Back in the 1970s – the golden age of progressive rock – drummers were incorporating tons of additional sound sources into their setups. Neil Peart was using a glockenspiel, mark tree, wood blocks, and chimes, Carl Palmer was using gongs and timpanis, and Bill Bruford was using rototoms...
For that reason alone, Heritage belongs above it. Whether or not you like Heritage, whether or not you like the prog and the fusion side, you at least have to give the band credit for being more developed 20 years into their career. So, you have to put it higher," the drummer reason...
"[Those albums] all have a lot of stuff that I love. There's also some stuff that I'm not so crazy about as well. I could easily rank the middle period — that's easy. But these last four, in reviewing for this, I really had to spend most of my time with the last four beca...