Yawn....

Deep in concentration or deep in hibernation?

Fripp for sure but he's not bored, he's concentrating.

Real good layers MAKE it look easy and may appear bored.....but they are probably pretty busy in there.

Fripp definitely look bored when he plays. He doesn't even look concentrated on his playing at times. He just looks away and I can easily imagine him say : Hey man! What's that on the wall over there?

Anyway, I think he's more concentrated and excited than he looks. Well, I hope...

The only time I saw Fripp live, I thought he was in a coma the whole time.

I've also seen Rush & Peart may look bored, but I think its not a challenge to him. Actually the same can be said for Fripp. They both make it look so easy, we the fans think they're bored with it.

 

Peart is definitely the biggest showman among drummers (which is why some people think he is the best drummer of all). Fripp is just the opposite, an anti-showman. If there was an invisibility potion, Fripp would use it on stage. Peart would hand the invisibility potion to all his fellow musicians on stage.( By the way, something no author of stories or director of movies about invisibilty ever thought about: He who is invisible is also blind, because visibilty occurs fromlight being absorbed and partially reflected from the body. If the light somehow passes the body without interacting with it or somehow is deflected around the body without any distortion, then no light reaches the eyes, and the invisible person is blind. The only way an invisible person could see is if at least the eyes were visible. Now that would be some strange sight, a pair of eyes floating in mid-air).

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BaldFriede wrote: Peart is definitely the biggest showman among drummers

How can someone be a showman and make it into the 'most bored-looking' poll at the same time?

Not to mention that Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, heck, even Tommy Lee and Joey Jordison display infinitely more showmanship than Peart.

As for the poll, I'd say Fripp looks more bored (but he's not really, he's just concetrating). 

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Don Quito wrote: Why Peart? And why bored? Did you actually mean focused????

No. Peart is quite steel-faced in his performances, more so now than in the early years. The thing is, Mike Portnoy plays incredibly complex drum beats sometimes and he manages to smile, get up, and be just a great entertainer. Peart seems to be so focused on the music that he seems to take no pleasure and find no fun in performing. This is my opinion.