I think probably the two greatest but they are completely different players with a completely different approach to drumming. Rich was about extreme speed on the snare drum, high hat and symbols. Peart in later years was about a wide range of sounds and worldwide influence of percussion styles, polyrhythms, and a symphonic, melodic playing style. Peart solos were genuine symphonies of sound, and no small clip can show what he did.
Did anyone notice Buddy Rich switch from a traditional grip style (left hand) to a double overhand style when he really started into the cymbals? Neil actually learned traditional grip later in his career so he could play on the Buddy Rich tribute concerts. Both masters, both individuals, both legends.
Neil played the Burning for Buddy tribute before his traditional-grip phase. Neil use the traditional grip primarily on the Roll The Bones & Test For Echo albums, and even then switched to match grip for many parts. Neil always used the traditional grip for snare rolls, as per on Xanadu, and Buddy always used the matched grip for playing more traditional "rolls" and syncopated rhythms, as per his drum solo on YT where he plays the whole thing with a matched grip. Neil's use of the traditional grip (als rearranging his entire kit) can be attributed to his study with Freddy Gruber, who Neil described as teaching drums like a tennis coach teaches tennis. Neil wasn't taking music lessons from Freddie, he was working on technical things like posture, arm angle, feet, wrists and such. Neil also ditched the backwards stick technique in the 90's.
I remember watching him when I was kid trying to learn how to play. There is a point we're the drum beats are perfectly screaming off his sticks so fast that it looks like his hand is about to become invisible. Amazing.
The best drummer ever to me. I played tons and tons of big band and swing in my high school jazz band. Was really something to see when we’d light up the nursing homes. They would for a night be young again.
Buddy had a heart attack in the middle of this solo, and continued. On a similar note, I was at the Judas Priest show when their guitarist suffered a torn aorta while playing the solo to their song painkiller. He went right off stage, into the hospital and into surgery for 10 hours. But not before perfectly finishing an amazing solo. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen, and I was not aware of what I was seeing when it was happening.
buddy used cocaine.he was the sole reason why my dad didnot go into a music career despite his prowess. uilove buddy rich work and gene krupa work best then we have current work of charlie watts and others of note.. cannot declare a winner of best drummer as all are best
@@zeehag there truly are soooo many greats, and I like to just say that someone belongs in that group of greats. it's especially true with today's technology that we see people from around the world being great, when we never would have known about them without the internet.
Great video! The Professor would say it was Buddy but Neil took lessons from Freddie Gruber who used to be a roommate of Buddy’s . I’m 56 and before the internet it was a handful of record producers who decided who got contracts and radio air play but with the internet musicians can self publish and we can see musicians from other countries. Buddy and Neil are iconic monsters who influenced many drummers but there’s a Japanese girl named Senri Kawaguchi who does jazz fusion and her nickname is the Smiling Assassin because she smiles after she nails a really complicated bar. Aquiles Priester has been in a few bands, he’s from Brazil and was influenced by Neil and Nicko McBrain. There’s a Japanese speed metal band called Unlucky Morpheus and their drummer Fumiya is from the Philippines originally. To me, Carter Beauford is on the same level as Buddy and Neil.
Wow this is cool. My father was Corky Corcoran whom played 1st chair tenor sax for Harry James and Buddy was the drummer most of the time. Buddy drove a yellow convertible Corvette in those days. But what fun!!!!!
You are absolutely correct the world is slammed full of very awesome drummers I myself have been playing drums for 38 years. And I have my day you decline a little with age cuz dreaming is such a physical musical instrument I tend to get out of breath now . Buddy Rich has the fastest single strokes of any drummer I have ever saw or heard bar none . And I watch senri videos she is a really awesome young drummer she play some pretty good rock and roll too she playes a lot like I do
Heard Buddy Rich live in a tiny little place in a tiny little town (Kalispell, Mt) in the 70s, there was nothing there back then. He still plays the show like he's playing a 10,000 seat hole... Amazingly.
I've seen Rich live once when I was much younger at a local high school of all places. he was unbelievable...also saw Woody Herman..another story for later..
I can remember Neil coming to Disneyland in Anaheim and talking with Buddy, Harry James and my dad. I used to sit on Buddys lap while he played. (Before the gig.)
I first seen John Bonham do this. Now I know what he was imitating. The master. Wow. No wonder these bands sound so good. God bless jazz.. ...and Neil and John.
