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Great musicians who should have been famous except....

I'm throwing this out there as an example. My 16 yr old aspiring drummer son asked me if I had anything in the vinyl collection tonight... apparently the U Tube video tutorials finally got boring. He is really good and practices non stop but it was refreshing when he asked about ideas for sound. In a moment of 30 years past clarity I put on the B side of Van Halen 1984… Is Alex Van Halen the most under rated rock drummer of all time? And is there a better lead in to ANY rock vinyl side than that???
telemarcer
dcevans
178 posts
 
+1 Steve Gadd on the title track Aja. Unbelievable 
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onhwy61
5,137 posts
 
Does anyone know anything about the drummer Gene Chrisman?  He played out of Memphis as American Sound Studio's session drummer.
telemarcer OP
85 posts
 
Gavin Harrison is his current favorite so I hope I assuaged all of the major VH concerns. What a great response to this thread, so appreciate it. Does Gavin hit your radar?
boxer12
8,654 posts
 
bomd +1 / DMST is a great band!

 A couple more great drummers (I suspect you already know about LOL): 
Billy Martin from "Medeski, Martin, & Wood"
Yasunori Takada from the band "mono"
bjg
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Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lennie White, Chester Thompson  - “under rated”. I think not -  all of them are some of the most respected and well revered players in the business - dead or alive ( tony) -  they have never been under appreciated.  

Perhaps Roy Haynes might make that list - or Jeff Hamilton - possibly Brian Blade and Bill Stewart - but these are all drum gods - along with many others - hardly under appreciated - they may not have the wealth and exposure of the arena rock power house drummers - but they are appreciated highly by their contemporaries and musician fans 


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