Apparently drummers are as fit as footballers. What drummers would put professional sportsmen to shame and win a drummer version of superstars?
Me thinks John Henier of Battles could outlast anyone as he's a fucking machine.
Apparently drummers are as fit as footballers. What drummers would put professional sportsmen to shame and win a drummer version of superstars?
Me thinks John Henier of Battles could outlast anyone as he's a fucking machine.
Superhuman Drummers
Apparently drummers are as fit as footballers. What drummers would put professional sportsmen to shame and win a drummer version of superstars?
Me thinks John Henier of Battles could outlast anyone as he's a fucking machine.
ME.
I am a drummer.
I am comparable to George Best, Paul Gascoigne and Tony Adams.
And I look like Peter Beardsley.
Brian Chippendale
Kid Millions
Loel Campbell
Nick Barker of COF and Dimmu Borgir
he's fat but he's an athlete
joe
easley
Seb Rochford
I dunno if he would make the football team like but he is an amazing versitile drummer that can bang um like a pure rock god or do little jazz stuff and disjointed maddness.
^^ this so much.
Best UK drummer for years.
Chris Corsano
Damon Bellorado (Converge), Zach Hill (Hella/etc.), Damon Che (Don Cab). For starters.
mandatory zach hill video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xT7GRhTJkc
that was silly!
I read this article.
It's moronic.
Heart rate does not = fitness.
They go on about drummers doing shows 90 times a year for 90 minutes but neglect to mention that premiership football players lift weights and run Monday to Friday in training. It's a very silly article.
Also John Henier = John Stanier and no, I doubt he is more athletic than even the most average premiership football player.
Bonham
Predictable answer. I doubt he'd be as fit as a footballer though, not least because he's dead.
and the bit
where he was a massive piss head/drug addict...
never
stopped him from playing for 3 hours though did it
well..
until he died
no piss heads / drug addicts in the premiership
so i've been told.
Brann Dailor of Mastodon
Dave Lombardo back in the day.
roland
from big black
^this
now he is a fucking machine
lolz
heh
Whoever
the dude from The Locust was a few years back/is now.
Gabe Serbian is his name
.
The drummer from the Helio Sequence
Pounded every single piece of his drum kit which was quite incredible given that the band play shoegaze-lite. Superhuman definitely.
rick allen?
dave lombardo
sean reinert
tony royston jr
...
Even before we get into the no doubt misunderstood science behind that article, if this was true, how come so many amazing drummers who play 90-minute shows of utter percussional glory like most of us brush our teeth in the mornings are also lardarses?
Hell, you can't even join a black metal band as a drummer unless you weigh more than the rest of the band put together - and they're always pretty good drummers.
What gives?
I think what gives
is that the article is just silly. I don't even know why they bother publishing stuff like this. This has actually been researched... who is funding it? It's a) stupid in the first place and b) the results are plainly wrong.
Bitter?
hang on a second...
Have you read the original published article, or just the BBC's story on it ?
I can't find the original article anywhere so this may not even be peer-reviewed research.
Doug Scharin
Have you heard Doktor Avalanche from the Sisters Of Mercy?
He's a total machine.
been done above with Big Black
sorry
yeah, sorry for recycling but i like to use every single
opportunity to shoe-horn in a Sisters Of Mercy reference
Ok I but I worry about this corrosion of original ideas
Mark Richardson
fit.
John Henier - Battles / Joey Jordison - Slipknot
Henier?
Where has this Henier shit come from? You're the second person to say it.
It's Stanier.
Also, even a pie ridden 3rd division player is probably fitter than 90 percent of drummers.
this man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqC73hT5nWQ&feature=related THE STAMINA
Danny Carey
Joey Jordison
John Stanier
possibly
Neil Peart
Matt Helders
Joey Jordison
Danny Carey
John Dalmayan
The HEALTH
drummer, beast!
