Famous Drum solos.

[Styxx]

Found this website and thought some of you might be interested in hearing some of the famous drum solos. There is a battle solo between Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa you have to hear. For those of you that may not know these drummers it may be interesting to listen to the mp3. Other artist, Phil Collins, Chick Web, John Bonham, Ginger Baker and tons more. Check it out.

www.drummerworld.com/drummersolo.html

One note of interest - There is a lot of downloadable BIG BAND music to listen to hear!

Woe ... check out Keith Moon's solo.:eek:

[Jordo]

cool :)

[JonFairhurst]

What? No Pierre Moerlen? He played drums in Gong during the '70s. The song Percolations is a ten minute drum solo of the gods. It's on the album Expresso in the US and Gazeuse in Europe.

BTW, Allan Holdsworth played electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin and pedal steel on that album. :eek:

-JF

[Styxx]

:eek: Not there? :eek: What the ... I think it's petition time!:mad:

[LFO]

The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps drum solo at the DCI World Championships in 1984. Paradox by Kansas. The one handed accelerating drum roll. I was in the horn line and everytime I heard the solo it gave me goosebumps. :)

-LFO

P.S. Ok, it's not world famous, but in the drum corps world it's legendary. ;)

[Styxx]

I was going to send in my "one legged accelerated bass drum solo for the vertically challenged” but decided it was too complicated especially during the "toe nail" ostinato section near the finale. :D

Drum corps is so cool! I miss my high school days!;)

[Styxx]

Ya wanna laugh, scroll down the left side menu of names and click on Ringo! :D

[JonFairhurst]

A fun movie for drummers is Drumline, a drama centered on the competition to get a position on a college marching band, and the competition between schools. I'd give the film a B- overall, but the music and musicianship is wonderful.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0303933/

-JF

[Styxx]

A fun movie for drummers is Drumline, a drama centered on the competition to get a position on a college marching band, and the competition between schools. I'd give the film a B- overall, but the music and musicianship is wonderful.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0303933/

-JF
I've watched it about 4 times so far. Love the sticking but always hated the sound of the marching snares. For such a deep drum we always had the heaviest tightest skins tuned ultra high! But, I still love the stick control! In my teens I was able to do just about any of it. Now about the only stick I can control is the gear selector in my car!:D

[LFO]

A fun movie for drummers is Drumline, a drama centered on the competition to get a position on a college marching band, and the competition between schools. I'd give the film a B- overall, but the music and musicianship is wonderful.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0303933/

-JF

Yeah, for drummers it was cool. But for the horn line I'd give it a D-. *No one* can march like that and play well. It's a shame becuase so many marching bands ruin their sound because they are stomping around so much they can't play their horns.

-LFO

[mistahamma]

What? No Pierre Moerlen? He played drums in Gong during the '70s. The song Percolations is a ten minute drum solo of the gods. It's on the album Expresso in the US and Gazeuse in Europe.

BTW, Allan Holdsworth played electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin and pedal steel on that album. :eek:

-JF

Allan Holdsworth (drool, drool) -- simply amazing chops!! Been a fan ever since I heard "The Unmerry Go-round." Chad Wackerman ought to be included in the drum solo selections.

Jim

[JonFairhurst]

LFO,

Keep the Hollywood context in mind. Just think of all the times we've been subjected to an actor playing lame air guitar while the soundtrack cranks out Van Halenesque lead solos. Yuk!

-JF

[rageangel]

Not to be a curmudgeon; but, what do drum solos have to do with GPO? Although a John Bonham "disregard of time keeping" drum beat might fit in well with Beethoven's Fifth...or Sir Edward Elgar's pint...or Segovia's margarita...or....[Shut up 'n' play yer Guitar!]

[JonFairhurst]

Not to be a curmudgeon; but, what do drum solos have to do with GPO? Although a John Bonham "disregard of time keeping" drum beat might fit in well with Beethoven's Fifth...or Sir Edward Elgar's pint...or Segovia's margarita...or....[Shut up 'n' play yer Guitar!]

When the Big Band lib is out, drums solos will be more relevant. We're just warming up...

-JF

[Jeff Turner]

What? No Surfari's and WIPEOUT! :D :D

JT

[Styxx]

Not to be a curmudgeon; but, what do drum solos have to do with GPO?...

