[Hard Rock Drummer]

I've never heard of any of those guys but that's not saying much as I don't venture out of my garage into the direct sunlight often... LOL (Hey... I live in Vegas, bro! It's friggin' HOT out there!) There are so many amazing drummers out there - you would have to be brain dead and totally narrow minded not to be influenced in one way or another by every drummer you hear from the immortal John Henry Bonham to the unknown dude on a Tidy Bowl commercial! It's a never ending learning process. That's why even Neil Peart recently took lessons and completely re-vamped his entire approach to drumming... Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?! I think the problem with that statement might start with having to be smarter than the dog in the first place...?? And who's to say what that dog may have learned from that whole experience... Maybe he just learned that the guy trying to "learn him a new trick" is a friggin' idiot! ...and he COULD do that - he just don't want to! At least not for this idiot!