A list obviously put together by a non-drummer who never listened to the albums. No Carl Palmer (of that little bar band Emerson, Lake and Palmer)? No Lenny White (of Return to Forever)? No Mike Shrieve (Santana - watch Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock for Christ's sake!)? No Cozy Powell (Rainbow and Jeff Beck)?
Fucking stupid list!
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First of all, they don't. Look at the article in question, where Nos. 1-to-4 are Bonham, Moon, Baker, and Peart, in order. All monster players with very different styles. Meanwhile, Charlie is No. 12 and Ringo is No. 14.
But to consider your question on a larger scale, it comes down to this: Because they have different standards. After those first few standouts, they're much more likely to praise minimal, play-for-the-song pocket drummers, masters of the expected and appropriate, and greatly prefer them to musical extroverts like almost any major prog drummer you can name. These are guys who just love classic Sixties hit records above all else, or more recent punk that pays stylistic tribute to classic hits. So they save their greatest praise for old-time sessionmen like Hal Blaine or Bernard Purdie or Roger Hawkins, who could come up with some perfect little lick that made a hit record into a hit.
Indeed, I'm surprised that Peart, Bruford, and Vander made it in at all.
Haha, what a joke. I will always remember a review of a "bad plus" record. Where the reviewer said the drummer was so bad, so ham-fisted, so clumsy that he made Ginger Baker sound like Philly Joe Jones .
Personally, I think the bad plus drummer is probably better than that.
And no Barrie Barlow of Tull? Are they trying to say that Charlie Watts slumping through an album tapping his snare and high-hat is better than Barlow on Thick as a Brick or A Passion Play?
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Hasn't Rolling Stone disgraced itself enough with their UVa rape hoax story?
Pip Pyle? Pierre Moerlen? Simon Phillips?
(Meg White??????)
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
I'm surprised Gavin Harrison is not on this list. Really.
Still alive and well...
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No more disgusting than when they put Charles Manson on the cover.
For my tastes, I still think the intro to Get Off Of My Cloud is one of the most exciting things in rock n roll. As much as I like Bruford, I can't think of anything I've heard him do that contains that kind of excitement.
Probably should see Aynsley Dunbar in there somewhere
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Bruford placed higher in this drummer list than either Robert Fripp (42) or Steve Howe (69) did when they put out their 100 greatest guitarists list a few years ago so this represents "sort of" progress on the Yes/Crimson appreciation front.
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Rolling Stone publishes another list.
Everyone gets angry about it.
They get tons of clicks.
Mission accomplished.
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This list is about half as preposterous as many an internal voting I've come across amongst the "prog" commune. So RS allegedly don't know better? Big deal for sure.
"Where's Mike Portnoy?!" Sorry, but the dude would likely be almost as bewildered in Yugen as ol' Charlie Watts would in Dream Theater. So what.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
april 1st. revised edition tomorrow!
I notice everyone seems to have already forgotten this:
http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...Stone-magazine
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
This is really a list of the most popular drummers, not the best. So you can igore the title completely.
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