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[Matt McWilliams]

Our Week of the Widget continues with our Top Twenty Drummers of All-Time Widget, which promotes our Learn and Master Drums course.

My list? Here it is...

20 Mick Fleetwood -- Fleetwood Mac
19 Dave Grohl -- Nirvana
18 Lori Peters -- Skillet
17 Ringo Starr -- The Beatles
16 Wuv -- P.O.D.
15 Mitch Mitchell -- Jimi Hendrix Experience
14 John Densmore -- The Doors
13 Zoro -- Lenny Kravitz
12 Steve Smith -- Journey
11 Stewart Copeland -- The Police
10 Travis Barker -- Blink 182
9 Lars Ulrich -- Metallica
8 Alex Van Halen -- Van Halen
7 Aaron Gillespie -- Underoath and The Almost
6 Danny Carey -- Tool

Want the rest of the list...well, you will just have to get the widget and add it to your site

Here is a preview of the widget and the code is below.

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Want the widget but disagree with my picks? Make you own list, post it here, and I will personally make a widget for you!

[BrettSaver]

I don't know how I feel about a widget that puts Stewart Copeland not in the top 5, especially when it puts him under Lars Ulrich. :-D

[Matt McWilliams]

Originally Posted by BrettSaver

I don't know how I feel about a widget that puts Stewart Copeland not in the top 5, especially when it puts him under Lars Ulrich. :-D

It's always a tough call. How can someone REALLY decide who #5 or #10? My #1 was very clear though.

[BrettSaver]

while i'm having a little trouble with the widget, I have a bad feeling it starts with a niel and ends with a peart.

[Matt McWilliams]

Originally Posted by BrettSaver

while i'm having a little trouble with the widget, I have a bad feeling it starts with a niel and ends with a peart.

Hmmmm...perhaps it rhymes with Feel Hurt?

[writerguy]

Suggestions from a musical dinosaur jazz fan -- Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa.

[BrettSaver]

too bad... i was hoping it rhymed with theif spoon.

And hey, hard to go wrong with Buddy Rich!

[Bill]

Originally Posted by writerguy

Suggestions from a musical dinosaur jazz fan -- Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa.

+1

[Matt McWilliams]

Originally Posted by BrettSaver

too bad... i was hoping it rhymed with theif spoon.

And hey, hard to go wrong with Buddy Rich!

I think you meant Wreath Toon

For non-music geeks that is Keith Moon of the Police, who falls somewhere in the top five! Legend!

Keep in mind, this is my list so my own musical tastes very much play a part in the selections.

Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa were amazing. Is Buddy Rich still alive?

I read up on them while doing some research for this.

[Julian]

Keith Moon of the Police?

[Matt McWilliams]

Originally Posted by Julian

Keith Moon of the Police?

Oops I had the Police on my mind thinking of Steward Copeland

Keith Moon is of The Who of course.

[meadowmufn]

My first thought when reading the title of this thread was... Buddy Rich!

Unfortunately, he's not still alive. He died in 1987.

[davidh]

Very strange list with no Buddy Rich or John Bonham.

Neal Peart might be a tad bit of a reach on a "best of all time" list, but most drummers would rank him miles higher than some of those listed.

[Matt McWilliams]

Originally Posted by davidh

Very strange list with no Buddy Rich or John Bonham.

Oh John Bonham is certainly not missing...he is in the top five as well

It would be impossible to leave him out of anyone's top 20, regardless of musical preferences.

[BrettSaver]

I agree it's a bit skewed and I certainly wouldn't call it the same way, but in his defense, Matt did say it's HIS list, not THE list. For me, Mitch Mitchell would be higher, and Ringo would be gone, and I'd make a nice home for Dave Lombardo, Mike Bordin, and Dale Crover (Melvins, Altamont, Nirvana, etc.). But that's MY list.

Originally Posted by davidh

Very strange list with no Buddy Rich or John Bonham.

Neal Peart might be a tad bit of a reach on a "best of all time" list, but most drummers would rank him miles higher than some of those listed.

[pjvesperman]

Dave Grohl -- Nirvana
I'll have to disagree with you on this one. Why did he get a new drummer to play for Foo Fighters?

[Matt McWilliams]

Originally Posted by pjvesperman

Dave Grohl -- Nirvana
I'll have to disagree with you on this one. Why did he get a new drummer to play for Foo Fighters?

To play lead guitar and be lead vocals. Same as Aaron Gillespie, who is the drummer for Underoath and the lead guitarist and singer for The Almost.

IMHO, Grohl was a much better drummer than guitarist.

You should check out of the stuff he has done since starting The Foo Fighters. He still does a lot of studio drumming and has even done some stuff in concert. He has drummed with Queens of the Stone Age, Killing Joke, Nine Inch Nails, Neil Young, David Bowie, etc. His drumming skills are still in high demand (see the stuff he has done with Paul McCartney).

He even has some side projects where he is the drummer.

I think if he was still publicly drumming like he was with Nirvana, he would be even more popular as a drummer.