ALBUMS THAT HAD AN LASTING IMPACT ON YOUR DRUMMING

TOMANO

Senior Member
I was going through my record / CD collection this week trying to find albums that inspired or influenced my life as a drummer. Here's some that stuck out...

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (John Bonham)
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 & Sabotage (Bill Ward)
Roxy Music - Siren (Paul Thomspon) & Avalon (Andy Newmark)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox (Budgie)
Tony Williams Lifetime - Turn It Over
Herbie Hancock - Thrust (Mike Clarke)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Jimmy Cobb)
Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger (Casey Scheuerell)
Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric (Eric Gravatt)
Missing Persons - Spring Session M (Terry Bozzio)
Bill Bruford - One of a Kind

I'd like to see some of your selections.

Peace,

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Deep Purple in Rock. Ian Paice
Close to the Edge. Bill Brufford.
Any Police album. Stewart Copeland.
 
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You experienced
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Led Zep I-V
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Collection
 
Porcupine Tree (any/all)
Rush - Moving Pictures
King Crimson - Red
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Black Sabbath - Sold our souls
The Cars - the cars
Dave Brubeck - Time Out


so much to choose from....my list would be pages long, but these seem to be the ones I remember best.

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Cosmos Factory, CCR
Led Zep III
Beatles, Let it Be
Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed
Inner Mounting Flame, Mahavishnu Orchestra
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Live at the Flimore East, Alman Brother's
Art Blakey, A Jazz Messge
Jimi Hendrix, Are you Experienced
Billy Cobham, Spectrum
Led Zep II
 
Moody Blues.....Days of Future Past
Beatles.....Rubber Soul & Revolver
Jimmy Smith....anything he recorded
 
Beatles-Everything (or if you have to choose---Abbey Road)
Van Morrison-Moondance
Boz Scaggs-Silk Degrees
Steely Dan-Aja


I am impressed by the range of music cited by others!
 
Genesis: Abacab
Rush: Moving Pictures
Living Colour: Vivid

There are of course many more, but these stick out as I was into them at such a young & impressionable age. Especially the Genesis stuff, Phil Collins was my first drumset teacher in a big way.
 
Kiss -Alive
Rush - All the World's a Stage/Permanent Waves
Steely Dan - Aja
Foo Fighters - Nothing Left to Lose
Led Zeppelin - IV/Houses of the Holy

To name but a few!

Oh, I forgot two that actually belonged to my Mom but had a lasting impression - Sammy Davis Jr with Buddy Rich, The Sounds of 66, and the Paul Revere and the Raiders album that had Just Like Me on it. That song is the first rock song I played along to on the drums.
 
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Genesis: Abacab
Rush: Moving Pictures
Living Colour: Vivid

There are of course many more, but these stick out as I was into them at such a young & impressionable age. Especially the Genesis stuff, Phil Collins was my first drumset teacher in a big way.

Me too, Phil was the reason I started to play at all. Vivid was the record that really made the biggest lasting impression on me though. Will Calhoun is the man.

And of course, anything by the Foo's, Neal Wilkinson on Silje's album from the early 80's and Gavin Harrison on Sam Brown's Stop!- taste and restraint personified in both cases.
 
Chick Corea Elektric Band II: Paint The World (Gary Novak)
Miles Davis: Nefertiti (Tony)
Soundgarden: Superunknown (Matt Cameron)
UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab '88 (Earl Harvin)
Meshuggah: Obzen (Thomas Haake)
Dave Weckl: Hard Wired (Dave Weckl)
Botch: An Anthology of Dead Ends (Tim Latona)
Coheed and Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 (Josh Eppard)

Great topic!
 
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City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God
Boston -Boston
Phobia - Breaking Benjamin
Scream Aim Fire - Bullet for my Valentine
Moving Pictures - Rush
 
Genesis: Abacab
Rush: Moving Pictures
Living Colour: Vivid

There are of course many more, but these stick out as I was into them at such a young & impressionable age. Especially the Genesis stuff, Phil Collins was my first drumset teacher in a big way.

Yep! Replace Genesis by RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik and there's my list.

I could add
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Deep Purple - Live In Japan
 
Moving Pictures - Rush (cool to see this one on so many others' lists, too)
Spring Session M - Missing Persons
Discipline - King Crimson
Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
Free Fall - Dixie Dregs
Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
Louder Than Love - Soundgarden
 
The first ELP album
King Crimson Larks' Tongues and Aspic
John McLaughlin Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire
Chicago I & II
Yes Fragile
 
In release order...

Billy Cobham - Spectrum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aw2rM0w-pc

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Billy Cobham

Jon Lord - Before I Forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9OFZ9Mh7GA

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Ian Paice - Simon Phillips - Cozy Powell

Russ Ballard - Russ Ballard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6qzfJ1EG88

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Simon Phillips

Nik Kershaw - The Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd8fTfDK-Vs

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Vinnie Colaiuta - Jeff Porcaro
 
Kiss Alive 1
Black Sabbath Sold our souls for R&R
Led Zeppelin 1
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil

the black sheep but may have had most influence on my drumming style was
Lynyrd Skynrd - One more from the road
 
Jimi Hendrix Experience:
-Are you Experienced
-Axis: Bold as Love
-Electric Ladyland

Boxcar Racer: self titled
 
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