U2's Larry Mullen - Drumming style?

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Most of us think of Africa or Latin America when it comes to drums but the British Isles also have a strong drumming tradition. I remember hearing at a Renaissance festival a group consisting of frame drum, snare, bagpipe, and tin flute. The interplay between the frame and snare was similar enough to Larry Mullen's style to make me think of U2, but whether that influence was forward to Larry or backward to the Renaissance group is a curiosity.

 

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I dunno that David Barbe played in a similar style at all...he was huge on toms. That's pretty much all he played on in Bow wow wow whereas Mullen was heavy on the snare.

More than toms, they both used timbales ( eg Streets Have No Names, I Want Candy, etc) as a bedrock for songs. I'd say the similarity is more in the way they use 16th strokes. Mullens uses 16th on the hats a lot as did the dude from Duran Duran.