I know nobody talks about Flipper much here, but they do have tons of great drum fills. I'm not sure who their druumer is,(steve something?)but he's great!
sonic youth-inhuman/the wonder(the inhuman one is during the chorus, the wonder one is before the last verse)
shellac-jail break(at the beginning)

chrysler wrote:Hawaii Five-O theme song [Artist unknown. Anyone?]

This is none other than Wrecking Crew gaffer Hal Blaine.

chrysler also wrote: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 that Page hits a clam at the end [open D] , but do he and Jones come in late at the beginning? This drives me nuts every time I hear it.

Thanks so much for pointing this out. This has done my head in since I was about 12. I don't get it, at all. Can we get to the bottom of this? Anyone?

Also, what the hell happens in Subterranean Homesick Blues in the verse ending with "twenty years of school and then they put you on the day shift"?

What's the deal with that?

in no particular order:

- the fill in the middle of "born to be wild"...so simple but cool

- pretty well anything by jimmy chamberlin, but the songs "fuck you (an ode to no one)" and "tristessa" in particular

- tim alexander's cool ass shots in "shake hands with beef"

- josh freese's fill at the end of "the outsider" by a perfect circle

- don't know if this counts as a fill, but stuart copeland's entry in "king of pain" is timed so awesomely it defies description

i could go on for days and days, but there's a few highlights

The first two aren't really fills but...

Doug Scharin's drum break in 'Equators to Bi-Polar' from 'Anahata'. It's not technically brilliant or anything, but it's pretty cool.

I hate Tool. I repeat, I HATE TOOL. But, Danny Carey does a really cool thing about 3/4 of the way through the second song on Aenima where he's playing sixteenths on the hi-hat and the beat is in four, but he opens the hi-hat every third note giving it a triplet feel. It's like a 3 over 4 thing, with left foot vs. all other limbs. It sounds kind of cool, and it's hard as fuck to play.

Oh yeah, and Rikki Rocket's fill in the intro to 'Unskinny Bop' right into where Bobby Dall lays down that smooth groove on the A string...

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Steve Shelley (sonic youth) - Pipeline/killtime

There's a break in the middle of the song where he seems to sort of hesitate over the fill.

[quote="waltermalling"]not sure if it’s technically a drum fill but jimmy chamberlin on “tonight tonightâ€

ringo on "dear prudence"
at the end of the song he does these epic damn fills. they're amazing.

bonham on the bbc sessions version of heartbreaker. he does some really great snare fillage.


any fill that brendan canty does is simply awesome. he's probably my favorite drummer.

but there are so many more

run joe, run wrote:

chrysler also wrote: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 that Page hits a clam at the end [open D] , but do he and Jones come in late at the beginning? This drives me nuts every time I hear it.

Thanks so much for pointing this out. This has done my head in since I was about 12. I don't get it, at all. Can we get to the bottom of this? Anyone?

I think "Rock n Roll" is in 5/4, or at least it's always sounded that way to me. Try counting it that way and see if the riff and drum fills make more sense.

I earlier wrote:I think "Rock n Roll" is in 5/4, or at least it's always sounded that way to me. Try counting it that way and see if the riff and drum fills make more sense.

Wait, am I thinking of "Black Dog?" I think I am.

Sorry.

Led Zep, Misty mountain top, intro. It's another one where there's an extra beat played. But I love the way it kinda reverses the feel, and it always take my brain like a bar or two to catch up. Then when it does I think "oh of course it's like that, so how was it different at the start?!?!"

It's just brilliant.

I do have to say the fill at the start of Lounge Fly by Stone Temple Pilots does rock too. Of course not really comparable to Bonham!