#6 for me is Clive Burr. Iron Maidens original drummer gave incredible performances on the band’s first three studio albums on songs like Run to the Hills, Phantom of the Opera, Running Free, Genghis Khan, and my favorite song Wrathchild.
6. Mike Portnoy - Essentially, an updated, more modern take on the Neil Peart model, adding double bass wizardry to the mix. His detractors are as clueless as it gets. Album picks are Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Liquid Tension Experiment, and PSMS - Live in Tokyo. Track pick is Panic Attack
Pick #6: Neil Peart 7. Pierre Van der Linden 8. Phil Collins 9. John Weathers 10. Gene Krupa 11. Chris Slade 12. Ringo Starr 13. Louie Bellson 14. Cesar Zuiderwijk 15. Steve Gadd 16. Trilok Gurtu 17. Roger Taylor 18. Mel Pritchard 19. Carmine Appice 20. Stewart Copeland 21. Max Roach 22. Jon Hiseman 23. Carl Palmer 24. Steve Upton 25. Ian Paice 26. Cozy Powell 27. Albert Bouchard 28. Barriemore Barlow 29. Ginger Baker 30. Mitch Mitchell
We are now close to the drummers Top 5, and for today my choice goes to 6. BARRIEMORE BARLOW, ex-Jethro Tull Barry had become the replacement of their first drummer Clive Bunker, whom I had much earlier in my list. No disrespect to Clive, he was (and still is) a great drummer. But on my personal opinion, Barry was the best drummer Tull ever had. His debut has been on the “Life Is A Long Song” EP from 1971. In the following year, his drumming on the album/song “Thick As A Brick” was phenomenal. In the years to follow, up to 1979, Tull released seven follow-up albums with him on the drums, plus the live album “Bursting Out”, the latter especially proving that the (back then) 6 men line-up of the late 70s surely was the best, if not the true “classic” line-up of the band. Highlight albums of Tull with Barry have been for sure “Minstrel In The Gallery” and the folk album trilogy “Songs From The Wood/Heavy Horses/Stormwatch”. In 1979, it came to a very sad end of the 6-men formation, when their bassist John Glascock tragically died of a valvular heart disease at age 28. Barry, who had been a very close friend to John, was feeling so much devastated when he heard about his passing, that he decided to leave Tull after their “Stormwatch” tour. He has later played for Kerry Livgren, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Miles and Yngwie Malmsteen - well-known musicians who admired his playing abilities and skills. In 2008, Barry had a one-off guest appearance with Jethro Tull, playing the drums side by side with Doane Perry on a few songs. To me, there still remain 5 drummers which I appreciate more, but Barry Barlow always came very close. 06. Barriemore Barlow 07. Nick Mason 08. Lee Kerslake 09. Roger Taylor 10. Bill Bruford 11. Bill Ward 12. Alan White 13. Mick Tucker 14. Chester Thompson 15. Mel Pritchard 16. Steve Negus 17. Chris Slade 18. Ringo Starr 19. Simon Kirke 20. Dennis Elliott 21. Russell Gilbrook 22. Don Henley 23. Phil Ehart 24. Nigel Olsson 25. Don Brewer 26. Graeme Edge 27. Charlie Watts 28. Bev Bevan 29. Bob Siebenberg 30. Clive Bunker
6. Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) Three signature albums as a percussionist - Master of Reality by Black Sabbath (1971) Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath (1972) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath (1973) Key song - “Children of the Grave” by Black Sabbath 7. Dave Mattacks 8. Stephen Morris 9. Phil Selway 10. Charlie Watts 11. Scott Asheton 12. Jan Lindh 13. Barriemore Barlow 14. Ed Blackwell 15. Art Blakey 16. Anthony "Abaddon" Bray 17. Billy Cobham 18. Brian Downey 19. Jon Farriss 20. Kevin Haskins 21. Bob Henrit 22. Billy Higgins 23. Alex Holzwarth 24. Jaki Liebezeit 25. Nick Mason 26. Ian Mosley 27. Jerry Nolan 28. Marky Ramone 29. Eric Carr 30. Chris Hakius
#6 Neil Peart This guy is too good to ignore; not necessarily a favorite because he or his group mean much to me. Technical but a power drummer, too. Favorite albums for the drums: MOVING PICTURES; HOLD YOUR FIRE, SIGNALS. Favorite performance: LOCK AND KEY from HOLD YOUR FIRE.
#6...Clive Bunker, Jethro Tull. I think the technique he used on the song Aqualung is among the most innovative and tasteful examples of what a percussionist can do to frame a song without getting in the way, if you know what I mean, that we've ever heard. This band has had some wonderful drummers over the years and Clive is still the best in my opinion. 3 best albums are This Was, Stand Up, and Benefit. Favorite performance is Dharma For One, particularly the live version on the Living in the Past album.
My favorite top 30 Drummers of All Time Pick #6 Neil Peart #30 Frank Beard(ZZ Top) "Tres Hombres" & "Eliminator" #29 Larry Tolfree(Joe Jackson) "Night and Day" & "Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive" #28 Mick Woodmansey(David Bowie) "...Ziggy Stardust" & "The Man Who Sold the World" #27 Jim Hodder(Steely Dan) "Can't Buy a Thrill" & "Countdown to Ecstasy" #26 Denny Carmassi(Heart) "Passionworks" & "Heart" #25 Anders Johansson(Yngwie Malmsteen) "Marching out" & "Trilogy" #24 Carlton Barrett(Bob Marley) "Rastaman Vibration" & "Exodus" #23 Mick Fleetwood(Fleetwood Mac) "Mystery to Me" & "Fleetwood Mac" #22 Russ Kunkel(Warren Zevon & Jackson Browne) "Excitable Boy" & "Running on Empty" #21 Myron Grombacher(Pat Benatar) "Precious Time" & "Crimes of Passion" #20 Steve "Grizzly" Nesbitt(Steel Pulse) "True Democracy" & "Reggae Greats" #19 Stewart Copeland(Police) "Ghost in the Machine" & "Synchronicity" #18 Phil Taylor(Motorhead) "Another Perfect Day" & "Motorhead" #17 Bobby Rondinelli(Rainbow ) "Difficult to Cure" & "Straight Between the Eyes" #16 Kenney Jones(The Who) "Face Dances" #15 Vinnie Appice(Dio) "The Last in Line" & "Holy Diver" #14 Scott Rockenfield(Queensryche) "The Warning" & "Rage for Order" #13 Michael Derosier(Heart) "Bebe le Strange" & "Little Queen" #12 Jan Uvena(Alcatrazz) "Disturbing the Peace" & "No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll" #11 Nicko McBrain "Piece of Mind" & " Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" #10 Martin Chambers(The Pretenders) "Pretenders" & "Learning to Crawl" #9 Clive Burr "Killers" & "Iron Maiden" #8 Jeff Porcaro (Toto & Boz Scaggs) "Hydra" & "Down Two Then Left" #7 Bill Ward "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" & "Heaven and Hell" #6 Neil Peart "Grace Under Pressure" & "Signals"
#6. Mitch Mitchell It’s said that Jimi had to flip a coin to see which drummer he wanted for his band. I have a feeling he used a two headed coin because Mitch was the perfect fit. On Are You Experienced Mitch and Noel Redding on bass were restricted as to what they could play. They were nonetheless dynamic still. But Mitch really improvised a lot on Axis: Bold As Love & Electric Ladyland. He went from a single bass drum to a double bass kit…but his skill was in the snare and tom tom hits very much in the Elvin Jones style. You can hear this so well in songs like “Hear My Train a Comin’” & “Driving South”(from BBC Sessions). But my song pick is “Voodoo Chile” at 15 minutes on Electric Ladyland. Mitch brings the band back from many stops and starts during the tune. He was described as to the sound of an ax chopping into a tree. And Mitch reunited with Jimi and Billy Cox on bass after the Band of Gypsys stuff to take Jimi Hendrix back home. Mitch Mitchell…what a talent with the drumsticks. God rest his soul !! 6. Mitch Mitchell 7. Tony Williams & Billy Cobham 8. Ian Paice 9. Charlie Watts & Ringo Starr 10. Bill Bruford 11. Cozy Powell 12. Elvin Jones 13. Spencer Dryden 14. Neil Peart 15. Micky Waller 16. Jim Gordon 17. Carl Palmer 18. Don Brewer 19. Jerry Shirley 20. Danny Seraphine 21. Carmine Appice 22. Phil Ehart 23. Kenny Jones 24. Michael Shrieve 25. Doug Clifford 26. Alex Van Halen 27. Peter Criss 28. Buddy Rich 29. Gene Krupa 30. Jamoe & Butch Trucks
STEVE GADD - Session musician extraordinaire. With Steely Dan, Glamour Profession from Gaucho; with Leo Sayer (yes!) You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, and with Spyro Gyra, Incognito from the same album. Favourite performance, got to be AGA from same self titled album with Steely Dan.
Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Winery Dogs, Liquid Tension Experiment and many others. Images and Words, Awake and Scenes From a Memory Dance of Eternity for performance
In no particular order, my pick of the day is Bill Ward of Black Sabbath.Really enjoy Bill Ward's style. I'm not a drummer, so I'm not going to attempt to get technical, but some guys I enjoy more than others. A couple of my favorite tracks are Symptom of the Universe and The Wizard. 6. Bill Ward - Black Sabbath (Symptom of the Universe / The Wizard) 7. Nicko McBrain** - Iron Maiden (Where Eagles Dare / The New Frontier) 8. Clive Burr** - Iron Maiden (Run to the Hills / Another Life) 9. Eric Carr - KISS (The Oath / Saint and Sinner) 10. Scott Rockenfield** - Queensryche (Take Hold of the Flame ; Walk in the Shadows) 11. Michael Miley** - Rival Sons (Too Bad / Pressure & Time) 12. Peter Criss - KISS (Black Diamond / Room Service) 13. Frank Beard - ZZ Top (Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings / Heard It On the X) 14. Mitch Mitchell** - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Fire / Freedom) 15. Bobby ("The Blotz") Blotzer - Ratt (Back for More / City to City) 16. Troy Lucketta - Tesla (2 Late 4 Love / Edison's Medicine) 17. Ian Paice** - Deep Purple (Burn / Hard Lovin' Man) 18. Brian Downey - Thin Lizzy (Fighting My Way Back / Bad Reputation) 19. Charlie Benante - Anthrax (Be All, End All / In My World) 20. Anton Fig** - Ace Frehley Band / David Letterman Show 21. Uli Kusch - Helloween/Masterplan (Falling Higher / Steel Tormentor) 22. Albert Bouchard - Blue Oyster Cult (Cagey Cretins / Subhuman) 23. B.J. Zampa - House of Lords (currently with Dokken) (These Are the Times / Come to My Kingdom) 24. Keith Moon - The Who (The Real Me ; Baba O'Riley) 25. Bun E. Carlos - Cheap Trick (You're All Talk / Southern Girls) 26. Robert Sweet - Stryper (The Way / Caught in the Middle 27. Matt Abts - Gov't Mule (Bad Little Doggie / Wandering Child) 28. James Kottak - Kingdom Come/Scorpions (Pushin' Hard ; Hour 1) 29. Artimus Pyle - Lynryd Skynyrd (Saturday Night Special ; Gimme Back My Bulletins 30. Andy Parker - UFO (Doctor Doctor ; Rock Bottom)
Hi Pete & everyone. Dave here. Excellent pick of yours. My pick today is another jazz-influenced drummer with an iconic rock band. It's CHARLIE WATTS, long-time member of The Rolling Stones (until his death in 2021). Over the weekend I was watching on BBC television a recording of the Stones at Madison Square Garden in 2003 ('Licks Live In NYC'). The whole band was superb but, just like Bill Ward, Charlie's drumming was surprisingly subtle and really elevated the songs. Albums: Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967); Let It Bleed (1969); Sticky Fingers (1971). Showcase track: Honky Tonk Women. Syncopated drumming with added cow bells! Mick duetted with Sheryl Crow on the NYC recording I saw.
Pick # 6 is Alan White of Yes. The original Yes drummer is coming soon. The albums are Drama, 90125, and Big Generator. The song is Machine Messiah from Drama.
6. Bill Ward Black Sabbath 7. John Bonham Led Zeppelin 8. Dave Lombardo Slayer 9. Alex Van Halen Van Halen 10. Bill Stevenson Descendents/All 11. Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers 12. Mike Portnoy Dream Theater 13. Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor Motorhead 14. Neil Peart Rush 15. Paul Mazurkiewicz Cannibal Corpse 16. Mitch Mitchell Jimi Hendrix Experience 17. Mick Avory The Kinks 18. Nick Mason Pink Floyd 19. Dave Grohl Foo Fighters 20. Steve Jocz Sum 41 21. DJ Fontana The Blue Moon Boys 22. The Rev Avenged Sevenfold 23. Mikkey Dee Motorhead 24. Phil Rudd ACDC 25. Nicko McBrain Iron Maiden 26. Roger Taylor Queen 27. Ken Owens Carcass 28. Dave Clark The Dave Clark Five 29. Tommy Lee Motley Crue 30. Clive Burr Iron Maiden
Nice choice Pete. Bill Ward was a phenomenal drummer. Easily one of the best of his era which features a ton of great drummers. He was a huge part of the Black Sabbath sound and his breaks and fills were fantastic. There are a number of BS songs where Bill Ward could have been arrested for murder as he was killing those drums!!! Very technical with lots of swinging jazz influenced playing, not just heavy drum thunder. Very underrated.
#6 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) Albums Led Zeppelin I, IV and Houses Of The Holy. Favourite Track: Kashmir #7 Ginger Baker (Cream/Blind Faith) Albums: Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears and Wheels Of Fire. Favourite Track: Crossroads #8 Ian Paice (Deep Purple/Whitesnake/Gary Moore) Albums:In Rock, Burn and Ready An' Willing. Favourite Track:She's A Woman #9 Keith Moon (The Who) Albums: Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia. Favourite Track: Won't Get Fooled Again #10 Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) Albums: Master Of Reality, Sabotage and Heaven & Hell. Favourite Track: Snowblind #11 Niko McBrain (Iron Maiden) Albums: Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Favourite Track: Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. #12 Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath/Dio) Albums: Mob Rules, Holy Diver and The Last In Line. Favourite Track:The Sign Of The Southern Cross. #13 Jaimoe & Butch Trucks (The Allman Brothers Band) Albums: The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East and Brothers & Sisters. Favourite Track: Black Hearted Woman. #14 Roger Taylor (Queen) Albums: Sheer Heart Attack, Night At The Opera and The Game Favourite Track: Brighton Rock #15 Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Albums: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication and Stadium Arcadium. Favourite Track: Around The World. #16 Levon Helm (The Band) Albums: Music From Big Pink, The Band and Northern Lights-Southern Cross. Favourite Track: When I Paint My Masterpiece. #17 Phil Ehart (Kansas) Albums: Song For America, Leftoverture and Point Of No Return. Favourite Track: Song For America #18 Phil Collins (Genesis/Solo) Albums: Nursery Cryme, Selling England By The Pound and Wind & Wuthering. Favourite Track: In The Air Tonight #19 Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) Albums: Bon Jovi, 7800 and These Days. Favourite Track: Only Lonely #20 Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) Albums: Meddle, The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here. Favourite Track: Echoes #21 Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace) Albums:Three Days Grace, One-X and Transit Of Venus. Favourite Track: Wake Up #22 Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) Albums:Then Play On, Mystery To Me and Tango In The Night. Favourite Track:Albatross #23 Phil Rudd (AC/DC) Albums: Highway To Hell, Back In Black and For Those About To Rock We Salute You. Favourite Track: Back In Black. #24 Mike Bordin (Faith No More) Albums: The Real Thing, Angel Dust and King For a Day, Fool For A Lifetime. Favourite Track: Midlife Crisis #25 Bill Bruford (Yes/King Crimson/U.K.) Albums: Fragile and Close To The Edge by Yes and U.K. self-titled. Favourite Track: Close To The Edge. #26 Joey Kramer (Aerosmith) Albums: Toys In The Attic, Rocks and Pump. Favourite Track: Walk This Way #27 Lars Ulrich (Metallica) Albums: Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets. Favourite Track: Creeping Death. #28 Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) Albums: Grand Funk, Closer To Home and We're An American Band. Favourite Track:The Railroad. #29 Tré Cool (Green Day) Albums: Dookie, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Favourite track: Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. #30 Brandon Barnes (Rise Against) Albums: Siren Song Of The Counter-Culture, The Sufferer & The Witness and Appeal To Reason. Favourite track: Survive.
