There's never been a good drum solo. CHANGE MY MIND.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

My thesis is perfectly illustrated by this clip of Cream playing live, when Enoch Eric and Ken hang up their instruments and walk off stage to work their way through War and Peace, rather than stand there awkwardly, pretending to enjoy it, while their irascible drummer works himself interminably up into a frenzy. I'm on Sertraline, FFS, and even I can get to the end quicker than that. Nobody likes drum solos. Nobody. Not even Ginger Baker did, really: just look at him grimace. Tell me I'm wrong.

[Mr Banlon]

Joe Morello : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54uhjDErU-Y

[chveik]

Elvin Jones on Coltrane's 'The Drum Thing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4WLQ9uHDno&ab_channel=JohnColtrane-Topic

[badaids]

There is precisely one good drum solo, played by Clive Bunker in Dharma for One on Jethro Tull's This Was album. Thanks.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Jaki Liebezeit, possibly during a power cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_XVM7LGnk

[Pauline Walnuts]

There was a Bill Ward one, where after a short solo bellows "Long drum solos are BORING!"

Can't find it on YouTube now.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Not a solo, but I can listen to Keith Moon isolated drums for hours minutes and not get bored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL7uVSRnOms

[Gradual Decline]

Doktor Avalanche did some pretty powerful solo spots I seem to remember.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Joe Morello : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54uhjDErU-Y

Well, at least he doesn't look like he actively hates it, and I'll confess there are moments when he's just using his left hand that are technically impressive, but I can't imagine ever choosing to listen to that again outside of discussions arising from this thread.

[Gregory Torso]

Louie Bellson. Duke Ellington. Skin Deep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwaAiWA9lo

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Max Roach - Tears For Johannesberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvFzXr-o-8&t=1662s

[Magnum Valentino]

There was a Bill Ward one, where after a short solo bellows "Long drum solos are BORING!"

Can't find it on YouTube now.

Rat Salad is also a short drum solo, as an album track.

Mario Duplantier's are quite thrilling and again, short. Brevity is key.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9BrZ-zUpQ

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Elvin Jones on Coltrane's 'The Drum Thing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4WLQ9uHDno&ab_channel=JohnColtrane-Topic

I've somehow made it to nearly fifty with a lot of jazz simply passing me by. But I enjoyed the alpha and the omega of that track quite a lot, and I'll explore their output more as a consequence, thank you. However, again, I found the drum solo quickly outstayed it's welcome - it just didn't hold my interest.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Youtube link with no description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQg2auVlU4

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

There is precisely one good drum solo, played by Clive Bunker in Dharma for One on Jethro Tull's This Was album. Thanks.

Had high hopes for this, what with being fairly partial to Jethro Tull and, as that shows, having the ability to endure solos on unlikely instruments. But even the addition of comedy sound effects (bulb horns?) In the middle can't really lift the solo for me, I'm afraid.

[Shit Good Nose]

Billy Cobham, Tenth Pinn (solo starts at 6:05 [also features bonus owl]) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyYzfkn4yc

Jon Hiseman, The Machine Demands A Sacrifice (Colosseum) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_qgSbdqXNg

Vinnie Colaiuta (here with Zappa), Zeets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ZUO79il6A

If you'll indulge me, Phil Collins and Chester Thompson drum duet - https://youtu.be/EZk1bl7MBcE?t=2078

If you'll indulge me further, Bill Bruford and Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), B'Boom - https://youtu.be/EZk1bl7MBcE?t=1980

And Bruford on his own trying to throw Tony Levin off the beat (King Crimson again), Indiscipline - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDt1TLUbzY

Oh, and just about any Tony Williams solo (of which there are far too many to post in a thread that starts from a point of doubt).

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Jaki Liebezeit, possibly during a power cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_XVM7LGnk

Hmm, ok, maybe Stockholm syndrome is setting in. Or maybe it was the force majeure circumstances. But that is the first solo that has introduced a glimmer of uncertainty into my position. Perhaps it's because it's the first one in which the drummer seems to understand the value of a pause.

[idunnosomename]

they're not bad in sets these days, it's usually just a way to work up the crowd towards the end of the show. the 30-minute shit from the '70s though, bloody hell. that's just so the rest of the band can take heroin/have sex with a child/have a poo

[Clatty McCutcheon]

The brief rapid-fire solo by Mick Fleetwood, in Tusk.

https://youtu.be/ATMR5ettHz8?t=117

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

There was a Bill Ward one, where after a short solo bellows "Long drum solos are BORING!"

Can't find it on YouTube now.

I like him already.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Not a solo, but I can listen to Keith Moon isolated drums for hours minutes and not get bored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL7uVSRnOms

Enjoyed that more than any of the others so far, tbh. Less is definitely more.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

best Jaki Liebezeit is when he absolutely loses his shit about 15 minutes into Aumgn and sounds like he's trying to pound his kit into the ground

[Johnny Yesno]

I feel you OP and I say that as a drummer. However, I feel Buddy Rich should CHANGE YOUR MIND:

Buddy Rich's Incredible Tonight Show Drum Solos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yQWPanTyw

The first performance is sublime. The sound is just so aggressive and exciting, with a snare that sounds like a fucking machine gun. They're not drum connoisseurs in that audience. They're Joe Public wanting to be entertained and Rich was an entertainer.

This is a good one too:

Buddy Rich slams Country Music - Mike Douglas Show 1971: https://youtu.be/g67-LyG6JBY?t=440

[rue the polywhirl]

Erm... Steve Gadd on Steely Dan - Aja.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Louie Bellson. Duke Ellington. Skin Deep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwaAiWA9lo

That's got a lovely bombastic opening, hasn't it? In fact, my first impressions of the track are very positive. Duke Ellington, like Coltrane, is of course a name I've heard of, but I've never explored their work. I'll have to remedy that.

Ok, now I'm onto the solo proper - I'd been enjoying the brief brass punctuations to the drumming earlier, and - wait, is that the first cowbell of the thread[nb] Frederick Delius considers rewrite [/nb]? - no, sorry, he's lost me. Nice coda, though.

[Johnny Yesno]

Jaki Liebezeit, possibly during a power cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_XVM7LGnk

Oh, that's very nice. What a groove. One of my favourite drummers and it's is the first time I've heard this[nb]Edit: Or maybe not. I have this video bookmarked but have no memory of bookmarking it.[/nb]. Ta for the link.

[Shit Good Nose]

I feel you OP and I say that as a drummer. However, I feel Buddy Rich should CHANGE YOUR MIND:

Buddy Rich's Incredible Tonight Show Drum Solos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yQWPanTyw

I see there's one where he sits in at Ed Shaughnessy's big kit - reminds me of that little drum battle they had on Carson.

[Johnny Yesno]

I see there's one where he sits in at Ed Shaughnessy's big kit

That's a good one too. It's not easy playing on someone else's kit but there he is telling everyone else in the band how amazing they are.

- reminds me of that little drum battle they had on Carson.

This one?

Buddy Rich and Ed Shaughnessy Play Drums on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" - 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXdi25469U

Another video that has previously passed me by. Amazing stuff.

[Shit Good Nose]

That's the bunny.

And OnlyRegistered's link to Animal has also reminded me of the Animal-Buddy battle (which is in the related vids on that page).