Looking for a CD with good drums

[Bloodstriker]

Just wondering if there's a well recorded CD that exclusively has drum tracks?

 

[cbraver]

Exclusively drums? Hm. What type of drums?

I don't know of exclusive, but this is pretty close...

http://www.amazon.com/Drum-Medicine-David-Steve-Gordon/dp/B00000JK1F/

Sirius Satelite Radio helped me find that one.

 

[larry7995]

did a search for drum solo at amazon and came up with a couple interesting drum solo dvds that I added to my save for later pile, there is one cd called Terry Bozio - Solo Drums, have no idea what that is and it doesn't have clips to sample

 

[Brett A]

did a search for drum solo at amazon and came up with a couple interesting drum solo dvds that I added to my save for later pile, there is one cd called Terry Bozio - Solo Drums, have no idea what that is and it doesn't have clips to sample

You can't go wrong with Terry Bozzio. He was the drummer in Frank Zappa's band from the mid 70's to the mid 80's, and like anyone who got a gig with Frank, he's a highly learned and skilled player.

Check out this video:
Zappa called it "the Black Page drum solo" because it's a written piece with so many notes, the page looks black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwRJK8bpb4&feature=related



Terry has a solo track on YCDTOSA Vol 3 called "Hands With a Hammer"
http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-That-Stage-Anymore/dp/B0000009TP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203939559&sr=1-1

Just wondering if there's a well recorded CD that exclusively has drum tracks?

As for checking the sound of drums on my system at home, the best recording I have (out of about 1,700) is track 4, the title track to Clarence Penn's "Penn's Landing" CD. The track has both a bass solo and a high-impact clear, spacious drum solo. Each piece of the kit is in the right place in the sonudstage with plenty of tonal accuracy.
http://www.amazon.com/Penns-Landing-Clarence-Penn/dp/B0000020OM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203939185&sr=1-2

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Persian and Middle Eastern Percussion by Zarbang. Mondo Head by Kodo. Audio by Blue Man Group. Tala Matrix by Tabla Beat Science. Pretty much anything by Mickey Hart or Baba Olantunji (sp?).

 

[tlqualman]

You can't go wrong with the Sheffield Lab Drum and Track Disc. These recordings will really put your system to the test. I have not heard better.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=11592

 

[Joe Schmoe]

You can't go wrong with the Sheffield Lab Drum and Track Disc. These recordings will really put your system to the test. I have not heard better.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=11592

Try the Zarbang. You may find that it is your new reference.

 

[AUtiger]

Tons of Drums

Terry Bozio is excellent. Saw him in concert with Jeff Beck.
Another artist is Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead. He travels the world recording different types of drumming. All his newer CD's are recorded in HDCD. Whether you liked the Dead's music or not they did & still process sound at the highest level. Just look at their old "Wall of Sound" from the early 70's.

Enjoy your quest

 

[3db]

Geez,, What about Iron Butterfly's "Inagaddavida"??

 

[stratman]

Terry Bozio is excellent. Saw him in concert with Jeff Beck.
Another artist is Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead. He travels the world recording different types of drumming. All his newer CD's are recorded in HDCD. Whether you liked the Dead's music or not they did & still process sound at the highest level. Just look at their old "Wall of Sound" from the early 70's.

Enjoy your quest

I saw him with Jeff Beck too, it was the Guitar Garage tour, they were opening up for Stevie Ray Vaughan. One of the best concerts I ever saw.

 

[larry7995]

I happened to hear Missing Persons - Walking In LA this evening on sirius, that was Dale and Terry Bozzio from a recording called Spring Session M, I have to get a copy of that again

I just looked for it at amazon and it must be out of print and unavailable because its $59 and up

 

[Kuja]

I like Rat Salad drum track on Black Sabbath's Paranoid

 

[Exit]

If you want a band with drums prominent at the center of the music I like Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense

 

[deedubb]

You can't go wrong with the Sheffield Lab Drum and Track Disc. These recordings will really put your system to the test. I have not heard better.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=11592

Sheffield discs are great. I'd recommend this one as well.

 

[fitness1]

Some of the Mickey Hart stuff was pretty good....suprised noone has mentioned that (like the Dafos with Flora Purim)

The Manneheim Steamroller III disc track 1 (Tocatta) is pretty good for some drum-ble, but one of my favorites is track 3 on the Windham Hill "Country" soundtrack...."Aftermath".....good stuff!

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Some of the Mickey Hart stuff was pretty good....suprised noone has mentioned that (like the Dafos with Flora Purim)

Two of us did mention his stuff.

 

[Exit]

Here are a couple more classic drum solos. Jon Bonhom's Moby **** on Led Zeppelin Coda and Carl Palmer's synthesized percussion on Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Here are a couple more classic drum solos. Jon Bonhom's Moby **** on Led Zeppelin Coda and Carl Palmer's synthesized percussion on Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends.

It is hilarious that that got censored! I guess we have to refer to the famous novel as "Moby Richard"! LOL.

 

[Dan]

Michael Corvin "Drum Concerto at Dawn". Recorded at Mapleshade studios it has their typical extremely high quality sound.
http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/cds/03732.php

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Recent discovery: Stanton Moore III.
Classified as "jazz" but really much more rock.
This guy doesn't just play the drums, he plays the hell out of the drums!