Buddy was a neighbor in Palm Springs and I belonged to a religion that would go to Disneyland and see Buddy play in the 70s oh ya I was a driver for the Tonight Show and was Johnny Carson’s favorite Buddy gave Johnny a Slingerland kit for his Burbank office
Not saying he was the most popular, or innovative, or the most beloved drummer of all time, but Buddy Rich is still the best drum technician the world has ever seen. BTW his daughter took him to the hospital after this set - they confirmed he suffered a heart attack while performing.
@@tomperrone7021 nope, I saw him live & he didn't impress me, I saw buddy 8 months before he passed, saw Carl Palmer, Ginger Baker, Tommy Aldridge, butch trucks/ jaimoe , Mickey Hart/ Billy K, Lionel Hampton (yep he was a monster drummer), a zillion more of all genres. no one even came to Buddy !!!!
@@tomperrone7021 bonham was best for zep, his style was to one dimensional for other styles of music,he would not sound right in a jazz band. bonham said buddy rich wasa huge influence. patterned his kit after buddy
Neither is better. I'm probably the biggest Neil fan out there but my God buddy was insane... They really are apples and oranges. I mean I can get into Neil's lyrical talents and is overall composition within just about any Rush song and hands down give it to neil, but then there's buddy. How do you deny the guy? He set the standard for every single drummer after him including Neil. I'm just lucky enough to say I saw them both live! Neil many many times but he just wants as a kid with my dad and I'll never forget it he was phenomenal. Didn't even know who Rush was. That was 1976 and I was a just kid. Didn’t find Rush until 78
So many great drummers. Don’t forget Louie Bellson, who imho was more MUSICAL in his approach to drumming than Buddy. Buddy had phenomenal hands and sticking. Many great drummers! Neil of course was surgical precision, extremely original, extremely musical and an literary lyrical master imho. ALL were or are uniquely themselves which is always awesome- along with you who are reading this comment. 🎵🛎
BUDDY'S LEFT HAND WAS INCREDIBLE.
Every professor had a professor
Buddy was the original goat but it belongs to Neil now
2 of the world's greatest drummers. RIP TO BOTH OF YOU
No. argument from here !!!!!!!!
I love them both....
Now I know were Muppets Animal was inspired from
Yup
@@johnkonieczny3957 probably lol. Or is that like a known statement or something?
Buddy’s single stroke rolls were insane.
And he had 0 respect for the American grip lol I like to think Neil could've changed his mind tho.
Neil pearl was not the greateat drummer.
@@Buck_Fiden658 maybe idk
@@royelrod3766 neither was Buddy Rich
@@mihailmilev9909 that was a general statement not directed towards anyone in particular. Js
OMG! Both are absolutely incredible!
I think probably the two greatest but they are completely different players with a completely different approach to drumming. Rich was about extreme speed on the snare drum, high hat and symbols. Peart in later years was about a wide range of sounds and worldwide influence of percussion styles, polyrhythms, and a symphonic, melodic playing style. Peart solos were genuine symphonies of sound, and no small clip can show what he did.
Wow. I gottan listen to Peart more now ig
These guys are both unbelievable drummers let alone the influence they had on so many great drummers after the both of them. RIP Buddy and Neil
two of the best who have ever played!
These are two nice clips but there are other one's that show how INSANE-ly great these two were...R.I.P. ❤️
Tru
BEAUTIFUL thanks
Insanely great drummers !!!! I miss both of you may God rest your souls !!!!
Did anyone notice Buddy Rich switch from a traditional grip style (left hand) to a double overhand style when he really started into the cymbals?
Neil actually learned traditional grip later in his career so he could play on the Buddy Rich tribute concerts.
Both masters, both individuals, both legends.
Wow great observation! I saw him absolutely dog an American grip in an old video. I wonder if he ever changed his mind.
Neil played the Burning for Buddy tribute before his traditional-grip phase. Neil use the traditional grip primarily on the Roll The Bones & Test For Echo albums, and even then switched to match grip for many parts. Neil always used the traditional grip for snare rolls, as per on Xanadu, and Buddy always used the matched grip for playing more traditional "rolls" and syncopated rhythms, as per his drum solo on YT where he plays the whole thing with a matched grip. Neil's use of the traditional grip (als rearranging his entire kit) can be attributed to his study with Freddy Gruber, who Neil described as teaching drums like a tennis coach teaches tennis. Neil wasn't taking music lessons from Freddie, he was working on technical things like posture, arm angle, feet, wrists and such. Neil also ditched the backwards stick technique in the 90's.
I remember watching him when I was kid trying to learn how to play. There is a point we're the drum beats are perfectly screaming off his sticks so fast that it looks like his hand is about to become invisible. Amazing.
Masterbeaters!!!
Lol
The best drummer ever to me. I played tons and tons of big band and swing in my high school jazz band. Was really something to see when we’d light up the nursing homes. They would for a night be young again.
