Why does the drummer always get screwed?

[hutch]

Two notable cases..

Gary Young - Pavement
Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez- Bruce Springsteen


they paid their dues and just just when the band was about to break..they got shitcanned

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

How did you leave Pete Best out of this? 

[hutch]

How did you leave Pete Best out of this? 

oh boy... I knew there was another one...

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

How did you leave Pete Best out of this? 

oh boy... I knew there was another one...

There's more. Tony Chapman left the Stones early and I'm pretty sure The Who had a drummer before Bonham but I can't remember the name. Hold on . . . *googles* . . . Doug Sandon.

Good topic. Who else can people think of?

[sweetcell]

  Tony Chapman left the Stones early and I'm pretty sure The Who had a drummer before Bonham but I can't remember the name. Hold on . . . *googles* . . . Doug Sandon.

did you mean Keith Moon?

Bonham = Zeppelin.

edit: and since i'm in pedantic mode, apparently it's Doug Sandom (often misspelled Sanden)

[hutch]

I have never been into Max Weinberg.. he is so robotic..totally unoriginal.... I don't really understand why Vini got let go. .i got to re-read the Bruce biography I have...

[hutch]

the Pete Best case is so so egregious... he was the rich guy at whose nice house they rehearsed.. all the chicks were obsessed with him and Pete Best was initially their biggest draw!!!!!!! then he gets let go for somebody that George Martin says can't handle drumming (I forget what track) and brings in a session guy!  Aspinall even ended up screwing Best's mom for pete's sake! (get it? Pete's sake! hah ha.. i'm hear all day..)

[evilizac]

I believe in the case of Pavement and Bruce, the drummers were becoming a liability.
Plus wasn't Gary Young like 10+ year older than the rest of the band.
Also, tastes change and static drummers usually suffer in that regard.

[hutch]

I believe in the case of Pavement and Bruce, the drummers were becoming a liability.
Plus wasn't Gary Young like 10+ year older than the rest of the band.
Also, tastes change and static drummers usually suffer in that regard.

well they're always a "liability" when they're let go.. but always an "asset" on the way up!

[evilizac]

Well when it's time to start really making money and becoming a "business" the whole wildman thing is rarely an actual asset. Some start playing the role too well, too early.

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

did you mean Keith Moon?

Bonham = Zeppelin.

Whoops.

edit: and since i'm in pedantic mode, apparently it's Doug Sandom (often misspelled Sanden)

Pedantry uber alles.

[shemptiness]

Aaron Burkhardt and Chad Channing (Nirvana)
Kate Schellenbach (Beastie Boys)
Scott Raynor (Blink-182)

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Primal Scream was always something of a revolving door but Tom McGurk got axed right before they broke big.

[Relaxer]

Tony McCarroll of Oasis got kinda screwed but not really because his fucking plodding-ass beats on Definitely Maybe are so distracting it ruins the record. Seriously, listen to any song from DM -- the drumbeat is the same whether it's Cigarettes & Alcohol or Live Forever. Awful drummer, I'm glad he got fired.

[Relaxer]

Primal Scream was always something of a revolving door but Tom McGurk got axed right before they broke big.

Speaking of which, are there any Scream fanatics who happen to know who was playing drums for them in the year 2000? I have a 03/20/2000 bootleg from Maida Vale and the drummer on that show is INSANELY good.