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[kvarnerexpress]

who is da best drumer of all time
id say ....that williams from oasis hes wicked or ohh gone balnk from queen
and spit upon the name of oliver cromwell and denouce his royal line that will slaute him FOREVER
talkin about Roger Taylor. He's working for Jaguar now.

Living:

Danny Carey (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)
Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros)
Matt Sorum (G'n'R, The Cult)
Chad Smith (RHCP's)
Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)

[Caveman]

Hmmm...good question.

I can't avoid the obvious. Rush's Neil Peart is a legend, there's no doubt about it. Unfortunately, I don't know enough Rush material to make a valid judgement, but the stuff I have heard DOES demonstrate Peart's incredible talents.

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy is a very technically proficient drummer. The stuff he can pull off is simply mind-blowing, and he is an animal with that double-base pedal

In terms of mainstream stuff, Danny Carey is absolutely wicked. Swallowing some of Tool's stuff hurts my head with him pounding on the drums

Yeah, I'm not a drummer, so I can't answer for sure. The three I mentioned are at the top of the list though.

[ill]

Most famous.. Tommy Lee.

lol

[Caveman]

...or infamous...heh

[err]

i like phil collins some years ago.. i like him when he was in genesis.
currently i like Mike Portnoy, The drummer of Dream Theater. i like Dream Theater more than others. Fantastic rock band group i ever hear. how do u?

[Caveman]

I mentioned Portnoy in my post. Indeed, he is a magnificent drummer, and indeed, Dream Theater is a fantastic band.

If I could recommend a single album that defines the band's unique sound, it would be Scenes From a Memory. No CD collection can be complete without it. I urge you all to run out to your local record store and snag a copy today!

[leiaah]

Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes. Not the ultimate drummer but he is up there with the best. I don't know much about percussions and how they should sound right but Fab's sound is pretty goodl

Give him 5 years and by then The Strokes will be the new The Ramones and his talent of hitting things will exalt him.

[brandice]

I read the title of this thread and immediatly thought of Roger Taylor from Queen.

[saladferk]

Probably the guy from Def Leppard. He was good with one arm, imagine how he'd be with two!

[millertime]

THE DRUMMER FROM DEF LEPPARD ALL THE WAY!!! omg the beats he played to those songs and with one arm... i envy him

[brandice]

Rick Allen. He was great with two arms. (check out DL's first three albums) He had to have been, I don't think that anyone who wasn't a really, really great drummer could have continued to play after losing an arm.

I remember we had to do drum transcriptions back in my commercial musicianship class in college. A couple of guys were like, "I'm picking a Def Leppard song. How hard can it be to transcribe that?"

Guess who the only two people were who didn't finish their assignment?

[Sprnknwn]

I will talk only about alive ones.

Danny Carey (Tool)
Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
Dave Grohl (Scream, Nirvana, appears also in QOTSA, Killing Joke and NIN´s records) You just have to hear "Songs For The Deaf". Awesome drums in that album
Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) I don´t like their style too much but all brilliant instrumentists.
Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Fantômas) The best thrash metal drummer
John Dolmayan (SOAD)
Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
Travis Barker (Blink182, Transplants) Probably the best melodic punk drummer nowadays.

and two new surprises for me, drummers of Isis (Cliff Meyer) and Mastodon (Brann Dailor).

[brandice]

Sprnknwn, on Mar 9 2005, 12:38 PM, said:

Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Fantômas) The best thrash metal drummer

I've seen Fantomas live a couple of times (and I get to see them again in a couple of weeks ) and he is amazing. He's a show all by himself. Their music has to be one of the most difficult stuff to play ever, since nothing ever repeats.

[thebluekirby]

waaaaahhh....i don't know the names to any drummers T______T

[dontmaimyourself]

Well decision making aint one of my strong points but ill have a go:

Top 3:

Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Others i.e. dont know)
Iain Paice (Deep Purple)
Roger Taylor (Queen)

I would have to say my favourite at the moment is Cozy Powell.

[Mzeppelin]

John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, then Keith Moon of The Who.

[iGuest]

Replying to CavemanI know a lot about rush theyre my favorite band

Replying to kvarnerexpress Neil Peart is the greatest because he is the best drummer in the world go to youtube and type in "Der Trommler" greatest person to hit a drum

-reply by J.D.

[Inhuman]

Mike Portnoy of Dream Thater
John Bonham of Led Zepplin
Dave Lombardo of Slayer
Gene Hoglan of Dethklok, Death, Dark Angel, Strapping Young Lad (Did I get em all? *checks wikipedia* Nope.), Unearth (filled in on a tour or 2.), Zimmer's Hole, The Devin Townsend Band, War God (Didn't get famous), Testament (one album), Tenet, Opeth (filled in on a couple tours), Old Man's Child, Daemon, Forbidden, and Pitch Black Forecast (nothing out yet). Yea, that's all of it. O_o

Edited by Inhuman, 25 March 2008 - 06:01 AM.