Most Overrated Drummers? - Page 3

By the way that is great Peart solo.  Maybe best I have seen!

 

Great point Spyro.  I notice that same phenomenon at many concerts.  The drummer will be seemingly going about his / her business to most folks while I'm shaking my head in awe at the "underneath happenings" they are doing to groove, accent, or drive the composition.  Sure the drum solo pyrotechnics are fun but after a while it is just so much showing off.  I can still remember watching Bill Bruford with his eponymous group playing in a small club and seeing his lips mouth "1-2-3-4-5-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1-2-...". 

 

Musicians and the public at large attend the same concerts but see different shows.

 

 

As a non-musician this still is very cool to me.  No dramatic soloing or anything in the link below.  It must be almost 20 years old with Dave in a mullet hairdo. LOL!!  But it is again an example of how intricate a drummer's craft is.  Dave talks here about being able to practice interchanging rhythms and licks between each of your 4 limbs almost simultaneously to where it become second nature and you are not thinking about it.  It's a very simple thing he's playing but blows my mind how a person could master it interchangeably between each limb (left foor, right arm, left arm, right foot, voice...) Very cool.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRH-rAVuyus&feature=related

Edited by Spyro - 4/21/12 at 2:59pm

Thanks for the link Spyro. That is VERY cool! This level of independence is extremely difficult because it is not how most people are wired. I just finished an hour on my set so this sunk in. More work for me to do!

I would have to agree with John Bonham. I remember my cousin, who was just starting to play drums, become fascinated with his playing. Don't get me wrong, he's a good drummer and everything, but I could never just see what people saw in him.

Ringo, I've always thought of him as the guy they send to get coffee.

Good point. Ringo Starr was a great 'character' who fit in well with John, George and Paul. The classic comment was when John Lennon was asked 'So is Ringo Starr the best drummer in the world?'. John gave his trademark smirk and said 'He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles'.

 

I agree. Music shouldn't be all about technical ability. It can be important, obviously in classical music, but mainstream music needs more characters and uniqueness. I mean listen to David Bowie, hardly the best singer in the world, but he sounds unique. thats worth more than anything IMO.

 

When I listen to bands like Dream Theater, I love the playing. Its great to listen to. Some of the timings and complex fills and offbeat rhythms, but sometimes I have to stop listening, as it can get too much.

Edited by zardon - 5/8/12 at 8:41am

I don't think he was one of the top five drummers in The Beatles. Just kidding. I actually think he's an underrated drummer.

He was in 30 movies.

Hmmmm.......Yes...may be No

 

Go find the guy who sounded like John Bonham before Bonham forged his style.

He does not exist.

John created a style, a template that virtually every hard rock drummer who came after him after owes a debt of gratitude to.

He had a phenomal mastery of odd time signatures, a mastery of various genres.

They don't sound awkward, they just flow, they sound very musical.

This was about inventing a new style, a new vocabulary, a new way of playing.

 

 

 

Ringo............very, very true.

It is impossible to imagine anyone else playing those parts, inventing those parts.

The key here is he made up those parts and played them. Who else could have thought those parts up?

I see very few other drummers who have created such a unique style.

Try to find the guy who sounded like Ringo before Ringo, he doesn't exist.

Ringo is another guy who developed a style which is often copied, but never duplicated.

His influence on a generation of players is incredible, immeasurable.

Ringo is the guy who played on Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be. What an incredible stylist! Who else can makes this claim?

George Martin said that it was very rare that they had to stop a take because Ringo made a mistake, it was almost always someone else. Martin alsp pointed out that Ringo had no problem playing Lennon's odd time signatures. 

Edited by Chris J - 6/4/12 at 6:05pm