I'm not certified as a drummer, so I'm not sure how much weight this carries, but the Dirty Three's Jim White on "Sue's Last Ride" from Horse Stories is the greatest drumming I've ever heard.

Live, I equally enjoy Todd Trainer and Brian Wnukowski

Britt Walford - What he don't play being every bit as important as what he does.

Keith Moon - For starting it all. Flair, aggression, precision.

Todd Trainer - For always doing what you don'y expect him to do, I don't think he treats drums strictly as drums / time piece.

Ian Paice - For being everything that John Bonham couldn't

Murph - He wasn't rated, watch him playing live (with anyone, not just Dinosaur and you can't help but be amazed). Dynamic, powerful and like a Swiss cheese watch, loose but precise

Can only comment on drummers playing the music I listen to, rock. This pretty much excludes jazz drummers unfortunately.

Orestes Morfin, for both Bitch Magnet and Walt Mink's El Producto. Will Bitch Magnet ever get back together? I would travel a long way to see that.

Che, Hill, Washam, McNeilly, Barocas and the guy from Burning Airlines are all excellent. But for finesse, Morfin hands down. Big Pining and Joyless Street are good examples on Umber, Dragoon and Mesentery on Ben Hur. No one can touch that guy.

Keith Moon gets this vote. Anyone who eats 32 anabuse pills and dies from it get my vote! Oh yeah, and that guy from Shellac, and that guy Christopher Mcguire, and that other guy Dave King. Those guys (except Keith) are all from Minneapolis. They must have something in the water up there.....

The Code is Almighty wrote:But the Dirty Three's Jim White
on "Sue's Last Ride" from Horse Stories is the greatest drumming I've
ever heard.

I love the way he looks like he's just arsing about behind the kit.

On Kieth Moon, this one time at a Drum Clinic, he did some shit and
Billy Cobham said to Moon after, whatever the hell that was you did,
can you do it again. There aren't many higher compliment in the world
of drumming.

b

vance wrote:are all from Minneapolis. They must have something in the water up there.....

Our water is fluorinated.

hum ..

sorry but everybody knows that the greatest drummer in the world is Christian Vander

"Dr Avalanche"

he's the drummer of the early sisters of mercy isn't it ? his first name is roland if I remember well ?

i love:
Jaki Liebezeit
Jack Dejohnette
Bob Rising on that one poster children record
Janne Saarenpää of the crown
Brad Elrod on the early today is the day records

I totally forgot about Jaki! He's the man.