Greatest Rock Drummers

Yes indeed... and B.J. Wilson has a style of his own, he is just something else. Thank you for the music RIP

Jon Hiseman can play anything from jazz to rock with breathtaking power and drive second to none, just listen the Colosseum albums and specially COLOSSEUM LIVE, 1971. His driving force as a band leader is something else.

Phil Collins plays just anything with great sense for nuances and rhythm, he´s technically brilliant as well, just listen to his work on early GENESIS albums. He is just sublime.

Carl Palmer is technically brilliant and very fast, he´s also very powerful and creative and never sloppy or dull. He´s still going strong, actually he is even better than in the early 70´s, as seen on many YT videos and some of those are just incredible. For example see this: https://youtu.be/VGz1yLeyS2M

And yes, Mitch Mitchell with Hendrix is magic, especially on "Ladyland"

William Bruford is the best of modern jazz/fusion drummers

Furio Chirico of Arti + Mestieri is another jazz virtuoso with huge power

And yes, Steve Gadd is brilliant indeed.

Oh dear... I almost forgot Phil Ehart of Kansas, his timing is flawless. And Nick Mason´s forte is economical but very convincing style, see Live at Pompeii video. Simon Phillips is great as well.

Jon Hiseman RIP
You really are the greatest. My humblest thanks for your fantastic Music
COLOSSEUM LIVE - rock´s best live album, from the fantastic early 70´s

You got taste man.

^^ Steve Machine Gun Smith on JOURNEY CAPTURED 1981, one of the very best American double live albums ! Steve Smith is the law.

Carl Palmer is the only one who could wear Buddy´s boots. Never boring and perfectly fitting the music played, like ELP (rock´s best power trio btw) and his CPB playing ELP music with young brilliant musicians. These lads carry the torch to keep ELP´s and Prog music alive. Huge respect. Thanks to people like Carl Palmer Prog/Art will survive all the mediocre and total crap that´s been produced all over world. Prog will last forever : )
Besides, as seen on YT videos, today his better than in the ELP´s pinnacle, better than ever, and certainly the best of his age.
And certainly the funniest as seen on certain videos. True humor no BS showing off. Pure talent. A true musician and an artist.
Like was Jon Hiseman, 1944 - 2018. Huge respect RIP

Heavy rock:
Lee Kerslake w/ Gary Thain (the best of the all), Bill Ward w/ Geezer Butler, Ted McKenna w/ Chris Glen, Ian Paice w/ Roger Glover 

Prog:
Pierluigi Calderoni w/ Titiziano Ricci,
John Weathers/ Derek Schulman - rock´s most unsexist rhythm section
ever LOL


But the most underrated ever is:

Albert Bouchard of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT

Michael Shrieve + Santana rhythm section

+ audiozen knows that Corky Laing kicked West´s and Pappalardi´s ass but it had to be West with Bruce that could made him exhausted and he loses the race as heard on "Love Is Worth the Blues" (studio album 1972) he just bangs the cymbals furiously without timing it´s almost sheer mess.
Bruce´s most intense, inventive, fast and powerful playing was with these guys. He made them shine and vice versa. Period.

For rock:
Corky Laing - the cowbell master, like B.J. Wilson
Keith Moon
Graeme Edge is real life´s animal :_ )
https://youtu.be/N_J-hmyAS6c
Animal with Buddy Rich (of course)


Enjoy the music

Wrong. Palmer is way closer than Gadd whose basic nature is totally different from Rich´s, more relaxed and laid back. And for pure technical ability ? The best alive Calaiuta ? Wrong again. Not even close. Your perspective and experience seems surprisingly limited. You can´t even imagine that exist today equal or even better, with "pure technical ability" (what a boring expression) drummers than he. The best are beyond "technical ability", have always been. They also produce music, improvise that is. Like Palmer even today, but not so much w/ ELP as his drum solo was merely a part of the show and so usually went the same path. ELP was a show alongside symphonic rock music. In the 70´ they were spectacular, terrific live act, a trio that sounded like an orchestra.
And people loved them, that´s why those boring critics hated them. Oh, I remember it vividly, they hated ALL the best bands but we kids laughed at those booooring old farts and bought just THE records they dissed. Well, some idiots actually tried to slag acts like Uriah Heep not to mention Yes and ELP. The best of them all. LOL. Great times : )
Of course, things tend to change. In the 80´s to preplace Palmer with Powell made ELP sound like dull hard rock. And yes indeed, ELP did get boring. But there wasn´t master Palmer anymore, was there. Palmer is exactly 1/3 of that makes it symphonic (rock) music. In music some people are irreplaceable, quite literally.
I listened to that video clip above and found nothing to be excited about, same quite dull thing like near all "technical" drum solos are. Obviously haven´t bothered listen to people like Simon Phillips who can swing and scuffle and play everything and virtually with everybody, from heavy acid blues Jack Bruce to "complex" A(dult)OR/pseudo prog Toto (never cared for them but OK whilst washing the car), with high technical standard, still going strong.
Not to mention certain musicians from totally different, very old musical cultures.