Posted on 09/27/2007 10:07:04 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Anti-Rock and Roll PING!
100 Greatest JAZZ drummers
[2005]
1. Buddy Rich
2. Elvin Jones
3. Max Roach
4. Roy Haynes
5. Jack DeJohnette
6. Tony Williams
7. Billy Cobham
8. Art Blakey
9. Joe Morello
10. Kenny Clarke
11. Gene Krupa
12. Dave Weckl
13. Harvey Mason
14. Peter Erskine
15. Chick Webb
16. Louis Bellson
17. Ed Blackwell
18. Bill Stewart
19. Steve Gadd
20. Papa Joe Jones
21. Connie Kay
22. Jeff “Tain” Watts
23. Philly Joe Jones
24. Paul Wertico
25. Big Sid Catlett
26. Rashied Ali
27. Warren “Baby” Dodds
28. Bernard Purdie
29. Clayton Cameron
30. Don Alias
31. Alphonse Mouzon
32. Alex Acuna
33. Paul Motian
34. Vinnie Colaiuta
35. Narada Michael Walden
36. Chad Wackerman
37. Shelly Manne
38. Johnny Vidacovich
39. Lional Hampton
40. Art Taylor
41. Billy Higgins
42. Lewis Nash
43. John Robinson
44. Danny Gottlieb
45. Antonio Sanchez
46. Bill Bruford
47. Alan Dawson
48. Dannie Richmond
49. Dennis Chambers
50. Ed Shaughnessey
51. Airto
52. Kenny Wollesen
53. Brian Blade
54. Gary Husband
55. Steve Smith
56. Alex Riel
57. Al Foster
58. Ben Perowski
59. Lenny White
60. Bernie Dresel
61. Panama Francis
62. Louis Hayes
63. Sonny Payne
64. Ed Thigpen
65. Jeff Ballard
66. Jay Lane
67. Gary Novak
68. Billy Kilson
69. Jimmy Cobb
70. Idrus Muhammed
71. John Riley
72. Abe Laboriel Jr.
73. Joe LaBarbera
74. Mel Lewis
75. Andrew Cyrille
76. Stanton Moore
77. Adam Nussbaum
78. Ben Riley
79. Cecil Brooks III
80. Simon Phillips
81. Joel Taylor
82. Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith
83. Harold Jones
84. T.S. Monk
85. Terry Bozzio
86. Frankie Dunlop
87. Ray Barretto
88. Billy Hart
89. Stan Levey
90. Tony Royster
91. Paul Barbarin
92. Joel Rosenblatt
93. Andre Ceccarelli
94. Martin Drew
95. John Guerin
96. Kenny Washington
97. Leon Parker
98. Luis Conte
99. Gene Jackson
100. Claude Ranger
100 Greatest ROCK drummers
[2006]
1. Neil Peart (Rush)
2. John Bonham* (Led Zeppelin)
3. Carl Palmer (ELP)
4. Keith Moon* (The Who)
5. Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa)
6. Ginger Baker (Cream)
7. Hal Blaine (Session man)
8. Danny Carey (Tool)
9. Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson)
10. Earl Palmer (Session man)
11. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)
12. Dave Lombardo (Slayer)
13. Benny Benjamin* (Funk Brothers)
14. Ian Paice (Deep Purple)
15. Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge)
16. Tommy Aldridge (Ozzy Osbourne)
17. Stewart Copeland (The Police)
18. Bernard Purdie (Session)
19. Vinnie Colaiuta (Zappa)
20. Jeff Porcaro* (Toto)
21. Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
22. David Garabaldi (Tower Of Power)
23. Ainsley Dunbar (Jeff Beck)
24. Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden)
25. Mike Shrieve (Santana)
26. Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix)
27. Steve Smith (Journey)
28. Al Jackson* (The MGs)
29. Matt Cameron (Soundgarden)
30. Tim Alexander (Primus)
31. Jim Keltner (Session man)
32. Phil Collins (Genesis)
33. Cozy Powell* (Rainbow)
34. Simon Phillips (Toto)
35. Russ Kunkel (Session man)
36. Bobby Jarzombeck (Rob Halford)
37. Carter Beauford (Dave Matthews)
38. Zigaboo Modeliste (The Meters)
39. Jimmy Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins)
40. Vinnie Paul (Pantera)
41. Kenny Aronoff (Session man)
42. Alan White (Yes)
43. Mike Giles (King Crimson)
44. Rod Morgenstein (Dixie Dregs)
45. Clive Bunker (Jethro Tull)
46. Mike Mangini (Extreme)
47. Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
48. Roger Hawkins (Arethra Franklin/Session Man)
49. Bobby Elliot (The Hollies)
50. Alex Van Halen (Van Halen)
51. BJ Wilson* Procul Harum)
52. Joe Franco (Good Rats)
53. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones)
54. Virgil Donati (Planet X)
55. Roger Taylor (Queen)
56. Chad Wackerman (Zappa)
57. Topper Headon (The Clash)
58. Nick Barker (Dimmu Borgir)
59. Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac)
60. Danny Seraphine (Chicago)
61. Gene Holgan (Death)
62. John Densmore (The Doors)
63. Max Weinberg (Springsteen)
64. Jabo Starks (James Brown)
65. Lars Ulrich (Metallica)
66. Jerry Allison (Crickets)
67. Phil Ehart (Kansas)
68. Chester Thompson (Santana)
69. Matt McDonoughe (Mudvayne)
70. Dean Castronovo (Journey)
71. Jon Theodore (Mars Volta)
72. Van Romaine (Steve Morse)
73. Ralph Humphrey (Mothers Of Invention)
74. Les Lester (Los Straightjackets)
75. Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy)
76. Brann Dailor (Mastodon)
77. Dick Richards (The Comets)
78. Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle)
79. Stanton Moore (Galactic)
80. Joey Jordison (Slipknot)
81. Ron Wilson (Surfaris)
82. Jack Irons (Pearl Jam)
83. Jim Gordon (Derek And The Dominoes)
84. Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)
85. Eddie Bayers (Session man)
86. Jeff Campitelli (Joe Satriani)
87. Dave Grohl (Nirvana)
