Drum Solos

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What are you favourite songs with awesome drum solos.

Stuff like Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation. Hocus Pocus - Focus.
 
As a drummer I hate solos with a passion, they wreck songs.

Therefore I am going to say Daybreak- The Stone Roses

It is short, punctual, and fits in well and does not wreck the momentum of the song.
 
There is no such thing as a good drum solo.
Drum solo's ruin gigs.
All the way through the 70's every band in the world thought it was a great idea to do drum solos and thats when you went to the bog.
Neil Pearts recent drum solos can be interesting for about 2 minutes and a guy called Jon Hiseman who was with a band called Colloseum had me mesmerized in the 70's but only because he was juggling.
I allow my drummer a one minute solo at the end of Led Zeppelin Rock And Roll - anymore I turn him down on the PA.
There is one local band who halfway through the second set their drummer does a 10 minute solo and they've never worked out why everybody walks out.
He's a brilliant drummer but everybody knows drum solos should be put in Room 101.
 
dmpoole said:
There is no such thing as a good drum solo.
Drum solo's ruin gigs.
All the way through the 70's every band in the world thought it was a great idea to do drum solos and thats when you went to the bog.
Neil Pearts recent drum solos can be interesting for about 2 minutes and a guy called Jon Hiseman who was with a band called Colloseum had me mesmerized in the 70's but only because he was juggling.
I allow my drummer a one minute solo at the end of Led Zeppelin Rock And Roll - anymore I turn him down on the PA.
There is one local band who halfway through the second set their drummer does a 10 minute solo and they've never worked out why everybody walks out.
He's a brilliant drummer but everybody knows drum solos should be put in Room 101.
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You married?
 
Drum solos are just great, end of ;). My drummer just flat out refuses to do them so i suppose it shows some integrity.

however i know i'm in the minority :D.

As Dave said Jon Heisman with Colloseum is bloody brillient, seen them quite a few times. He really can juggle..
 
dmpoole said:
There is no such thing as a good drum solo.
Drum solo's ruin gigs.
All the way through the 70's every band in the world thought it was a great idea to do drum solos and thats when you went to the bog.
Neil Pearts recent drum solos can be interesting for about 2 minutes and a guy called Jon Hiseman who was with a band called Colloseum had me mesmerized in the 70's but only because he was juggling.
I allow my drummer a one minute solo at the end of Led Zeppelin Rock And Roll - anymore I turn him down on the PA.
There is one local band who halfway through the second set their drummer does a 10 minute solo and they've never worked out why everybody walks out.
He's a brilliant drummer but everybody knows drum solos should be put in Room 101.
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You're obviously not a drummer.
I could listen to one of Peart's solos for hours on end.

I could also watch This video over and over. Dave Weckl + Vinnie Colaiuta + Steve Gadd = pure amazing.
 
William said:
Damn your not adopting are you? :p

Currently live in a drum solo family. ;)
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Maybe.
I have a Yamaha Stage Custom upstairs and a Ludwig in the recording studio but strictly no drum solos.

You've got to imagine what I've experienced.
My first live concert was Status Quo in 1970 and both acts did drum solos and it was wonderful at the time. Several more concerts came my way and all bands did drum solos. Led Zeppelin in 1971 and I had to endure Bonham waffling for 20 minutes which was way over the top. Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Budgie and a 1000 more with their support acts all followed and drum solos became tedious to say the least. I then had to put up with the drummers who left their throne and walked around the kit playing it from the outside. Some got more adventurous and started playing the amps and mic stands. I remember Trapeze's drummer leaving the stage and playing on our beer bottles and drummers thought - hey what a good idea and they all followed suit. It was athe arrival of Punk that stopped the drum solo and I can't really remember the NWOBHM doing it either at the start. God knows when the drum solo revival started again. IMHO and experience, a drummer can say it all in a minutes solo and I can accept that amount of time and enjoy it. Anymore than that and you bore me.
 
dmpoole said:
Maybe.
I have a Yamaha Stage Custom upstairs and a Ludwig in the recording studio but strictly no drum solos.

You've got to imagine what I've experienced.
My first live concert was Status Quo in 1970 and both acts did drum solos and it was wonderful at the time. Several more concerts came my way and all bands did drum solos. Led Zeppelin in 1971 and I had to endure Bonham waffling for 20 minutes which was way over the top. Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Budgie and a 1000 more with their support acts all followed and drum solos became tedious to say the least. I then had to put up with the drummers who left their throne and walked around the kit playing it from the outside. Some got more adventurous and started playing the amps and mic stands. I remember Trapeze's drummer leaving the stage and playing on our beer bottles and drummers thought - hey what a good idea and they all followed suit. It was athe arrival of Punk that stopped the drum solo and I can't really remember the NWOBHM doing it either at the start. God knows when the drum solo revival started again. IMHO and experience, a drummer can say it all in a minutes solo and I can accept that amount of time and enjoy it. Anymore than that and you bore me.
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I personally think that so many bands are so bad at being able to lead into a solo cleverly and make it seamless. The problem is there is this horrible change which goes on for around 3 or 4 minutes and turns the pace a song has upside down simply because drums are the pace not the melody which is eaisier to fart around with. I think to make any drum solo work the change has to be gradual with the whole piece working as one, when it gets to the crunch get it over with quickly then blend it back in. :)
 
raz0rr said:
I could also watch This video over and over. Dave Weckl + Vinnie Colaiuta + Steve Gadd = pure amazing.
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Please don't ever subject me to anything like that again.
You've just wasted 9mins of my life.
iIt got interesting at 3 mins 30 secs for about a minute then got tedious.
I'm not being a keyboard warrior here because I know I couldn't get within 1% of their skills.
If you like people hitting things then thats your choice, people hitting things should be in time with other instruments in my world.
 
raz0rr said:
You're obviously not a drummer.
I could listen to one of Peart's solos for hours on end.

I could also watch This video over and over. Dave Weckl + Vinnie Colaiuta + Steve Gadd = pure amazing.
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Cheers for that! Mondo excellent! :)

Been meaning to see some stuff by Steve Gadd - and I've just seen lots more at drummerworld.com.

Really must get 'Anatomy of a drum solo' by Mr Peart now! ;)

skinnyl said:
Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word

anything played by Billy Cobham
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Trilok Gurtu was also pretty spectacular with John McLaughlin's group in the 90s. Saw McLaughlin's group play, about '93 in Edinburgh with some French burd on piano... was rather good!
 
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dmpoole said:
There is no such thing as a good drum solo.
Drum solo's ruin gigs.
All the way through the 70's every band in the world thought it was a great idea to do drum solos and thats when you went to the bog.
Neil Pearts recent drum solos can be interesting for about 2 minutes and a guy called Jon Hiseman who was with a band called Colloseum had me mesmerized in the 70's but only because he was juggling.
I allow my drummer a one minute solo at the end of Led Zeppelin Rock And Roll - anymore I turn him down on the PA.
There is one local band who halfway through the second set their drummer does a 10 minute solo and they've never worked out why everybody walks out.
He's a brilliant drummer but everybody knows drum solos should be put in Room 101.
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I know what you mean. But short drum solos are awesome, end of.
 
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