Trying to think of a rock or blues drummer who can play like this or out play this. Anybody think of anyone?
Trying to think of a rock or blues drummer who can play like this
5 seconds in and I went...HA! Yeah, right... 😉
There's the apple....then there"s all the oranges... 😛
Ginger Baker.
Buddy Rich would chew GB up, then eat 'em for lunch.
In both ability and attitude. 
Never saw it in a competitive context but rather from the perspective of who most plays like Buddy?
Ginger,certainly in rock,is most similar and Butch,imho,is more of a power drummer who has the enormous task of providing the backbone for a freight train!
Stewart Copeland
Matt Abts could handle the gig...
Both Copeland and Abst are great drummers and could play that tune well, but not like Buddy
Jaimoe in the 70s could handle it.
The "rock" drummers who come closest are really jazz drummers who play rock, i.e. Vinny C, Dave Weckl
Fwiw, in the Jazz world I would take Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, and Billy Cobham over Buddy, not to diminish Buddy's talent (I'm in awe), but different musical styles
Buddy Rich, my dad turned me on to him, Buddy surely was a bad ass Mofo on the skins!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing. Saw Buddy in the late '70's and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. Saw him @ the Strand Theater, York, PA.. I wasn't really into big band, or swing, music at the time ....Buddy and his band blew me away. I'll never forget it ...wish I could remember who went to that show with me. My best friend, concert buddy says it wasn't him. He and I, Billy, did see Ray Charles & the Raylettes in York, PA., also. He reminded me of this when I asked him about the Buddy Rich show. Ray's show was a seminal event for me. It too would be in my top 10 concerts. Again, this is the '70's. We didn't feel out of place at either show, but we did stand out.... the only two white, young kids, with shoulder length hair in either venue. Not to mention either one of us was probably wearing a Willie Nelson, or Waylon Jennings T-shirt to the show. So funny and a great memory.
Neil Peart began to emulate jazz and big band musicians Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. In 1994, Peart became a friend and pupil of jazz instructor Freddie Gruber, It was during this time that Peart decided to revamp his playing style by incorporating jazz and swing components.
Was reading an interview where they got Gene and Buddy together and they talked about their favorite drummers. Chick Webb was on top. Buddy Rich said thank back in the 1930's "Chick Webb was the daddy of them all".
But I can't find any solos by Webb. He died at age 34 in 1939. Here is his band with Ella on vocals live in New York City and they are kicking some serious butt. This thing swings and is a dancing jive. Man it cooks.
Tom Dowd said the original Allman Brothers could swing like the big bands of the 30's and 40's at times. And that you have to get free and have enough faith in yourself as a musician and the people you're playing with to let yourself walk out on the limb and just cut loose and blow!
Here is a video of the best drummers from the era. I've never heard of most of them. Bet Jaimoe knows about all of them.
