Who's your favorite GNR drummer?

[Thorned Rose]

His style suited Gn'R. He was the lovable, care free fun guy of the band basically. He is not even close to being the best drummer in the world or the 80s etc...

He has somehow in his multiple fuck ups = Axl Rose in releases.. Imagine that.

I think it speaks for itself. No one is over thinking this about Adler. He was apart of the greatest creative period of Guns N' Roses. Get over it people. His drummer was perfect for the band. The way it all turned out on AFD was reflective of Adler's beats and feel. He wasn't the most important part no, but he had more to do with the sound of feel of AFD than people think.

[ITARocker]

Josh has  never been a gunner. It's like teddy zig zag, nothin more. He doesn't count. He's a session man, that's it. So i don't understand why put him on the gnr list.

Steven adler was the best drummer by far in terms of "sound" & "style". All the other drummers are way better than him, but gnr never needed a true skilled drummer so where fantasy, style, swing, does count steven makes the difference. Wanted or not.

[rebelhipi]

Josh has  never been a gunner. It's like teddy zig zag, nothin more. He doesn't count. He's a session man, that's it. So i don't understand why put him on the gnr list.

Steven adler was the best drummer by far in terms of "sound" & "style". All the other drummers are way better than him, but gnr never needed a true skilled drummer so where fantasy, style, swing, does count steven makes the difference. Wanted or not.

Sorry to break your bubble but Josh WAS in GN'R for a good two years, and wrote more music for them than for example Steven did.

[SharkOfLargo]

My favourite will always been Steven Adler.  I've been a fan of GN'R since the release of It's So Easy all those years ago so there's probably a little bias.  But, as the question is asking for a favourite, and not the best, the Adler gets my vote.

[Thorned Rose]

Josh Freese? Hes on like a couple tracks right? I mean lets be real.

It's either


Adler, Sorum, Mantia or Ferrer

That's it people. No one of this stupid stuff... "Well Fred Coury and Don Henley drummed for them too"

gtfo

[rebelhipi]

gtfo

[Muerto]

- Adler,

- Matt,

- Frank,

 

[Sosso]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

[C0ma]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

How does #3 show up? You haven't seen or heard him play a single beat in GnR.

[Nikki_Sixx]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

How does #3 show up? You haven't seen or heard him play a single beat in GnR.

I agree.  What's all this talk about Josh Freese ?  There's no way to judge how good he was at GNR stuff, because we never heard him do it!

Matt was the best drummer for GNR.  That's objective of course.

Steven Adler was the original drummer and had his own unique style that fit perfectly on that one album.  He would always be second to Matt though.

The others are excellent drummers in their own right, Brain and Freese especially, but they have no business being in these kinda lists, their contribution to the legacy is zero.

[Sosso]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

How does #3 show up? You haven't seen or heard him play a single beat in GnR.

Demo stuff for example.

[C0ma]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

How does #3 show up? You haven't seen or heard him play a single beat in GnR.

Demo stuff for example.

Are we even really sure that the demo stuff we have heard has Josh (outside of maybe the Catcher mix with Brian May)?

[doooodickiebr]

Steven

[D-GenerationX]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

How does #3 show up? You haven't seen or heard him play a single beat in GnR.

Probably for the same reasons people talk in hushed tones about a song they have never heard and is just basically a name on a piece of paper, really.

Our fanbase is a little kooky.

[sky dog]

Brain plays on 13 of the 14 songs on CD...he cowrote 3 songs on the album......did some remixes and likely has other writing credits on songs not used on Chinese Democracy. He was hardly insignificant in Gnr history.

Freese cowrote Chinese Democracy and Oh My God and has other drum arrangement credits on the album.

Just sayin....

[Continental_Drift]

1. Frank Ferrer
2. Brain
3. Matt Sorum
4. Steven Adler

*Huge Josh Freese fan from APC, Vandals, etc. Incredible drummer. Unfortunately, just don't think there's enough to really go on in a GNR context to rank him (IMHO). I do consider Josh a Gunner though- as he was officially in the band for 2 years- and as sky dog points out- made contributions of at least some consequence to what was going on at the time...

[kaasupoltin]

I'd still say that Matt is my favourite drummer of GN'R. Mostly because of his sound and playing on UYI-tour. Frank comes very very close though.

Adler is very cool and his groove is something many drummers never find. His sound fits the early material and tours perfectly.

Brain fits CD era material and he is technically very skilled, but I'm not THAT into his style and sound.

Now that I think about this, it's actually pretty hard to put these guys in to some kind of an order, as every drummer of GN'R presents a certain era of the band and thus presents different style too:
- AFD era belongs to Steven
- UYI to Matt
- CD to Brain
- Post-CD to Frank

And they've all done hell of a job!

[Thorned Rose]

My favourite GN'R drummer:

1# Bryan Mantia

2# Frank Ferrer

3#Josh Freese

4# Steven Adler

5# Matt Sorum

Not sure sure how you can include Freese. He was the drummer for like what 2 years or less? Never played a show. Never did any appearances. Co-wrote 1 song on CD, played 0 drums on CD.

Although he did play drums on OMG.

Not sure you can group him together with Adler, Sorum, Mantia and Ferrer. Doesn't quite equal out. Your opinion, but it's a fucked up one.

[Voodoochild]

Freese also recorded the drums on the rerecorded version of SCOM from the Big Daddy movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtovs6HhFO8


I know it doesn't count much, just wanted to add the info.

[Goddamn_Electric]

Sorum
Ferrer
Adler
Mantia
Freese

Matt hit hard and played large.  He was awesome on the illusion tour, and did a hell of a job keeping the rhythm section going when most of the guys shouldn't even have been able to stand.

I appreciate what Adler contributed to the band, but feel he's overrated and over appreciated.