Top 5 Male Vocalist in the World

1. Freddie Mercury - Queen

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara, 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), was a British Indian musician, best known as the frontman of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his powerful vocals and flamboyant performances. As a songwriter, he composed many international hits, including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "We Are the Champions" and "Barcelona". Fronted by Mercury, Queen went on to sell more than 300 million albums internationally as of 2009.

In addition to his work with Queen, he also led a solo career and was occasionally a producer and guest musician (piano or vocals) for other artists. Mercury, who was a Parsi and grew up in India, has been referred to as "Britain's first Asian rock star". He died of bronchopneumonia induced by HIV (AIDS) on 24 November 1991, only one day after publicly acknowledging he had the disease. In 2006, Time Asia named him as one of the most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years, and he continues to be listed as one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music: in 2005, Blender readers voted Mercury the greatest male singer of all time (and second-greatest singer overall after Mariah Carey), and in 2007, Hit Parader readers voted him the 6th greatest heavy metal singer of all time. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time, reflecting the magazine's editorial opinion.

2. Jon - Bon Jovi

John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. (born March 2, 1962), better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American Academy Award nominated musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of band Bon Jovi. He was also the owner of the Philadelphia Soul of the now suspended Arena Football League.Throughout his career, he has released two solo albums and eleven studio albums with his band which have sold over 120 million albums worldwide.

As a solo artist, he has numerous awards for his work, including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for his solo hit: Blaze of Glory. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Monmouth University in 2001. He campaigned for Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election, John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, and Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.

3. Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as as the lead vocalist and a lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career, releasing the 2007 album Raising Sand, produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He was named the number 1 singer on Hit Parader's list of 100 greatest heavy metal vocalists.

4. James Hetfield - Mettalica

James Hetfield was born on August 3, 1963 in Downey, Los Angeles County, California.^[1] He is of English, German, Swedish and Irish descent.

Hetfield's father, Virgil (a truck driver who later left the family) and mother, Cynthia (a light opera singer) were strict adherents to Christian Science, and accordingly, much of James' young life revolved around Christian Science.

In accordance with their beliefs, Hetfield's parents strongly disapproved of medicine or any other medical treatment and remained loyal to their faith even as Cynthia was dying from cancer.

Hetfield was nine years old when he first began piano lessons, after which he took on his brother David's drums and finally, at the age of fourteen, he began to play guitar. He also was in a few bands as a child - one being Leather Charm and another Obsession

Hetfield identifies Aerosmith as having been his main musical influence as a child, and has said that they were the reason why he wanted to play guitar. Other bands and musicians such as Motörhead, ZZ Top, Black Sabbath, Saxon, Diamond Head, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., Kiss, Rush, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Queen, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Judas Priest, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Blue Öyster Cult, Venom, Led Zeppelin, Anvil, and Thin Lizzy also had a major influence on his musical tastes.

5. Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden

Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer, TV presenter, airline pilot, radio show host, record producer, fencer, author, and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the metal band Iron Maiden.

Dickinson performed for some local bands including Styx (not the American band of the same name) in 1976, Speed, (1977-1978), and Shots in early 1979. He then joined hard rock band Samson later in 1979, where he gained some popularity. In this band he went by the name of "Bruce Bruce." He left Samson in 1981, citing musical differences. Shortly afterwards, in 1981, Dickinson was hired as Iron Maiden's new vocalist, debuting for that band with the 1982 album The Number of the Beast. During his time in that band, they issued a series of high impact releases, resulting in Dickinson gaining worldwide fame, and becoming one of the most acclaimed heavy metal vocalists of all time.

Dickinson quit Iron Maiden in 1993 in order to pursue his solo career, being replaced by Blaze Bayley. Dickinson's solo work ranged a wide variety of heavy metal and rock styles. Dickinson rejoined Maiden in 1999 along with guitarist Adrian Smith. Since then, Dickinson has only released one more solo album, Tyranny of Souls. He is the older cousin of Rob Dickinson, lead singer of British alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. In his personal life, he is known for his strict abstinence from drug use.

source : wikipedia.org

Trisum - 1st Edition

Hm..I'll show you about TRISUM, trio best guitarist in Indonesia. They make first album called 1st Edition.
"When listening to the album" guitar "This is what occurred to my mind is how Tohpati and I Dewa Gede Budjana with guest star Wayan Balawan appears as a skilled gatherer. Because they actually appear as characters peracik of different guitar playing. They cross-genre mix that could Arransemen dirteliti of each composition, not easy to imagine how to knit musical trends: there is jazz, rock, bluegrass and etnikal. " (Denny Sakrie - Observer Music)



I Dewa Gede Tohpati Budjana and was the initiator of the Trisum. Together I Wayan Balawan, the famous musician tapping technique as a guest star, they work together to produce a master work of the album titled 1st Edition. 9 composition in this album are presented with musical tastes that sophisticated. Can be listened to in the song chromatic work or Mahabharata Budjana Tohpati work. Or Mainz In My Mind works from Balawan. In addition to his own work, nicely Trisum also interprets the work of Ismail Marzuki is entitled Keroncong dibesut Kemayoran with the sound without losing the spirit of jazzy keroncongnya. Consider also their expertise in processing the three traditional songs or Cublak Cublak suweng Jali Jali with arrangements and modern sound.

A little reminder that the early formation of Trisum was in 2004 where Budjana, Tohpati, and Balawan sepanggung appear in a product launch. A year later three of them perform at Java Jazz Festival performances where the audience was very enthusiastic applause. They re-appear in a concert titled sepanggung Three Dialogues guitar at the Graha Bhakti Budaya, Taman Ismail Mardjuki (TIM) at the end of 2005. In this concert guitarist powerful gait are three well known by the public, which they then roadshows to various cities in Indonesia.

Not only play BARENG

In each appearance Trisum supported by a row of musicians, you name it Indro Hardjodikoro (electric bass), Sandy Winarta (drums), Eugen Bounty (Clarinet), Bang Sun (flute), and Jalu Pratidina (drums). These names are also supporting the album 1st Edition.

Recording process carried out simultaneously and live in order to get a 'life' and an atmosphere like when Trisum concert. But it is worth noting that does not mean this to be a live recording arena just jamming together, because Budjana and Tohpati as Trisum menggawangi motor of this project is structured with musical patterns that have been carefully designed before. As a result this album processing time consuming and requires a high teamwork. This is the challenge. But the fruit of their hard work paid off with the results of a quality album.

Enjoying music on this album Trisum like to hear the dialogue three musketeers guitar with a different style. Consider the composition of their game-cublak suweng Cublak funny, for example, or Kr. Kemayoran - by Ismail Marzuki, who became so "different".

Budjana, Tohpati, and was not a guitarist Balawan yesterday afternoon. That's why, try a musical exploration are offered on this album worthy of you refer to. Listen Mahabrata composition, for example, with elements of strong ethnic composition or medley and the Paintings Caka melodic morning.

The composition of the work Balawan, Mainz In My Mind, is also very interesting to be listened to. Balawan looked dominant in this composition. And, when it comes, and Tohpati Budjana changed the dominance of Balawan tapping technique with guitar patterns they have.

Trisum appearance in the music world in Indonesia reminds us that similar things have been done by the warrior guitar from rock music genre, namely Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Malmsteen Ingwie, and John Petrucci, who collaborated released several live albums G3. In the realm of jazz, we've enjoyed the collaboration John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia, and Al DiMeola, who also released an acoustic album.

Trisum - 1s Edition released by SonyBMG in April 2007 in a regular CD format and the CD Deluxe. For Deluxe format is a bonus DVD of The Making Of. Hopefully this album can be accepted and enjoyed by all the creativity and the encouragement of another Indonesian musicians to continue working and working.

I Wayan Balawan - Legend Guitarist from Indonesia

Today, i'll discuss about I Wayan Balawan, one of the best jazz guitarist. I Wayan Balawan was born in Bali - Indonesia September 1973, He Grew up amongst Balinese gamelan music. At age of 8 he began to play guitar and start his first band in the age of 14. He can plays rock guitar virtuoso style like Yngwie Malmsteen since he was 10 years old.

In 1993 he went to Sydney and got a scholarship to study jazz at the Australian Institute Of Music for two years. He went back to Bali in 1997 and form Batuan Ethnic Fusion (A mix of Balinese Gamelan and Jazz) and released one album in 1999.

