my top 5 rock drummers laughable?

[adorshki]

Dude it's the google age....please. You mean this Joe Morello
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/a...mmer-with-dave-rubeck-quartet-dies-at-82.html
You get an atta boy anyway. How about this

According to a biography on his Web site, Mr. Morello gave up the violin for drums at 15, after meeting his idol, the violinist Jascha Heifetz.

I guess you meet Jascha and figure your'e never gonna be better than this guy....so I better find something I can at least get honorable mention with.

I was thinkin' maybe he was one of those guys who was a jerk even if he was an artistic genius so young Joey decided to go with his REAL love.... :lol:
And playin' Brubecks' crazy 5/4 time for "Take 5" HAD to be REAL love...kinda like Aynsley Dunbar playin' "Zappa's Comedy music" in "200 Motels"... :wink:

 

[Bobo]

I'm a drummer, sort of, and I guess I don't like drummers who I feel "overplay"... so that lets out most modern rock drummers. I value energy and attitude more than technique. That said, I like:

Earl Palmer (studio drummer with Little Richard, Fats Domino, and many more)
Hal Blaine (he would make my list for his Phil Spector work alone)
Gary Chester (East Coast session man)
Benny Benjamin (on most of the great early Motown records)
Al Jackson (Booker T. & the MGs, other Stax and Atlantic sessions)

Of the British Invasion drummers, I do like Charlie Watts (a lot), Ringo, and Mick Avory of the Kinks as well.

Oh, and I have to mention John Badanjek (of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels).

 

[dapmdave]

I always liked Bill Bruford, both with Yes and King Crimson. Very tastefully inventive.

Also another Ringo fan.

Dave

 

[Walter Broes]

Earl Palmer (studio drummer with Little Richard, Fats Domino, and many more)

Thanks - I was going to post "three pages of drummers and no mention of Earl Palmer!?!?", but I didn't have to. 8)

 

[Bobo]

[quote="Boris_B":1ps3n3w3]Earl Palmer (studio drummer with Little Richard, Fats Domino, and many more)

Thanks - I was going to post "three pages of drummers and no mention of Earl Palmer!?!?", but I didn't have to. 8)[/quote:1ps3n3w3]

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, Earl Palmer is the MAN... one could argue that he just about invented rock 'n' roll drumming. He's on a lot of early R&B/rock 'n' roll records. Two others from the early days that I think should be mentioned are D.J. Fontana (Elvis) and Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly & the Crickets). Both were very solid and energetic, and added a lot to the sounds of their respective bands. Another great one is Charles Connor from Little Richard's touring band, the Upsetters. He only made it onto Little Richard's recordings a few times, but his drumming on "Keep A-Knockin'" is memorable.

 

[Walter Broes]

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, Earl Palmer is the MAN...

Amen!

one could argue that he just about invented rock 'n' roll drumming.

Amen again! Among a bunch of other things, he was a master at that "swing versus straight-eight" tension that makes 50's Rock and Roll so exciting.

He's on a lot of early R&B/rock 'n' roll records.

And a lot of pop records and soundtracks, just on an awful lot of records. He's on the Eddie Cochran hits too, the Ritchie Valens stuff, and a lot of lesser-known R&B and Rock and Roll. His book is a great read ("Backbeat : Earl Palmer's story")

Another great one is Charles Connor from Little Richard's touring band, the Upsetters. He only made it onto Little Richard's recordings a few times, but his drumming on "Keep A-Knockin'" is memorable.

Up until a couple of years ago, I assumed that wàs Palmer, and I was shocked to see it wasn't - great drumming indeed!! I used to have that intro and the first 12 bars of vocal of that tune on my answering machine, when we still had answering machines with cassette tapes in them... :mrgreen:

 

[Thunderface]

I'll show my age, or at least the age of my musical tastes, with this list, and a shout out to the first "superstar" drummer -- Gene Krupa

John Bonham
Keith Moon
Dave Grohl -- for his work in Nirvana and on Queens of the Stone Age's Songs For the Deaf
Matt Cameron
Janet Weiss -- of Sleater-Kinney

 

[jte]

Ya know, I missed part of the thread title... It says "my top 5rock drummers..."



Given THAT bit of constraint (and it's still tough, because especially with drums, where're the lines between funk, rock, blues, jazz, etc.?) I'd say...

1. Ginger Baker- for the reasons previously mentioned
2. Keith Moon- just because The Who IS the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, despite the protestations of fans of The Glimmer Twins.
3. Bonzo- and just about the ONLY thing I lilke about Zep
4. Kenny Aronoff- that snare sound is what rock 'n' roll is all about!
5. Richie Hayward (Little Feat) because he sounds just perfect for those songs

Admittedly this is MY idea of "rock", and it again leaves out some very cool people like Blaine, Palmer (Earl, not Carl ), Ringo, etc.

John

 

[markus]

Gotta love him! 8)

:mrgreen:

 

[fab467]

Gotta love him! 8)

:mrgreen:

I knew he looked familiar...British Invasion drummer! :lol: