Most under-rated drummers

Nice topic and quite a few drummers that have been mentioned, but 1 has been missed and in my opinion is really the most underated in the industry:

Todd Sucherman

*Doh!*
"U gots dat ri-yeet." [img]cool.gif[/img]

There's another guy who plays with Lou Reed who is pretty good, Tony "Thunder" Smith. He used to play with jan Hammer and Jeff Beck and played on a Pat DiNizio (Smithereens) record. I liked his grooving on that disc.

Derek DeFields,

You ask by whom is Carlos under-rated? Well yes, he got tonnes of work, and WAS recognised by producers and the like, but in conversations with other professional drummers I still get asked "Who?" when I bring his name up.

I appreciate being recognised by drummers means very very little and it's producers and MD's that get you gigs, but in my very humble opinion, Carlos Vega never recieved the praise from his own 'sect' of drummers, (certinally not from the drumming press, Modern Drummer and the like) he so very much deserved.

No MD cover? C'mon...

MP

Stan Lynch (Tom Petty) & Pick Withers (ex Dire Staits) are 2 that I have always liked.

Good call on Withers and Lynch, ashio. Stan really had a deep pocket with Petty. He was one of those "texture" players...really could coax different sounds out of his drums and cymbals....similar to Weckl...."You Got Lucky" is a great example. Petty was on SNL supporting (I think) the "Damn the Torpedos" album...I forget the tune they played (I think it was on the B-side of that album), but Stan was swinging his ass off!

I second the vote on Mark Brzezicki. Love his work with Pete Townshend. More advanced than your average rock drummer.

I have to add Mick Fleetwood to my list....he's got a great groove. Had a great sound with Fleetwood Mac in the late 70's/early 80's. Another texture player...really supported the music creatively. Unfortunately, he'll probably never get recognized for his groove the way Gadd and Porcaro have.

I'll also add Blair Cunningham for the groove department.

Someone mentioned Carmine Appice....he was ahead of his time with the old Vanilla Fudge stuff. "Keep Me Hangin' On" is a masterpiece of drumming. He had kind of a "middle-finger in the air" attitude....which is one of Vinnie's greatest traits, IMHO.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 22, 2004 11:37 PM: Message edited by: mja61 ]</font>

Hi Guys,

Yeah, nice topic !!!

I would say, Philip "Fish" Fisher (Fishbone), Ed Green, James Gadson, Benny Benjamin, Phil Gould, Larry Mullen Jr, Rodger Carter, Mokhtar Samba, Paco Sery, Andr? C?ccar?lli, Jojo Mayer, Gene Lake, Per Lindvall, Carlton Barret (peace to his soul) (Bob Marley), Steve Jordan, Jonathan "Sugar Foot" Moffet, Gerald Heyward, Willie Jones (Roy Hargrove), Gerry Brown, Freddy White (EWF), Ian Mosley (Marillion), Alan White (Yes), Stockley (Mint Condition), Mike Baker, Tony Thompson (peace to his soul)(Chic, Bowie, madonna), Narada Michael Walden, Neal Wilkinson, "Pistol" Allen, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, Ringo, Charlie Watts, i stop here for today...

Peace.

Oups, I forget one name...

The great Ramy Antoun who is on Tour with Seal.
He plays pocket like a bad morfo so check him out !!!

Peace.

A couple more that may have already been mentioned; Idris Muhammed (buy Charles Earland's Black Talk! - pure, raw, GROOVE!) and Chris Whitten, who I came across after buying a live Dire Straits album that was in a sale, turned out to have some amazing, really solid drumming on with incredible feel. I think he also did some work with Eric Clapton at some point.

Oh and JD Blair - who On Victor Wooten's Live in America album, as well as having some amazingly tight playing, has the greatest live recording of a drum kit and cymbals I've ever heard! So crisp and clear... [img]cool.gif[/img]

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