Your favourite Taylor licks

Hey all,

after mainly listening to May/Mercury for years, I've become increasingly fascinated by Roger's clever drum work.

Thought it'd be interesting to hear your opinions on this: which beats/fills/solo's do you consider being Taylor's best and why? 

Some hot licks: the Bonham-triplet-intro in Invisible Man and the mini-solo from Dragon Attack, for example. The KYA drum solo from the November Rainbow show is great as well. 

Your take?

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The big descending fill at the end of the second verse of Fat Bottomed Girls has always been one of my favourites.

http://youtu.be/Mx4Sc6E86oU?t=2m59s

Holy cow, have never seen him nailing it like that live before.

Hell yeah. Rog at his best.

He is criminally underrated. These days he's not up to par, but in the 70s and 80s he really held down the fort. He never, ever missed a beat or a backing vocal.

Hi there,

Try Liar live, the De Lane Lea demo of Jesus, live versions of Father to Son, or the improv's of Son & Daughter, Great King Rat (Rainbow, NOv '75), the end fills of Loer in the End, Dead on Time....so many really!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovDEJ7r3M4

The segue from Brian's solo back into Son and Daughter is terrific. The Rainbow is the best quality recording of it we have, though it isn't quite as tight as the way they usually pulled it off. Still great.

I love what he does in the outros of Father to Son and White Queen in the studio.

Brighton Rock, Flick of the Wrist, Stone Cold Crazy, and, listen to them before you laugh ....Good Company and My Melancholy Blues.

The latter two probably aren't 'licks' per se, but the subtlety adds so much to me.

Always thought that 'My Baby Does Me' would have been a superb track with the simple MMB type percussion..

Wow. You guys might as well be archivists. I was just going to say pulling off IILWMC while singing AND playing.

Pretty good feat.


I dig his muted trumpet on live versions of Dreamer's Ball

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Wow. You guys might as well be archivists. I was just going to say pulling off IILWMC while singing AND playing.
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That's true - he adds lots of nice drum fills in there too. Of course, his singing was never quite as good as the studio version, but we can't expect his phrasing to be spot on and measured while he's also trying to nail it on the drums.

Brighton Rock studio drum performance. Simply amazing.

The bass toms and snare triplet fill at the end of It's Late is one I've always liked.

I always liked the drumming in White Man..........and there's a few badass little fills in Tenement Funster............definitely an underrated drummer! One-half of the 'sonic volcano' as they say.......

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[b]CruellaDeVille wrote: [/b] ... the end fills of Loer in the End...

[/QUOTE] Ah, you have a good ear! Those actually made me remove the fadeout on that song and replaced the original in iTunes.

tomchristie: the March version is tighter: http://youtu.be/PQeYOAXgCgQ?t=5m13s 

goodco: SCC has crazy drums, musta been a real workout. Hope you've heard this: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJibC1dHiGA ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJibC1dHiGA[/url]
Also check out the fill at 2:05. By the way - similar drum work by him can be heard here: [url=http://youtu.be/UW3L9BphQgY?t=2m52s]http://youtu.be/UW3L9BphQgY?t=2m52s[/url]

lemonysnick: true, that drum track is a song on its own. I fire that up every now and then and just sit back and enjoy. 

moonie: It's Late is probably as close as Roger ever got to Bonham, and yes, those triplets sound huge. 

KoR: White Man has some really heavy drumming. Such a guilty pleasure. Funny that you mention Tenement Funster though - always when I listen to that, I think "come on Rog, this is your track, let it rip already".

Sorry to come back again, but I had to support yje observations about White Man, and add The Prophet's Song, (The drum blast before 'Flee for your life..." over the time change just nails it superbly. Also a vote for Sweet Lady; there's not many drummers that can lay down a beat to make a song in 3/4 work so solidly as a rock song. I would like to add snippets of tracks from the Miracle & Innuendo: (IWA, Party and Khasoggi's Ship, Was it all worth it and HItman). And yes, as a teenager in 73-78, blasting Stone Cold Crazy and Sheer Heart Attack over the home stereo really got me going and annoyed the shit out of the neighbours!
Cheers