buddy rich is #1…you people are trippin’…. I can’t believe that Earl Palmer is not there. One of the best ever! Also no mention of the drummer Sandy Nelson who had many hits with drum solo’s in the 50s and 60s he is a legend! Drummers of note) – for hittin’ a crash cymbal, from the bottom up – @Ross Salome, replaced Mr. Tegza BFC, see above, renamed Madura, check him out “Electra Glide in Blue” movie, @Mike Kellie, Spooky Tooth, Billy Mundi, Mothers of Invention, Rhinocerous (monster). Incredible. “I heard that John Bonham is quite upset. Very confident, very creative. “I love the sound of Joe Morello and ‘Take Five’… that sound of the drums, full, relaxed. He was still playing in his 90s. He also played on some classic Beach Boys hits, including ‘Good Vibrations’, and on a number of sessions with Glen Campbell (watch him discuss his friendship with Glen in this uDiscover interview). Carey, who says he loved the jazz drumming of Steve Gadd, is a texturally and harmonically accomplished drummer. No. One important caveat: we used rock and pop as our rubric, so a drummer’s work needed to directly impact that world (as we define it, of course) to make the list. Check out: ‘I Am The Resurrection’, Drummer Joe Morello helped Dave Brubeck’s band reach new heights as they experimented with odd and uneven metres. that puts the whole list in question, Jimmy Chamberlain. Maybe some day these guys like will be good enough to make the list… so where is Robert Wyatt,at least he’s still alive and kicking? Laughable. 7) John Bonham NIGEL OLSSON??!!! John Bonham and Neil Peart are outstanding, but they are the product of Moon’s pioneering work. That’s probably the way it is with most musicians. But put Keith Moon in the Who and he was perfect. I just listened to Andy Arrow on your link and I think I would have given him a higher grade if he took a solo! . My thought is what is the criteria? The Norwegian Jazz-drummer alongside Modern Jazz Icons such as Jan Garbarek and Guitar-Icon Terje Rypdal and other International renown Jazz Stars at the German”ECM”-Label. He was 64 when he died in New York in 1973. Born in Oakland, California, on 12 December 1957, she is known as “The Queen Of Percussion”. Ringo? I don’t recognize all of them but sure know who shouldn’t be on this list if it’s based on talent: Alex Van Halen,Keith Moon,Charlie Watts,Ringo Starr,Bill Ward,especially.Keith Moon at # 2.I love all these dudes and their in but c’mon!! . Simon House plays VIOLIN and KEYBOARDS!! Best Drummer Ever [HD] Adult Crozz. If you don't agree then you obviously have never heard a Rush song before. For the past 10 years he has been working on a personal project called Drums Of Compassion, on which he is composer, producer and drummer. Reactions: Deleted member 169. As for Charlie Watts? Drum players who also could play Ed Shaughnessy, Sandy Nelson, Dave Gaibaldi Got lessons from Buddy Rich when I was 19 and Clyde Stubblefield when I was 23. # drummers # drums # stick # drumsticks # cymbals # scarletaura # heavymetal # sorinristea bill bruford Coolio! He broke on to the music scene aged 12 with an attention-grabbing drum solo at the 1997 Modern Drummer Festival and is known for his speedy hand- and foot-work. And years after his passing, Jimmy Page, one of the most excellent drummers of all time, admits he fascinated by his contribution to the industry. How many drummers have successfully complimented each other’s sounds and shared the stage and the road for decades? He had the greatest respect and admiration for Moon for his “musical, not functional” style. Anyone who can drum intelligently to that type of music has to be EXCEPTIONAL!!! Not sure why Jon Hiseman rarely makes these lists. Can’t believe Bobby Colomby of Blood Sweat and Tears fame is not only not in the top 50 list, but not even mentioned by anyone in this long thread! Hal Roach would. This one is no exception. This list sucks. And don’t laugh: Mel Torme. Oh, look, another excuse to argue about our opinions!! Where’s Dave Weckl? Saw Tony Meehan with Jet Harris at Cheltenham Town Hall in early 60’s. Not too many arguments. Where’s Buddy Harmon? Played with Lee Michaels…. I’ve never heard of most of the drummers in this list. Phill Collins should be higher due to his incredible work with Brand X. He played on an estimated 18,000 recordings, many of them major hits, such as Tammy Wynette’s ‘Stand By Your Man’. Stand firm in your beliefs, and why not watch some Whiplash in the meantime? I think he will forever be the greatest drummer of all time.” Wow!!! Who you ask, the guy who was approached to drum for Led Zep before they invited Bonham. Glad that Hal Blaine made it, but where’s his wrecking crew partner Earl Palmer? !Everyone has forgot about him!!! Smith studied music in Boston at Berklee College Of Music from 1972-76 and began life as a professional musician in the Lin Biviano Big Band. Ringo wasn’t flashy and he wasn’t a soloist. Layla album to me is such good music, that quality standard was not met prior to or after that session by anyone, ever… I love a lot of music, but he was part of a ton of special stuff…. … YOU ARE A JACK ASS !!! Born on 14 January 1969 in Warren, Ohio, Grohl dropped out of high school to play with the group Scream before auditioning for Nirvana. I’ll take a Ringo Starr and Charlie Watts 10 times out of 10 before any of the drummers outside of John Bonham in my Top 10. He worked with saxophonist Jackie McLean and then started recording with Coleman Hawkins in 1950, before