How The Ever-Loving FUCK!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Rolling 'The Magazine That Can Fully And Finally Kiss Me Bony White Irish Bum' Stone has done it again - it is almost as if they create these lists for the express purpose of pissing me off.

100 Greatest Drummers Of All Time

They put Buddy Rich at #15.  Seriously?






Boru

[chimp3]

Saw Buddy Rich in '79. He apologized straight off for planning a short set. He had just had triple by pass surgery a few days before. He opened his shirt to show us the sternal stitches. Then he basically did a ripping 45 minute solo with the band trying to get a few chords in here and there. Amazing drummer. Growing up in the '60s I played this record my folks had a thousand times. The Drum Battle between Krupa and Buddy Rich.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And Krupa called Rich 'the greatest drummer to ever draw breath. '

'15th' me bollocks.

Boru

[Edwardo Piet]

Here's my favorite drummer in action:

[Homeless Nutter]

[Alex K]

Long flashy drum solos do absolutely nothing for me musically. Being an extreme metal fan, my favorite drummer from that genre is Duplantier from Gojira

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah I'm not into the showy stuff either. It's all about the feeling.

[Rev. Rye]

It's just a case of "knowing your audience."
To quote the introduction to the very list

One important caveat: we used rock and pop as our rubric, so a drummer's work needed to directly impact that world (as we define it, of course) to make the list. This meant leaving out dozens of essential jazz artists such as Max Roach and Roy Haynes, whose innovations inspired many of the players you'll read about below. That list is its own monument we hope to build someday soon. For now, let the arguments start. If you want to throw a cymbal at us, please do so in the comments section.

So, of course Jazz drummers are less likely to be featured, and probably at disproportionately low spots. (Though at least Gene Krupa is in the top 10).

Case in point, while I haven't found a Top 100 Keyboardists list by RS, I have found a few, and one name that consistently fails to appear on it is Art Tatum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Cs_zb4q14

Fats Waller once introduced him by saying "I just play the piano, but God is in the House tonight!" He's the sort of pianist so skilled that if an urban legend says he learned to play by figuring out piano rolls of tunes meant to be played by two people, nobody questions it. Musicians of all stripes praised him in life. And yet, insanely, of the few lists of the greatest keyboardists I perused, few mention him.

[Shell B]

Oh, their lists are always ridiculous.

[vorlon13]

I'd never assert he was any good at all as a drummer, but damn, this one is easy on the eyes: