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After 8 pages, how the hell is BILLY COBHAM not on here?!

Ok, ok...OK!

Billy Cobham - Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity

Bill Bruford - King Crimson - Red

Stu Martin - The Trio - The Trio and Where Fortune Smiles

Milford Graves - Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble W/ Sunny Morgan - You Never Heard Such Sounds In Your Life

Bill Ward - Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Jamie Muir - Jamie Muir w/ Derek Bailey - Dart Drug

...And all the good T&G drummers mentioned, duh, along w/ Eric Tunison and Mr. Dan Hobson. Yuh...

i've been really into the drumming on dianogah's battle champions lately. the performance is awesome and the sound is almost matching in quality.

steve shelly does some awesome stuff on daydream nation

Led Zeppelin BBC sessions, bonham is a drum robot/god. and the sound he gets is amazing

capnreverb wrote:Speaking of drums sounds anybody notice the most horrible crime ever done by a drummer? Sometime in the 80's Dusty Beard went back and rerecorded all the drum parts for the early ZZ Top albums for the remastered cd's. Hearing those overly compressed drums dropped onto some the fattest boogies ever recorded is enough to make me want to phone bomb threats to classic rock stations that still play those remastered turds. What the fuck was he thinking. The drums sound more dated now than the originals done back in the 70's.

AH - thank you for pointing this out, now I know I'm not just crazy... it is the first time I've seen actual mention of it; although the last few times I have heard "La Grange" on the radio I knew that shit didn't sound right... and it was "the big drum fills" that sounded super compressed/reverbed and fucked compared to the rest of the recording... urgh.

See, my girlfriend, family, friends, etc. do not follow "The Rock" quite as avidly as I do... so when we hear something on the radio and I say "Man. someone's gone and fucking changed that!" then they look at me like I'm just having a paranoid conspiracy-theory moment...

"DO you know what the queers are doing to our soil, AND our ZZ Top drum fills??? They're building landing strips for gay Martians AND insecure drummers. I swear to God."

P.S. Last time I was in the fair city of Chicago that one classic rock station there played "Aqualung" and it was like 99% the exact same recording I have grown up with all these years, except the long guitar break was different, either an alternate take (maybe a fuckup on a remastered CD) or maybe again an intentional rewriting of history?? (And yes - I agree it is pretty sad that I should know that guitar line note-for-note and timbre-for-timbre...)

Pete Thomas's drumming behind Elvis Costello is pretty fucking incredible.

So is Hugo Burnham's stuff with Gang of Four.

can i get away with liberty devito on miami 2017 billy joel.

i know im a fan but i love the drumming in that.

and gary powell on what a waster libertines.

Antero wrote:Pete Thomas's drumming behind Elvis Costello is pretty fucking incredible.

I've seen Pete Thomas on drums in the Imposters three times in the past year, and the man is still a damned great drummer.

Antero wrote:So is Hugo Burnham's stuff with Gang of Four.

Yessir.

SacredAndProfane wrote: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.

A few nights ago I watched Ches rule it with 7 Year Rabbit Cycle (Deerhoof founder Rob Fisk's band).

Ches is an inspiring musician.

Chris Brokaw on The New Year albums. Great drummer. Well, he's an all-around great guy.

I'm really shocked that this has not been mentioned yet.


Oh and Uzdea's Davide Oliveri is great on Stella.

Damon Che of Don Cab is fantastic.

Tatsuya Yoshida of the Ruins is a gift from the heavens.