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RE: Drummers



Thank you.
This is what I was feebly trying to say.

PS. Wish Dave Grohl would go back to playing drums.
Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dave Haller [SMTP:HallerD@pcia.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:52 AM
> To:	TheWho@igtc.com; Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org
> Subject:	RE: Drummers
> 
> I must chime in here about drummers. Metal drummer by in large suck. The
> goal of most of the players is to try and sound like John Bonham. The
> sound is achieved not by their playing ability unfortunately but by the
> recording technique. I believe that rock drumming was very boring and
> sedate before Keith brought attention to the instrument. No other drummer
> had drawn people's attention away from the singer or guitarist before
> Keith. Drumming in  90's rock bands are far superior to the "Metal" show
> playing that plagued the 80's. In the 80's you had Neil Peart, Stewart
> Copleland and then eveyone else. There are exceptions of course in Metal
> drumming but for the most part the drummers in metal werer there just to
> give a steady beat to the guitarist or the singer, not to be an equal in
> the band like the rock bands of the 90's or the 70's for that matter.
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS Dave Grohl is the drummer for Nirvana. A very 'bombastic' player
> indeed. 
> 
> >>> "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org> 10/13/99 11:09AM >>>
> 
> > > drummers in "the day" were by comparison much more sedate than today. 
> > Heavy
> > > Metal really opened the door for 'bombastic'  (love that word now)
> > drumming.
> > 
> > I GUESS, if you say so. I don't know; they aren't impressing me. Maybe
> > we're not listening to the same things.
> > 
> 	[O'Neal, Kevin W.] Don't get me wrong here, I am not a fan of Heavy
> Metal. Nor am I impressed by any of those drummers.  Simply comparing
> drumming in general.    Give me Keith, or Zack, or Neil Pert, or Simon, or
> even the drummer from Nirvana (don't know his name....shows you how much I
> know).  Other than that......eh.     
> 	Kevin. 
>