What's your favorite drum solo?

[prowla]

If you can't see it how did you post this to this thread?

On my computer.

(It's crazy - I've got more than one bass too!)

 

[prowla]

Here's some more for the mix..

Joey Jordison (I was at this one):


The Mad Drummer:



Jon Hiseman:


Simon Philips:

 

[5StringBlues]

Drum solos suck.




Unless they are in 5/4.



Joe Morello!

 

[woodyng2]

Nothing over about 60 seconds in length. So maybe Ringo on "The End."

This.

 

[10cc]

This is my buddy. Kyle Spence from 05 in an old band he was apart of at the time.

 

[GIBrat51]

Skipping the obvious great drummers, in musical genres where you expect great drummers? The wound-up drummer on Woo Hoo by the Rock-A-Teens still makes me smile...

 

[theduke1]

Inagadadavida

 

[Jazz Ad]

I saw this solo live back then. It took me days to recover.
Trilok Gurtu is always joyful an enthusistic when he plays.
Little did I know that one could solo over a cycling tempo variation.
I don't know any other example of this kind.

 

[Funky Ghost]

Steve "Machine Gun" Smith.

I had head a ton of great solos and soloists but man this one really worked for me because of the way it lead up to the solo and the addition of the rising note to add drama. Very theatrical and he kills it too I've also been a huge fan of his drum sound.



Or maybe it's this . . .

 

[Jeff Scott]

I saw Steve at a Jazz Legacy gig. It was hard to fathom that he came from a rock background.

 

[Gluvhand]

I saw Steve at a Jazz Legacy gig. It was hard to fathom that he came from a rock background.

He went to Berklee, played big band, and played with Jean Luc Ponty before playing with Ronnie Montrose for a bit before joining Journey.

 

[Rickengeezer]

I always liked this one--impossible not to air drum to it:

 

[Felken]

I've just re-discovered this gem right there... It's at 3:15

So simple but so badass!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Here is a solo that is pretty amazing (it goes throughout the whole song):



I've seen these guys back in the '80s a number of times.

 

[Spent]

Definitely up there, but I may be a little biased since this is one of my favorite bands. Comes in around 4:30...

 

[dan1952]

Toad from the Cream reunion. Beware of Mr. Baker...

 

[jdthebassman]

any thing buddy rich plays

 

[StatesideRambler]

Like bass solos, drum solos generally leave me bored and unimpressed. They're most often technical triumphs that abandon the idea of being musical and musically related to the song they're embedded in. There are exceptions such as Joe Morello's elegant solo in Take Five and Ron Bushy's iconic but shorter-than-people-believe solo in Iron Butterfly's In a Gadda da Vida. Paul Desmond wrote Take Five simply as a drum solo showcase for Morello. They never considered that it would catch on as it did. In popular recognition it overshadows pretty much everything else Brubeck and Co. did. As to In a Gadda da Vida's inclusion on my extremely short list, you mostly just had to be there. It's of a piece with my youth. Unlike most heavy rock of the time this song had an arrangement with movements that flowed gracefully [for rock] from start to finish. Today writers get their jollies by calling it "overblown" and "pretentious" but I enjoy and admire it.

 

[Peteyboy]

Pretty sure Keith Moon's contribution to The Who only lasted 13 years, but in retrospect that kinda looks like one long-ass amphetamine-fueled drum solo.

 

[D M C]

Like bass solos, drum solos generally leave me bored and unimpressed. They're most often technical triumphs that abandon the idea of being musical and musically related to the song they're embedded in. There are exceptions such as Joe Morello's elegant solo in Take Five and Ron Bushy's iconic but shorter-than-people-believe solo in Iron Butterfly's In a Gadda da Vida. Paul Desmond wrote Take Five simply as a drum solo showcase for Morello. They never considered that it would catch on as it did. In popular recognition it overshadows pretty much everything else Brubeck and Co. did. As to In a Gadda da Vida's inclusion on my extremely short list, you mostly just had to be there. It's of a piece with my youth. Unlike most heavy rock of the time this song had an arrangement with movements that flowed gracefully [for rock] from start to finish. Today writers get their jollies by calling it "overblown" and "pretentious" but I enjoy and admire it.

I consider Gene Krupa’s solo in Sing, Sing, Sing as a musical masterpiece as well. It is probably the progenitor of the rock drum solo and certainly was copied by Ron Bushy whether intentional or not.