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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 262724" data-attributes="member: 4720">As herald pointed out, the skill to evoke a positive response is pretty subjective  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  , but here's my opinion:Ginger Baker is my personal favorite.  Rock-jazz drummer.  His best known stuff was with Cream, but he did great stuff with Graham Bond and a bunch of other bands.Artimus Pyle's also really good.  Mainly known from Skynyrd and Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam.For some great jazz drums, you need to get a hold of Max Roach and Baby Dodds.  Max Roach especially, IMO.  That man was FAST, and he helped launch whole new genres of jazz (I think he's still alive, actually, but I've only heard his older work).  I've also been referred to Alton Red for Jazz drums, but I haven't heard much of him yet.I'm also in favor of Charlie Watts from the Stones and Alex Van Halen, for entirely different reasons.Also, I recently stumbled on a guy named Steve Gadd, who's apparently done a bunch of stuff with Clapton and Paul Simon.As for the guitarist question, I didn't know they had more than one guitarist, and, honestly, I don't think I'd notice if Clapton was playing with them.  I've developed a survival skill whereby I can instantly change the radio station when bands that irk me come on.  It saves me from aneurisms, as I take music pretty seriously.</blockquote>

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