Definitely someone who would turn the tables on most of us here!

Imagine being fired because YOU weren't perfect! Oh the horror!

But, bottom line, there isn't a single person on this forum with the chops to be on stage with him, anyway (maybe Russ in his day, I don't know). Must be embarrassing to have a drummer be better than US!

I simply hope we can stop this beating up on non-arranger playing musicians. Fact is, if we were any good, we'd be playing with the best, and wouldn't have a word bad to say about them, and would consider ourselves lucky to be playing with them. The fact that some of us only look to how bad the people they used to play with were is a bit fishy, IMO. Particularly in light of just how poor the playing in general here is (with certain notable exceptions), TBH, how poor your fellow band members were says a lot more about YOU than it does about them!

It has been my great honor to have played with some of the best drummers in the business (sessions with Gadd, Purdie, Tony Thompson and many more, back in my NY days), and too many great guitarists and bassists to mention, and at no time will I ever paint an entire instrument as bad or unreliable.

If that's all you could get to play with you, you have my condolences..!