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Posted: August 19 2012 at 18:01
Mason was a brilliant member of Floyd for his ideas and ability to mediate between the warring factions and keep the band (more or less) together and recording for so long. Read his book on Floyd - it's brilliant, very funny and outlines the tensions that ran through Floyd almost from the start.
But he wasn't a great drummer by his own admission. Indeed, they had to engage session drummers to play complex rhythms he couldn't play.
BJ Wilson was a very interesting drummer - all action and very capable. So as a drummer, he gets my vote.
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Posted: August 19 2012 at 22:42
bytor2112 wrote:
Nick Mason, but I don't listen to either bands for the drumming.
Agreed.
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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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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 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 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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