Bands with two drummers?

[Zuke]

May I ask why?

Trivia Question

 

[matty76]

Edgar Winter Group?

saw a live video of Frankenstien and it had 2 drummers..

 

[soundsfine]

The Eagles often used a drummer and a "percussionist".

 

[gene]

Just found out today that Yes had two drummers.

That is correct. Bill Bruford and Allan White, though they only played together in the Union tour from what I can remember. Oddly, Bill used to smoke on the drums but over the last decade or so he really petered out IMO and relied too much on electric drums. On the other hand Allan White really puts on a great show and smoked during the Talk tour.

 

[Swerd]

Little Feat
Richie Haywood and Sam Clayton

Talking Heads after the late 70s
Chris Franz with a variety of different percussionists

 

[cornelius]

Oddly, Bill used to smoke on the drums but over the last decade or so he really petered out IMO and relied too much on electric drums.

Bill isn't over the hill yet! When I saw him play with his Big Band, he was swinging hard, and stretched out on some very surprising solos. He's still got hands! Not an electronic drum in sight...

 

[gene]

Bill isn't over the hill yet! When I saw him play with his Big Band, he was swinging hard, and stretched out on some very surprising solos. He's still got hands! Not an electronic drum in sight...

Glad to hear that. I absolutely loath the sound of electric drums from the 80s to early 90s. It sounded like crap then and sounds even worse now IMO.

 

[jaxvon]

Glad to hear that. I absolutely loath the sound of electric drums from the 80s to early 90s. It sounded like crap then and sounds even worse now IMO.

Unless you count Fagen's use of Wendel and Wendel II on Gaucho and The Nightfly.

 

[genesis471]

That is correct. Bill Bruford and Allan White, though they only played together in the Union tour from what I can remember. Oddly, Bill used to smoke on the drums but over the last decade or so he really petered out IMO and relied too much on electric drums. On the other hand Allan White really puts on a great show and smoked during the Talk tour.

Bill Bruford also had played with Genesis on the Trick tour in '76, and ironically Phil Collins could have been the Yes drummer but he didn't attend the audition because Genesis had picked him as the drummer about a week after Bill Bruford suggested he tryout for Yes!

PS Agree to that the drum duet on the Invisible Touch dvd does kick ***. Seen Genesis live many times, Chester/Phil combo are amazing and do have an excellent groove and feel for it.

Mike

 

[cornelius]

Yeah, I think Bill has sort have come full circle with his gear. Those electronic drums will never sound hip - they were dated when they were brand new (I don't miss the 80s).

Phil and Chester really make music - none of this unison 38 Special stuff - they compliment each other really well. Unfortunately, Bill and Phil's styles just didn't blend as well - Chester's style is so different, they never get in each other's way - and sometimes they're playing a lot of notes!

 

[Dan]

Which one do you think was the best?

Gotta be the Feat. Richie Hayward is as good as they come on drums without the flashy solos. Best American band of all time so I says....

 

[rschleicher]

I think the main ones that I think of have been covered:

Grateful Dead
Allman Brothers
Little Feat
Genesis

There are others where I think of it mostly as a trap-set drummer plus a multi-percussionist. What I don't know is if some of these ever had the percussionist as a second trap-set drummer:

- Traffic (the version around "Low Spark" - wasn't their second percussionist named something like Rebop Kwaaku Bah?????)
- Santana

At a charity benefit I went to a couple of years ago, they had Sheila E. performing with her band. Basically a wall of different kinds of congas, bongos, and timbales, etc. Pretty good show, actually, with a lot of energy.
Her dad, Pete Escovedo, came out and joined the band for the encore, and they did sort of a "dueling timbales" number (these are the drums on stands that are played standing up, but with sticks). She did a few of her songs from her "Prince-protege" stage, along the way, but most of the evening was a drum-fest.

 

[genesis471]

I have seen all things Genesis recorded on video Chester/Phil, Bill Bruford/Phill and even Phil play with Led Zepplin. Very cool.

Yes but do you have 'The Video Show' dvd which is all (well almost) of there video's from years past remixed in DTS 5.1? Sound is excellent. Took the dvd as a reference into Magnolia HiFi to listen to speakers before I chose the Axioms, the salesmen was so impressed with the sound that he said I had cost him the cash to go out the next day and purchase the dvd. Fortunetly he didn't try to kick my *** for my copy... geez buddy, it's only Genesis!

 

[sivadselim]

Little Feat's second drummer, Sam Clayton, was a percussionist, not a kit player. Same with Traffic; Reebok Kwaaku Baah was a percussionist.

And if we're including bands with a kit player and a multipercusionist, then you MUST include Weather Report. And what about Santana?

James Brown has used 2 kit drummers. So has Miles Davis. Zappa's Mothers of Invention frequently used 2 kit drummers before the Dead (or anyone else in rock-n-roll) ever did.

Many, many Motown recordings feature 2 drummers or at least 2 drum parts. I don't know whether these bands performed live with 2 drummers or not, though.

In the 40s big bands often featured 2 "battling" drummers; ie Gene Krupa vs. Buddy Rich, etc..

I've seen concert videos of some of these big stage act country (rock) stars, such as Garth, and they often feature 2 drummers.

 

[Bryguy]

Another multiple drumming band, Rusted Root.

Bryon

 

[cleaneduphippy]

Concerning both the Allman Brothers and the Doobie Brothers, both bands have been using the two drummers and a percussionist set-up for quite some time, and I might add to very good effect. Certainly gives both band a lot of firepower in the rhythm department.

 

[johndoe]

King Crimson

-Krimson on 1973? Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Bruford and Jamie Muir (crazy dude banging on anything), brilliant! especially Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II (serious syncopated polyrhythms)
-Krimson on 1996 THRAK, the aforementioned double trio. Gene, Mastelotto is no Bruford, but he was there to do something else entirely. Besides, he learned from one of the best (IMO) and became really good, despite clinging to the use of electronic percussion. Listen the last two KC studio albums, it's very good drumming.
-On a different league, one-hit-wonder .38 Special had 2 drummers.
-Somebody might want to kill me, but Dream Theater sounds like they have 2 drummers soloing, filling, and competing all the time, they should fire one , the problem is which one? Too much flashy technique, too little music IMO.

 

[Tomorrow]

--On a different league, one-hit-wonder .38 Special had 2 drummers.
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One hit wonder...hmmm. It must be inflation. I guess 3 mainstream rock #1 hits and a string of Top 10's doesn't count as much as it used to, lol. Jack Grondin and Steve Brookins were pretty decent drummers.

 

[johndoe]

okay, I was being an a$$

One hit wonder...hmmm. It must be inflation. I guess 3 mainstream rock #1 hits and a string of Top 10's doesn't count as much as it used to, lol. Jack Grondin and Steve Brookins were pretty decent drummers.

I retract my words about one-hit-wonder-ness, I guess it feels that way because only Caught Up with You is still playing on classic rock radio around Chicago. I haven't heard much else from the band in so long. You are right about that, BUT #1 hits and top tens don't really count much when you compare them to the most of the other bands mentioned on the thread. Let's agree that they're not one hit wonders, but they didn't break any ground musically either. Which could be said also about Britney, Back Street Boys, N Sinc,

 

[ruadmaa]

Two Drummers

Hi all, I need to find out out all of the major bands that had 2 drummers preforming at once.
I can only think of the Greatful Dead....
Thanks for the help!

The Moody Blues always has two drummers.