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Best drummer of all time?


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Obviously Peart should be at the top.

 

In Modern Drummer magazine, he isn't even allowed to be nominated in reader polls anymore, because he always wins.

Pearti is very good, maybe technically superior to Bonham. But Bonham was no slouch in that department, and I think he's better because his looser style of drumming is something that people relate to better. His solo in Moby Dick is memorable for example, and I really don't Peart has anything all that memorable.

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Pearti is very good, maybe technically superior to Bonham. But Bonham was no slouch in that department, and I think he's better because his looser style of drumming is something that people relate to better. His solo in Moby Dick is memorable for example, and I really don't Peart has anything all that memorable.

Obviously, you've never listened to anything remotely close to the entire catalog. Peart is by far better not only technically (what else is there, really), but also plays a "loose" style as well.

 

I've often considered Peart to be a highly skilled and disciplined version of Keith Moon . . .

 

Listen to:

 

Subdivisions

 

 

and if you're thinking that he only could do it 20 years ago, this is from '07 and on a 5 piece kit.

 

Malignant Narcicism

 

Sorry, but I've been around drums for almost 30 years, and there just aren't a lot rock drummers who should be mentioned in the same breath as Peart. Jazz on the other hand . . . .

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I'm on board with the Peart and Stuart Copeland nominations. And I loved the comparison of Peart as a disciplined Keith Moon; both dudes were so good they were at times literally "lead" drummers.

But I just wanted to mention that young kid who absolutely savaged that tiny drumkit during Carlos Santana's Woodstock set. That boy went off.

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All great drummers. I'd add:

 

Topper Headon of the Clash

Hal Blaine, session man

Danny Seraphine of Chicago (You know you know the drum part to 25 or 6 to 4!)

Tres Cool of Green Day

Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters

Max Weinberg of E Street Band

Larry Mullen, Jr. of U2

Chad Smith of RHCP

Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick (Guilty pleasure!)

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