Well Done.

Aw, Mandy...

John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend with Keith Moon’s daughter, Mandy

Hottest Drummer Tournament Round 2

Mitch Mitchell

Band(s): The Jimi Hendrix Experience // Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames // The Dirty Mac // Ramatam // The Riot Squad

Chad Smith

Band(s): Red Hot Chili Peppers // Chickenfoot // Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats

Propaganda:

Albums/EPs as drummer:

Mitch

Are You Experienced (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Axis: Bold As Love (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

The Cry of Love (Jimi Hendrix)

Rainbow Bridge (Jimi Hendrix)

War Heroes (Jimi Hendrix)

Sweet Things (Georgie Fame)

Ramatam (Ramatam)

Count to Ten (Wishful Thinking)

Fiends and Angels (Martha Veléz)

Mail Order Magic (Roger Chapman)

Black Dog (Greg Parker)

What Means Solid, Traveller? (David Torn)

Long Walk Back (Junior Brown)

Midnight Daydream (Bruce Cameron)

Mother’s Milk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Blood Sugar Sex Magic (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Out in L.A. (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

One Hot Minute (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

By the Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Stadium Arcadium (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

I’m with You (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Covers (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

I’m with You Sessions (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The Getaway (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Unlimited Love (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Return of the Dream Canteen (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Chickenfoot (Chickenfoot) Chickenfoot III (Chickenfoot)

Meet the Meatbats (Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats) More Meat (Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats)

Rhythm Train with Leslie Bixler, Chad Smith and Featuring Dick Van Dyke (solo with Leslie Bixler and Dick Van Dyke)

The Process (solo with Jon Batiste and Bill Laswell)

Iggy having a quiet one...

Murder of a Virgin

These are excellent...

Townshend doesn't play many solos, which might be why so many people don’t realize just how good he really is. But he's so important to rock – he’s a visionary musician who really lit the whole thing up. His rhythm-guitar playing is extremely exciting and aggressive – he's a savage player, in a way. He has a wonderful, fluid physicality with the guitar that you don't see often, and his playing is very much a reflection of who he is as a person – a very intense guy. He's like the original punk, the first one to destroy a guitar onstage – a breathtaking statement at that point in time. But he's also a very articulate, literate person. He listens to a lot of jazz, and he told me that's what he'd really like to be doing. On "Substitute" you can hear the influence of Miles Davis' modal approach in the way his chords move against the open D string. He was using feedback early, which I think was influenced by European avant-garde music like Stockhausen – an art-school thing. The big ringing chords he used in the Who were so musically smart when you consider how busy the drumming and bass playing were in that band – it could have gotten chaotic if not for him. He more or less invented the power chord, and you can hear a sort of pre-Zeppelin thing in the Who's Sixties work. So much of this stuff came from him.

By Andy Summers

Love this...

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

— Alice Walker, Living by the Word