+Alphonse Mouzon You're pretty impressive yourself sir!

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Thanks a lot! Will check it out! Out of curiosity, you mentioned Tony Williams being in your top 6. Would you please be kind enough to share who the other 5 are? Thank you!

+Aditya Tyagi To answer your question, my top 6 drum influences are: Tony Williams, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Philly Joe Jones, and Buddy Rich. Then Max Roach, Jimmy Cobb and Bernard Purdie.

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He had a unique thing with the Remo control sound heads on top and bottom.Also the large 2B drumsticks....

Look up Gar Samuelson and Chris Poland. Jazz players recruited into Megadeth in the 80’s. Interesting transition.

You should check out Sean Reinert, fusion jazz drummer gone death metal!

Special K's! LOL

I didn't even know they made hoops in any other finish than chrome back then! Crazy!

He would've been great at metal, no doubt.

you have no idea........

Blast beats are cool?

tony williams kind of invented blast beats.

whatever

and buddy rich the father of both

Claudio Coloma Who gives a fuck dude? Buddy Rich was not the best, there is no best drummer, period.

bollocks,he was his own man..and musician for that matter,Miles Davis was so fond of him,and rightly so, 'cause he was truly special.

just like Maradonna is the Bjørn Borg of football...

meaning they're relaxed?

Or awful lol

Anyways, joke aside, this solo is sick. I really liked his stuff with Allan Holdsworth.

Very true. Tony doesn't really compare well with either of them. Unlike Bonham, e its fundamentally a jazz drummer, and everything he plays comes from that world of Max, and Art and Philly Joe that he grew up around (and all the other wonderful drummers of that tradition, MANY of them. Bonham is an English Rock club drummer. A very different world. And Buddy Rich's is also from a completely different background from Tony's: the world of the stage show and the first generation of great big bands, influenced by Jo Jones and Chick Webb and the showbnd drummers who developed a lot of stick technique. All three were wonderful drummers who made their own worlds, beautifully imaginative drummers and dedicated musicians, but they don't compare well to each other in any interesting way.

John Bonham was really made great because of FM radio. There were plenty of cats out there that played far better at that time, they just never made it to FM radio.

I dunno watchign this solo...my mans was blast beating, heavy. I don't know he couldn't put down anything bonham could, maybe even better. Though could bonham match the dynamics of tony, I dunno I almost doubt it. Really it's all taste people are talking when they say their fav...rarely are they objectively looking at the "greatest of all time" and that might continue to grow the same as time does. There are wild dudes now a days but they all listened to someone. cheers

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Ah, okay, thank you. Arigato!

+My grand piano Pretty sure it's Eye of the Hurricane, 2nd track from Herbie Hancock's album, "Maiden Voyage".

That'd so true !! And that's one of the reason that buddy rich left hand technique was a big mystery for a long time !! Even we know the technique now we still want to watch him playing !! There is some legends that i can listen to them playing all day !! But i can't see what his really doing around the drum set and it pisses me offfff

yeah' that shit drives me crazy man!..happens all the time, in so many concerts...ya'd think, these ppl would know how to shoot great musicians by now!..funny thing, when we do hit on a good vid' we're almost in shack, they didn't screw it up!!

they say blast beat was inspired by one of tonys patterns!

ManelFogo Maybe but probably not. Double time and back beat and it’s a thrash beat, double time a thrash beat and it’s a blast beat! That’s how it came about according to Pete Sandoval, who really defined the blast beat and perfected it.

High On Summer I'm sure he went through single ply heads too often. He was a very poweful drummer

I doubt Tony would call himself a jazz drummer. He developed a style that could cross into any genre- jazz, fusion, rock, even metal. A force of nature. I think the control sounds were more durable, but more importantly they had a certain characteristic that Tony liked. They have the resonance of a single ply head but a solid stick attack. Haven’t heard drums like Tony’s before.

Because it gave a solid boxed sound . Open up .Top N bottom

Most so called Drumboys do Not understand Musical structure nor Drumming .Fact.

@@dynasticlight1073 Tony just doesn’t impress me. Bottom line: if it doesn’t sound good, who cares about a “blushda” ?