but since I like to rag on those who can't f**king choose I suppose I have to..

Keith..  completely unique and no one has ever approached him on the creativity scale.  How many other bands have their drummer as their musical focal point..  nadda.. zero.. it took him to make it possible

 

I have one empty slot to fill so I'll put Michael Giles in the last slot, seeing as he played on King Crimson's first two albums.

 

I already used up all 25 available slots with Michael Giles of King Crimson added as a last minute entry.

Don't you mean disabled? It seems I can only select one.

 

Yeah, all I did was scan the list for his name.

Indeed

My list of favourite drummers from anywhere would always include him

I would have preferred the poll to actually not include the likes of Palmer, Collins , Bruford etc (ie the technical greats) and leave a more heavy rock based selection like Bill Ward , Boneham , Moon etc. They were all phenomenal drummers though but with different remits.

Anyway I voted for Carl Palmer. I've not heard anyone touch him and he is still going strong and playing well.

You can select more than one drummer from the poll because I've just done so. You just need to select one drummer at a time and not all at once.

 

 

this kind of devalues the poll (imo) as I could just sit here and click on Bonham multiple times to make sure he wins. Not that I would.

McBrain is badly overlooked for his talent on the skins and his fantastic contribution to Maiden's music.  Dude definitely deserves more props. 

I have Google to thank for Iron Maiden's drummer being included in the list, otherwise I may have overlooked him.

so is/does Clive Burr

 I'm a drummer & I have watched a lot of his instructional videos as well as his performances. 

He's got amazing technique and great understanding of different musical styles. 

One of my favorite players. 

Where's Barriemore Barlow?

From Wikipedia..........

a bit surprised that Baker only 3 votes and 10 for Bonham.

I always loved Micky Tucker's playing . Rock n Roll Disgrace should be listened to by anyone who might be a bit sceptical. 

And yes always enjoyed Roger Taylor as well. Seven Seas Of Rye especially but he also smashes it on the proggier parts of the Flash Gordon soundtrack.

There were some fine punk drummers as well. Rat Scabies , Budgie and Paul Cook (Sex Pistols) were all great . Jet Black was also decent although he is probably the most 'contained' sounding drummer of those times and it was perfect for the band. 

yet while much of Ginger's fame is built on respect..on what he did for rock drumming. and the music he created...  Moon's is built on a sense of legend.. disbelief and a real...audible sense of creativity and of the box approach to drumming that few even approached and that makes him much easier to appreciate I suppose.  Even if it makes him near near impossible to emulate.. a true once in a lifetime talent... to say nothing of force of nature.  

I'm not sure why I didn't vote for Baker other than I was never a massive fan of Cream. Tales Of Brave Ulysses and White Room are both superb tracks but generally I don't care that much.

Keith Moon on the other hand. I always loved The Who growing up and they were in a sense my gateway band to prog. Baba O'Riley will always be special to me and Moon demonstrated a level of technicality on that track and the whole album that was second to none. But yes people only really care about the myth and the legend. He was a total one off and the world instantly became a lot duller when he left it.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^^ There's no room for any more drummers. I already used up all 25 poll options.

OK, but Lee Kerslake in there instead of Barriemore Barlow......c'mon!!

I love Steve Upton from Wishbone Ash as well, but he's also not in the same league as Barlow.

I'm not sure that anyone can replace Moonie or Bonzo. Their distinctive and personal way to help their band, was second to none, and I can not list many bands that could not survive ... after their drummer left, like it brought both The Who and Led Zeppelin to a close. At least, what The Who did afterwards was not something that you went out and bought after WHO ARE YOU ... 

After those two, I think that the only "drummer" I would like to have in my band, would be Robert Wyatt ... and perhaps because I know that he will make it a challenge for us all to stay on our feet and play! And I think that Moonie and Bonzo did that, where others pretty much went back to the time keeping, the sign of a 2nd rate drummer, which is what I would consider at least half the folks in this list.

Ginger Baker is interesting ... a great drummer, and no doubt added a lot to the feel in the music, but it wasn't until his solo efforts that you really saw him come out of his "rock'n'roll" shell, although I like some of the bits and pieces that he added here and there ... he helped the one album that he did with HAWKWIND ... and never got much credit for it ... for example.

Of all others, I would think that Bruford is the better of them all, otherwise, at least because of the courage to make the leap from YES to KC, and then to things that were totally FREE FORM on the stage ... which were a heck of a listen on any of his albums. 

Nick Mason is in a school by himself ... his early drumming, up until DSOTM was fantastic and all about the feel, and not quite the time keeping which added a nice "tripping" feel to PF, which these days is getting all this early stuff redone by THE ORB ... just to give you an idea how far out that stuff was ... and a drummer that just kept the "time" for all that material, would have killed the "trip" for a lot of those things ... so in this sense, he fits into the Moonie/Bonzo group that added a very special and different touch all around to the music, and somehow, Nick's contribution is not appreciated as much as it should, which kinda tells you how much people have listened to and enjoyed that early "trip" stuff that PF did.

Most of the drummers listed, I don't think, would even be worth a solo album! Were I a record company I would pass right away.

Moon is a weird one, technically he's all over the place, even the way he holds his sticks is weird. Townshend once said that The Who recorded all their basic tracks and then Moon would come in and "record a drum solo over the top".

You have enough drummers there to post your own drummers poll.

To be very honest about the only thing I ever paid attention to in Floyd was Gilmour's guitar playing.

;)

 

I find that hard to believe too, especially seeing as most of those 31 votes for Nick Mason have been added overnight. Bill Bruford was way ahead in the poll until today.

 

I think that'll be the last time I enable multiple voting in my polls.

 

I think we can discount most of those dubious 32 votes for Nick Mason and declare Bill Bruford the well-deserved winner of the poll.

Well, if you could make it the last time you run a 1000-X-done-before poll, we would all appreciate it

BTW, not sure somebody would spend a half an hour of their life skewing a dumb poll

 

If you really dislike my "dumb polls" that much, then why are you here posting on this thread? I suspect it's just an anti-Trump backlash from the American Politics thread.

 

Hey, this is Prog Archives not Chicago.

hah...you should have been a collab back in the day..

you bet your ass it was... and I know where all the bodies are buried man. 

... Or maybe you skew your own poll yourself and claim to be the victim so you can play the Calimero

Bobh-hoo-hooo, your poor little thing

I haven't opened that US Politics thread in a long while, so I wouldn't even know what kind of crud you've spread up there. 

 

 

But hey, PC position is not bad, hell yeah!...... 

It's good to see Phil Collins doing well in the poll, even though he's not considered "proggy" enough as a solo artist to gain admission to the hallowed halls of Prog Archives.

It's spelled "hallowed"...

I stand corrected. I should have known. Who could forget "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden.

 

I'm surprised that people are surprised he is doing well. Collins was always one of the best prog drummers and I would only put maybe a small handful ahead of him. Personality wise he tended to be a 'creepy cockney' and initially struggled to fill the void left by Gabriel. His solo stuff his pure pop although there is a lot of affection admittedly for In The Air Tonight which is probably his only real memorable solo moment.

 

Actually, I agree with you... With Moonie, he's "da best" in intuitive drumming, but Ginger was too much of a dick

 

 

And if I wanted to skew your poll, I'd have chosen, Richard Starkey >> steady, but the weakest on your list.