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My brother says Neil Peart is the greatest rock drummer ever (1 Viewer)

drummer said:
Has tim told his brother he is wrong yet? Or does he still talk to him? I mean, unless tim's bro hangs out here. Then it's the only way he can talk to tim.
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You missed the part where he is now unfortunately deceased . 

 
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joey said:
That is an amazing piece of music right there. Thanks for sharing. 
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You can go on YouTube and find the entire show. I have a DVD rip of it.

Drummer Joey Peebles is terrific. He amalgamates the New Orleans style of drumming - where pretty much all American drumming can be traced to - with that modern hard rock style of drumming on that first tune "Backatown". I am still trying to cop all of that tune, but I suck at transcribing right now so lol.

 
drummer said:
Has tim told his brother he is wrong yet? Or does he still talk to him? I mean, unless tim's bro hangs out here. Then it's the only way he can talk to tim.
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My brother passed last year. 

 
drummer said:
Sorry to hear that tim, and my condolences.
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Thanks Drummer. 

And you weren't being a jerk earlier. If I minded being teased about the amount of time I post in here I would have stopped long since. 

Anyhow, I learned a lot reading your posts in this thread, very informative.  :thumbup:

 
timschochet said:
Thanks Drummer. 

And you weren't being a jerk earlier. If I minded being teased about the amount of time I post in here I would have stopped long since. 

Anyhow, I learned a lot reading your posts in this thread, very informative.  :thumbup:
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Sorry man, I just tend to scroll past a lot of posts and bump a thread without looking.

Hope things are well, and again my condolences

 
Don't know about being one of the "best" but Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters is an absolute beast on the drums. Saw him live a while back and he had so much energy it was crazy.

 
Ghost Rider said:
No way.  Grohl is a good drummer. but Hawkins slays him. 
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They both are equally as overrated as well.

Any weekend gigging drummer can play that music in their sleep, then fall asleep while playing that music in their sleep because it's like playing out of the book Janet and Mark. You know, one of the first books to teach kids how to read, at least back in my pre-school days.

ETA: Just watch that Trombone Shorty vid. Joey Peebles plays caveman with New Orleans second line funk and it is totally original and spot on tight. He plays with all kinds of energy but not bashing the hell outta the kit.

 
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Not sayin' he's the greatest rock drummer or anything, but since so many other posts have thrown out drummer names for opinions, I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on Bryan Mantia (Brain).    One thing I like about him is his creative approach, and I have been intrigued by the fact that he has always embraced technology.  As a musician myself, I typically have a pretty traditional approach, but percussion is one aspect that I think technology brings an interesting element to, even if I don't necessarily utilize it in my stuff.    

 
drummer said:
They both are equally as overrated as well.

Any weekend gigging drummer can play that music in their sleep, then fall asleep while playing that music in their sleep because it's like playing out of the book Janet and Mark. You know, one of the first books to teach kids how to read, at least back in my pre-school days.
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And modest too...

 
Rushmore said:
Not sayin' he's the greatest rock drummer or anything, but since so many other posts have thrown out drummer names for opinions, I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on Bryan Mantia (Brain).    One thing I like about him is his creative approach, and I have been intrigued by the fact that he has always embraced technology.  As a musician myself, I typically have a pretty traditional approach, but percussion is one aspect that I think technology brings an interesting element to, even if I don't necessarily utilize it in my stuff.    
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DING DING DING DING DING

One of my old roommates recorded him years ago playing with the Potato Eaters. I saw him play with the Limbomaniacs way back in the day. Yeah, Brain can play. His pocket when playing funk or R&B is tight man. Yeah, Brain is awesome

 
Unfortunately they don't have the footage my roommate shot of the Limbomaniacs on YouTube of this show, but he and I were in the FOH booth drinking lots of free beers, with I helping a bit shooting cam. One of the last great shows at the old I-Beam in San Francisco's Upper Haight district, now gone to ####### yuppie overpriced condos. Jackson Saints ROCKED though. Here is a clip of that show, from my roommates footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTIeBI8GOGg

ETA: ROGER CLINTON PERFORMED WITH BRAIN AND THE LIMBOMANIACS AT THIS SHOW. It was a benefit for the Clinton/Gore ticket

