Other choices for drummers

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@mxim.com>]

Who are you fooling?  Tons o' highly imaginative, qualified, calibrated-for-their(OO)-style-of-the-time 
drummers out there.. Seen 'em, heard 'em, played with 'em.  No doubt. This concept is really getting the
beating-the-dead-horse treatment.  As far as I can tell, Entwishtle just kept
getting better, albeit in sort of a musical vacuum, and Daltrey was as enthusiastic as his flaggin vocal
chords would allow, and Townshend was interested in what he was interested, whatever that happened to be.

I have a slightly mellowed opinion of Kenny Jones' drumming, and Simon Phillips I always hated.  Sorry, 
please don't flame me.  You might burn my IP link.  I mean I don't hate the dude; I'm sure he's a fine fellow,but I just can't frickin' possibly believe what anyone can see in the dude's drumming.  Maybe it was the 
mix, but the drum rolls seemed kinda eighties techno whatever... It's just my impression, but I can't shake
it....   C'mon folks, do you think Moon got that snappy crispy drumming and the mix as it showed up in various
records by mistake?  Hell f**kfire no!  Premier drums have, in the style Moon used, thin shells, combined with
a tight and thin drum head, almost a tympani-like sound.  It was the perfect blend to somewhat mimic the
orchestral sound Townshend was after in some incarnations of his music... Even the very early R&B stuff had
hints of it... The only think lacking back then was a consistent mix, but that was cured after a few years..
Read the RS review of the Metropolitan Opera house show in late '70.  Kinda sums it all up.... I don't give
a rat's ass if it's 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s, that agile, snappy, crisp sound makes for great percussive accompaniment (sp?) to about any form of music.... 

That is all.

(creaking sound of podium steps. Rustling of curtain from the hot air rising)