… occurs 2 mins and 3 seconds into this track, right after Peter Gabriel sings: ‘the stars come down like a swarm of bees’.
the best drum roll in recorded music …
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No self control:
with the drum roll provided by the much maligned Phil Collins……
As has been pointed out before – Collins’s cymbal-less playing on ‘Peter Gabriel III’ is quite superb.
Does this start with a drumroll? Cos if so – THIS!
And a slower version of the same thing:
Strictly speaking, both aren’t drum rolls. This is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HY3E-fX944
Can I start an offshoot thread for the best hi-hat break in recorded music?
If so, check this out at 2:38
Levon’s roll at the the start of the chorus of “The Night They Drove Old Divle Down”
The perils of posting when half asleep.
Pretty good drum roll duelling on this clip from the OGWT.
1m 09s into this. The late Pierre Moerlen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9knIlUc5Cs
See also I Never Glid Before, from Angel’s Egg
The intro is much-sampled but the climactic final section of Zep’s When The Levee Breaks contains a roll around the kit that is not only seamless but ground-shakingly powerful
Not on the youtube, but on the Guitar,Vocal version of It’ll be Me performed by Richard and Linda Thompson (and band), towards the end Dave Mattacks does a majestic tom-tom diddledum diddledum diddledum that still makes me sigh. One of the reasons why he is still my favourite drummer.
I’m going for this, at 2m 53s
Icicle Works – Love Is A Wonderful Colour
Dennis Davis’s thunderous roll around the kit at the climax of this is stunning
I read on the Black Cat Bone site recently that Dennis Davis recently entered a hospice for terminal care for the cancer from which he’s been suffering for the past few years. Sad news, presuming that it’s true.
That is sad news, if so. His playing on that Young Americans – Scary Monsters run was invariably brilliant, given the colossal diversity of styles thrown at him. Still, Tony Visconti recounts a story in his autobiography, of Dennis D struggling to get a reggae feel on ‘Fashion’, which seems odd, in light of Davis’s drumming on this, recorded the same year…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZmX0UV0974
Consider the roll which arguably starts at 12:00 – Terry continues to press and accelerate until the full roll comes to an abrupt end, along with the song…..
Topper Headon – the drum rolls on the end of Safe European Home (I’m sure he clatters his ticks together on more than one occasion)
If not Topper, then the bit after the breakdown at 3:04 on Brimful Of Asha
There can surely only be one winner, and One Word. Twenty seconds of drum-roll nirvana at the start of this Mahavishnu monster. And there are further snare superbities and a sublime drum solo later on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pY8r5ZawKI