 
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drummer said:
Unfortunately they don't have the footage my roommate shot of the Limbomaniacs on YouTube of this show, but he and I were in the FOH booth drinking lots of free beers, with I helping a bit shooting cam. One of the last great shows at the old I-Beam in San Francisco's Upper Haight district, now gone to ####### yuppie overpriced condos. Jackson Saints ROCKED though. Here is a clip of that show, from my roommates footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTIeBI8GOGg

ETA: ROGER CLINTON PERFORMED WITH BRAIN AND THE LIMBOMANIACS AT THIS SHOW. It was a benefit for the Clinton/Gore ticket
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Not just because the vocals need to be turned up in the mix, but the drums clearly shine on this recording.   I've typically enjoyed listening to him every time I've heard him throw down.   Seems like a cool guy too.   I've listened to some interviews and also listened to him on a drum podcast once.   Cool story regarding your roommate.   Have you met Bryan? 

 
Rushmore said:
Not just because the vocals need to be turned up in the mix, but the drums clearly shine on this recording.   I've typically enjoyed listening to him every time I've heard him throw down.   Seems like a cool guy too.   I've listened to some interviews and also listened to him on a drum podcast once.   Cool story regarding your roommate.   Have you met Bryan? 
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My roommate and I are both sound engineers, and didn't mix this show, but we were at front of house (FOH) right next to the console and the engineer, and the booth was upstairs. This set was just a case of stage volume burying the headroom of the PA lol. The show lineup had like over 15 bands, and the Saints set was later in the show. This is like an FOH guys headache lol. You do soundcheck and get their stage volume set, remind them to keep the guitars at that gain, and then they after sitting around waiting to go onstage, drinking backstage with all the backstage festival peeps, soundcheck goes right out the window.

More of his footage of that same show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa0jbwSz4uA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11okuipy0z4

He didn't even know these were on YouTube. His footage is the only footage of this show. He had it digitized over at some SF local access, and whoever posted it didn't give him any credit for it.

I don't think I ever met Brain when I lived up there. The first time I heard about him was through my roommate, playing all the Potato Eaters tracks he engineered. I was like "Who is that cat? He is pretty slick". One track was a slow tempo groove where he let the backbeat have a sort of natural delay: 2-e-and-a, 4-e-and-a (snare on the 2 and 4) that to me isn't easy especially to record it so cleanly and in time. He just let the stick rebound to get that effect, that was hypnotic as all get out. He used dynamics from the backbeat going loud to soft, like it was a slow echo. REALLY DAMN SLICK.

I might have met him when we had an aftershow party for GWAR. GWAR was old childhood friends of my roomates - my roommates buddies finally came to SF to move in this big warehouse we all lived in, and GWAR - mostly Brockie - used to hang out at our crib when they were in town. Good times. There was about 1000 people in our warehouse for the afterparty, and of course a lot of the local rock cats came over. Looking at what happened in Oakland recently, yeah, I survived those good times lol.

 
Good stuff, thanks.   On one of the drum podcasts I listened to (I do play drums too, but only took them up over the last few years from my basement studio after years of promising myself to learn to play since I've always been fascinated by percussion....my main forte' if you will is guitar of almost 30 years) he mentioned that he's been pretty involved in doing tracks for video games and #### like that.   I've always liked that he's had an open mind to technology and incorporating modern and foreign styles to his grooves.   As a guitarist, I need to do the same myself, because I have let a lot of the recent technology pass me by a bit.  

 
Rushmore said:
Good stuff, thanks.   On one of the drum podcasts I listened to (I do play drums too, but only took them up over the last few years from my basement studio after years of promising myself to learn to play since I've always been fascinated by percussion....my main forte' if you will is guitar of almost 30 years) he mentioned that he's been pretty involved in doing tracks for video games and #### like that.   I've always liked that he's had an open mind to technology and incorporating modern and foreign styles to his grooves.   As a guitarist, I need to do the same myself, because I have let a lot of the recent technology pass me by a bit.  
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EDM has become a big thing with drummers now, and now that they have all this production gak you can put in a laptop for a DAW or use software like Abelton, drummers are hip to the tech that in the 80's was thought to replace them, which only shows how much cocaine was ingested in the 80's lol.