He is versatile guitarist that play many styles of music, and a great solo performer. He has developed the ability to play a special and difficult form of tapping which involves chord and bass work with the left hand and tapped melody with the right hand, which resembles piano playing.

Balawan is now considered as one of famous favourite jazz guitarist in Indonesia.

Now, he make a group musik name Batuan Ethnic Fusion.

Batuan Etnic Fusion (BEF) was formed on June 22, 1997 with the following aims :

To Explore further the exiting elements of ethnic Balinese music

To use traditional instruments which are both unique and rare

To reach new level in combining ethnic elements with modern music styles

To Preserve the traditional songs whose composers are unknown through the modern music rearrangement.

The Musical Concepts :

BEF presents a culmination of ethnic and modern music which emphasises the ethnic elements

Introduce the concept of seruling bambu orchestra with 5 seruling players

Has a strong elements of improvisation

BEF's music display dynamics, rhythm and tempo changes which are often drastic as characteristic of Balinese gamelan

Riders Of Balawan Batuan Ethnic Fusion

1 ( one ) set Standard Drums

2 Guitar Amp ( Recommend Roland Jazz Chorus)

2 keyboard Amp ( recom. Peavey KB 300 or roland

1 Bass Amp ( gallian Krueger or trace elliot or ampeg)

minimum 8 microphone ( 5 shure SM 57 and 3 Shure SM 58 with stand ( these not included drums microphones, only for The Gamelan ethnic instruments )

3 Direct box.

Digital piano, Rhodes or similar type

Equipment :

2 balinese kendang ( Balinese drum)

1 metal gamelan

1 wooden gamelan

1 standard cengceng

4 pair of cengceng

4 flute

10 piece of reong.

He also join in TRISUM, consist of Dewa Budjana and Tohpati. they are my favourite.

Jimi Hendrix Guitar

THIS is THE REAL LEGEND GUITARIST
Please Welcome....
JIMI HENDRIX

today I'll show guitar that Jimi use in his concert. He always use Gibson guitar.

Today has been a strange day, first I wake up to a strange orange glow only to look out the window and see a scene from Total Recall as a dust storm engulfed Sydney (pics here) and then I check out my daily feeds only to see one of the weirdest pieces of news ever from MusicRadar.com. The post was entitled “When is a Strat not a Strat”, I was intrigued until I looked at closer at the image presented before me. At first glance I thought I was looking at Fender Stratocaster, then I noticed the pointy reverse headstock and realised, no, this is not a Fender. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against pointy headstocks, I own an Ibanez and have a Suhr on order but it was immediately obvious that this was a Strat copy rather than a genuine Stratocaster. Anyway then I noticed the slanty back and the purple sticker and flash of purple across the headstock and then the penny dropped.

I’ve been deliberating about blogging this news all day because quite honestly I was lost for words when I saw the “Gibson Hendrix Authentic Electric Guitar”, not that I have any issue with Gibson releasing a Jimi Hendrix guitar, they have every right to after all Jimi played an SG, Les Paul & Flying V however Jimi was famous for playing Fender Stratocasters, not exclusively, there was no signature deal with Fender but the Strat obviously felt very comfortable for him. Jimi was apparently leaning more toward Gibson’s before he died, I read he preferred the thicker tone of SG’s and Les Pauls.

The problem is that Gibson have decided to abandon their reputation in exchange for a cheap marketing ploy by the Hendrix Estate (Janie Hendrix in particular) and create a Strat copy, yes Gibson, the company who sued PRS for creating a Singlecut design too close to a Les Paul! The worst thing about this guitar is that it comes as a cheap guitar package with an amp and fuzz pedal for $400, it might as well have Miley Cyrus’ face painted on it. I feel that this is somewhat disrespectful to the greatest guitarist that ever lived and sacrilege that this Disney Hendrix guitar package has even been allowed to go on sale, let alone from someone as highly regarded as Gibson. The backlash from this announcement is already apparent with threads popping up on many forums already with 99% of guitarists expressing their disapproval. Gibson have already removed an article containing photos from the factory of the Hendrix guitar in production from their Lifestyle section, when I checked it this morning there were already 20 or so negative comments, add these to the hundreds of forum posts about this announcement and I think you have a problem which Gibson really can’t afford to ignore, I wonder what their next move will be?

