Huge Bill Bruford fan, he is basically a god on the drums so I will start with
You guys seem to like the heavy shit, but Carter Beauford is awesome. Give it a shot:
Yooooooooo I was just going to post about Carter. Its never the popular answer but Carter is the greatest drummer ever. DMB greatest band ever.
I'm a big fan of DMB, but I like some other bands better. They're awesome though.
A Perfect Circle...right on bruv!well you must have good taste.
Im always open to being exposed to new music.
my top 5 with respect to general rock would be
dmb
a perfect circle
the strokes
incubus
and maybe phoenix.
what say you?
Shit I just came to post this
Bill Ward started to play drums as a child, listening to the big bands of the 1940s and his major influences were Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson.
I'm 57 years old now, so I guess that's 54 years of listening to pretty much American swing, particularly big band swing. I like jazz in all the ways that it is played. I think I am probably attracted to it because of the drummers that played in those big swing bands at the time. So those were my very early influences.