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I lay back and look to fill in the gaps. I want to lift the entire band.
“Funky Drummer”
James Brown
((( Montreux 1976 )))
— Keith LeBlanc (Tack>>Head)
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Lenny White
Sheila E.
Cindy Blackman
Terri Lyne Carrington
Karen Carpenter
Meg White
LaFrae Olivia Sci
Keith LeBlanc
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Ray Levier
Harold Sargent
Dennis Chambers
Swiss Chris Flueck (Burnt Sugar)
Jeremia Hosea (Bass Guitar)
EarthDriver
Narco-Bourgeoise
Eric Pascal (Paris)
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X Los Angeles
Malcolm X (“No Sell Out”)
Simon Phillips (Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Phil Manzanera)
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Tony Williams (Lifetime)
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Ronald Shannon Jackson (The Decoding Society)
Narada Michael Walden (Jeff Beck / Vernon Reid)
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Levon Helm
Don Henley
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Jaimoe
Frank Beard
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Cindy Blackman
Art Blakey
Jason Bonham (Bonham, Black Country Communion)
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Will Calhoun (Living Colour)
Jim Capaldi (Traffic)
Terri Lyne Carrington
Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters)
Dennis Chambers
Dave Clark (The Dave Clark Five)
Phil Collins (Genesis, Brand X, Flaming Youth, Frida)
Jack DeJohnette
Sly Dunbar (Bernard Fowler / Sly & Robbie)
Sheila E. (Prince)
Coke Escovedo
Greg Errico (Sly and the Family Stone)
Peter Erskine (Weather Report)
Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Average White Band)
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Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
Jimmy Fox (James Gang)
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Dave Grohl (Scream, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Tenacious D, Them Crooked Vultures)
Omar Hakim (Sting, Weather Report, Dire Straits, Madonna)
Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead)
Roger Hawkins (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Traffic)
Taylor Hawkins (Alanis Morissette, Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders)
Roy Haynes
Richie Hayward (Little Feat)
Levon Helm (The Band)
Stix Hooper (The Jazz Crusaders)
Earl Hudson (Bad Brains)
Gary Husband (John McLaughlin, Level 42)
Al Jackson Jr. (Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Otis Redding)
Jaimoe (The Allman Brothers Band)
Ralph Johnson (Earth, Wind, & Fire)
Elvin Jones (John Coltrane)
Steve Jordan (CBS Orchestra, X-pensive Winos, Eric Clapton)
Gene Krupa
Corky Laing (Mountain, West, Bruce and Laing)
Chris Layton (Double Trouble)
Stanton Moore (Galactic)
Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
Ted Lynch (Peter Gabriel)
Michael Lee (Little Angels, Page and Plant, The Cult)
Tommy Lee (Rock Star Supernova, Mötley Crüe, Methods of Mayhem)
Gary Lewis (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood)
J Mascis
Harvey Mason (Herbie Hancock, Fourplay)
Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)
Pat Mastelotto (Mr. Mister, King Crimson)
Miroslav Milatović (Riblja Čorba, Warriors)
Buddy Miles (Band of Gypsys)
Butch Miles (Count Basie)
Mitch Mitchell (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Zigaboo Modeliste (The Meters)
Keith Moon (The Who)
Gil Moore (Triumph)
Stanton Moore (Galactic)
Airto Moreira (Hermeto Pascoal)
Joe Morello (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Rod Morgenstein (Winger, Dixie Dregs)
Ian Paice (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
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Neil Peart (Rush)
Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Emerson, Lake and Powell, Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, The Brian May Band)
Jeff Porcaro (Toto)
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
Questlove (The Roots)
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Todd Rundgren
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Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Glenn Hughes, Chikenfoot, Joe Satriani)
Squarepusher (BASS)
Zak Starkey (The Who, Oasis)
Jabo Starks (James Brown)
Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown)
Mike Terrana (Masterplan)
Jon Theodore (The Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age)
Brian Tichy (Billy Idol)
Art Tripp (The Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart)
Butch Trucks (The Allman Brothers Band)
Brooks Wackerman (Avenged Sevenfold, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Religion)
Chad Wackerman
Narada Michael Walden (Jeff Beck, Journey)
Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
Chick Webb
Dave Weckl
Paul Wertico (Pat Metheny)
Fred White (Earth, Wind, & Fire)
Lenny White
Maurice White (Ramsey Lewis, Earth, Wind, & Fire)
Meg White (The White Stripes)
Steve White (Paul Weller)
Tony Williams
Sam Woodyard (Duke Ellington)
Pete York (The Spencer Davis Group, Jon Lord)
Zoro (Lenny Kravitz)
movies
(drums and drummers)
Whiplash (2014)
Drumline (2002)
Count Me In (2021)
Wayne’s World (1992)
A Drummer’s Dream (2010)
Gene Krupa Story (1959)
CoLors*…
This is a Voyage into Sound.
inst. of change [THE ELECTRIC GUITAR]
the players
INSTRUMENTS OF NOISE.
take it to the bridge
The Original Color of Sin [BLUE.]
the inst.ruments
TRUMPET
GUITAR
BASS GUITAR
DRUMS
KEYBOARDS
SAXOPHONE
VIOLIN
TURNTABLE
OTHERS
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Usually sitting behind, and rarely singing, drummers are easily overlooked by the casual concert goer, but drummers are in the position to most clearly see all that is happening on stage, and thinking of how they can best help the band’s musical cause.
