mission wrote:So certainly more talented than Oliver Reed and a million miles less talented than Rick James.
This place does it all.
Some really brilliant stuff in this thread, mission. Keep it coming.
mission wrote:So certainly more talented than Oliver Reed and a million miles less talented than Rick James.
This place does it all.
bobzilla77 wrote:He's a wonderful drummer and a mediocre writer & bandleader.
A year or two ago when he went from jamming with Zeppelin to jamming with McCartney to offering to jam with the Who, I remember thinking that someone had taken my dreams and presented them to the wrong guy.
mission wrote:That recognition of and gratefulness for the happenstances that got him there were written allover his happy-puppy face when he was in Nirvana. "Sure, dude, you want to jump into my kit? Fuck yeah, I'll jump into it too!" "Hey, you're shooting smack and getting a bit too far down? Well, I'll try look less fucking eager and maybe stop smiling but these teeth, I tell you, man, these teeth."
The fact that most people agree he drums like titanium rods being piledriven into the vagina of God but that most people reckon he drummed on QOTSA's big hit - ie, they cannot tell the difference - tells me all I need to know about Mr Sporty and his brand of athlete-approved cool.
mission wrote:Sure, he may drum like the minotaur on meth, crashing through the mazes of stoner rock and grunge and coming up smiles on Tuesday, but he is a nobody. He's hardly even there.
Walk In My Shadow wrote:If Spaulding buys it, I'll buy it too.
My name is Spaulding wrote:mission wrote:Sure, he may drum like the minotaur on meth, crashing through the mazes of stoner rock and grunge and coming up smiles on Tuesday, but he is a nobody. He's hardly even there.
But the fact is, that he is an amazing drummer, and he dummed for one of the most important (not my favourite, bu hey) bands of the 90´s. I agree that he´s crap as a songwriter and as a frontman, but saying that he´s a nobody, just because he´s "only" good at playing drums, would be like saying that Keth Moon or John Bonham were disposable as well.
comrade moleskin wrote:My name is Spaulding wrote:mission wrote:Sure, he may drum like the minotaur on meth, crashing through the mazes of stoner rock and grunge and coming up smiles on Tuesday, but he is a nobody. He's hardly even there.
But the fact is, that he is an amazing drummer, and he dummed for one of the most important (not my favourite, bu hey) bands of the 90´s. I agree that he´s crap as a songwriter and as a frontman, but saying that he´s a nobody, just because he´s "only" good at playing drums, would be like saying that Keth Moon or John Bonham were disposable as well.
But they had character, which is what the argument is - that Grohl has no character.
Walk In My Shadow wrote:If Spaulding buys it, I'll buy it too.
comrade moleskin wrote:My name is Spaulding wrote:mission wrote:Sure, he may drum like the minotaur on meth, crashing through the mazes of stoner rock and grunge and coming up smiles on Tuesday, but he is a nobody. He's hardly even there.
But the fact is, that he is an amazing drummer, and he dummed for one of the most important (not my favourite, bu hey) bands of the 90´s. I agree that he´s crap as a songwriter and as a frontman, but saying that he´s a nobody, just because he´s "only" good at playing drums, would be like saying that Keth Moon or John Bonham were disposable as well.
But they had character, which is what the argument is - that Grohl has no character.
Davey the Fat Boy wrote:The important thing is that he plays drums like Prometheus sodomizing a Jonas brother. Can we agree on that much?
Sir John Coan wrote:Nolamike is speaking nothing but sense here.
Loki wrote:Mike is Hookfinger's shill.
Nolamike wrote:Davey the Fat Boy wrote:The important thing is that he plays drums like Prometheus sodomizing a Jonas brother. Can we agree on that much?
I thought the consensus was that he played drums like Poseidon throwing both Robocop and Elian Gonzalez down a mail chute in the Empire State Building.
Sir John Coan wrote:Nolamike is speaking nothing but sense here.
Loki wrote:Mike is Hookfinger's shill.
Diamond Dog wrote:If Page, Plant & Jones ever decided to reform, Grohl should be the drummer. I can 't rreally pay much more of a compliment.
Walk In My Shadow wrote:If Spaulding buys it, I'll buy it too.