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Matt Cameron = legend?

suns rivalsuns rival Posts: 15,926
edited April 2008 in The Porch
drumming threads/polls are proliferating again. so i wanna take advantage of this. :)

Matt Cameron has been a drummer for Seattle greats Soundgarden & Pearl Jam, and also for Temple of the Dog.

the question is: can we consider Matt now as one of the best drummers of all time? is he on the top echelons of the drumming world?
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  • coach4tlcoach4tl Posts: 143
    uh...the word legend comes to mind.
  • gotIDgotID Posts: 9
    coach4tl wrote:
    uh...the word legend comes to mind.


    He is a good drummer but certainly not a legend. He isn't even top 20 worthy.
  • EBowieEBowie Posts: 532
    gotID wrote:
    He is a good drummer but certainly not a legend. He isn't even top 20 worthy.

    How can you possibly quantify something like this?
  • coach4tlcoach4tl Posts: 143
    gotID wrote:
    He is a good drummer but certainly not a legend. He isn't even top 20 worthy.
    That's why we all have opinions. Cool huh?
  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    He's getting there.
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  • smile05smile05 Posts: 600
    should be considered a legend just due to the seattle connection,for some reason will probally always know has SG and PJ temp drummer tho,even now its been 10 years.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    no. jack irons is though
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,884
    suns rival wrote:
    drumming threads/polls are proliferating again. so i wanna take advantage of this. :)

    Matt Cameron has been a drummer for Seattle greats Soundgarden & Pearl Jam, and also for Temple of the Dog.

    the question is: can we consider Matt now as one of the best drummers of all time? is he on the top echelons of the drumming world?

    he'll never get the credit he deserves but he's surely a legend. he's the drummer of the two of the greatest bands of all time. and trivia buffs will tell you that he is the first of many, many drummers for the Queens of the Stone Age.
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  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    yes he can be considered a legendgendary seattle drummer, the scene is big enough and he represents it.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    there is a poll in other music talking about this very sam subject.

    I think he is a very good rock drummer. I think him, jimmy chamberlin, and dave grohl were some of the better drummers from the 90's rock bands, but legendary i don't think i would use that term for matt.

    That said i like him a lot and he is very good. He just does not hold a candle to some of the jazz and metal greats.
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  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    I really like him as a drummer but I don't think he's a legend. Eddie Vedder is a legend, Chris Cornell is a legend, Kurt Cobain is a legend, not Matt Cameron. He's definitely a prominent figure.
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Trivia: Matt Cameron played on the solo album of Geddy Lee (Rush).
  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    Stephen Flow wrote:
    Trivia: Matt Cameron played on the solo album of Geddy Lee (Rush).


    yes he also played on tony iommi's guitar record with other singers
    the geddy album is great

    what song title did he steal from pj
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    nowayimfaithfull wrote:
    yes he also played on tony iommi's guitar record with other singers
    the geddy album is great

    what song title did he steal from pj

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  • McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
    Matt Cameron is riiiiiiiiiiiight next to Mike Portnoy...

    :P
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  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    McCready00 wrote:
    Matt Cameron is riiiiiiiiiiiight next to Mike Portnoy...

    :P

    Ohhh thats low :D
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  • potluckpotluck Posts: 170
    MattyJoe wrote:
    I really like him as a drummer but I don't think he's a legend. Eddie Vedder is a legend, Chris Cornell is a legend, Kurt Cobain is a legend, not Matt Cameron. He's definitely a prominent figure.

    Chris Cornell is not a legend....hes a washed up alcoholic who cant hit a tune anymore to save his life. To top it off, he's impossible to work with. Chris Cornell THINKS he's a legend!!!!
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  • potluckpotluck Posts: 170
    I dont know if Matt can be considered a legend, however he is PJ's best drummer hands down!
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  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    a legend in grunge rock. that's as far as it goes
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  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    GivenToCarve wrote:
    a legend in grunge rock. that's as far as it goes

    I agree with that definitely.
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Anyone who appeared on the Spiderman soundtrack is a legend in my book.
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  • McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
    MattyJoe wrote:
    Ohhh thats low :D


    Speaking of Mike Portnoy :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M0G8SZB7mA

    and

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4aW2AkBOg
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  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    McCready00 wrote:
    Speaking of Mike Portnoy :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M0G8SZB7mA

    and

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4aW2AkBOg

    Yeah he's good but amongst the Led Zeppelin community he's generally considered a tool (he's in a Zep tribute band).
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  • McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
    saw him with Dream Theatre.. Don't really know him out of this band.

    Don't really know the big drummer names neither. \:

    But what you said might be right though!
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  • augustwestaugustwest Posts: 739
    suns rival wrote:
    drumming threads/polls are proliferating again. so i wanna take advantage of this. :)

    Matt Cameron has been a drummer for Seattle greats Soundgarden & Pearl Jam, and also for Temple of the Dog.

    the question is: can we consider Matt now as one of the best drummers of all time? is he on the top echelons of the drumming world?

    i think you should be allowed to answer your own questions. i don't know who said that you couldn't. i don't get that. damn.
  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    McCready00 wrote:
    saw him with Dream Theatre.. Don't really know him out of this band.

    Don't really know the big drummer names neither. \:

    But what you said might be right though!

    http://www.mikeportnoy.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=7&idproduct=23

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  • dreamweaverdreamweaver New York Posts: 720
    Matt Cameron has personality on a drumset. his sound is his own. and that more than anything else is what make's a world class drummer. Alot of Metal greats and Jazz greats are impossible to pick out because they play too much and too much of the same junk. Some of the best drummers can be picked out by the simplest groove. John Bonham, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Chamberlin, Matt Cameron, Josh Freese, Danny Carey. These are my favs cause they have their own sound.
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  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    potluck wrote:
    Chris Cornell is not a legend....hes a washed up alcoholic who cant hit a tune anymore to save his life. To top it off, he's impossible to work with. Chris Cornell THINKS he's a legend!!!!


    yes but somewhere in this you have mention his new adventures in hip hop.

    haha haha
    he is letting timbaland produce his next album.

    I know I know it will be the next david bowie, but if Chris was a legend he would produce his own shit at this point. He used to be a legend, somwhere before he broke it off with Soundgarden.

    Portnoy is in tons of stuff

    He graduated from berkeley.
    his main band is dream theater 10 albums
    he is in liguid tension, all instrumental 3 albums
    trans atlantic 2 albums more rock oreiented but still progressive
    osi progressive rock 2 albums
    he runs drum clinics all over the world
    he is always in modern drummer last time i checked anyway

    he is a beast, prob the most talented ever, but his songwriting is weird.
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