Best Rock Drummer of All Time
 

My suggestions:

Neal Peart
Jon Bonham
Bun E. Carlos

Neal Peart


any drummer knows that

I'm no drummer, but I love to play "air drums" to "Tom Sawyer." Neal Peart is incredible.

Virgil Donati

Never heard of Virgil Donati before, so I Googled him.

From his web site:

"But it is no secret that it's Virgil's feet that have gained him the most attention, both in Australia and internationally. Having developed incredible speed both with single and double-stroke rolls on the bass drums, he is able to hold complex, often odd-time and syncopated ostinatos at ridiculous tempos with his feet whilst soloing freely and musically with his hands."

Neal Peart

Mike Portnoy without a doubt.

John Bonham
Jimmy Chamberlin

vinnie colaiuta

Stewart Copeland, Police.

Very talented.

:thumbsup absolutely !

The One armed dude from Def Leopard!

Neil Pert, Stuart Copeland, Dave Lombardo

:2 cents:

Roger Taylor.

Was able to play extremely well across Queen's entire range of material.

Ringo !!!

no doubt man, he is the king... for those who doesn't know who that is check Dream Theater & Liquid Tension Experiment

Jon Bonham
Carl Palmer
Ginger Baker

Dave Lombardo

The dude from Menudo! :thumbsup

Terry Bozzio

Matt, what are you doing up? :1orglaugh

Of the people I saw play live ginger Baker was head and shoulder above the others in the 60s.

Unfortunately I saw him in the 90s when he played with Jack Bruce and someone else and he was a shadow of his former self.

Shit I get up at 6am every day. It's required since there's a baby in the house. I've already cooked breakfast, done laundry, cleaned up and done some coding.

I spent the night at the Casino. :Graucho

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but contact me sometime so we can chill and have some drinks! :thumbsup

Now go feed your young'uns and I'm going to feed my need for sleep once this speed wears off. :xomunch

definately!



oh and:

Nobody's said Keith Moon

these guys are talented chops musicians (Dream Theater), no doubt, but other than that i think they blow bile bicuits. I cannot associate with anyone who listens to them, or played dungeons and dragons as a child.

my fav drummers are jimmy chamberlain and danny carey

:GFYBand

no clue, i dont like drums

Don't under estimate
Van Halen

Neil is great too, he has influence SO many drummers

Mitch Mitchell
John Bonham
Fred Below

add alex van halen, and you have my selections as well.

I'm surprised that not one person mentioned Carmen Appice.

http://www.carmineappice.net/bio.asp

Kieth Moon

Portnoy and Lombardo are on my list :)

One other drummer that not many people have heard of is Ted Kirkpatrick, he plays for a christian metal band called Tourniquet He's definately my number one drummer. Their "Stop The Bleeding", "Psycho Surgery" and "Vanishing Lessons" are kick ass cds. The last couple they put out, haven't been as good.

I just went to their website to see what I could show you and see that they recently released a DVD with his drum solos and other stuff, I'm ordering it right now :) If you wanna see some kick ass drumming, pick it up, I promise you, you'll be blown away.

Here's a link to the movie trailer of the dvd, you can get a little idea of what he's like. I wish that it showed a little more though -
http://www.tourniquet.net/video/circ..._BROADBAND.wmv

keith Moon

Neal Peart - RUSH

Neil Pert from Rush (Hands down no contest with anyone)

Danny Carey from Tool
Vinnie Paul from Pantera

Meg White.

Mike Portnoy
Neal Peart

No one else can even dream of coming close to these two gentlemen.

#1 of all time = Keith Moon. Even today's noteworthy drummers (who have mostly all been mentioned here) know that.


A couple of guys who haven't been mentioned but are certainly worth a mention are:

Alex Van Halen
Sib Hashian (Boston)

John Bonham

:thumbsup

Jon Bonham's ''Moby Dick'' ... insane !!

Many drummers can play fast or complicated stuff, but in the context of a band, no one was better than John Bonham and Keith Moon.

kenny wilson (aka: ginger fish) drummer for marilyn manson