He was a little higher on my list. For today it's Anysley Dunbar from Journey UFO, Whitesnake and AD Retaliation. Albums are Whitesnake, Infinity and Sharks. Song is Mutiny.
Number 6 is a guy who, despite playing with one of the World's biggest bands for 50 years and having a decent solo career, is never mentioned in any 'best of...' list. But this is favourites and Roger Taylor of Queen has always been a favourite of mine. From the proto thrash of Modern Times Rock N Roll and Stone Cold Crazy, through heavy stuff like Son And Daughter, Ogre Battle, Dead On Time, Hammer To Fall, through pop, blues and almost jazz stuff to their funk/disco songs, Roger can play it all and more besides. He's an excellent singer and a great songwriter. With John Deacon, he's probably the most under rated rhythm sections ever. Everybody talks about Freddie's voice and showmanship and Brian's instantly recognisable guitar work, but Roger and John provide the space for them to show what they can do. Recommendations? Really, anything. Queen's early stuff is what everybody here will be familiar with, but the Live At The Rainbow 74 live album shows just how heavy they were back in the day. If you are unfamiliar with his solo work, check out Fun In Space, Strange Frontier and his "other band" The Cross, although, he didn't play drums with them that often. He was singer/guitarist, mainly. And I got through that without mentioning Bohe...
I have Roger at my # 9 as a drummer, and I always appreciated him as a great writer and singer, too. He might appear even at other people's Top 5... who knows? We have to wait and see ;)
Day 25: Cozy Powell Emerson, Lake & Powell The Jeff Beck Group: Rough & Ready Rainbow: Rising Day 24: Dennis Chambers John Scofield: Blue Matter Greg Howe: Extraction w/ Victor Wooten & Dennis Chambers Uncle Moe's Space Ranch w/ Dennis Chambers, Gary Willis, TJ Helmerich, Scott Kinsey & Brett Garsed Day 23: Alan White Yes: Drama Yes: 90215 Yes: Going For The One Day 22: Carl Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer Asia Atomic Rooster Day 21: Brian Blade Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without A Net Chick Corea: Trilogy Wolfgang Muthspiel: Driftwood Day 20: John Marshall Soft Machine: Bundles Soft Works: Abracadabra Soft Machine Legacy: Burden Of Proof Day 19: Jack DeJohnette Parallel Realities w/ Pat Metheny & Herbie Hancock Michael Brecker Pat Metheny: 80/81 Day 18: Bill Stewart Pat Metheny Trio 99-00 John Patitucci - Now Michael Brecker - Time Is Of The Essence Day 17: Peter Erskine Steps Ahead Gary Burton - Reunion Bass Desires w/ Marc Johnson, Bill Frisell & John Scofield Day 16: William Kennedy Lee Ritenour: Portraits John Patitucci: Another World Yellowjackets: Four Corners Day 15: Danny Gottlieb Pat Metheny Group Al Di Meola Project - Soaring Through A Dream Mahavishnu Orchestra - Adventures In Radioland Day 14: Gary Novak Allan Holdsworth: The Sixteen Men Of Tain Chick Corea Elektric Band II: Paint The World Renegade Creation w/ Jimmy Haslip, Robben Ford & Michael Landau Day 13: Vinnie Colaiuta Five Peace Band w/ John McLaughlin & Chick Corea Jing Chi w/ Robben Ford & Jimmy Haslip Chick Corea Akoustic Band: Live at The Blue Note Day 12: Steve Gadd Chinese Butterfly w/ Chick Corea Al Di Meola: Elegant Gypsy Dave Weckl: Master Plan Day 11: Chad Wackerman Allan Holdsworth: Wardenclyffe Tower Dreams, Nightmares And Improvisations Forty Reasons Day 10: Marco Minnemann Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused To Sing The Aristocrats UKZ: Radiation Day 9: Mike Portnoy Dream Theater: Images And Words Liquid Tension Experiment 1 Sons Of Apollo: Psychotic Symphony Day 8: Billy Cobham Crosswinds Spectrum Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire Day 7: Virgil Donati Devil's Slingshot Planet X: Quantum In This Life Day 6: Terry Bozzio U.K: Danger Money Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop Steve Vai - Sex & Religion Day 5: Neil Peart Rush: Hemispheres Rush: Power Windows Rush Moving Pictures Day 4: Bill Bruford Feels Good To Me U.K. King Crimson: Red Day 3: Antonio Sanchez The Meridian Suite Pat Metheny Unity Group - Kin Chick Corea - Dr. Joe Day 2: Simon Phillips Protocol V Antoine Fafard: Proto Mundi Hiromi Trio Project: Alive Day 1: Dave Weckl Chick Corea Elektric Band Chick Corea Akoustic Band: Alive Master Plan
6) Neil Peart (Rush) Favorite Albums: All The World's A Stage Fly By Night A Farewell To Kings Favorite Performance: "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" (Live at Massey Hall, Toronto/1976) 6) Neil Peart 7) Mike Portnoy 8) Danny Seraphine 9) Hal Blaine 10) Benny Benjamin/Richard "Pistol" Allen/Uriel Jones 11) John Densmore 12) Mick Avory 13) Bill Bruford 14) Bill Ward 15) Jim Gordon 16) Russ Kunkel 17) Levon Helm 18) Ginger Baker 19) Micky Waller 20) Don Brewer 21) Michael Shrieve 22) Max Weinberg 23) Bobby Caldwell 24) Tommy Ramone 25) Brian Downey 26) Johnny "Bee" Badanjek 27) Doug Clifford 28) Clem Burke 29) Topper Headon 30) Sandy West
No.6…Cozy Powell(RIP)-Rainbow,Black Sabbath and others. A blues,rock and progressive rock drummer with precision hard hitting fills and beats. Very versatile on the drums. Can change his style in the sound he makes in his drums while playing a song. His Rainbow drumming is always been my favorite.
My #6 pick is an American musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the rock duo the White Stripes. Though she typically performed backing vocals for the band, she occasionally sang lead for one song on each album, including "In the Cold, Cold Night" and "Passive Manipulation." I'm talking about Meg White. White began playing the drums on Bastille Day in 1997, and she formed the White Stripes with then-husband Jack White that same year. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, brought them international fame. Her simultaneous solo ventures include acting, appearing in the 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes and a 2006 episode of The Simpsons, and briefly modeling. While the band were on tour in support of their 2007 album, Icky Thump, she suffered a bout of acute anxiety, and the remaining dates of the tour were canceled. The band disbanded in 2011 following a lengthy hiatus and she ceased performing. White is a key artist of the 2000s garage rock revival, and her style of drumming has been called "minimalistic" and "simplistic" by critics. Reviews of her playing were initially ambivalent, but it has earned retrospective praise and continues to be discussed. She is also noted for her elusive media image, calling herself "very shy" and reclusive. With the White Stripes, she won a Brit Award and six Grammy Awards. In 2015, Rolling Stone included her on their "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" list. She and Jack were nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, but were not inducted.Beginning in 2006, White used a pair of Paiste 14" Signature Medium Hi-Hats, a 19" Signature Power Crash, and a 22" 2002 Ride.[96][102] On the Icky Thump tour, the bass drum head design was switched to a button inspired by the Pearlies clothing Jack and Meg wore for the album cover. She also used Remo and Ludwig drumheads, various percussion instruments and Vater drumsticks. White's Pearl Export bass drum-complete with original peppermint-painted bass drum that she used with the band's first show-and the Pearly Queen outfit she wore in the photos for the Icky Thump album, were featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "Women Who Rock" exhibition. Albums- Elephant, White Blood Cells and Get Behind Me Satan Song- Seven Nation Army Seven Nation Army" played a significant role in the White Stripes' popularity. A writer for Rolling Stone described it as a "career-changing hit",[29] and NME's Daniel Martin viewed the song as the White Stripes' "defining tune", having sparked the band's transition "from their garage rock beginnings to an entirely new level of acclaim".[3] In addition, "Seven Nation Army" contributed to the garage rock revival movement,[8] becoming the first song in the genre to reach number one on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.[73][note 1] After its initial run on music charts, the song-especially its riff-grew in popularity as a result of its usage in sports. In 2012, Deadspin's Alan Siegel described the "riff-turned-anthem" as "ubiquitous",[2] and according to The New Yorker's Alec Wilkinson, the riff "might be the second-best-known guitar phrase in popular music, after the one from 'Satisfaction'".[74] Erik Adams of The A.V. Club attributed the song's popularity to its riff's "simplicity"-a characteristic that he remarked makes the song "instantly familiar" and "instantly memorized"[75]-and Nate Sloan said that the four notes following the riff's first note create a feeling of "urgency that makes [the riff] much more memorable".[15] The song has also appeared in various other media. On May 9, 2014, during the celebration of the 825th Hamburg Port Anniversary, "Seven Nation Army" was played using the horns of cruise ship MSC Magnifica as it entered the harbor.[76] An instrumental cover of the song arranged by Ramin Djawadi was included in a 2018 episode of HBO television series Westworld.[77] The song was performed during the final task of The Amazing Race 31 at Hart Plaza in Detroit.According to Alan Siegel of Deadspin, "Seven Nation Army"'s riff is "an organic part of sports culture".[2] The riff is commonly used in sports audience's chants, in which each note is usually sung using the "oh" sound.[15] This phenomenon has its roots in a UEFA Champions League football match in Italy in October 2003, during which fans of Belgium's Club Brugge KV began singing the riff in a game against Italy's A.C. Milan. They continued the chant after Club Brugge KV striker Andrés Mendoza scored a goal. Club Brugge KV won the game, and the song subsequently became the team's "unofficial sports anthem"Current WWE commentator Pat McAfee used the song as an entrance theme, including for his match against Austin Theory at WrestleMania 38.
No ranking, except no1 1. Neil Peart 🪦 - Rush 2. Taylor Hawkins 🪦- Foo Fighters 3. Butch Trucks🪦- Allman Brothers Band 4. Nicko McBrain - Pat Travers [2nd & 3rd LPs]/Trust/Iron Maiden 5. Carmine Appice - Picked on day#25 6. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater/Neal Morse Band/Flying Colors/The Winery Dogs 7. Phil[ip] Collins (I don't like the singer but what a drummer, check his work in the jazz-fusion band Brand X in the '70s) 8. Paul Riddle - The Marshall Tucker Band 9. Keith Moon🪦- The Who 10. Jon Hiseman🪦- Colosseum (I & II) / Tempest 11. Don Brewer - Grand Funk Railroad / Bob Seger 12. Matt Abts - Gov't Mule 13. Brian Downey - Thin Lizzy {listed by Peter} 14. John Bonham🪦- U know! 15. Mitch Mitchell🪦- Georgie Fame / Jimi Hendrix Experience 16. Michael Schrieve - Santana / HSAS & various collaborations 17. Nick D'Virgilio - Spock's Beard / Big Big Train 18. Thomas "Artimus" Pyle - Lynyrd Skynyrd / Artimus Pyle Band 19. Steve Gadd - various bands including A. DiMeola {live Tour de Force highly recommended} & Return To Forever 20. Rod de'Ath🪦- Rory Gallagher (First drummer on 3 first lp's, Wilgar Campbell, was very good as well imo) 21. Bill Bruford - Yes/King Crimson /UK/Earthworks & solo as well plus numerous guest appearances 22. Terry Bozzio - Zappa/UK/S. Vai - Pick #18 23. Peter "Ginger" Baker 🪦- Graham Bond / Cream / Baker Gurvitz Army / Blind Faith / G.B Air Force / BBM 24. Ian Paice - Deep Purple for more than 50 years, remaining the last original member / Whitesnake / G. Moore and various guest appearances. Pick #8 25. Dennis Chambers - Various bands including jazz-fusion trio Niacin with B. Sheehan(b) & J. Novello(kb). Pick #14
Pick #6 Roger Taylor: "Queen" "Queen II" on EMI Records in '74. "A Night at the Opera" also on EMI in '75 "News of the World" on EMI in '77 Mr. Taylor cites both Mitch Mitchell from the Hendrix Experience and John Bonham from the Zeppelin of Led as his role models. Quite a success in fulfilling that endeavor, I should say!
Missed a day Yesterday pick 7 Stewart Copeland Albums Regatta de Blanc Ghost in the machine Synchronicity Favorite drum The unique time signatures of walking on the Moon Also murder by Numbers Today pick 6 Jerry Shirley best known as a drummer of humble pie what must not forget he was also a part of that great 80s metal band fastway Albums Smokin Rock on Fastway Drum song sweet peace and time
#6. Phil collins. Great drummer. Loved the genesis stuff from 75 to 80. Album is Selling england by the pound and And then there were three. Underrated forgotten album by them, but Phil kills it on that one. Songs. Down and out, and Dodo.
Day 6 is Bill Ward Black Sabbath. My second favorite metal drummer of all time. I was going to put John Bonham of Led Zeppelin ahead of Ward, but I decided to put Ward ahead instead. Number 5 is Charlie Watts. More about Watts tomorrow. Bill Ward's drumming is very jazzy influenced and his drum work is very important. 70s Black Sabbath was very influential. My favorite drum track from Ward is Wat Pigs. My top 3 drum peformances on albums are Paranoid, Master of Reality and Sabotage.
Bill Ward! From my favorite band. Master's my fave album too. Bill's drumming got absolutely insane by the time Sabotage came out: Symptom!!! Unbelievable! Unlike Pete, I am a BIG fan of the first 2 solo albums by Bill. "Ward One: Along The Way", and "When the Bough Breaks". They happen to be on my desert island disc list. I believe some of Bill's songs on those albums capture the soul and spirit of the first 8 Sabbath albums more than any of the other band members' solo albums. Enjoying this series, Pete!
