What is the best drum solo ever?

[rhino47]

Zep`s Moby Dick?
Anything Buddy Rich (his bolero is awe inspiring)
Your opinions?

[swag]

1. Those two triplets Keith Moon played between verse and chorus on "Can't Explain."

[rhino47]

2. This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olcWoPYbf7g

[Burma Jones]

18. About half the time Moon was playing, it was as though

he was playing a solo and the rest of the band just joined in......

[tigereye]

21. that's great!

hey swag!

the more I play drums, the more I appreciate Moon. triplets can be very tasty, or so my drum teacher says!

[AllegroRondo]

3. Joe Morello, on Brubeck's "Take Five"

nothing overstated or showy, just tasteful and clean.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. One of my favorites.

[Burma Jones]

17. Agreed

[tigereye]

22. he was(is?) amazing

his fingers just fly. If it's the same solo someone posted earlier this year, my jaw just droppen in amazement.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. His website indicates he's still alive.

http://www.joemorello.net/bio.shtml

[enigmatic]

46. I agree

Morello was the greatest:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2007/02/sounds-of-loop-dave-brubeck-quartet.html

[Rambis]

4. Woodstock :Soul Sacrifice Santana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnamP4-M9ko
3 minutes 11 seconds in-

[rhino47]

5. WOW!

I never heard that before.Stunning!Thanks

[Rambis]

7. side note

Promoter Bill Graham was contacted by the organizers of Woodstock to help out with the large crowds logistics etc. He said he would help if he could bring a band with him and put them on the bill. They did not want to do it but they needed Bill's help. That is the first performance of Santana outside of the bay area in San Fran. They literally burst on the scene!

[TX-RAT]

6. Ginger Baker, Toad

16 minute drum solo, from Creams, Wheels Of fire album.

[Ryano42]

9. how about just a snare...

Carl Palmer, 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9fkAGwJcM :D

[rhino47]

10. Better then Buddy Rich.

I can honestly say a HELL of a lot better.

[Arkham House]

11. Tony Williams on "Walkin'", in "Miles Davis in Europe"

[gbate]

12. It's between Take Five and Inna Gadda Da Vida.

[flvegan]

13. Peter Criss, "God of Thunder" from "Kiss: Alive II"

I'll also go out on a limb and suggest that a lot of Tommy Lee's craziness with his whirling drum kit during the Girls, Girls, Girls tour was pretty frikkin awesome, too.

I do believe that somehow, invoking both Criss and Lee in a "greatest drum(something)" thread is close to blasphemy.

[MAGICBULLET]

14. watch the Purdie

he's not only the fattest, but the prettiest...

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIKe5Dwz2vI&mode=related&search=>

watch until the end when he does the latin feel.

[KG]

15. Ron Bushy - In a Gadda Da Vida ; accept no substitutes

[Dervill Crow]

23. That's the one that comes immediately to my mind, too. n/t

[tigereye]

24. I think that is many people's first drum solo that they appreciated

well, those of us of a certain age, anyway. ;)

[Richard Steele]

42. Yup, that's the one. nm

[Cobalt-60]

43. Absolutely

I was lucky enough to see these guys at a club while in College.

[joe_sixpack]

16. There are a couple from Neil Peart,

the drummer from Rush, that I would put up there. The one from the "Live from Rio" Album comes to mind. As well as the solo at the end of the song "YYZ" that was on another live album.

[Drum]

39. (it was on the Exit Stage Left album)

Love this one, and the way the band leaps back into the song after (the solo) is just tremendous.

:hi:

[madrchsod]

19. ginger baker

toad -live and in person-amazing

[RandomKoolzip]

20. The one that didn't exist.

I've been a drummer since I was very little and I've always hated drum solos - HOWEVER, drum breaks and cool rolls and filligrees will always receive a hearty three thumbs up from me.

My own preference is hearing a great drummer work as a fully equal and creative constituent unit of an ensemble; for example, George Hurley of the Minutemen, or Levon Helm in the Band, Ziggy Modeliste of the Meters, Peter Moffett of Burning Airlines, Bill Stevenson in any of his bands, etc. The drumme should hve the ability to sublimate his ego into a larger whole and get enough satisfaction from the role so that soloing isn't necessary.

This is just MO, of course....

[tigereye]

25. hey Koolzip!

I have a whole new appreciation for George Hurley after my drum teacher explained some Minutemen drum styles and breaks. He was very impressed. Who knew that so much of punk had a discoish rhythmic subtext? It's made me hear all kinds of music from that time differently!

:hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Every time I listen to the Minutemen....

