10. Mike Portnoy – Dream Theater

Michael Stephen Portnoy (lahir April 20, 1967) adalah pemain drum amerika terutama dikenal sebagai drummer dan backing vokalis band metal progresif dream theater. Drum dikenal karena kehebatannya dan keahlian teknis, portnoy telah memenangkan 23 penghargaan dari majalah modern drummer. Dia telah bersama-sama menghasilkan lima album terakhir dream theater dengan gitaris john petrucci, mulai dari metropolis pt. 2: Scenes from a memory. Dari a change of seasons dan seterusnya, portnoy telah menulis sejumlah besar lirik dream theater, mengisi kekosongan yang ditinggal oleh kevin moore, yang meninggalkan band ini setelah rilis band awake. Dia adalah orang termuda kedua (setelah neil peart) yang akan dilantik ke modern drummer’s hall of fame (pada usia 37 tahun).

9. Ian Paice – Deep Purple

Paice Ian Anderson (lahir 29 Juni 1948) adalah seorang musisi Inggris, paling dikenal sebagai drummer dari band rock seminalis, Deep Purple. Ia adalah satu-satunya anggota pendiri band masih tampil dengan bandnya.

8. Hal Blaine – Session Man

Hal Blaine (lahir Harold Simon Belsky 5 Februari 1929, Holyoke, Massachusetts) adalah seorang musisi penabuh drum. Ia paling dikenal karena karyanya dengan Wrecking Crew di California. Blaine bermain di berbagai hits dengan band populer, termasuk Elvis Presley, The Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, The Carpenters dan Beach Boys. Blaine adalah anggota Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

7. Bill Bruford – Yes, King Crimson

William Scott Bruford (lahir 17 Mei 1949 di Sevenoaks, Kent), lebih dikenal sebagai Bill Bruford, adalah drumer Inggris yang diakui kuat, precision tinggi, dan polyrhythmic. Dia adalah drummer asli yang sangat sukses di grup rock progresif Yes, dan telah menjadi tokoh terkemuka dalam gerakan rock progresif. Bruford telah melakukan sejumlah tindakan populer sejak awal 1970-an, termasuk bertugas sebagai drummer Genesis. Dari tahun 1972 sampai 1997, Bruford adalah drummer band rock progresif King Crimson. Bruford pindah jauh dari rock progresif berkonsentrasi pada jazz, memimpin grup jazz sendiri, Earthworks, selama beberapa tahun. Dia pensiun dari publik pada tahun 2009, tetapi akan terus berjalan dua perusahaan rekaman dan berbicara tentang musik. Otobiografinya, Bill Bruford: The Autobiography, diterbitkan pada awal 2009.

6. Terry Bozzio – Frank Zappa

Terry Bozzio lahir 27 Desember 1950 di San Francisco, California. Dia mulai bermain drum pada umur 6 tahun dari berbagai bahan sampah seperti kaleng kopi dan patahan tongkat. Pada usia 13 ia menyaksikan performa The Beatles utama di The Ed Sullivan Show, dan memohon ayahnya untuk pelajaran drum. Selama masa ini ia bermain di band garasi Blue Grass Radio, The Yarde, dan Jungle Tamalpaias Mountain Boys. Ia mulai rekaman dan tur dengan Frank Zappa pada tahun 1975, dan muncul dalam film konser Baby Snakes.

5. Ginger barker – cream

peter edward “ginger” baker (lahir 19 agustus 1939, lewisham, south london) adalah seorang drumer inggris, terkenal karena karyanya dengan cream dan blind faith. Ia juga dikenal karena banyak asosiasi dengan dunia baru musik dan menggunakan pengaruh afrika dan kolaborasi beragam seperti karya-karyanya dengan band rock hawkwind.

4. Carl palmer – elp

carl palmer (nama lahir kendall frederick carl palmer, 20 maret 1950, handsworth, birmingham) adalah seorang inggris dan merupakan drumer dan pemain perkusi. Ia dihormati sebagai salah satu yang paling dihormati drumer rock yang muncul dari tahun 1960-an. Di samping itu, palmer adalah veteran dari sejumlah band-band inggris yang terkenal, termasuk crazy world of arthur brown, atomic rooster, emerson, lake & palmer, dan asia. Ia juga berkontribusi terhadap karya-karya oleh mike oldfield.