Day 25. Don Brewer (Grand Funk) - Grand Funk, We're an American Band, Caught in the Act song: TNUC The heart and soul of the GFR rhythm section. Brewer is the standard for all those rock and soul drummers out there. Not only is he a solid drummer but a good vocalist too. Like Charlie Watts, Brewer is not a flashy drummer, just a rock solid one. 1. Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modeliste (The Meters) - Rejuvenation, Fire on the Bayou, Uptown Rulers: The Meters live on the Queen Mary song: Ain't No Use 2. Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker - The Sound of '65 (Graham Bond Organization), Wheels Of Fire (Cream), Ginger Baker's Air Force song; Toad 3. Buddy Rich - Buddy & Soul, Stick It, Very Live at Buddy's Place song: Sing, Sing, Sing 4. David Garabaldi (Tower of Power) East Bay Grease, Back To Oakland, Bump City song: Knock Yourself Out 5. Tommy Aldridge - Full Bluntal Nugity (Ted Nugent), Heat in the Street (Pat Travers Band), Manic Eden song: Fire In My Soul (Manic Eden) 6. Michael Shrieve (Santana) - Santana S/T, Caravanserai, Automatic Man song: Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock) 7. Ian Paice (Deep Purple) - In Rock, Machine Head, Live In Japan song: Space Truckin' (Made In Japan) 8. Ed Cassidy (Spirit) - Family That Plays Together, 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Feedback song: Mechanical World 9. Billy Cobham - Birds of Fire (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Spectrum, Crosswinds song: Quadrant 4 10. Mickey Hart/Bill Kruetzman (Grateful Dead) - Live/Dead, Wake of the Flood, Blues for Allah song: Dark Star 11. Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson (MC5) - Kick Out the Jams, High Time, Teen Age Lust song: Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) 12. Lenny White (Return To Forever) - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before, Streamline song: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy 13. Tony Williams - Emergency!, Believe It, The Story of Neptune song: Sweet Revenge 14. Carmine Appice - Cactus, Rock & Roll (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice Live (in Japan) song: Shotgun 15. Cozy Powell - Rough & Ready (The Jeff Beck Group), Rising (Rainbow), Tilt, song: Hot Rock 16. Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) - Black Sabbath, Master of Reality, Vol. 4 song: Black Sabbath 17. Butch Trucks/Jai Johanny Johanson (Allman Brothers Band) - Eat A Peach, Bothers and Sisters, Seven Turns song: Mountain Jam 18. Jon Hiseman - (Tempest, Coloseum) Tempest, Valentyne Suite, Electric Savage, song: Gorgon 19. Aynsley Dunbar - The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Infinity (Journey), The Diva Station (Ronnie Montrose) song: Weirding Way 20. Keef Hartley - Halfbreed, The Time Is Near, Seventy-Second Brave song: Overdog 21. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) - Between the Buttons, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St. song: Gimme Shelter 22. Phil "Filthy Animal" Taylor (Motorhead) - Ace of Spades, Overkill, Bomber song: Ace Of Spades 23. Scott Ashton (Stooges) - Fun House, Raw Power, Ready to Die song: Search And Destroy 24. Jimmy Carl Black - Geronimo Black, The Grandmothers, Brown, Black & Blue (w/ Arthur Brown) song: An American National Anthem 25. Don Brewer (Grand Funk) - Grand Funk, We're an American Band, Caught in the Act song: TNUC
Great pick, Pete! My number 6 Neil Peart (Rush) Albums: Rush - Signals (1982), Moving Pictures (1981), Grace Under Pressure (1984) Track: La Villa Strangiato (from Rush - Hemispheres, 1978) 07 Terry Bozzio (The Brecker Brothers, Frank Zappa, Missing Persons…) 08 Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Sting, Jing Chi…) 09 Lenny White (Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Return to Forever…) 10 Tony Williams (Miles Davis, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Herbie Hancock…) 11 Steve Gadd (He's played with everyone...on over 700 studio and live albums.) 12 Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, Paul Gilbert…) 13 Aynsley Dunbar (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, David Bowie, Whitesnake…) 14 Dennis Chambers (Parliament-Funkadelic, John Scofield, Niacin) 15 Chester Thompson (Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Genesis…) 16 Virgil Donati (Derek Sherinian, Planet X, CAB…) 17 Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai…) 18 Stewart Copeland (Curved Air, The Police, Gizmodrome…) 19 Phil Collins (Genesis, Brand X) 20 Jon Hiseman (Colosseum (II), United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, John Mayall, Jack Bruce) 21 Pierre Moerlen (Gong, Mike Oldfield…) 22 Nick D’Virgilio (Spock’s Beard, Big Big Train…) 23 Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group…) 24 Jeff Porcaro (Toto, Steely Dan, Michael Jackson…) 25 Chris Maitland (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Kino…) 26 Narada Michael Walden (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Jeff Beck…) 27 Carl Palmer (ELP, Asia…) 28 Danny Carey (Tool) 29 Peter Erskine (Weather Report, Steps Ahead…) 30 Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore)
Day 6 pick is Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones. Albums are Sticky Fingers. Let It Bleed and Exile On Main Street. Favorite songs are Cant You Hear Me Knocking. Gimme Shelter. Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Woman.
Again, I always fall back on those drummers musicians/bands in general, who I grew up with. Music was a massive part of my growing up, and my father drummed, and his choice of music helped to define my tastes. From my youth, Ringo Starr, John Bonham, Peter Chris, Keith Moon. My teen years were all about Ian Paice, Bill Ward, Clive Burr, and then Nicko McBrain. For favourites...Stewart Copeland ranks in my top three. Mick Fleetwood's work on The Visitor, which echoed Copeland's Rythmatist. Neil Peart, again, top three. Nick Mason more for his entire body of work with Pink Floyd. Bill Bruford for Yes, and King Crimson. Phil Collins work if he had only drummed for Robert Plant, would be enough. That's fourteen....I need to look at my big band, Jazz, and more Prog to delve deeper.
Good morning (afternoon, evening or night), Pete. A great SOT choice. Personal pick today? The band carried the name of its co-founder, the American drummer Alexander Arthur "Alex Van Halen. The original band and debut album were lightning in a bottle and Alex was a key component of the sound. Perhaps ironically, he and his brother Edward both studied classical piano and then Eddie took up the drums and Alex took up the electric guitar. Obviously time switched those roles. Another one of those drummers whose name quickly popped into mind for this list. Favorite albums for today are all Van Halen band albums - the eponymous debut, Van Halen II and Women & Children First. The third album picked because it includes a favorite drum work of Alex on the great Everybody Wants Some!! Thanks, Pete. Looking forward to your next selection.
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Wishes sent for safe Thanksgiving travels. Not sure where you're starting but expected to be in the upper 70s or 80s Thanksgiving Day here in Florida. Weather beautiful right now with cool night. Hope you find all reasonably well with your Mom.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie, for this and also letting me know about your list. I'll visit that in the next few days to see who all you have picked.
6. Stewart Copeland (The Police) I don't know much about Copeland's work with Curved Air on their two worst albums in 1975-76 before they imploded, but as proficient as he was, one never would have guessed he'd be a superstar within a few years. Here is a case where punk most definitely saved a prog musician's ass, inspiring him to innovate and create a unique, groundbreaking style fusing reggae, punk and new wave. "Walking on the Moon." The Police - Ghost In The Machine (1981) The Police - Regatta de Blanc (1979) The Police - Outlandos D'Amour (1978)
My 6th favorite drummer (loosely ordered) is Levon Helm The Band (The Band - 1969) The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan - 1975) The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (Muddy Waters - 1975) Full List: 30) Matt Cameron Badmotorfinger (Soundgarden - 1991) Backspacer (Pearl Jam - 2009) Dark Matter (Pearl Jam - 2024) 29) Dave Grohl No More Censorship (Scream - 1988) In Utero (Nirvana - 1993) Fumble (Scream - 1993) 28) Danny Seraphine Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago - 1969) Chicago III (Chicago - 1971) Chicago VII (Chicago - 1974) 27) Tommy Aldridge Crash And Burn (Pat Travers Band - 1980) Bark At The Moon (Ozzy Osbourne - 1983) Slip Of The Tongue (Whitesnake - 1989) 26) Colin “Cozy” Powell Jeff Beck Group (The Jeff Beck Group - 1972) Down To Earth (Rainbow - 1979) Slide It In (Whitesnake - 1984) 25) Simon Phillips Sin After Sin (Judas Priest - 1977) The Michael Schenker Group (MSG - 1980) The Buffalo Skinners (Big Country - 1993) 24) Alex Van Halen Van Halen (Van Halen - 1978) Van Halen II (Van Halen - 1979) 1984 (Van Halen - 1984) 23) Phil Rudd Highway To Hell (AC/DC - 1979) Back In Black (AC/DC - 1980) Flick Of The Switch (AC/DC - 1983) 22) Larry Mullen Jr. October (U2 - 1981) The Joshua Tree (U2 - 1987) Achtung Baby (U2 - 1991) 21) Gene Hoglan Darkness Descends (Dark Angel - 1986) Individual Thought Patterns (Death - 1993) Demonic (Testament - 1997) 20) Nicko McBrain Makin' Magic (Pat Travers - 1977) Powerslave (Iron Maiden - 1984) Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (Iron Maiden - 1988) 19) Lars Ulrich Ride The Lightning (Metallica - 1984) Master Of Puppets (Metallica - 1986) And Justice For All (Metallica - 1988) 18) Gregg Bissonette Eat 'Em and Smile (David Lee Roth - 1986) The Extremist (Joe Satriani - 1992) No Substitutions: Live In Osaka (Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather - 2001) 17) Dave Lombardo Reign In Blood (Slayer - 1986) South Of Heaven (Slayer - 1988) The Gathering (Testament - 1999) 16) Bill Ward Sabotage (Black Sabbath - 1975) Heaven And Hell (Black Sabbath - 1980) Ward One: Along The Way (1990) 15) Clyde Stubblefield Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown - 1969) Sex Machine (James Brown - 1970) Funky Drummer (Single) (James Brown - 1970) 14) Jim Keltner Takin' My Time (Bonnie Raitt - 1973) Shot Of Love (Bob Dylan - 1981) Mystery Girl (Roy Orbison - 1989) 13) Jeff Porcaro Larry Carlton (Larry Carlton - 1978) The Nightfly (Donald Fagen - 1982) Kingdom Of Desire (Toto - 1992) 12) Roger Taylor A Night At The Opera (Queen - 1975) Jazz (Queen - 1978) Strange Frontier (1984) 11) Ian Paice In Rock (Deep Purple - 1970) Burn (Deep Purple - 1974) Victims Of The Future (Gary Moore - 1983) 10) Carmine Appice Beck, Bogert & Appice (Beck, Bogert & Appice - 1973) Ready To Strike (King Kobra - 1985) Blue Murder (Blue Murder - 1989) 9) Leonard Haze Earthshaker (Y&T - 1981) Mean Streak (Y&T - 1983) In Rock We Trust (Y&T - 1984) 8) Ginger Baker Fresh Cream (Cream - 1966) Baker Gurvitz Army (Baker Gurvitz Army - 1974) Sunrise On The Sufferbus (Masters Of Reality - 1992) 7) Terry Bozzio Sheik Yerbouti (Frank Zappa - 1979) Spring Session M (Missing Persons - 1982) Shampoohorn (Z - 1994) 6) Levon Helm The Band (The Band - 1969) The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan - 1975) The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (Muddy Waters - 1975)
My day 25 favorite drummer is Zac Starkey - The Who - 1. Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2. Quadrophenia Live in London and 3. Live at Shea Stadium 1982 - Favorite song - Won’t Get Fooled Again. 1. Andy Ward - Camel - 1. Mirage, 2. Moonmadness and 3. The Snow Goose - Favorite song - Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider 2. Alan White - Yes - 1. Relayer, 2. Drama and 3. 90125 - Favorite song - The Gates of Delirium 3. Nick D’Virgilio - Spock’s Beard, Big, Big Train - 1. English Electric Part Two, 2. Folklore and 3. Grimspound - Favorite Song - The Wide Open Sea 4. Clive Bunker - Jethro Tull - 1. Aqualung, 2. Living in the Past and 3. Stand Up - Favorite song - Locomotive Breath 5. Kevin Ellman - Utopia - 1. Utopia - Utopia, 2. State and 3. White Knight - Favorite song - Imagination 6. Andy Edwards - IQ, Frost and Robert Plant - 1. Milliontown, 2. Frequency and 3 Priory of Brion - Favorite song - The Province 7. Barriemore Barlow - Jethtro Tull - 1. Thick as a Brick, 2. War Child and 3. Minstrel in the Gallery - Favorite song - Baker St Muse 8. Jon Hiseman - Colosseum, Tempest - 1. Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, 2. Daughter of Time and 3. Valentyne Suite - Favorite song - The Valentyne Suite 9. Gavin Harrison - Porcupine Tree - 1. In Absentia, 2. Deadwing and 3. Fear of a Blank Planet - Favorite song - Arriving Somewhere but Not Here 10. Robert Wyatt - Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt - 1. The End of an Ear, 2. Shleep and 3. Rock Bottom - Favorite song - Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road 11. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Transatlantic - 1. Bridge Across Forever, 2. Liquid Tension Experiment 2 and 3. Images and Words - Favorite song - When the Water Breaks 12. Ron Howden - Nektar - 1. Remember the Future, 2. A Tab in the Ocean and 3. Down to Earth - Favorite song - A Tab in the Ocean 13. Pierre Van der Linden - Focus - 1. Focus II, 2. Hamburger Concerto and 3. Ship of Memories - Favorite song - Anonymous II 14. Phil Collins - Genesis - 1. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, 2. Foxtrot and 3. Trick of the Tail. Favorite song - Carpet Crawlers 15. Nick Mason - Pink Floyd - 1. Dark Side of the Moon, 2. Wish You Were Here and 3. Animals - Favorite song - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 16. Marco Minnemann - Marco Minnemann - 1. The Aristocrats, 2. The Sea Within and 3. In Continuum - Favorite song - Normalizer 17. Terry Bozzio - 1. Zappa, 2. U.K. and 3. Missing Persons - Favorite song - Baby Snakes 18. B. J. Wilson - Procul Harum - 1. Shine on Brightly, 2. Grand Hotel and 3. A Salty Dog. Favorite song - Shine on Brightly - 02. 19. Jaki Liebezeit - Can - 1. Tago Mago, 2. Future Days and 3. Landed. Favorite song - Halleluhwah. 20. Pierre Moerlen - Gong, Mike Oldfield - 1. Ommadawn, 2. You and 3. Angel’s Egg. Favorite song - The Isle of Everywhere. 21. Carl Palmer - ELP - 1. Tarkus, 2. Emerson Lake & Palmer and 3. Brain Salad Surgery - Favorite song - Lucky Man. 22. Keith Moon - The Who - 1. Tommy, 2. Who’s Next and 3. Quadrophenia - Favorite song - Quadrophenia. 23. John Bonham - Led Zeppelin - 1. Led Zeppelin IV, 2. Led Zeppelin II and 3. Led Zeppelin III - Favorite song - Gallows Pole. 24. Chester Thompson - Phil Collins, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Santana - 1. Duke - Turn It On Again, 2. Santana - Into the Night and 3. Black Market - Cannon Ball - Favorite song - Herandnu. 25. Zac Starkey - The Who - 1. Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2. Quadrophenia Live in London and 3. Live at Shea Stadium 1982 - Favorite song - Won’t Get Fooled Again.
#6 Is Vladimir Nekhaev From Russian Folk/Metal Band Zmey Gorynich Albums Are 3 Хиве На Московiи (Live On Moscovia) 2 Чёртовы Пляски (Devilish Dances) 1 Izhitsa Song Is Золотой Гребешокъ
So deserved! Excellent choice, Pete. The last 2 minutes of War Pigs has a roll in it, I could not create, and definitely not on the live double. Insane performance.
Killer pick bill ward underrated drummer imo my pick for today is Ringo Starr 1) abbey Road 2)Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 3)the White album song The End from abbey Road
6 - Brann Dailor Mastodon - The Hunter, Leviathan, Blood Mountain Favorite tracks would be Stargasm and Blood and Thunder. I still remember hearing Blood and Thunder the first time and knew this was a drummer I was going to enjoy a lot.
6. Carl Palmer: ELP, Asia, Atomic Rooster, etc.: ELP-Emerson, Lake & Palmer(album), Asia-Asia(album), Five Miles Out(Mike Oldfield album): Fav Song is Sole Survivor(Asia).
