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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo
I think we were talking about great drummers. Steve was earlier compared to John Bonham and D.H Peligro. Well comparison to Bonham is not bad, but he certainly isnīt as talented as Peligro. To me itīs quite the same what music drummers are playing, you can hear if somebodyīs got talent & somebody is just normal basic, but good drummer.
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I think it was an Italian journalist who was describing his playing but I am pretty sure he wasn't comparing him to Jon Bonham as such, what he meant is that he has a great ability to do more traditional rock drumming combined with the primitiveness and impulsiveness more commonly associated with punk time-keeping. That shows he's a talented drummer, and you can hear it on a number of Sonic Youth songs. Dirty is a record which I think is a great example of that. For one reason or another it seems like a much maligned record by Sonic Youth purists but to me it's always sounded like their ambition to be accepted as a rock band showed they could do it in a way that Nirvana or Soundgarden couldn't. A big achievement, partly ruined for me by the continuous whinging of music nerds who need to chill out and spend more time with their own record collections.