Best Drummer Of All Time

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  • jefft
    jefft Posts: 678
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Oh yeah and that Ben Thatcher guy from Royal Blood has a tremendous sound coming from his kit too.
    Good call hes great
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    jefft said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Oh yeah and that Ben Thatcher guy from Royal Blood has a tremendous sound coming from his kit too.
    Good call hes great
    You want to hear another crazy one?

    Sammy Davis Jr. 

    Dude could play.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    vito said:
    Keith Moon

    Keith Moon is a great pick!  I saw Keith play with The Who when he was still in his prime (1968).  For sheer inventiveness, endurance (after the show a friend mentioned how cool it was to watch a drum solo that went on for the entire show, lol), and for his wild, marvelously distinctive style, Keith was an incredible drummer.  Technically speaking, he has been criticized widely as being sloppy and not always having good tingeing.   But who could have been a better fit for The Who?  None that I know of!

    So then, this illustrates the futility of naming a "best" drummer (or guitar player, or whatever.)   Perhaps Keith was one of the best or maybe he wasn't.  But he sure was one of my favorites, and definitely the most memorable of all those I have seen.
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  • timdwilli
    timdwilli Posts: 297

  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,017
    Bonzo 
    Bill Ward
    Matt fucking Cameron (the amount of songs he knows off the stop of his head is insane)
    Kieth Moon
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  • RW8297
    RW8297 Posts: 1,617
    Nobody likes Tony Allen?
  • Robertwileysr
    Robertwileysr Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Posts: 22
    Edved82 said:
    John Bonham
    Danny Carey
    Matt Cameron
    Dave Grohl

    Having said Matt Cameron, i still dont think he's suited to Pearl Jam! Jack Irons is PJ's drummer to me :)
    I was hoping someone would say DG and MC!!!! I think we're on the same page about MC being PJ's drummer. JI is THE PJ drummer. I don't know if this is true or not, but I saw something that said DG tried out to be PJ's drummer at one point. I don't think DG is suited for PJ, but that doesn't make him any less of the awesome drummer he is. As much as DG is the Foo Fighters frontman, which is what more people know him as, I will always see him as Nirvana's drummer. He's a great frontman, but he's Nirvana's drummer. When someone mentions DG, I immediately think, Nirvana drummer, and Foo Fighters' front man kind of flies over my head. If that makes sense
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    I was listening to Thelonious Monk's Monk's Music last night which features one of the of the most respected greats- Art Blakey!  Check this out!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    Bonham
    Moon
    Pert
    Beauford
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    Robertwileysr said:
    Edved82 said:
    John Bonham
    Danny Carey
    Matt Cameron
    Dave Grohl

    Having said Matt Cameron, i still dont think he's suited to Pearl Jam! Jack Irons is PJ's drummer to me :)
    I was hoping someone would say DG and MC!!!! I think we're on the same page about MC being PJ's drummer. JI is THE PJ drummer. I don't know if this is true or not, but I saw something that said DG tried out to be PJ's drummer at one point. I don't think DG is suited for PJ, but that doesn't make him any less of the awesome drummer he is. As much as DG is the Foo Fighters frontman, which is what more people know him as, I will always see him as Nirvana's drummer. He's a great frontman, but he's Nirvana's drummer. When someone mentions DG, I immediately think, Nirvana drummer, and Foo Fighters' front man kind of flies over my head. If that makes sense
    Dave Grohl has mentioned that Prince is a better drummer than he is.

  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Neil Peart
    Keith Moon
    John Bonham
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,572
    Bonham
    Copeland
    Peart
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,818
    edited August 2020

    IDK about the best drummer of all time, but the following are my all time favorite drummers (& with the exception of Bonzo, I've been fortunate enough to see them all play live multiple times):

    Bonzo

    Carey

    Mike Bordin

    Josh Freese

    Danny Heifetz

    John Stanier (love him more & more every time I see him - Battles is unreal)

    Grohl (Songs for the Deaf and Them Crooked Vultures are unreal, as well as the (re-recorded) self titled Killing Joke)

    Matt Cameron (for his Soundgarden work... while I do love what he brings to live songs like Last Exit & others, his drumming for PJ is pedestrian as compared to what he did w/ SG - different bands, different styles, it is what it is)

    Dave Lombardo

    Love Peart, but I'm not into Rush enough for him to make my list. He's definitely more skilled than some (most?)  of whom I've mentioned, but I'm not enough of a Rush fan for him to make my list. Same with Keith Moon... as much as I respect the Who, I just never got that deep into their catalog.


    Honorable mentions to Sean Kinney, Tim Alexander & John Theodore.

    (Edited to include Heifetz & Lombardo)

    Post edited by Merkin Baller on
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,510
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Robertwileysr said:
    Edved82 said:
    John Bonham
    Danny Carey
    Matt Cameron
    Dave Grohl

    Having said Matt Cameron, i still dont think he's suited to Pearl Jam! Jack Irons is PJ's drummer to me :)
    I was hoping someone would say DG and MC!!!! I think we're on the same page about MC being PJ's drummer. JI is THE PJ drummer. I don't know if this is true or not, but I saw something that said DG tried out to be PJ's drummer at one point. I don't think DG is suited for PJ, but that doesn't make him any less of the awesome drummer he is. As much as DG is the Foo Fighters frontman, which is what more people know him as, I will always see him as Nirvana's drummer. He's a great frontman, but he's Nirvana's drummer. When someone mentions DG, I immediately think, Nirvana drummer, and Foo Fighters' front man kind of flies over my head. If that makes sense
    Dave Grohl has mentioned that Prince is a better drummer than he is.

    Dave Grohls whole shtick is about being modest.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Robertwileysr said:
    Edved82 said:
    John Bonham
    Danny Carey
    Matt Cameron
    Dave Grohl

    Having said Matt Cameron, i still dont think he's suited to Pearl Jam! Jack Irons is PJ's drummer to me :)
    I was hoping someone would say DG and MC!!!! I think we're on the same page about MC being PJ's drummer. JI is THE PJ drummer. I don't know if this is true or not, but I saw something that said DG tried out to be PJ's drummer at one point. I don't think DG is suited for PJ, but that doesn't make him any less of the awesome drummer he is. As much as DG is the Foo Fighters frontman, which is what more people know him as, I will always see him as Nirvana's drummer. He's a great frontman, but he's Nirvana's drummer. When someone mentions DG, I immediately think, Nirvana drummer, and Foo Fighters' front man kind of flies over my head. If that makes sense
    Dave Grohl has mentioned that Prince is a better drummer than he is.

    Dave Grohls whole shtick is about being modest.
    No way I put him and Cameron at the upper echelon I will tell you that.
  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    I love Grohl's feel. Just brutal. His tone on In Utero is one of my favourites. Nothing subtle but so fast. NIN sounded great with him on the kit for most of With Teeth.
    Stars are suns to other people.

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  • Air23
    Air23 Roma Posts: 1,400
    Janet Weiss
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Linda Pitmon is a solid drummer.  Maybe not the world's best, but darned good!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,344
    billy cobham?
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Edward Blackwell?

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    -Roberto Benigni

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