UPDATE: Musicradar.com have published an interview with Janie Hendrix regarding this announcement. While I think it is great that they are creating instruments that are affordable for the next generation of Voodoo children, stomping over Fender to do it is not the right decision in my opinion.

Yngwie Malmsteen - High Speed Picking Guitarist

Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions, often incorporating high speed picking with harmonic minor scales, diminished scales and sweep picked arpeggios. Four of his albums, from 1984 to 1988, Rising Force, Marching Out, Trilogy, and Odyssey, ranked in the top 100 for sales.

He is one of my favourite guitarist.

In late 1982 Malmsteen was brought to the U.S. by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records, who had heard a demo tape of Malmsteen's playing. He had brief engagements with Steeler, for their self-titled album of 1983, then Graham Bonnet's Alcatrazz, for their 1983 debut No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll, and the 1984 live album Live Sentence. Malmsteen released his first solo album Rising Force in 1984, which featured Barrie Barlow of Jethro Tull on drums. His album was really meant to be an instrumental side-project of Alcatrazz, but it contained vocals, and Malmsteen left Alcatrazz soon after the release of Rising Force.

Rising Force won the Guitar Player Magazine's award for Best Rock Album and was also nominated for a Grammy for 'Best Rock Instrumental', achieving #60 on the Billboard album chart. Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (as his band was thereafter known) next released Marching Out (1985). Jeff Scott Soto filled vocal duties on these initial albums. His third album, Trilogy, featuring the vocals of Mark Boals, was released in 1986. In 1987, another singer, former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner joined his band. That year, Malmsteen was in a serious car accident, smashing his Jaguar E-Type into a tree and putting him in a coma for a week. Nerve damage to his right hand was reported. During his time in the hospital, Malmsteen's mother died from cancer. In the summer of 1988 he released his fourth album, Odyssey. Odyssey would be his biggest hit album, mainly because of its first single "Heaven Tonight". Shows in Russia during the Odyssey tour were recorded, and released in 1989 as his fifth album Trial By Fire: Live in Leningrad.

Malmsteen's "Neo-classical" style of metal became widely popular among guitarists during the mid 1980s, with contemporaries such as Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Marty Friedman, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore becoming prominent. MacAlpine came to the neoclassical/shred field by applying his classical piano training to his guitar playing and Moore arrived at a similar style because he shared Malmsteen's major influences. In late 1988, Malmsteen's signature Fender Stratocaster guitar was released, making him and Eric Clapton the first artists to be honored by Fender.

1990s

In the early 1990s Malmsteen released the albums Eclipse (1990), The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection (1991), Fire and Ice (1992) and The Seventh Sign (1994). Despite his early success, and continuous success in Europe and Asia, by the early 1990s 1980s heavy metal styles such as neoclassical metal and lengthy, virtuoso shred guitar solos had become unfashionable in the US. In 1993, Malmsteen's mother-in-law, who was opposed to his engagement with her daughter, had him arrested for threatening her with a shotgun and holding her daughter against her will The charges against Malmsteen were dropped when he denied the incident.

Malmsteen continued to record and release albums under the Japanese record label Pony Canyon, and maintained a devoted following from some fans in Europe and Japan, and to a lesser extent in the USA. In 2000, he once again acquired a contract with a US record label, Spitfire, and released his 1990s catalog into the US market for the first time, including what he regards as his masterpiece, Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra, recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague.

2000s

Malmsteen in Barcelona

After the release of War to End All Wars in 2000, singer Mark Boals left the band. Malmsteen went on tour with former Ark vocalist Jorn Lande. Due to various tensions on tour, Jorn left before the recording of Malmsteen's next album, Attack!!. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Doogie White. White's vocals were well received by fans. In 2003, Malmsteen joined Joe Satriani and Steve Vai as part of the G3 supergroup. Malmsteen made two guest appearances on keyboardist Derek Sherinian's albums Black Utopia (2003), and Blood of the Snake (2006) where Malmsteen is heard on the same tracks as Al Di Meola and Zakk Wylde. In 2004, Malmsteen made two cameo appearances on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law- possibly alluded to his status as a guitarist.

