Ah, God That’s Great
Anthrax skin beater Charlie Benante runs down his list of favorite drummers for an upcoming issue of Revolver magazine. To my surprise, the third person he lists is King’s X’s Jerry Gaskill:
He always kind of just makes my head spin a bit. He’ll throw in these kind of syncopated fills that just always get me, you know, it’s like “Ah, God that’s great,” you know. There’s a song on Gretchen Goes to Nebraska where he just lays this pattern down, it’s called “Burning Down,” he just does this pattern for the rest of the song and just the way he does it, he doesn’t push it, he doesn’t pull it—it’s just beautiful. It’s like a drum machine, but it’s not, because it’s human and it’s very Jerry Gaskill.
Who else made the grade? Neil Peart, Alex Van Halen, Lars Ulrich, Dave Lombardo, and Ringo Starr.