Drummers like JoJo Mayer and a guy who playes with Wayne Krantz (I forget his name at the moment) are a couple of leaders in that forefront, although years ago a drummer (whose name I also forget) who formed Tackhead was using tech big time. Of course Bill Bruford did it but not like in EDM or like say video games. Drum programming should be in a drummer's wheelhouse, but programmers who aren't drummers are the ones creating hip beats, so I guess you have to be hip to electronics as it's own, and then amalgamate that into what you play for an axe.

Myself, I used to play a lot when I was younger, and hadn't for years until recently. Even though I studied wqith some great teachers and name cats, that was so long ago that it doesn't even exist anymore. So now I am starting from scratch all over again, but my playing has changed really for the better. I focus more on time and pocket, which really matters when your bass playing buddy decides to go all Garaj Mahal on you and is in a whole 'nother time signature but the pulse is still there for he to come back to it. I figured in order to play what I want to play, I have to be completely honest about it, and not fake anything and play what I mean to play. To go back after almost half a lifetime to do this...

Let me just say this: if you ever thought it was too late to do anything you always wanted to do, you are absolutely missing out on the joy of doing what you always loved or wanted to do. I recently turned 50 years old, and to me that was the mark in time to forget the 50 previous years since they are in the can, and now focus on the moment, which I always had done but now I am 50 and really digging it. I have been to many funerals of people who I went to high school and college with who were around my age and passed on before hitting 50. When I turned 50 - after a nice payday from Google thank you Google - I bought new drum kit since I sold my old one years ago, and although I don't have as much time to practice I make the most out of the time I do. I don't have any desire to play in a band right now, not until I have my stuff together on the drums, so time is not of essence here. I just want to connect back with and surprise myself every once in a while.

Even when it comes to EDM, there is so much of it out there that to cop any of it to be hip to it is impossible for me, since I never listen to it. So for me to get into it, I just go to where it started, like Kraftwerk and all that era. Zapp, stuff like that. Why not? That's where it started, so it's like back to the future lol.

 
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For me personally--I think Danny Carey is on the top of my Mt. Rushmore of drummers.   I have to admit--that I'm not a musician myself--but good lord--watching him and listening to him drum is like audio artwork.   I had the pleasure of seeing him drum with a terrible band called pygmy love circus at a tiny venue--and his drumming was soo shockingly good--that it actually made watching that terrible band a very amazing experience.  I've been to several Tool shows and his drumming still sends chills up my spine.  

 
To me, the best rock drummer ever is Billy Cobham. If it wasn't for him, there is no Neil Peart, Dennis Chambers, Simon Phillips, Carter Beauford, Virgil Donati, Vinnie Colaiuta, jeebus my list will be toooooo long by the time I resolve this point.

When he was at a young super awesome zenith is his career that is full of stages of zenith...

Just watch for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyYzfkn4yc

 
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On the point of drummers using tech: this drummer is playing tracks off a MacBook Pro, and although these tracks were most likley created in a studio, I assume that the tracks were either built in ProTools, or Logic, or even Abelton. I dunno I am still shopping all those, but if you have at least one small suite of any of the aforementioned software - hell even GarageBand - then yes you are a drummer working within modern production technology. We have no other choice BUT to embrace it because almost all music production is now technology based as far as software, and if drummers do are not able to adapt to it, then hello dinosaur age. Another young cat who can like this cat can is gonna show you what time it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTIe7VayPl4&t=22s

 
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This is for tim's brother:

This is my favorite Rush song ever, and the only one I listen to now, but this is stellar drumming, and we should celebrate all drumming, since it is the real true American instrument.

Even when it comes from Canada lol.

Thanks for this thread tim. It has been a privilege to post in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBrqmlmh_40

 
At my age I have to be even more aware of balance at the drum kit due to the lower back or any drumming ailments that took down Phil Collins and maybe even Peart. Whatever video you see of Dave Grohl telling you to beat the #### out of the drums to be a drummer, you have to ask yourself why he isn't one today. Because if he played for years like he had with Nirvana day in and out without having the benefit of being in Nirvana and still have to play drums - since he ain't much of a guitarist, songwriter (come on he ain't John Lennon or even Joe Strummer), if he had to play with that ####ty technique of his, he would be another Dave Abbruzzese.

I hung out with Abbruzzese at the Deen Castronovo clinic lol. Along with Mike Bordin of Faith No More. But I could see how Dave's wrists were toast. He told me his carpal tunnel was hell.

