Classic Rock Magazine top 50 drummers...

i don't agree with one part of this, the top 2 were good choices, Bonham first and i think it was Moon second, but then Dave Grhol?!! number 3?! and who came fourth? Neil Peart! The really annoys the hell outa me!Peart is the best drummer alive i would dare to say and he wasn't even third.... grrr

Grohl is a good drummer but not in the same league as Bonham,Moon and Peart(who should have been at Number 1).Out of all the great drummers through the years,I don't even think he deserves a spot on a list of 50 Best Drummers Ever.

You have to remember the list was compiled (I believe ) by the drummer of Velvet Revolver...

Says a lot

In any case , I am a regular reader of Classic Rock (I also refer to to them as Classy Crock of ___) , but they are not to be trusted much for seriousness about rock.

They love to print dirt and create tensions between bands but that is hardly anything new to Britsh music press. Most of the writers are very knowledgeable (spent years in weekly Brutish tabloid weeklies such as MM & NME: Welch , Barton , Ling and others.....) but I believe they are encouraged in promoting certain bands only to fit their redaction line of of the mag (see the most written about bands below)

They have pet bands which appears regularly and those are the one doing more noise than playing. Their faves among the active ones: Aerosmith, Velvet revolver, Bon Jovi, 80's Hair Metal in general

Typical regular returns even for no real motive: Skid Row and Loud Mouth Seb Bach , Def Leppard , Motorhead, AC DC (latest on 25 years for Hells Bells two months after the new revelations on the death of Bon Scott - fascinating stuff as you see....), Motley Crue , Judas Priest , Ozzy

Among the dead bands : Zep some three times a year, an article, Guns And Roses . In this regard , they are a bit like Mojo with Stones and Beatles articles.

If I still read them (I buy roughly about  half of their issues) , it is because they do have the odd article about old groups , I never had a chance to read anything about. One of the most instructive article was about Ten Years After and the tensions in that group (the new TYA group is actually better than Alvin Lee solo of late. but in the 80's Alvin live was always a treat) . Generally fairly well written articles with sometimes challenging vocabulary , humour and literate intrigues.

They sometimes touch over to prog , they did a special on it about a year ago, but skimmed the surface and only talked about Britsh groups old and new. They do not hate prog , but some writers cannot help to shoot an arrow at the style.

As I once wrote to them, their moto should be Sex , Drugs , Sex, Drugs and a bit of Rock'N roll. A bit of  T & A (tits ans ass) and drunken annecdotes always make fun reading , but too often , the music is absent of barely present in their feature articles.