Can I add John (Warsaw) McEntire as part of Bastro to the list?

Oh wait, I just did!

Everything he did there is good but the drumming on "Sing the Troubled Beast" is really, really good.

Maybe even really, really, really good.

Or maybe even...... etc etc etc

Edgar "Dick" Hooch, drummer for Shania Twain (Mama Clortho Loves her Shania!)

Willis LaPuma-Aaron Neville's drummer 1982-1989


Television: Marquee Moon -Mama Clortho loves the drumming on this one, too. She says it's 'mazin.

APC - Thirteen Step (Josh Freeze)
Nirvana - Nevermind
Queen Of the Stone Age - Song for the deaf

Physical Grafitti (for one!) - Zeppelin
Sister - Sonic Youth (Steve Shelley) *crap drum sounds!
In Utero - Nirvana
Abbey Road - Beatles

who will pull up the abbey road album shout first.

sierackir wrote:

He was not Orestes, but he was a very good drummer. Someone please correct me, but I think this guy also played drums in -Dis for a little while? Am I making that up?

A little belated with the info, but that was Peter Pollack. He was Codeine's first drummer and Bitch Magnet's last. He went to school at Oberlin and was a bit older than Soo Young and I think was in a band called Pay the Man that Soo Young respected back then. When he lived in NYC he played in Cheetah Chrome's band and had a paying gig in Tiny Tim's band if I remember right. He played on the second Dis- CD and in the live shows around 1994. He's a pretty talented guy, and I think has a PhD in percussion now, but his style was a dramatic departure from Orestes.
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I didn't know that Peter had played in Pay The Man... I thought
that Orestes played drums in Pay The Man (to make this even
more convoluted to people not familiar with the lineage, Chris
Brokaw, who played guitar in PTM, went on to be Codeine's first
recorded drummer) I remember meeting Peter in Champaign in
November of '94 while on tour with Vineland (Jon Fine's post-Bitch
Magnet band that I played guitar in).

I always thought that Peter just sounded like he was trying to
mimic what Orestes had done and played kinda awkward, more
"metal" versions of the parts. His drumming always seemed to
make more sense on that Dis record (where I guess he was
doing his own thing, instead of imitating another drummer's
parts.) Orestes is an interesting character... Jon told me that
he spoke 5 languages fluently along with being a phenomenal
drummer and at some point when he was in Walt Mink, he had
a job tracking mountain lions in Colorado or something like that...
bizarre. Moreso considering he grew up in Brooklyn.

Related to this, but far off the "best drums" topic... Jon Fine
just got his own column in Business Week, of all things...
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 5027&EDATE
and is doing extremely well, career-wise. I just saw him on
MSNBC the other night, actually. Coptic Light, his monolith of
a band with Kevin Shea, just finished mixing a record that should
be out in the fall. They are extremely intense. I played with them
in Brooklyn while on tour with the Paper Chase a few years ago...
and Congleton from the Paper Chase said something like "Wow..
that's the only band I've ever played with that made me feel like
a pussy!" Hahahha!

Tak'er easy,
Fred

P.S. Jerry Fuchs of the last Vineland lineup, Reddy Kilowatt and
Turing Machine is one of my favorite drummers (and people) as
is Darren Zentec of Kerosene 454, Oswego, Channels

LaSalle bon Dioxide wrote:Ches of Theory of Ruin

Mac McNeilly of Jesus Lizard

Dale Crover/Melvins

I would definitely have to agree with these three. Both Mac and Dale are on my top 5 list. Ches is probably on there too...he's one of the most diverse drummers I've ever seen. From Theory of Ruin, to Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, Secret Chiefs 3, The Night Porter...I mean, the list goes on and on. He teaches in Berkeley, if anyone's interested.

Drumming on the following discs makes me a happy Rubby:

The Fall, This Nation's Saving Grace and Live At The Witch Trials
A Certain Ratio, To Each...
Rapeman, Three Nuns and a Pack Mule
Joy Division, Closer
Tortoise, Standards
New Order, Movement

noel leger/taking pictures
amazing live

After 8 pages, how the hell is BILLY COBHAM not on here?! Specifically his inhumanly good work with Mahavishnu Orchestra. I have been listening to the Lost Trident Sessions a lot lately, and it's all jaw dropping.

Damon Che (don cab) is not only amazing, but probably the most interesting drummer to watch simply for the fucked up way he sets up. He looks like a gorilla when he plays.

I've always liked Clutch's drummer, and his drum sound