Buddy had a heart attack in the middle of this solo, and continued. On a similar note, I was at the Judas Priest show when their guitarist suffered a torn aorta while playing the solo to their song painkiller. He went right off stage, into the hospital and into surgery for 10 hours. But not before perfectly finishing an amazing solo. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen, and I was not aware of what I was seeing when it was happening.
buddy used cocaine.he was the sole reason why my dad didnot go into a music career despite his prowess. uilove buddy rich work and gene krupa work best then we have current work of charlie watts and others of note.. cannot declare a winner of best drummer as all are best
@@zeehag there truly are soooo many greats, and I like to just say that someone belongs in that group of greats.
it's especially true with today's technology that we see people from around the world being great, when we never would have known about them without the internet.
Wow......
Wow.....
@@zeehag who was ur dad?
I've been fortunate enough to see both of them live in my lifetime, Neil several times and buddy once when I was 14....
Always blows my mind even in his autumn years he was still absolutely phenomenal!
Damned right the two best drummers in history!!!!!!!!!!❤😊
Great video! The Professor would say it was Buddy but Neil took lessons from Freddie Gruber who used to be a roommate of Buddy’s . I’m 56 and before the internet it was a handful of record producers who decided who got contracts and radio air play but with the internet musicians can self publish and we can see musicians from other countries. Buddy and Neil are iconic monsters who influenced many drummers but there’s a Japanese girl named Senri Kawaguchi who does jazz fusion and her nickname is the Smiling Assassin because she smiles after she nails a really complicated bar. Aquiles Priester has been in a few bands, he’s from Brazil and was influenced by Neil and Nicko McBrain. There’s a Japanese speed metal band called Unlucky Morpheus and their drummer Fumiya is from the Philippines originally. To me, Carter Beauford is on the same level as Buddy and Neil.
Wow this is cool. My father was Corky Corcoran whom played 1st chair tenor sax for Harry James and Buddy was the drummer most of the time. Buddy drove a yellow convertible Corvette in those days. But what fun!!!!!
i love carter. also, virgil donati !!
You are absolutely correct the world is slammed full of very awesome drummers I myself have been playing drums for 38 years. And I have my day you decline a little with age cuz dreaming is such a physical musical instrument I tend to get out of breath now . Buddy Rich has the fastest single strokes of any drummer I have ever saw or heard bar none . And I watch senri videos she is a really awesome young drummer she play some pretty good rock and roll too she playes a lot like I do
coolest thanks for sharing this 🙌 💜 🙏
But can they jent?
The "West Side Story" arrangement is fantastic! The drum solo Buddy performs is out of this world!
Heard Buddy Rich live in a tiny little place in a tiny little town (Kalispell, Mt) in the 70s, there was nothing there back then. He still plays the show like he's playing a 10,000 seat hole... Amazingly.
To the best drummers are out there I saw a buddy back in the '80s in Ann Arbor awesome so Neil three times once with my son he loved it
Fellow drummerzzz…
Buddy just hitz different bro!
Buddy's playing was in a different league. Hell, a different sport. Incredible!
Always Amazing
I've seen Rich live once when I was much younger at a local high school of all places. he was unbelievable...also saw Woody Herman..another story for later..
I completely agree Buddy Rich fantastic Neil Peart fantastic they are the GOAT in their respective genres
Gotta love drummers.
Video should be called Buddy Rich the greatest drummer in history
Absolutely SICK !!!!!!!
Buddy and Neil. Can you imagine the stories if those two met.
I can remember Neil coming to Disneyland in Anaheim and talking with Buddy, Harry James and my dad. I used to sit on Buddys lap while he played. (Before the gig.)
I didn't matter who the greatest drummers were in a vacuum, It mattered who the greatest Big Band and Prog Rock drummers were. RIP Buddy & Neil.
absolutely love it!
That's the clip when buddy had a heart infarction!
Heck yeah 🤟😎
I first seen John Bonham do this. Now I know what he was imitating.
The master.
Wow.
No wonder these bands sound so good.
God bless jazz..
...and Neil and John.
I loved that late in life Neil changed his grip and studied under his jazz hero
Two amazing and talented icons
God Rest Their Souls..... Drummer Elitists that take playing this instrument to Levels that very few can achieve.
The control at that age is amazing
Buddy was a wild man. Would like to have seen a vid of neil and buddy playing together....OH SO COOOOL 😊
all I can say is always will be one of the rare few respect
Awesome
Masterpiece
RIP,,,, ❤
Buddy RICH was once labeled the fastest hands on drums by the Guinness Book of Records.
he will.not be,forgotten.he's jamming,in the skie's.
