My teacher and good friend.....I miss Ed.

Lucky person 😊

Of course this is your opinion,I've played for 50yrs and can name a few drummers I have more respect for than Rich.

He just used you to warm up for his post gig pep talk with the band.

Yep the best 🥢🎼

Lucky person!

I remember those sticks!

What type of sticks did he use?

When I saw him in a club as an underage kid , I had the guts to go up to his drum set and actually pick up a set of his sticks and check them out. They were light in weight and contoured so they helped with slipping. Later, they started selling them so I got a pair just to have. Rock drummers would probably break them soon and I may have myself. It was a long time ago and wish I had the foresight to keep them as a souvenir. Ah, wisdom is wasted on the young.😜

The big difference was that Buddy's mouth was matched by his playing. Ginger's mouth was well beyond his playing. Ginger was very good, Buddy was unsurpassed

@@sulladrum John basically Ginger Baker was an overrated blowhard with a blabbermouth. Haha Buddy Rich was a great hyper speed Jazz drummer with chops like the great Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake and Palmer who by the way he idolized. And I know that from various drum magazine Publications and in certain circles I ran in during the Progressive drummer era. There is nobody better in jazz then Buddy Rich who was just starting to blend elements of Rock so I guess you could call him and Billy Cobham some of the first Fusion drummers. And I think that was perfected by the great Dave weckel who I consider the greatest Jazz Rock drummer of all time it's like you have to see him to believe him. But still as great as these gentlemen are my vote still goes to Carl Palmer who in my opinion is God on drums. People don't realize that Carl Palmer was jazz and classically trained on his instrument. He was a student of the Guild Hall School of Excellence in musicianship.

The difference is, Buddy had talent.

@@mwalker3547 so what are you saying moron. Carl Palmer didn't have talent. He was the greatest there ever was. Why don't you go back to playing your Kitty drum set the one that was bought it Kmart while you're listening to The Archies. Hahaha dork

It's always drummers that are the biggest douches.

I believe Karen Carpenter had the skill set on drums that Buddy had. She had the same natural sense of rhythm, dexterity, and control that Buddy had and she was a percussionist as well !

@@fredbentley4944 Plus singing while playing the drums without missing a note.

Actually the drummer behind Animal was English legendary jazz and big band drummer Ronnie Verrel.

Greyson Nekrutman… The new star drummer on the block..🥁

As much as Buddy said in his later years that he 'never practiced', in his youth he was a practicing fiend. That was verified by the late Joe Morello too. But Buddy was also naturally gifted beyond the norm. The guys you mention all worked hard at their technical prowess as well, but I've heard them play music and I am not moved. Mangini, Minnemann and Donati are all technical giants too. But, I'll take the feel of Andy Newmark and the late Jeff Porcaro any day of the week over thrill of speed and flash.

Not that I remember. He liked Carl Palmer, Danny Seraphine and Bobby Colomby. I didn't hear him speak much on specific rock drummers but he had disdain for most of them.

@@loucontino4804 he did truly. When dick Cavett told him Charlie Watts could spin the sticks on his fingers , buddy replied, “ but I can play “ !

@@loucontino4804 yes, and also Gadd and Harvey Mason. “I like Harvey Mason. He plays nice.”

@@SuperBeachbum74 i thought when Dick Cavett mentioned that Watts could twirl his sticks that Rich replied that might look cool but air drumming makes no sound and you can't record twirling sticks. i think Dick Cavett had no talent and was a obnoxious little twitt. I am surprised Buddy kept his temper under control dealing with a sniveling little wise ass like Cavett .

When Buddy Rich's daughter wanted to record an album Buddy said he wanted Hal Blaine to play drums on it. Same thing with Frank Sinatra. High praise.

😂 That's why every great drummer is compared to Rich....not Max Roach.

@@tomcooper6108 buddy was & is the yard stick to measure all drummers

@Drummer J.L.H. two wrongs don’t make a right🤦‍♂️.

The guy grew up in some very hard times in the vaudeville era, he had to take jobs as a stooge for vaudeville comedians for $10 a week and worked his a** off to become the greatest drummer the world ever saw. He had a perfectionist perspective, cause he never wanted to go back to doing stooge work again. Since he got to the place where only his name appeared on the marquis whenever that band played, he felt it was his a** on the line for a weak or poor performance. They only thing that mattered to him was that you gave him perfection. Anything else was intolerable to him. Aside from that, he was a sweetheart.

