Rolling Stone Readers Pick Best Drummers of All Time

Rolling Stone ^ | 2/10/11

[My Favorite Headache]

Last weekend we asked our readers to name the greatest drummers of all time. Everybody from Eric Carr to Animal from The Muppets got votes, but Led Zeppelin's John Bonham led the list by a significant margin.

1. John Bonham - Led Zeppelin 2. Keith Moon - The Who 3. Neil Peart - Rush 4. Dave Grohl - Nirvana/Foo Fighters 5. Ringo Starr - The Beatles 6. Buddy Rich 7. Stewart Copeland - The Police 8. ?uestlove - The Roots 9. Ginger Baker - Cream 10. Michael Shrieve - Santana/Sammy Hagar

[arrogantsob]

Don’t see any on that list better than Tony Williams.

[a fool in paradise]

He played both up to the end.

And back in the 1950s, Lionel Hampton appeared in one of the Alan Freed rock and roll films.

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