88. Bobby Rondinelli (Rainbow)
89. Chris Frantz (Talking Heads)
90. Mike Bordin (Faith No More)
91. Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)
92. Lee Kerslake (Uriah Heep)
93. Phil Selway (Radiohead)
94. Vinnie Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio)
95. Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche)
96. Chad Smith (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
97. Nick Menza (Megadeth)
98. John Dalmayan (System Of A Down)
99. Travis Barker (Blink 182)
100. Ralph Salmins (Session man)
50 Most Skilled Drummers
1. Vinnie Colaiuta
2. Dave Weckl
3. Steve Gadd
4. Billy Cobham
5. Terry Bozzio
6. Bill Bruford
7. Buddy Rich
8. Neil Peart
9. Steve Smith
10. Tony Williams
11. Dennis Chambers
12. Carl Palmer
13. Gene Krupa
14. Ansley Dunbar
15. Mark Mondesir
16. Max Roach
17. Danny Carey
18. Mike Portnoy
19. Elvin Jones
20. Peter Erskine
21. Simon Phillips
22. Marco Minnemann
23. Jack DeJohnette
24. Virgil Donati
25. Chad Wackerman 26. Joe Morello
27. Dean Castronovo
28. Morgan Agren
29. Harvey Mason
30. Carter Beauford
31. Greg Bissonette
32. Thomas Lang
33. Bill Stewart
34. Mike Mangini
35. Art Blakey
36. Roy Haynes
37. Connie Kay
38. Tim Alexander
39. Paul Wertico
40. David Garibaldi
41. Louis Bellson
42. Rod Morgenstein
43. Bernard Purdie
44. Ed Blackwell
45. Horacio Hernandez
46. Jeff “Tain” Watts
47. Al Foster
48. Omar Hakim
49. Lewis Nash
50. Antonio Sanchez
Everyone has their own taste. I googled “Best rock drummers in the world” and it gave this list in a link. Though I appreciate all types of music, rock is my preference.
Problem with Bonham and Moon is they gave us barely 10 yrs worth of music.
Peart has given 33 yrs and still going. That is how I am able to form my opinion. He chose not to live his life like an idiot and drown himself to death in alcohol. But enjoy what its like to live and play as a living legend.
Bonham and Moon accomplished the recordings but never the glory and the maturity of musicians who last and record as long as Peart.
His most recent solo from 2007 is right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri3uLMU2tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCZvRNgLnI
Check it out yourself...quite the sight to be seen. The DVD Rush In Rio is unreal.
“Was Rob even active musically in 1982?”
Good point - I think he started around 1985, so I’ll have to wait a few years to see him officially dissed.
And though I enjoy Marilyn Manson, he (it) is more Hollywood than rock and roll, and doesn’t add anything new to the mix. Gotta agree with you there about the hack-ism.
I visited the Hall in 1997 (IIRC). It was very disappointing.
Now if Motorhead ever gets inducted, it should be the same day Ted Nugent and KISS gets in...and what a blast that would be.
On Rush:
Maybe a bit late on this thread, but I'll chime in anyways.
Rush is a band which I got into when they were just breaking big, "Permanent Waves" was the album, and I saw them live and close up at the Paramount Theater in NYC (formerly Academy of Music, now a dorm building for NYU) ... they were good, they were hot, they were ROCK n ROOL (!!!!)
I was in a band, playing guitar at the time .. and we did Rush tunes "Hemispheres", "The Trees", "2112", "Circumstances", "Passage to Bankok"(-5sp?), and of course "Spirit of Radio" ... eeenywees, Rush was the best thing to come along in Rock since the Disco crap blew its last line of cocaine ...
Fast forward, 28 years later ... I went to a Rush concert this past summer, and they STILL ROCK !!! Geddy's bass was actually shaking the venue(!), something which I haven't experienced at a concert in decades! It used to be when a rock band played you'd be thrown back from the power of the bass, but not anymore ... Geddy turned this around and just pounded out the most magnificently powerful Bass riffs that I've experienced in decades!
All in all it was a happy experience .. Rock n ROOL is back (not that it ever went away:) The RnR HOF is a complete joke, how could they *not* have Alice Cooper, Moody Blues, or YES, or ELP, or Genesis in there? What a joke !
Singing YYZ ???? /laughs ... that has to be something to hear, since YYZ is an instrumental ;)
Vote for the most deserving but overlooked artists for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at:
http://www.rateitall.com/t-2529-deserving-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.aspx
The top 20 at this point are:
1) Rush
2) Yes
3) Deep Purple
4) The Ventures
5) Stevie Ray Vaughan
6) Genesis
7) Alice Cooper
8) Chicago
9) Madonna
10) Pete Townshend (solo)
11) Jethro Tull
12) Dire Straits
13) Duran Duran
14) Moody Blues
15) The Cars
16) The Smiths
17) Peter Gabriel (solo)
18) Neil Diamond
19) Heart
20) The Stooges (Iggy Pop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCZvRNgLnI
Check it out yourself...quite the sight to be seen. The DVD Rush In Rio is unreal.
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