good drum music

[BradH]

He plays with the accents on 1 and 4 instead of hitting the back beat.

Don't try that at home.

I meant to say 1 and 3.

[Dusty Chalk]

Steve Hackett often has some excellent drumming on his disks, but someone has to help me out with individual tracks. I want to say "Clocks -- The Angel of Mons" and something off of Till We Have Faces...? They are but the two most standout tracks that come to mind.

Other individual tracks that have very enjoyable multiple drummers type thing going on:

Blue Oyster Cult, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"
ELO, "The Jungle"

Some nice laid back drumming in:

Black Sabbath, "Hand of Doom"
(oh, and Ward shines on "War Pigs", which was recently brought to my attention by The Dresden Dolls when they did a bizarre cover of it that included completely faithful reproduction of the drumming, but with the music set to piano)
Yes, "Heart of the Sunrise" (Bruford)

[Swish]

Ha! Ok, I really don't go crazy over "drum music", but I certainly think that almost anything by Peter Erskine, especially when he was with Weather Report, was pretty stellar stuff. It's hard to believe that he's been playing with Diana Krall lately. What a change that must be for him! In addition, I still really like Richard Bailey's percussion on Freeway Jam from Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow album. That tune really pumps still pumps me up like crazy.

Swish

[20to20K]

Ha! Ok, I really don't go crazy over "drum music", but I certainly think that almost anything by Peter Erskine, especially when he was with Weather Report, was pretty stellar stuff. It's hard to believe that he's been playing with Diana Krall lately. What a change that must be for him! In addition, I still really like Richard Bailey's percussion on Freeway Jam from Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow album. That tune really pumps still pumps me up like crazy.

Swish

It's not that hard to believe Erskine is playing with Krall...playing with Krall gets you PAID.

Madonna once had both Omar Hakim and Dave Weckl as her drummers on tour which, of course, is like washing down Spam with Moet.

Erskine is another one of my favs. He's got two CD's from the mid 80's on Denon records called "Transition" and "Motion Poet". Both are exquisitely recorded and have some very involving and interesting music and great supporting musicians (Brecker, Ambercrombie, Will Lee, Miranov, Mintzer, Marc Johnson et al). Vince Mendoza composed and arranged many of the pieces and he's just a freggin' musicial genious(in a Gil Evans kind of way)!

There is one guy who hasn't been mentioned yet who is sort of a pioneer for many of these modern session guys...Steve Gadd. Gadd sometimes gets "dissed" for being
a little mechanical and predictable but let face it...he's the Godfather of session drummers.
I still hear plenty of guys ripping off his "50 ways..." licks. Throw in "Aja", "Mr. Magic", and "Spain" and Gadd has a pretty decent resume of memorable licks. Another significant contemparary of his is Harvey Mason of Breezin, Headhunters, and Mountain Dance fame.

[shokhead]

Buddy Rich,Gene Krupa are ok as drummers. How about some high energy latin funk bands with horns and percussions and all that good stuff.

[BinFrog]

Billy Cobham - Spectrum (DVD-A)

[gonefishin]

Anyone have any recommendations for cd's with a good drummer(s)? I have Blue Man Group in DVD-A and am open to all kinds of music except... country
Thanks!

While I can't stand the pumpkins or the singing by Billy Corgan (or lack of ability to sing!) Jimmy Chamberlin could best be described as shock and awe. I just don't know how he could play so well and effortlessly. He's even more impressive to watch up close...you can't help but keep shaking your head, thinking that there ain't know way.

He's got a new jazz techno fusion type band called The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex.



Jeff Hamilton is a talented, sometimes overlooked, drummer in the jazz world.

...and of course...my two year old daughter would have to rank among the worlds best drummers as well. She plays a mean playschool piano too


dan