Favourite Drum Mix?

[grimtraveller]

Take it in context. I was a young drummer playing in a garage band (actually in basements)
and all we had to listen to was Beatles, Rolling Stones and then came Cream and Traffic.......... and then there was Led Zeppelin 1. Clear, powerful, and those damned incredible rapid triplets on the single pedal kick, and OMG we were all blown away. We went back in the basement and started to try and get anything close to that sound. It was a groundbreaking album in its day and it still holds up.

I've had to. I heard it in 1980 and I'd heard soooooomuch about it and it was all reverential. It is a damn good album and Jimmy Page has rarely been given credit for his production skills (not many people mention that he was a house producer for Immediate records before Zeppelin). For when it appeared, it was groundbreaking, I'll happilly cop to that. Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore hunted down a singer like Ian Gillan because of the first two Zep Lps. The likes of Uriah Heep and zillions of hard rock/heavy metal bands came into being because of them. I still listen to Zep 1 now.
But I'd heard and loved all their other albums prior to hearing it. What you and Dinty describe 1 doing for you, "Physical graffitti" did for me. Had I heard 1 first or second, it wouldn't've been an anti climax. I don't feel that way now, nor have I done so for 30 years.
But I sure as the sun is hot did feel that way the first time I heard it !

 

[recordman]

Listen to Death - Sound of Perseverance

100% Real drums by Richard Christy (yes the drunk guy on howard stern), no fake bullshit. Guaranteed to kick your ass.

 

[Ninja_Drummer]

Dream Theater-new album

Breaking Benjamin-album before "Dear Agony"

Linkin Park-All of them (Those guys at Warner Bros. studios do amazing things)