Bands

[xMrJeffx]

Hey everyone...What are some of your fave bands?
My overall Fave band is Sanctus Real.
But for diffrent types of music here it is...
Christian: Sanctus Real, Kutless, Stellar Kart, and Newsboys.
Pop: Boys like Girls, The All-American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, and My Chemical Romance.
Metal: KoRn, Slipknot, and August Burns Red.
Classic Rock: Guns N' Roses, Rush, Poison, Motley Crue, Scorpions, and Cheap Trick.
Jazz: Herbie Hancock, Dave Weckl Band, and Chick Corea.
Funk: Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Stevie Wonder.

Fill the same stuff in!

Jeff

[TopCat]

Lately...I'm listening to a lot of Ryan Adams, 400Blows, Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, QOTSA, The Bronx, The Roots, earthlings?, Dub War, Goon Moon, Boards Of Canada, Mastodon...uh...Refused, Deerhoof, UNKLE...melvins..uh..tomahawk/fantomas...plus loads of Elvis, Cash, Cramps, Bowie..blablabla I'm so alternative etc.

[Tuxido]

- Band (drummer)
-The Bad Plus (David King)
-Hiromi Uehara Trio (Martin Valihora)
-Wayne Shorter Quartet (Brian Blade)
-Joshua Redman Quartet (Brian Blade)

[Michael G]

Blink 182
Slipknot
Fallout Boy
My Chemical Romance

I only listen to the greatest bands ever, which are them.

[Tuxido]

Originally Posted by SmoothJazz

Blink 182
Slipknot
Fallout Boy
My Chemical Romance

I only listen to the greatest bands ever, which are them.

Ha!

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[burnthehero]

Originally Posted by SmoothJazz

Blink 182
Slipknot
Fallout Boy
My Chemical Romance

I only listen to the greatest bands ever, which are them.

They are so deep and creative. I listen to them when I get mad at my parents and sad about girls. I mean, it's not easy being 25.

[secondXheartbeat]

I like Protest the Hero, The Bled, Between the Buried and Me, and Every Time I Die


close runner ups are Nirvana, Refused, Mastodon, Lamb of God, and Killswitch Engage

[Mr. Pasquini]

Mastodon (Brann Dailor)
Opeth (Martin Lopez, now Martin Axenrot)
Lamb of God (Chris Adler)
King Crimson (Varied... lots of em over the years)
Black Sabbath
and many... many.... many more... those are just most listened to in the last week or so

[drum.lad]

these are and always will be my favourite bands/drummers
Foo Fighters(Taylor Hawkins)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers(Chad Smith)
The Who(Keith Moon)
Led Zepplin(John Bonham)
Biffy Clyro(Ben Johnston)

[#choke#]

Originally Posted by secondXheartbeat

I like Protest the Hero, The Bled, Between the Buried and Me, and Every Time I Die


close runner ups are Nirvana, Refused, Mastodon, Lamb of God, and Killswitch Engage

niiiiccceeee
i like emmure , the devil wears prada, misery signals, despised icon(sick drummer!), between the buried and me, killswitch

also.. as i lay dying, as blood runs black, august burns red(sick drummer!).. basically all of them have amazing drummers

[Muffled Tom]

Lately, I've been listening to a lot of:

Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl/Taylor Hawkins)
Grand Funk Railroad (Don Brewer)
Rush (Neil Peart)
Incubus (Jose Pasillas II)
RHCP (Chad Smith)
The Beatles (Ringo Starr)

And then to some Fatboy Slim, Boards of Canada, Daft Punk, some Kanye West and Fort Minor (I normally hate rap but Kanye's OK and FM runs away from common topics), plus some Andy McKee and lots of jazz with my dad.

[spartacus1989]

I have to say, the bands I listen to for my own general listening is different to the bands I take influence from as far as drums are concerned.

General Listening

• Jean Michel Jarre
• The Cruxshadows
• Mindless Self Indulgence
• Steve Vai
• Dream Theater
• The Birthday Massacre
• The Medic Droid
• Depeche Mode
• Killswitch Engage
• Joe Satriani
• Human League

Drumming Influences

• Rush - Neil Peart
• Nerve - Jojo Mayer
• Toto - Simon Phillips
• Paul Gilbert - Marco Minnemann
• Steve Vai - Jeremy Colson
• No Doubt - Adrian Young
• Frank Zappa/Fantomas - Terry Bozzio
• Killswitch Engage - Justin Foley
• The Buddy Rich Big Band - Buddy Rich
• Amy Winehouse - (unknown)
• (independant) - Thomas Lang

My favs., in alphabetical order:


Alter Bridge
The Beatles
Candlebox
John Christ
Collective Soul
Crack The Sky
Creed
Dream Theater
The Eagles
The Guess Who
Jimi Hendrix
Kansas
Led Zeppelin
Yngwie Malmsteen
Frank Marino & M R
Ted Nugent
The Buddy Rich Big Band
Rush
Joe Satriani
Frank Sinatra
Staind
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Roger Waters
Steve Winwood
Zebra

After Zepp, in no particular order.