HEALTH guy
and the aforementioned Stanier are the two best drummers I've seen. The bloke from Parts and Labor is pretty awesome too.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Buddy Rich would absolutely annihalate anyone mentioned here and every drummer mentioned would probably admit it too. Not heard anyone get close to what Rich could do.
Gene Krupa?
Krupa is ace
But have you got the Rich Krupa battle? Rich wins hands down.
I need to see that
Even though 'drum battles' are a bit of a cringe. However, I did like the Zach Hill/Dave Lombardo/Ches Smith drum trio.
I dislike Zach Hill a bunch
I mean... first couple of Hella releases it was jaw dropping. But then he just did the same drum beat over absolutely everything he played on. He has no dynamic to his playing whatsoever. It's just pure athleticism and power and I find it super dull after the first couple of minutes.
!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE8WTngaAY
ANIMAL!
Damon Che (don cab)
John Stainer (helmet)
Chris Penn (ex dillinger)
Sebastion Thomas (trans am / dead kids)
Des Kensel (high on fire)
Animal - Muppets
...
*Pennie.
Sebastian Thomas
Is deeeeeeeeeeeead fucking good.
stanier
yes!
Jeez
Will people ever get over John Stanier? Okay, he pounds his drums quite hard, sweats a lot in his silly shirts and makes pained faces but there are a lot of drummers around who are much more "athletically" AND musically impressive. Drummers who don't have stupid gimmicky broken crash stands. Jimmy Chamberlin would snap him like a twig. Aside from that:
Brann Dailor
Thomas Haake
Damon Che
Jon Theodore
Gil Sharone
can I give some kudos to the drummer in my band?
Andy Jenkin. Previously of Days Ago and now of The Tupolev Ghost.
The whole reason the rest of us have to play so loud is because he smashes the kit so hard we wouldn't be heard otherwise. He is super-good.
is he the dude
with the bent out of shape snare rims from the rim-shots? played with you guys (tupolev?) at the good ship the other week.
yes
yes he is.
travis orbin
from periphery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZ8W5oEElY&feature=related
Jon Theodore
ex-mars volta... surprised no-one has mentioned him yet
Hello!
Fuck
Ex-Mars Volta drummer, check out new Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLioHibuIQU
He's amazing!
Oh and...
The dude from Comets on Fire... the guy does not know how to stop.
no
ben koller mention yet?
many of this lot i'd imagine
http://www.viva-radio.com/77Boadrum/video.php
Tomas Brolin?
Matt Barrick
of the Walkmen. Fackin amazing drummer
Plus
he's got such an amazing sense of dynamics and brillo subtlety when needed (for those who are only familiar with his superspeedy pounding on 'The Rat')
LIGHTNING BOOOOOOOOOLT
Ben Koller (Converge)
some of the drumming on You Fail Me is unreal. drum intro to Eagles Become Vultures = jawdrop.
Neil Peart (Rush), George Hurley (Minutemen) and Murph (Dinosaur Jr) are amazing too, they haven't been mentioned enough in here.
Aids Wolf
their drummer is seriously crazy.
ben from palehorse
and armed response unit.
He's an absolute fucking monster.
This is untrue
look at that chap from the National, he has arms like cotton buds
the guy
from Converge... brilliant on record but live absolutely astounding. Travis Barker from Blink/Transplants is also superb, though only really got to show what he could do with Box Car Racer
Good drummers
are built like racehorses, not wrestlers
Nile
the music is non exsistant but the drummer is immense I wish I could do that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMqfMuQMTEU
Like onanism though it's something to do behind closed doors though rather than in front of friends
Mac McNeilly - The Jesus Lizard
anyone who saw this band (before he left) will know why I nominate him
this really isn't a JAG
but the drummer in my band is incredible. He's approaching 50 now, but you really wouldn't be able to tell the way he plays. He hits the drums so hard, and he's so fast. When you watch him play it's like he's murdering someone, he goes into some sort of psychotic trance. I would actually rate him as one of the best drummers i've ever seen let alone played with. The other's i rate are the HEALTH guy and the one from Deerhoof, oh and the guy from Battles.