6. Kim Ruzz (Mercyful Fate) 7. Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) 8. Jörg Michael aka Gordon Perkins (Mekong Delta, Running Wild) 9. Guy Evans (Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill) 10. Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson) 11. Mick Pointer (Marillion) 12. Dave Lombardo (Slayer) 13. Anthony Bray 'Abaddon' (Venom) 14. Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Death) 15. Nigel Glockler (Saxon) 16. Ingo Schwichtenberg (Helloween) 17. Ken Owen (Carcass) 18. Charlie Benante (Anthrax) 19. Rat Skates (Overkill) 20. Stefan Schwarzmann (Running Wild) 21. Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche) 22. Simon King (Hawkwind) 23. Igor Cavalera (Sepultura) 24. Scott Columbus (Manowar) 25. Nick Menza (Megadeth) 26. Jürgen "Ventor" Reil (Kreator) 27. Kelly Smith (Flotsam and Jetsam) 28. Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (Motorhead) 29. Sid Falck (Overkill) 30. Tom Hunting (Exodus)
6. Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy) * Johnny the Fox (1976) * Jailbreak (1976) * Bad Reputation (1977) 7. Vinnie Paul 8. Barriemore Barlow 9. Les Binks 10. Danny Carey 11. Mike Portnoy 12. Vinnie Appice 13. Scott Rockenfield 14. Clive Burr 15. Chuck Biscuits 16. Scott Travis 17. Nicko McBrain 18. Alex Van Halen 19. Mikkey Dee 20. Ian Paice 21. Albert Bouchard 22. Keith Moon 23. Matt Cameron 24. Nick Menza 25. Carl Palmer 26. Phil Rudd 27. Simon Phillips 28. Brann Dailor 29. Ginger Baker 30. Terry Bozzio
Bill Ward. Certainly should be in the top 10, no doubt about it. His drumming throughout the Sabbath catalogue on which he appeared can be considered here.
Keith Moon - Who's Next '71 Tommy '69 Quadrophenia '73 Performance - if I'm in my car and this comes on the radio I'll go around the block an extra time or two till the end of the song. 'Won't Get Fooled Again'. (it's also my favorite Entwistle performance)
Dannie Richmond - Charles Mingus and many other Jazz artists. Reincarnation of a Lovebird, Mingus Ah Um, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" "Bugs" I could have chosen many Jazz drummers for my list but I settled on Dannie as he was one of the greatest particularly on the Mingus recordings.
6. Cozy Powell 7. Lars Ulrich 8. Billy Cobham 9. Bill Bruford 10. Mike Portnoy 11. Nick Mason 12. Danny Carey 13. Tony Williams 14. Igor Calavera 15. Carl Palmer 16. Vinny Appice 17. Art Blakey 18. Ginger Baker 19. Neil Peart 20. Nicko McBrain 21. Alex Van Halen 22. Phil Rudd 23. Peter Erskine 24. Matt Garstka 25. Simon Phillips 26. Vinnie Colaiuta 27. Mario Duplantier 28. Tomas Haake 29. Slobodan Stojanović Kepa 30. Stewart Copeland
#6 Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group,Rainbow,MSG,Whitesnake,Emerson, Lake & Powell,Black Sabbath,...) Rainbow "Rising" (1976) Long Live Rock and Roll (1978) MSG (1981) Whitesnake "Slide It In" (1984)
Today's choice is Ringo Star. His work with The Beatles speaks for itself and his solo efforts have been strong. We saw him in concert last year and at age 83, he did just great. I can still remember seeing the Ed Sullivan show and Ringo shaking his mop top. Again my choices are of performers I have seen live in concert.
Pete you nailed it. Although Bill Ward is definitely hiring then 6th. He made Sabbath Swing! His Love of Jazz made Sabbath so Unique! Supernaut!!!-Beyond incredible n also Wicked World of the 1st album which Bill shows his Phenomenal Jazz chops. He really was half along w/ Geezer as one on the Ultimate Rhythm Sections in the history of Rock. Warning is An Awesome example of that as well as Behind the Wall of Sleep where Hip Hop was born! Rat Salad is an extension of Zepp’s. Moby Dick by his old pal John Henry Bonham!
was listening to "behind the wall of sleep today," and thinking it is one of their most underrated songs. I always said bill was playing hip hop, before there was hip hop...
The rest is in order: 6) Carl Palmer Albums: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (ELP) - s/t (debut) Brain Salad Surgery Trilogy Songs: Fanfare For the Common Man (ELP) Lucky Man (ELP) Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2 (ELP) From the Beginning (ELP) Toccata (ELP) Tank (ELP) Sole Survivor (Asia) 6) Carl Palmer 7) Clive Bunker 8) Ian Paice 9) Charlie Watts 10) Andy Parker 11) Clive Burr 12) Levon Helm 13) Jason Bonham 14) Keith Moon 15) Nick Mason 16) Nicko McBrain 17) Tommy Aldridge 18) Max Weinberg 19) John Panozzo 20) Doug Clifford 21) Joey Kramer 22) Carmine Appice 23) Vinny Appice 24) Alex Van Halen 25) Ginger Baker 26) Roger Taylor 27) Kenny Aronoff 28) Steve Smith 29) Dylan Sevey 30) Jeff Porcaro
#6 KEITH MOON - The Who Hi Friends Today remember Keith Moon. And the great power and finesse he brought to the stages of his drumming. And added alot to each song the band did. The 3 albums well WHOS NEXT. TOMMY QUADROPHENIA. So many great performances everywhere in studio and live and so on. I was lucky to have seen the The Who in 71 at Hara Arena Dayton and to remember so well. Audio boot album made I have. HMs so many of Baba O Reilly , Won't Get Foled Again Behind Blue Eyes and so much on Tommy too. The Acid Queen. Pinball Wizard We're Not Gonna Take It The Real Me Love Reign O'ver Me and so many off Quadrophenia. One of the best and early ones of Keith to describe as to what he could do and showcase himself is on The track I CAN SEE FOR MILES. From the album The Who Sell Out that I have and the track is on other albums and comps I would have as to The Who. A hit single then in the 60s. And well the rolls and all he gives the song with Roger on the vocals Pete On Guitar and John on bass it as one of the old rock staples of rock classics that stands the test of time of The Who was and would so be for many tears to come RIP KEITH . Thanks for the memories. to John Entwistle as well. Take care folks. Love hugs and prayers. 🎶🎶🥁❤🤗🙏☮ Btw good choice to Bill Ward PETE. Had him for Day 10. TC👍👍
A note who reads this and to PETE , Of a loss of guitarist singer songwriter Mike Pinera. Blues Image Iron Butterfly on that one album Metamorphosis. Also with band Ramatam and also New Cactus Band back in the day And other things solo and such. RIP Mike. A tribute episode to be would be good. He even jammed with Ted Nugent. I have two Blues Image albums he is on. They are on vinyl. Exceptional classics.
The Great Michael Walden! Incredible chops in Fusion history! His work on “Vision’s of the Emerald Beyond” is Legendary! He also sings amazingly! Mahavishnu John knew want he wanted n Got it in Spades!
Funny enough today my pick #6 is also Bill Ward, such amazing drummer. 3 albums I decided to pick are Paranoid because it’s so groundbreaking, vol 4 and sabotage. Song I’m picking is his best drum performance, guess what same as Pete picked out Supernaut.
Killer drummer!! So many great tunes!! My #6: Going with a great drummer from a great British trio. They only put out a handful of albums, but were very influential, and this guy played some great drum parts. Talking about Stewart Copeland of The Police. Albums: Reggata De Blanc, Ghost In The Machine, Synchronicity Song: Can't Stand Losing You
Hello everyone, hope we all had a great weekend. Back to Monday again, and day 25 of drummers is here already, and my pick today - sadly no longer with us - is often overlooked as a technician because of the seemingly rough and ready nature of the band he propelled with such unbridled enthusiasm for so long... PHIL"thy Animal" TAYLOR of MOTORHEAD With a technique combining the attitude of punk, the madness of Moon and the power of Bonham, he combined with Lemmy and Fast Eddie Clarke to produce some of the most important and influential rock music of their age. Kudos to Mickey Dee for his time in the band, but Phil's oeuvre is where it was at for me... 3 albums from his tenure: Overkill Ace Of Spades Orgasmatron Track of choice: "Snaggletooth" from No Remorse
@@iainhead9898 Hi Iain. Been spending most of the weekend watching the TH-cam reactions to a certain Premier league match from Saturday Evening and pinching myself to make sure, it did actually happen. Now watch us lose the next couple of games. Anyway great pick of course. Philthy Animal provided the prototype fir thrash type drumming and created his own sound, very difficult to do on the drums. Love your description of him.
Pick 6: Fred White Favourite Albums: 1) Earth, Wind, & Fire - All N All (1977) 2) Earth, Wind, & Fire - Spirit (1976) 3) Earth, Wind, & Fire - Gratitude (1975) 6) Fred White 7) Mike Clarke 8) Narada Michael Walden 9) Al Foster 10) Chester Thompson 11) Gerry Brown 12) Tony Williams 13) Billy Hart 14) Simon Kirke 15) John Bonham 16) Alphonse Mouzon 17) Omar Hakim 18) Terry Bozzio 19) Peter Erskine 20) Jimmy Cobb 21) Maurice White 22) Jack Dejohnnete 23) Jeff Pocaro 24) Alan White 25) Tiki Fulwood 26) Richard Bailey 27) Harvey Mason 28) Ralph Johnson 29) Don Henley 30) Yoshikuza Ogawa
Pick for today is Vinny Appice of Sabbath and Dio fame. Going with Mob Rules Holy Diver and Last in Line for my albums. And We Rock my favorite drum performance
Day 6 My pick today is Iron Butterfly 1 In A Gadda Da Vida 2 Heavy 3 Ball Drummer Ron Bushy Songs “Flowers and Beads”, “In A Gadda Da Vida”, “In the Time of Our Lives”, and “You Can’t Win”. 30 Graeme Edge 29 Spencer Dryden 28 Max Weinberg 27 Alex Van Halan 26 Joey Karmer 25 Michael Shrieve 24 John Steel 23 Kenny Aronoff 22 Dennis Elliott 21 Roger Taylor 20 Doug Clifford 19 Mel Taylor/ Howie Johnson 18 Levon Helm 17 Don Henley 16 Nick Mason 15 Floyd Sneed 14 Stan Lynch/ Steve Ferrone 13 Steve Smith 12 Jeff Porcaro 11 Mitch Mitchell/ Buddy Miles 10 Clive Bunker 9 Ian Paice 8 Jason Bonham 7 Charlie Watts 6 Ron Bushy
# 6 Billy Cobham
Favorite albums: The Inner Mounting Flame; Birds of Fire (both Mahavishnu Orchestra); Spectrum
Favorite performance: Meeting of the Spirits (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
# 7 Neil Peart
# 8 Lenny White
# 9 John Bonham
# 10 Mike Portnoy
# 11 Phil Collins
# 12 Tony Williams
# 13 Ian Paice
# 14 Jaki Liebezeit
# 15 Ringo Starr
# 16 Steve Gadd
# 17 Jim Keltner
# 18 Michael Shrieve
# 19 Buddy Rich
# 20 Ginger Baker
# 21 Cozy Powell
# 22 Guy Evans
# 23 John Weathers
# 24 Klaus Dinger
# 25 Vinnie Colaiuta
# 26 Jon Hiseman
# 27 Mick Tucker
# 28 Mitch Mitchell
# 29 Dave Lombardo
# 30 Manu Katché
#6 Neil Peart
Albums: 2112, Hemispheres, Moving Pictures
Song: YYZ
Great minds think alike Kamran. I picked Neil Peart today too.
@@kamranmalik8546 Great pick Kamran.
Great pick, Kamran! Neal is my pick today also.
#6 for me is Clive Burr. Iron Maidens original drummer gave incredible performances on the band’s first three studio albums on songs like Run to the Hills, Phantom of the Opera, Running Free, Genghis Khan, and my favorite song Wrathchild.
6. Mike Portnoy - Essentially, an updated, more modern take on the Neil Peart model, adding double bass wizardry to the mix. His detractors are as clueless as it gets. Album picks are Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Liquid Tension Experiment, and PSMS - Live in Tokyo. Track pick is Panic Attack
Pick #6: Neil Peart
7. Pierre Van der Linden
8. Phil Collins
9. John Weathers
10. Gene Krupa
11. Chris Slade
12. Ringo Starr
13. Louie Bellson
14. Cesar Zuiderwijk
15. Steve Gadd
16. Trilok Gurtu
17. Roger Taylor
18. Mel Pritchard
19. Carmine Appice
20. Stewart Copeland
21. Max Roach
22. Jon Hiseman
23. Carl Palmer
24. Steve Upton
25. Ian Paice
26. Cozy Powell
27. Albert Bouchard
28. Barriemore Barlow
29. Ginger Baker
30. Mitch Mitchell
6. Ringo Starr
Albums: Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver
Song: Tomorrow Never Knows
We are now close to the drummers Top 5, and for today my choice goes to
6. BARRIEMORE BARLOW, ex-Jethro Tull
Barry had become the replacement of their first drummer Clive Bunker, whom I had much earlier in my list. No disrespect to Clive, he was (and still is) a great drummer. But on my personal opinion, Barry was the best drummer Tull ever had. His debut has been on the “Life Is A Long Song” EP from 1971. In the following year, his drumming on the album/song “Thick As A Brick” was phenomenal. In the years to follow, up to 1979, Tull released seven follow-up albums with him on the drums, plus the live album “Bursting Out”, the latter especially proving that the (back then) 6 men line-up of the late 70s surely was the best, if not the true “classic” line-up of the band.
Highlight albums of Tull with Barry have been for sure “Minstrel In The Gallery” and the folk album trilogy “Songs From The Wood/Heavy Horses/Stormwatch”.
In 1979, it came to a very sad end of the 6-men formation, when their bassist John Glascock tragically died of a valvular heart disease at age 28. Barry, who had been a very close friend to John, was feeling so much devastated when he heard about his passing, that he decided to leave Tull after their “Stormwatch” tour.
He has later played for Kerry Livgren, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Miles and Yngwie Malmsteen - well-known musicians who admired his playing abilities and skills.
In 2008, Barry had a one-off guest appearance with Jethro Tull, playing the drums side by side with Doane Perry on a few songs.
To me, there still remain 5 drummers which I appreciate more, but Barry Barlow always came very close.
06. Barriemore Barlow
07. Nick Mason
08. Lee Kerslake
09. Roger Taylor
10. Bill Bruford
11. Bill Ward
12. Alan White
13. Mick Tucker
14. Chester Thompson
15. Mel Pritchard
16. Steve Negus
17. Chris Slade
18. Ringo Starr
19. Simon Kirke
20. Dennis Elliott
21. Russell Gilbrook
22. Don Henley
23. Phil Ehart
24. Nigel Olsson
25. Don Brewer
26. Graeme Edge
27. Charlie Watts
28. Bev Bevan
29. Bob Siebenberg
30. Clive Bunker
Great one Frank
@@FrankLang-i3n hi FrankLang. Awesome pick and article.
@@ziggyzagzi8017 thank you kindly, Ziggy!
@@melaniethurber5117 as always, thank you kindly, Mel!
6. Bill Ward
(Black Sabbath)
Three signature albums as a percussionist -
Master of Reality by Black Sabbath (1971)
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath (1972)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath (1973)
Key song - “Children of the Grave” by Black Sabbath
7. Dave Mattacks
8. Stephen Morris
9. Phil Selway
10. Charlie Watts
11. Scott Asheton
12. Jan Lindh
13. Barriemore Barlow
14. Ed Blackwell
15. Art Blakey
16. Anthony "Abaddon" Bray
17. Billy Cobham
18. Brian Downey
19. Jon Farriss
20. Kevin Haskins
21. Bob Henrit
22. Billy Higgins
23. Alex Holzwarth
24. Jaki Liebezeit
25. Nick Mason
26. Ian Mosley
27. Jerry Nolan
28. Marky Ramone
29. Eric Carr
30. Chris Hakius
@@davidholmes6119 Excellent pick David. Bill practically invented the drumming style for an entire genre.
#6 Neil Peart
This guy is too good to ignore; not necessarily a favorite because he or his group mean much to me.
Technical but a power drummer, too.
Favorite albums for the drums: MOVING PICTURES; HOLD YOUR FIRE, SIGNALS.
Favorite performance: LOCK AND KEY from HOLD YOUR FIRE.
