Best Drummer that's ever lived ...

[Man of Harveys]

Jeff Porcaro
John HENRY Bonham
Ringo Starr - seriously

 

[Biscuit]

I imagine the best drummer ever is probably not famous..

although Id go for Jon Bonham.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Tre Cool

 

[Biscuit]

Ringo Starr - seriously

As Lennon once remarked "Best Drummer in the world? He isn't even the best drummer in the band!" McCartney is in fact a very talented drummer.

Although Ringo is excellent in 'Yesterday'.

 

[bhaexpress]

Trouble with all these things is it depends whether you like the person concerned's music doesn't it ? I would agree with pretty much all of the posts here but for different reasons. Is it about technique, quality of music or personality ?

For example, technically I would have said that John McGlouglan was the best guitarist I have ever heard technically but his music I find pretty dull.

 

[Man of Harveys]

As Lennon once remarked "Best Drummer in the world? He isn't even the best drummer in the band!" McCartney is in fact a very talented drummer.

Although Ringo is excellent in 'Yesterday'.

McCartney is a great drummer - as Keith Moon once told him. But Lennon's wisecrack is just that.

 

[Common as Mook]

Tico Torres from Bon Jovi.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Graham Smith

what he said

 

[Juan Albion]

Ringo Starr - seriously

I've already nominated Sheila E. When I saw her, she said she considered Ringo Starr to be the greatest drummer in the world. Mind you, he was paying her bills at the time.

 

[The Large One]

Look pack it in you lot - it's a toss-up between Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. The rest just sit at their feet in humble admiration.

 

[fatbadger]

The two best I've seen (and I do think percussion, more than any other instrument, can only be properly appreciated live) are Chris Cutler and Chris Corsano.

The latter frightens me - the first time I saw him he was 26 and mind-bogglingly good. Now he's 30, and he just keeps getting better. I saw him earlier this year in a really, really eerie envirnoment - Hamilton Mausoleum, the building with the longest echo in Europe. One of his many collaborative projects, Dream Aktion Unit, have just released their first album (a live recording of a concert I had the pleasure of being at), and it's wonderful.

 

[chez]

It's one thing to drum with two hands and have a hit.

It's another to do it with one arm.

Ladies and Gentlemen i give you......

Rick Allen

We have a winner.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Rat Scabies or Philthy 'Animal' Taylor

 

[Monkey Man]

Not really only Mark Cross.

What, everyone in the entire village?

 

[NMH]

Look pack it in you lot - it's a toss-up between Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. The rest just sit at their feet in humble admiration.

There may well be a tribesman in the heart of Africa, but most drummers cite these two as the top of the game.

Terry Bozzio isn't too shabby though.

 

[plymouth nige]

I must seriously be to old if none of you have heard of Ginger Baker of Cream - the best
wcnige

 

[Easthill Andy]

Budgie (siouxsie & Banshees)
Robert Williams
The guy from Dresden Dolls
Keith Moon

 

[justin72]

Has to be :

 

[Trufflehound]

From the 70s/80s Budgie from the Banshees is not a bad call.

Or Benny Staples from The Woodentops, one of the very few from that era who actually "played" the drums rather than tapped out a monotonous rhythm.

Probably Keith Moon overall though.


I saw the guy from Def Leppard when he still had two arms, and he was incredibly shit then - did he become twice as shit or half as shit later?

 

[Lammy]

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