This maybe should be another topic but I'm a firm believer in Malkmus's theory of "better drummers."
Basically, that four-on-the-floor, technically precise, "in the pocket" drummers are bullshit and a lot of bands got worse the better the drummer learned how to play (R.E.M., Husker Du, etc.)
Then I read something in Rolling Stone or something about how now that Janet Weiss is in the band they're going to be great and how Malkmus has never played with a great drummer before and Janet Weiss is the "Keith Moon" of drummers right now. I guess they didn't see the irony.
Do the writers at Rolling Stone have sex with members of the opposite sex? Are they allowed?
Brian
P.S. Did the members of Sleater Kinney have sex with members of the opposite sex? Were they allowed?