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Of the people on the list, it’s a toss-up between Mac and Dale.

But Janet Weiss drums circles around all these jabronis.

Appliancide wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 7:53 am Brian Chippendale also

Oh god yeah, dude's an animal.

The Trans Am drummer is a monster.

From this list? Britt Walford is the most interesting and musical, even though I like Trainer and McNeilly a lot, and, to some extent, Che, Stanier, and Grohl.

James Lo mops the floor w/all of the above, and perhaps Rey Washam, John McEntire, and Orestes Delatorre do, too. But their best work was back in the '80s. (Chavez and Ministry not scratching my itches.)

My contrarian '90s picks might be Chris Farmer from Breadwinner, Tatsuya Yoshida from Ruins, Danny Arnold Lommen from Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Juha Ahtiainen from Circle, or Bill Rieflin on that one Swans record.

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 12:14 pm The Trans Am drummer is a monster.

Yeah that's a good one but for me didn't flourish until Futureworld and after which was, '99?

penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 12:34 pm

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 12:14 pm The Trans Am drummer is a monster.

Yeah that's a good one but for me didn't flourish until Futureworld and after which was, '99?

I was thinking about that... but with four releases starting in 1995 onwards he gets a hall pass I guess

Arika Casebolt did some neat stuff on those CL records.

From the list, Todd Trainer. Mac McNeilly and the Lizard were great. Dale Crover and Damon Che were also great, but I never really liked the bands they were in (Bellini excluded). Helmet were ho-hum and I never got the hype for Stanier's glossy, uptight precision. Mike Greenlees with Tar were a better realized project and could scratch that band-as-precisely-pummeling-machinery itch more for me than Helmet ever did. Although I liked Slint, I don't think I ever thought about the drumming on its own terms. Might have to go back and do that sometime. The rest of the list I could not care less about- Lollapalooza filler.

I will second the above-mentioned Katherina Bornefeld, Charles Goucher, and Michael Dahlquist who were very big for me in the 90s and still remain evergreen. I'll also add in Andrew Loomis and Don Pyle for the same reason.

1. Stanier
2. Trainer
3. Che
Honorable mention - McNeilly