Mea serious culpa: it was the USC Trojan Marching Band, who apparently have something of a history with Fleetwood Mac.
Are you sure Chick Webb wasn’t soloing before Krupa? Or are you saying Gene was the first to record that way? Gene, btw, openly acknowledged Webb’s dominance after a famous cutting contest at the Savoy.
All the solos mentioned above are real kickers.
Look also to Babatunde Olatunji, Diga Rhythm Band (“Sweet Sixteen” will blow your mind), classic drums interludes by Grateful Dead, Ginger Baker’s solo effort “Middle Passage”, and of course Buddy Rich.
Check out drummerworld.com – you can listen to a ton of drummers there and find what you like before buying records.
For my money, the best ever was John Guerin’s riff in “It Must be a Camel” from Frank Zappa’s “Hot Rats” album. Short, sweet and to the point.
One drum solo that’s always forgotten from Ginger Baker’s career is the one from “Do What You Like,” on the Blind Faith album. An Eric Clapton guitar solo, a Steve Winwood keyboards solo, a Rick Grech bass solo and then Ginger Baker finishing it up. The song goes on a bit too long, but the basic structure is as catchy as hell and the four successive solos are the best studio examples of the late 60s jam mentality.
For obscure points, how about Percolations Parts 1 and 2, from the Expresso (re-released as Gazeuse!) album by the jazz fusion group Gong? It starts with as pretty a bit of vibes as you’ll ever hear, adds Pierre Moerlen’s drums - mostly tympanies - goes back and forth between the two and then ends with pure drums. It’ll separate out the good speakers real fast.
Buddy Rich - Channel One Suite.
You’ll have the find the recording with Buddy himself playing drums. Beware, the jazz tune is about 11 minutes long, and it’s got 3 amazing drum set solos.
Rush, YYZ, live version.
Carl Palmer’s had good ones in Tank and a live performance of Rondo.
I would particularly vote for “Sing Sing Sing” and “Jungle Madness” which is rather more obscure than “SingX3”, but which seriously rocks! (Yes, I’ve got it on '78. 
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I get the biggest rush out of one of the shortest solos - Queen’s “Shear Heart Attack” off the “News of the World” album. Can’t beat it for speed!
“You go to Hell. You go to Hell and you die!!”
A few unsung “decent” drum solos:
Radar Love by Golden Earing
Money for Nothing by Dire Straits
Frankenstein by Edgar Winter
Hocus Pocus by Focus
The beginning of " Hot For Teacher" by Alex Van Halen (a masterpiece).
I can’t vouch for the technical merit of this particular solo, I can’t even remember what song it was, but I saw the Damned in concert a few years back and they had a drum solo at the end of their last song where the drummer poured lighter fluid all over his cymbals, ignited them, and played a rockin solo with flaming cymbals. I don’t really like drum solos, but that one was cool.
Not a solo, per se (in fact, it might even have been done by a drum machine), but Gender by Orgy (track 8 on Candyass) has by far the coolest sounding drumbeat, well, ever.
Never heard anything like it in rock, electronica, or any genre, for that matter.
Hear Hear!
Dharma For One by Jethro Tull.
Now, I know feck all about drumming, but aren’t we missing the bloody obvious here?
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zep
Seems like the visual is an important element, so I’d recommend movies. The Song Remains the Same is an absolute must.
Personally I also really liked Omar Hakkim’s solo in Sting’s Bring On the Night, which is also entertaining for Branford Marsalis’ comments. He’s the real star of that film.
“Suck mah balls!”
As for “Radar Love” – there hardly seems to even BE a drum solo. Sure, there’s a few seconds here and there where the drums are the only instrument playing, but it’s more or less the same shuffle that’s going on during the verses.
Damn you.
I was going to say that.
‘do what you like’ on blind faith. IMHO the most musical rock drum solo evah.
Sort of an obvious pick, but I’ve always loved Morello’s work on Dave Brubeck’s Take Five.
This is some great stuff. I’d never heard Golden Earring before, but after that one track I’m going to pick up an album or two.
Also, King Crimson is amazing stuff. Really amazing. I don’t know why I’ve never exposed myself to this band sooner.
In modern terms, I think Nine Inch Nails has a really neat drum solo on the track “The Perfect Drug.”