Rick Allen: The Thundergod

If any drummer was more in touch with the primordial center and less in tune with his musical surroundings, and it must be Rick Allen, Def Leopard's one-armed bandit. Notwithstanding that he played for what I have long held to be the very worst band in the entire world, a later-day distillation of the essential, horrifying principles of bloated arena butt rock for which the invention of punk rock had become a necessary reactionary cultural imperative, you cannot fault the fellow for lack of spirit. He kept playing.

As a very wise riot-grrl - yet another Seattle drummer - once told me (while we were pondering forming a Sesame Street cover band) all music, even terrible music, is kind of good.

And now the website, Rick Allen, The Thundergod.