Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Colin Craig Hatchman (born 2 February 1975) is an Australian rock musician who joined The Screaming Jets as their drummer during 2001–2004. [1] In 2004 he joined Nathan Cavaleri in Dirty Skanks, Hatchman broke the Guinness Book of World Records as 'Loudest Drummer in the World' on 4 August 2006, the sound was measured at 137.2 dBA.
Dino Danelli (born Robert Daniel; [1] July 23, 1944 – December 15, 2022) was an American drummer. Danelli was best known as an original member and the drummer in the rock group the Young Rascals . He has been called "one of the great unappreciated rock drummers in history". [ 2 ]
Tommy Aldridge (born August 15, 1950) [1] is an American heavy metal and hard rock drummer. He is noted for his work with numerous bands and artists since the 1970s, such as Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers Band, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent, Thin Lizzy, Vinnie Moore and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 [2] – 7 September 1978) was an English musician who was the drummer for the rock band the Who.Regarded as one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock music, [3] [4] he was noted for his unique style of playing and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour.
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 1946 – 12 November 2008) [1] [2] was an English drummer and child actor, best known for his work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. [3] He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2009. [4]
Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow (born 10 September 1949, Birmingham) is an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist for the rock band Jethro Tull, from May 1971 to June 1980. Christened Barrie, 'Barriemore' was an affectation to suit the eccentric image of Jethro Tull (much as Jeffrey Hammond had become "Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond").
Charles J. Thornton, Jr. (July 4, 1944 – February 2, 2023 [1]), known professionally as Butch Miles, was an American jazz drummer. He played with the Count Basie Orchestra , Dave Brubeck , Ella Fitzgerald , Sammy Davis Jr. , Frank Sinatra , Lena Horne , and Tony Bennett .
Young is seen as the inventor of the disco style of rock drumming [3] (in Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes's "The Love I Lost" from 1973), and is often credited with popularizing four-on-the-floor bass drum beats, and as being the first drummer to make extensive and distinctive use of the hi-hat cymbal throughout the playing time of an R&B song.