Most under-rated drummers

We often tend to talk about the same drummers: Weclk, Vinnie, Dennis, Portnoy, etc. When you think about it so many drummers out there are not getting the recognition they deserve !

A few examples are drummers like Joey Heredia, who has one of the most solid grooves in the industry. He's played with so many musicians, such as Sheila E, Marco Mendoza, Tribal Tech. Another monster drummer is French drummer Thierry Arpino, who now lives in New York. He is on tour with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Thierry combines today's grooves and chops with North African rhythms... a winner !

And how about Canadian drummer Rick Gratton, who has been transcribing all of Marco Minnemann's music in books and DVD ! Rick, to me, is one of the 20 top drummers in the world, with his own bass drum pedal technique.

Do you guys out there have any favourite under-rated drummers ?

Paul Brochu [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Chester Thompson [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Enzo Todesco
Eric Smith
Dave DiCenso
Tomas Haake
Gavin Harrison
Trilok Gurtu
Jim Black
Jim Kilpatrick
Ken Mazur

to name a few off the top of my head....

Brad

Good call, groovis. Heredia - second THAT.
...AWA Gratton...See my last post on the Marco book topic at
http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...c/f/609/t/2919

I agree w all you guys recommendations. & ESP Enzo, DiCenso, Arpino, Brochu,AWA Jarzombek.
In metal; M Agren, Haake, Roddy, & Hoglan. There are others AW. Herrera & V Paul are already noteworthy.
I think Chester is reasonably well-known, due to his Zappa & mostly Genesis/Collins days.
Also add Hass, Rosenblett, Moktar Samba & Brice Wassy [both played w J L Ponty], 'Zoro,' & Martin Valihora...there are actually many others...

Lars, Portnoy, Rikki Tikki Tockett, Lombardo, Warrant's, White Lion's, Cinderfella's, WASP's, Taco Tico Torrid, & T Lee...just kidding. [No off, you guys. Just a little HOD humor.] ;c)
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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 21, 2004 07:04 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

Not because he is a frequent visitor to this board, but, Gary Husband is GROSSLY underated IMHO. I know I'm preaching to the choir but his combination of Cobham and Williams influence is staggering but inspiring.

Clint

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 20, 2004 01:43 PM: Message edited by: Clintuplet ]</font>

YES, Clint. Ditto THAT.
In MY [or 'our'] 'circles,' he's well-known; but i guess to the masses at large, he IS indeed "grossly underrated"... [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
Quick, everyone here call [deluge] MD. It's time for a Husband cover. [img]cool.gif[/img]
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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 20, 2004 02:46 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

Paul Brochu, Magella Cormier, Vito Rezza, etc...

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Not because he is a frequent visitor to this board, but, Gary Husband is GROSSLY underated IMHO.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] Totally agree!!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 20, 2004 02:10 PM: Message edited by: Beat Hit ]</font>

Casey Scheuerell

Off the top of my head...

Danny Seraphine
Graham Lear
Joel W. Spencer
Jeff Campitelli

DiCenso is one of my new favorites....I don't think he's underrated (his playing speaks for itself)....but he is hugely "under-noticed" for sure.

I think guys like Gadd, Steve Smith, Chambers, Bissonette and Weckl, for example are underrated in this respect: I see a lot of criticism of these guys ("Gadd does still does that corny windmill fill," "Smith is too clinical," "Chambers never practices and never plays anything new," "Gregg abuses the blush-da," "Vinnie could kick Dave's ass," etc.) but the same thread will be full of all kinds of praise for guys like Abe Jr. and Keith Carlock (neither of whom impress me at all, and are highly overrated, IMO). So in that sense, some of the big name drummers are still underrated, even though we talk about them all the time. Just my opinion.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 20, 2004 03:15 PM: Message edited by: mja61 ]</font>