working steadily with pianist Bud Powell in 1952. I couldn’t believe it. “Nicko always had the chops and the technique, but in Maiden he really exploded, to the point where a lot of stuff we did after he joined was then founded on his playing, all those busy patterns he does, displaying tremendous technique,” said guitarist Adrian Smith. Bill Berry of R.E.M. Barrett, who built his first set of drums from empty paint tins, helped popularise Jamaican beats, such as steppers and one-drop. Some of the correspondents in this forum are totally disgusting in comment, blithering idiots they are destined to remain for the rest of their pathetic lives. Check out: ‘Toad’, Canadian drummer and songwriter Neil Peart was born on 12 September 1952 and, like so many of the drummers on this list, was inspired after watching The Gene Krupa Story. Clapton has been quoted as saying Jamie Oldacre was part of the best rhythm section and best band he was in … that’s Clapton …. When ‘rock’ started in the ‘late 60’s’ music changed. Any top drummer list that does not include Elvin Jones loses all credibility. He was acclaimed as a pioneer of fast thrash drum beats, a sound that featured on many of Metallica’s early songs, such as ‘Metal Militia’, and his thunderous, complex drum patterns set the template for hard rock in the 80s. – Chester Thompson Cobb also famously drummed for Miles Davis, appearing on the trumpeter’s groundbreaking 1959 album, Kind Of Blue. Check out: ‘Suzy Lee’, Self-taught Nigerian native Tony Allen’s driving, polyrhythmic style formed the bedrock of ‘Afrobeat’: the breathtaking fusion of funk, calypso, traditional Nigerian rhythms and the bebop of American drummer Art Blakey he pioneered alongside visionary multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti in Africa ’70. How could anyone forget Al Jackson of Booker T & The MGs and Stax Records??? If so, just write in comments and we’ll make it possible! Personalmente Buddy Rich es el numero -1. Maureen Tucker of Velvet Underground? Without a doubt, Buddy Rich should be #1. Queen’s drummer Roger Taylor should’ve made the Top10 . 1 y Jim Keltner cerca de el!!! Wanna have a live video with Sorin? Check out: ‘Glad All Over’, As well as being an important educator, Missouri-born drummer Dave Weckl, who was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall Of Fame in 2000, has appeared with numerous top stars, including Madonna, George Benson and Paul Simon. Agree with you Eolo. It surely is not of music! Check out: ‘13 Steps To Nowhere’, Chad Smith is the drummer with Red Hot Chili Peppers. why not just enjoy all there is that these guys offered and leave it at that!! White quickly sensed that the combination of his talent and his wife’s primitive style was a winning formula. Honorable mention: Johnnie Bolin of Black Oak Arkansas, The Tommy Bolin Band and DVC. “That session was a monumental one for me because it was such a touching song, it was the first time I actually cried when I was playing,” said Keltner. Coolio! Where would the monkees be without him? Another drummer was Fito De La Parra (spelling is probably wrong) from Canned heat. The playing, yes, very much including the drumming, is sublime, and … I had this huge record collection when I was real young and loved The Beatles, and then, later on, KISS. A drummer is no different to anything else…we all have our own preferences….no one is right nor wrong….but for me personally its Buddy Rich, … >>>> TO EVERYONE !!! On Next (2002), he explored improvised rhythms on prepared drum kit installations. Ginger Baker? Unlike most drummers of the time, Blaine said he tuned his drums down to normal, mid-range, rather than keeping them at a high range. On When The Levee Breaks you hear him bashing on his drums. … SHUT UP !!! Ringo is a good drummer but is he worthy of being high on the list simply because he’s so famous? In 2014, Bozzio toured America playing solo dates with what he called “the world’s largest tuned drum and percussion set”. Excellent mention. He made a significant contribution to the band, recording eight albums with them, starting with The Elders, in 1981, and finishing with Hot In The Shade, in 1989. Check out: ‘Master Blaster (Jammin’)’, Illinois-born drummer Glenn Kotche is highly regarded as an energetic, imaginative percussionist, the rhythmic anchor for popular rock band Wilco. His work with The Police was famed for its reggae-tinged rhythms and seemingly effortless cymbal work. Check out: ‘The Golden Eight’, French drummer Christian Vander is renowned for his intense, idiosyncratic style, developed in the 70s as the leader of the prog rock band Magma. GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ. … CLIFF !!! How many drummers does it take to wallpaper a room? Who is the best drummer or best musician it is all about taste and likes but still no drummer or a very very few left the same impression like Keith Moon did both live and in the studio. How can you be serious ? His distinctive backbeat can be heard on iconic records such as Eddie Cochran’s ‘Summertime Blues’ and Ritchie Valens’ ‘La Bamba’. Or is it someone that sits in the song with their own feel? He quotes the “ Good Times Bad Times explicitly,” telling of how its thunderous bass impacted listeners. His flamboyant performances in concerts, as he flailed away at his snare drum, tom‐toms and cymbals, made him a star. Following a spell working in his father’s business, Dalziel Equipment, and playing music part-time in local Ontario