Good list, @onhwy61. You forgot about Levon Helm! ;-)
The video is all about Hard Rock drummers, a very small portion of the drumming community. Drummer’s opinions about drummers is one thing; the opinion of songwriters, singers, and players of other instruments something altogether different.
Eric Clapton can have any drummer he wishes. Whom does he employ? Steve Gadd, a far, Far, FAR better drummer than any mentioned in the video. Don’t believe me, or Eric? Ask Paul Simon or any other songwriter who has arranged his recording schedule around Gadd’s availability.
I became aware of Jim Keltner from his playing on the early Randy Newman albums, listening to his playing on the fantastic Good Old Boys album over and over and over again, all in an attempt to absorb his musical wisdom (for an example of that, listen to Jim’s employment of a bass drum triplet in Lucinda Williams’ song "West". Way cooler than Bonham’s amusical use of the triplet: "Look at me. See what I can do with one foot?"). The same with Jim Gordon and Hal Blaine, they and Keltner masters of the studio. And how about Jeff Porcaro, an astounding player?
By the way, Bonham’s intro in Zeppelin’s "Rock ’n’ Roll" is a direct cop of Earl Palmer’s intro in Little Richard’s "Keep A Knockin". I-den-ti-cal. Earl Palmer pretty much invented Rock ’n Roll drumming, though he was a Jazz musician at heart. In his later years he performed with his Jazz trio in the bar in Chadney’s restaurant (now closed), directly across the street from the NBC studio in Burbank where the Tonight Show is taped. I lived two blocks away, and visited---as did drummers from all over the world---to hear him live. Nobody sounds like Earl, nobody.