I met this guy while doing sound at the old New Orleans Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Fransisco years ago. That jazz club doesn't exist at the hotel anymore, but when it did I met all kinds of cats who played everything and with everybody.

This cat here I already had bought his method book - Bass Drum Control - years before because drummer Steve Smith swore by it. I didn't have YouTube or the internet at the time I met him. Hell, I was still tossing out 486 boxes, SunSparc stations and whatever bbbbs modems at Moscone doing big tech trade show before the Pentium processor and when Steve Jobs was with nEXt lol.

So when I met him doing a gig at the club, I had to ask him about his pedal technique.

Which I am sure he never gets asked all the time lol.

He gave me a free lesson on it, but while he was showing me his pedal technique, he played some stickings on the snare to phrase with the bass drum.

His stick technique was more amazing than his pedal technique.

He studied with non other than Joe Morello for years. His overall technique - the balance and sound - and the effortless way he played - I was like YES YES YES YES YES I WANT THAT YES YES

In order to apply energy, we first must understand it. Within ourselves if we were to apply the energy. As physical beings, we know once we say yeah to a weekend soccer match that was a bad idea if we are so undisciplined to the game just by a lack of relationship between our body and forward motion. Not to even mention the resistance.

I am 50 years old. Balance is everything to me now.

But it mean I can't still learn how to dance on a bass drum pedal like he can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69olcGVx9SM

 
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drummer said:
Let me just say this: if you ever thought it was too late to do anything you always wanted to do, you are absolutely missing out on the joy of doing what you always loved or wanted to do. I recently turned 50 years old, and to me that was the mark in time to forget the 50 previous years since they are in the can, and now focus on the moment, which I always had done but now I am 50 and really digging it. I have been to many funerals of people who I went to high school and college with who were around my age and passed on before hitting 50. When I turned 50 - after a nice payday from Google thank you Google - I bought new drum kit since I sold my old one years ago, and although I don't have as much time to practice I make the most out of the time I do. I don't have any desire to play in a band right now, not until I have my stuff together on the drums, so time is not of essence here. I just want to connect back with and surprise myself every once in a while.
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Major, big time thumbs up to this sentiment. 

 
drummer said:
On the point of drummers using tech: this drummer is playing tracks off a MacBook Pro, and although these tracks were most likley created in a studio, I assume that the tracks were either built in ProTools, or Logic, or even Abelton. I dunno I am still shopping all those, but if you have at least one small suite of any of the aforementioned software - hell even GarageBand - then yes you are a drummer working within modern production technology. We have no other choice BUT to embrace it because almost all music production is now technology based as far as software, and if drummers do are not able to adapt to it, then hello dinosaur age. Another young cat who can like this cat can is gonna show you what time it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTIe7VayPl4&t=22s
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If there ever was an appropriate time to call someone a cat, this is the time. Thanks for sharing that.

 
I know this is the greatest drummer thread, and I know Grohl isn't in that conversation, but IMO the Grohl bashing is a little over the top in here. He is one of the most successful musicians ever, which included drumming for a famous, impactful band (Nirvana) and some other projects (Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age).

 
Abraham said:
Younger kids usually go with Danny Carey (Tool) 
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I'm not that young, and I think Carey is the best drummer I've ever seen.  Just jaw-droppingly good.

Got a soft spot for Tommy Lee, who I found to be the best "showman" drummer.  Very entertaining.

 
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Just Win Baby said:
I know this is the greatest drummer thread, and I know Grohl isn't in that conversation, but IMO the Grohl bashing is a little over the top in here. He is one of the most successful musicians ever, which included drumming for a famous, impactful band (Nirvana) and some other projects (Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age).
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My friend Fredo Hernandez - one of the original drummers with Queens, and Brant Bjork who I also know and is the archetype of stoner caveman drums - are better than Grohl IMO. Anyone can play Grohl music, even on guitar. Vinnie Colauita may not be on the tip of everyone's tongue but as a musician? He's played with Joni Mitchell to Diane Schurr to Frank Zappa to Megadeath. Just to name very few. 