bands, he joined Rush in 1974, two weeks before the group’s first tour of America. Where’s Sandy Nelson whys he not on the list? Discover the best female drummers of all time. If I wanted to pick a piano player, I wouldn’t compare classical and jazz as a basis of ability. To any person George Martin REAL QUOTE “with recordings we never needed a click track, we had RINGO.” A fukin metronome. He can p,at so many styles and is knowledgeable about them. Elvin Jones Manne played with the Stan Kenton and Woody Herman bands and went on to play at his own influential Hollywood nightclub (Shelly’s Manne Hole) and with several small combos. With characteristic style, he started a jailhouse band. You can learn a lot of things watching performances of real “live” shows, not some of those ones where they are playing to the recorded music being played. …. No Pail Motian After working for Prestige and Blue Note Records, including on sessions with Donald Byrd, he moved to Europe and wrote a book about drumming, Notes And Tones. No Tony Williams??? A key member of the collective of session musicians known as The Funk Brothers, he was known for his deft brushwork and explosive drum fills. should’ve put him somewhere in the top 15. Refried Boogie. Peter York is unarguably better than 80% of those listed. Their 1960 hit ‘Apache’ was No.1 in the UK charts for six weeks and helped established the group as one of the most important bands of the early 60s. I would have probably put Josh Freese significantly higher… easily within the top 20. Unless your a drummer you just wouldn’t know. The New Orleans-born musician’s powerful and creative drumming helped partially define the sound of early rock’n’roll; between 1949 and 1956 he played on hit records by Fats Domino (‘The Fat Man’), Lloyd Price (‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’), Smiley Lewis (‘I Hear You Knocking’) and Little Richard (‘Tutti Frutti’, ‘Long Tall Sally’). I can’t find B.J. Not a talented drummer list. At that point, he had been at the forefront of jazz for more than 40 years and played on more than 1,000 records. That is a quote by John Lennon when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world. In later life, Morello became an in-demand teacher whose students included Danny Gottlieb, one of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band members. He’s unreal. Ringo fucking sucks and if u think he is number 1 then u definitely don’t shit about music. No harvey bartswonkle ? Gene Krupa is better than all of this skin bashers – get real and understand talent at the highest level. Even Bruce (who wanted to be a drummer himself) said that Clive was the better drummer for Maiden’s music. Ginger at number1 and where’s jim keltner ? In a career that began when he was 18, Bellson moved from big bands to small groups and back again, and served as musical director for his first wife, the singer Pearl Bailey. Agree!! Jon Moss the best drummer ever. – Aynsley Dunbar I would have put don brewer on here and the one drummer that nobody seemed to mention at all was paul t riddle from the marshall tucker band his drum rolls are legend!! >>>> JEFF MURT !!! The drummer was a major factor in their success. He had a pulse, a steadiness, that kept the tempo better than a metronome,” said Motown founder Berry Gordy. …, Well-balanced list. This list is obviously just a matter of opinion. After the hundredth number, maybe. They saw The Dave Clark Five,” said Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones. Yes he was good but Paice was better in a band setting and his solos were crap. No offense to Bonham and Moon, great drummers in their time, over 30 years ago! He’s a drummer known for his flawless syncopation and dance-friendly grooves. Or Ray Bauduc, whose drumming on Big Noise from Winnetka is fantastic. They all SUCK. “My drum set up never gets that crazy or out of the ordinary,” said Freese. Your list belongs in the garbage!! I can play circles around him. Where is Alan Wren and Dolpin Taylor? Blade has also recorded for Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, and has worked with Wayne Shorter’s quartet. In recent years, he began teaching drums online at the Billy Cobham School Of Drums. When he was asked, he jokingly said that “Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles”, because before Ringo, there was actually a time when The Beatles was a 3-piece band, and Paul played the drums for a bit. Ritchie Hayward came to mind immediately! Buddy Rich is by far the best drummer. Airto Moreira yeah mate.. Karen Carpenter isn’t even on the list, who made this list up, roger taylor above Charlie, you are having a laugh…. First off, ringo wasn’t that great, second, I would put terry bosio and Neil learnt up in number one and two. Check out: ‘Manganese’, Billy Cobham, who was born on 16 May 1944, is a Panamanian jazz musician who started playing with pianist Horace Silver and then came to prominence in the 60s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then the New York jazz-fusion outfit The Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was great when he was with Spencer Davis, he was better still with Hardin and York, and out of the stratosphere in the “Superdrumming” events. I think moon should have taken the cake he was a Mitch better performer than bonham it also feels like moon had a tighter sound. The fact that the late Bruce Gary of the Knack isn’t on this list shows it’s more of a popularity contest than anything else.