Favorite Drummers

[Cpopovic]

The OP asked for "favorite" drummers, not best.
I notice that your in Switzerland (I was born in Austria and my mother is Austrian).
But we know the distinction between "favorite" VS. "best".
Perhaps check your translator, as they are not at all the same.

This is ASR. We don’t do ‘favorite’—we do evidence, graphs, and 200 posts arguing about methodology. A ‘favorite drummer’ thread here is like bringing scented candles to a calibration lab.

 

[EJ3]

This is ASR. We don’t do ‘favorite’—we do evidence, graphs, and 200 posts arguing about methodology. A ‘favorite drummer’ thread here is like bringing scented candles to a calibration lab.

Answering PT 1. Well, since you don't do favorite (not all of us here follow your individual protocol, nor do I consider to be lumped into a generic we), why are you reading one that obviously says favorite?
Yes, but those threads state what they are: based on their thread titles.
And this thread is plainly titled for what it is.
If it can't possibly interest you because the title plainly defines it as subjective, because (probably because the OP is looking for music that he may like that he has not heard [and I am also thankful to find some that I am interested in that I have not heard])...Ahm???

Calibration lab? I have some candles that smell like burning rubber when they are burning (that is what is listed as the scent). Maybe I should get them checked for the quantity and quality of the burning rubber smell (supposedly from Top Fuel cars spinning their tires [but I don't notice any burning nitro methane smell with it, so maybe that is not true]).
H'mm: a candle calibration lab. A Capital idea! I'll have to check on that.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Bit minded to put me, as favourite drummer. Was in the RAF Apprentice drum and trumpet band for a while, on the side drum.
However, I was so totally, and completely, useless at it, I will put, probably for the hundredth time in this thread? Moon the lune!

 

[CapMan]

True, but we had plenty of fine stuff (to me) like Kraftwerk, Sisters of Mercy, Yello, Cocteau's, Dead Can Dance, Joy Division and tons more, without a 'real drummer'

no issues with electronic music at all, my issue is with taking a human performance and reducing it to something mechanical with an algorithm. That just seems entirely pointless and unmusical.

 

[Redacted]

I've seen e.g. Sisters of Mercy three times and they used a 'box' that is essentially running an algorithm.

And many bands that used a drum machine with pre-programmed patterns and fills.

I did not notice that the audiences saw that as "entirely pointless and unmusical".

Sure, I like a good drummer, and indeed a good drum solo, but I like a wide-range of music and don't see programmed drums as big issue. In fact compared with 80's and 90's, you must have noticed when you see a band, real drummers are more typical now.

Top Tip: If in the UK, the band Voodoo Room (Hendrix, Cream style etc) features an excellent soloing drummer - support your local live venue!! If you don't you'll sink into a grey AI quagmire, where not just the drums are fake.

 

[Palmer]

no issues with electronic music at all, my issue is with taking a human performance and reducing it to something mechanical with an algorithm. That just seems entirely pointless and unmusical.

Let's also not forget that Wolfgang Flür not only drummed, was a drummer, and boy - I wish I could drum, like that man played in Kraftwerk.

 

[Redacted]

Yep, I've seen Kraftwerk live. And the trick where they walk off stage and leave it to robots was great.
Electronic drums and sequencers, a drum machine with patterns and fills, or a proper drum kit is fine for me - so long as I like the music.

If I don't the music, the world's best drummer wouldn't please me, unless he cuts out the rest of band to play his bit!

 

[Cpopovic]

Nice drum work (cover)

 

[CapMan]

Steve Gadd and "Stuff" from 1976. Amazing lineup that grooves effortlessly. They just seem to be able to gradually turn up the intensity, not by playing louder or with more notes - just by digging into that groove. It's a special gift and no black box or algo is ever going to get close (imho)

Shame it cuts off at the end !

 

[shuppatsu]

• Simon Phillips, mostly for his work with Hiromi. I can listen to indefinite toms solos by him.
• Neil Peart. I mean, come on. Not even that big of a Rush fan but those accents on Tom Sawyer...
• Zakir Hussain. Saw him live several times. Psychedelics may have been involved.
• Keith Moon. So integral to that Who energy.
• Brian Blade. The sensitive one.
• Nyango Star

 

[CapMan]

Zakir Hussain. Saw him live several times. Psychedelics may have been involved.

Good shout - should definitely not overlook amazing percussionists outside western main stream music .

 

[EJ3]

• Neil Peart. I mean, come on. Not even that big of a Rush fan but those accents on Tom Sawyer...

I am definitely not a RUSH fan. But I am a Neil Peart fan.
Here are a couple of others that are Neil fans:

 

[DVinylfan]

Nick Mason (then)
Klek (now)
Can all the "favourite drummer" threads on ASR be unified?

 

[DVinylfan]

Is it possible to have a home thread on ASR? If so 'favourite drummers' is mine.
It's got everything