In my top 100 he doesn't even list, not even in my top 200. Over Earl Palmer? No. Over Jim Gordon? No. Over Larrie London? No. Over Sandy Nelson? No. Over Topper Headon? No. Over Johnny Vatos Hernandez? No. Over Ralph Humphrey? No. Over Roger Taylor of Queen? No. Over Hal Blaine? No. Over Rick Marotta? No.

Grohl is a pop star. I give him that. He finds a way to insert himself into other peoples projects or finds a way to connect himself to other people's work without having anything to do with it. But Queens and Vultures are mostly Homme anyway. I think the style of the drums lends more to Homme's music than the drummer playing it IMHO. 

Quick story about Brant Bjork: he was at a buddy of mine's project studio importing vinyl into digital from a few records in his collection (this was years ago), and during a break he got behind a set of drums there and started playing this groove that was really slick and cool. He played it around a cymbal beat he played on the ride cymbal, and the rest of the groove danced around it, which sounded very New Orleans. I was watching him and like "yeah that's cool". He is a very musical drummer who pretty much created the style Grohl plays when he was with Kyuss, and I tripped out that he can play a totally different style than that. 

I've seen vids where Grohl is interviewed saying how he made it as a successful drummer was "beating the **** out of the drums". Years ago when he had his first Modern Drummer cover story, he basically slammed the whole craft of drumming, acting all punk rock and ****. The fallout from that interview was like "Who the hell is this guy? He can't even play a lick". They were right. I can guarantee any drummer that if they followed Grohl's "concept" of drumming, they would be the least successful drummer at that audition for that paying gig where you had dynamics and swing in the set, oh and we are showcasing a singer with mandolin and acoustic guitar backing her. Can you play brushes? Do you have smaller sticks? Can you like, not bash that Paiste 2002 24" ride cymbal so loud because it's burying the freq's and the rest of the mix including the singer we are showcasing? Umm, thanks and who is next?

If you really want a glimpse what successful drummers do, here is a vid I want all of you to watch. The whole vid, because he gives you more information that is still to this day gospel. If there is a drummer I want to emulate - and I have many - he is one of them, and not Grohl. Seriously, watch this. It's from the 80's, but this cat is was one of the coolest and most humble cats on the planet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6tzbKsKKk

 
MarvinTScamper said:
49 - and I'm taking guitar lessons and spanish and german language.  While putting together a distillery business.   And working.  Agree wholeheartedly.  Live.
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I have buddies of mine who are starting a distillery business at our age as well. Good luck and well wishes. 

 
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drummer said:
To me, the best rock drummer ever is Billy Cobham. If it wasn't for him, there is no Neil Peart, Dennis Chambers, Simon Phillips, Carter Beauford, Virgil Donati, Vinnie Colaiuta, jeebus my list will be toooooo long by the time I resolve this point.

When he was at a young super awesome zenith is his career that is full of stages of zenith...

Just watch for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyYzfkn4yc
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Cobham was a monster circa Tribute to Jack Johnson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Stratus, etc.

What is your estimation of the skill sets of Bill Bruford and the late Tony Williams?

 
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Bob Magaw said:
Cobbham was a monster circa Tribute to Jack Johnson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Stratus, etc.

What is your estimation of the skill sets of Bill Bruford and the late Tony Williams?
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Well, I studied with Tony Williams for a few months, and technique wise as far as the hands, his method was very simple in concept - using mostly wrists - but not as easy to execute. His reason why is that he was aware of every stroke he made, and he meant to play that note or figure, and not have little bounce strokes that he didn't mean to execute. Tony Williams was an extraordinary musician. At the age of 19 years old playing with the Miles Davis Quintet, almost every drummer wanted to play like him. He changed everything, even when he had one of the first "fusion" bands with both his Lifetime incarnations. He was and still is my hero. I was very fortunate and grateful to had studied with him. His influence to music and drums is even more prevalent to this day. People are now even more hip to his hand technique. I find YouTube vids everywhere with cats explaining it, and well known drummers using it. 

Bruford is another exceptional musician. His Earthworks incarnations from the first album to the latest has covered and broken so much ground, especially using electronics to now back to acoustic drums, and of course his solo work before that was also groundbreaking. HIs work with King Crimson I love. Especially the recordings they did in the 80's, where his "drumkit" was a mixture of electronics and unconventional drums and percussion. I always dug how he displaced notes and beats, as well as his approach to odd meters. When I hear Bruford, the word "impeccable" comes to mind. He plays like who he is, a very proper Englishman. It's like he never wastes one note. Even on "busier" albums like the first U.K. album which he is on. 

