 wrote: ) richardh wrote: There are 16 insane people on the loose. Help! Phil Collins is a better drummer but I can't stand his face, do you remember the video of "On the air tonight"? He looks like Death in a Bergman's movie...I feel more sympathy for Mason and the butterfly on his t-shirt at Pompeii (well it was in London but the director didn't tell). Out of his band Mason produced (and signed) a Carla Bley album and a not so bad collaboration with 10cc's Fenn. Think to what Collins did alone. Mason never danced with a high-pitched disco performer. Collins is a great drummer, the problem is that he write songs and sings them. If he was limited to drums he'd have received my vote.  Don't ask me if I prefer Picasso or Bowie as painter. (because I prefer Bowie ) Last but not least, Nick Mason has still some hair. Phil Collins doesn't. All irrelevant as this poll asks for the better drummer. Any other take on it is deficient. I'm sorry but I thought that the fact that I'm joking was evident. I don't see a possible comparison between the two in terms of drumming, for the same admission of Nick Mason. In Inside Out he says that he had to "study" his own parts for Live8 and he was no longer drumming since the last Pink Floyd tour in the 90s. The poll results are currently 63 to 16,. All the "serious" things have already been said I think. Do you really think that I prefer Bowie to Picasso? I know that Bowie paints but I've never seen any of his paintings.  How could I care about the quantity of hair on the head of a drummer?  If my joke is obvious your reply is as irrelevant as mine.  If not, please all the participants to the thread forgive me. Sorry I thought you voted for Mason.

Phil. For all the right reasons. I do think Nick is a better singer though...

richardh wrote: I don't dislike Mason just can't understand why anyone would seriously consider him a better drummer than Collins. Its not a vote on personalities or whether you prefer Floyd over Genesis. Its who is the better drummer. Taste wise you have to be very disinterested in drumming to consider Mason better. (imo)

I say have them face off with a bunch of sharpened drumsticks and try to skewer one or the other by throwing them like knives. 

Or if they want to get really messy, they can hurl fried chicken legs or those ice cream cone thingies at one another.

Phil without any doubt

 What's with all the Collins apologism?  He is the better drummer and if you agree, vote for him.  Whether he sang horrible songs in his solo career has no bearing here. Whether that makes the poll less interesting is not of any importance, make a 'more interesting' poll in that case.  And which of Floyd or Genesis albums were the more important is of no relevance either. The question put forth in the poll was fairly simple and most people would also have no trouble in answering the question.


Edited by rogerthat - September 12 2010 at 11:08