Monday 4 February 2008
Sunday 3 February 2008
You Decide.
Was trawling around blogs/forums reading about drummers and found some amusing comments, one in particular filled me with distress.
I was just thinking to myself how overrated Led Zepplin is and although John Bonham is really good, Carter Beauford is just better because he has so much more style. But then I realized I don't really know anything about Led Zepplin (I'm not even sure if I'm spelling the name right) and that I base my opinions off of the few times I am forced to listen to that trite garbage, but for anyone who actually knows what they're talking about and isn't completely biased. Is John Bonham really that good? I mean, I know he can do the tripelet bass thing with one pedal but to me its like, big deal. If you used two you would sound better still. All of his drumming sounds to me like Carter's drummer on Everyday (for the most part which is lame).
Now I went onto YouTube and found Carter Beauford, and while saying he is not talented would be idiotic in itself, so say that he produces anything better than Bonham or Baker is laughable anyway. To read responses to this chaps post click here. Also to have a look at Beaufort go here. I had never heard of him before but here he is anyhow.
So then I moved onto Bonham. Moby Dick being his most well know drum solo. Now this is some special stuff, by any standards of rock drumming, Bonham is described by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the perfect model for all hard rock drummers that have followed him High praise indeed. A great video cut with moments from his life can be found right here. His famous drum solo, first entitled "Pat's Delight," then "Moby Dick," would often last for half an hour and regularly featured his use of bare hands to achieve different sound effects. In Led Zeppelin concert tours after 1969, Bonham would expand his basic kit to include congas, orchestral timpani, and a symphonic gong. Bonham is also credited (by the Dallas Times Herald) with the first in-concert use of electronic timpani drum synthesisers (most likely made by Syndrum) during a performance of the song "Kashmir" in Dallas, Texas in 1977. Many modern rappers would later heavily sample his drumming and incorporate it into their compositions, such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled "Moby Dick," "The Ocean," and "When the Levee Breaks."
Ginger Baker was originally on Jimmy Page's wanted list when forming Led Zeppelin, I think he was originally more blues influenced than Bonham, but could play rock and roll drums with amazing skill, as this clip shows.
On my meanderings I did find this, and although I had been loving drumming and its protaganists for years I have never seen anything that impressed me as much as this particular piece of film. Buddy Rich in full flight
This is only scratching the surface of finding the Best Drummer ever, check some of these and delve deeper.
Elvin Jones
Alphonse Mouzon
Max Roach
keith moon
Michael Shrieve
Best Drummer ever? - You decide.
I was just thinking to myself how overrated Led Zepplin is and although John Bonham is really good, Carter Beauford is just better because he has so much more style. But then I realized I don't really know anything about Led Zepplin (I'm not even sure if I'm spelling the name right) and that I base my opinions off of the few times I am forced to listen to that trite garbage, but for anyone who actually knows what they're talking about and isn't completely biased. Is John Bonham really that good? I mean, I know he can do the tripelet bass thing with one pedal but to me its like, big deal. If you used two you would sound better still. All of his drumming sounds to me like Carter's drummer on Everyday (for the most part which is lame).
Now I went onto YouTube and found Carter Beauford, and while saying he is not talented would be idiotic in itself, so say that he produces anything better than Bonham or Baker is laughable anyway. To read responses to this chaps post click here. Also to have a look at Beaufort go here. I had never heard of him before but here he is anyhow.
So then I moved onto Bonham. Moby Dick being his most well know drum solo. Now this is some special stuff, by any standards of rock drumming, Bonham is described by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the perfect model for all hard rock drummers that have followed him High praise indeed. A great video cut with moments from his life can be found right here. His famous drum solo, first entitled "Pat's Delight," then "Moby Dick," would often last for half an hour and regularly featured his use of bare hands to achieve different sound effects. In Led Zeppelin concert tours after 1969, Bonham would expand his basic kit to include congas, orchestral timpani, and a symphonic gong. Bonham is also credited (by the Dallas Times Herald) with the first in-concert use of electronic timpani drum synthesisers (most likely made by Syndrum) during a performance of the song "Kashmir" in Dallas, Texas in 1977. Many modern rappers would later heavily sample his drumming and incorporate it into their compositions, such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled "Moby Dick," "The Ocean," and "When the Levee Breaks."
Ginger Baker was originally on Jimmy Page's wanted list when forming Led Zeppelin, I think he was originally more blues influenced than Bonham, but could play rock and roll drums with amazing skill, as this clip shows.
On my meanderings I did find this, and although I had been loving drumming and its protaganists for years I have never seen anything that impressed me as much as this particular piece of film. Buddy Rich in full flight
This is only scratching the surface of finding the Best Drummer ever, check some of these and delve deeper.
Elvin Jones
Alphonse Mouzon
Max Roach
keith moon
Michael Shrieve
Best Drummer ever? - You decide.
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