Best Drummers......

They're OK. They're more melodic than Dash Rip Rock and less jokey. I was more of a Dash Rip Rock fan myself. They used to be a great band....they were CCR on crack. Sadly, their bass player left and they're just going through the motions for aging Greeks.

 

oh, meg white is a joke as a drummer

how bad she is is what sets her apart and makes her sound different

 

John Bohnam, Keith Moon, Alex Van Halen and Mitch Mitchell. I don't know if the last two have been mentioned or not.

Alex Van Halen is probably the most underrated drummer in history. He would have been the star of any other band on the planet. All I have to say is "Hot For Teacher."

 

Convincing argument.

I've always been a fan of Travis Barker, of the defunct Blink 182. He's still drumming for +44 and The Transplants. I've seen him in concert a couple times, and I walked away each time very impressed by him.

 

I should have remembered the blue font . . . . . .

 

Mick Fleetwood.

By the way, didn't Paul (and not Ringo) play the definitive Beatles drum solo on Abbey Road?

 

Apparently I'm wrong about that. And JFK wrote "Profiles in Courage," too.

 

Having seen The Who in 1976, I would have to go with Moon. But that's a damn fine list.

 

Ron Wilson (http://www.thesurfaris.com/), the inspiration for a generation of elementary-school desk drummers.

 

Manu Katché is one of my faves. Drummer for Peter Gabriel on "So" and for Robbie Robertson. Amazingly intricate work.

 

Shocked, shocked...four pages and no mention of Mo Tucker. Brutally simple, with no cymbals on the early Velvet Underground records. With just a snare and tom-tom, she added so much subtle menace to songs like "Heroin" and "Venus in Furs."

 

The pulse of southern rock for three decades: Jaimoe and Butch Trucks from the Allman Brothers Band.

Not fancy, but soulful as the smell of magnolias on a heat-thick Georgia night.