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Great musicians who should have been famous except....

I'm throwing this out there as an example. My 16 yr old aspiring drummer son asked me if I had anything in the vinyl collection tonight... apparently the U Tube video tutorials finally got boring. He is really good and practices non stop but it was refreshing when he asked about ideas for sound. In a moment of 30 years past clarity I put on the B side of Van Halen 1984… Is Alex Van Halen the most under rated rock drummer of all time? And is there a better lead in to ANY rock vinyl side than that???
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Does anyone know anything about the drummer Gene Chrisman?  He played out of Memphis as American Sound Studio's session drummer.
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The "Hot For Teacher" intro has some controversy surrounding it.  It's AVH on electronic drums and possibly the exhaust sound of one of EVH's Italian sports car at the very beginning.  The drum part is lifted/inspired by a piece by Billy Cobham.

I have always admired how the band Van Halen did their writing credits.

If you want to hear a tremendous drum opening to an album side, then listen to Tony William's Lifetime "Emergency" side one.

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