History Main / AllDrummersAreAnimals

* A BerserkButton for drummers is that any songs they compose rarely get onto the albums,[[note]]As showcased by the old joke " What's the last thing a drummer says in a band?" "Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?".[[/note]] and they only ever get to do the vocals on "joke" or novelty songs.[[note]]For instance, Ringo Starr got things like "Yellow Submarine", "Honey Don't" and "Good Night" to perform. He didn't get a song he ''wrote'' onto an album until "Don't Pass Me By" on ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', and it was one of ''two'' (the other being "Octopus's Garden" on ''Music/AbbeyRoad'').[[/note]] There is apparently no anger like a drummer whose musical contribution is scorned once too often. Drummer Albert Bouchard is said (again, allegedly) to have left the Music/BlueOysterCult following a really ''heated'' band discussion, as to why hardly any of his songs made it onto the band's albums. Bouchard named his own band ''The Brain Surgeons''. [[note]]The schism occurred in between the albums ''Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin'', the last one where Bouchard played, and the following album ''Music/RevolutionByNight'', which has a perceptibly different, more mainstream, style.[[/note]] After Bouchard left, the [=BÖC=] went through nearly as many drummers as Music/{{Hawkwind}}.

** Downplayed with [[FieryRedhead Tomoe Udagawa]], who is usually very reliable and mature, but can be very hot-blooded, and can often rush into situations without thinking first. However, this is played straight with Ako, who is a bubbly, energetic GenkiGirl who is the drummer of Roselia.

** Downplayed with [[FieryRedhead Tomoe Udagawa]], who is usually very reliable and mature, but can be very hot-blooded, and can often rush into situations without thinking first.

* A BerserkButton for drummers is that any songs they compose rarely get onto the albums,[[note]]As showcased by the old joke " What's the last thing a drummer says in a band?" "Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?".[[/note]] and they only ever get to do the vocals on "joke" or novelty songs.[[note]]For instance, Ringo Starr got things like "Yellow Submarine", "Honey Don't" and "Good Night" to perform. He didn't get a song he ''wrote'' onto an album until "Don't Pass Me By" on ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', and it was one of ''two'' (the other being "Octopus's Garden" on ''Music/AbbeyRoad'').[[/note]] There is apparently no anger like a drummer whose musical contribution is scorned once too often. Drummer Albert Bouchard is said (again, allegedly) to have left the Music/BlueOysterCult following a really ''heated'' band discussion, as to why hardly any of his songs made it onto the band's albums. Bouchard named his own band ''The Brain Surgeons''. [[note]]The schism occurred in between the albums ''Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin'', the last one where Bouchard played, and the following album ''Music/RevolutionByNight'', which has a perceptibly different, more mainstream, style.[[/note]]

* A BerserkButton for drummers is that any songs they compose rarely get onto the albums,[[note]]As showcased by the old joke " What's the last thing a drummer says in a band?" "Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?".[[/note]] and they only ever get to do the vocals on "joke" or novelty songs.[[note]]For instance, Ringo Starr got things like "Yellow Submarine", "Honey Don't" and "Good Night" to perform. He didn't get a song he ''wrote'' onto an album until "Don't Pass Me By" on ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', and it was one of ''two'' (the other being "Octopus's Garden" on ''Music/AbbeyRoad'').[[/note]] There is apparently no anger like a drummer whose musical contribution is scorned once too often. Drummer Albert Bouchard is said (again, allegedly) to have left the Music/BlueOysterCult following a really ''heated'' band discussion, as to why hardly any of his songs made it onto the band's albums. Bouchard named his own band ''The Brain Surgeons''.

* In ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'', the group's drummer is Gross-Out: a grey sludge monster who communicates in HulkSpeak and is the team's BigGuy. He plays the drums with enthusiastic abandon. However, it is later revealed that beneath the monstrous exterior, Gross-Out is actually intelligent, good-hearted, and shy.

* A BerserkButton for drummers is that any songs they compose rarely get onto the albums,[[note]]As showcased by the old joke " What's the last thing a drummer says in a band?" "Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?".[[/note]] and they only ever get to do the vocals on "joke" or novelty songs.[[note]]For instance, Ringo Starr got things like "Yellow Submarine", "Honey Don't" and "Good Night" to perform.[[/note]] There is apparently no anger like a drummer whose musical contribution is scorned once too often. Drummer Albert Bouchard is said (again, allegedly) to have left the Music/BlueOysterCult following a really ''heated'' band discussion, as to why hardly any of his songs made it onto the band's albums. Bouchard named his own band ''The Brain Surgeons''.

