100 Greatest Rock Drummers

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100 Greatest Rock Drummers

My Top 10 drummers in no particular order are:

John Bonham (Led Zep)
Keith Moon (The Who)
Carl Palmer (ELP)
Ian Paice (Deep Purple)
Cozy Powell (Rainbow)
Roger Taylor (Queen)
Zak Starkey (The Who)
Dean Castronovo (Journey)
Myron Grombacher (Pat Benatar)
Simon Phillips (Toto)

Cozy Powell is the only drummer l haven't seen in concert

What are your Top 10 drummers?

 

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Neil Peart
Matt Cameron
Danny Carey
Tomas Haake
Bill Bruford
Mike Bordin
Tim Alexander
Joe Morello
Buddy Rich
Keith Moon

 

[mick]

gene krupa
buddy rich
neil peart
travis barker

 

[vegasnitro]

Any list that does not include Danny Carey in the top 5 is spurious at best, fraudulent at worst.

 

[cdag]

Mike Mangini [steve vai, berklee staff]
Tomas Haake [meshuggah]
Gavin Harrison [porcupine tree]
Virgil Donati [planet x]
Mike Portnoy [ex-dream theater]
Dave Dicenso [independent/two ton shoe]
Steve Smith [journey]
Bobby Jarzombek [spastic ink/rob halford]
Raymond Herrera [independent]
Dominic Howard [muse]

 

[MM]

Neil Peart
Travis Barker
Rick Allen (the man has one arm for crying out loud!)

 

[murdock]

Neil Peart
Narda Michael Walden
John Bonham
Tommy Lee

 

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Neil Peart
Narda Michael Walden
John Bonham
Tommy Lee

How in the **** did I miss Bonham in my top ten list?

 

[cdag]

How in the **** did I miss Bonham in my top ten list?

...You had Joe Morello & Tomas Haake, so youre forgiven

 

[vegasnitro]

...You had Joe Morello & Tomas Haake, so youre forgiven

Saw Meshuggah open for Tool on the Lateralus tour in late 01 or early 02 ... the Meshuggah drummer came out and did a dueling drum solo in one of the songs as Tool normally does with their openers. The guy wasn't bad ... but when you are playing next to Danny ....

 

[cdag]

Saw Meshuggah open for Tool on the Lateralus tour in late 01 or early 02 ... the Meshuggah drummer came out and did a dueling drum solo in one of the songs as Tool normally does with their openers. The guy wasn't bad ... but when you are playing next to Danny ....

Jeez, that must have been a killer show...

 

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Saw Meshuggah open for Tool on the Lateralus tour in late 01 or early 02 ... the Meshuggah drummer came out and did a dueling drum solo in one of the songs as Tool normally does with their openers. The guy wasn't bad ... but when you are playing next to Danny ....

I saw Tool 3 times on the Lateralus tour. When they were here in Cedar Rapids Tricky opened for them. On Triad they had Perry from Tricky join in on percussion.

 

[T.J.]

John Bonham
Neal Peart
but my all time favorite is ...Mike Portnoy

 

[cdag]

John Bonham
Neal Peart
but my all time favorite is ...Mike Portnoy

Any clues as to who DT's new drummer may be???

Mike Mangini looks like a good candidate.....

 

[merc49]

Don't forget Little Johnny....


Little Johnny: Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a drummer!

Mommy: Now Johnny, you can't do both.

 

[mick]

Don't forget Little Johnny....


Little Johnny: Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a drummer!

Mommy: Now Johnny, you can't do both.

that's good humor

 

[T.J.]

Any clues as to who DT's new drummer may be???

Mike Mangini looks like a good candidate.....

They are close to anouncing someone, but I have no clue who it may be...I'm still holding onto the hope that Portnoy will come back to DT. Portnoy's shoes will be tough to fill.

 

[cdag]

Portnoy already tried to rejoin, Petrucci & Rudess declined. Interestingly enough, Mike Mangini cancelled all of his Berklee classes for this year and had minor knee surgery last year....

 

[cdag]

I'm about seven full listens into the new Dream Theater album (released 2 days ago) and I am happy to say that they made the right move in chosing Mike Mangini to take over as their drummer. I was fortunate enough to take a couple hours of private lessons from him in 2001, and he changed the way i approached drumming forever. Anyone who is into drums and/or progressive music should check out the new DT album!!

 

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Since Corey bumped this thread, I have this to add:

Sick Drummer Magazine | Neil Peart - Taking Center Stage 3-DVD Set