I’m sure this has been done before but I love drum solos. I submit for your approval, Ian Paice.
Well I hadn’t seen that clip, so thanks. (Ian Rocks!!)
If you really like drum solos, you should enjoy these from DrummerWorld.
See you again in a couple of days. 
Wow what a cool site thanks. IMO Buddy Rich was the most influential drummer ever.
Check out the few clips of Joe Morello on that same site before you jump to that conclusion.
Rock concert promoter Bill Graham HATED long, boring drum solos, and to combat them, he had a trick: every so often, he’d book Buddy Rich to play at the Fillmore (or early in the day during festivals).
Graham told the story better than I do.
Suffice it to say, when Buddy Rich does a 20 minute set, NOBODY else on the playbill dares try a drum solo!
For what it’s worth, Buddy Rich thought the greatest drum soloist ever was Chick Webb, a sickly African-American dwarf. Webb supposedly blew Gene Krupa off the stage during a “Battle of the Bands” in Harlem.
As for me, I’ve only see one great drum solo in my life: one by Carl Palmer, during an Asia concert.
Neil Peart did a decent solo, but nothing great.
Phil Collins had a short, catchy solo that he did along with Chester Thompson during a Genesis show… but it was NOT improvised. It was a planned, rehearsed piece.
Otherwise, I find most drum solos tedious- they’re just an opportunity for me to get a Coke or a hot dog, or maybe go to the bathroom.
Did any of you see Iron Butterfly live during the heyday of In-A-Gadda-da-Vida? If you didn’t, you know not from awesome drum solos.
…but Manu Delago does some rockin’ percussion solos:
As Bernard Purdie said, “…melody is what it’s all about”
May I recommend Gene Krupa’s Drum Boogie?
What a great story. I have read where Rich would start to play the infamous Gene Krupa solo on Sing, Sing, Sing - with one hand. Just to mess with folks who thought Krupa was all that - which he was, well, except for Buddy Rich.
No one’s mentioned Bonzo on Moby Dick?!
As a guitar player who doesn’t care much for lead breaks on ANY instrument - I put the song first - well, jeez, Bonzo was just a force of nature…
Can someone confirm that Travis Barker is using a DB pedal in this clip? He only has one drum and I can’t tell if he has a double pedal here.
I only see (and hear) one. Early in the clip there is a quick shot from behind where it looks like only one beater. A double pedal would have another beater beside the one you see.
One thing kinda weird about that clip was how little he used his left foot. The hi-hats were (semi) closed the whole time (typical for double pedal bass drums). But, if you watch his knees, the right moves with the bass drum, the left not at all. The implication is that he’s playing heel-up with the right and keeping the left flat (for stability? just a WAG on my part).
Travis is held in high regard by people who know drumming. He’s got chops. To me he (like Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers) seems to favor a purist, “Less is more” approach so it wouldn’t be out of character for him to play a single pedal.
Buddy Rich said, “You can play anything on one pedal you can play on two, if you’re a bitch. And I’m a bitch.”
Here’s my two cents
Joey Baron
Steve Gaddhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHDJGEQyBw
Alan Abel with the philly orch in scheherazade
Of course, I should add one disclaimer to my praise of Carl Palmer: he WAS truly a phenomenal soloist, the only really impressive soloist I’ve ever seen in a live venue.
On the other hand, solos are only a small part of a drummer’s job. Palmer is one of the best at that aspect of drumming, but I’ve often heard whispers among serious musicians and industry professionals that, as a basic timekeeper, Palmer is actually worse than average.
I’ve never observed that myself, and he always sounded fine on record (though who knows? It might have taken him 50 takes to get the tracks right, or they may have brought in an occasional session man!). But he’s long had that reputation- as a guy who does the flashy stuff brilliantly, but is weak on the basics.
Dude - you’ve heard right. I have told the story here before - my drummer was an engineer on Asia’s second album and when he set up Palmer’s drum set and was trying it out to ensure the sound was right, the rest of the band came in - and offered him the job of playing drums for the CD because the were so frustrated with Palmer’s timekeeping…sure, they were kidding, but kinda not really…