Neal Peart. Arguably, the best drummer out there.
My humerous, esoteric question related only to the many deceased Spinal Tap drummers. Not real drummers.
Keith Moon
Peart is, without doubt, one of the most technical drummers of his generation, but even he says he worshiped Keith Moon—and yes, worshiped is the word he used.
There’s a documentary about Rush on Netflix (forget the name), and the other members of the band said they reason they added Peart was that not only was he technical, but he could “do the Keith Moon thing.”
Moon wasn’t real technical, but after a point it’s not about being technical.
BTW,
IMHO, the most underrated drummer from that period is Simon Kirke (Bad Company). I can’t count the number of people I’ve pointed the the 1st Bad Company album and said “learn to play everything here EXACTLY like Kirke did (especially the bass drum, as he has great interaction with the bass player).
He is, imho, the prototypical rock drummer. If you can learn to play like Simon Kirke, you will be better than 95% of the rock drummers out there.
On a side note, I remember an interview with one Skynard’s drummers (the one that was in the plane accident) where he said other people in the band had asked him if he could play more like Kirke.