Greatest Rock Drummers

Stan Lynch was perfect for Petty, a real fine "song-player" drummer---very musical. By the way, after Lynch left Petty (for very understandable reasons), he took Don Henley's advice to him and pursued a career as a songwriter, having a couple of hits by Country artists.

If you're talking jazz drummers then I must give a shout out to Jon Deitemyer, drummer for Patricia Barber.

Of course Neil Peart. And Phil Collins, Steve Gadd, Hal Blaine, Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl, Mitch Mitchell, Jack DeJohnette, Max Roach, Art Blakey.

Not Ginger Baker (I have all  Cream's albums and Blind Faith). I just think he's sort of a plodding clod troglodite and plays the toms way too much, the ONE exception is his work on Deserted Cities of the Heart and I only wish he played more in that style. I mean you can actually hear the SNARE on that track. But I digress...

Yes: Jim Hodder; Jim Gordon, Jeff Porcaro, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Paul Humphrey, Rick Marotta, Jim Keltner, Simon Philips, even Bill Ward dammit.

Not yet mentioned, D.J. Bonebrake from X.

Michael Shrieve 1969 upstate NY. I was about 25 feet away from them when they did Soul Sacrifice

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_pDjX65vHo

What a moment of R&R genius. An irrefutable high point, so to speak.