Yes, especially if you were fuqqing up his band. You were gonna hear about it....or GTFO.

It was his band.

@Vgr There is no excuse for that behaviour

@Frank Discussion. A MUSICIANS LABOURER

And all thise so called musicians would be all over the place without a drummer to keep time.

None other than jazz great and legend Elvin Jones adored Buddy Rich! As Did legendary jazz drummer Max roach, Rufus Jones ask any of these guys ma’am till tell you buddy rich was in a class by himself🎉

@@nealsausen4651 they're all dead so I can't ask them. And even if they confirmed what you're saying I'd chalk that up to them just being humble.

@@isaacj6212 : well you don’t have to ask them they’ve all said this about Buddy many many times in interviews when they were still alive so don’t take my word for it do the legwork and find the interviews there in old down beats they an old Modern drummer magazines, they Are in old jazz magazines you have to do the Legwork and track them downl! And what makes you think they’d say it just to be humble?! You’ve been inside their minds I take it or are you just speculating based on your own worldview?!

@@nealsausen4651yes, I'm saying it because of my own world view. My opinion based on experience, not just what people say when a reporter sticks a microphone in their face. And I'm not going to do any leg work because I don't care enough to do so. I'll take your word for it. But here's the thing: that video has nothing but interviews and quotes from white drummers and one video of him playing along side Blakey. They could've added interviews from the men you mentioned like Elvin, Max or Blakey himself, but they didn't. Why do you think that is? Like it or not, Jazz is African American music co-opted by whites. Those same white people that crowned Benny Goodman 'the King of Swing' crowned Buddy Rich 'ths greatest drummer' but I don't think blacks really felt that way. My dad, a percussionist/drummer played and recorded with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, Taj Mahal and a list of other brilliant musicians and he told me the consensus was that Buddy had no counter, was overrated and his big band was noise. He actually met and talked with the black musicians you've mentioned and in print, yeah, I'm sure they all said good things about Buddy the same way they did about Benny Goodman. But off the record, yes, based on my world view from what I've witnessed and experienced and heard, I suspect they as black musicians had a slightly different opinion of ol Buddy than what white America portrays.

@@isaacj6212 : no you don’t have to look at the articles if you don’t want to! the interviews! I really don’t care one way or the other it was just a suggestion! Can we please just once and for all in the 21st-century drop this white (MUSICIAN) versus black (MUSICIAN) bullshit mentality?! That was so prevalent in the 60s The fight for civil rights that was so prevalent when I was growing up in the 60s and reading downbeat magazine every other week I mean I could see it back then this Kinda unspoken passive animosity between some Not all, but some ( and I must STRESS the word SOME Here) black musicians and white musicians but man musicians are musicians!!! and while it’s true that “JAZZ” is the only true American musical art form that was conceived and pioneered by African-American musicians, it’s still the same seven notes man that every other form of western (Music) uses!!!…. I don’t think in terms of white musicians or black musicians or yellow musicians or red musicians or green with purple polkadot musicians fuck all that bullshit! While there’s some black musicians Who might have criticized buddy rich behind the scenes or other white musicians behind the scenes I don’t really give a shit about that petty bullshit listen as far as I’m concerned Buddy Rich was THE real deal would you like Buddy Rich any better Or except him anymore if he was black?! What if he was beige?!?! the whole argument sucks man! And NO… his charts we’re not noise come on that’s a crock of shit! He had some of the finest arrrangers and composers (like Oliver Nelson for instance)! on the planet writing for him….unless you believe Leonard Bernstein who wrote the score for West side story which Buddy recorded was a bunch of noise do you Isaac?! BTW: there’s a video on KZfaq somewhere you can look it up IF YOU WANT TO! Of Buddy Rich playing with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and Ray Brown, and they’re all digging Buddy’s playing! (especially Parker who is “beaming” at Buddy’s solo just loving it)!all these guys black and white are having a good time just playing music man just playing jazz! this video was shot either in the late 1940s or the early 1950s Rich is playing on a mini Ludwig drum set and everybody’s just glowing at each other and it feels fucking great! So don’t think it can’t be done because It can!!

nope, can't touch him

Nope

Oh? Who?

...respectfully....disagree..

There is always someone out there who is better

So you admit, that while he was alive, he was the best. By saying not the best anymore, you are conceding that he was.😄