Great Non Classic pick
#6...Clive Bunker, Jethro Tull. I think the technique he used on the song Aqualung is among the most innovative and tasteful examples of what a percussionist can do to frame a song without getting in the way, if you know what I mean, that we've ever heard. This band has had some wonderful drummers over the years and Clive is still the best in my opinion. 3 best albums are This Was, Stand Up, and Benefit. Favorite performance is Dharma For One, particularly the live version on the Living in the Past album.
Great choices Peter
Great pick Peter
My favorite top 30 Drummers of All Time
Pick #6 Neil Peart
#30 Frank Beard(ZZ Top) "Tres Hombres" & "Eliminator"
#29 Larry Tolfree(Joe Jackson) "Night and Day" & "Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive"
#28 Mick Woodmansey(David Bowie) "...Ziggy Stardust" & "The Man Who Sold the World"
#27 Jim Hodder(Steely Dan) "Can't Buy a Thrill" & "Countdown to Ecstasy"
#26 Denny Carmassi(Heart) "Passionworks" & "Heart"
#25 Anders Johansson(Yngwie Malmsteen) "Marching out" & "Trilogy"
#24 Carlton Barrett(Bob Marley) "Rastaman Vibration" & "Exodus"
#23 Mick Fleetwood(Fleetwood Mac) "Mystery to Me" & "Fleetwood Mac"
#22 Russ Kunkel(Warren Zevon & Jackson Browne) "Excitable Boy" & "Running on Empty"
#21 Myron Grombacher(Pat Benatar) "Precious Time" & "Crimes of Passion"
#20 Steve "Grizzly" Nesbitt(Steel Pulse) "True Democracy" & "Reggae Greats"
#19 Stewart Copeland(Police) "Ghost in the Machine" & "Synchronicity"
#18 Phil Taylor(Motorhead) "Another Perfect Day" & "Motorhead"
#17 Bobby Rondinelli(Rainbow ) "Difficult to Cure" & "Straight Between the Eyes"
#16 Kenney Jones(The Who) "Face Dances"
#15 Vinnie Appice(Dio) "The Last in Line" & "Holy Diver"
#14 Scott Rockenfield(Queensryche) "The Warning" & "Rage for Order"
#13 Michael Derosier(Heart) "Bebe le Strange" & "Little Queen"
#12 Jan Uvena(Alcatrazz) "Disturbing the Peace" & "No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll"
#11 Nicko McBrain "Piece of Mind" & " Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
#10 Martin Chambers(The Pretenders) "Pretenders" & "Learning to Crawl"
#9 Clive Burr "Killers" & "Iron Maiden"
#8 Jeff Porcaro (Toto & Boz Scaggs) "Hydra" & "Down Two Then Left"
#7 Bill Ward "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" & "Heaven and Hell"
#6 Neil Peart "Grace Under Pressure" & "Signals"
#6. Mitch Mitchell
It’s said that Jimi had to flip a coin to see which drummer he wanted for his band. I have a feeling he used a two headed coin because Mitch was the perfect fit.
On Are You Experienced Mitch and Noel Redding on bass were restricted as to what they could play. They were nonetheless dynamic still. But Mitch really improvised a lot on Axis: Bold As Love & Electric Ladyland.
He went from a single bass drum to a double bass kit…but his skill was in the snare and tom tom hits very much in the Elvin Jones style. You can hear this so well in songs like “Hear My Train a Comin’” & “Driving South”(from BBC Sessions).
But my song pick is “Voodoo Chile” at 15 minutes on Electric Ladyland. Mitch brings the band back from many stops and starts during the tune. He was described as to the sound of an ax chopping into a tree.
And Mitch reunited with Jimi and Billy Cox on bass after the Band of Gypsys stuff to take Jimi Hendrix back home. Mitch Mitchell…what a talent with the drumsticks. God rest his soul !!
6. Mitch Mitchell
7. Tony Williams & Billy Cobham
8. Ian Paice
9. Charlie Watts & Ringo Starr
10. Bill Bruford
11. Cozy Powell
12. Elvin Jones
13. Spencer Dryden
14. Neil Peart
15. Micky Waller
16. Jim Gordon
17. Carl Palmer
18. Don Brewer
19. Jerry Shirley
20. Danny Seraphine
21. Carmine Appice
22. Phil Ehart
23. Kenny Jones
24. Michael Shrieve
25. Doug Clifford
26. Alex Van Halen
27. Peter Criss
28. Buddy Rich
29. Gene Krupa
30. Jamoe & Butch Trucks
Fire!
@@ziggyzagzi8017Yea Ziggy !
@@richardbooth6063 hi Richard. Fantastic pick and article
Cool pick Richard
@@melaniethurber5117Thanks Melanie
My 6---Phil Collins. Track, Down And Out. albums. 1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 2. Selling England By The Pound 3. Foxtrot.
STEVE GADD - Session musician extraordinaire. With Steely Dan, Glamour Profession from Gaucho; with Leo Sayer (yes!) You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, and with Spyro Gyra, Incognito from the same album. Favourite performance, got to be AGA from same self titled album with Steely Dan.
@@shaunogle530 hi Shaun. Fantastic pick and article. He almost made my list.
@@shaunogle530 Cool pick Shaun.
Great choice shaun i liked the Steely Dan albums he was on
Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Winery Dogs, Liquid Tension Experiment and many others.
Images and Words, Awake and Scenes From a Memory
Dance of Eternity for performance
In no particular order, my pick of the day is Bill Ward of Black Sabbath.Really enjoy Bill Ward's style. I'm not a drummer, so I'm not going to attempt to get technical, but some guys I enjoy more than others. A couple of my favorite tracks are Symptom of the Universe and The Wizard.
6. Bill Ward - Black Sabbath (Symptom of the Universe / The Wizard)
7. Nicko McBrain** - Iron Maiden (Where Eagles Dare / The New Frontier)
8. Clive Burr** - Iron Maiden (Run to the Hills / Another Life)
9. Eric Carr - KISS (The Oath / Saint and Sinner)
10. Scott Rockenfield** - Queensryche (Take Hold of the Flame ; Walk in the Shadows)
11. Michael Miley** - Rival Sons (Too Bad / Pressure & Time)
12. Peter Criss - KISS (Black Diamond / Room Service)
13. Frank Beard - ZZ Top (Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings / Heard It On the X)
14. Mitch Mitchell** - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Fire / Freedom)
15. Bobby ("The Blotz") Blotzer - Ratt (Back for More / City to City)
16. Troy Lucketta - Tesla (2 Late 4 Love / Edison's Medicine)
17. Ian Paice** - Deep Purple (Burn / Hard Lovin' Man)
18. Brian Downey - Thin Lizzy (Fighting My Way Back / Bad Reputation)
19. Charlie Benante - Anthrax (Be All, End All / In My World)
20. Anton Fig** - Ace Frehley Band / David Letterman Show
21. Uli Kusch - Helloween/Masterplan (Falling Higher / Steel Tormentor)
22. Albert Bouchard - Blue Oyster Cult (Cagey Cretins / Subhuman)
23. B.J. Zampa - House of Lords (currently with Dokken) (These Are the Times / Come to My Kingdom)
24. Keith Moon - The Who (The Real Me ; Baba O'Riley)
25. Bun E. Carlos - Cheap Trick (You're All Talk / Southern Girls)
26. Robert Sweet - Stryper (The Way / Caught in the Middle
27. Matt Abts - Gov't Mule (Bad Little Doggie / Wandering Child)
28. James Kottak - Kingdom Come/Scorpions (Pushin' Hard ; Hour 1)
29. Artimus Pyle - Lynryd Skynyrd (Saturday Night Special ; Gimme Back My Bulletins
30. Andy Parker - UFO (Doctor Doctor ; Rock Bottom)
Great pick Steven, such a great drummer!
Great pick steven hes on my list also
@@yokerecords803 Definitely yoke! Thanks!
Hi Pete & everyone. Dave here. Excellent pick of yours. My pick today is another jazz-influenced drummer with an iconic rock band. It's CHARLIE WATTS, long-time member of The Rolling Stones (until his death in 2021). Over the weekend I was watching on BBC television a recording of the Stones at Madison Square Garden in 2003 ('Licks Live In NYC'). The whole band was superb but, just like Bill Ward, Charlie's drumming was surprisingly subtle and really elevated the songs.
Albums: Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967); Let It Bleed (1969); Sticky Fingers (1971).
Showcase track: Honky Tonk Women. Syncopated drumming with added cow bells! Mick duetted with Sheryl Crow on the NYC recording I saw.
@@gaiaeternal5131 hi Dave. Superb picks and article.
@@gaiaeternal5131 Excellent choice Dave. Picked Charlie myself earlier in the month.
Excellent choice and article, Dave. I like your album and song picks. I had Charlie Watts on my list the other day.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie.
@@jerryattwooll4864 Thanks, Jerry.
Pick # 6 is Alan White of Yes. The original Yes drummer is coming soon. The albums are Drama, 90125, and Big Generator. The song is Machine Messiah from Drama.
My pick # 6 is Bill Ward is my pick for today Pete on my list.Albums:"Black Sabbath";"Paranoid";"Master of Reality" I have the same albums for today.
Excellent choice, Daniel.
@weirddebbiem1619 Thank you Weirddebbiem.
@danielfuentes3226 You're welcome, Daniel.
@weirddebbiem1619 👍
Great picks daniel i almost matched all your albums. I picked IV instead of Master of Reality but they are close.
Neil Peart
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Performance: Natural Science
@@inmyhouse11 Great pick! Lots of people are choosing Neil today, myself included.
6. Bill Ward Black Sabbath
7. John Bonham Led Zeppelin
8. Dave Lombardo Slayer
9. Alex Van Halen Van Halen
10. Bill Stevenson Descendents/All
11. Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
12. Mike Portnoy Dream Theater
13. Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor Motorhead
14. Neil Peart Rush
15. Paul Mazurkiewicz Cannibal Corpse
16. Mitch Mitchell Jimi Hendrix Experience
17. Mick Avory The Kinks
18. Nick Mason Pink Floyd
19. Dave Grohl Foo Fighters
20. Steve Jocz Sum 41
21. DJ Fontana The Blue Moon Boys
22. The Rev Avenged Sevenfold
23. Mikkey Dee Motorhead
24. Phil Rudd ACDC
25. Nicko McBrain Iron Maiden
26. Roger Taylor Queen
27. Ken Owens Carcass
28. Dave Clark The Dave Clark Five
29. Tommy Lee Motley Crue
30. Clive Burr Iron Maiden
Nice choice Pete. Bill Ward was a phenomenal drummer. Easily one of the best of his era which features a ton of great drummers. He was a huge part of the Black Sabbath sound and his breaks and fills were fantastic. There are a number of BS songs where Bill Ward could have been arrested for murder as he was killing those drums!!! Very technical with lots of swinging jazz influenced playing, not just heavy drum thunder. Very underrated.
Great picks Robert i had him on my list also.
#6 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Albums Led Zeppelin I, IV and Houses Of The Holy.
Favourite Track: Kashmir
#7 Ginger Baker (Cream/Blind Faith)
Albums: Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears and Wheels Of Fire.
Favourite Track: Crossroads
#8 Ian Paice (Deep Purple/Whitesnake/Gary Moore)
Albums:In Rock, Burn and Ready An' Willing.
Favourite Track:She's A Woman
#9 Keith Moon (The Who)
Albums: Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia.
Favourite Track: Won't Get Fooled Again
#10 Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
Albums: Master Of Reality, Sabotage and Heaven & Hell.
Favourite Track: Snowblind
#11 Niko McBrain (Iron Maiden)
Albums: Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.
Favourite Track: Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
#12 Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath/Dio)
Albums: Mob Rules, Holy Diver and The Last In Line.
Favourite Track:The Sign Of The Southern Cross.
#13 Jaimoe & Butch Trucks (The Allman Brothers Band)
Albums: The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East and Brothers & Sisters.
Favourite Track: Black Hearted Woman.
#14 Roger Taylor (Queen)
Albums: Sheer Heart Attack, Night At The Opera and The Game
Favourite Track: Brighton Rock
#15 Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Albums: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication and Stadium Arcadium.
Favourite Track: Around The World.
#16 Levon Helm (The Band)
Albums: Music From Big Pink, The Band and Northern Lights-Southern Cross.
Favourite Track: When I Paint My Masterpiece.
#17 Phil Ehart (Kansas)
Albums: Song For America, Leftoverture and Point Of No Return.
Favourite Track: Song For America
#18 Phil Collins (Genesis/Solo)
Albums: Nursery Cryme, Selling England By The Pound and Wind & Wuthering.
Favourite Track: In The Air Tonight
#19 Tico Torres (Bon Jovi)
Albums: Bon Jovi, 7800 and These Days.
Favourite Track: Only Lonely
#20 Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)
Albums: Meddle, The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here.
Favourite Track: Echoes
#21 Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace)
Albums:Three Days Grace, One-X and Transit Of Venus.
Favourite Track: Wake Up
#22 Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac)
Albums:Then Play On, Mystery To Me and Tango In The Night.
Favourite Track:Albatross
#23 Phil Rudd (AC/DC)
Albums: Highway To Hell, Back In Black and For Those About To Rock We Salute You.
Favourite Track: Back In Black.
#24 Mike Bordin (Faith No More)
Albums: The Real Thing, Angel Dust and King For a Day, Fool For A Lifetime.
Favourite Track: Midlife Crisis
#25 Bill Bruford (Yes/King Crimson/U.K.)
Albums: Fragile and Close To The Edge by Yes and U.K. self-titled.
Favourite Track: Close To The Edge.
#26 Joey Kramer (Aerosmith)
Albums: Toys In The Attic, Rocks and Pump.
Favourite Track: Walk This Way
#27 Lars Ulrich (Metallica)
Albums: Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets.
Favourite Track: Creeping Death.
#28 Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Albums: Grand Funk, Closer To Home and We're An American Band.
Favourite Track:The Railroad.
#29 Tré Cool (Green Day)
Albums: Dookie, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown.
Favourite track: Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.
#30 Brandon Barnes (Rise Against)
Albums: Siren Song Of The Counter-Culture, The Sufferer & The Witness and Appeal To Reason.
Favourite track: Survive.
He was a little higher on my list. For today it's Anysley Dunbar from Journey UFO, Whitesnake and AD Retaliation. Albums are Whitesnake, Infinity and Sharks. Song is Mutiny.
6. John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II
Physical Graffiti
Kashmir
Great pick Josh
Number 6 is a guy who, despite playing with one of the World's biggest bands for 50 years and having a decent solo career, is never mentioned in any 'best of...' list. But this is favourites and Roger Taylor of Queen has always been a favourite of mine.
From the proto thrash of Modern Times Rock N Roll and Stone Cold Crazy, through heavy stuff like Son And Daughter, Ogre Battle, Dead On Time, Hammer To Fall, through pop, blues and almost jazz stuff to their funk/disco songs, Roger can play it all and more besides. He's an excellent singer and a great songwriter. With John Deacon, he's probably the most under rated rhythm sections ever. Everybody talks about Freddie's voice and showmanship and Brian's instantly recognisable guitar work, but Roger and John provide the space for them to show what they can do. Recommendations? Really, anything. Queen's early stuff is what everybody here will be familiar with, but the Live At The Rainbow 74 live album shows just how heavy they were back in the day. If you are unfamiliar with his solo work, check out Fun In Space, Strange Frontier and his "other band" The Cross, although, he didn't play drums with them that often. He was singer/guitarist, mainly. And I got through that without mentioning Bohe...
