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--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Jade <jadiebooshkie@y...> wrote:
> Ed...2 drummers that I idol are Danny Seraphine from
> Chicago and Neil Peart from Rush...and I LOVE  the
> late Jeff Porcaro...

Jade,

Jeff Porcaro--so smooth, so committed to playing within the music. I 
tend to like drummers more inside the music than outside, and 
Porcaro belongs in the pantheon of the greats for me.

Matt,

I know what you mean about Keith Moon. Townshend used to get annoyed 
at him because he seemed unfamiliar with the concept of the hi hat, 
but he was so distinctive. With all that flailing, it's hard to see 
how he could have hit the drums so often and so well. He hit'em with 
his arms going up, and he hit'em with his arms going down. Here's a 
good story: A band member friend of mine was dating Leonard 
Bernstein's daughter for a while, and he took them both to see the 
Who in the late 60s. Bernstein said that he liked the way the band 
used silence and apace. Moon had all these theatrical stops and 
starts in those days.

Ed