[Openurmind]

As a lifelong percussionist, my mentors to emulate and practice my skills to were, first Buddy Rich, second John Bonham, third Neil Peart.

Modern drummer Mag agrees with this same order...

https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/march-2014-50-greatest-drummers-time/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZm1_jtY1SQ

[dfwgator]

I noticed on the early 80s Rush albums, that Peart’s drumming became more like Stewart Copeland’s, he even admitted that The Police were a heavy influence on Rush then.

[CTyank]

Buddy Rich was my first biggest influence early on. I listened to Moon, Bonham and the rest of the rock drummers.

My summer job was helping to clean the schools in my hometown. Toward thd rnd of yhe summer, everything was cleaned up and we hit the cafeteria last. The staff were all away on vacation and we could sneak into the office and pipe the radio into the school pa.

I was listening to WPLR “underground radio” and they had just finished a couple Who tunes. EWF “Keep Your Head the Sky” came on and I stopped the buffer and sat in the middle of the empty cafeteria listening to that song. When those final high octave vocals finished, they kicked right into TOP ‘Soul Vaccination’. It was stunned, and became a Garibaldi fan immediately.