Removing the drums from a band is like removing the spine from a body — it just can't move. And while every genre of music has had god-tier drummers (Buddy Rich, anyone?), rock gives drummers a unique ...

The 1970s brought a bevy of budding drum styles and sounds. This 1975 drum solo is among the best. Drummers typically receive less recognition than vocalists or guitarists in rock bands. Buddy Rich’s ...

One of the greatest drum solos of all time came from a drummer who absolutely hated drum solos. Paul McCartney explained to Mark Lewisohn in his book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, that The ...

As rock got bigger in the 1970s, so did the drum solos. After all, it was the era of hard rock, prog rock, and heavy metal. While drum solos were usually displays of technical mastery (some of which ...

John Bonham is among the greatest - in fact, the greatest according to Rolling Stone - drummers in the history of music. Although he died when he was just 32 years old, Bonham gave the world a number ...

One of the most underrated drummers of all time didn't see himself as a drummer. "I play orchestration; I play back to what comes at me. I build structures around things," legendary Black Sabbath ...

Since we already looked at the 5 best rock drum solos of the 70's, we thought we'd turn the clock back another decade and check out the solo skin smashing of the swinging 60's. There's happy accidents ...