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Who's Your Favourite Drummer???

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    #62
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Clem Burke, without a doubt. The natural heir to Moon as the greatest drummer.

    For those of you who don't know who he is:

    http://www.answers.com/topic/clem-burke

    I always thought Animal was based on Mick Fleetwood


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    #63
    reniwren
    Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭reniwren


    Dennis Chambers
    Carter Beauford


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    #64
    pshar84
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    i presume everybody knows him...........

    but just incase you dont..................

    ALL THE WAY FROM DUBLIN, IN EIRE
    THE ONE AND ONLY BRIAN DOWNEY ON DRUMS
    HE MAKES YOUR HANDS CLAP, TOES TAP..............

    philip paris lynott inroducing Brian Downey on Thin Lizzys Live and Dangerous
    1978


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    #65
    Bastack
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    I am going with :

    Dennis Chambers
    Buddy Rich
    Carter Beauford

    In that order.

    Brian


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    #66
    bottlerocket
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    Reni from the stone roses could be sublime at times. Also John Bonham and Dave Grohl.


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    #67
    NoreenMF
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    Has to be Stewart Copeland from The Police!!!


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    #68
    Cormac2791
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Cormac2791


    neil peart hands down


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    #69
    GhostInTheRuins
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    Why not just start a new thread instead of bumping a three year old one?


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    #70
    Kold
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    Phil motherf*cking Selway.


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    #71
    Dudess
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    Stephen Morris (Joy Division/New Order)
    Laurence Colbert (Ride)


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    #72
    Drummerboy08
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    ME!

    And after that, Dave Clarke (Hothouse Flowers/Prenup) and Brian Downey.


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    #73
    GavRedKing
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    John Otto, surprised he hasnt got a mention! (Im not a LB fan either)


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    #74
    stovelid
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    Stewart Copeland by a mile:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPc83j4z4UY


    Closely followed by:

    Klaus Dinger
    Buddy Rich
    Reni
    Keith Moon
    Clyde Stubblefield


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    #75
    Nolanger
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    Echo from Echo and the Bunnymen :p


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    #76
    Mushy
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    Not sure do man yhere know him, but Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree. When I saw them in Holland, what I heard was just astonishing. It never caught me when I listened on cd, but when I heard it live, it was crazy. Just very smooth while being really good at it too. When I looked up other stuff, I was well andtruly blown away, really enjoy him.


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    #77
    funktastic
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    The drummers that have influenced my own playing for about 12 years on drums are:

    John Bonham - Led Zeppelin
    Reni - The Stone Roses
    Loz Colbert - Ride
    Joe Morello - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    Larry Mullen Jr - U2
    Mitch Mitchell - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Jimmy Chamberlain - Smashing Pumpkins
    Stephen Morris - Joy Division/New Order
    Steven Adler - Guns n Roses
    Ringo Starr - The Beatles
    Dave Grohl - Nirvana
    Bill Berry - REM
    Jimmy Cobb
    Elvin Jones
    Steve Gadd
    Stewart Copeland - The Police
    Danny Taylor - Silver Apples
    Plus various break-beats from the likes of Chemical Brothers, NWA, Public Enemy, James Brown, Funk etc


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    #78
    Dudess
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    You included my two - I likes you a lot!


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    #79
    stovelid
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    funktastic wrote: »
    Plus various break-beats from the likes of Chemical Brothers, NWA, Public Enemy, James Brown, Funk etc

    Clyde Stubblefield is probably responsible for a lot of these. :D


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    #80
    Poutbutton
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭Poutbutton


    Larry Mullins
    Phil Collins
    Ringo Star

    :)


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    #81
    Dexterm99
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    Steve Gadd. He just makes it look so easy and effortless.

    Bill Bruford
    Peter Erskine
    Omar Hakim
    Nicko McBrain
    Conor Guilfoyle - great Dublin drummer who some of you may have got lessons from.


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    #82
    greatgoal
    Registered Users Posts: 517 ✭✭✭greatgoal


    Brian Downey,Cozy Powell.


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    #83
    Cormac2791
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    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    Why not just start a new thread instead of bumping a three year old one?

    sorry, i'm new to this, but why start a new one???


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    #84
    leincar
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    Jeff Pocaro - Toto
    Neil Peart - Rush


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    #85
    davylee
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭davylee


    +1 on brian downey. Brilliant drummer


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    #86
    DublinWriter
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    Steve Gadd.

    There's a vid of him playing with Vinnie Colaiuta and Dave Weckl. Both Colaiuta and Weckl start the battle playing crazy chops around the kit.

    Then Gadd comes with with some simple marching band rudiments on the snare and owns them both. It's an exercise in understatement and grove.

    Years ago and in a previous life, I trained under Noel Bridgeman. He gave me the classic piece of Zen-like advice that it's what a drummer doesn't play, not what he plays, that makes him great.

    Brian Downey was also a big influence. He's class and control personified. Horrifically underrated.

    Tony Williams basically toasted my brain. One of the most empathic and musical drummers I've ever heard.

    Manu Katchè - fantastic.

    Bill Bruford - not one of the 'grooviest' players around, but someone who really likes to push the envelope.

    Kevin Wilkinson - drummer with China Crises who tragically committed suicide in 1999. Listen to the 'Flaunt the Imperfection' and 'What Price Paradise" albums and you'll realise why he was one of Neil Pert's favourite drummers.

    Phil Collins (he hasn't gone away you know!). Ignore the solo career - listen to his playing on early jazz-fusion Brand X, Jack Lancaster's Marscape, Genesis' Lamb Lies Down and Philip Bailey's Chinese Wall and you'll be blown away.

    Last but not least...Stevie Wonder...well, who do you think played drums on 'Superstitious'?!?


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    #87
    cautioner
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    From my own limited tastes, Bryan Devendorf of The National really stands out. He really brings it all together.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRsYkKb1eI


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    #88
    rednik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭rednik


    John Henry Bonham easily the best.
    Brian Downey : Any time I saw Lizzy a Downey solo was one of the highlights a truly great drummer although not a typical drummer in his day as the drummer was always seen as the loon in the band.


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    #89
    Kold
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    What makes your choices good drummers? Phil Selway is mine because his beats are so complex yet understated. You can thrash a drum 200 times a minute but not be as good as this guy for what he adds to the music.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqP0WNpojFM


    Phil makes this song what it is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JERwz_sRMk4


    That beat is complex as hell.


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    #90
    robot001
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    Colm Ó Cíosóig


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    #91
    Captain Darling
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    Fyffe McEwing: Ex-Therapy?
    John Bonham,
    Keith Moon,
    Dave Grohl,
    And the guy who plays in Richard Hawleys' backing band. I've never seen such a smiley drummer in all my life.


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