Calling all Doper Drummers and fans of Drumming!

The thread Next week is Drum Solo Week on Letterman! started 06-04-2011, 10:46 AM by Dietrich K is developing into a discussion about building a poll or polls for Greatest Drummer or something of the sort.

If you have interest in drumming and drummers, please join in the discussion in that thread – or this one!

The more input, the better the chance the poll(s) will mean something.

Thanks!
Zeldar

In hopes that vanity searches by these people will catch their attention, these were the ones who posted in Joe Morello, jazz drummer - farewell and rest in peace. started 03-12-2011, 07:26 PM by Le Ministre de l’au-delà:

silenus
K364
flickster
Snowboarder Bo
Chefguy
WordMan

If there are other threads dealing with drummers, please post links to them or at least give their titles.

At the very least, please vote at

Pick the best drummer of these five (See OP before voting)

Here are some old threads dealing with Drummers and Drumming.

I did a keyword search on “Morello” to generate a starting point and selected these for further examination:

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Your favorite drummers
12-27-2008, 11:43 PM
rolandgunslinger
01-02-2009 02:23 PM
by akrako1
107 1,889
Cafe Society

What are the greatest Drum Solos of all time?
04-24-2007, 08:25 AM
What Exit?
04-25-2007 11:21 PM
by Rick
45 1,321
Cafe Society

The Best Jazz Tunes and Songs
08-20-2006, 10:09 AM
Zeldar
08-21-2006 12:39 PM
by Tully Mars
35 493
Cafe Society

Best Drum solo…
04-18-2004, 08:28 PM
remisser
04-26-2004 09:26 AM
by Snickers
44 701
Cafe Society

Musicians: what does it take to become a good drummer?
07-02-2003, 11:23 AM
Carnac the Magnificent!
07-03-2003 06:12 PM
by BrainGlutton
26 549
Cafe Society

Your favorite drummers
01-04-2003, 05:07 PM
Splanky
01-08-2003 12:40 PM
by rsvp9146
60 724
Cafe Society

How many drummers/percussionists has the SDMB?
12-27-2002, 07:32 PM
I can’t believe that’s butter!
01-04-2003 03:21 AM
by Quasimodem
18 242
Cafe Society
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Add your own favorite threads or comment on Drummers and Drumming to suit yourself.

Now we got somethin’!! :slight_smile:

I think part of the problem with getting input was the discussion about the logistics of polls was in a thread about a different subject (the Letterman thread).

If i’d seen this sooner I’d have had more to say, but right now it’s past my [del]sell-by[/del] bedtime. I’ll be back sometime tomorrow with (still more) thoughts on how to proceed from here.

One thing now; do you think it would be helpful to ask a mod to merge the salient points about polls from the Letterman thread to this one? Could they? Would they? Even if they won’t (or can’t) we still have a good start on a master list just from the names named in the various threads.

If nothing else, Thanks, Zeldar for all the effort you’ve put in so far.

Right you are! I was growing progressively more concerned that I was flogging a dead horse. Glad at least you have some positive thoughts about the issues.

Perhaps a way to migrate the discussion over here would be to find specific posts in the other thread(s) and quote (by copy/paste and “quote” tags) them into this thread. It’s not all that difficult, especially if you first copy/paste into a holding file (I use Notepad for it’s simplicity) and then build the new post in “quote-response” mode. Or just refer to the point/post indirectly.

Merging threads might bring in as much extraneous matter as pertinent stuff. But if you (or anybody) want to ask Mod help on that, I don’t object.

What I’d really like to see would be links to other threads on the subject(s) so we could get as large a group of comments and ideas to look at and consider. My searches have been limited to threads I posted to, or to specific drummers’ names I like. But I’m quite aware that my tastes are not in the mainstream at SDMB, and all I ask for is a space in the Big Picture where we jazz fans can have our voices at least heard.