Steve is da man, a true inspiration for me... can't point out a single song, love everything... I like the way he handled TRILOGY off DDN, I love the stuff from DIRTY, JC especially... he shines on A THOUSAND LEAVES... he goes weird on NYCG&F... he's da man, period.

Although Sister is one of my favorite albums period I remember Steve saying he was dissatisfied with the drum sound on sister. He thought it was too low in the mix, which i kind of agree with.

Anyway some of my favorite songs with steve on drums:
cross the breeze (it blew my mind the first time i heard it)
titanium expose
pattern recognition
silver rocket
Genetic
pacific coast highway
schizophrenia (great way to start the album with his drum beat)
Rain King
No Queen Blues

I read about him saying he didn't like the tonal quality of the drums recorded through the all-tube vintage equipment - too warm and frayed sounding or something like that. I love how they sound.

i cant believe this wasnt said earlier.

Death To Our Friends!!!

I know what you mean about Sister's drum sounding not as good as it could have. The toms shounded like shit when he was playing them.

It's strange nobody talked about White Cross, Steve is really great on it, live :)

Silver Rocket is fantastic too

Death To All Our Friends was a good jam to

Hell yeah, Steve is a fucking madman on White Kross. And that short instrumental breakdown bit of Teenage Riot where it's just one chord for a few seconds -- he's crazy. Steve's amazing.


Now imagine him with a beard...

I always liked his performance on Paper Cup Exit. Right around 4:10, when they break into noise where the second part of the chorus would be, and there's like 30 seconds of awesome drum fills... good stuff.

the best steve beat is unmade bed. How he EQ's his drums is also vital. Esepcially on a track like Schizophrena

Schizophrenia, Stereo Sanctity, Skip Tracer, Plastic Sun, Genetic

this is tough. He's such a dead on drummer. His tempo is metronomic.

all of WM and ATL. his best. + SYR1.
Very power jazz with lots of fills IMO.
just wow.

and Stereo Sanctity and all th generally fast tracks on Sister.

becuz

"Nevermind (What Was It Anyway?)" is great latter-day Steve. But "Stereo Sanctity," "Death to our Friends," "Dirty Boots" and "Cross the Breeze" are the foundation. True too about SYR 1. He is the anchor.

i think "beauty lies in the eye" is one of my fav steve moments. very effective drumming.

the break beat on 100%.