Best Live Epic Drum Solo
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Topic: Best Live Epic Drum Solo
Posted By: marktheshark
Subject: Best Live Epic Drum Solo
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 18:43
| Been a lot of more shorter solos, but these are the only long epics I can think of. |
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Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 18:55
Mr Ian Paice!!
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 19:20
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Although I admire Bonzo's talent, I always thought his Moby Dick's solos were boring. I guess my vote would go to Neil Peart for all of his solos and not only for O Baterista.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 20:37
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for long and epic drum solos Christian Vander of Magma takes the cake. I don't know of anyone else who does 45 minute solos. and they are not boring for a second -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 20:42
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Peart and O Baterista. Ginger Baker's Toad is incredible too. -------------  |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 20:57
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I don't really consider O Baterista to be epic. It's a damn good drum solo, mind you, just not epic in comparison to the other choices. An "epic" drum solo would be something like Toad or Moby Dick. But I'll vote for it (even though I really want to vote for Toad for sheer power and raw energy). ------------- 
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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 21:19
| I finally voted after much thinking and went with Baker's Toad. Ginger was R&R's first soloist. Very influencial and ahead of the game at the time. His double-bass playing blows Peart away. I never thought Peart was all that good on double-bass. Hell, I thought Bonzo did more on a single bass than Peart did on double. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 21:22
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All are great and I never imagined comparing them... but I'll go with O Baterista, simply because the title is in my native language, Portuguese. BTW, O Baterista means The Drummer! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 21:26
Toad for me ... a monster performance  ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 07:43
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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 08:23
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Neil Peart especially seeing him play it live!!!Amazing ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: dralan
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 20:30
Im not a fan of the "epic drum solo" I usually skip over those selections on the poll....
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Posted By: sbrushfan
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 22:43
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I've said it all before...and I'll say it again...Neil owns! ------------- Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced... |
Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 22:57
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One thing I respect about Bonzo was the he does these long solos and never hit the rims. He was big as all outdoors but also a very clean drummer (when he was not drunk.) |
Bern wrote:Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 23:07
| O Baterista is a great solo, but my biggest criticism is the ridiciously God-awful sound of those DW toms on his new SS Professor set he has there. He may as well play on coffee cans! They're just clanky and hollow sounding. I'll take his old wooden Tama and Ludwigs anyday. With the Vibra-Fibing modifications he had done on those, they were much warmer sounding and with better timbre. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 23:39
Actually you're half wrong! Oh, he hit the rims alright. But for rimshot technique. Bonzo was not the heavy pounder people have brought him out to be. What he would do is keep his snares slightly loose and hit it with a precise angle to produce the rimshot effect. In the 60's and 70's with primitive amplification on drummers, the rimshot was utilized for maximum impact. Now with all the modern miking of drums, you can just tap the snare and hear it in a football field. Hence why rimshotting has become such a lost art in drumming. The grand-master of this technique was Gene Krupa. Even over Buddy Rich. Gene was able to make his drums thunder without any mikes at all. Believe me when I say this because I saw him play at a clinic a year before his death in '73 when I was 16. Baker and Bonham were 2 of the few that really utilized this technique. Oh sure they were miked somewhat, but only to a limited extent. Bruford was always good for it, but these days most drummers just hit as hard as they can not giving a sh*t on the precision on what they're doing. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 10:10
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I generally hate drums solos (boring, long and breaking the spirit of the moment/concert) but I think of Ginger Baker as a superb drummer. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 02:20
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Peart! ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 02:32
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Neil Peart in R30 - Das Trommier (or something like that)
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