OFF: Drummers

[Nick Medford]

In message <5.0.2.1.0.20010509202246.02ed7480 at kommsrv.rz.unibw-
muenchen.de>, Denis Regenbrecht <denis.regenbrecht at UNIBW-
MUENCHEN.DE> writes
> Shyamal Maitra,

... helluva tabla player! (top 10 tabla players anyone?)

>
>BTW here are my top 5 (in no particular order):
>
>Christian Vander
>Pierre Moerlen

Pierre is great of course, but so is Pip Pyle- difficult to choose between those
two as the No.1 Gong engine-room.

>Stewart Copeland
>Ginger Baker
>Bill Bruford

I have to agree with those who cite Ginger Baker- whatever his failings as a
human being, the drumming on "Levitation" and- especially- "Do Not
Panic" is amazing. If you haven't listened to the latter for a while, dig it out
and prepare to be seriously impressed.

>
>No.1 in my flop-5 would definitively be Nick Mason.

Bit harsh? Was quite inventive in the early days of the Floyd. Not even
remotely inventive now, true, but that presumably has to do with the
superstar syndrome (cf Phil Collins).
--
Nick Medford