Jon Theodore (Queens of the Stone Age, the Mars Volta)
Fuser of Afro-Cuban, Latin American, and experimental metal drumming, there isn’t much that Jon Theodore can’t do. After drumming in the Mars Volta (one of the wildest bands of all time IMO), Theodore bounced around projects until he ended up in Queens of the Stone Age. For anyone who has listened to the Mars Volta, you know that the drumming is central, noisy, and extremely intricate to the point that they're kind of hard to follow. Theodore an abstract artist who uses drumming as his medium.
Micky Waller (the Jeff Beck Group)
Described as the “missing link between blues and heavy metal,” Waller had an incredible ability to play powerfully and simply, so powerfully that his playing didn’t sound simple. Waller also recorded on some of Rod Stewart’s original solo albums, notoriously forgetting his cymbals on his way to the session to record “Maggie May,” he played the song with no cymbals and overdubbed them later, he played so hard that the overdubbed cymbals sounded like they were coming from another drummer.
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