Your favourite drummer

[Smelly_granny]

Simply the drummer you look upon for inspiration, and enjoy his/her drumming the most. If you have one that is.

My favourite has got to be John Dolmayan.

anyone care to share?

[kbl]

at the moment, i would have to say - Art Blakey.

[Diets]

Where would I even begin? there are soooo many.  I guess thats just it Start at the begining and for me it was Gene Krupa sparked it.

[minionhammy]

Lars Ulrich, but thats just me

[sdlatson]

Terry Bozzio

[OnlyGrlThatdrums]

Mine is Travis Barker.

[MRSMASH]

Lars Ulrich, but thats just me

Holy Tom angles!
Mine are;Daney Carey, Mike Mangini, Heraciao Hernandaz(I can never spell it right), Chris Adler, Terry Bozzio

[Black_Violin]

[size=16]Pasha! [/size]

[PASHA]

 

[speed_demon]

Neil Peart

[clive.22]

Neil Peart , John Bonnham, Ian Paice,Mick Underwood to name but a few.  8-)

[Little-Drummer-Boy]

Umm John bonham, and my Uncle Bob Caldwell(He's not in a band but hes a profesional drummer that teaches drums and runs the whole music program at douglas university in Vancouver!)

My uncle has taught me every thing i know.

[Stickman]

Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich

[Tom]

The drummer who started it all for me was tre cool

[drummer-4-1]

i like Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden, Mike Portnoy of dream theater, Clark Lewing of Stretching Madness, and my cousin who got me in to drumming when i was younger

[typelab]

ahmir '?uestlove' thompson - pretty much the reason why i took up the drums

[Smelly_granny]

ahmir '?uestlove' thompson - pretty much the reason why i took up the drums

Ive read a bit about him, and he sure sounds like a good drummer, but ive also wondered how do pronouce his name!

Is it 'amier west-love' or 'hamier quest-love'?  Ive never known lol.

[Mark]

Gene Kruppa & Rob Heaton (New Model Army)

[iamanidiot32180]

joey jordison, flo mounier, buddy rich, neil peart, alex vanhalen, in that order

[_godfather_]

As Louis Benson said : " There ain't gonna be a drummer as good as Buddy Rich .... "
So true !!!

[mean-machine]

Derek Grant is my favourite, love a bit of chris summers to

[CBdrummer696]

Joey Jordison, Shawn Crahan, Chris Fehn

[drum_wizard]

The drummer for Ion Dissonance... absolutely phenomenal.. i think his name is KK Richard

[SurvivedThe70s]

I have seen many video recordings and heard many audio recordings, of "most" of what are considered the best of the best drummers of the past 100 years. ALL of the old drummers both black and white and latin and every other culture and one thing is common even amongst the different styles; all the greats have a mastery of thier particular style. Of course this is why they are known.
If you try to compare Virgil Donati or Ian Paice to say, Art Blakey, it simply isn't apple to oranges. Art was fast but he couldn't touch either of thoise guys. Now, that wasn't his style though was it. His was prowess, dynamics, syncopation, and yes speed. But the raw energy of these two guys (singled out for example only as there are quite a few others today), in my little bitty brain simply eclipses that of most of the older drummers to which many writers like to attach some sort of "mystique" because they were from the 20's, or because they were black, or because they were white.
So I think it boils down to a sort of "litmus test"; take any drummer from amy genre and time, and plug him into another genre or time, and ask yourself how he would compare. In my mind, I don't think there is, was, and maybe ever will be a drummer who could accomplish what Buddy Rich did.
Do you think if Buddy were an up-and-coming drummer today that he would not dominate in todays styles? While you may pick your fav drummer and insert him/her (didn't forget you TerriLynn) here, my humble opinion says no one, can reach his level.
Oh well, enough subjectiveness; my objective answer is that Buddy Rich is my "favorite" drummer and also because he happens to be the "best" drummer who ever lived ..... thus far.  8-)

[gmbydmit]

Neil Peart - is my all time fav

but all you guys are right.....

you gotta take something from all of them.

Gene Krupa to Lars - they all give us all a little something we can use