Just looked at Rolling Stone’s list of 100 all-time greatest drummers and I couldn’t find Carl Palmer anywhere. WTF?! So let’s use this poll of peers to see where Carl places. Only six slots available and I’ve excluded obvious favourites (Neal Peart, Billy Cobham, Ginger Baker, John Bonham, etc.) to give our Carl a fighting chance.
There are too many brilliant drummers out there, so apologies to Stuart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Carmine Appice and your other virtuoso favourites who didn’t make this list of six.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-77933/
I saw a video of Danny Carey and loved it. But I'm decades out of time (maybe Danny Carey is old news). Who are the drummers (and their bands) who filled the gap up to now?
Carl Palmer, now that Emerson and Lake and John Wetton of Asia are dead, is bandless and would provide a different and heavier sound than Neil.
Steve Hackett would contribute sparse lead guitar flourishes, freeing Alex to focus completely on the rhythym guitar work he excels at most.
And Anne Wilson would provide her powerful vocals now that Heart has broken up (very sad).
Geddy and Hackett could write original material, and live they could cover songs by Rush, Genesis, and Heart.
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