Just wondering,
I've been listening to the different drummers and their contributions to the band's sound.
I find it difficult to favour one of them since they've each got different approaches but I'm interested in what people dig most.

BTW What does Mal Greene do now?
Alistair

Geoff Chunn is probably my favourite. I love his fills in the original 'Spellbound'. I think it's a shame they never stuck with him. He was somewhere in between the technical style of Crowther and the simple and solid style of Mal Green. Perfect, but it was not to be.

Crowther for sure, imho nobody came close to him in the quality stakes Enz or otherwise, although Neoptolemus makes a good point about Geoff Chunn's fills in the original "Spellbound", which I've also always liked.

Paul.

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BTW What does Mal Green do now?
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As far as I know Mal was last heard of as a member of a Sydney R&B duo called "Gumbo Fever"
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/1347/bbandoz.html#gumbo

good question. i'm not a drummer so my opinion is strictly amateur but if i had to choose one it'd be Malcolm. I really liked some of the stuff he did in the Dizrythmia-Frenzy period - (e.g. Nice To Know). He sounded pretty limp on Corroboree though.

But they all had their moments. Dirty Creature works really well. I prefer Paul's drumming on See Ya Round to what he did in CH.

RE Malcolm Green - I saw a flyer in a music store in Sydney about a year ago advertising his services for sessions or touring. Was definitely him cos he listed Split Enz on his resume.

Emlyn. I reckon he had the best style - understated, yet full of expertise at the same time.

This is hard as all the SE drummers were pretty great.

The most talented would probably be Paul Crowther. On Mental Notes and Second Thoughts, his drumming was almost operatic.

A very close second would have to be Paul Hester.

Re: Mal Green, It's really sad that it's come to that. He was a pretty damn good drummer (I'm in the Crowther camp tho, cos I love his drumming - and his guitar pedals!)

Reminds me a bit of the story that Phil Judd told us all during his brief period here about meeting Wally Wilkinson in the dole Q a few years back. Half of me thinks that some of the guys got treated a little badly throughout the years. not slagging off anyone, but some of the firings were a little harsh.

And nobody chose Noel...

true - noel rocks, but noel's a sphere of his own a "noeloshpere" if you will, he's not just a drummer, but a sort of personified group madness

His drumming on Dirty Creature rocks, I do like his work on Time & Tide alright. I do think it's a pity the way he was sorted of persuaded off the drum stool after time&tide. If it was for anyone but Hessie, it'd have been a big mistake.

I think it was also quite cool the way that if you watch the DVD clip of "Shark Attack" from the anniversary tour, it was *Noel* behind the kit, and Hessie doing additional percussion. An interesting twist. Could be something to do with the fact that Hessie had just been doing a lot of alternative percussion (and directing it!) down in Kare Kare a month or so previously...