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Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:


Furio Chirico ❤️

Effing amazing, though he can almost be too much. 

I was going to include Christian Vander in my initial list but I thought that may have been stretching it a bit. Also, I wasn't going to include Jack DeJohnette, as the OP said "no traditional jazz drummers", but yeah, he's gotta be allowed in. He's a fusion pioneer. What was I thinking? Put him in the top 5! 

I did include Christian Vander. he made some fusion albums, for example this one:



here a track:


it actually sounds like Zeuhl without vocals


Edited by BaldJean - March 30 2021 at 03:55


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Honorable mention to drummer Chuck Burgi, who played on my favorite Brand X LP, "Masques!" 

He has a very crisp style and brings quite a bit of "rock" to the idiom of "jazz rock!"




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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Honorable mention to drummer Chuck Burgi, who played on my favorite Brand X LP, "Masques!" 

He has a very crisp style and brings quite a bit of "rock" to the idiom of "jazz rock!"
I went to high school in New Jersey with Chuck Burgi.  More accurately I went to the same high school as he did at the same time.  He might remember me but I doubt it.  He was a nice guy in school.  He played in the school's best rock group.  Their name was Red Bred (or Red Bread).
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+1 for Furio Chirico
The guy never saw a fill he didn't like! Amazingly busy drummer, and utterly unknown outside of Italy or hard core prog circles.
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Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Honorable mention to drummer Chuck Burgi, who played on my favorite Brand X LP, "Masques!" 

He has a very crisp style and brings quite a bit of "rock" to the idiom of "jazz rock!"
I went to high school in New Jersey with Chuck Burgi.  More accurately I went to the same high school as he did at the same time.  He might remember me but I doubt it.  He was a nice guy in school.  He played in the school's best rock group.  Their name was Red Bred (or Red Bread).

I got to hang with him a bit during his stint in Blue Oyster Cult after a show. Asked him about Ritchie Blackmore and Rainbow, and oh boy did he have stories about that band.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Honorable mention to drummer Chuck Burgi, who played on my favorite Brand X LP, "Masques!" 

He has a very crisp style and brings quite a bit of "rock" to the idiom of "jazz rock!"

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Originally posted by zeuhl1 zeuhl1 wrote:

I got to hang with him a bit during his stint in Blue Oyster Cult after a show. Asked him about Ritchie Blackmore and Rainbow, and oh boy did he have stories about that band.

I'm all ears! Wink
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ok, well the cliff notes version:
"Well he was a difficult guy but of course he's Blackmore, so putting up with it to play in Rainbow was worth it. For a while. He fancied himself 'the prince of darkness' and some weird stuff happened around the band *this is where I forget some specific examples, but he had them* Then he became more difficult to be around, and the band started to fracture a little. "
I think this was the first time I'd heard the quote "Life is too short to be playing with Ritchie Blackmore" which gets attributed to Lord and Paice depending on the magazine. But I believe this was at least a decade before I'd read it in print.
On the other hand, Blackmore in his medieval band, Blackmore's Night is uncharacteristically affable and even takes a good natured ribbing here and there and still smiles, so maybe he is mellowing
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Dig the stories. "Masques" is my second favorite Brand X, alb. Killer drumming.
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Originally posted by zeuhl1 zeuhl1 wrote:

ok, well the cliff notes version:
"Well he was a difficult guy but of course he's Blackmore, so putting up with it to play in Rainbow was worth it. For a while. He fancied himself 'the prince of darkness' and some weird stuff happened around the band *this is where I forget some specific examples, but he had them* Then he became more difficult to be around, and the band started to fracture a little. "
I think this was the first time I'd heard the quote "Life is too short to be playing with Ritchie Blackmore" which gets attributed to Lord and Paice depending on the magazine. But I believe this was at least a decade before I'd read it in print.


That definitely would put me off.

Originally posted by zeuhl1 zeuhl1 wrote:

On the other hand, Blackmore in his medieval band, Blackmore's Night is uncharacteristically affable and even takes a good natured ribbing here and there and still smiles, so maybe he is mellowing

Blackmore's Night is so jovial, it'd be hard (and comical) to imagine him pulling the same shtick.
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Originally posted by zeuhl1 zeuhl1 wrote:

+1 for Furio Chirico
The guy never saw a fill he didn't like! Amazingly busy drummer, and utterly unknown outside of Italy or hard core prog circles.
It’s amazing how unknown he is. Certainly one of the most underrated and overlooked fusion drummers.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:


Furio Chirico ❤️

Effing amazing, though he can almost be too much. 

I was going to include Christian Vander in my initial list but I thought that may have been stretching it a bit. Also, I wasn't going to include Jack DeJohnette, as the OP said "no traditional jazz drummers", but yeah, he's gotta be allowed in. He's a fusion pioneer. What was I thinking? Put him in the top 5! 

I did include Christian Vander. he made some fusion albums, for example this one:



here a track:


it actually sounds like Zeuhl without vocals

This is very cool. Gonna need to check out the full album. 
New album!
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FIVE!!! There are so many!

Steve Gadd
Tony Williams
Paul Wertico
Vinny Colaiuta
Giulio Capiozzo
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Pierre Moerlen
Robert Wyatt (love his drumming on "4")
Jon Hiseman
Pip Pyle
John  Marshall (especialy for his drumming for Nucleus)
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Originally posted by Artik Artik wrote:

John  Marshall (especialy for his drumming for Nucleus)

And for the drumming on the Volker Kriegel double album "Inside: Missing Link" (that should be much better known than it is; it is one of the very best albums in that category ever) and on the follow-up "Lift!"; here an example track from both:




Nobody ever talks about Volker Kriegel, which is most definitely a shame.


Edited by BaldFriede - May 08 2021 at 20:17


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1. Bill Bruford
2. Billy Cobham
3. Lenny White
4. Alejandro Acuña
5. Mike Clark/Bill Summers

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Lenny White
Narada Michael Walden
Alphonse Mouzon
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Pierre Moerlen
John Marshall
Pip Pyle
Jon Hiseman
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