With the recent passing of Neil, there can be only 1.
My submission
As a drummer of 25 years, I'll comment a bit.
90% of drummers out there today couldn't even get through his polyrhythmic little intro at 1 minute mark.
I absolutely love the juxtaposition of him playing along to Justin (bass, 4:15 to 4:35), and then to Adam (guitar, 4:35 to 5:10), and then back to Justin.. it sounds like a completely different song, yet bass and guitar play exact same thing during that whole section. It's the drums that give it two lives.
And then, coming out of that, he goes to another polyrhythmic deal with his right keeping that cool single/triple hit beat over the main beat (his foot and snare), which is already an odd time signature. This is incredibly difficult to do.
6:25 to 9:00 is just ridiculous... putting so much rhythm and groove into a song, yet not using a kick, high hat, cymbal or snare. Who else is doing that in rock?
That look at 10:45.. over to Justin, saying to each other, well we got through it again!.. and then he almost screws up his ride beat! Then almost screws up again at 10:53! This is the extent of this man screwing up, completely unnoticeable to 99.9% of the spectators, and likely only noticed from a drummer that would be watching this video specifically.
There are interviews of Adam saying Danny is a huge driver of these odd time signatures and polyrhythms. Adam admitted that he is sometimes not even able to play along with Danny in early stages of riff writing, because he'd write a riff, then Danny would start playing some crazy beat with it, and it would screw Adam up from playing his own riff.
My submission
As a drummer of 25 years, I'll comment a bit.
90% of drummers out there today couldn't even get through his polyrhythmic little intro at 1 minute mark.
I absolutely love the juxtaposition of him playing along to Justin (bass, 4:15 to 4:35), and then to Adam (guitar, 4:35 to 5:10), and then back to Justin.. it sounds like a completely different song, yet bass and guitar play exact same thing during that whole section. It's the drums that give it two lives.
And then, coming out of that, he goes to another polyrhythmic deal with his right keeping that cool single/triple hit beat over the main beat (his foot and snare), which is already an odd time signature. This is incredibly difficult to do.
6:25 to 9:00 is just ridiculous... putting so much rhythm and groove into a song, yet not using a kick, high hat, cymbal or snare. Who else is doing that in rock?
That look at 10:45.. over to Justin, saying to each other, well we got through it again!.. and then he almost screws up his ride beat! Then almost screws up again at 10:53! This is the extent of this man screwing up, completely unnoticeable to 99.9% of the spectators, and likely only noticed from a drummer that would be watching this video specifically.
There are interviews of Adam saying Danny is a huge driver of these odd time signatures and polyrhythms. Adam admitted that he is sometimes not even able to play along with Danny in early stages of riff writing, because he'd write a riff, then Danny would start playing some crazy beat with it, and it would screw Adam up from playing his own riff.