Bands where the drummer is the star
 

Dunno if there's a thread like this already. But I was cruising youtube yesterday watching a bunch of Don Caballero videos and everyone I'm thinking 'man, this guy is tearing it up!'.

And it was in a real fresh way, not in some Neil Pert getting flashy on the fills kind of thing. Che takes everything that could be annoying about the drums and makes them really exciting, high cymbal usage, integrating the toms in a large way. He uses the whole kit to the extreme, almost always his parts would satisfy for some kind of fill or breakdown in tons of other songs. But in Don Cab, they're the main parts! He's absolutely the headliner in that band.

I was just wondering what others out there had that same hierarchy. Obvious examples would be Deerhoof and Lightning Bolt. Saunier and Chippendale are ridiculous. I think Boredoms is another qualifier, especially on the later records like Vision Creation Newsun. That's one of my favorite percussive records of all time.

Those are the immediate examples I can think of. I'm sure (and hope) there are plenty more. These are some of the most onfire bands to me, when the drums are so explosive like this.

hella?

I feel that way about Mastodon sometimes.

Chris Corsano is amazing in all his endeavours. Saw him in March playing with Evan Parker, John Edwards, and John Russell; then doing a solo show; then playing in a trio with C. Spencer Yeh and Aaron Dilloway. I've also seen him playing for Björk. Brilliant musician, and a very humble man too. I've been listening to a lot of his albums, and unofficial recordings. He's not only a force of nature, i love his creativity as well.

You can check out some mp3s here:
http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?...=chris+corsano
And some videos here:
http://www.cor-sano.com/hatedvideo.html

Pelican

(get it?)

Also, i think this recording of a Joey Baron performance might be up your alley:
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...postcount=1989
This isn't within the context of a band, though.

Chris Corsano trio
Flower-Corsano duo
Flaherty-Corsano duo

basically anything involving Chris Corsano

the guy from the minutemen was pretty great, i forget his name

The Dave Clark Five ?

George Hurley I think

and the answer is CORSANO. The only person who I could watch do a solo drum performance.

Circle Takes The Square.

harry pussy
lightening bolt
talk normal
this heat
sightings
drunkdriver

Uh, Berdan is and will forever be the star of Drunkdriver. The drummer was okay.

I suspect that would be true if I was lucky enough to have seen them live. On record the drummer kills and is better than the other two.

I knew id forgotten the right answer - Adris all the way.

How about Def Leppard? That and Neil Peart of Rush as he is ridiculously talented on the kit and he wrote all the lyrics to most Rush songs.

Oneida as well

does buddy miles count?

does Freicore still exist?