People just like to use the word ‘genre’. They think it makes them sound sophisticated.
Or in Metal it’s sub-genres. I’m sure some of it is down to having a different song.
Should have looked closer at home to see the shitshow that Ulrich is.
I’ve encountered Metallica fans who claim at.anger is a good album… So there.
This is largely a reflection on metal fanboys or fanboys of any sort.
Hey I bought St anger , ya know remove the Ulrich snare drums and it is actually a good album.
The amount of delusion.
I swear.
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I literally heard 4-5 hits of that snare and my ears went “fuck this shit”
As an guitarist , albeit very fucking limited. Iron maiden is still way too easy to do. From the guitar perspective.
But Metallica as a music perspective forced some shit and then forced napster.
Do realise that Nicko was way ahead of his times… He probably along with Bruce and Adrian (to some extent) are the only guys I do respect from maiden.
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Respect Harris ofcourse… Goes without saying
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Is that the album where he replaced the snare drum with a box of Quality Street?
I wish. That would probably have sounded better than at anger
On the topic of metal drummers , what the likes of Nicko and more importantly rockenfield (queensyrche) did was pretty insane.
I do get portnoy is a beast.
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My knowledge of bass and drum players is pretty limited because I mostly listen to metal and in metal they often provide the platform for guitar players to show their skills. I’ve always had the impression that jazz drummers and funk bass players are the universal masters at their respective instruments.
That said, there are people like Gene Hoglan who take the metal drumming to a whole different level… If anyone ever earned their nickname, it’s him, The Atomic Clock. Insane precision and speed and ability to both dictate and follow. I also admire Scott Travis, Mike Portnoy and Dirk Verbeuren a lot. Nicko - goes without saying, I love him!
I like (not love) Radiohead. Think they’ve had a very original journey through their own music styles as each album was a bit different than the previous. But after say… 7 albums… you can run out of creative steam.
9 albums in 21 years…
Pablo Honey
Bends
OK Computer
KidA
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
In Rainbows
King of Limbs
Pool Shaped Moon
the last two were a bit ecclectic, but I didn’t have high expectations
Tool has also been mentioned recently. Think they hit the same ceiling. Solid first 5 EP/albums… then it just felt like they were going through the motions.
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The current king is Marco Minnemann. In every way. Not only can he out drum anyone, his sense of rhythm and merging odd time signatures is jaw dropping. I have never seen a drummer with more limb independence. It’s like there were four different people planing the drums.
One of my current favourites is Eloy Casagrande of Sepultura. I am a big Igor Cavalera fan but after seeing Eloy live I have to admit it he is better. Other than his ferocious hitting and combative drumming style, what sets him apart is his groove. It’s something that set Dave Lombardo apart. Eloy has that, but his own version of groove and swing.
I love Mike Portnoy the musician, just calling him a drummer would be doing him a disservice (same with Marco, he composes a lot of The Aristocrats songs). If he’s playing in any band, I’m going to watch them. Seen him with Sons of Apollo, The Neal Morse Band, and The Winery Dogs. Never disappoints. Hope they do another Metal Allegiance tour.
And of course there’s the lead drummer Danny Carey of Tool. Big fan of him as well.
Hoglan is an all time legend. Nothing more is needed to say. He is a giant of metal drumming.
Dirk is a monster!! Been following him since his Soilwork days and just saw him rip through a Megadeth set with ease. Some of the fills he’s recorded in The Sick, The Dying, and The Dead are super tasty!
he’s not a famous musician, but he’s pretty damned good drummer.
not metal, but let’s not forget Carter Beauford. I’ve seen him live at The Gorge. he’s unreal
apparently a 100% true story is the Aerosmith wrote ‘dude looks like a lady’ after seeing Vince Neil in a bar…
I was just browsing through the Musikladen archive online and found this:
Clearly someone at Radio Bremen wasn’t familiar with the late-70s Hamburg football team and appear to have copied this bio from Wikipedia:
Kevin Keegan (1924–20 December 1978) was an Irish musician known for his traditional accordion music.
Keegan was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway in 1924. He toured the United States with The Aughrim Slopes Céilí Band in 1956 and stayed in the country, moving to Chicago that year. He later moved to San Francisco, California in 1970 where, along with his long-time friend and fellow accordion player Joe Cooley, he proved influential among American musicians studying traditional Irish music. While living in California, he played with mandolinist Kenny Hall at his Sweets Mill Music Camp in Fresno. He died in San Francisco in 1978 and was buried in County Galwa The Cooley-Keegan Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in San Francisco is named in honor of Keegan and Joe Cooley.
I’m assuming that they missed the bit where he signed for Scunthorpe United.