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Drummers you would love to jam with

as the title says, list the drummers (and reasons why if you want to)

Tomas Haake - purely to play with drummer who is so accomplished in polyrhythmic playing.

Bill Ward - amazing energy in his playing (a la war pigs)

Chris Adler - brings his own feel to the kit in the metal genre which can be quite hard to do in the style.

Morgan Agren - amazing dynamic control in both kaipa and Sol Niger Within.
 
Bill Bruford - because he thinks & structures parts "compositionally" even when improvising

Narada Michael Walden - because he is the god of thunder

Joey Baron - because he's always looking to provoke, inspire, or amuse his bandmates

Gerry Hemingway - because his creativity transcends "drumming" and enters the realm of "sonic painting"

Ronald Shannon Jackson - because he is the god of chaos; he has the unique ability to sound like 300 marching drum corps members playing 300 different tunes simultaneously and still know where the barlines go

Gino Robair - because he makes me a better player

Jesse Mayer - because he's either telepathic, or else he simply listened to the exact same music in the exact same proportions as I did while growing up

(I actually have jammed w/ those last two, and it was so much fun I'd just like to do it again!)