Greatest Rock Drummers

Sticking with the OP topic of ROCK drummers, as there are a lot of jazz drummers being mentioned. Should be another thread IMO.

Year in year out Neil Peart has been the consistent performer, always trying to improve his technique and creating new sounds. If the R40 Tour was the last time we see him perform live then for sure he went out at the utmost top of his game. For the past 10 years he was getting better and better. Clearly he is thee rock drummer of choice.

Gavin Harrison is probably my #2 rock drummer. Others for me
Mike Portnoy, Marco Minnemann, Jaki Liebezeit, Barriemore Barlow, Steve Smith, Ian Mosley, Bill Bruford.....

Stan Lynch was perfect for Petty, a real fine "song-player" drummer---very musical. By the way, after Lynch left Petty (for very understandable reasons), he took Don Henley's advice to him and pursued a career as a songwriter, having a couple of hits by Country artists.

If you're talking jazz drummers then I must give a shout out to Jon Deitemyer, drummer for Patricia Barber.

Of course Neil Peart. And Phil Collins, Steve Gadd, Hal Blaine, Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl, Mitch Mitchell, Jack DeJohnette, Max Roach, Art Blakey.

Not Ginger Baker (I have all  Cream's albums and Blind Faith). I just think he's sort of a plodding clod troglodite and plays the toms way too much, the ONE exception is his work on Deserted Cities of the Heart and I only wish he played more in that style. I mean you can actually hear the SNARE on that track. But I digress...

Yes: Jim Hodder; Jim Gordon, Jeff Porcaro, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Paul Humphrey, Rick Marotta, Jim Keltner, Simon Philips, even Bill Ward dammit.

Not yet mentioned, D.J. Bonebrake from X.