Well, sometimes you listen and pick up a lick or two that may spark and idea for or with an original composition you may be working on. Plus, I thought it was pertinent because if you listen closely to a solo by a professional drummer who solos well, you will notice there is structure and form much like a well written piece of music. AND! Thinking about purchasing Garritan Big Band Jazz Lib? Well, here are some outstanding examples of Real Big Band Music. Not to mention the forum category I posted under is "General Discussion." The word "General" usually refers to everyone regardless. ;)

[FredProgGH]

Great link! I like the way Ringo is just "Ringo". Hey, sometimes it's just nice to throw things out that people in the community might dig. There's lot's of of topic silliness here from time to time but it's all fun and never really gets out of hand. That's partially why this is such a great forum.

[Garritan]

Not to be a curmudgeon; but, what do drum solos have to do with GPO? Although a John Bonham "disregard of time keeping" drum beat might fit in well with Beethoven's Fifth...or Sir Edward Elgar's pint...or Segovia's margarita...or....[Shut up 'n' play yer Guitar!]

You can be a curmudgeon here. Anything music goes. With GPO, Styxx can play his "one legged accelerated bass drum solo for the vertically challenged”especially with the adjustable fundamental setting.. Soon there will be a drum kit with the Jazz & Big Band Collection. And what if GPO Advanced happen to have a great deal more percussion? There will be plenty of choices to play the "wipe out" solo of your dreams. http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

Gary Garritan

[Shazbot]

What? No Pierre Moerlen? He played drums in Gong during the '70s. The song Percolations is a ten minute drum solo of the gods. It's on the album Expresso in the US and Gazeuse in Europe.

BTW, Allan Holdsworth played electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin and pedal steel on that album. :eek:

Holey moley, someone else actually knows of Gong??!! I love Gong, and I was going to mention Pierre Moerlin when I saw this thread. But then again, I'd hardly call him 'famous', outside of France and prog circles elsewhere. An astounding drummer, no doubt about it. Expresso is indeed a great album, but my favorite is You Gong. Steve Hillage is also an amazing, though largely unknown guitarist.

Gong fans unite!

Of course, some of the best drum solos I've ever seen were in the ten or so times that I've seen Rush. I just read Neil Peart's "Ghost Rider" book. Glad that he found his desire to play again. The thing I love about his playing is that sometimes it's almost like a melodic instrument as opposed to 'percussion'. The best example of that I can think of is "Xanadu", though certainly there are many.

[JonFairhurst]

> "Holey moley, someone else actually knows of Gong??!! I love Gong..."

Hey, we are a club of at least two! Have you heard Gongzilla? It's not as great as the vintage stuff, but still strong with lots of tuned percussion. And Holdsworth plays on their first album as well.

I'll have to get You Gong! I have a few of their albums, but not that one. It all depended on what Tower Records would have in their bins, back before CDs and the 'net.

Back in '80 (or was it '81), I saw Gong live at the Roxy in LA - both shows during the same night. We were able to arrive casually and sit towards the back for the first show, and move up next to the stage for the second. My favorite aspect was learning that the guys called Hansford Rowe (bass) "Hanny". He will always be Hanny to me now. And I just love the name Bon Lozaga (guitar). He's learned the Holdsworth and Hillage styles well, and he hasn't lost touch with his own legato rhythm style.

Oh yeah, Neil Pert ain't bad either.

Recently I've been mocking up parts of Teacher by Jethro Tull so we can play it (mostly) live in our little three man jam band. Clive Bunker wasn't half bad. He had some good fills, but his main skill was coming up with inventive rides. I was going to try playing it in live with my electronic kit, but I'm not steady enough at synchopating a fast kick, so I reverted to the mouse. Some of his rides feel absolutely upside down to me! Just listen to the drums in Aqualung some time. That one's not difficult to play, I just would never have thought to back up the main line with that rhythm in a thousand years.

-JF

[Daag Nabbott]

Holey moley, someone else actually knows of Gong??!! ...<edit>....
Yup...and here's another one. Although I have to admit that I am familiar with only one of their albums (because I used to own it...maybe I still do...heck, I cain't fine it!).
Well anyway, that album was named something like "Gong Shamoll" or something like that. Don't laugh! I know I got the spelling of that wrong, but those of you in the know can edu-muh-kate me (as jethro used to say on the Beverly Hillbilies).
But that used to one of my absolute favorite albums. The percussion sounds were crisp...the bass tone was unique (for its time)...all round great studio production values.

