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The Best Rock Drummer Of All Time…

November 25, 2008 – 9:15 pm
Posted in best rock drummer of all time, Bill Bruford, John French, Keith Moon, Michael Giles
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…is still Animal, from the Muppets.

The wise and powerful Rock Geeks have spoken.

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