Posted on 05/27/2008 7:47:59 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Drummers can get away with singing a couple songs a set or so,
But I really think you need somebody out front running the show
Only Rich can do Rich, I like the Rich Vs Ed Shaughnessy drum battle on the old Carson show though, its on you tube.
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Guess I’ll throw Billy Cobbham and Ian Paice into the mix!
Nicko McBrain
Neil Peart
Oh, Judas Priest is putting out a new double concept album, called Nostradamus.
And Victor can bury any other bassist around.
The song was not about suicide.
Don Roeser [Buck Dharma] has explained this, ad nauseum.
“”(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” is a song by the rock band Blue Öyster Cult from their 1976 album, Agents of Fortune. It was written and sung by the band’s lead guitarist, Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, and is built around Dharma’s guitar riff that opens the song and reappears throughout. The edited single version was Blue Öyster Cult’s biggest US hit, reaching #12 on the American charts in November 1976.[1] The song remains a staple tune on classic rock radio playlists. In 1997, Mojo magazine ranked “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” at #80 in the “100 Greatest Singles of All Time”. Rolling Stone magazine voted the song “Best Rock Single” of 1976 and in 2004 the magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” ranked it at #397.[2] The reaper is a reference to the Grim Reaper, a traditional personification of death in European-based folklore. Lyrics such as “Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity” have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, death:[3]
“ I felt that I had just achieved some kind of resonance with the psychology of people when I came up with that, I was actually kind of appalled when I first realized that some people were seeing it as an advertisement for suicide or something that was not my intention at all. It is, like, not to be afraid of it (as opposed to actively bring it about). It’s basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners.”
And few here have any idea who you’re referring to....:)
“Salamander”
*wink*
And Pearlman had no part in the after-thought addition of cowbell to the song.
“Fact is, there is a cowbell on “Reaper.” If you listen closely to it on oldies radio, you can make it out in the background. But it was an afterthought. The song was recorded without it, and was added as an overdub at the last minute. According to former BOC bassist Joe Bouchard, an unnamed producer asked his brother, drummer Albert Bouchard, to play the cowbell after the fact. “Albert thought he was crazy,” Bouchard told the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press in 2000. “But he put all this tape around a cowbell and played it. It really pulled the track together.”
Gene Krupa, of course! [showing my age]
Terry Bozzio - all the work with Zappa
Keith Moon - for creating, recording and performing thunderous chaos
Well since you asked favorite versus best I would have to say for me it’s a tie between Graeme Edge and Ringo Starr....total nuts. Here’s Graeme:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CoRVKkbEEQQ
If you like Peart, you’ll LOVE Portnoy. In fact, there are a lot of guys like that, it’s just that Peart is the most well known.
Dream Theater (Portnoy’s band) has about 12 CDs out since the 80s. They’re just less famous than Rush. In fact, they do some Rush covers in their act, and they do them flawlessly and even cleaner than Rush does them!
Did they ever sing “Sing Sing Sing” in Sing Sing?
That is a classic album. The drum break in TomSawyer blew my 7th grade mind when it same out. I just played that part over and over... I messed up the vinyl with the needle!
Don Brewer - Grand Funk Railroad - listen to the solo on T.N.U.C.
Neal Morse and ‘Transatlantic’ are not as heavy as Portnoy’s day job (Dream Theater) but is still full of progressive goodness. 23 awards from Modern Drummer magazine and one of the youngest drummers elected in the Rock Drummer Hall of Fame will tell you he is "not too shabby".
Do you mean Steve Morse?
Too funny! I hope you find the pics, Cheaps, I want to see them!
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