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OK! Let's see how many here can follow the "only one" rule.

I'll start :

Carmine Appice's outro on Shotgun from the 'Near The Beginning' album.  (a definite precursor to Bonham's outro on 'Rock and Roll', hmmm?)

Ok, first I'll have to mention that, when I was in high school, we used to do Vanilla Fudge's version of "Shotgun".

There are so many...

But

I really like the intro Mitch Mitchell does to "Love or Confusion" off of the "Are You Experienced" album.  Nothing spectacular, it just sounds really good.

Larrie Londin's entire performance on Steve Wariner's The Weekend, 1985.  The cross-stick is the thickest and most consistent I've ever heard without sounding like a woodblock, and the toms sigh mournfully yet sentimentally, which befits the subject matter of the piece.

Agreed. Simple is good too, like Mitch's intro to Redding's She's So Fine or his intro to Little Miss Lover (both on the Axis).

Took awhile to narrow it down,but I keep coming back to Aja,Gadd just goes nutty in there.You know what part.

"Favorite drum part on a tune"...I'm going to interpret this as being the drumming for an entire song, and not just a favorite few measures.  So mine is...

Manu Katche's performance on "Come Talk To Me" on Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live DVD.  A well-crafted drum beat at the core of it all, some great solo breaks, all played oh so elegantly by Manu.

Yes, just a few measures is meant, as was given in the initial selections. :D example : That mini drum (w/synth?) solo in "Frankenstein".

(cool, I snuck another one in -  ;))

OK then, I'm going with Manu's second drum "break" in that same tune/recording from SWL.

"We're an American Band" intro - Grand Funk, Don Brewer.

The groove at the end of "Keasbey Nights" by Catch 22.

I don't know if I can call out an all time fave, but this one popped to my head inmediately: Cozy Powell MURDERING his set on the intro of Rainbow's Stargazer.

Carl Palmer - Wildest Dreams on the Asia album.

Intro to Deep Purples's Fireball.

(I cheated - maybe I shoulda said one per post? nahhh ...)

Oooo...yeah, that's a good one!

I've always liked the drum  break in Radar Love. Actually I like the drumming through the whole tune.

Van Halen intro on Hot for Teacher.
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I really love the fill in Tom Sawyer. Peart really taught me that fills can consist of much more than tom rolls.
Otherwise, I also love the outro Gadd plays in Aja.

Currently ...

The God Machine - The Blind Man off the album Scenes From The Second Storey.    

The change at about 3:30 or so.  Just a pounding tumultuous part that seems like a break, but keeps going when the guitar and bass finally kick in.  Then about 5:00 it all stops abrubtly and starts back up again even more intensely.

YEAH! That's a good one too. I have this boomin' audio rig and when I 1st played that tune the neighbor's remarked it was about time I gave the Harley a tune-up.

I love that big huge fill towards the end of Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll"

Gadd kicks on AJA, Ed Greene pulls some moves on "I Got The News" too

2 that first come to mind that still blow me away are Peart's monster fill at the end of "Turn The Page" - Hold Your Fire LP (love those full tom rolls!)

Everything Timm Biery did on Frank Marino's solo albums was ultra amazing - especially fills on "Had Enough" on Full Circle LP, fills on "Ditch Queen", not mention the intro to "Strange Dreams"  - Juggernaut LP. I think Biery's work goes largely without the accolades he deserves.  (I must go see if he finished his book "The Art Of The Drums… What You Really Need To Know"(?))

I'll have to add Mitch Mitchell's intro to "Little Miss Lover".  Big, fat, sweet groove, nothing more, nothing less.  8)

echo?

I thought you were gonna mention Mitch's cool little flurries from "Beginnings" or "In From The Storm"

The beginning of "Over the Mountain" is really cool....

You've gotta' give Santana credit <as usual> for their percussive intros and breaks!

I have a hard time naming only ONE, but I'll name this one:

"When the Levee Breaks"  ~Bonham

The sampled-to-death groove? I dig the bridge (confound it!), especially on "D'yer Maker".

