ANIMAL!!!!!!

of Smashing Pumkins.

Maureen Tucker would have been rubbish in Led Zeppelin; and John Bonham would have been shit in The Velvet Underground.

I thought we all agreed it was this bloke:

otherwise known as Zeus.

strewth.

Gene Krupa...

blimey.

I won't hear any argument on this one. It's Dave Grohl.

'Best' too subjective. But may be my fave after he who was allegedly not the best drummer in the HJH's. Check out the groove... :-)

Incidentally, I own no records by Styx, but Todd Sucherman is perhaps the most technically impressive drummer I've witnessed first hand.

Well, I dunno, but best for this particular band....could only be Stephen Morris.

And a bit of the Bard of Salford to start with too.

it's Joey Jordison from Slipknot

http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/joey-jordison-winning-rhythm-poll-bigge...

Who also played in Frank Skinner's house band on TV - wonderful drummer, saw him with the Sid Lawrence band in the 80's and they swung like Battersea funfair

Saw them a couple of years ago and was blown away by the sublety but the overwhelming power of him. He uses crash cymbals as hi-hats apparently.

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no idea what makes one drummer better than another. I love Ringo's drumming on Beatles songs: it just always seems as important and integral an element as anyone else's irrespective of his technical ability, especially on their more psychedelic tracks. But if I had to choose one defining Ringo drum track it's Drive My Car:

My favourite drummer is unquestionably Phil Collins simply because of the variety of drum styles and tempos he brings without ever seeming too much of a show-off. Irrespective of your opinion on Genesis his musicanship raised that band's game and freed its musical creativity. The 9/8 rhythm on Supper's Ready - particularly the Seconds Out live version - is wonderful. But it's the drumming across all of Duke that I'll remember him most by. Duke's Travels illustrates as well as any other track his ability to drum in total support of the music:

Closely followed by Sly Dunbar.

If only because that's what all the drummers I know say. And they do have extremely distinctive styles.

Has no-one mentioned Meg White yet?

*ducks*

I think some of the comments are valid regarding some drummers suiting certain bands but I do think drummers have certain technical abilities which can translate to whoever they are playing with.

It may be heresy to say this - but I can imagine Charlie Watts in The Beatles or Ringo in The Stones.

My favourite music is probably Soul from 60s/70s and the perfect band is Booker T & The MGs. The song "Time is Tight" is famous for its Hammomd Organ sound but the drumming of Al jackson is great too

They could be in any band they wanted and can play in any style. They're session musicians for this reason. They tend not to be in bands because the bands can't afford them for long periods of time. Steve Gadd and the late Tommy Tedesco are / were famous for this.

Blame the router

...PIERRE VAN DER LINDEN!

I had a huge smile on my face for pretty much the wehole gig when I saw him with Thijs Van Leer's new version of Focus last year. Thijs was clearly equally chuffed - in fact, its the only I've been to which included not one but two drum solos (and they weren't short ones either - but I could happily have stood a third...).

Like Terry Cox of the P******le, mentioned above, he emanates a kind of 'brilliant simplicity' - small drum kit, no obvious flash but the genius is in the exquisite musicality and the fact that you just know there are reserves of power and technique lingering within which could be utilised in a heartbeat, if he ever needed to impress anyone for the sake of it. The fact that he doesn't is the 10th Dan of his art!

Check out this - and if you can't stand 9:43 of Euro-Prog, suffice with the bit from circa 6:20-8.00 (includes short and sweet drum solo) or better still 6:20 to the end, with all the light and shade of tempo and volume.

I sought him out to shake his hand after that show last year - and I can't think of a single drummer I've wanted to do so with before, and nor is there likely to be another.

(That said, very impressive Bernard Purdie clip, Sheev!)

of some japanese bloke deconstructing Ringo's style/technique can be found (mentioned a few podcasts back)? Might be of interest. Hope I didn't miss it elsewhere.

Look how happy he is.

Mr Crowther's Disco thread reminded me how monumentally brilliant Chic were and how seismic the rhythm section of Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson was.

"Chic Cheer"