I am ASTOUNDED by Hurley's technique - specifically, his ability to cram sixteen notes in the space of one, and NOT make it sound cluttered, and STILL be punk rock. Plus which, he's easy to sonically I.D (The mark of a good musician on any instrument) - the brassy echo of his snare, even on a super-dry recording like "Double Nickels on the Dime" rings like a shotgun blast. In 1984, to have your snare head tuned so tightly was a bit gauche in the "college rock" world; the dull, thuddy, loose-head slap of guys like Bill Berry (and whoever played drums for Prince -ugh) was much more the vogue.

Hurley gets so little credit, it's criminal. It didin't help matters that Watt and Boon were so vocal in interviews, so there's little out there in the zine archives delving into his influences or ideas as a drummer.

Also tragic is the drum sound on the early fIREHOSE records. "Hear Me," to name just one, is a great song buried under icy layers of misapplied reverb; the drums sound distant, like he's playing in the studio next door. It's funny how a natural, unadorned portrait of a rock band playing in real time like "Double Nickels" still sounds fantastic to contemporary ears, while, "worked-on" records like "Ragin' Full On" sound dated and archaic. I guess Spot and Ethan James were much better producers than anyone ever imagined at the time.

In any case, :hi:

And oh yeah - Hurley's use of the bass drum on all four quarter notes of a four/four beat - "four on the floor," in disco parlance - wasn't his own innovation (Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four and a few other post-punkers deserve credit for bringing it into the punk context). What Hurley did was show how a seasoned player with an ear for timbre could make punk rock, by definition an unswinging music, swing its ass off using that specific rythymic trope. And God bless him for that!

[jpgray]

30. I loves a tight snare

[RandomKoolzip]

32. So I've heard.

Why do you say "no" to Astroglide, though?

[jpgray]

33. Nothing spoils a good rhythmic pounding like a loose, ugly sounding "fwap"

x(

[tigereye]

50. I dunno, sometimes a too tight snare sounds too crisp

I think it really depends on the song. I'm having a flashback now of sitting in several recording studios endlessly hitting the snare over and over to get the right sound.... I did have a really, really good drum tech one time, who got the best drum sound for me that I have ever heard. It's all in the duct tape, you know!

[sendero]

26. The solo at the end of "The Number Song"..

... by DJ Shadow. Of course it is a sample, and I have no idea who originally played it :)

[jpgray]

28. Ringo Starr on "Brithday"

[lost-in-nj]

29. WIPEOUT

We have a guy that plays guitar and goes to all the bars, he will play this midway through his routine and tells you to play the drum solo on the bar! You wake up the next day and wonder why your hands hurt and are bruised.... LOL



lost

[NightWatcher]

31. Iron Butterfly's In A Gadda Da Vida (16 minute version)

Or Bonzo's Moby Dick

[lutefisk]

40. 17 minute video link brings back the memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwtwYSLBfU

[Joe Fields]

34. Carl Palmer of ELP, doing Toccatta live

[Radical Activist]

36. Baby Don't You Do It - Keith Moon

that's my favorite anyway.

[Zomby Woof]

37. Anytime I see Jeff "Tain" Watts live

Remarkable. Throws his shoes off before the set, working the bass drum pedals in his socks. He just floors me.

[Strawman]

38. Terry Bozzio - The Black Page

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Terry_Bozzio.html

He made his name recording and touring with Frank Zappa (and appearing in the concert movie Baby Snakes), and then the band UK. After his audition for Zappa, all the drummers behind him in the line left, and he was accepted. He was particularly famous for performing Zappa's "The Black Page", a piece of music designed to be a "musician's nightmare" a page so filled with notes as to be almost black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Bozzio

[Jamastiene]

41. Inna Gadaa Da Vidda

I haven't a clue if I spelled that right, but the part in the beginning is pretty cool to me. I enjoy Clem Burke's drumming style as well, although I would say he works some fancy drumming into the songs as opposed to really soloing.

[helderheid]

44. George Hurley.

[Uncle Roy]

45. Alla Rakha (tabla) with Ravi Shankar at Monterey, back in the day

Dear God, that was 40 years ago...

[Bhaisahab]

48. Oh yes Uncle Roy.

Ustaad Allah Rakha = one of the best in the percussion business

[Uncle Roy]

49. He was a great and playful master of rythmic energy, and I had the feeling from watching his face

that he was a wonderful human being as well. It's hard to believe he's gone.
That smile....

[Alexander]

47. Bill Bruford, Perpetual Change drum solo, Yessongs album.

And then they get back into the main percussive riff, which is in 7/8.