Al Jackson Jr.
Zigaboo Modeliste
Earl Young
Tony Thompson
Billy Ficca
Pete de Freitas
Bruce Smith
Rob Merrill
No doubt Berkeley Breaths and myself are the ivyest drummers of the modern age, as drummers typically have the utmost worst sartorial taste. Even jazz drummers.
My fave drummers (based on playing ability, not by how ivy they dress)
Bill Bruford (King Crimson, Yes)
Danny Carey (Tool)
Prairie Prince (The Tubes, XTC)
Bernard Purdie (Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan & a crapload of others)
Will Kennedy (The Yellowjackets)
Terry Bozzio (Zappa, Missing Persons)
Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds)
Chad Sexton (311)
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^It was ’82 for me. I walked out of a SM concert that year, I only remember the year as the concert was in the week of my Eighteenth birthday. I wasn’t a big fan, but at that time I went to see pretty much every band that John Peel played on his show. I remember thinking I didn’t fight in the punk rock war to tolerate this trad rock crap and went back to the pub. Shortly after The Tube started playing U2 at Red Rocks every week and it was all over.. The wonderfully eclectic Independent Charts soon went from a celebration of skronk to being the reserve of shoe gazing muppets and the return of the dominance of the four piece white boy electric guitar band.
^ the transition from 'cheap whizz, acid and cans of strong lager' to 'cocaine, champagne and employing own guru' has seen the demise of many promising recording artistes in that period.
^
Ivy Benson
^ he was a Pearl and Zildjian endorsee, so he'd come into our warehouse in north London to pick his hire kit when he was working in Europe, he always brought his own custom Evans heads.
Really lovely fella.