By the way, after nearly thirty years I still don't get the intro to Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll." Is there an extra beat in there?

I know. I think Bonzo may be starting on the 4 count and not on the 1.... It's messed up.

Same thing with the beginning of the Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand". It just kind of tumbles into existence. Where is the down beat. Huh?


Fills continued;

Leonard Haze, Yesterday and Today - "Come On Over"...Lots of wacky right foot work, you'd swear it was double bass, but it isn't. 1976 too, way before those lame "twin kick drum pedals on one bass drum" things were made.

Steve Shelly, Cat Power - "Good Clean Fun"

Quint, Electric Prunes - Live version of "You Never Had It Better" from the Stockholm '67 lp.

Tyrone Lampkin (?), Funkadellic - Live version of "Maggot Brain".

Dave Mattacks, Fairport, Thompson, etc. - Almost all his fills are great.

i would say the intro fill of the song "tourretes" (from in utero) its deffinitly one of my favorite fills of all time, or atleast my favorite intro fill

umm wow there are many great fills, jesus lizard the in the song " " right as they go into the second verse is an awesome fill.

oh and also in the song very ape when he switches into the chorus with that long snare roll interupted by a bass hit close to the end., you know what im talking bout.

andi might sound ghey for htinking this but whatever.
the drummer from dave mathews has some tight fills. so iguess all of his
haha

shenk

Phil Collins' fills in the Genesis song "No Son of Mine." His use of space in many of those fills is superb.

the snare-roll-to-crash fill on the Minutemen's "Corona" right before the vocals come in. i love that one because it totally takes me back to memories of going to see polka bands with my grandparents when i was four.

spoot wrote:

nick92675 wrote:but i mean, do people really care about fills? i tend to think not (except music nerds and other drummers)

I think everyone who's posted so far is both a nerd and a drummer, but you're probably right about everyone else.

I'm not a drummer; I'm a guitarist. For whatever reason, though, I often find myself listening specifically to the drumming on any given record rather than the actual notes being played.

This, more than anything else, probably explains my affinity for the smashing pumpkins.

I just scored a ton of Beatle records and just noticed Alan White's fills on John Lennon's "Instant Karma" are all pretty good. Ringo on steroids.


Jay

Wasnt alan white the drummer from Oasis?

The Oasis guy?? was he born then?.. 1970..
This is the Alan White from Yes (!!!), he was probably only 19 or 20 then.
Still a good drummer, great with the "Ruffs".

Jay

there's some fill mac macneilly does, i think it's in something on "shot" (i know, i know!) possibly "mailman." he only does it once, and it's an easy little fill, but just that he does it once, and how it comes out of nowhere. anyways...i'm gonna second the zeppelin "achilles..." cymbals fill.

1. Tony Williams - Nefertiti [ [take 4] Jun 7, 1967]

2. Ringo Starr - Strawberry Fields Forever

3. Joe Chambers - [Wayne Shorter - Etcetera]

4. Elvin Jones - anything uptempo from 1964-65 esp. Pursuance, Transition

5. Tony Williams - Pick a track from Emergency!


I agree that most of the other poster's suggestions are great.. I just thought these kinds of drumming were underrepresented in this thread.