Two different eras of drumming, both are great......
Neil is the Goat, YMMV
Nah bruh, he would even tell you buddy is the GOAT
I've got this on vhs. Also have buddy on the muppet show going upside down during a solo!
These 2 are the reasons why I never stop practicing.
It seems like I'll never get to They're level But I love trying
Wow that's me right there 🤣👍
Two incredible drummers, but buddy Rich was on another level of warp speed. So much so that Neil studied him.
Agreed 100%. Don't forget Carl Palmer either...Top 3 IMO.
Buddy Rich did More with Less. Still #1.
Wow!!!
2 of the greatest
Stewart Copeland and Carl Palmer also! 🤘
Especially Carl Palmer.
The Best
I had a chance to see Buddy but for some reason I said I’ll see him next time, he died and there wasn’t a next time, what a Pratt I am
Human body ultimate creation
BR - lots of Fingerskills ! 👍👍
My two favorites also. 🙏
The best of the best right there! 😎👍🏻
Buddy was a neighbor in Palm Springs and I belonged to a religion that would go to Disneyland and see Buddy play in the 70s oh ya I was a driver for the Tonight Show and was Johnny Carson’s favorite Buddy gave Johnny a Slingerland kit for his Burbank office
Miss the Professor 😢
Buddy was the greatest. Neil too. Dam good drummers..
Melvins
que chido
Both have great precision, rhythm and timekeeping
Not saying he was the most popular, or innovative, or the most beloved drummer of all time, but Buddy Rich is still the best drum technician the world has ever seen. BTW his daughter took him to the hospital after this set - they confirmed he suffered a heart attack while performing.
Wowzer
Yes they are all time greats, you can also add Larry Bradley to your list. He also played just like this.
Now I know where Alex Van Halen got his snare drum solos in concert from ..can see it clear as day..Buddy..
Agreed!❤
Did I just see Buddy Rich playing match grip.🤔
Am Buddy all the way.
Neil once said he wanted that singke steoke apeed, and no one had what Buddy had.
Both great…but it’s Buddy Rich.
Let’s not forget Carl Palmer!!
Thank you. They seem to forget the great man all the time. He was truly the goat.
These guys WERE The Professors!! 😮😢😂
2 of the greatest drummers
Bonzo was the best hands down
@@tomperrone7021 nope, I saw him live & he didn't impress me, I saw buddy 8 months before he passed, saw Carl Palmer, Ginger Baker, Tommy Aldridge, butch trucks/ jaimoe , Mickey Hart/ Billy K, Lionel Hampton (yep he was a monster drummer), a zillion more of all genres. no one even came to Buddy !!!!
@@tomperrone7021 bonham was best for zep, his style was to one dimensional for other styles of music,he would not sound right in a jazz band. bonham said buddy rich wasa huge influence. patterned his kit after buddy
If Neil was alive today, he’d tell you that Buddy is the greatest, ever.
Still the best! At his age
one of them was wearing a suit.
Hands down it is peart
Buddy Rich is the GOAT.
Awesome. Love your dirt pfp AiC is the BEST
Which of these two are not like the other? ;-)
I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle
Neither is better. I'm probably the biggest Neil fan out there but my God buddy was insane...
They really are apples and oranges. I mean I can get into Neil's lyrical talents and is overall composition within just about any Rush song and hands down give it to neil, but then there's buddy. How do you deny the guy? He set the standard for every single drummer after him including Neil. I'm just lucky enough to say I saw them both live! Neil many many times but he just wants as a kid with my dad and I'll never forget it he was phenomenal. Didn't even know who Rush was. That was 1976 and I was a just kid. Didn’t find Rush until 78
So many great drummers. Don’t forget Louie Bellson, who imho was more MUSICAL in his approach to drumming than Buddy. Buddy had phenomenal hands and sticking. Many great drummers! Neil of course was surgical precision, extremely original, extremely musical and an literary lyrical master imho.
ALL were or are uniquely themselves which is always awesome- along with you who are reading this comment. 🎵🛎
The GREATEST !
Neal Peart and Justin Heyward (The Moody Blues), are probably the most influential musicians in my development of musical taste.
Professionals
What's more impressive is that Neil Peart is using a match grip which puts a drummer at a disadvantage for what Neil was doing.
Neil
Not fair!!! This is like what’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Buddy is way more faster.
But neil peart has more feel to his playing and very good speed too.
You must be kidding... should not even be mentioned in the same millennium as Buddy Rich.... I find these comparisons unbelievably ridiculous
Peart 🐐