I might had posted this vid earlier in this thread so pardon me if I had, but if not, check out Bruford here on this recording. Very unique sound using roto toms for the rack toms that sort of precede the electronic sounds when the Simmons drum came out in the 1980's: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJrOg79kQU

 
This Tony Williams track really did it for me as a teenager. I smoked a joint after I woodshedded on my drums, put on the headphones feeling pretty good about myself, listened to this - which I had all the time after I bought the album this was on - and the combo of the joint and the adrenaline of playing the drums brought this track to a whole new life and way of hearing it. The concepts he uses here are so hip and groundbreaking - I think this was recorded in 1968 or 1969 - and his use of tension and release and phrasing are flat out furious. His use of hand to foot figures to me was groundbreaking back then. The sizzle and crack of the drums sounds like fire, his use of the toms and bass drums sound like bombs and explosions. The recording is crappy due to the engineer and the equipment having all sorts of noise and distortion, but it also makes the recording unique. You also hear the whole influence of the1960's in this. Guitarist John McGloughlan and organist Larry Young fill out the trio, and this is organ music cranked to Mars. This band was one of the first fusion bands  ever. Everyone came to see their shows back then. I may had posted this earlier as well, but in case I hadn't, I hope you enjoy: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTv4ui-a9ys

 
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This might be a repost: 

Audio of a Vinnie Colauita clinic from years back. For like the first seven minutes, it's a fusillade of virtuosity. He tosses concepts like Steph Curry dishes baskets. Drummers are like "how can we transcribe this??". This is a clinic in ghost strokes. His double pedal work is insane, using five and seven note patterns just a little past the 5 minute mark of the vid. This is why Vinnie is considered the greatest drummer alive today: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJJ5U2knHo

 
Wow: 

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/thomas-fire-simon-phillips/

We have some very sad news to report this evening. The Ventura County, Calif., house of veteran session jazz and rock drummer Simon Phillips was burned to the ground last night in the Thomas Fire that has swept through Southern California.

At the time that it happened, Phillips was onstage at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City with his band Protocol 4. It was the first night of the U.S. leg of their tour, and Phillips has canceled the entire tour as he deals with the fire. A GoFundMe campaign is in the process of bring established.

The Thomas Fire started last night at 6:30PM Pacific and quickly spread via the Santa Ana winds, burning an acre a second and is still considered to be out of control. As of press time it has covered 50,000 acres, roughly 78 square miles, and has destroyed 150 buildings, including an 82-bed mental health facility. According to the Los Angeles Times, 1,000 people are fighting the fire.

"I've never seen a fire burn down so many structures so fast in my (30-year) career," county fire engineer Richard Macklin told CNN.

A mandatory evacuation has forced 27,000 people to leave their homes and Gov. Jerry Brown has declared an emergency for the county.

“This fire is very dangerous and spreading rapidly, but we'll continue to attack it with all we've got,” he said. “It's critical residents stay ready and evacuate immediately if told to do so.”

A native of London, the 60-year-old Phillips has a varied and distinguished career, having played with such acts as the Who, Jeff Beck, Judas Priest and Joe Satriani. He served as the drummer of Toto from 1992, following the death of co-founder Jeff Porcaro, until 2014.

UPDATE: The GoFundMe page referenced above has been set up. In it, Phillips describes plight he and his fiancee, Billie Rainbird, now face. "At this juncture, I do not know what insurance will cover and I fear getting our lives back together will take much more than we can imagine," he wrote. "We are in tremendous shock, going from disbelief to devastation to denial. We are very grateful for all the support and love we are receiving from around the world. We are truly touched and moved. Thank you." They are hoping to raise $200,000, and you can contribute here.
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My heart will always answer this question with Stewart Copeland. My head will always answer this question with Omar Hakim.

Then of course there's Steve Gadd. Or Dave Garibaldi. Or Derrick McKenzie. Or Tony Thompson. Or Louie Bellson. Or...

There is no greatest, there are just a lot of greats. You can enjoy and learn from them all.

Lately I've just been listening to and trying to play Rick Marotta's studio Peg track. One of the greatest grooves of all time.

 
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