Drummers

[wishbass]

So, I was jamming w/my drummer buddy,and got to talking.Given the unique relationship between bassists and drummers,both of us have lists in our heads ,me a list of favorite drummers,and he fave bassists.
  So I got to thinking,my list has the usuals;Neil Peart ,Vinnie Caliauta,Omar Hakim,Stewert Copeland,Gavin Harrison,and some that I just like;the original drummer from the Pretenders,Herb from Primus,Futureman,the drummer from Dave Mathews etc,etc.
   My question...who is on your list?My list only scratches the surface.I could easily add 20 more if I thought about it.Who would you like to jam with if you could jam w/anybody?

[slawie]

Animal from the Muppets
Karen Carpenter
Keith Moon and...  
The guy who stands on the back of the boat in the movie Jason and the Argonauts
 
slawie

[hieronymous]

Nice idea! People that were influential either early on or over the years, in some kind of chronological order: Bill Ward, Neil Peart, Ringo Starr (whether I realized it or not), Mitch Mitchell, Ian Paice, Michael Shrieve, Bill Bruford, Jack DeJohnette, Tony Williams, Jaki Liebezeit, Christian Vander, Apt. Q-258, John Marshall (later Soft Machine), Peter Erskine, Lenny White, Billy Cobham, Zigaboo Modeliste, Bill Kreutzmann, Pierre Moerlen.
 
If I could jam with anybody, it would be Jimi Hendrix & Mitch Mitchell! Or how about Jerry Garcia and Jack DeJohnette?!!
 
And of course, the drummer who has influenced me the most is my friend Greg DeGuglielmo, and he is someone I have been fortunate to actually play with a lot. He's on all my recordings, he can rock & he can improvise and is always very musical - a lot of times I take just his drum track and create a whole new song out of it!

[bigredbass]

Drummers . . . . I often think they're the hardest instrument to learn:  You're making music on something that's NOT musical.
 
I've played with two kinds:  I had what I called 'time' drummers.  These guys were like the ultimate drum machines, ferocious swing and groove, but they  were all time-based, not so much that particular tune, but you could double-check a good watch by their time.
 
Then I'd play with more musical drummers.  Had the chops and the grooves, but often I could hear them playing lines that the they were lifting straight from other parts, inside of their groove they were playing.  This is where I put 2+2 together that the rudiments really were like scales for the rest of us:  I'd hear a paradiddle or a flam here and there, and the light came on.  Especially if he could 'breathe' the time in and out in spots of a tune, then snap back right in on the next downbeat.  Amazing.
 
I practiced with a metronome for years when I played piano, so I was a SOB if I wound up on a club gig with someone with wandering time . . .
 
For me, there was nobody like Jeff Porcaro.  I still listen to that drum line in Toto's 'Pamela' and just am drawn like a moth to a flame . . . . there's so many I admired, I'd be here all day.
 
J o e y

[musashi]

Yes, Joey.

[Glynn]

Buddy Rich - scarily brilliant and scary!

[darkstar01]

i'm not sure how you can say drums aren't musical, but that's another story.
Dave King (the Bad Plus/Happy Apple)
Jack Dejohnette
Milford Graves
Billy Martin
more and more and more.....

[jacko]

I'd love to jam with Mike Mangini but I believe he's pretty busy with Dream Theater now :-)
Neil Peart and Mike portnoy are pretty high on my list too but I think first on my list would be Ringo.
 
Graeme

[wishbass]

Speaking of prog bands,I would love to play with the drummer who played on Marillions Misplaced Childhoodalbum.Not sure if he's still with them.Fantastic album that left a permanent mark on me....

[jazzyvee]

Lenny White, Billy Cobham, Art Blakey, Bernard Perdie, Ginger Baker would be on my list  
 
 
jazzyvee

[wishbass]

I love Billy Cobham!Good call!Cudos to the rest as well.Wouldn't it be cool to see all these guys ,and all our fave bass players on the same stage!?

[hammer]

In no particular order of preference: Peter Erskine, Jack Dejohnette, Tony Williams, Bobby Columby, (if one forgets his days as a reporter for ET), Danny Seraphine, Aynsley Dunbar, Art Blakey, and Paul Motian.  And I'd add Airto Moreira if one is permitted to include a percussionist.

[jacko]

I'm going to add Stewart Copeland to my list - a superb cymbal player. I've also wanted to play with a mate of mine - Geordie Clark from The Force but I moved from the north east 30 years ago and he didn't so it's unlikely to happen.
 
Graeme

[cozmik_cowboy]

Mickey Hart and/or Bill Kreutzmann, of course; Joe Craven (though he does hand & mounted percussion, not drums); Dom Famularo (did sound for a Tama clinic with him & Cobham once - Cobham on 25K-piece signature set, Dom on 5-piece - blew Billy clean off the riser!); my son David.
 
Peter

[pauldo]

Besides those mentioned earlier I would like to suggest Gerry Brown and Ronald Brunner Jr.
and of course my wife!! :-D