John JR Robinson Yamaha Groove All-star 2008 Frankfurt

[VictoriaWilliamson82]

Wow some people really do have no clue! And talk crap! - the ones with the negative comments on here I'm talkin about!! Losers! These guys rock! They are legends you idiots!

[Zazquatch1]

Lol the singer has NO charisma at all !!!

[gwb911]

should turn up JR, he's the only one who isn't a dork...

[TheCocovazquez]

this its groove

[Lifesucksdie123]

living legend.

and he's one of the nicest people i've ever met

[AlexMartin011]

steve ferrone too, especially when with chaka kahn

[fnkdrmmr]

In the 70's it was "fashionable to put interracial bands together. A lot of the drummers in Black bands were replaced with White drummer because of race, not talent. Even Sly Stone's manager made it a point to find a White drummer. This type of activity makes drummers not like one another - when most drummers are cool with one another, but the music business pits us against one another. Can you imagine a Black drummer being placed in an all White rock group b/c a manager is Black?

[zuubeddjp]

i can imagine a black drummer being replaced because he was not as good as the white guy who replaced him, and vice versa. Ignorance and arrogance makes drummers not like one another in my opinion

[MisterKamikazi]

Jeff Porcaro, Phil Collins, Tony Thompson, Steve Ferrone, Steve Gadd, Jerry Marotta.......The list of awesome drummers goes on forever. Those are just some of my favorites, however.

[sweetfly66]

you mean to tell me that a manager who wanted a white dummer for Sly`s band was able to make a race based decision over the probably objections of Sly and the rest of the band ? I find that hard to believe .

[triondrummer]

sad...but true! Even nowadays: A few Years ago The Management of Craig David wanted to fire a white Guitarist in Craigs Band to replace him with a black Musician

[sweetfly66]

I think this guy is talking about Andy Newmark with Sly Stone .... if so , this guy is way off base ... Andy got the gig by auditioning for Sly in a hotel room ... after he got the gig , he went on to record the Fresh album ..not one of Sly`s biggest hit machine records but definitely considered a seminal moment in funk ... and Andy`s drumming on the Fresh album is straight up slammin funk

[fnkdrmmr]

JR is good. But please note, on Rufus' "Tell Me Something Good" the actual studio session was played by Ali Brown and the JR was put in the group (Rufus) because they wanted an interracial group. JR Robinson is still good.

[zuubeddjp]

oh i thought he was added because he was a bad ass and their previous drummer was a douche.. :D noted though.

[collisionforce]

iv'e met john before. real nice guy.....he was born in the same town I live in now. very respected R&B drummer in my eyes.

[CreoleCW]

Throw in Philly's Earl Young, whose sound was sampled endlessly on '90s house cuts. L.A.'s James Gadsen had that chunky southern sound on Tavares' records. Along with J.R., these are drummers whose sound I know IMMEDIATELY when I hear them. And how can we forget Benny Benjamin?? His licks and rolls helped MAKE the '60s Motown Sound!

[scentline]

But jeff can express any feeling of the groove. He's more rock an pop speciallist than JR.

But he can push and lay back any part of

drums and he can even control amount of that

note placement in one song too.

I really respect JR and I miss Jeff, too.

[scentline]

Both of them are the best groovy drummers in modern drum history.

I love JR's style more, especially in ballad.

but I can't help to agree jeff is the natural born genious groove master.

JR is not technician, but very sensitive in dynamic and very musicial in song structure like drum 'composer' maybe he starts music on piano first. JR is speciallist in steady laid back, and very powerful, driving groove.

[siobhandonnelly]

Top Drummer

[adamnoriginalname]

Yeah Yeah, but who's the singer. She ain't bad (quite good actually) but she AIN'T no Chaka Khan - but close. John kinda missed a beat there towards the end, but he's a great drummer. For sheer groovability it was Porcaro, funkyness must be Steve 'god' Gadd, but for utter, driving, metronomic precision and power - JR!!!!

[doubts]

Jeff porcaro/steve gadd/John jr Robinson

Whos that guy on the first Al jarreau album?? He is amazing. Check out the meters too.

There are loads of great drummers who can groove. love em all

[drumsanddrumming]

Buddy Rich, Bonham, Paice, Baker, Corky Laing.

[gymman1031]

JR Robinson and Tony Thompson, formerly of Chic, are the two best R&B drummers ever. Who agrees?

[yulelovethebeats]

Two OF the best, but not the two best. You're leaving out Steve Ferrone, Jeff Porcaro, and James Brown's groovemaster, Clyde Stubblefield, the most sampled drummer in music history.

[gymman1031]

Stubblefield was awesome! Ferrone, from England, did a lot with Tom Petty. And wow! Jeff Porcaro had to be one of the most groovin' drummers ever! Very few could play a shuffle like he could! And, IMHO, one of the most underrated and underappreciated drummers ever is Manny Elias, the carrot-topped drummer who was once in Tears For Fears. Remember him? His half-time shuffle in "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" is an all-time great groove!

[yulelovethebeats]

Ferrone was the backbone of AWB, one of the best R&B groups ever, and check out all of his work with Chaka Khan, 1978-1984. We also forgot one of the most recorded drummers of all time, Bernard Purdie. There are so many greats; we could talk ad infinitum.

[swmuzik]

Ferrone was and is the man...Incredible groove!

[d3v4]

No guys..the best drummer is Joe Satriani..ohh is he a drummer?

[vukkie]

Best drummer ever ''Paco Sery''. Watch the ''ZAWINUL'' video's.

John robinson ''second best''.

[ThoomTube]

yes 1. jeff porcaro 2. robinson.. But the best drummer at this moment is Gadd

[JRcmty]

Sorry the groove master of all times is Jeff Porcaro

[judedavid]

Well, both are 2 different drummers and both play all types of styles. Both are equally good in their own right. Both have claimed their rightful place and respect in the drumming world. Both are good drumming role models.

[JRcmty]

Yeah, that is true, one thing i knew is that there was a lot of competition going on with this 2 groove masters, they both played with the same artists.

[GDRS777]

The groove master as always, john Jr Rbinson