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[peter]

On Fleer said

I love the quieter Wilson songs, like The Watchmaker, Perfect Life, and Stars Die.
The library is quite heavily mangled, but I just adore the link with Steven Wilson. Actually, this lib brought me to him.

As a former drummer (I can barely play for an entire song these days due my tendinitis, so recording is my only option, and I’m, at best, able to do simple stuff, so, I’m talking back before 2000), I find that maybe more than any other rock drummer, Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree has a style and makes choices that I find very close to the ones I would make when I was a drummer.  I love a lot of drummers. I’ve long been a huge fan of Vinnie Colaiuta, Billy Cobham, Joe Morello, Jack DeJohnette (I got to meet Billy and Jack — as well as several other famous drummers back in the day, and hang out with Buddy Rich and later, Louis Bellson; I got to meet Jimmy Chamberlin of the Smashing Pumpkins when he walked up to me and said, “I know you, you’re Peter Woods! I’ve been following you since [name of a band I played in several years earlier].” Then he added, “You’re one of my favorite drummers,” which I’d prefer to say is all that he said, but he added, “on the Chicago scene.” But the band I was in was already pretty popular in the Chicago and midwest area when I joined, so it got me in front of bigger venues and audiences than I’d ever known. And I was constantly being compared with Neil Peart — and as much as he was a great drummer—I didn’t think our styles were very similar beyond that I did quick, precise fills. I thought, if anything, I was a guy who grew up in love with Keith Moon’s drumming and was a more disciplined version of that, but far more from the Vinnie Colaiuta school, but of course, never as good as him. But when I heard Porcupine Tree with “Way Out of Here,” I loved the band, and the drumming just blew me away. I thought everything that guy did was everything I loved and would have wanted to play if I were in that band back when. Consequently, Gavin Harrison instantly became one of my favorite drummers! Yeah, maybe I need to go get these posts out of my system at the V-Drums forum.

And I know, I’ve told my Jimmy Chamberlin story too many times. But Jimmy was the only drummer fan I had that made it internationally famous, and Louise Post (Veruca Salt). That’s all I got. But man, Gavin Harrison. Over the weekend, I watched an hour podcast with drummer Omar Hakim and got my wife to watch around 20 minutes of it too! I could easily create an Omar Hakim forum. One of the best drummers of all time. No one creates better grooves than Omar — regardless of genre. But I digress…. A lot!

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