BEST DRUM PERFORMANCE

YtseJammer wrote: I guess everything from MIKE PORTNOY IS TOTALLY DERIVATIVE, DEVOID OF SUBTELTY ACCURATE BUT COLD AND HIS SOLOS ARE ABOUT AS INTERESTING AS WATCHING PAINT DRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a bit harsh, isn't it?

Neil Peart: Bravado.

Anyone on this site who believes they can play it accurately is kidding themselves.

All the best drum performances I've ever heard have come from Neil Peart. Notably, YYZ from ESL, La Villa, Freewill (instrumental section). Predictable I know, but Peart plays with the most precision and is the best at bringing excitement to the music.

Phil Collins is another superb drummer, but he plays with a much different style; far more jazz and laid back than NP, so they are difficult to compare. 

Mike Portnoy is technically supeb, and very powerful, but to me the feel that comes from his playing is that of any 'good' techno metal drummer. He does, in this respect lack originality and diversity.

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Re Portnoy - he doesn't like to solo in the first place and this is why he's so bad at it (although there's a really cool solo by him on http://www.drummerworld.com )

Best Drum Performances:

Bill Bruford: Heart Of The Sunrise, Close To The Edge, The Great Deceiver, Fracture, In The Dead Of Night/By The Light Of Day/Presto Vivace And Reprise, Neurotica 

John Bonham: Dazed & Confused, Immigrant Song, Stairway To Heaven, Kashmir, Nobody's Fault But Mine

Marco Vrolijk: Memories Are New, A Girl Named You, Energy, Pudding & Gisteren(title track), WOW

Nick Mason: Atom Heart Mother Suite, Echoes, Dogs, Pigs, Sheep

Carl Palmer: The Barbarian, Tank, Tarkus(Welcome Back Version), Jerusalem, Toccata, Concerto For Percussion, The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits, Food For Your Soul, Bullfrog, Fanfare For The Common Man, Time Again

Mike Portnoy: 6:00, Erotomania, Scarred, A Change Of Seasons Suite, Lines In The Sand, The Dance Of Eternity, The Great Debate

Terry Bozzio: The Only Thing She Needs, Carrying No Cross

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

 

Jon Hiseman's "Time Machine" - 8+ minutes of pure drums pleasure. Also, anything by the sadly missed Pierre Moerlen.

Of course that everything by Neil Peart goes in the fisrt place ... 

I would like to also mention a very underrated drummer here, namely Phil Ehart from Kansas. Just listen to the drum solo from the track "Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman", the best Kansas song ever ...

Very good drummers, although a bit more heavy metal oriented, are also the Appice brothers (Carmine and Vinnie) and Cozy Powell ...

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....

^^Joe Morello is truely an excellent drummer, it amazes me how using a fairly simple kit, accents and time changes how interesting he can his work sound.

I would say one of the best drummers I have seen would be Neil Peart, I'm not normally a fan of live drum solos but I make a definite exception with Neil Peart

Have a listen to Steve Gadd's playing on Steely Dan's 'Aja' - he makes most prog drummers seem lame. His touch, feel and creativity are awesome. He was also responsible for that wonderful shuffle on Paul Simon's '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover'. Awesome drummer.

In prog terms - I'll take Bruford and Peart. Very different but both superb players (if only Peart would stop soloing).

I've always though Phil Ehart of Kansas is underrated too and I'm glad to see someone mention Phil Collins - his reputation has been cruelly damaged by his later career. He was a phenomenal drummer, with a really deft touch.

Other standouts from other realms - Jeff Porcaro, Manu Katche and for someone always regarded as the loudest and proudest, John Bonham had a real sensivity in his playing. His timing is awesome and his playing on something like 'Rain Song' is wonderfully subtle.

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