Malmsteen released Unleash the Fury in 2005. (This title may be a reference to an audio recording that supposedly captured Malmsteen's immoderate response to a flight attendant who spilled a beverage on him. The recording found popularity in filesharing networks as an example of the absurd behavior of celebrities.) He is married to April and has a son named Antonio after Antonio Vivaldi, and they live in Miami, Florida. A noted Ferrari enthusiast, he owned a black 1985 308 GTS^[3] for 18 years before selling it on eBay, and a red 1962 250 GTO.^[4] In the mid-2000s, he gave up smoking and drinking alcohol (date: April 2007).

In 2007, Malmsteen was honored in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II. Players can receive the "Yngwie Malmsteen" award by hitting 1000 or more notes in succession.^[5] February 2008 saw the replacement of singer Doogie White with former Iced Earth and Judas Priest and current Beyond Fear singer Tim Owens, with whom Malmsteen had once recorded a cover of Ozzy Osbourne's song "Mr. Crowley", for the 2000 Osbourne tribute album Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy. The first Malmsteen album to feature Owens is titled Perpetual Flame and was released on October 14. On November 25, 2008, Malmsteen had three of his songs ("Caprici Di Diablo", "Damnation Game", and "Red Devil") released as downloadable content for the video games Rock Band and Rock Band 2. In 2008 Malmsteen was a special guest on the VH1 Classic show "That Metal Show". In the 10th of March 2009, Malmsteen's label Rising Force has launched his new release Angels of Love, an instrumental album which features acoustic arrangements of some of his best-known ballads.

In August, 2009, Time Magazine named Malmsteen #9 on its list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all-time. Malmsteen is set to release another album compilation entitled High Impact in December 8, 2009.

Malmsteen is best known for the Neo-classical style of playing. He favors the harmonic minor scales, particularly a harmonic minor, b harmonic minor and e harmonic minor. he often uses diminished arppegios and phrygian scales and draws an influence from Bach and Beethoven.

Equipment.

He use Fender Stratocaster. The Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster is a replica of the guitar used by Swedish heavy metal guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen, made by Fender. It has two DiMarzio YJM single-coil pickups (neck/middle) paired with a DiMarzio single-coil (bridge), a scalloped fingerboard with 21 Dunlop 6000 super-sized frets, a late-'60s large headstock and a brass nut. This Fender Artist signature guitar also features a 3-ply white/black/white pickguard, a deeper scalloped fingerboard, Bullet truss rod nut and machine screw neck mounting inserts. The early Malmsteen Strats (produced before the change to the actual "large headstock" models in 1998) featured an American 2-point synchronized tremolo, small headstock with "spaghetti"-style decal, Gotoh/Kluson tuners and a hardened-steel EasyGlider string tree, a Fender "DeltaTone" single-coil pickup in the middle position and a TBX tone control for the middle/bridge pickups.

source : wikipedia.org

Top 5 Bassist all of time

1. Pete Wentz - Fall Out Boy
Peter Lewis Kingston "Pete" Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is an American musician, lyricist and Music video director, most famous for his work with the Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy. In recent years, he has hosted the MTV program FNMTV.









2. Paul McCartney - The Beatles

Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda McCartney. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help international charities.

McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular-music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remained the UK's top seller until surpassed, in 1984, by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" whose participants included McCartney.

His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than three thousand songs, including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease. Aside from his musical work, McCartney is a painter and an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns against landmines, seal culls and Third World debt. McCartney was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1965, and was knighted in 1997.

3. Nikki Sixx - Motley Crue

Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr. December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California) is an American bassist and the main songwriter for heavy metal/Hair Metal band Mötley Crüe. He has also played bass for glam metal band London, experimental band 58, and the hard rock band Brides of Destruction.

4. John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin

John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin on 3 January 1946) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer,

and multi-instrumentalist musician.

Best known as the bassist, keyboardist, and mandolin player for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career and is widely respected as both a musician and a producer. A versatile musician, Jones also plays guitar, koto, lap steel guitars, autoharp, ukulele, sitar, cello, continuum and the three over-dubbed recorder parts heard on Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".

According to Allmusic, Jones "has left his mark on rock & roll music history as an innovative musician, arranger, and director."

Jones is currently part of the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures with Josh Homme and Dave Grohl. He plays the bass, piano and other instruments. This supergroup released their first single "New Fang", and released their debut, self-title

5. Cliff Burton - Metalicca

Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American bassist best known as the bass player of American thrash metal band Metallica. As a bassist he made heavy use of distortion and effects (several of which are usually associated with non-bass guitars), best exemplified on his signature piece, "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth".