* Subverted in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Raiko Horikawa [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQLlX2ELbg is a drum spirit,]] but in no way wild or uncontrolled despite serving as a BonusBoss (and a good thing too, given that she also has the powers of a thunder god). Remixes of Suika and Yuugi's themes (two tremendously strong oni) often features big loud drums, making them slightly straighter examples.

** Inverted with [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Kanon Matsubara]] , who is a ShrinkingViolet as well as one of two saner members of her band full of [[Main/{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckoolanders]].

* In ''Film/TheCommitments'', both drummers of the group fit this to a tee. The second even starts his career with the band as their [[HairTriggerTemper easily provoked]] bouncer-slash-roadie-slash-heavy. By the end, although he can play with finesse and surprising gentleness, he's still utterly incapable of controlling his temper. [[spoiler: Although frankly, the surprise was that he hadn't decked Decko long before that point, given how much of a prick the man is.]]

* Tribal drums aside, Gene Krupa could quite possibly be the TropeMaker or at least the TropeCodifier. The man literally invented the drum solo in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko this song]]. Before him, drums were used to keep the beat and occasionally throw in a quick lick or two to punctuate things.
* Music/BuddyRich embodied this trope both on and off stage. A beast on the drums, and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCF9wgMU7es monster to his band]] (audio is {{NSFW}}). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJh9W3Gcpmo Buddy Rich vs. Animal in an old-school drum battle]].

* A BerserkButton for drummers is that any songs they compose rarely get onto the albums,[[note]]As showcased by the old joke " What's the last thing a drummer says in a band?" "Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?".[[/note]] and they only ever get to do the vocals on "joke" or novelty songs.[[note]]For instance, Ringo Starr got things like "Yellow Submarine", "Honey Don't" and "Good Night" to perform[[/note]]. There is apparently no anger like a drummer whose musical contribution is scorned once too often. Drummer Albert Bouchard is said (again, allegedly) to have left the Music/BlueOysterCult following a really ''heated'' band discussion, as to why hardly any of his songs made it onto the band's albums. Bouchard named his own band ''The Brain Surgeons''.

* Christopher Guanlao, drummer for alt-rock band Silversun Pickups, has a very Animal-esque drumming style, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG8fugqFn9Q this video]].
* Music/GreenDay's Tré Cool is often compared to Keith Moon, given he's manic in both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzErVt8xgRg drumming]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POpWk_CB5js stage antics]].

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' where Love Fist's drummer is, by far, the smartest member of the band (and the only one capable of [[spoiler: defusing a bomb that was planted in the band's limo]]).

* [[Music/TheWho Keith fucking Moon]]. His antics included blowing up his drumkit on stage,[[note]]Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey claim their hearing loss began in opposite ears because they were facing each other at the time[[/note]] driving his Lincoln Continental into swimming pools, and getting banned from hotels for trashing them. He's been quoted as claiming he's ''clumsy'' rather than crazy; he never ''meant'' to trash hotel rooms, it just happened...which would be contradicted by both his reported fondness for blowing up hotel room toilets with cherry bombs, M80s, and dynamite. Website/ThatOtherWiki also mentions an anecdote in which he's being driven from a hotel to the airport. He tells the limo driver to go back because he forgot something. What did he forget? To toss his room's TV set into the hotel pool. Clumsy? Riiight...
* [[Music/LedZeppelin John Bonham]]. Moon liked to trash hotel rooms; Bonzo [[AxCrazy liked to trash people]].
* [[Music/{{Cream}} Ginger Baker]]. Known for being aggressive when playing, but also in general. Was known for getting into fights with bassist Jack Bruce, often on-stage. Allegedly this combative streak contributed to his acrimonious departure from space-rockers Music/{{Hawkwind}}, where the irritant was the band's leader Dave [[note]] and Mrs [[/note]]Brock.
* [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] of Music/XJapan, as a ZigZaggedTrope. Early on, due to ThereAreNoTherapists running headlong into AlcoholInducedIdiocy, he was known for behavior that sometimes hit the limits of AxCrazy: fighting offstage to the point that his behavior, along with hide's and Taiji's, earned the band a reputation of being aggressive drunken assholes. [[note]] Among his notable achievements in [[BarBrawl causing trouble]] involved ''burning an entire bar to the ground'' in a fight with his rival producer/bandleader Music/DynamiteTommy of Music/{{Color}}, and once having been banned either ''by name'' or by hair color by ''[[BannedFromArgo nearly every bar in Tokyo proper]]''. Then there was the time he and guitarist hide [[NoodleIncident somehow set fire to a hotel room]], causing ''over $64,000'' in damages...[[/note]] At the same time, he was one of ''the'' most extreme drummers in rock and metal, exceeding 800BPM at one point ''without'' heel-toe pedaling or any other extended drum techniques. Unfortunately, the sheer violence of his performances inflicted a variety of injuries that he lives with to this day, including a broken neck in 1995 that required surgery to repair split vertebrae in 2009, torn muscles on repeated occasions, severe wrist tendonitis, and more. Due to those injuries, and due to maturing as a person, coming to terms with his emotions to some degree, and eventually getting his drinking behavior and drinking ''somewhat'' under control despite repeated falls OffTheWagon, though, he maintains a somewhat more restrained and socially responsible image starting as of the mid-1990s and also relies more on safer techniques in drumming.
** In one PV, he became a SerkisFolk werewolf, despite his image generally being FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.
* [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor]]. [[MeaningfulName Need to say more?]]

