That is a great compiment
I’ll tell you who else is great-—obviously Carmine Appice, my hero whom I saw about three months ago with “Vanilla Fudge.” God he is still unbelievable. No one else at his level.
But Ringo Starr was exceptional at being able to hold a band back just slightly and at playing more different types of beats than any rock drummer. I later learned most of his style came form the fact he was LEFT HANDED playing on a right handed set! That’s why his rolls are so funky!
You might check out
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” by Mark Stein and me. It’s a history of rock music as told through the eyes of Mark Stein, who played with everyone from Whitesnake to Alice Cooper to Vanilla Fudge and even wrote jingles, JUST missing on the jingle of all time “It’s the Real Thing”-—his was #2 in the selection, “People like you like Coke!”