What he's serious? I thought was the drumming equivalent to that comedy gymnast who performs those appalling accidents?

I disagree. 80's rock was probably some of the most influential music of all time and I wouldn't trade you one of my Ratt or Britney Fox albums for fifty jazz albums!!!!!!!

Keith Moon is the drumming equivalent to Jimmi Hendrix. A decent musician who is placed higher on the pedestal than he should be because of his antics and "chemically altered" condition. What a pro, they had to pull guys out of the freaking audience to play drums at their concerts half the time cause this guy was falling down drunk or worse...................

he was not using spinners as stated as he quite often tossed the sticks and switched hands with them i agree it is not my cup of tea lol but he has great timing even if he hits like a girl... give him his props he practises he must have played that song 200 times and that in it's self is punishment enough...:)

I agree....Keith Moon is one of my favorite drummers....but you didn't READ what I said...worst MIMING to a song.....you know, lip synch?

Popular....yes....influential....not so much. 70's rock sure I'll give you that, but 80's....eh. And I should know, I was there and can remember only some of it...LOL!

I'll give you Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Stewart Copeland (technically they're from the 70's) and maybe Tommy Lee, but really, not many others from the 80's have influenced MAINSTREAM music. BTW, jazz has influenced most of the guys from the 70's and 80's as well. Real musicians take from all kinds of music, not just one genre.

Last time I checked Jazz wasn't slow or stupid. You try playing in the time signatures that Joe Morello or Elvin Jones played in sometime and then tell me its still slow and stupid. :rolleyes:

You have just proven my point. While I do love rock of most types (death metal excluded) you don't need to be proficient to play it. Phill Rudd was a time keeper, a very good time keeper, much like Charlie Watts of the Stones, but......Charlie can also play jazz, and play it very well. Last time I checked Phil Rudd is still playing: boom, blap, boom, blap. A six year old can do that.

I am not putting down rock as a genre, like I said I enjoy it, but I also enjoy and APPRECIATE OTHER kinds of music as well. Once you figure out ALL music is related, no matter how bad some of it is, then you've unlocked the secret. Listen to some jazz sometime, I mean really sit down and study it, and you can take some cool licks and fills from it and incorporate it into your playing. It fits with rock......where do you think rock came from? Thin air? No. It EVOLVED from blues, jazz, country, and a host of other kinds of music. 80's hair metal has a lot of influences from opera and classical music too, not just the usual Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin roots.

If you want to play, and learn to play well, you need to open your mind to other kinds of music and take those as influences as well....otherwise you're stuck with the ac/dc Phill Rudd boom, blap, boom, blap forever and will progress nowhere.

BTW.......if you really want to learn some cool rock stuff to play besides the ac/dc stuff, check out Carmine Appice's DVD realistic rock. Its a long instructional vid, but its worth checking out.

Whooa! Take it easy. I wasn't poking fun at 80's music (rock, not that other crap), just the ballerina that was playing it in the clip.....Millie-Vanillie comes to mind here, too. I came of age listening to Priest, Maiden, UFO, Schenker, Rainbow, Scorp's, Ozzy, Sabbath and a few others (and I still listen, at times and have a nice collection of material). Hendrix is also another fav; Mitch was crazy enough to try and follow along with him, too. I also happen to love 60's era Jazz (with a passion). That said, you can keep your Ratt and Brit albums and rest assured, they're safe in your collection; I don't think anyone would really want to trade you for them.

The best song of the 80's hands down was Boomtown by David and David. No contest. They weren't even hair guys!!!