[JonFairhurst]

Check it out: Gongzilla was at NAMM in the Warwick/Framus booth... http://www.artist-shop.com/lolorec/index.htm

And Gong's "You" has been remastered... http://www.artist-shop.com/caroline/index.htm

-JF

[Moonmusic]

What? No Surfari's and WIPEOUT! :D :D

JT

And My Sharona! Duh Duh Da Da Duh Da Duh Da Duh Duh Da Da Duh Da... :D

[FredProgGH]

Make that THREE Gong fans- GREAT band. And Clive Bunker- not half bad?? :p Check him out on the first Tull album, This Was- he was FAST. He had more of a jazz feel then. The band seems to have tried to make him more of a rock drummer over time and it didn't work so well. BTW, he also did some good work later on with Steve Hillage, of all people.

My personal favorite "Who??????" drummer: Pierre van der Linden, from Focus. His drum solo on Eruption (On Moving Waves, the album with Hocus Pocus) is one of the best ever. He played a four piece kit and got soooo many different sounds.... drummers today don't know anything about dynamics. OK, rant over :D

[FredProgGH]

And My Sharona! Duh Duh Da Da Duh Da Duh Da Duh Duh Da Da Duh Da... :D

Hey, say what you will but those guys were TIGHT.

[Styxx]

And My Sharona! Duh Duh Da Da Duh Da Duh Da Duh Duh Da Da Duh Da... :D
Must have missed something in this song. Was there a drum "SOLO" in this song?

[FredProgGH]

Must have missed something in this song. Was there a drum "SOLO" in this song?
Sure! The drums are solo at the beginning of the song. Hey, if Carry That Weight/The End is a solo, the intro to My Sharona is a solo. :p

[Styxx]

Carry that weight and Inda Ga Da Di Vida are almost one in the same. I was kind of disappointed in Ringo's solo but at the time was surprised he attempted one! There used to be a heated debate as to whether it was Paul who played the solo or Ringo. Most likely another publicity stunt like the Paul is dead jive cosmic debris!

[FredProgGH]

Gotta be Ringo. No one else quite sonded like that- like on Ballad Of John And Yoko you can totally tell that's Paul. BTW for the record I think Ringo was great. Not much of a soloist though :D

Hey, here's a link to the guy from Focus I was talking about: check it out! (http://www.mydocsonline.com/pub/fredproggh/Pierre.mp3)
He's just so fast and clean. It's only about 90 seconds. It's funny too because I used to hate that kind of drum sound- just dry and natural. Now I love it.

[FredProgGH]

I heard "Instant Karma" the other day on the radio --- Great drumming; must be Ringo. It's a very strange sounding record otherwise! Good ol' Ringo holds it all together, with some really cool fills. :)

Ern


Oh, sorry but thanks for playing our game! :p :D That was Alan White (now of yes) doing his bestest Ringo impession.

[LFO]

LFO,

Keep the Hollywood context in mind. Just think of all the times we've been subjected to an actor playing lame air guitar while the soundtrack cranks out Van Halenesque lead solos. Yuk!

-JF

Understood. They did some pretty wild things that would not be possible. I was thinking more in the terms of the high stepping bands use when playing, especially when they move swing from left to right at the same time. Bands do it all the time and it just kills the music. :(

Post drum corps, I was a corps and marching band hired gun for years. It was a blast! The only low was trying to work with horn lines that high stepped. They would get upset for not winning competitions that required musical execution. To me it is simple physics. To them they were being unfairly judged because of their style. You can imagine how passionate people can get over this kind of stuff. :)

Either way, a good drum line makes or breaks an ensemble and to me, nothing gets my heart racing like a good cadence. I guess it is just too much in my blood.

Did I mention the 1980 Spirit of Atlanta drum line? Those guys could play something fierce! :)

-LFO

[Haydn]

Definitely Alan White on Instant Karma. Have a video at home with him playing it. Met Alan White and the rest of the Yes member back in the fall. Bumped into Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman at NAMM this year. Jon walked over to Gary's booth with me. Quite interesting having a 1 on 1 conversation with him.

Ringo's strength is the different beats he came up with. I don't know of many drummers that could play the amount of 'styles' he did. They were always changing.

[Stephanie Pray]

Well, everyone will probably think that I'm crazy, but there's a drum solo that I think is awesome. I don't remember the guy's name, and I don't remember exactly which song it's from, (please don't make fun of me...) I went to see Yanni with my dad and the percussionist had a solo that lasted for a few minutes, and his kit was almost the size of my house. It had everything. It was so cool. That's all that I remember from the show - the awesome solo. If you can bear it, I think that he does something similar on the Acropolis thing. :o

[FredProgGH]

I can't say I'm a big fan of Yanni's music particularly, but yeah, he always has absolutely top-notch people backing him up. They do put on a good show!