Zepp,
Boston,
Pink Floyd
Motley Crue
Black label Society,
John COUGAR Mellencamp
AC/DC
Black Sabbath/Ozzie
Dio
CCR
Steely Dan
RATM
Rush
Grand Funk RR
Deep Purple
Fastway
Carly Simon
Bee Gees(Yes I admit it)
Beatles,
Stones.
Godsmack

[milkbetweenorangejuice]

Radiohead...










Everybody else.*


*Noteworthy everyone elses include Yes, Genesis, Traffic, Floyd, Who and all the other 'classic' folks. Most of the contemporary stuff I'm into is indie type stuff e.g. Grizzly Bear, Bright Eyes, Sufjan Stevens, Sea and Cake.

[drumminjohn]

Well favorite bands of all time are The Who and Zeppelin

But I've also been listening to alot of
The Sonics
Iggy and the Stooges
The 13th Floor Elevators
The Velvet Underground
David Bowie

and I just discovered two amazing "indie" bands: The Black Keys and The King Khan & BBQ Show... I suggest looking both of those bands up..

[wnameth]

-All The Remains
-As I Lay Dying
-August Burns Red
-Between The Buried and Me
-Circa Survive
-Counting Crows
-I Killed The Prom Queen
-Killswitch Engage
-Led Zeppelin
-Means
-Misery Signals
-Motion City Soundtrack
-PROTEST THE HERO
-Rage Against The Machine
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Saosin
-Sloan
-The Human Abstract
-Threat Signal
-Tool

those are the bands i am frequently listenting to as of late.. add holly springs disaster and coheed and cambria to it and its complete actually.

-Wes

[drummerchick435]

Christian: Pillar, Skillet, BarlowGirl, Chris Tomlin, Michael W. Smith
Classic Rock: Queen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd
Rock/Metal: Dave Matthews Band, Dream Theater(and some more I'm sure but just can't come to mind for some reason)
Pop: Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, High School Musical, Rent, (relax guys I'm not a crazed teenage girl...I just listened to at first to study it, but it grew on me)
Hip Hop/Rap: Grits, Black Eyed Peas,

...just a few out of many of my favorite artists/bands

[DreamTheater4life]

My favorite bands (in no particular order):

Dream Theater
Nile
Hate Eternal
Meshuggah
The Berzerker
Aborted
Job For A Cowboy
Behemoth
Unearth

[hauk]

Some good ones:
Porcupine Tree
Less Than Jake
Thursday
Led Zeppelin
Flogging Molly
Wolfmother
The Clash
The Taj Motel Trio
Blackfield
Rage Against The Machine
3 Doors Down
Battles
Copeland
David Torn (& company on Prezens)
System Of A Down
Everclear
Franz Ferdinand
No Outlet

They span several genres, not very many in any one style.

[zambizzi]

Originally Posted by Tuxido

- Band (drummer)
-The Bad Plus (David King)
-Hiromi Uehara Trio (Martin Valihora)
-Wayne Shorter Quartet (Brian Blade)
-Joshua Redman Quartet (Brian Blade)

Yes! Another Bad+ fan. I saw them downtown last summer...what astounding musicianship! Dave King is a monster...it was great to sit right off to his right and watch him work his magic.

[driver]

Biffy Clyro, Battles, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss. Oh and Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, At The Drive-In to be honest I could go on for ages about Death From Above 1979, Marmaduke Duke, Clutch...It always changes!

[TopCat]

Originally Posted by driver

Biffy Clyro, Battles, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss. Oh and Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, At The Drive-In to be honest I could go on for ages about Death From Above 1979, Marmaduke Duke, Clutch...It always changes!

Yes, We should talk.

[xopethx]

Fusion stuff:

Allan Holdsworth
Return to Forever
Jean-Luc Ponty
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jeff Beck
Stanley Clarke
Steve Smith
Planet X
On the Virg

Ambient/Soundtrack:

Asche & Spencer (Stay, Monster's Ball, etc)
Algol
Port Royal
Eluvium
Roque Banos (The Machinist)
Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko


Rock/Metal:

Opeth
Pink Floyd
dredg
Porcupine Tree
Meshuggah
Novembre
Katatonia
Obsidian
Coprofago
Maudlin of the Well
Devin Townsend
Martyr
Decapitated
Necrophagist
Ron Jarzombek/Spastic Ink
Behold...The Arctopus

[driver]

Originally Posted by TopCat

Yes, We should talk.

