Awesome Drumming

Black Rose

I am a strict guitar player and wannabe singer, but I absolutely love and respect great drummers. So lets have this thread talk about awesome drum performances from any genre you can think of.

Here is Megadeth in 1990 playing Five Magics from the Rust in Peace album without Dave Mustaine. There is plenty of great drummer moments on this video. I always used to prefer Gar Samuelson and he is undeniably great, so is Nick Menza and this one video proves that. Look how tight this band is!



Lets have some more

Donthegreek

There's so many drummers to pick from. We could do threads on bass players, keyboard players etc....

So i'll take the easy way out....everybodys favorite drummer...Cozy Powell.

Donthegreek

ok...here's 1 more....Jon Hiseman 1978 


Everyone will watch this though because gary moore is on guitar (always was hoping gary would return to this jazzrock fusion before he passed)..... 

Agrippa

Oh, there's so many great.

Paicey around 74 was untouchable. 
  (at the 3.00 minute mark, you can enjoy Blackers wonderful bluesisms improv until then)

Neil Peart, of Course.
Cozy Powell
Dave Lombardo
Terry Bozzio
Sean Reinert 
Hellhammer 
Nick Barker   
Frost (Satyricon)
George Kollias (Nile)
Martin "Marthus" Škaroupka (Cradle Of Filth)
Vinnie Colaiuta 

Just some of my faves, I have undoubtedly forgotten some.

Seven Moons

I certainly don't know enough about drumming to appreciate fully the technical brilliance of certain drummers (well, at least I can tell Lombardo apart from Simon Wright). I do appreciate those who have a distinctive style and sound, or who are a real driving force for the band, even if they are not necessarily super-technical. Some of my faves:

Cozy Powell
Ian Paice
Bill Ward
Simon Phillips
Phil Taylor
Clive Burr
Nigel Glockler
Dave Lombardo
Fredrik Andersson (Amon Amarth)
Steve Shalaty (Immolation)

And I know it's dumb and all, but I really liked how Dave Holland sounded on British Steel/Point of Entry/Screaming for Vengeance. I maintain he was the perfect drummer for JP at that point in time.

Dr Nick

Oh wow, I've acquired a huge amount of respect for drummers in the last few years.
Some of my favourites:
Marco Minnemann -
Gavin Harrison -
Simon Phillips -
Thomas Lang -
Omar Hakim -
Mike Mangini -
Nicko McBrain -

Donthegreek

A drummer no one ever talks about who is/was amazing in the 70's before he turned to lead vocalist then went unfortunately to top 40 is
Phil Collins...then Chester Thompson replaced him in Genesis. Here they both are with Genesis.



Then there's another all time great from the 70's also....Carl Palmer from ELP.  It don't get any better than this.

Jay G

Not much into drummers but those I like I really like.

Bill Ward
Cozy Powell
Danny Seraphine
Chad Smith
Ginger Baker
Elvin Jones
Tony Williams
Billy Cobham
Alphonse Mouzon
Ian Paice
Scott Travis
Marco Minneman
Van Romaine
Rod Morgenstein
Sheila E

Seven Moons

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A drummer no one ever talks about who is/was amazing in the 70's before he turned to lead vocalist then went unfortunately to top 40 is
Phil Collins...

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You're absolutely right. He was amazing.

otcconan

Jazz metal.


This is seriously the sickest thing I've seen since Gar Samuelsson.

Duojett71

My favorite drummers in no particular order:

Bill Ward
Clive Burr
Stewart Copeland
Ringo Starr
Brian Downey
Alex Van Halen
Neil Peart
Matt Cameron
Albert Bouchard

bourbonsamurai

Zigaboo Modeliste
Gene Krupa
Steve Gadd
Fran Christina
Levon Helm
Chris Layton
Nicko McBrain
Alex Van Halen
Carter Beauford
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Stewart Copeland
Joey Kramer
Benny Benjamin
Bill Ward
John Bonham
Shannon Powell
Johnny Vidacovich
Eric Bolivar
Chad Gilmore
Ed Shaughnessy