Drummer - did we do right?

starscream said:
The drummers here will probably kill me, but I was totally blown away with the difference it made to our sound as I always considered the drummer the least important band member.
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That is one tip for all group members.
If a drummer is crap then the rest of the band is crap.
All through my 35 years of gigging I've been very lucky to have had good drummers behind me.
 
Dave said:
The Dream Theater guy? With an idol like Mike Portnoy, all of us DT-fan drummers are superb drummers ;)
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Impressed, you remember that from another thread :)
Funnily enough I've been watching the Images And Words DVD today.
 
The stupid thing about this thread is that I'm acting as though I'm in my first band with my first drummer problem and as most of you know this is my 36th year of gigging. I just don't need this crap at my age.
 
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Neon said:
thats wrong, he was doing some quite good flams there, shame about his timing.
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He does normally have the audience transfixed with his solos and he usually gets a standing ovation.


Neon said:
im a drummer, and what you said there is kinda wrong... you can have bad drummers and good bands...

but i aint a bad drummer...so..
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Of course, you could have John Petrucci with a bunch of 12 year old beginners and they'd be rubbish.
What I meant to say was that if a drummer is particulary poor, he will bring the rest of the band down with him.
I've been watching local 'rival' bands for the last 30 years and I can honestly count on about 8 fingers the amount of local bands I've had to leave the pub at half time. It has to be really bad for me to leave because I give everybody a chance. Last week was such a case because they had a young drummer who didn't know the most basic classic rock songs such as Alright Now, Can't Get Enough, Smoke On The Water etc. He didn't even know the drum fill right after the solo of Alright Now so they're all standing there looking at each other when to come back in. This isn't only his fault but the rest of the bands for not listening at rehearsals. The guitarist and bassist were bloody amazing though but not enough for me to listen through the bad timing.
Just for the record my own band was one of the 8 bands I walked out on when I saw them about 3 years before I joined them. They were absolutely awful and my mate said that if I didn't follow him to the car he would leave me there. Quite ironic I auditioned for them when I had the memories from 3 years earlier. Theres a bit more to the story than that if anybody wants to hear it - I like telling a good tale :)
 
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