3. Keith moon – the who

john keith moon (23 agustus 1946 – 7 september 1978) adalah drummer inggris dari grup rock the who. Ia mendapat pujian untuk permainan drum yang energetic, dan ketenaran untuk gaya hidup yang aneh, ia mempunyai julukan, “moon the loon.” (si gila moon). Moon bergabung dengan the who pada tahun 1964. Ia bermain di semua album dan single dari debut, 1965’s “i can’t explain”, hingga who are you, yang dirilis tiga minggu sebelum kematiannya.

Moon dikenal inovatif,bermain seacara dramatis, sering menghindari ketukan kembali dasar, teknik yang terfokus pada cepat, cascading roll di seluruh tom, ambidextrous (kidal), double bass drum dan simbal crash. Ia secara luas dianggap sebagai salah satu yang terbesar dalam sejarah drumer rock and roll.

2. John bonham – led zeppelin

john henry “bonzo” bonham (31 mei 1948 – 25 september 1980) adalah seorang penabuh drum dan penulis lagu inggris, paling dikenal sebagai drummer dari band led zeppelin.

Ia terkenal karena kekuatannya, cepat kaki kanan, suara khas dan “feeling” untuk rythm. Ia secara luas dianggap sebagai salah satu drumer terbesar dalam sejarah musik rock dinilai oleh musisi dan kritikus lainnya di industri.

1. Neil peart – rush

neil ellwood peart oc, (lahir september 12, 1952) adalah musisi kanada dan seorang penulis. Ia paling dikenal sebagai penabuh drum dan penulis lirik untuk band rock rush.

Peart tumbuh di port dalhousie, ontario (sekarang bagian dari st catharines) yang bekerja dengan pekerjaan yang kadang-kadang aneh. Namun, ambisi sejati adalah menjadi musisi profesional. Selama masa remaja, ia melayang dari daerah ke daerah band band dan keluar dari sekolah tinggi untuk mengejar karir sebagai full-time drummer. Setelah bertugas di inggris dan berkonsentrasi pada musiknya, peart kembali ke rumah, di mana ia bergabung dengan sebuah band toronto lokal, rush, pada musim panas 1974.

sumber: http://kaskusnews.com/2010/01/04/ranking-drummer-rock-terbaik-di-dunia/

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While trying to decide which ghost photos are the “best” is largely an exercise in subjectivity, it’s difficult to know which ones are the best with any degree of objectivity. These are the photos I consider the most authentic “captures” of ghosts ever caught on film, but I leave it to you to decide for yourself how real they may be. Of course, I realize that almost any photo can be hoaxed, but many of these were taken many years or even decades before digital cameras and the advent of Photoshop and other photo manipulation software came on the scene, making them somewhat more difficult to fake than it would be today.

10. The Queensland Photo, 1946

Taken in 1946 in Queensland, Australia by a mother who was taking a picture of her teenage daughter’s grave. Nobody was in sight at the time, but when the picture was processed the image of a child appeared, apparently sitting on the grave. The mother does not recognize the child, thereby reducing (though not entirely eliminating) the possibility that it’s a double exposure.

9. The S.S. Watertown Faces, 1924

This famous photo taken in 1924 apparently shows the faces of two recently deceased crewmen appearing in the waves alongside the merchant ship S.S. Watertown. Normally I’m not a big fan of faces appearing in grainy photos due to the brain’s tendency to make order out of chaos (known as “matrixing”) but this case is different in that the faces were seen by numerous members of the crew for several days beforehand and were positively identified as those of two crewmen who suffocated while cleaning out an oil tank a few days earlier. The Burns Detective Agency analyzed the negative for fakery and found none.

8. The Wem Fire Apparition, 1995

This famous photo of a young girl looking out from a raging fire was taken during a 1995 structure fire at Wem town hall in Shropshire, England. Shot from across the street by a local photographer, nothing unusual was seen at the time but once the negative was developed he noticed what appeared to be a young girl standing in the doorway of the burning building. Firemen found the photo so disturbing that they sifted through the ashes afterwards searching for the remains of a body but found nothing, leaving everyone wondering who the girl may have been. Not surprisingly, there is a bit of local folklore which claims that a young girl named Jane Churm accidentally burned the town hall to the ground in 1677 when she dropped a candle, and her ghost has been reputed to haunt Wem town hall ever since. Once a firebug, always a firebug I guess.

7. Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, 1991

One of those “too-good-to-be-true” photos, this one actually has a pretty good pedigree because it was shot by a professional paranormal investigator (and notice it was also taken in broad daylight, as opposed to most cemetery investigations which are almost always shot at night). The picture was taken at the Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in Illinois by the Ghost Research Society on August 10, 1991. Photographer Mari Huff was using high-speed monochromatic film in the area where their equipment had detected several electromagnetic anomalies, and captured this image of a woman in period costume—complete in a burial shroud of the era—sitting on a gravestone. Note that parts of her lower legs appear to be transparent. Looks staged, I know, but then what’s a real ghost supposed to look like?

6. The Corroboree Rock Spirit, 1959

Taken by Reverend R.S. Blance at Corroboree Rock near Alice Springs, Australia in 1959, this famous photo has been around for many years and defies explanation to this day. It wouldn’t be difficult to fake this photo with modern photo manipulation software (i.e. Photoshop) but it would have been nearly impossible to do in 1959.

5. HMS Daedalus Photo, 1919

Another classic and one of the better captures, this photograph from 1919, taken by retired RAF officer Sir Victor Goddard, shows his squadron from the Royal Navy vessel HMS Daedalus. Notice the transparent face peering around the man in the upper left corner of the photo. Several men from this squadron identified the face as belonging to mechanic Freddy Jackson, who had been killed two days earlier when he accidentally walked into a spinning propeller blade. His funeral had taken place earlier that day. Apparently, Freddy didn’t want to miss all the fun.

4. Toys-R-Us, 1978

This shot has one of the best pedigrees among spirit photos because it was shot under carefully controlled circumstances with numerous witnesses present, making fakery especially difficult. Taken in 1978 at a Sunnyvale, California Toys-R-Us store known for an inordinate amount of paranormal activity, the picture was shot by the crew from the TV program That’s Incredible! The infra-red film image of the young man leaning against the wall was NOT seen by any of the people present at the time, nor does he appear in the high speed footage shot from the same vantage point at the same time. There’s a story that in 1869 a young man died at the location where the store now stands from a accidentally self-inflicted axe wound, which might explain his unusual clothing.

3. The Lord Combermere Photo, 1891

This well known photo—and perhaps one of the oldest examples of a bonifide spirit photo—was taken in the Combermere Abbey Library in 1891 by Sybell Corbet. The exposure length was approximately one hour, and the figure of a man appears to be sitting in the armchair located in the foreground (it’s difficult to make out, but a head and arm can just be made out sitting in the chair). At the time this photograph was being taken, Lord Combermere (a top British cavalry commander) was being buried four miles away and the house was said to have been locked and empty at the time. Additionally, those who knew Lord Combermere claim the figure looks exactly like the man, so we have to wonder if the old gentleman wasn’t simply just visiting his old “haunt” one last time.

2. The Chinnery Photo, 1959

When visiting her mother’s grave in 1959, Mrs. Mabel Chinnery decided to finish off the roll of film by taking a picture of her husband seated in the car. When the roll was developed, a female figure appeared, sitting in the back seat. Mrs. Chinnery and several family members insist that the female figure is that of her mother, who appears to have taken her customary place in the back seat and is patiently waiting to be driven home. A photographic expert examined the print and declared it to be neither a reflection nor a double exposure. Notice that “mom” appears to be a pretty solid ghost, with no hint of transparency or light from the rear windows shining through her. Even her glasses appear to reflect light!

1. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, 1936

Perhaps the most famous of all ghost photos, this highly controversial shot was taken in1936 by photographers sent by the London magazine Country Living to take some interior shots of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. What’s also interesting about this shot is that in contrast to most photos in which the figure is not seen until after the film is developed, the spectral figure of a woman descending the stairway was seen seconds before the gshutter was snapped. The negatives on this photo have been scrutinized by literally hundreds of experts (and no small number of skeptics) who can find no evidence of it being either a hoax or a double exposure. Still considered by many to be the best “capture” ever taken.