It would have to be Ruth Underwood, who toured with Frank Zappa in 1973-74 and then again during Christmas 1976. She could play anything Zappa could write.
Mickey Hart & Bill Kreutzmann. People always referred to Mickey as a drummer/percussionist and Billy as a drummer. I don’t know if this was really fair. They both used to pound on all kinds of things during their drum solos with the Grateful Dead.
Danny Carey from Tool. Uses more drums, cymbals, and other stuff than any other drummer I’ve ever seen in my life. When I saw them live a few weeks ago I swear they formed a 270 degree arc around him. Crazy.
If you want to listen for yourself, check out the songs Ticks and Leeches or Lateralis by Tool. Friggin’ amazing.
You mean like this?
Actually the “circle of drums” picture isn’t there but every time I’ve seen Peart, he plays as they circle around him as if on some enourmous lazy susan platform. Implessive.
Not to mention impressive.
:rolleyes:
I’d put Bill Bruford up there too, but I’ll also go with Mickey Hart. When I think pure percussionist (non-drummer), the name Rebop comes up. He is on some Stones records and some Traffic records as well. Then there’s Vinx, who toured with Sting and then made some albums of his own.
reni from the stone roses. whatever happened to that guy?
Michael Giles on Macdonald and Giles, who seemed to be using all sorts of odd objects for the percussion.
Early Santana had a nice group of percussionists: José Chepitó Areas, Coke Escovedo, and Mike Carabello
Yeah, a lot like that, actually. Most drummers don’t have half that many.
Their two setups are probably a lot a like, Tool admitting a lot of their sound came from Rush with the phrase “Rush / pi = Tool”. Whatever that means.
even though I’m not really a Phish fan (phan?)
I do have to admit that Jon Fishman is one of the most sublime drummers I have ever heard. Very, Very precice, can do all sorts of weird timings and psuedo-techno rhythmics. and his interaction with the music is truely unique.
I don’t know about “best” but up there.
But I’ll have to agree about Zappa- his drummers had to be exceedingly good to play most of Frank’s stuff- WAY out there!
and of course Mickey Hart, but I think that most of what he did with the Dead - “Drums” included - had more to do I believe with improvisation, and band (or just Billy)interaction than technical expertice/precision (not that he lacked in those, though)
Barriemore Barlow of Jethro Tull fame.
The drummer for the Police (you remember, Sting’s old behind before he decided to suck) was considered a drum genius.
Jai Johanny Johanson, a/k/a Jaimo, an original member of the Allman Brothers Band, is one of the best!
This might be a bit of an unusual choice, but I’ve been a big fan of Mick Fleetwood’s for a long time. He’s very subtle, doesn’t dominate the song at all, but I always find myself airdrumming to Fleetwood Mac.
I recommend Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum album for any percussion fans out there. Great stuff.
That would be Stewart Copeland, who shares my birthday. And I agree…although I’d throw Neil Peart in there with him, actually.
[sub]was going to mention Buddy Rich until I saw the freakin’ THREAD TITLE…sigh[/sub]
The late Linda McCartney was the greatest tambourine player of her generation. Her innate ability to punctuate every beat of “Listen To What The Man Said” was simply perfect.
Not sure who he is, but if he is a percussionist, he is a worthy mention.
Mr Baboon is a drummer.
his favorites are:
Stewart Copeland
and
Tim Alexander (formally of Primus)
slight hijack: Copeland is hooking up with Les Claypool in a band called Oysterhead.
Igor Cavalera from Sepultura. I love tribal percussion in metal.