I love a drum solo that has a easy to hear melody, so bonzos montreux, any and all of the rush solos fromthe last couple of live discs (a show of hands or more recent), and so on. The rush ones are two songs he wrote for the drums, the first is called pieces of eight, the second is mombo\'s dance party, but both of these back to back IS the drum solo on all the live albums. More recently he\'s also added a point where he triggers an audio file of a big band and does a mediocre I wish Iwas as good as buddy solo to end. A drum solo can be really technical but if you don\'t understand and they are tuned too close to each other, you wont be able to appreciate it. However if they have a wide enough range of tones then you can hear a melody in the solo and it becomes much more accessable.
and if you want technical, the black page part 1 from frank zappa\'s "in new york" is the ultimate in screwing with time. Stuff like a whole note triplet, where the first note of the triplet is a quintuplet, the second note a quntuplet, and the 3rd note a sextuplet, or the half note 19-tuplet runs in the last 2 bars.
first a bar of 4/4
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
not count the whole note triplet:
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
* * *
1 2 3
and then the qunituplets and sextuplet
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
* * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6
zappa=madman
