Favorite all-purpose drummer

[underpants]

Poll question: Favorite all-purpose drummer

[taterguy]

1. Gene Krupa

I had never heard of him until I read that Keith Moon based his whole act on the guy

[aquaman]

2. Grant Hart...

No question.

[unsavedtrash]

3. Neil Peart n/t

[itsmesgd]

6. I second that

[av8rdave]

17. me too...greatest drummer ever, IMO

[Bassic]

18. Clearly, Neal Peart is the answer.

Mike Portnoy isn't too far down the list either.

[AllegroRondo]

4. Buddy Rich

while he may have been a supreme asshole, he was an incredible drummer.

[PVnRT]

5. Tommy Lee

While an excellent example of a male skank, I like his drumming.

[ashling]

7. The Little Drummer Boy

pa rumpapum pum

[CBGLuthier]

8. Joe Morello

Brubeck's drummer. OR was Brubeck Morello's pianist?

:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs

[vi5]

9. Grant Hart is my personal favorite but I'd have to go with Grohl

The guy can sing, he can drum like a crazy man, and he can write a damn good song. He's just much more all purpose than any other guy on the list.

And this is coming from someone who hated Nirvana.

[underpants]

11. See this is the kind of analysis I was looking for

Oh I forgot

[driver8]

20. Tom Petty tried to get him to join his band...

they played together, but I forget where.

[RedStateShame]

10. Me. I drum AND work a soul-crushing office job!

[NoGOPZone]

12. Aynsley Dunbar

[raccoon]

13. KEITH MOON's not in here!!!!! What! nt

[underpants]

16. All-purpose

singing drumming maybe some songwriting some guitar work etc.

in Anthony Wiggles case throw in some dancing and science projects

[raccoon]

21. OK. nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Max Roach.

[johnnie]

15. I'm surprised no one mentioned Jim Keltner

At least *one* of the best I would say. Another great all-purpose drummer is Simon Phillips.


On edit - Of course, this is just my opinion. Please don't get all musically elite on me :)

[NashVegas]

19. Stewart Copeland

Can do punk & new wave, classic-type composition, opera, rhythmic percussion ...

[Phillycat]

22. Other: what the hell is with this stupid poll??

Where are Stewart Copeland and ?uestlove?

[underpants]

29. *

I was reading about Bill Berry quitting REM and how it basically finished them off. Well they kept making records but even Stipe said "What the hell do we do now?" seems that Berry wrote way more than anyone gave him credit for.

[Phillycat]

30. Ah.

WHERE ARE THE NEW BABY PICTURES GOD DAMMIT!

[Parche]

23. PHIL COLLINS

[kmla]

24. Kenny Aronoff.

Choice of many legendary rockers.

[greendog]

35. I lived in Bloomington, IN when Kenny was a music student...

...at IU. He lived in an old house across the street from the student union building called the "Roach Hotel". On nice, sunny afternoons he'd set up his drums on the lawn (Dunn Meadow) in front of the union building and practice for hours.

[mitchum]

25. JIm Gordon...exquisite drummer and he wrote the best part of Layla...

the piano coda.
Too bad about that whole mother killing thing, though...

[AshevilleGuy]

26. Ginger Baker, with his signature double drumming syncopation NT

[madinmaryland]

27. Bob_the_drummer??2??

[jpgray]

28. Robert Wyatt!

Somewhat limited now, but still awesome.

[gmoney]

31. Pete Thomas

Drummer for Elvis Costello and the various permutations of his bands... "Lipstick Vogue" is just the best drummin' EVAH.

[billyskank]

32. Animal.

[VenusRising]

33. Liberty.

Or Abe Laboriel Jr.

I like crazy drummers who make lots of faces and motion. I call them "Pounders".

[jmowreader]

34. This guy right here...

Josh Freese, who has the worst birthday you could possibly have (December 25--because it's Jesus' birthday, no one remembers that it's yours too), is mainly a studio drummer but he's also in Devo, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle and The Vandals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Freese

[blindpig]

36. Bill Bruford of King Crimson

Also John French, aka Drumbo, of the Magic Band. Listen to Mirror Man.