A drummer is a drummer I always thought.
As long as someone has it in them to drum, they should do it, and that's all that matters.
I had two female drum teachers when I took lessons in HS (they were really good snare drummers too), and about 50% of the drum line when I was a freshman (1979) in HS were female....unfortunately, the band director
wasn't a female, and "had" to leave...I leave the gory details out....
My grandmother was a touring drummer in the 20's...got a few cool pics...Radio Kings....(NO, I
don't have them dang it!).
My Grandfather (both on Mom's side) was also a drummer.
Sad to say that in all the years I've played out, I've only come across 2 female drummers playing in a band on the same bill.
One was good, the other was passable for what the band was doing, but recently a nice girl came up to me after a show that was a drummer and we talked drums for a while, and she asked a couple questions that I was able to help her with.
Didn't matter that she was a female, she was a drummer, but I do admit it was nicer talking to her than some drummer "dude" of the same experience level asking the same questions.
gfred611, nice job on Barracuda!...I'm jealous too, because I have yet to be able to play Barracuda with a
band!
I love that song.
You did a better version than Sean Kinney/Alice In Chains on the Rock Honors show...
you did the fills!
SK TOTALLY missed the
one big fill!....Gretchen Wilson sang her a$$ off on it though.
....And (even though it
is for a good cause) any site that has "Rock Your Boobs" on it is OK by me haha!
Why is everyone so down on Meg White?
The White Stripes have a certain weird style, and she plays within that framework.
I don't know if she can play outside of the WS's, but she does the job for the band she's in...and is making records, touring, and making money at it (hopefully).
Their songs sound good to me, and I like listening to it because she's doing stuff I wouldn't necessarily think to do that way, and I think that's cool.
Is she a drum "virtuoso"? No, but so what.
Cindy Blackman...now she ROCKS on everything,
and she's very nice.
Nice to look at too...for a girl