Rush Retrospective 2

Music Quiz: Famous Drummers

Congratulations to Geoff Stephen, who took Canada to a glorious win in last week’s Bands that should play together II quiz.

Your challenge this week is to name some famous drummers.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/famousdrummers

I scored 23/30. I did it late at night, and maybe could have squeezed out a couple more if I was thinking straight.

Can you beat my score?

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28 Comments

  1. So close to a perfect score but because I drew a blank on the Sex Pistols’ drummer I only got 29/30. Next month will be 49 years since my first drum lesson so with drumming in my blood for nearly half a century I’m actually disappointed I couldn’t get all 30. Happy New Year!

  2. A crappy 21/30. Queen’s guy was on the tip of my tongue. A couple were guesses. I wouldn’t know Radiohead’s drummer if I fell over him.

    • 21 is pretty solid – it was tougher than I was expecting. I got those two, but missed a bunch of others (obviously…).

      • Sorry to say but my focus on rock groups is usually the lead guitarist and the lead singer. Bass and drummers usually take a back seat. Not right, but it is what it is.

        • Rhythm section is more important in some bands than others – REM’s rhythm section were pretty much equal songwriting partners, while other bands have a singer and guitarist as the man creative access.

  3. This was very hard! I only got 15/30. Could’ve been worse, but I’m upset about not getting Aerosmith’s drummer correct because he doesn’t have a complicated name. This was still fun, regardless of that. Thanks for the quiz!

  4. 27/30….DMB, Radiohead’s drummers I had no idea and I brain farted on the Pistols drummer. This was fun…one of my better scores here…lol

    • Great work though! I couldn’t remember the name of DMB’s drummer. I don’t really like DMB, but he’s really good.

  5. And there will be no encore this week!
    20/30, knew a bunch of the first names (Travis, Rick, Joey…) but couldn’t recall the surnames of the missing 10 alas

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