regarding ringo starr, as mentioned several times earlier:he's really original and tasteful in coming up with drum parts... but the performance is really hit or miss. when he's on, such as in "day in the life," it makes you feel really glad it was him who drummed for the beatles; but on some songs, such as "while my guitar gently weeps," his performance can be really shoddy.perhaps that inconsistency could be chalked up to the drug use in beatles recording sessions?

lars ulrich can obviously play drums and everything, but fuck if he doesn't write the most amateur fills i've ever heard. i think his standard drum fill is a slow roll on the snare (like 8th note speed) and then he cuts that in half for the last bit of the measure.. so you have this shitty bapabapabapabapa bap bap bap bap crash/kick

Benny wrote:i would say that steve shelley is the core and main member that wraps the band together. what he does is awesome, super simple and tight and locked-in.This mirrors my experience when I last saw them. I honestly hadn't thought much about the drumming in Sonic Youth before that show, but I came away with a real respect for Shelley's role. He is like clockwork, the mechanism that holds it all together.

davesec wrote:bapabapabapabapa bap bap bap bap crash/kickThis actually made me laugh just now. WHEREVER I MAY RO-OAAMMMMM!!

Matt Sorum.

alex maiolo wrote:Steve Shelley is a phenomenal drummer.... I don't like Matt Cameron's bands but he's obviously great.I feel the same way about Cameron.I'll give you quite good on Shelley, though certainly not phenomenal. To be fair, I have paid minimal attention since Goo, but I have attended about a half dozen gigs since those days and nothing really moved me, drums included. I agree that the drumming on EVOL is a massive improvement over Bob Bert, but it's not as good as Jim Sclavunos (in Sonic Youth, Fuse, or the Bad Seeds, take your pick).Still, nobody who drummed for SY was half as imaginative or powerful as say, Swans' Jonathan Kane or Live Skull's James Lo, to give but two examples from a pool of peers.Unrelated: Early '80s UK goth and postpunk was littered w/terrible drummers who often fell back on endlessly repeated straight eighth notes or half notes on the kick and thenrode their toms excessively in order to mask their lack of kick/snare coordination. Sometimes the patterns were unusual, but there was a sort of obvious inability in terms of moving one's limbs independently from one another. Early Cure and Bauhaus seem like the most popular examples of this approach, but I could probably think up a half dozen more if I had the time.

OrthodoxEaster wrote:Unrelated: Early '80s UK goth and postpunk was littered w/terrible drummers who often fell back on endlessly repeated straight eighth notes or half notes on the kick and thenrode their toms excessively in order to mask their lack of kick/snare coordination. Sometimes the patterns were unusual, but there was a sort of obvious inability in terms of moving one's limbs independently from one another. Early Cure and Bauhaus seem like the most popular examples of this approach, but I could probably think up a half dozen more if I had the time.Kevin Haskins has no business being here. George Belanger, sure. Not Kevin Haskins. He's awesome.numberthirty wrote:Jimmy D'Anda drumming in Bulletboys. You can't suck that much if you're trying to pull of the drums/bass thing in the verses of "Smooth Up". That's not even factoring in the damn Tom Waits cover.Been thinking and laughing at this for a couple of days now.

Steve Shelley is a great, inventive and underrated drummer. He doesn't seem flashy, but he has a bag of tricks, and he's an anchor when it suits the songs to be an anchor, and an engine when he has to push or pull the beat. Not just with Sonic Youth, but the times I've seen him with Disappears he was equally powerful.

Whoa, what don't people like about Janet Weiss's drumming?

mrcancelled wrote:I hate to say this but Murph from Dinosaur. Fine on the records but the last couple of times I've seen them he was so off that it was hard to watch. At best I'm a casual Dino fan but I saw them last year and he was on fire. We were all kind of shocked at how good he was. Talking about it on the drive home and shit. He and Lou absolutely owned the night.