Danny Carey vs Mike Portnoy - Part 2

Leave a comment for your favourite drummer, Mike or Danny?

Your comments should reflect your personal opinion only. Everyone has the right to an opinion and this is a place you can express that.

Please do not comment about the footage used. If you are not familiar with Danny Carry's work then please don't comment it goes with Mike Portnoy.
It is very hard to find good clean official footage of Danny Carey playing.

This is not a best of, or a show case of what either drummer can do. The other option is to have still photos playing to a song... very lame

There is no bias from ratemydrums regarding either player. Both videos are of Danny and Mike playing with there respective bands, both have about the same time and both contain drummers playing to backing tracks and live footage.

More drum battles coming soon!

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The question a lot of you are asking is "Is it right to compare two great artists?"

There are two ways of looking at it; the first way is drummer "A" vs. drummer "B" and asking who is best or who would win a competition?
I believe this is wrong as neither drummer asked to be judged or entered into a competition. This is NOT what I am trying to do. I will say it again; this is not a competition and not what I am trying to do.

The other way of looking at it is one of advanced appreciation. Let me explain what I mean. Take a drummer like Danny Carey; do you enjoy his music on its own without anything to compare it to? Yes, I do. Now take a drummer like Mike Portnoy, can you enjoy his music on its own without any comparison? Yes, I also do.

But if I want to know how much I enjoy either piece or either drummer I need something to compare it against.

Our first natural comparison is with ourselves. "I like Danny Carey, and will pay money to see Danny because he is better than me". Fair statement? I don't see Danny Carey lining up to see my clinics.

Why do most of us appreciate Danny's drummer more then say Larry Mullins Jr's drummer? Because it is further from where we are. A lot of us can play what Larry plays so we think of him as a good or great drummer, but with Danny being so far pasted us we often think of him as extremely superior or a master.

To take an appreciation to a more advanced level you need to compare with another higher standard. There should only be a small variation between your personal appreciation of two players like Danny and Mike, or Vinnie or Buddy.

Who you like might change from day to day and that's fine, today you might like Danny more, tomorrow you're in a mood for Mike

How do you know what Tool song or Elton John song you like best? Compare it to another Tool or Elton song right?

What I am doing is not wrong. I am exercising my rights to free speech and I am offering you an opportunity to join me and share your opinion. There are no winners or losers, only good comments and bad comments. And I can guarantee you that at some point you have made a judgment call on a drummer based on another drummer.

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[ransherparihar]

@CrashN2Me1000 Haha yes. If you have noticed, throughout Aenima and here and there in lateralus and 10,000 days too, when he plays a bar of a beat, he ends it on the floor tom. alot of flowy it seems( best example is jimmy and patient)

^clearly based on personal opinion. didnt mean to offend anyone. mike is terrific. but when it comes to creativity danny wins

[CrashN2Me1000]

@ransherparihar --- Most definitely. He's got that signature sound that I immediately recognize and can say with absolute certainty, sight unseen, "That's Danny Carey on the drums." And I don't remember ever having been able to say the same about any other drummer.

[ransherparihar]

Well no one can be compared to Danny. His drumming involves a lot of elements and percussions (thanks to his mandala drumpads) its got every thing from africanized drums to tabla(check out right in two by tool)

and his style is the most inventive. portnoy doesn't really have his own style. many drummers sound the same as him.

and danny alot more like polyrhythms and polymetering.

wins anyday

[joeyboost]

Danny is the GOD of percussion!

[RoyalGerg]

I'm 34 years old and have yet to hear anyone pull off the shit Danny does!!! I'm not just saying that cause I love Tool, I'm saying that cause listen to all the music out there now. do you hear drummers doing the fills and all like danny does. !! sure metal is all fast and bad ass and any drummer that is good can solo. but the way Danny plays his parts in music is just out of this world!!

[marunner1975]

Danny Carey!, not a fair comparison..... i think

when you are talking about rock/metal drumming

there better people to compare Carey to.

[eddiekern]

My vote goes to Daney because of what he does for percussion in songwriting. No one I've ever heard can make the drums come alive and become an integral part of every song like he can.

[eddiekern]

@nosamcuminhand1 The very first song is Seven days by Sting, the first one played by Daney is Lateralus.

[nosamcuminhand1]

whats the name of the song in the very beginning?

[sxyleatherjesus]

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