Yeah man I saw at the top of the thread your a man of good taste too haha

[Ashton Drum's]

Anybody listen to Slint there album Spiderland kicks Donkey should check it out if you haven't its awsome

[rendezvous_drummer]

U2
The Smiths
The Chameleons
Radiohead
Audioslave
John Mayer Trio
Chili's
RATM

I could go on, but those are the bands I most often listen to.

[volume_3]

A few faves, the top of the list being my favourite band ever, but the rest are in no order.

The Mars Volta
Sunn O)))
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
A Silver Mt Zion
Boris
Drop The Lime
Klaxons
Battles
Xploding PlastiX
The Arcade Fire
The Blood Brothers
KTL
Kings of Leon
65daysofstatic
Fightstar
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Coheed & Cambria
Enter Shikari

[bojangleman]

my favs are:
Lamb of God
Slipknot
Atreyu
Dream Theatre
Dragonforce
Guns N' Roses
System of the Down
Tool
Trivium
UnderOath
Velvet Revolver
and on occasion, ill listen to some Green Day,Weezer,Avenged Sevenfold,Three Days Grace,Sherwood,Red Hot Chili Peppers, Boys Like Girls, that type... i like bands with good drummers, and that are good live.

Alex

[darknessdude16]

Sooo...

Say what you will, but lifes too short to judge!!!! But by all means 'be-little' my music taste :p

30 Seconds To Mars, 36 Crazyfists, Against Me, Alexisonfire, Andrew W.K (Say what you will!), Arcade Fire, At The Drive In, Biffy Clyro, Billy Talent, Breed 77, Bullets and Octane, Coheed and Cambria, The Darkness, Dream Theater, Enter Shikari, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, The Glitterati, InMe, Kings Of Leon, Kiss, Mastodon, Muse, My Chemical Romance (Dont just toss everything else out the window just cuz I like these guys!), Paramore, P.O.D, The Raconteurs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rise Against, Simple Plan, Serj Tankian, System Of A Down, Zico Chain...

God bless anyone who read that whole thing!!!

...theres probably more tho!

[OldStampK]

Thinking Plague
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Gong
Magma
Sly and the Family Stone
Soft Machine
Hatfield and the North
Acid Mothers Temple
Faust
Hamster Theater
Claudia Quartet

[TheStephen]

Lately I've really been into excruciatingly slow and depressing metal bands (I think the subgenre is called "funeral doom" metal):

Esoteric
Disembowelment
Skepticism
Ahab
Monolithe
Catacombs

And non-metalwise:

Led Zeppelin
Journey
John Mayer Trio
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
John Coltrane (the quartet he had with Elvin, McCoy, and Jimmy)
Miles Davis (with Tony, Wayne, Ron, and Herbie)
Medeski, Martin, and Wood

[DaveyBoy]

I like everything really, but these are a few faves:

Rock/Metal/Indie Etc.

Muse (Dom Howard is a particular influence ony my drums)
Qotsa (more SftD, but other stuff as well)
Arctic Monkeys
Dave Matthews Band
Incubus
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bloc Party
System Of A Down
Wolfmother
The Strokes

Hip Hop/Rap
Snoop Dogg
Cypress Hill
House of Pain
Avalanches
Fort Minor
Plan B

Secret Shame: Scissor Sisters

[Tama Player]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pasquini

Mastodon (Brann Dailor)
Opeth (Martin Lopez, now Martin Axenrot)
Lamb of God (Chris Adler)
King Crimson (Varied... lots of em over the years)
Black Sabbath
and many... many.... many more... those are just most listened to in the last week or so

Yes. Me too.

AGR

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[jnqt]

tool
rage against the machine
the mars volta
bjork
primus
nofx

[aydee]

Steely Dan
Tribal Tech
Yellowjackets
Bela Feck & the Flecktones
Screaming headless torsos
Return to Forever
Deep Purple
Beatles
CCR
Allman Bros
SRV & Double Trouble
Govt Mule
and aah... and aah.. and aah...

[Class A Drummer]

Sum 41
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Rise Against
Rage Against the Machine
ill Scarlet
Dream Theater/Liquid Tension

Obviously many many many more...

[KLittle123]

SEX PISTOLS

EFF YEA!

[petecoolbelab]

Die Ärzte with Bela B. on Drums

[Ironcobra]

Best band of all time: Dream Theater

Greatest band of all time: Metallica

(who here agrees that dream theater has reached the ultimate goal of music?....that is, to tap so deep into ones soul that all other music becomes obsolete.)

other then that I love tons of bands

Guns N' Roses
SOAD
Disturbed
Led Zeppelin

Almost everything....you know the drill...