Now that I have a drum space again, I have really been considering a Drumeo subscription. Also been looking at picking up Ilan Rubin's book.
I’m fortunate to have seen pretty much all of my favorite living drummers: Travis Barker, Jason McGerr, Chris Tsagakis, Atom Willard, Bill Ward, Abe Cunningham, Tre Cool. Tops would probably go to Travis because I admire how much he is all business on stage. Best I’ve seen him was the One More Time tour because the revolving stage allowed seeing him from all angles, which I was geeking out about to my wife.
Probably seen “better” drummers depending on the criteria but as far as historically significant, gotta be Dave Grohl jumping on Taylor’s kit at Shaky Knees 2021. Surreal moment seeing him actually playing drums live.
Surprisingly, Jimmy Eat World was a show that I spent most of the time just drawn to watching Zach Lind.
JEW is my favorite band. Even without that distinction, Zach is such a machine live. Could watch him play four on the floor for 2 hours straight. Also, this is rad as hell:
Ilan Rubin is the guy whose playing has most struck me live. He was just locked in, in the most magnetic way.
I think I've seen "better"/more technical drummers but a drummer who absolutely floored me the first time I saw him was Dave Turncrantz from Russian Circles. My first time seeing them still holds up as one of the best shows I've ever seen though so there may be some bias there. But also, somewhat more recently, seeing Linda-Philomène Tsoungui play with The Mars Volta was WILD.
gotta shout out former drummer Cory La Quay from a skylit drive, in every live video he always crushed, very tight all while flipping his sticks so effortlessly (i never got to see him drum in person) super old but he does a nice wave/flip
Played out three days in a row for the first time in a long time and I'm sore, not from drumming, but from helping someone at the last venue we played move tables around