Bands where the drummer is the star
 

Dunno if there's a thread like this already. But I was cruising youtube yesterday watching a bunch of Don Caballero videos and everyone I'm thinking 'man, this guy is tearing it up!'.

And it was in a real fresh way, not in some Neil Pert getting flashy on the fills kind of thing. Che takes everything that could be annoying about the drums and makes them really exciting, high cymbal usage, integrating the toms in a large way. He uses the whole kit to the extreme, almost always his parts would satisfy for some kind of fill or breakdown in tons of other songs. But in Don Cab, they're the main parts! He's absolutely the headliner in that band.

I was just wondering what others out there had that same hierarchy. Obvious examples would be Deerhoof and Lightning Bolt. Saunier and Chippendale are ridiculous. I think Boredoms is another qualifier, especially on the later records like Vision Creation Newsun. That's one of my favorite percussive records of all time.

Those are the immediate examples I can think of. I'm sure (and hope) there are plenty more. These are some of the most onfire bands to me, when the drums are so explosive like this.

hella?

I feel that way about Mastodon sometimes.

Chris Corsano is amazing in all his endeavours. Saw him in March playing with Evan Parker, John Edwards, and John Russell; then doing a solo show; then playing in a trio with C. Spencer Yeh and Aaron Dilloway. I've also seen him playing for Björk. Brilliant musician, and a very humble man too. I've been listening to a lot of his albums, and unofficial recordings. He's not only a force of nature, i love his creativity as well.

You can check out some mp3s here:
http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?...=chris+corsano
And some videos here:
http://www.cor-sano.com/hatedvideo.html

Pelican

(get it?)

Also, i think this recording of a Joey Baron performance might be up your alley:
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...postcount=1989
This isn't within the context of a band, though.

Chris Corsano trio
Flower-Corsano duo
Flaherty-Corsano duo

basically anything involving Chris Corsano

the guy from the minutemen was pretty great, i forget his name

The Dave Clark Five ?

George Hurley I think

and the answer is CORSANO. The only person who I could watch do a solo drum performance.

Circle Takes The Square.

harry pussy
lightening bolt
talk normal
this heat
sightings
drunkdriver

Uh, Berdan is and will forever be the star of Drunkdriver. The drummer was okay.

I suspect that would be true if I was lucky enough to have seen them live. On record the drummer kills and is better than the other two.

I knew id forgotten the right answer - Adris all the way.

How about Def Leppard? That and Neil Peart of Rush as he is ridiculously talented on the kit and he wrote all the lyrics to most Rush songs.

Oneida as well

does buddy miles count?

does Freicore still exist?

Magma
Captain Beyond
Skoal Kodiak

No age!!!!!

Last Days of Humanity
Slipknot
The Berzerker
Hash Blazer

Gary Young era Pavement?

the roots

Lots of cool mentions, I'll be looking into alot of these. I'd forgotten Hella. I have a friend who's pretty big into them.

Chris Corsano is ridiculous. After even brief searches, there's some out of control stuff coming out of that guy, really interesting.

Smashing Pumpkins ?

Yeah I really like Jimmy Chamberlin's playing, I technically don't know much about drumming though...

ha ha good one; check out the slow century DVD live footage from the early shows. It makes your little brother's shitty garage band sound like the Foo Fighters.:D

I'd say John Mc Entire from Tortoise. And as said above, Christian Vander from Magma.
Concerning Chamberlain, from the videos I used to see... well, I tend to desagree, he's ok, but he's not THE man on stage.

Glenn Kotche did a pretty cool solo show today.


i'd also add in Emil Amos to this list. and possibly John Convertino and John McIntire.

anyone ever see Gary play w/ Pavement?


it was memorable.

RUSH !!!!

Good call. :)

Ruins (especially Ruins Alone)
Aavikko

Poor Keith Moon I saw the poor bastard OD at a live show. They had his drum set propped up at least 15 feet above the stage. What a thud. He was great though.

Is that the show where they had to get someone from the audience to play after he'd od'd on an elephant tranquliser? It's on some VHS compilation I've got.

I think Greg Saunier from Deerhoof has to be added to this list.

Nope it was at the Boston Garden and that was it the show was over. They cameback 4 months later to do a makeup show. I had tickets the same night for Robin Trower so I opted to see him as I had never seen him. The Who had played two weeks before the OD show in Providence and I caught that show as well as seeing the Who 3 other times so it made Robin T. the easy choice. Needless to say he was awesome but played to short a show at basically an hour and half.

did i mention the screamo band GOSPEL? if not then them.

deerhoof