I lay back and look to fill in the gaps. I want to lift the entire band.”
Dennis Chambers (inspiration)
Clyde Stubblefield
Al Jackson Jr.
Steve Gadd
Vinnie Colaiuta
Gary Husband
Jack Dejohnette
Billy Cobham
Buddy Rich
Elvin Jones
Roy Haynes
Tony Williams
“Funky Drummer”
James Brown
((( Montreux 1976 )))
—yT
Whiplash (2014)
Drumline (2002)
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums. — Arthur Koestler
Lenny White
Will Calhoun
Keith LeBlanc
Ray Levier
Cindy Blackman
Sheila E.
Sly Dunbar
Dennis Chambers
Steve Jordan
Omar Hakim
Poogie Bell
Gene Krupa
Buddy Rich
Elvin Jones
Tony Williams
Billy Cobham
Alphonse Muzon
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Jack DeJohnette
Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Ginger Baker (Cream)
Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones)
Keith Moon (The Who)
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Ian Paice (Deep Purple)
Cozy Powell (Rainbow)
Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
Carmine Appice (Beck Bogert and Appice)
Peter Erskine (Weather Report)
Bobby Thomas Jr. (Weather Report)
Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa)
Bill Bruford (King Crimson)
Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa)
Stewart Copeland (The Police)
Tony Allen (Fela Kuti)
Felix Sabal-Lecco (Manu Dibango)
Danny Carey (Tool)
Jon Theodore (Mars Volta)
DRUMMERS WITH VOICE
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Don Henley (Eagles)
Levon Helm (The Band)
Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters)
Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Neil Pert (Rush)
JR Robinson
John “JR” Robinson calls himself the “Most Recorded Drummer in History,” which should give you some sense of the voluminous discography of one of pop’s go-to slammers: the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited,” Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love,” Rufus and Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody,” a chunk of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and no song less titanic than “We Are the World.” Most importantly, Robinson laid the disco-rock-funk-pop concrete of Michael Jackson’s tectonic-shifting Off the Wall. Robinson’s perception of drummers as timekeepers only helps his innate ability to supercharge songs with subtle gestures. “He’s the only drummer I could ever in my life ask to do a bar introduction on Michael Jackson’s ‘Rock With You,’ Quincy Jones said at the Montreux Jazz Festival’s celebration of his 75th birthday. “I said, ‘I want a drum lick that the whole world can sing’ … and they sang it.”
Clyde Subblefield (James Brown)
John “Jabo” Sparks (James Brown)
Dave Garibaldi (Tower of Power)
Fred Below (Chess Records)
Roger Hawkins (Muscle Shoales)
Hal Blaine (Wrecking Crew)
Al Jackson (Stax)
Benny Benjamin (Mowtown)
Bernard Purdie (Nina Simone)
D.J. Fontana (Elvis)
Earl Palmer (Little Richard)
Clifton James (Bo Diddley)
Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly)
Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (The Meters)
Carlton Barrett (Bob Marley)
James Gadson (Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band)
Although he originally hailed from Kansas City, it’s hard to imagine a more important drummer in the history of Los Angeles music than James Gadson. He first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as a core member of the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band (of “Express Yourself” fame) and then Bill Withers’ band, all the while staying busying as one of the most prolific session players in town. His steady hand held down everything from the Jackson 5’s’ “Dancing Machine” to the Temptations’ “Happy People” to Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You.” “I mean, he played on ‘Let’s Get It On.’ … Gadson is that sound,” Jamie Lidell told Pitchfork. “Whenever I’m playing with him, some crazy lock goes on I’ve never experienced with another musician, ever. He’ll just look over and he’s smiling and nailing that fuckin’ beat. And when he finished the track, he’s like, ‘I got it from you!’ Fuckin’ no ego on him.”
Mickey Hart (Smithsonian Curator)
and Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead)
Butch Trucks and Jaimoe (Allman Brothers)
Richie Hayward (Little Feat)
Earl Young (Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes)
James “Diamond” Williams (Ohio Players)
Jerome “Bigfoot” Brailey (Parliament-Funkadelic)
Greg Errico (Sly and The Family Stone)
Tony Thompson (Chic)
Earl Hudson (Bad Brains)
Jim Gordon (Layla)
Jeff Porcaro (Toto)
Steve Smith (Journey)
Jim Keltner (“Imagine”)
Steve Gadd (Stuff)
“Second Stuff”
((( Montreux 1976 )))
Mahavishnu Orchestra
John McLaughlin (guitar)
Jan Hammer (keys)
Jerry Goodman (violin)
Billy Cobham (drums)
Rick Laird (bass guitar)