* Buddy Rich embodied this trope both on and off stage. A beast on the drums, and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCF9wgMU7es monster to his band]] (audio is {{NSFW}}). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJh9W3Gcpmo Buddy Rich vs. Animal in an old-school drum battle]].

* British heavy metal band Samson (the one where Music/BruceDickinson started his career) had Thunderstick, a drummer who wore a black leather S&M mask and played his drums from inside a cage onstage.
* Heavy metal band Raven was once described as "Two brothers and a lunatic". Said lunatic was drummer Rob "Wacko" Hunter, a man who performed wearing hockey gear onstage. The other guys in the band discovered him in a music store where he was testing cymbals by banging his head into them.
* The Ferals. In the occasional music thing, Derren the dog was the drummer. It became more prevalent with [[ReTool Feral TV]].

* [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Dave]] [[Music/DaveGrohl Grohl]] is an odd case. His drumming style actually ''looks'' a lot like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOYvS_fvdkA Animal from The Muppets]] (and Grohl, in fact, played the stand-in for Animal in the [[Film/TheMuppets2011 2011 film]] as something of a LampshadeHanging) and the music styles that he's most famous for are hard rock, punk, metal, and grunge, but he is also a subversion of the trope, being so famous for his off-stage affability that the title "Nicest Man in Rock Music" follows him around. And then ''again'' his oddball sense of humour has him often majorly playing up to this trope especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdCslFcKFU&feature=player_embedded Fresh Pots.]]
* Another good example is the drummer of [[Music/FooFighters Grohl's band]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgKXlEsYoXE Taylor]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtxpSsM63mQ Hawkins.]]

* [[Music/DefLeppard Rick Allen]] can work up a sweat behind his kit with [[HandicappedBadass only one arm]].

* Somewhat of a subversion; [[Music/PinkFloyd Nick Mason]] has always been the quiet one of the group, but his drumming style could be considered wild at times, especially on rockers like "Interstellar Overdrive" and "One of These Days". Also, on the one song he "sang" on in the band's whole career, "[[http://www.videocure.com/video/150713.html One Of These Days]]", Mason had only one line, [[GutturalGrowler growled]] through a ring modulator: [[AxCrazy "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces!"]] Averted in "Learning to Fly". That very calm, methodical voice reading a pre-takeoff checklist during the bridge? That's Nick, and it was recorded straight off the comm radio in his airplane.

* Mike Smith from Suffocation was one of the pioneers of brutal death metal drumming and renowned for both his technical skill and focus on pounding the shit out of his kit to make every note hit the listener like a sledgehammer, but there was also his infamous temper and proclivity towards violence, something that caused Terrance Hobbs to force him to take anger management classes for in order to be allowed to stay in the band.

* [[Music/{{Origin}} John Longstreth]], while known for his almost inhumanly calm and composed live performances in spite of the ''incredibly'' difficult material he's playing, is also known for his tendency to make bizarre faces at the camera.
* Matt Morley of Everything Else.
* Terry Bozzio, Music/FrankZappa's most famous drummer.
* Absu's Proscriptor [=McGovern=]. Also the lead vocalist, he combines this trope with LargeHam, best exemplified [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6S-zxbaJuo here.]]

** Given Music/PaulMcCartney rose to fame sharing a band with Ringo, it's quite a contrast seeing his current drummer for over a decade, Abe Laboriel Jr., [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rofczyq12s is a straighter example of this trope.]]

** Downplayed with [[FieryRedhead Tomoe Udagawa]], who is usually very relaxed and mellow, but can be very hot-blooded, and can often rush into situations without thinking first.

* Also inverted with [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Kanon Matsubara]] from ''Anime/BangDream'' who is a ShrinkingViolet as well as one of two saner members of her band full of [[Main/{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckoolanders]].

