"When we did the Amnesty tour [in 1986], I asked Manu Katché if I could sit down behind him and watch," said U2's Larry Mullen Jr. "He was freaked and didn't know what I was doing, but I just wanted to see what real drummers get up to!"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. I was glad we had a rehearsal.
Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Sharing the full story, not just the headlinesAnother one of my idols was Tony Williams. Tony Thompson was a drummer most known for his work with funk band Chic in the late 70s and 80s. As part of session crew MFSB, Young also laid the musical framework for Philly Soul, contributing to records by the O'Jays, the Spinners and his own band the Trammps — but his singular contribution lives on the loudest, predicting more than 30 years of house music still filling festivals. All it basically was, was a brand-new Yamaha kit, which I still play, in a very live, brick, recording studio in London called Maison Rouge. Cymbals included 14" quick beat hats and a 22" ping ride. "I like the space and the relaxation of it. Tony Thompson began his career with the teen R&B sensations Hi-Five, responsible for the hit single "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game).
On VU classics like "Heroin," Tucker seems to dispense with keeping time altogether, swelling and stuttering with the emotional ebb and flow of the song. They helped me immensely in learning to groove. So, bottom line, the sound came from a good kit, hit hard, in a nice live room.By the mid-Seventies, Thompson had played in various rock groups but also enjoyed funk and jazz-rock fusion and took lessons with Narada Michael Walden, the virtuoso drummer with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra.
In his favor, he knows talent when he hears it. "It's about the thrill of the time. Exactly.Hers was the off-kilter thump that spawned a million bands. "I would take a drummer who has no technique any day of the week over a more efficient drummer, if he swings better."Artists like Peter Gabriel and Sting refused to sit rhythmically still in the late Eighties and the early Nineties; and they called upon wildly dynamic French-via-Ivory-Coast drummer Manu Katché to translate their expansive worldbeat visions. (He has also established strong ties to a younger generation, anchoring John Mayer's signature trio.) "I think Maureen Tucker is a genius drummer," Lou Reed said in 2003.
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