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5. John Bonham - For my money, the greatest rock n' roll drummer ever. Not for technique, not for speed, not for coordination, but just for sheer balls out power. No one put quite as much behind every swing as Bonham.
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You my friend are forgetting about Ingo Schwichtenberg.
For that matter, i'd like to see Schwichtenberg back from the dead. Though i wasn't musically conscious in 1995, the year of his suicide, it still breaks me up inside, as the first (semi) celebrity suicide/death that hit close to home. His technique was incredibly simple, yet still amazing. He defined what it meant to be a fast drummer that you could still appreciate.
My grandfather. He was afflicted with MS for much of his elderly years, and was nearing the end in my child hood. He hit the peak of his illness when i was around 12, and died when i was 15. Everyone always tells me that i would've loved to talk with him, and get to know him being the person i've grown to be, but that couldn't happen. I'd love to bring him back, but nix the MS.
I honstly don't have any others at the moment. I'll post three more if i think of them later.
Jam it back in, in the dark.