Roger's Drumming over the years

Well said, Mr. Queen fan. Rog is playing acording to his age. I recently saw him in Porto Alegre and Buenos Aires (he was on fire) and those show remembered me why I starded to play drums. Hi is still the engine of Queen music and that makes me really happy.

Precision is the one thing he still has and good general rhythm, unlike he's son Rufus who doesn't has the talent, my opinion was set by listening to AKOM and TYMD same to be said by Taylor Hawkins covering Queen songs.
And yes RT does not give a shit anymore... if he did then things would be different.

If he's as good as he was, why does he need Rufus there? That's a rhetorical question btw. The answer is so painfully obvious no reply is needed.

At the risk of repeating myself frm the other thread, The kit was NOT chosen due to the moving Q, Roger selected smaller toms for reasons that I can only assume were based on the fact he liked the tone, larger toms make no difference to the footprint of the kit, they only had to find another way to mic it without boom stands, but the kit itself was not selected to fit under the Q.

As for playing with his son, I can totally understand why he'd want to do that, speaking as a drummer, there is nothing more enjoyable than sharing teh stage with your kids when they can play, rock drumming is VERY hard work once you get past 50, yes he's slowed down, but his timing is still right up there, as is the passion, so he may not do the manic 1000 beats a min drum solo anymore, but he, it's a bit old hat now anyway, he will always be my favorite drummer, I very much doubt the other rock gods would be any different had they lived, Moon, Bonham etc, they crashed out too early, but no way would Moonie be playing in the same way in his 60's

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I very much doubt the other rock gods would be any different had they lived, Moon, Bonham etc, they crashed out too early, but no way would Moonie be playing in the same way in his 60's[/QUOTE]

I agree, but there are plenty if older drummers still touring.

Neil Peart, Ian Paiste, Ginger Baker John Goglan from the original Quo line up, Charlie Watts.

While I agree that age changes your approach and capabilities all of these players seem to be playing to a higher level than RT.

This doesn't take away my liking of what Roger does and I certainly wouldn't criticize and claim he can't do it anymore.

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Neil Peart, Ian Paiste, Ginger Baker John Goglan from the original Quo line up, Charlie Watts.

While I agree that age changes your approach and capabilities all of these players seem to be playing to a higher level than RT.
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Peart cant drum properly and will retire very soon, according to Geddy Lee. Of course he still can play, but Rush's songs are very technical!

Roger suffers from arthritis on a few fingers, so it may be the reason why his drumming is having lots of ups and downs.

I think there's no doubt age and the lack of touring in the 90's played a big part for Roger, but actually technicall he overplayed and hit too hard when he was younger, some more technical drummers would say his style was rather manic, these days is just as good at playing for the song which is what he always claimed he did, but he's slowed down somewhat, speaking as a drummer in my 50's me too...
I don't agree that Ginger Baker is the same as he was back in the 60's, never much cared for him to be honest, but if you watch the Cream concerts at the reunion he was definately not the same guy, still bloody good but he slowed down too, Paiste is still much thesame I reckon, Watts never really was a true Rock drummer, his Jazz influence kept him more focused. Peart is a God, and I can imagine that if he finds he misses one beat he will beat himself up for days and then retire...

^^^^ agreed but I can't help thinking the changes in Roger's playing are more obvious than others.

I'm sure that his lack of touring in the 90's, and only sporadically the last ten years, has effected what he does.

Interesting comments about his playing in the 70's. A friend of mine is a professional drum tutor and his view is the RT is a far better and more thoughtful ( live ) player now than he was in the 70's.

Roger is a more thoughtful drummer yeah, he plays more restricted due to age. But he stopped doing random fills and crashes every odd second.

I still stand by my words that Charlie Watts (Although he is a jazz drummer in a Rock & Roll band) Is a far superior drummer nowadays. I was watching a Stones show tonight and the man still hits those cymbals and toms and snare like his life depends on it. Hard to believe he's 7 years older.