For all you percussion afficionados out there: Carl Palmer

[Joe Fields]

I've seen Bill Bruford, Alan White, Neal Peart, and they are all awesome, but the one who impressed me the most was Carl Palmer.

Whether Carl is your favorite or not, I thought you might enjoy these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izVBmnrO5Ak

check out what he does with just a snare drum in this piecehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9fkAGwJcM

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

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. I need no convincing

Palmer's work on "Brain Salad Surgery" (which featured "Tocatta") was nothing short of awesome.

[Joe Fields]

2. I was at a "meet and greet" with Carl as the guest of honor, and I

had a chance to meet him. When I came face to face with him I became speechless, and turned into the fawning fan I was. I was embarrassed, but he was very gracious.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I guess we all like to think we'd be cool

in such situations, but... well, I once passed up a prime chance to meet Sandy Koufax one-on-one because the prospect was just too intimidating. I was about 30, but when faced with the prospect I felt 9 again. :crazy:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Just remember they're just people and they want to be seen as such

While living in Nashville I met more than a few music personalities close up and personal, mostly at their own homes. Believe me, they appreciate it when they are approached as "just folk". Don't be intimidated, and don't try to impress them and you'll have an immediate friend for life no matter how rich or famous they may be.

[Joe Fields]

5. That's the way I thought I would be, but...

I was so in awe of his talent, I felt like a kid.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Yeah, I learned that later about Koufax

He's extremely private, and I knew that then. But a bio of him I read years later pointed out that he's also very polite and considerate.

Sure wish I had that chance again. :(

I've met a few celebs, but I met most of them as a journalist, so there was that aura of suspicion.

[Joe Fields]

7. Koufax was one of my all-time sports heroes.

I was amazed at how well he pitched when he was in such obvious pain. I also admired the fact that he would never pitch on the sabbath. He was very religious.

[MN ChimpH8R]

11. Actually, not

There was a marvelous bio of Koufax that was published a couple of years ago, and his declining to pitch on Yom Kippur was discussed at length. While not terribly observant himself, he felt obliged to acknowledge Jewish tradition on one of the High Holy Days. He wrestled with his decision for a while and stuck with it.

And then he went out and beat my Twins in game 7 and leave me with mixed feelings a 9-year old couldn't quite resolve. The Twins were my team but Koufax was my biggest hero.

And as for the OP, I saw Keith, Greg and Carl on the '73 tour and the orchestra tour ('77?). Technically amazing and jaw dropping. One of the all time greats, and one of the few rock drummers the late Buddy Rich had anything nice to say about.

As a working bassist, Bruford is still my idea of the perfect drummer, so precise, so controlled, and the most solid but flexible timekeeper I've ever heard in a rock band. Bill never looks like he's working hard and wastes less motion than any musician this side of longtime bandmate Robert Fripp. Plenty of props for Peart, Phil Collins (as a drummer), Pat Mastellotto, the Dead's duo of Kreutzmann and Hart, and Billy Cobham too.

[kedrys]

8. To me, one of the most amazing moments in

Pictures at an Exhibition was one of Mr Palmer's solos where he puts up this HUGE wall of sound - and then you realize that he's drumming with his feet *only* because he's TAKING HIS SHIRT OFF over his head.

Damnedest thing I ever saw.

:headbang:

[Joe Fields]

9. I've seen that, and it was amazing. I think it was the Tank solo.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Another fascinating percussionist is Victor Feldman.

Don't have any vids, but he was cool.