Burton's early influence was essential in creating the unique musical style for which Metallica became famous. Burton joined the band in 1982 and performed on their debut album, Kill 'Em All. Burton performed on two more Metallica albums, Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, both of which met with major commercial and critical success.

On September 27, 1986, Burton was killed when the band's tour bus skidded and crashed in Sweden.

Burton was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Metallica on April 4, 2009. His father, Ray Burton, gave a speech on his son's behalf.

course : wikipedia.org

Best Drummer All of Time

1. Neil Peart - Rush

Neil Ellwood Peart, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is best-known as the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush.

Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario (now part of St. Catharines) working the occasional odd job. However, his true ambition was to become a professional musician. During adolescence, he floated from regional band to regional band and dropped out of high school to pursue a career as a full-time drummer. After a discouraging stint in England to concentrate on his music, Peart returned home, where he joined a local Toronto band, Rush, in the summer of 1974.

Early in his career, Peart's performance style was deeply rooted in hard rock. He drew most of his inspiration from drummers such as Keith Moon and John Bonham, players who were at the forefront of the British hard rock scene. As time progressed, however, he 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 and reinvent his playing style by incorporating jazz and swing components.[citation needed] Gruber was also responsible for introducing him to the products of Drum Workshop[citation needed], the company whose products Peart currently endorses.

Peart has received many awards for his musical performances and is known for his technical proficiency and stamina.

In addition to being a musician, Peart is also a prolific writer, having published several memoirs about his travels. Peart is also Rush's primary lyricist. In writing lyrics for Rush, Peart addresses universal themes and diverse subject matter including science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy, as well as secular, humanitarian and libertarian themes. All four of his books are travel-based non-fiction, though they diverge into his life and these subjects as well.

Peart currently resides in Santa Monica, USA with his wife, photographer Carrie Nuttall, but also has a home in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec and spends time in Toronto for recording purposes. On August 12, 2009 Nuttall gave birth to a daughter, Olivia Louise Peart.

2. John Bonham - Led Zeppelin

John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English drummer and songwriter, best known as the drummer of the band Led Zeppelin.

He was renowned for his power, fast right foot, distinctive sound and "feel" for the groove. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era.

Bonham lived to the age of 32; he died on 25 September 1980 due to pulmonary edema.

3. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theatre

Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American drummer primarily known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Known for his drumming prowess and technical skill, Portnoy has won 23 awards from the Modern Drummer magazine. He has co-produced the last five Dream Theater albums with guitarist John Petrucci, starting from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. From A Change of Seasons onwards, Portnoy has been writing a substantial amount of Dream Theater's lyrics, filling the void left by Kevin Moore, who left the band after the band's release of Awake. He is the second youngest person (after Neil Peart) to be inducted into the Modern Drummer's Hall of Fame (at 37 years of age).

4. Keith Moon - The Who

Keith John Moon (23 August 1946– 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained notoriety for exuberant drumming and his destructive lifestyle that earned him the nickname, "Moon the Loon." Moon joined The Who in 1964. He played on all albums and singles from their debut, 1965's My Generation, to 1978's Who Are You, which was released two weeks before his death.

Moon was known for innovative, dramatic drumming, often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across the toms and cymbal crashes. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers of all time.

5. Dave Lombardo -Slayer

Dave Lombardo (born February 16, 1965 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American heavy metal drummer best known for his work with American thrash metal band Slayer. He has performed with Slayer on seven albums, including their groundbreaking 1986 release Reign In Blood and their 2006 release Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise Lombardo's music career has spanned more than 25 years, during which he has been involved in the production of 29 commercial recordings spanning a number of major genres with bands such as Grip Inc., Fantômas, and Testament in addition to Slayer.

Lombardo's musical interest was sparked by playing along to a Santana record with bongo drums and was later influenced by the musical styles of Led Zeppelin and KISS. Lombardo is known as an aggressive heavy metal drummer and his use of the drums have been called "astonishingly innovative and earned him the title "the godfather of double bass" from Drummer World. Over his career, he has had a significant influence on the metal scene, and has inspired many modern metal drummers.

I think they are the best drummer that influence many drummer now..

source: wikipedia.org