Whats on your turntable tonight?

You know @bdp24 , the drummer on the Weather Report album that @geof3 posted to begin this sub-thread is another that we could include on the list you began.    Acuña was both a tremendously prolific studio (Records and Movies) musician and toured as a member of WR for awhile.  I think he’s only on a couple or maybe three of those mid 70s WR albums (their best by far).  IMHO that band went way downhill after he left. Probably not just because he left....  
So many great drummers to admire.  What do you think, can we generalize differences between drummers who were/are primarily touring band members and those that were/are primarily session musicians?   Is it more than just athletics vs. artistry?   Or is it less about style and more about temperament? 

Gil Scott Heron - pieces of a man (new vinyl badly presses and crackling one channel) and then the new Thundercat album

@bdp I followed your posting to watch and be completely humbled by Lelands bass videos... the fluid ease....

i ran with some cats in high school , one of which played a Fender Jazz - we loved Heavy Weather in a Springsteen town.... we were viewed as highly suspicious- and deserved it !!!!

The athletic vs artistic could apply in relative scale and visual impact to many many instruments and especially conducting... it might be my inherent laziness, but I prefer fewer notes played soulfully  to blazing staccato runs that after a bit all sound the same ( to me anyway ) I think Peart was an exception because of scope and subjects of the songs and the diversity of his kit - themselves...my $.03

Little Feat
Hoy Hoy

Los Lobos
Kiko
MOFI