Well, since you didn't like that one, I guess I get another shot, right? ;D

Of course, and if you want to choose Bonham's riff leading to the finale of "How many More Times" ( the part where Plant is singing 'they call me the hunter ..."), be my guest.

I love the one bar break in the middle of Rickie Lee Jones' Chuck E's in Love - Steve Gadd of course

Phil Ehart at the very end of 'Whats On My Mind' off of Leftoverture or Ringo at the beginning of 'Come Together'.

Like James Walker, I'm going to go for a Manu Katché drum part. In this case, however, it's the intro to Badman's Song from Tears for Fears Seeds Of Love CD. Classic Manu, and simply killer.

Edit: thought it worthwhile including a clip of the intro (http://www.moonbeams.plus.com/badmanintro.mp3), and a link to Wolfgang Schüler's transcriptions (http://www.thedrumland.com/soundchart.htm) from the charts page on Robert Topeland's site.

Bill Bruford on Five Percent for Nothing from the Yes album Fragile.

I love the Jim Gordon drum break in Frank Zappa's Apostrophe' , gets me everytime I hear it. That whole song has such a cool groove to it.

The classic Stewart Copeland fill in the outro of Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.  You know the one:

da-ga-da-ga....da-ga-da-ga-da...da-ga!  

Nothing hard about it but it has to be one of the most recognizable fills in rock drumming.  It's fun listening to that song and just waiting for it.  Then nailing it while playing on the car dashboard.   ;D

Carmine Appice's groove on the Beck, Bogert, and Appice recording of "Superstition."  One of the very few I ever tried to learn note for note.

And Buddy Rich's fills on just about everything.  Perfect insertions almost without exception.

Kenny's intro drum groove on Mellencamp's "Hurts So Good"
Same goes for the intro to "All I Want" by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
You can instantly identify both of these tunes just from the intro drum groove.

I'd never heard that song; listened to it for the first time last night and you're right, he tears up that intro.

The song that popped into my head right away was "I'm Losing You" by Rod Stewart, towards the end where the drums take over. Very cool break.

Phil Collins intro on "In the air tonght"! A classic.

There are dozens!! but i can only name just one?, dear god!man. Ok, Bobby Caldwells intro to Dancing madly backwards from Captain Beyonds debut album. Im dieing! to name more.

Ginger Baker's splash on Can't Find My Way Home!!! He throws it in just enough to keep you wanting it to come back!

Buddy Rich's original recording of West Side Story, especially the perfect single stroke roll in the last 4/4 segment -

"around the corner"rlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlr lrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrl1

Roger

May get some strange looks for this one, but simple and powerful, Phil Collins, In the Air Tonight. It's why I wanted to be a drummer.

has to be intro to "Squib cakes" by Garibaldi for me!! ToP at their best!!

Hey, anybody remember or know a slightly obscure album called McDonald and Giles? Michael Giles was the original King Crimson drummer (and my favorite), and this album was done more or less at the same time as the second King Crimson album. The drum part that has stuck with me for life is on the tune TOMORROW'S CHILDREN. Giles plays drums as though he were playing a melodic instrument. The coolest riff, check it out if you don't know it. Also, if anybody knows anything else that Michael Giles has played on, please let me know ...

I was really into Giles when I was first learning to play. Giles was also the drummer for In The Court of the Crimson King, a very cool early King Crimson record. He didn't do a lot of records, and this one and the one you mentioned are the best ones I was able to find. As I recall I found a couple others, but none were as cool or had such interesting drum parts.

Here's more info:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wbfuxq85ldte (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wbfuxq85ldte)

A correction: the title to the McDonald and Giles song was TOMORROW'S PEOPLE, and not Tomorrow's Children as I said. Thanks for the scoop, Mr A

i just found my old 'court of the crimson king' album the other day. it's completely worn down. great, great album.

it's really hard to say one, but i can't stop listening to that brand x tune, 'nuclear burn.' phil collins is just incredible on that album. i'm trying to see if i can learn it myself. the playing is so tight and fast, and i love how the drums transition from part to part.

so far i have the intro down... at about an eighth of the speed. :-\ ;D

Stewart's signature snare fill during the outro of Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.  During the RE-OOH-OOOH part.

