Under-rated Drummers

Ringo is underrated, I agree. Sure, everybody can say the Beatles are the greatest band, but not many will say Ringo's a great drummer. But he is! I especially like Helter Skelter; it's simple, but effective (i got blisters on my fingers! lol)

The others you all mentioned are underrated too, imo. Here's some more:

Pick Withers, formerly of Dire Straits
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, "Weird Al" Yankovic's drummer (he's good, especially with Al's parodies)
Rick Allen of Def Leppard (One arm, but still one hell of a drummer)
Neil Peart of Rush (not many people mention his name out loud, but he's probably the best drummer I've heard; no offense to RT)

yeah, that's about it.

Ringo and of course Roger Taylor.

He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles.

I don't think Ringo is under-rated, just not like Keith Moon and the other flurry of mad drummers in the 60's :)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]me_and_my_innuendo wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Ringo is underrated, I agree. Sure, everybody can say the Beatles are the greatest band, but not many will say Ringo's a great drummer. But he is! I especially like Helter Skelter; it's simple, but effective (i got blisters on my fingers! lol)

The others you all mentioned are underrated too, imo. Here's some more:

Pick Withers, formerly of Dire Straits
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, "Weird Al" Yankovic's drummer (he's good, especially with Al's parodies)
Rick Allen of Def Leppard (One arm, but still one hell of a drummer)
Neil Peart of Rush (not many people mention his name out loud, but he's probably the best drummer I've heard; no offense to RT)

yeah, that's about it.[/QUOTE]
But Neil Peart is quite well known and respected.

And I agree, he's just out of this world

Dave Grohl... awesome with Nirvana.
Check out his performance on 'No One Knows' by Queens of the Stoneage.

Ringo on the other hand is an underated actor. Out of the awful performances on film by the other 3 Beatles, Ringo was the only one who showed some character charm on screen.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mr.Jingles wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Dave Grohl... awesome with Nirvana.
Check out his performance on 'No One Knows' by Queens of the Stoneage.[/QUOTE]

*spaz*

Oh-My-God.... He's one of the best in my opinion!!!! He bangs the shit out of the drumkit like he's gonna murder someone! I love it! xD

I love you sexy mama Davie!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="#FF00FF">its_a_hard_life wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mr.Jingles wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Dave Grohl... awesome with Nirvana.
Check out his performance on 'No One Knows' by Queens of the Stoneage.[/QUOTE]

*spaz*

Oh-My-God.... He's one of the best in my opinion!!!! He bangs the shit out of the drumkit like he's gonna murder someone! I love it! xD

I love you sexy mama Davie![/QUOTE]

He's hoooooooooooooooooottttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!

XD

Andie Rathbone.

I might note that many great jazz drummers are underrated, but only because of the genre of music by which they choose to partake in. They do not receive much credit from the layman for their drumming, which is far superior to rock standards. Of course, in their own circles (jazz enthusiasts, drummers, etc.), they are lauded as the greatest ever, but if you were to ask any old person on the street, who would they name?

Some names you might hear are Ginger Baker, John Bonham, Phil Collins, Mick Fleetwood, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, Cozy Powell, Ringo Starr, Alex Van Halen, or Max Weinberg, some more than others.

But you will seldom, if ever, hear of Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Gadd, Gene Krupa, or Dave Weckl. And the great Buddy Rich can sometimes even be overlooked. But ask any real drummer, or musically knowledgeable person, and these names will certainly almost always come up.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]iGSM wrote: [/QUOTENAME]For some reason I thought Sheila E. had died. Oops.

Good ol' Ringo.

Ringo for President.[/QUOTE]



Ahhhh, no Shelia is alive and well...lol, she'll be 50 this year, she still touring all over the world.

Roger Taylor has surely gotta be up there as one the most under-rated drummers!? In my opinion, he's one of the few drummers who you hear and think "that's Rog". As soon as his hi-hat opens with the snare, you know it's him. Yet, he's over-looked, similar to how Brian can be overlooked for the likes of Page, Townsend etc (not to diss these two, but I'm not their biggest fans, despite their skill). Obviously Bonham is the possibly the greatest [rock] drummer of all time, and then there's Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell et al, but is pains me that Rog is overlooked.

But I like the fact that people like Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins talk about Rog and rate him, especially Taylor (christ, he "changed" his name from Oliver to Taylor, how much more of a fan do you get!?). Then again, I often think that Taylor Hawkins gets overlooked as a drummer simply because he's in a band with Grohl. Sometimes - just sometimes - I think that Hawkins might techincally be a better drummer than Grohl, but then I listen to him play on Songs For The Deaf and think that actually Grohl is better.

Then again, if you can find a video of Taylor Hawkins doing his one-handed drum roll, you might think again.

Tommy Aldridge all the way!!!!!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Drummer imense! wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Rick Allen from Def Leppard is totaly under rated, before he lost his arm he played some totaly amazing stuff, after he lost his arm he was even more amazing.[/QUOTE]

Hahahahahaha

Wait, you were f**kin' serious?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]iGSM wrote: [/QUOTENAME]For some reason I thought Sheila E. had died. Oops.

Good ol' Ringo.

Ringo for President.[/QUOTE]

Dude, Sheila E was Ringo's drummer for the last two years. Yeah, I guess you know a lot about Ringo. C'mon kids, if you're going to have a serious discussion about drummers, then please start now. Otherwise, keep the jokes coming!

Was i serious about what??? That rick allan only has one arm now, or that he's a good drummer? Personally i think he's good :)