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Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English musician who has been the drummer of the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in January 1985 and continued to play with the band, which went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as "The Thunder God" by fans.
[1] Having started out a career with a music band, in 2012 Barnes lost one of his arms in an accident. After the amputation, Barnes created his own prosthetic arm in an attempt to be able to play the drums; he was accepted into the drumming program at the Atlanta Institute of Music.
James Mack Van Eaton (December 23, 1937 – February 9, 2024), known as Jimmy Van Eaton or J. M. Van Eaton, was an American rock and roll drummer, singer and record producer, best known for his recordings as the drummer in sessions with Jerry Lee Lewis and others at Sun Records in the 1950s. Lewis referred to him as "The creative rock 'n' roll ...
Modern Drummer Magazine Readers Poll voted Miller as one of the top five studio drummers in the world three years in a row. [3] Miller has performed on more than 300 albums, and dozens of international movies such as Chicken Little , Fracture , Rugrats Go Wild! , Boondock Saints , Resident Evil Apocalypse , Silent Hill , and Garfield . [ 3 ]
The drummer Bobby Thomas is not to be confused with Robert Thomas Jr., the percussionist and hand drummer of the same name who played with Weather Report, [1] though coincidentally he has been a lifelong friend of Weather Report founder Wayne Shorter, whom he met during their teenage years performing in New Jersey.
These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her drums as hard or fast as she wants.
Their music blends folk, swamp pop, New Orleans rhythm and blues, Louisiana blues, country, cajun/zydeco, funk, soul and gospel with harmonic vocals. Their sound is notable for the band's substitution of a tambourine player for a drummer. [1] The subdudes formed in 1987 through a music venue in New Orleans called Tipitina's. [2]
The song was listed at No. 255 on Pitchfork's "Top 500 Songs of the 2000s". [4] A BBC Music review hailed "One Armed Scissor" as one of the "most invigorating rock songs released in the last 20 or 30 years, let alone the past 10." [5] In October 2011, NME placed it at number 113 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". [6]