I love the show-off classics from late-60s-early-70s heavy rock like Ginger Baker (Cream), Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix), John Bonham (Led Zep) ... And I love understated drummers like Ringo Starr who did the right thing, lots of clever things, for a song to work ... Most of all I love Roger Taylor of Queen ... balancing tricky show-off interesting stuff with doing the right thing for a song ... A sign of a great musician to me is being able to do very tricky stuff but knowing not to do it most of the time; swallowing their ego for the good of the greater whole.
" A sign of a great musician to me is being able to do very tricky stuff but knowing not to do it most of the time; swallowing their ego for the good of the greater whole."
Matt Halpern, Travis Orbin, Benny Greb, Jo Jo Mayer and Thomas Haake all blow my freakin mind away, especially Greb. Theres a couple solos of his online that are really unbelievable.
Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Topper Headon, Budgie, Warren Cann, Terry Chambers, Billy Cobham, Ted McKenna, Bill Ward, Paul Ferguson, Mel Gaynor, Neal Smith.
Also the drummer for Parkway Drive didn't even know how to play drums when the band formed. Keep an eye on him to see a no shit musical development.
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