I have Roger at my # 9 as a drummer, and I always appreciated him as a great writer and singer, too. He might appear even at other people's Top 5... who knows? We have to wait and see ;)
My pick for Day 25 (#6 in my countdown)
Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)
Day 25: Cozy Powell
Emerson, Lake & Powell
The Jeff Beck Group: Rough & Ready
Rainbow: Rising
Day 24: Dennis Chambers
John Scofield: Blue Matter
Greg Howe: Extraction w/ Victor Wooten & Dennis Chambers
Uncle Moe's Space Ranch w/ Dennis Chambers, Gary Willis, TJ Helmerich, Scott Kinsey & Brett Garsed
Day 23: Alan White
Yes: Drama
Yes: 90215
Yes: Going For The One
Day 22: Carl Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Asia
Atomic Rooster
Day 21: Brian Blade
Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without A Net
Chick Corea: Trilogy
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Driftwood
Day 20: John Marshall
Soft Machine: Bundles
Soft Works: Abracadabra
Soft Machine Legacy: Burden Of Proof
Day 19: Jack DeJohnette
Parallel Realities w/ Pat Metheny & Herbie Hancock
Michael Brecker
Pat Metheny: 80/81
Day 18: Bill Stewart
Pat Metheny Trio 99-00
John Patitucci - Now
Michael Brecker - Time Is Of The Essence
Day 17: Peter Erskine
Steps Ahead
Gary Burton - Reunion
Bass Desires w/ Marc Johnson, Bill Frisell & John Scofield
Day 16: William Kennedy
Lee Ritenour: Portraits
John Patitucci: Another World
Yellowjackets: Four Corners
Day 15: Danny Gottlieb
Pat Metheny Group
Al Di Meola Project - Soaring Through A Dream
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Adventures In Radioland
Day 14: Gary Novak
Allan Holdsworth: The Sixteen Men Of Tain
Chick Corea Elektric Band II: Paint The World
Renegade Creation w/ Jimmy Haslip, Robben Ford & Michael Landau
Day 13: Vinnie Colaiuta
Five Peace Band w/ John McLaughlin & Chick Corea
Jing Chi w/ Robben Ford & Jimmy Haslip
Chick Corea Akoustic Band: Live at The Blue Note
Day 12: Steve Gadd
Chinese Butterfly w/ Chick Corea
Al Di Meola: Elegant Gypsy
Dave Weckl: Master Plan
Day 11: Chad Wackerman
Allan Holdsworth: Wardenclyffe Tower
Dreams, Nightmares And Improvisations
Forty Reasons
Day 10: Marco Minnemann
Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused To Sing
The Aristocrats
UKZ: Radiation
Day 9: Mike Portnoy
Dream Theater: Images And Words
Liquid Tension Experiment 1
Sons Of Apollo: Psychotic Symphony
Day 8: Billy Cobham
Crosswinds
Spectrum
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Day 7: Virgil Donati
Devil's Slingshot
Planet X: Quantum
In This Life
Day 6: Terry Bozzio
U.K: Danger Money
Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
Steve Vai - Sex & Religion
Day 5: Neil Peart
Rush: Hemispheres
Rush: Power Windows
Rush Moving Pictures
Day 4: Bill Bruford
Feels Good To Me
U.K.
King Crimson: Red
Day 3: Antonio Sanchez
The Meridian Suite
Pat Metheny Unity Group - Kin
Chick Corea - Dr. Joe
Day 2: Simon Phillips
Protocol V
Antoine Fafard: Proto Mundi
Hiromi Trio Project: Alive
Day 1: Dave Weckl
Chick Corea Elektric Band
Chick Corea Akoustic Band: Alive
Master Plan
Super choice. I was fortunate enough to have seen Cozy in concert when he played with Emerson and Lake.
6) Neil Peart (Rush)
Favorite Albums:
All The World's A Stage
Fly By Night
A Farewell To Kings
Favorite Performance:
"By-Tor And The Snow Dog" (Live at Massey Hall, Toronto/1976)
6) Neil Peart
7) Mike Portnoy
8) Danny Seraphine
9) Hal Blaine
10) Benny Benjamin/Richard "Pistol" Allen/Uriel Jones
11) John Densmore
12) Mick Avory
13) Bill Bruford
14) Bill Ward
15) Jim Gordon
16) Russ Kunkel
17) Levon Helm
18) Ginger Baker
19) Micky Waller
20) Don Brewer
21) Michael Shrieve
22) Max Weinberg
23) Bobby Caldwell
24) Tommy Ramone
25) Brian Downey
26) Johnny "Bee" Badanjek
27) Doug Clifford
28) Clem Burke
29) Topper Headon
30) Sandy West
The Professor
Great pick Chris
Technically an incredible drummer. I really appreciate his early work with a twin bass drum kit.
Sensational pick Chris and I love the album selections. The live album generally gets no love and I think it's one of the best live albums ever.
@@christophercoles4401 Terrific pick Chris. Few drummers have exerted as much influence on the direction and music as a whole of his band as Neil did.
Hey Christopher! Excellent choice and album and song picks.
No.6…Cozy Powell(RIP)-Rainbow,Black Sabbath and others. A blues,rock and progressive rock drummer with precision hard hitting fills and beats. Very versatile on the drums. Can change his style in the sound he makes in his drums while playing a song. His Rainbow drumming is always been my favorite.
6: Mike Portnoy
No doubt about it.The well traveled modern master. Petrucci Kotzen Levin
Sheehan et al.
Liquid Tension Experiment is mind-boggling.
Rad. 🎉
@@tomp8463 Just a Tad
Great choice Zig
@@yokerecords803 EZ! Yoke
Hi Ziggy, cracking pick. Only have the first LTE. Technically impressive, but I don't dig it out very often. Mind boggling as you say...
My #6 pick is an American musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the rock duo the White Stripes. Though she typically performed backing vocals for the band, she occasionally sang lead for one song on each album, including "In the Cold, Cold Night" and "Passive Manipulation." I'm talking about Meg White. White began playing the drums on Bastille Day in 1997, and she formed the White Stripes with then-husband Jack White that same year. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, brought them international fame. Her simultaneous solo ventures include acting, appearing in the 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes and a 2006 episode of The Simpsons, and briefly modeling. While the band were on tour in support of their 2007 album, Icky Thump, she suffered a bout of acute anxiety, and the remaining dates of the tour were canceled. The band disbanded in 2011 following a lengthy hiatus and she ceased performing.
White is a key artist of the 2000s garage rock revival, and her style of drumming has been called "minimalistic" and "simplistic" by critics. Reviews of her playing were initially ambivalent, but it has earned retrospective praise and continues to be discussed. She is also noted for her elusive media image, calling herself "very shy" and reclusive. With the White Stripes, she won a Brit Award and six Grammy Awards. In 2015, Rolling Stone included her on their "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" list. She and Jack were nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, but were not inducted.Beginning in 2006, White used a pair of Paiste 14" Signature Medium Hi-Hats, a 19" Signature Power Crash, and a 22" 2002 Ride.[96][102] On the Icky Thump tour, the bass drum head design was switched to a button inspired by the Pearlies clothing Jack and Meg wore for the album cover. She also used Remo and Ludwig drumheads, various percussion instruments and Vater drumsticks.
White's Pearl Export bass drum-complete with original peppermint-painted bass drum that she used with the band's first show-and the Pearly Queen outfit she wore in the photos for the Icky Thump album, were featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "Women Who Rock" exhibition.
Albums- Elephant, White Blood Cells and Get Behind Me Satan
Song- Seven Nation Army Seven Nation Army" played a significant role in the White Stripes' popularity. A writer for Rolling Stone described it as a "career-changing hit",[29] and NME's Daniel Martin viewed the song as the White Stripes' "defining tune", having sparked the band's transition "from their garage rock beginnings to an entirely new level of acclaim".[3] In addition, "Seven Nation Army" contributed to the garage rock revival movement,[8] becoming the first song in the genre to reach number one on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.[73][note 1] After its initial run on music charts, the song-especially its riff-grew in popularity as a result of its usage in sports. In 2012, Deadspin's Alan Siegel described the "riff-turned-anthem" as "ubiquitous",[2] and according to The New Yorker's Alec Wilkinson, the riff "might be the second-best-known guitar phrase in popular music, after the one from 'Satisfaction'".[74] Erik Adams of The A.V. Club attributed the song's popularity to its riff's "simplicity"-a characteristic that he remarked makes the song "instantly familiar" and "instantly memorized"[75]-and Nate Sloan said that the four notes following the riff's first note create a feeling of "urgency that makes [the riff] much more memorable".[15]
The song has also appeared in various other media. On May 9, 2014, during the celebration of the 825th Hamburg Port Anniversary, "Seven Nation Army" was played using the horns of cruise ship MSC Magnifica as it entered the harbor.[76] An instrumental cover of the song arranged by Ramin Djawadi was included in a 2018 episode of HBO television series Westworld.[77] The song was performed during the final task of The Amazing Race 31 at Hart Plaza in Detroit.According to Alan Siegel of Deadspin, "Seven Nation Army"'s riff is "an organic part of sports culture".[2] The riff is commonly used in sports audience's chants, in which each note is usually sung using the "oh" sound.[15] This phenomenon has its roots in a UEFA Champions League football match in Italy in October 2003, during which fans of Belgium's Club Brugge KV began singing the riff in a game against Italy's A.C. Milan. They continued the chant after Club Brugge KV striker Andrés Mendoza scored a goal. Club Brugge KV won the game, and the song subsequently became the team's "unofficial sports anthem"Current WWE commentator Pat McAfee used the song as an entrance theme, including for his match against Austin Theory at WrestleMania 38.
Great picks and an excellent write up.
Great write up Vipe
@ziggyzagzi8017 ty
Now we know what happened to encyclopedias. lol 👍🏿
My pick for today is Buddy Rich . Hes unreal on so many levels.
No ranking, except no1
1. Neil Peart 🪦 - Rush
2. Taylor Hawkins 🪦- Foo Fighters
3. Butch Trucks🪦- Allman Brothers Band
4. Nicko McBrain - Pat Travers [2nd & 3rd LPs]/Trust/Iron Maiden
5. Carmine Appice - Picked on day#25
6. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater/Neal Morse Band/Flying Colors/The Winery Dogs
7. Phil[ip] Collins (I don't like the singer but what a drummer, check his work in the jazz-fusion band Brand X in the '70s)
8. Paul Riddle - The Marshall Tucker Band
9. Keith Moon🪦- The Who
10. Jon Hiseman🪦- Colosseum (I & II) / Tempest
11. Don Brewer - Grand Funk Railroad / Bob Seger
12. Matt Abts - Gov't Mule
13. Brian Downey - Thin Lizzy {listed by Peter}
14. John Bonham🪦- U know!
15. Mitch Mitchell🪦- Georgie Fame / Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Michael Schrieve - Santana / HSAS & various collaborations
17. Nick D'Virgilio - Spock's Beard / Big Big Train
18. Thomas "Artimus" Pyle - Lynyrd Skynyrd / Artimus Pyle Band
19. Steve Gadd - various bands including A. DiMeola {live Tour de Force highly recommended} & Return To Forever
20. Rod de'Ath🪦- Rory Gallagher
(First drummer on 3 first lp's, Wilgar Campbell, was very good as well imo)
21. Bill Bruford - Yes/King Crimson /UK/Earthworks & solo as well plus numerous guest appearances
22. Terry Bozzio - Zappa/UK/S. Vai - Pick #18
23. Peter "Ginger" Baker 🪦- Graham Bond / Cream / Baker Gurvitz Army / Blind Faith / G.B Air Force / BBM
24. Ian Paice - Deep Purple for more than 50 years, remaining the last original member / Whitesnake / G. Moore and various guest appearances. Pick #8
25. Dennis Chambers - Various bands including jazz-fusion trio Niacin with B. Sheehan(b) & J. Novello(kb). Pick #14
Pick #6 Roger Taylor: "Queen"
"Queen II" on EMI Records in '74.
"A Night at the Opera" also on EMI in '75
"News of the World" on EMI in '77
Mr. Taylor cites both Mitch Mitchell from the Hendrix Experience and John Bonham from the Zeppelin of Led as his role models. Quite a success in fulfilling that endeavor, I should say!
Cheers Pete. Marco Minnemann. Aristocrats- Culture Clash, Steven Wilson- The Raven, Levin, Minnemann, Rudess.
Missed a day
Yesterday pick 7
Stewart Copeland
Albums
Regatta de Blanc
Ghost in the machine
Synchronicity
Favorite drum
The unique time signatures of walking on the Moon
Also murder by Numbers
Today pick 6
Jerry Shirley
best known as a drummer of humble pie what must not forget he was also a part of that great 80s metal band fastway
Albums
Smokin
Rock on
Fastway
Drum song sweet peace and time
Fine choice like your choice for song
Thank you Dennis
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist your welcome kev
6. Jeff Pocarro
Katy Lied, Toto IV, The Nightfly
Rosanna
6. Mike Portnoy
Scenes From A Memory, Bridge Across Forever, Neal Morse’s One
“Change Of Seasons”
Bruan Downey - "Bad Reputation"
LPs: Fighting, Johnny the Fox, Black Rose: A Rock Legend
Sweet
Great pick Independence
Excellent choice!
@@razor7394 ty
@@yokerecords803 gracias
#6. Phil collins. Great drummer. Loved the genesis stuff from 75 to 80. Album is Selling england by the pound and And then there were three. Underrated forgotten album by them, but Phil kills it on that one. Songs. Down and out, and Dodo.
Day 6 is Bill Ward Black Sabbath. My second favorite metal drummer of all time. I was going to put John Bonham of Led Zeppelin ahead of Ward, but I decided to put Ward ahead instead. Number 5 is Charlie Watts. More about Watts tomorrow. Bill Ward's drumming is very jazzy influenced and his drum work is very important. 70s Black Sabbath was very influential. My favorite drum track from Ward is Wat Pigs. My top 3 drum peformances on albums are Paranoid, Master of Reality and Sabotage.
#6 Cozy Powell from Rainbow, MSG, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, fav albums Rainbow Rising, MSG 1981, Whitesnake- Slide it In.
#3 Terry Bozzio
Frank Zappa-Sheik Yerbouti
Jeff Beck's- Guitar Shop
Solos and Duets with Chad wackerman DVD Release
Great pick James
Missing Persons for me
@andrettski8686 And Nothing wrong with that. To each their own.
Bill Ward! From my favorite band. Master's my fave album too. Bill's drumming got absolutely insane by the time Sabotage came out: Symptom!!! Unbelievable!
Unlike Pete, I am a BIG fan of the first 2 solo albums by Bill. "Ward One: Along The Way", and "When the Bough Breaks". They happen to be on my desert island disc list. I believe some of Bill's songs on those albums capture the soul and spirit of the first 8 Sabbath albums more than any of the other band members' solo albums. Enjoying this series, Pete!
Day 25. Don Brewer (Grand Funk) - Grand Funk, We're an American Band, Caught in the Act song: TNUC The heart and soul of the GFR rhythm section. Brewer is the standard for all those rock and soul drummers out there. Not only is he a solid drummer but a good vocalist too. Like Charlie Watts, Brewer is not a flashy drummer, just a rock solid one.
1. Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modeliste (The Meters) - Rejuvenation, Fire on the Bayou, Uptown Rulers: The Meters live on the Queen Mary song: Ain't No Use
2. Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker - The Sound of '65 (Graham Bond Organization), Wheels Of Fire (Cream), Ginger Baker's Air Force song; Toad
3. Buddy Rich - Buddy & Soul, Stick It, Very Live at Buddy's Place song: Sing, Sing, Sing
4. David Garabaldi (Tower of Power) East Bay Grease, Back To Oakland, Bump City song: Knock Yourself Out
5. Tommy Aldridge - Full Bluntal Nugity (Ted Nugent), Heat in the Street (Pat Travers Band), Manic Eden song: Fire In My Soul (Manic Eden)
6. Michael Shrieve (Santana) - Santana S/T, Caravanserai, Automatic Man song: Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock)
7. Ian Paice (Deep Purple) - In Rock, Machine Head, Live In Japan song: Space Truckin' (Made In Japan)
8. Ed Cassidy (Spirit) - Family That Plays Together, 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Feedback song: Mechanical World
9. Billy Cobham - Birds of Fire (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Spectrum, Crosswinds song: Quadrant 4
10. Mickey Hart/Bill Kruetzman (Grateful Dead) - Live/Dead, Wake of the Flood, Blues for Allah song: Dark Star
11. Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson (MC5) - Kick Out the Jams, High Time, Teen Age Lust song: Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)
12. Lenny White (Return To Forever) - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before, Streamline song: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
13. Tony Williams - Emergency!, Believe It, The Story of Neptune song: Sweet Revenge
14. Carmine Appice - Cactus, Rock & Roll (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice Live (in Japan) song: Shotgun
15. Cozy Powell - Rough & Ready (The Jeff Beck Group), Rising (Rainbow), Tilt, song: Hot Rock
16. Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) - Black Sabbath, Master of Reality, Vol. 4 song: Black Sabbath
17. Butch Trucks/Jai Johanny Johanson (Allman Brothers Band) - Eat A Peach, Bothers and Sisters, Seven Turns song: Mountain Jam
18. Jon Hiseman - (Tempest, Coloseum) Tempest, Valentyne Suite, Electric Savage, song: Gorgon
19. Aynsley Dunbar - The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Infinity (Journey), The Diva Station (Ronnie Montrose) song: Weirding Way
20. Keef Hartley - Halfbreed, The Time Is Near, Seventy-Second Brave song: Overdog
21. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) - Between the Buttons, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St. song: Gimme Shelter
22. Phil "Filthy Animal" Taylor (Motorhead) - Ace of Spades, Overkill, Bomber song: Ace Of Spades
23. Scott Ashton (Stooges) - Fun House, Raw Power, Ready to Die song: Search And Destroy
24. Jimmy Carl Black - Geronimo Black, The Grandmothers, Brown, Black & Blue (w/ Arthur Brown) song: An American National Anthem
25. Don Brewer (Grand Funk) - Grand Funk, We're an American Band, Caught in the Act song: TNUC
Great pick, Pete!
My number 6 Neil Peart (Rush)
Albums: Rush - Signals (1982), Moving Pictures (1981), Grace Under Pressure (1984)
Track: La Villa Strangiato (from Rush - Hemispheres, 1978)
07 Terry Bozzio (The Brecker Brothers, Frank Zappa, Missing Persons…)
08 Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Sting, Jing Chi…)
09 Lenny White (Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Return to Forever…)
10 Tony Williams (Miles Davis, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Herbie Hancock…)
11 Steve Gadd (He's played with everyone...on over 700 studio and live albums.)
12 Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, Paul Gilbert…)
13 Aynsley Dunbar (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, David Bowie, Whitesnake…)
14 Dennis Chambers (Parliament-Funkadelic, John Scofield, Niacin)
15 Chester Thompson (Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Genesis…)
16 Virgil Donati (Derek Sherinian, Planet X, CAB…)
17 Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai…)
18 Stewart Copeland (Curved Air, The Police, Gizmodrome…)
19 Phil Collins (Genesis, Brand X)
20 Jon Hiseman (Colosseum (II), United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, John Mayall, Jack Bruce)
21 Pierre Moerlen (Gong, Mike Oldfield…)
22 Nick D’Virgilio (Spock’s Beard, Big Big Train…)
23 Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group…)
24 Jeff Porcaro (Toto, Steely Dan, Michael Jackson…)
25 Chris Maitland (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Kino…)
26 Narada Michael Walden (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Jeff Beck…)
27 Carl Palmer (ELP, Asia…)
28 Danny Carey (Tool)
29 Peter Erskine (Weather Report, Steps Ahead…)
30 Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore)
My pick for today is, Keith Moon
Who's Next (1971)
Quadrophenia (1973)
Who Are You? (1978)
Song/performance: Won't Get Fooled Again
Good choice Drum got the same pick to mine.
Day 6 pick is Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones. Albums are Sticky Fingers. Let It Bleed and Exile On Main Street. Favorite songs are Cant You Hear Me Knocking. Gimme Shelter. Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Woman.
Nice pick, Dennis. Mine too.
Excelent pick Dennis.Charlie Watts is a great drummer,he use to be a jazz drummer before joining the Rolling Stones.
@@dennisstratton6508 hi Dennis. Superb pick and article. You have two songs and two albums that I picked yesterday
Nice one Dennis, mine too and same song :)
Can't you hear me knocking is one of my favourites. Wonderful drummer.
Again, I always fall back on those drummers musicians/bands in general, who I grew up with.
Music was a massive part of my growing up, and my father drummed, and his choice of music helped to define my tastes.
From my youth, Ringo Starr, John Bonham, Peter Chris, Keith Moon.
My teen years were all about Ian Paice, Bill Ward, Clive Burr, and then Nicko McBrain.
For favourites...Stewart Copeland ranks in my top three. Mick Fleetwood's work on The Visitor, which echoed Copeland's Rythmatist. Neil Peart, again, top three. Nick Mason more for his entire body of work with Pink Floyd. Bill Bruford for Yes, and King Crimson.
Phil Collins work if he had only drummed for Robert Plant, would be enough.
That's fourteen....I need to look at my big band, Jazz, and more Prog to delve deeper.
Good morning (afternoon, evening or night), Pete. A great SOT choice. Personal pick today? The band carried the name of its co-founder, the American drummer Alexander Arthur "Alex Van Halen. The original band and debut album were lightning in a bottle and Alex was a key component of the sound. Perhaps ironically, he and his brother Edward both studied classical piano and then Eddie took up the drums and Alex took up the electric guitar. Obviously time switched those roles. Another one of those drummers whose name quickly popped into mind for this list. Favorite albums for today are all Van Halen band albums - the eponymous debut, Van Halen II and Women & Children First. The third album picked because it includes a favorite drum work of Alex on the great Everybody Wants Some!! Thanks, Pete. Looking forward to your next selection.
@@johnmichaelwilliams6694 hi John. Fantastic pick and article. I had him earlier on my list.
For sure, I'll be flying over your house Tuesday heading to Tampa, to check out my Mom's twisted aluminum for turkey time.
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Wishes sent for safe Thanksgiving travels. Not sure where you're starting but expected to be in the upper 70s or 80s Thanksgiving Day here in Florida. Weather beautiful right now with cool night. Hope you find all reasonably well with your Mom.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie, for this and also letting me know about your list. I'll visit that in the next few days to see who all you have picked.
@@johnmichaelwilliams6694 John. I added my list to my post today so you and others can see it.
6. Stewart Copeland (The Police)
I don't know much about Copeland's work with Curved Air on their two worst albums in 1975-76 before they imploded, but as proficient as he was, one never would have guessed he'd be a superstar within a few years. Here is a case where punk most definitely saved a prog musician's ass, inspiring him to innovate and create a unique, groundbreaking style fusing reggae, punk and new wave. "Walking on the Moon."
The Police - Ghost In The Machine (1981)
The Police - Regatta de Blanc (1979)
The Police - Outlandos D'Amour (1978)
My 6th favorite drummer (loosely ordered) is Levon Helm
The Band (The Band - 1969)
The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan - 1975)
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (Muddy Waters - 1975)
Full List:
30) Matt Cameron
Badmotorfinger (Soundgarden - 1991)
Backspacer (Pearl Jam - 2009)
Dark Matter (Pearl Jam - 2024)
29) Dave Grohl
No More Censorship (Scream - 1988)
In Utero (Nirvana - 1993)
Fumble (Scream - 1993)
28) Danny Seraphine
Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago - 1969)
Chicago III (Chicago - 1971)
Chicago VII (Chicago - 1974)
27) Tommy Aldridge
Crash And Burn (Pat Travers Band - 1980)
Bark At The Moon (Ozzy Osbourne - 1983)
Slip Of The Tongue (Whitesnake - 1989)
26) Colin “Cozy” Powell
Jeff Beck Group (The Jeff Beck Group - 1972)
Down To Earth (Rainbow - 1979)
Slide It In (Whitesnake - 1984)
25) Simon Phillips
Sin After Sin (Judas Priest - 1977)
The Michael Schenker Group (MSG - 1980)
The Buffalo Skinners (Big Country - 1993)
24) Alex Van Halen
Van Halen (Van Halen - 1978)
Van Halen II (Van Halen - 1979)
1984 (Van Halen - 1984)
23) Phil Rudd
Highway To Hell (AC/DC - 1979)
Back In Black (AC/DC - 1980)
Flick Of The Switch (AC/DC - 1983)
22) Larry Mullen Jr.
October (U2 - 1981)
The Joshua Tree (U2 - 1987)
Achtung Baby (U2 - 1991)
21) Gene Hoglan
Darkness Descends (Dark Angel - 1986)
Individual Thought Patterns (Death - 1993)
Demonic (Testament - 1997)
20) Nicko McBrain
Makin' Magic (Pat Travers - 1977)
Powerslave (Iron Maiden - 1984)
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (Iron Maiden - 1988)
19) Lars Ulrich
Ride The Lightning (Metallica - 1984)
Master Of Puppets (Metallica - 1986)
And Justice For All (Metallica - 1988)
18) Gregg Bissonette
Eat 'Em and Smile (David Lee Roth - 1986)
The Extremist (Joe Satriani - 1992)
No Substitutions: Live In Osaka (Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather - 2001)
17) Dave Lombardo
Reign In Blood (Slayer - 1986)
South Of Heaven (Slayer - 1988)
The Gathering (Testament - 1999)
16) Bill Ward
Sabotage (Black Sabbath - 1975)
Heaven And Hell (Black Sabbath - 1980)
Ward One: Along The Way (1990)
15) Clyde Stubblefield
Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown - 1969)
Sex Machine (James Brown - 1970)
Funky Drummer (Single) (James Brown - 1970)
14) Jim Keltner
Takin' My Time (Bonnie Raitt - 1973)
Shot Of Love (Bob Dylan - 1981)
Mystery Girl (Roy Orbison - 1989)
13) Jeff Porcaro
Larry Carlton (Larry Carlton - 1978)
The Nightfly (Donald Fagen - 1982)
Kingdom Of Desire (Toto - 1992)
12) Roger Taylor
A Night At The Opera (Queen - 1975)
Jazz (Queen - 1978)
Strange Frontier (1984)
11) Ian Paice
In Rock (Deep Purple - 1970)
Burn (Deep Purple - 1974)
Victims Of The Future (Gary Moore - 1983)
10) Carmine Appice
Beck, Bogert & Appice (Beck, Bogert & Appice - 1973)
Ready To Strike (King Kobra - 1985)
Blue Murder (Blue Murder - 1989)
9) Leonard Haze
Earthshaker (Y&T - 1981)
Mean Streak (Y&T - 1983)
In Rock We Trust (Y&T - 1984)
8) Ginger Baker
Fresh Cream (Cream - 1966)
Baker Gurvitz Army (Baker Gurvitz Army - 1974)
Sunrise On The Sufferbus (Masters Of Reality - 1992)
7) Terry Bozzio
Sheik Yerbouti (Frank Zappa - 1979)
Spring Session M (Missing Persons - 1982)
Shampoohorn (Z - 1994)
6) Levon Helm
The Band (The Band - 1969)
The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan - 1975)
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (Muddy Waters - 1975)
My day 25 favorite drummer is Zac Starkey - The Who - 1. Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2. Quadrophenia Live in London and 3. Live at Shea Stadium 1982 - Favorite song - Won’t Get Fooled Again.
1. Andy Ward - Camel - 1. Mirage, 2. Moonmadness and 3. The Snow Goose - Favorite song - Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider
2. Alan White - Yes - 1. Relayer, 2. Drama and 3. 90125 - Favorite song - The Gates of Delirium
3. Nick D’Virgilio - Spock’s Beard, Big, Big Train - 1. English Electric Part Two, 2. Folklore and 3. Grimspound - Favorite Song - The Wide Open Sea
4. Clive Bunker - Jethro Tull - 1. Aqualung, 2. Living in the Past and 3. Stand Up - Favorite song - Locomotive Breath
5. Kevin Ellman - Utopia - 1. Utopia - Utopia, 2. State and 3. White Knight - Favorite song - Imagination
6. Andy Edwards - IQ, Frost and Robert Plant - 1. Milliontown, 2. Frequency and 3 Priory of Brion - Favorite song - The Province
7. Barriemore Barlow - Jethtro Tull - 1. Thick as a Brick, 2. War Child and 3. Minstrel in the Gallery - Favorite song - Baker St Muse
8. Jon Hiseman - Colosseum, Tempest - 1. Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, 2. Daughter of Time and 3. Valentyne Suite - Favorite song - The Valentyne Suite
9. Gavin Harrison - Porcupine Tree - 1. In Absentia, 2. Deadwing and 3. Fear of a Blank Planet - Favorite song - Arriving Somewhere but Not Here
10. Robert Wyatt - Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt - 1. The End of an Ear, 2. Shleep and 3. Rock Bottom - Favorite song - Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
11. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Transatlantic - 1. Bridge Across Forever, 2. Liquid Tension Experiment 2 and 3. Images and Words - Favorite song - When the Water Breaks
12. Ron Howden - Nektar - 1. Remember the Future, 2. A Tab in the Ocean and 3. Down to Earth - Favorite song - A Tab in the Ocean
13. Pierre Van der Linden - Focus - 1. Focus II, 2. Hamburger Concerto and 3. Ship of Memories - Favorite song - Anonymous II
14. Phil Collins - Genesis - 1. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, 2. Foxtrot and 3. Trick of the Tail. Favorite song - Carpet Crawlers
15. Nick Mason - Pink Floyd - 1. Dark Side of the Moon, 2. Wish You Were Here and 3. Animals - Favorite song - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
16. Marco Minnemann - Marco Minnemann - 1. The Aristocrats, 2. The Sea Within and 3. In Continuum - Favorite song - Normalizer
17. Terry Bozzio - 1. Zappa, 2. U.K. and 3. Missing Persons - Favorite song - Baby Snakes
18. B. J. Wilson - Procul Harum - 1. Shine on Brightly, 2. Grand Hotel and 3. A Salty Dog. Favorite song - Shine on Brightly - 02.
19. Jaki Liebezeit - Can - 1. Tago Mago, 2. Future Days and 3. Landed. Favorite song - Halleluhwah.
20. Pierre Moerlen - Gong, Mike Oldfield - 1. Ommadawn, 2. You and 3. Angel’s Egg. Favorite song - The Isle of Everywhere.
21. Carl Palmer - ELP - 1. Tarkus, 2. Emerson Lake & Palmer and 3. Brain Salad Surgery - Favorite song - Lucky Man.
22. Keith Moon - The Who - 1. Tommy, 2. Who’s Next and 3. Quadrophenia - Favorite song - Quadrophenia.
23. John Bonham - Led Zeppelin - 1. Led Zeppelin IV, 2. Led Zeppelin II and 3. Led Zeppelin III - Favorite song - Gallows Pole.
24. Chester Thompson - Phil Collins, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Santana - 1. Duke - Turn It On Again, 2. Santana - Into the Night and 3. Black Market - Cannon Ball - Favorite song - Herandnu.
25. Zac Starkey - The Who - 1. Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2. Quadrophenia Live in London and 3. Live at Shea Stadium 1982 - Favorite song - Won’t Get Fooled Again.
@@sdrandazzo hi Sal. Superb pick and article. Zac Starkey is an awesome drummer just like his father Ringo.
Genetics works well for Zac as dad was pretty good too.
#6 Is Vladimir Nekhaev From Russian Folk/Metal Band Zmey Gorynich Albums Are 3 Хиве На Московiи (Live On Moscovia) 2 Чёртовы Пляски (Devilish Dances) 1 Izhitsa Song Is Золотой Гребешокъ
My pick #6 is Charlie Watts ( The Rolling Stones ). Bill Ward made my list too.
