A New Quiz - Last decade for the Young'uns

[Groovissimo]

Some of you found it was tough to answer some of the questions from the 50s, 60s, etc. Here is another quiz with more recent questions for you young'uns:

1) Which drummer left his island, spent two years in Italy, before being allowed to play in the USA ?

2) Name one of Canada's most versatile drummers who toured with Gino Vanelli for the last four years .

3) Name two drummers who toured with Joe Zawinul in the last two years .

4) Name the drum guru for drummers such as Steve Smith, Dave Weckl and Neil Peart.

5) Name the drummer, who left his native town in Central America, toured with pianist Danilo Perez, studied at Berklee and is now playing with a top jazz guitarist.

6) Name a drummer who , at this moment, plays on 4 of the top ten songs on the rock charts.

7) Name the three most important drum festivals in North America.

8) Name a drummer who is called "The wild man from Texas" and plays a "mean" keyboard and has a "mean" voice.

9) Name two drummers who have played with Lenny Kravitz.

10) Who is one of the most-groove-oriented drummers in the world, records with so many bands, but does not read music ?

Bonus question:

11) Name Yamaha's guru, who is responsible for at least 20 years of designing their drums, and retired this year ?

Some of you asked for an easy quiz... here it is !!!

[moosetication]

I don't qualify as "young" but I'll have a bash.

1) Which drummer left his island, spent two years in Italy, before being allowed to play in the USA?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez (from Cuba).

4) Name the drum guru for drummers such as Steve Smith, Dave Weckl and Neil Peart.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Freddie Gruber.

9) Name two drummers who have played with Lenny Kravitz.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cindy Blackman, Zoro.

11) Name Yamaha's guru, who is responsible for at least 20 years of designing their drums, and retired this year?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hagi.

[Klemme]

1) Which drummer left his island, spent two years in Italy, before being allowed to play in the USA ?

- Horacio "el negro" Hernandez

2) Name one of Canada's most versatile drummers who toured with Gino Vanelli for the last four years .

- Casey Sherrell? was going to say Kenny Aronoff first ( he looks pretty canadian, don't know if he is )

3) Name two drummers who toured with Joe Zawinul in the last two years . 2 guys from Paris, don't knwo their name though.

4) Name the drum guru for drummers such as Steve Smith, Dave Weckl and Neil Peart.

- The bad boss from the movie Snatch! Ups! i mean uh! Freddie Gruber!

5) Name the drummer, who left his native town in Central America, toured with pianist Danilo Perez, studied at Berklee and is now playing with a top jazz guitarist.

- Antonio Sanchez

6) Name a drummer who , at this moment, plays on 4 of the top ten songs on the rock charts.

- Pretty blank on this one, John Freese? Vinnie?

7) Name the three most important drum festivals in North America.

-
Montreal Drum Festival, Modern Drummer Festival and Drummers for Jesus?!?!

8) Name a drummer who is called "The wild man from Texas" and plays a "mean" keyboard and has a "mean" voice.

- Thought it was a sax-player /shrug.. Skip! [img]frown.gif[/img]

9) Name two drummers who have played with Lenny Kravitz.

- Zoro, Cindy Blackman and Lenny Kravitz

10) Who is one of the most-groove-oriented drummers in the world, records with so many bands, but does not read music ?

- Ahmir Thompson !?!

I'm not a drum manufactoring geek, google lures me on that one, but i wanna keep straight ! so skipping the bonus questiong [img]frown.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ December 03, 2004 07:41 PM: Message edited by: Klemme ]</font>

[tombo74]

1) El Negro
2) Brochu
3) Nathaniel Townsley, No40
4) Freddie
5) Antonio
6) Kenny
7) Modern Drummer, Montreal, PASIC
8) Kirk
9) Himself, Zoro
10) Dennis
11) Hagi

I guess I'm younger than I thought...

[Groovissimo]

Tombo,

congratulations...
You've got them all.

For question 3 - even Kirk Covington played part of last year's Italian tour !