Boring drummers?

tonadax
tonadax Posts: 594
edited June 2007 in Other Music
I've always found U2's Larry Mullen Jr. to be the most boring drummer ever. He is good, but plays with the same feel over and over

brad wilk work on audioslave was soo boring and weak

Meg White is one of the worst drummers I have heard, It's lucky that her ineptitudes fit in with the White Stripes' minimalist style
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  • i like matt.c
    i like matt.c Posts: 1,124
    I always go for drummers with their own unique sound like Taylor Hawkins (Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, Foo Fighters), Matt Cameron, Stewart Copeland, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Dave Grohl, Roger Taylor, Nathan Followill. Drummers I find boring are not the least technical but the ones who sound like a drum Machine.
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Get the new Frank Zappa CD "Buffalo" if you want to hear the greatest drummer on the planet in his prime. (His name is Vinnie Colaiuta.)
  • Alex_Coe
    Alex_Coe Posts: 762
    I second Meg White. Jack should ditch meg and become "The White Stripe plus a Drum Machine"



    After Brant Bjork left, Kyuss got a really, really bad replacement drummer. Can't remember his name.
  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    Well regarding the white stripes comment, Yes Megs style is pretty simple, but she is perfect for the white stripes garage rock type influential sound. I honestly think this is personally the way that Jack and Meg wanted the band to be percieved. The white stripes are one of myfavorite bands, so maybe I'm a little biased. She is perfect for their style. But for any other band, I agree the drumming is pretty basic, not much skill involved, and would not work very well in a band seeking another musical direction like NIN, or something.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Chad Smith is managing to sound blander in his old age, despite the fact he COULD pull out all the stops if he wanted to.

    I made a comment the other day that I would be falling asleep behind the kit if I was the guy who played for Snow Patrol. I'm not sure it's his fault, but again, he could lift their music if he wanted to.

    Stereophonics drumming has always been rubbish.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

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  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    Meg White is a pretty bad drummer, but now it would be weird for her to be replaced in the white stripes, her drummer and Jacks sound fit together perfectly i think (although im not a huge fan).

    Chad Smith has become pretty laboured in his drumming, he's not really trying to change anything, which is a shame.

    Stereophonics have shit guitar, singer and bass players too... so their drummers fit in well. :D
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    chris01 wrote:
    Stereophonics have shit guitar, singer and bass players too... so their drummers fit in well. :D

    Ah, 'tis true.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    chris01 wrote:

    Stereophonics have shit guitar, singer and bass players too... so their drummers fit in well. :D

    Kelly Jones is so not a shit singer! Local Boy In The Photograph is a great vocal performance.
  • lars
    lars Posts: 524
    drummers are not boring. They rule
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    lars wrote:
    drummers are not boring. They rule

    Meg white is boring. Sorry.
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  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    facepollution wrote:
    Kelly Jones is so not a shit singer! Local Boy In The Photograph is a great vocal performance.

    Sorry but his voice really bugs me, always sounds like he's about to fall asleep.
  • lars
    lars Posts: 524
    intodeep wrote:
    Meg white is boring. Sorry.
    She´s more boring than a drum machine
    You can´t trust a vegetarian.
  • BrinkofForever
    BrinkofForever Posts: 373
    The Rolling Stones drummer always bored me.
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    tonadax wrote:
    I've always found U2's Larry Mullen Jr. to be the most boring drummer ever. He is good, but plays with the same feel over and over

    brad wilk work on audioslave was soo boring and weak

    Meg White is one of the worst drummers I have heard, It's lucky that her ineptitudes fit in with the White Stripes' minimalist style

    agreed
  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    meg white is terrible, but she works fine in the stripes.

    I've never liked Brad Wilk, Matt Cameron (let the flaming begin) or Larry Mullen particularly.

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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    edved82 wrote:
    I've never liked , Matt Cameron (let the flaming begin)
    Not even his soundgarden work? I do like a lot of his drumming on the new album but i found riot act and binaural to be a let down as far as matt's drumming went.

    I have always loved his drumming with soundgarden. Particularly the work on badmoterfinger. Do you not like that either?
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  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    Do you think Matt Cameron is shit or is it just not to your taste? And i agree that Meg White is the world's shittest drummmer.
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  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    intodeep wrote:
    Not even his soundgarden work? I do like a lot of his drumming on the new album but i found riot act and binaural to be a let down as far as matt's drumming went.

    I have always loved his drumming with soundgarden. Particularly the work on badmoterfinger. Do you not like that either?

    yeah he's fine in soundgarden, but i have totally gone off him since he joined PJ. Far too many stupid drum fills.

    talented guy, good technical drummer i'm sure but just not to my taste at all!
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  • pjoasisrule
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  • toddiet123
    toddiet123 Posts: 271
    Alex_Coe wrote:
    I second Meg White. Jack should ditch meg and become "The White Stripe plus a Drum Machine"



    After Brant Bjork left, Kyuss got a really, really bad replacement drummer. Can't remember his name.

    was that Alfredo Hernandez?

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