So deserved! Excellent choice, Pete. The last 2 minutes of War Pigs has a roll in it, I could not create, and definitely not on the live double. Insane performance.
Killer pick bill ward underrated drummer imo my pick for today is Ringo Starr 1) abbey Road 2)Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 3)the White album song The End from abbey Road
6 - Brann Dailor
Mastodon - The Hunter, Leviathan, Blood Mountain
Favorite tracks would be Stargasm and Blood and Thunder. I still remember hearing Blood and Thunder the first time and knew this was a drummer I was going to enjoy a lot.
Bill Bruford for me today.
Great Pick Pete, thats an upcoming pick...My Pick is Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden...Piece of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere in Tim!!
6. Carl Palmer: ELP, Asia, Atomic Rooster, etc.: ELP-Emerson, Lake & Palmer(album), Asia-Asia(album), Five Miles Out(Mike Oldfield album): Fav Song is Sole Survivor(Asia).
6. Kim Ruzz (Mercyful Fate)
7. Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden)
8. Jörg Michael aka Gordon Perkins (Mekong Delta, Running Wild)
9. Guy Evans (Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill)
10. Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson)
11. Mick Pointer (Marillion)
12. Dave Lombardo (Slayer)
13. Anthony Bray 'Abaddon' (Venom)
14. Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Death)
15. Nigel Glockler (Saxon)
16. Ingo Schwichtenberg (Helloween)
17. Ken Owen (Carcass)
18. Charlie Benante (Anthrax)
19. Rat Skates (Overkill)
20. Stefan Schwarzmann (Running Wild)
21. Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche)
22. Simon King (Hawkwind)
23. Igor Cavalera (Sepultura)
24. Scott Columbus (Manowar)
25. Nick Menza (Megadeth)
26. Jürgen "Ventor" Reil (Kreator)
27. Kelly Smith (Flotsam and Jetsam)
28. Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (Motorhead)
29. Sid Falck (Overkill)
30. Tom Hunting (Exodus)
6. Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy)
* Johnny the Fox (1976)
* Jailbreak (1976)
* Bad Reputation (1977)
7. Vinnie Paul
8. Barriemore Barlow
9. Les Binks
10. Danny Carey
11. Mike Portnoy
12. Vinnie Appice
13. Scott Rockenfield
14. Clive Burr
15. Chuck Biscuits
16. Scott Travis
17. Nicko McBrain
18. Alex Van Halen
19. Mikkey Dee
20. Ian Paice
21. Albert Bouchard
22. Keith Moon
23. Matt Cameron
24. Nick Menza
25. Carl Palmer
26. Phil Rudd
27. Simon Phillips
28. Brann Dailor
29. Ginger Baker
30. Terry Bozzio
Brian Downey🎯💯❗
Excellent choice!
By pick Today Billy Cobham
Another fusion master
Bill Ward. Certainly should be in the top 10, no doubt about it. His drumming throughout the Sabbath catalogue on which he appeared can be considered here.
Max Weinberg
Big sound from a small kit
The River
The Rising
Live at Hammersmith 75
Song: Quarter To Three
Amazing that we say things like "not typical heavy metal playing" and he help invent the genre.
Keith Moon -
Who's Next '71
Tommy '69
Quadrophenia '73
Performance - if I'm in my car and this comes on the radio I'll go around the block an extra time or two till the end of the song.
'Won't Get Fooled Again'.
(it's also my favorite Entwistle performance)
@@uncledenny2570 hi Denny. Superb pick. He’s still on my list
@melaniethurber5117 hi Melanie! Nice of you to say that, have a great day.😀
Great pick denny hes coming up for me.
@dennisstratton6508 thank you dennis. Getting to that point in the list where they're all the best...
@@uncledenny2570 your welcome and your right
Totally agree with your choice of best performance Pete! 👍
Dannie Richmond - Charles Mingus and many other Jazz artists.
Reincarnation of a Lovebird, Mingus Ah Um, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" "Bugs"
I could have chosen many Jazz drummers for my list but I settled on Dannie as he was one of the greatest particularly on the Mingus recordings.
@@andrewcarr5923 hi Andrew. Don’t know your pick. Interesting article
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie.
@@andrewcarr5923 you’re welcome Andrew
6. Cozy Powell
7. Lars Ulrich
8. Billy Cobham
9. Bill Bruford
10. Mike Portnoy
11. Nick Mason
12. Danny Carey
13. Tony Williams
14. Igor Calavera
15. Carl Palmer
16. Vinny Appice
17. Art Blakey
18. Ginger Baker
19. Neil Peart
20. Nicko McBrain
21. Alex Van Halen
22. Phil Rudd
23. Peter Erskine
24. Matt Garstka
25. Simon Phillips
26. Vinnie Colaiuta
27. Mario Duplantier
28. Tomas Haake
29. Slobodan Stojanović Kepa
30. Stewart Copeland
6. Max Roach ... Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Collossus" "Tour De Force" (1956) -- Kenny Dorham "Jazz Contrasts" (1957) -- Ellington/Mingus/Roach "Money Jungle" (1963) -- "Introducing Johnny Griffin" (1956) -- "Brown & Roach Inc" (55) "At Basin Street" (56) -- Thad Jones "Magnificent" (1956)
My #6 Lee Kerslake - Uriah Heep
My Favorite Song - The Wizard
Terrific pick!
Pick#6 Neil Peart
Alex Acuna - Heavy Weather, Frontline, More Than a Feelin' - Birdland
#6
Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group,Rainbow,MSG,Whitesnake,Emerson, Lake & Powell,Black Sabbath,...)
Rainbow "Rising" (1976)
Long Live Rock and Roll (1978)
MSG (1981)
Whitesnake "Slide It In" (1984)
Great pick Ramon.
Nice one Ramon
@@ramonace4770 Terrific choice Ramon. One of the great show men on the kit.
Excellent choice and album picks,
Hi Ramon, of course, how could you not...? Legend!
Today's choice is Ringo Star. His work with The Beatles speaks for itself and his solo efforts have been strong. We saw him in concert last year and at age 83, he did just great. I can still remember seeing the Ed Sullivan show and Ringo shaking his mop top. Again my choices are of performers I have seen live in concert.
@@rosshageman951 hi Ross. Fantastic pick and article. Ringo almost made my list.
Pete you nailed it. Although Bill Ward is definitely hiring then 6th. He made Sabbath Swing! His Love of Jazz made Sabbath so Unique! Supernaut!!!-Beyond incredible n also Wicked World of the 1st album which Bill shows his Phenomenal Jazz chops. He really was half along w/ Geezer as one on the Ultimate Rhythm Sections in the history of Rock. Warning is An Awesome example of that as well as Behind the Wall of Sleep where Hip Hop was born! Rat Salad is an extension of Zepp’s. Moby Dick by his old pal John Henry Bonham!
was listening to "behind the wall of sleep today," and thinking it is one of their most underrated songs. I always said bill was playing hip hop, before there was hip hop...
Great pick Melanie.
@@danielfuentes3226 thanks Daniel
@@melaniethurber5117 You're welcome Melanie.👍
The rest is in order:
6) Carl Palmer
Albums:
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (ELP) - s/t (debut)
Brain Salad Surgery
Trilogy
Songs:
Fanfare For the Common Man (ELP)
Lucky Man (ELP)
Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2 (ELP)
From the Beginning (ELP)
Toccata (ELP)
Tank (ELP)
Sole Survivor (Asia)
6) Carl Palmer
7) Clive Bunker
8) Ian Paice
9) Charlie Watts
10) Andy Parker
11) Clive Burr
12) Levon Helm
13) Jason Bonham
14) Keith Moon
15) Nick Mason
16) Nicko McBrain
17) Tommy Aldridge
18) Max Weinberg
19) John Panozzo
20) Doug Clifford
21) Joey Kramer
22) Carmine Appice
23) Vinny Appice
24) Alex Van Halen
25) Ginger Baker
26) Roger Taylor
27) Kenny Aronoff
28) Steve Smith
29) Dylan Sevey
30) Jeff Porcaro
@@weirddebbiem1619 hi Debbie. Fantastic picks and list. I had him on my list but removed him earlier this month.
@@melaniethurber5117Thank you, Melanie. There were a couple that I removed from my list.
Hi Debbie, I considered Carl on the back of ASIA, (big fan!) but never really got into ELP - lack of guitar always my big issue!
Fabulous pick, Debbie. Coming up very soon for me too.
@@gaiaeternal5131 Thank you, Dave. I will be on the lookout for it.
#6 KEITH MOON - The Who Hi Friends Today remember Keith Moon. And the great power and finesse he brought to the stages of his drumming. And added alot to each song the band did. The 3 albums well WHOS NEXT. TOMMY QUADROPHENIA. So many great performances everywhere in studio and live and so on. I was lucky to have seen the The Who in 71 at Hara Arena Dayton and to remember so well. Audio boot album made I have. HMs so many of Baba O Reilly , Won't Get Foled Again Behind Blue Eyes and so much on Tommy too. The Acid Queen. Pinball Wizard We're Not Gonna Take It The Real Me Love Reign O'ver Me and so many off Quadrophenia. One of the best and early ones of Keith to describe as to what he could do and showcase himself is on The track I CAN SEE FOR MILES. From the album The Who Sell Out that I have and the track is on other albums and comps I would have as to The Who. A hit single then in the 60s. And well the rolls and all he gives the song with Roger on the vocals Pete On Guitar and John on bass it as one of the old rock staples of rock classics that stands the test of time of The Who was and would so be for many tears to come RIP KEITH . Thanks for the memories. to John Entwistle as well.
Take care folks. Love hugs and prayers. 🎶🎶🥁❤🤗🙏☮
Btw good choice to Bill Ward PETE. Had him for Day 10. TC👍👍
Excellent choice!
A note who reads this and to PETE , Of a loss of guitarist singer songwriter Mike Pinera. Blues Image Iron Butterfly on that one album Metamorphosis. Also with band Ramatam and also New Cactus Band back in the day And other things solo and such. RIP Mike. A tribute episode to be would be good. He even jammed with Ted Nugent. I have two Blues Image albums he is on. They are on vinyl. Exceptional classics.
@@thedarkwizardroom RIP Mike
@@weirddebbiem1619 Thanks Debbie.
@@thedarkwizardroom Hi Jon. Superb pick and article. He’s still on my list for later.
6 : Narada Michael Walden
Gotta go with Bonham today.
Zep 1
Zep 2
Physical Graffiti
Performance: Fool In The Rain
My pick today for drummers will be Richie Hayward (Little Feat)
& Joe Butler (the Lovin' Spoonful).🥁🥁🥁🥁
Brian Downey
The Great Michael Walden! Incredible chops in Fusion history! His work on “Vision’s of the Emerald Beyond” is Legendary! He also sings amazingly! Mahavishnu John knew want he wanted n Got it in Spades!
Funny enough today my pick #6 is also Bill Ward, such amazing drummer. 3 albums I decided to pick are Paranoid because it’s so groundbreaking, vol 4 and sabotage. Song I’m picking is his best drum performance, guess what same as Pete picked out Supernaut.
@@tylerpatterson4787 Super Tyler
@ Thank you Ziggy
Nick Mason
Killer drummer!! So many great tunes!! My #6: Going with a great drummer from a great British trio. They only put out a handful of albums, but were very influential, and this guy played some great drum parts. Talking about Stewart Copeland of The Police.
Albums: Reggata De Blanc, Ghost In The Machine, Synchronicity
Song: Can't Stand Losing You
Bill Ward, what can you say? Favorite 3 records Paranoid, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Heaven and Hell. Cheers!
Charlie Watts Get Off My Cloud Miss You Paint It Black Undercover Of The Night Can't You Hear Me Knocking Emotional Rescue scratching the surface
All great songs ykm
Hello everyone, hope we all had a great weekend. Back to Monday again, and day 25 of drummers is here already, and my pick today - sadly no longer with us - is often overlooked as a technician because of the seemingly rough and ready nature of the band he propelled with such unbridled enthusiasm for so long...
PHIL"thy Animal" TAYLOR of MOTORHEAD
With a technique combining the attitude of punk, the madness of Moon and the power of Bonham, he combined with Lemmy and Fast Eddie Clarke to produce some of the most important and influential rock music of their age. Kudos to Mickey Dee for his time in the band, but Phil's oeuvre is where it was at for me...
3 albums from his tenure:
Overkill
Ace Of Spades
Orgasmatron
Track of choice: "Snaggletooth" from No Remorse
Good pick, had him yesterday.
Thanks Larry@@LarryFleetwood8675
@@iainhead9898 Hi Iain. Been spending most of the weekend watching the TH-cam reactions to a certain Premier league match from Saturday Evening and pinching myself to make sure, it did actually happen. Now watch us lose the next couple of games. Anyway great pick of course. Philthy Animal provided the prototype fir thrash type drumming and created his own sound, very difficult to do on the drums. Love your description of him.
Excellent choice and article, Iain. Great album and song picks.
@@weirddebbiem1619Thanks Debbie
Pick 6: Fred White
Favourite Albums:
1) Earth, Wind, & Fire - All N All (1977)
2) Earth, Wind, & Fire - Spirit (1976)
3) Earth, Wind, & Fire - Gratitude (1975)
6) Fred White
7) Mike Clarke
8) Narada Michael Walden
9) Al Foster
10) Chester Thompson
11) Gerry Brown
12) Tony Williams
13) Billy Hart
14) Simon Kirke
15) John Bonham
16) Alphonse Mouzon
17) Omar Hakim
18) Terry Bozzio
19) Peter Erskine
20) Jimmy Cobb
21) Maurice White
22) Jack Dejohnnete
23) Jeff Pocaro
24) Alan White
25) Tiki Fulwood
26) Richard Bailey
27) Harvey Mason
28) Ralph Johnson
29) Don Henley
30) Yoshikuza Ogawa
6. Cozy Powell
Pick for today is Vinny Appice of Sabbath and Dio fame. Going with Mob Rules Holy Diver and Last in Line for my albums. And We Rock my favorite drum performance
Nice pick Logan!
@@logancollins7097 Superb pick Logan.
Great pick Logan
Excellent choice and album and song picks, Logan. I had Vinny on my list earlier in the month.
@@weirddebbiem1619 Thanks Debbie! Vinny is awesome
Great pick Takoda
Eric Carr. Creatures of the night, Lick it up,and Asylum..
Day 6
My pick today is
Iron Butterfly
1 In A Gadda Da Vida
2 Heavy
3 Ball
Drummer Ron Bushy
Songs “Flowers and Beads”, “In A Gadda Da Vida”, “In the Time of Our Lives”, and “You Can’t Win”.
30 Graeme Edge
29 Spencer Dryden
28 Max Weinberg
27 Alex Van Halan
26 Joey Karmer
25 Michael Shrieve
24 John Steel
23 Kenny Aronoff
22 Dennis Elliott
21 Roger Taylor
20 Doug Clifford
19 Mel Taylor/ Howie Johnson
18 Levon Helm
17 Don Henley
16 Nick Mason
15 Floyd Sneed
14 Stan Lynch/ Steve Ferrone
13 Steve Smith
12 Jeff Porcaro
11 Mitch Mitchell/ Buddy Miles
10 Clive Bunker
9 Ian Paice
8 Jason Bonham
7 Charlie Watts
6 Ron Bushy
Great picks melanie
Cool pick Melanie.
Super pick, Melanie. A blast from the past.
Best pick of the month so far as I'm concerned. That solo in In-a gadda-da-vida has been played on knees and desk tops for over 50 years!
Hi Melanie, another band that I'm not too familiar with bar the big hit I'll add them to the list.
Yes - "Supernaut" is a great showcase.