I am a drummer.

I am comparable to George Best, Paul Gascoigne and Tony Adams.

And I look like Peter Beardsley.

Kid Millions
Loel Campbell

he's fat but he's an athlete

easley

I dunno if he would make the football team like but he is an amazing versitile drummer that can bang um like a pure rock god or do little jazz stuff and disjointed maddness.

Damon Bellorado (Converge), Zach Hill (Hella/etc.), Damon Che (Don Cab). For starters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xT7GRhTJkc

It's moronic.

Heart rate does not = fitness.

They go on about drummers doing shows 90 times a year for 90 minutes but neglect to mention that premiership football players lift weights and run Monday to Friday in training. It's a very silly article.

Also John Henier = John Stanier and no, I doubt he is more athletic than even the most average premiership football player.

Predictable answer. I doubt he'd be as fit as a footballer though, not least because he's dead.

Dave Lombardo back in the day.

the dude from The Locust was a few years back/is now.

Pounded every single piece of his drum kit which was quite incredible given that the band play shoegaze-lite. Superhuman definitely.

dave lombardo
sean reinert
tony royston jr

Even before we get into the no doubt misunderstood science behind that article, if this was true, how come so many amazing drummers who play 90-minute shows of utter percussional glory like most of us brush our teeth in the mornings are also lardarses?

Hell, you can't even join a black metal band as a drummer unless you weigh more than the rest of the band put together - and they're always pretty good drummers.

What gives?

He's a total machine.

fit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqC73hT5nWQ&feature=related THE STAMINA

Neil Peart
Matt Helders
Joey Jordison
Danny Carey
John Dalmayan

drummer, beast!

Damon Che (don cab)

John Stainer (helmet)

Chris Penn (ex dillinger)

Sebastion Thomas (trans am / dead kids)

Des Kensel (high on fire)

Animal - Muppets

Will people ever get over John Stanier? Okay, he pounds his drums quite hard, sweats a lot in his silly shirts and makes pained faces but there are a lot of drummers around who are much more "athletically" AND musically impressive. Drummers who don't have stupid gimmicky broken crash stands. Jimmy Chamberlin would snap him like a twig. Aside from that:

Brann Dailor
Thomas Haake
Damon Che
Jon Theodore
Gil Sharone

from periphery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZ8W5oEElY&feature=related

ex-mars volta... surprised no-one has mentioned him yet

The dude from Comets on Fire... the guy does not know how to stop.

http://www.viva-radio.com/77Boadrum/video.php

of the Walkmen. Fackin amazing drummer

some of the drumming on You Fail Me is unreal. drum intro to Eagles Become Vultures = jawdrop.

Neil Peart (Rush), George Hurley (Minutemen) and Murph (Dinosaur Jr) are amazing too, they haven't been mentioned enough in here.

look at that chap from the National, he has arms like cotton buds

anyone who saw this band (before he left) will know why I nominate him

but the drummer in my band is incredible. He's approaching 50 now, but you really wouldn't be able to tell the way he plays. He hits the drums so hard, and he's so fast. When you watch him play it's like he's murdering someone, he goes into some sort of psychotic trance. I would actually rate him as one of the best drummers i've ever seen let alone played with. The other's i rate are the HEALTH guy and the one from Deerhoof, oh and the guy from Battles.