Yer favourite "drum fill"?

no one can fill like Phil (Collins) does hahahha cmon just listen to songs like

0.) Entire Billy Cobham's "Spectrum".
1.) Carl Palmer's (ELP) pedal work in "Fugue" (on Trilogy)
2.) Andy Ward's (Camel) snare while following flute theme in "Rhayader" (on The Snow Goose)
3.)  Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull) start-stop machine-precise snare in "The Hunting Girl" (on "Songs From The Wood").

But all that pales in comparison with Clive Bunker on Mother Goose. Who cares about technique, it's the approach! The real drummer.

"IKEA by Night" - The Flower Kings

I don't know if it qualifies as a "fill", as it is more a short drum solo / intro and not something coming out of an already established groove - however it may be, the drum intro thing on "Mahavishnu Projects" version of "Eternity's Breath" is EPIC. And the original wasn't too shabby either.

Snow Dog wrote: moshkito wrote: Hi,   Phil Collins' best drumming is on the Eno's albums ... not Genesis! Or possibly Brand X?

In the Court of the Crimson King, that second to last fill before the fade out just seems to keep going.

Edited by Gianthogweed - June 22 2009 at 19:38

Indicipline King Crims - Bruford- All the "drum-fillings"  on the track

Edited by tamijo - June 20 2009 at 15:57

I'm not a drummer myself but i'm obsessed with Christian Vander's drumming (of MAGMA fame). The particular way he goes about his work is quite something special. He seems to improvise his fills on the spot most of the time and in the spur of the moment he gets completely carried away with his music. I mean, he's even drumming when he's not drumming, e.g. he hits some notes *not* and you see him rolling his eyes instead (one of the things he's "famous" for). Sometimes, at least in his earlier days, he got carried away a bit too far - but then he has these moments of pure genius when he does something totally incredible to make up for it. Love, love, love this guy.

Let me give you some examples:

Kohntarkosz excerpt (2007) - This one is full to the brim with amazing fills. As far as I understand it Vandar plays his own syncopated counter-beat to the "main" beat, steadies it with the hi-hat and improvises all over it (even polyrhythmic) while he's at the same time very careful *not ever* to overlap with the "main" beat. See him starting at 0:30 in a neverending series of awsome fills.
The video is titled "Guitar solo", but really, it's the drums that blow me away and I have yet to recover...
Favorite fills: 2:29 - 2:32, 4:13-4:14 (the look on his face) and of course 4:37-4:43 (the look on his face!).

Mekanik Kommandoh (2006) - 1:00 - 1:26 monster fills + trademark eye rolls at 4:54. ;)

Mekanik Kommandoh (1977). Not quite as sophisticated, but here you can see the sheer energy and madness of the man on his prime (the guitarist is totally not Luke Skywalker). Unique Vander moment: 4:00 (Bruce Lee impression).

Progosopher wrote: Barrymore Barlowe of Tull rips two incredible fills on both No Lullaby and Dark Ages, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch, respectively.

And how about those three break-fills in Hunting Girl?  And a whip-crack overdub?!

Mine have all been said: Mani & Moon for sheer originality and Bonham for... well, I'm not a drummer - I just like the sheer power of the guy, I guess