You know the one:

& a 2 e    3 e & a 4    & a

It's impossible for any drummer to listen to that song in the car without playing that fill on the dashboard!  That's how you judge a good fill.   ;D

Since several of my faves have already been listed, I can throw in Stewart Copeland's riff during the chorus of "Driven to Tears".  Lots of hi-hat and splash, just a little drums.  Very effective.

The 7/4 section in La Villa Strangiato.  (The Cmaj to Amin movement) Peart's playing there is simple but perfectly brilliant.  Especially throughout the build-up.  He had fantastic hi-hat work in that.

Keith Moon's freak-out during My Generation, probably

Well, for something not rock:

The Roots - You Got Me

You know the part.

I thought I was the only one who had that album...........I bought the vinyl in '72 or '73,still got it...........very cool. Did'nt know who he was. It was a Capricorn record.

Mike Portnoy's fill at the end of "Pull Me Under".......one of many faves,but it was'nt listed,so...

Bill Bruford on "Roundabout". Great stuff

There's a reason I have the Sonny Payne reference below my avatar...He was the first drummer I really connected with and wanted to play like. For those of you not familiar with him, he was Count Basie's drummer in the late 50's thru the first half of the sixties. When I was learning to be a high school big-band drummer I would listen to the album "Atomic Basie" for hours and try to copy his licks.

The buliding triplet fill he uses in "Splanky" has always been one of my favorites. Also, any of his licks on "April in Paris" (not from Atomic Basie)...ONE MORE TIME !!!!

BigBill

Doug,do you know whatever happened to him? I heard some stuff about being in an insane asylum,killed his mother,stuff like that....I loved his work on Derek and the Dominos(Layla and other assorted love songs) and Traffic.

Danny Carey in Eulogy.

Where the guitar and bass drop out and it's just Danny and Maynard...

"You claimed all this time that you would die for me..." etc.

It sounds so effortless that it took me awhile to realize just how...well... impossible that is to play.  I've been practicing that groove for years and although I can play the notes, I still can't make it groove like he can.
Also, in the easy to learn, hard to master, impossible to play it like Steve Gadd category is the verse from Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover".

--Adam

I cant even begin to narrow it down to one favorite.  Theres just sooooo much out there.  So Im going to opt out of this one-with the thought that I havnt yet heard my favorite-

Someone mentioned Tears For Fears "Badman Song"-and I do dig that one for sure.......but it aint ma favorite!  But its pretty darn good-

the intro to Honor Thy Father by Dream Theater just boggles my mind :)

I'm going the other way on this one..
my favorite drum part is:

the last note, of the last song after a long week of playing.

nothing is better then getting in the car and enjoying the sound of silence after having a monitor in your ear for 4 sets 3 days in a row.

Keith Moon near then end of "Won't Get Fooled Again", after the synth thing.

Never forgot the first time I heard this, and then seeing him play it at the end of "The Kids are Alright". :):)

Ive got a ton of favorite parts but does anyone on this board remember the single stroke roll Jerry Edmonton did during Steppenwolfs Move Over tune?. Samoooooooth. Ian Paice has a nice one on Space truckin to.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Pt. 2

That drum break in the middle.

I only wish the drums were recorded better. They seem so flat and in the background. But I still like the part.

I dont know how many of you are metal fans but check out "Ruin" from lamb of god, the main beat is amazing and he does a spectacular fill (which Chris Adler explained on the new killidelphia dvd).  He is an awesome drummer!!!  ;D

I ldon't know if I could just pick one, but I can try.

Today...its the sycnopated drum part with he rest of the band in "21st Century Schiziod Man" from "In the Court of the Crimson King"  by(of course) King Crimson.
Middle of the song after the double-time section as they are "bringing it down" and they are all playing the same pattern.
The little snare fill back to the double time piece is just rightous as well.
soo tight.
Just Brilliant.

-RHS

p.s.
I also love the "pretend" ending in that song...catches me every time!