Double Drumming / Double Drum Kits

also the "one whole drumkit in the left channel, the other in the right channel" mixing solution to this always kind of bothers me. it's good for identifying who's playing what on jazz albums, but it sounds weird unless both drummers are playing an interlocking part. no more weird than those old recordings with the drums in one channel and the bass in the other, but those can be annoying too if i fixate on it (good for sampling though).

i don't know what a better solution would be, maybe divide parts so one drummer is playing the low frequency instruments (kick/toms) and the other has the snare and cymbals?

...which is basically how all the New Orleans brass band music i listen to works (two drummers, one on bass drum + small cymbal, the other on snare + large cymbal).

FEELIES

don't normally like 2 drummers unless they're doing totally different/complimentary things. but off the top of my head:

Boredoms (2+)
90s King Crimson
Allman Brothers
some of the James Brown bands in the 60s

There is some really cool double drumming on Jim O'Rourke's "Therefore I Am" (from Insignificance), where the two drummers (or overdubbed drums, not sure which) basically play a unison, AC/DC type beat during the verses and then diverge for a couple bars after each verse.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Fela_Kuti_Live.jpg
some good tony allen + ginger baker duels happening here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Vwi_FzSO8&feature=player_detailpage#t=1266

(embed didn't work for some reason, check out "Drumology" at 21:05)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdHI3LrAYiE

I don't know what I enjoy most about this:
- The astounding musicianship
- Christian Vander's facial expressions
- Travis Bickle sitting in as his co-drummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73XLkf43-s

They never did anything overly complicated with their dual drummers, but Tussle were always good fun live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhWNFEMN54