Top Ten Best Drummers of all Time
"I'm not really interested in the circus act part of it at all," Terry Bozzio told Rolling Stone in the midst of a solo tour with what he billed as "the world's largest tun
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A founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, Carter Beauford is a chops-heavy jazz drummer and Tony Williams fan with pop sensibilities.
Who is the greatest drummer ever? This is a list of the best drummers of all time, voted on and ranked by music lovers worldwide. Add your own list or vote on the greatest drummers of all time here. Although many of the top drummers in history are rock drummers, this list is not restricted to just rock music.
In his 1984 book The Big Beat , Max Weinberg paid apt tribute to Levon Helm, the Band's legendary singing drummer: "The muffled cadence of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,'
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One of the most sought-after studio drummers in rock music both for his precision and jackhammer groove, Josh Freese has appeared on nearly 300 records, including Puddle of Mudd, The Offspring, 3 Doors Down, Avril Lavigne and Tracy Bonham.
Today, Rolling Stone published its list of the “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time,” and spoiler: Meg White is ranked higher than U2’s Larry Mullen Jr. and Blink-182’s Travis Barker; Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith comes in at No. 64; Phil Collins is at No. 43; Tool’s Danny Carey and Dave Grohl are ranked No. 26 and 27, respectively; and Neil Peart, who was voted by our own readers as music’s greatest drummer, doesn’t even crack the top 3.
Think of the hallmarks of history’s greatest drummers, and you find that Terry Bozzio (b. 1950) bears all of them. With Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, the Brecker Brothers, Jeff Beck, and others, he’s made stellar music even better by his very presence, through transcendent chops, a fertile imagination, a deep time feel, riveting showmanship, and a disregard for genre boundaries.
In coming up with our list of the 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time, we valued nuance and musicality over chops and flash, celebrating players who knew the value of aiding a great song more than hogging up a show with a silly solo.
Keith moon is the greatest drummer of all time. Wont get fooled again proves my point from me saying there ain't no one better than Keith Who the hell rated keith moon at 7th he is the best along with john bonham.
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In coming up with our list of the 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time, we valued nuance and musicality over chops and flash, celebrating players who knew the value of aiding a great song more than hogging up a show with a silly solo.
How many drummers can claim they appeared on a million-selling instrumental hit? That features a drum solo? In 5/4 time? If that were all Joe Morello (1928–2011) accomplished—the track in question is “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet—it would have been remarkable.
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In coming up with our list of the 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time, we valued nuance and musicality over chops and flash, celebrating players who knew the value of aiding a great song more than hogging up a show with a silly solo.
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Born in Dartford, England, in 1943, he was expelled from a technical college when he was sixteen. He immediately joined his childhood friend Mick Jagger and another R&B aficionado, Brian Jones, in a combo, Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, that by 1962 — with bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts — had become the Rolling Stones.
Unlike many solo musicians, Adams does not use a rotation of session musicians, preferring to use the same musicians for all his studio and live work. History Although Adams' solo career started in 1979, a constant backing band did not materialise immediately.
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Brant first met up with Fu Manchu ten years ago, and eventually produced their 1994 debut, No One Rides For Free. After the band’s original drummer was asked to leave, Bjork got the call. Though he was a fan of the band’s sound, Bjork admits that switching bands was a tad difficult.
But Rich's influence extended far beyond the big-band era or even jazz: He was the first American drummer that many of the earliest British rockers ever heard, teaching fans like John Bonham and Bill Ward to blast past a simple backbeat toward hard-hitting improvisational patterns, encouraging Phil Collins to abandon a two-bass-drum set-up and focus on his hi-hat work, and just plain flooring Roger Taylor.