Best Pop Drummer

Roger Taylor from Duran Duran? The bloke from the Scissor Sisters?

My vote, to the surprise of nobody I'm sure, goes to Clem Burke from Blondie. He is Blondie, in fact.

Listen to Under the Gun from the Live in New York album if you don't believe me.

clem burke

I've been meaning to start this thread for MONTHS, specifically to see what OLF thinks of Clem.

I could have just asked him, I suppose.

Or I could have just KNOWN.

Ever seen him play, Leady?

After somebody saying about him a while back, I paid extra attention in Barcelona when Blondie were on. He really is amazing.

A special mention should go to Def Leppard's one armed Rick Allen.

Oh and the drummer from Monaco was quite good

I've seen him eat japanese food. Does that count?

not seen blondie live, jem, i love you

he gets slagged off in poncey drumming mags as not being technically brilliant, but i think he ads SO much to blondies stuff, they would be crap with anyone else. and he's a great showman.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Old Lead Foot wrote: not seen blondie live, jem, i love you

hey now...

watch it...

jem told ME that she loved ME...

TWICE even...

of course I think she was quite drunk both times...soooooo....

did the rohipnol not work then

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Old Lead Foot wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Old Lead Foot wrote: not seen blondie live, jem, i love you

hey now...

watch it...

jem told ME that she loved ME...

TWICE even...

of course I think she was quite drunk both times...soooooo....

did the rohipnol not work then

SHIT! I knew there was something I had forgotten!!!

Thanks for the head's up!!!

Ye get a better laugh using Temazepam

Clem Burke -Blondie -Union City Blue

Greg Roberts -Big Audio Dynamite -E=MC2 12inch version

Topper Headon -Clash -Rock the Casbah (for his piano playing too)

Ponyboy wrote: Roger Taylor from Duran Duran? The bloke from the Scissor Sisters?

My vote, to the surprise of nobody I'm sure, goes to Clem Burke from Blondie. He is Blondie, in fact.

Listen to Under the Gun from the Live in New York album if you don't believe me.

The best in the world drumming might be on the end of'Heart of Glass'

To the point where I'm mildy narked at fuckin DJ's doyles who talk through that shit..what is so important,that it can't wait?

Anybody ever play a song to death? I have..Union City Blues.Proper bute song.Top drummer.

Reni wins tho...by miles

this guy

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: It's Phil Phucking Collins...

get it straight...

Sort of agree.......................

POP drummer, everyone.

:topic:

Old Lead Foot wrote: he gets slagged off in poncey drumming mags as not being technically brilliant

I am dead surprised to hear that. Mind you, I know so little about drumming that I wouldn't know what made a technically brilliant one. I just like a drummer to keep good time and then get on the rides near the end.

(I'll leave the gags about poncey drumming mags to Dr - he'll do a much better job than me.)

My mate Elliot is a good drummer, in my opinion. Got a lightness of touch most of the time, but can kick the fuck of out them when he wants to.

And Bruce Robertson, although he's more jazz than pop in my opinion.

Jem - you can't have Led Zep cos he's a rocker

Ponyboy wrote: POP drummer, everyone.

:topic:

Cadbury Schweppes manufacture POP!

Ponyboy wrote:

Jem - you can't have Led Zep cos he's a rocker

Def Leppard even?

Same thing

Ponyboy wrote: Same thing

No drummer mag gags I fear, but I can offer two good definintions of a technically brilliant drummer.

1. One you can't dance to.

2. One who sounds exactly like a really shite one, but moves a lot less.

(little known fact....the better a drummer is, the less they move.....Lars Ulrich, leaps around like a gibbon and is a fucktard, but yer average 97 year old jazzist, who can play any 6 of Mr Ulrich's grooves at the same time, can do it all with no movement visible to the naken eye.)

Ponyboy wrote: Same thing

My almost-sister Rachael once dated a drummer mate of mine (against my advice naturally, don't want her brining that sort home with her, what WILL the neihbours think).

Upon seeing him all kitted up for the first time, she wore a bemused look. After a while he enquired as to the source of her bogglement....."where's the stick you hit the bass drum with?" "errrrm, you hit it with a pedal (shows her the pedal)" "oh, I thought you played it with a beater like the boys in the billie bigot bands, cos that guy in Def Leopard is always reaching down there to do SOMEthing".

True story, hand on heart.

Mate laughed so hard he had to leave the room, and let me explain it to her.

Kath wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: It's Phil Phucking Collins...

get it straight...

Sort of agree.......................

Gayer than a gay thing in pink frilly knickers, if we're doing drumming monkeys...............

Music is a WHOLE lot easier on the ear (mine anyway) too.

Ponyboy wrote:

My vote, to the surprise of nobody I'm sure, goes to Clem Burke from Blondie. He is Blondie, in fact.

Listen to Under the Gun from the Live in New York album if you don't believe me.

Indeed. Also saw him live touring with Peter Case and the Plimsouls on their reunion tour a few years back, can't recall being as taken with a drummer in a long while.

clem burke ,indeed added a lot to blondie and gave the eurythmics a pop slant when he joined em.

top man.

ive heard hese mine

He joined the Eurythmics? I didn't know that.

That's fantastic news

er, about 15 years ago

Yes, but it's good news because now I can find out all about it and get records and videos and it will SEEM TO ME that it just happened.