World's Greatest Rock Drummer

[moedrabowsky]

Please vote. I put the "rock" in there, because I'm not familiar with Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and some of the other jazz and swing drummers.

Being a huge Rush fan, I love Peart, but of all the drummers I've ever heard, Bonham had the best sound. Bill Ward is another and a terribly underrated skinmeister.

Apologies to the Lounge if this thread is lame.

[cardinalgirl]

I bet you can't guess who I voted for.

[B.A.]

Bonham

[moedrabowsky]

I bet you can't guess who I voted for.

Pujols is not an option.

[Jeffro]

Sort of hard to argue with Bonham.

[moedrabowsky]

Sort of hard to argue with Bonham.

I had to give a vote to Peart. trigger is a vote for Moon.

Everything else is up in the air. The greatest will be crowned, eventually.

[Sheriff Blaylock]

Are one of those guys the one arm dude from Def Leppard?

[cardinalgirl]

Pujols is not an option.

[triggercut1]

Sort of hard to argue with Bonham.

No it isn't.

If the poll was "Greatest rock drummer not named 'Keith Moon', 'Al Jackson', or 'Charlie Watts'," perhaps you could make a good argument for John Bonham.

[moedrabowsky]

I guess I don't get the Watts thing.

He does a great job keeping time.

[triggercut1]

I guess I don't get the Watts thing.

He does a great job keeping time.

"Less is always more, cat." Al Jackson, Jr. describing why he and Charlie Watts rule.

It's all about the rock drum. The rock drum is the snare drum. One of the reasons I don't have much good to say about an obviously freakishly talented guy like Neil Peart is that too often the Rush drummer forgets that he has a rock drum to beat on.

Anyways, no one in 40 years of rock history has been able to duplicate the snare sound of Al Jackson....except maybe Charlie Watts on "Gimme Shelter" (his badda-badda-badda-BANG on that song is one of the coolest understated drum moves in rock history).

Poor Al Jackson was murdered execution style by his estranged wife and her boyfriend, something of a contract killer in 1975; (Jackson was bound and then shot five times in the back.) He remains one of the great lost performers in rock and soul history. And just because this performance absolutely rules in every imaginable way, here's one of my favorite Al Jackson songs on the drums. That snare is just unbelievable:

[jack jones]

No Ringo?

I loved Bohham but nobody played like Moon.

[jhanke]

From Keith Moon
A Quick One (From Monterey Pop)

[YYZ]

I love Peart, but Bonham, easily.

[Ohio Blues]

No Danny Carey option? Or does he not count as rock?