* [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Dave]] [[Music/DaveGrohl Grohl]] is an odd case. His drumming style actually ''looks'' a lot like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOYvS_fvdkA Animal from The Muppets]] (and Grohl, in fact, played the stand-in for Animal in the [[Film/TheMuppets 2011 film]] as something of a LampshadeHanging) and the music styles that he's most famous for are hard rock, punk, metal, and grunge, but he is also a subversion of the trope, being so famous for his off-stage affability that the title "Nicest Man in Rock Music" follows him around. And then ''again'' his oddball sense of humour has him often majorly playing up to this trope especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdCslFcKFU&feature=player_embedded Fresh Pots.]]

* in the 2011 ''[[Film/TheMuppets Muppets]]'' film, Fozzie was found working in Reno with a "tribute" band called The Moopets made entirely of {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s of the real Muppets with the exception of Animal, who was impersonated by [[Music/FooFighters Dave Grohl]]. While Animal himself is in an anger management class with Creator/JackBlack, which encouraged him to quit drumming. But at the climax, he ends up off the chain again.

* Franchise/{{Pokemon}} has Rillaboom, introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', a muscular gorilla that uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser a hollowed-out tree stump for a taiko drum]]. During the end credits of ''Sword and Shield'' a Rillaboom takes the role of drummer in a band made up entirely of Pokémon.

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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{WelcomeToTheWayne}}'' episode "We're the Wayniacs". Ansi, the mild mannered NeatFreak of Team Timbers usually plays the drums, whereas the CloudCuckooLander Olly instead is on the guitar.

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* In ''Film/TheCommitments'', both drummers of the group fit this to a tee.

* Averted with Neil Peart from Music/{{Rush}}. He was well-known for being TheStoic of the band, and his face while drumming would convince you that he was filing accounting paperwork or something. Similar comments apply to Charlie Watts of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} and John Dolmayan of Music/SystemOfADown.

* Classical music is not immune to this. At a performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London, a percussionist alternatively revolted and amused the audience by pretending to pick his nose with the drumstick. Classical percussionists are commonly regarded as the troublemakers of the orchestra. [[note]]Although the real hellraisers are, surprisingly, harp-players. But that's a different story.[[/note]]

* Music/RingoStarr is a notable {{subver|tedTrope}}sion, a fairly low-key sort generally regarded as the NiceGuy of Music/TheBeatles. That doesn't mean he didn't occasionally indulge in wacky drummer-type antics, however; check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba4oepn7oVc the video for "Day Tripper."]] [[spoiler:He has a ''saw]].''

* Played straighter in ''VisualNovel/{{Deardrops}}'', SpiritualSuccessor of the above, with Rimu.

* ''Franchise/LeagueOfLegends'': In the [[HeavyMetal metal]] [[FiveManBand band]] ''Music/{{Pentakill}}'', the character playing the drums is Olaf, a [[TheBerserker berserker]] [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty warrior]] [[InstrumentalWeapon wielding]] [[DualWielding dual]] [[AnAxeToGrind axes]].

* Interestingly, ACappella artist [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SmoothMcGroove Smooth McGroove]] is normally a drummer, which explains the hair and beard, yet he averts the trope by having a large following who are fans of him specifically (1.3 million subscriptions for his solo work on Website/YouTube alone). On top of that, he further averts the "brutish neanderthal" portrayal by being a gracious, well-spoken person and KindHeartedCatLover who often cameos his cat in his videos.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' where Love Fist's drummer is, by far, the smartest member of the band (and the only one capable of [[spoiler: defusing a bomb that was planted in the band's limo.]]

Compare CymbalBangingMonkey, DumbAndDrummer, and RottenRockAndRoll. Also compare PrimalChestPound, where a character drums on ''himself'', also often indicating a savage, animalistic personality. See also NobodyLovesTheBassist for another example of a band-member stereotype.

* [[Music/TheWho Keith fucking Moon]]. His antics included blowing up his drumkit on stage,[[note]]Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey claim their hearing loss began in opposite ears because they were facing each other at the time[[/note]] driving his Lincoln Continental into swimming pools, and getting banned from hotels for trashing them. He's been quoted as claiming he's ''clumsy'' rather than crazy; he never ''meant'' to trash hotel rooms, it just happened...which would be contradicted by both his reported fondness for blowing up hotel room toilets with cherry bombs, M80s, and dynamite. Wiki/ThatOtherWiki also mentions an anecdote in which he's being driven from a hotel to the airport. He tells the limo driver to go back because he forgot something. What did he forget? To toss his room's TV set into the hotel pool. Clumsy? Riiight...

* Averted with Neil Peart from Music/{{Rush}}. He was well-known for being TheStoic of the band, and his face while drumming would convince you that he was filing accounting paperwork or something. Similar comments apply to Charlie Watts of Music/TheRollingStones and John Dolmayan of Music/SystemOfADown.

* Foxxy's musical number in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' featured Ling-Ling, a Franchise/{{Pokemon}}-{{expy}}, on drums.