publication date: Friday, March 29, 2013 (part of Spring 2013)

category: Music

clue: If you played drums badly on as many hit songs since the seventies as this rocker, you could write a book about depression too.

explanation: Kramer played in Aerosmith. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Mike Rothstein, and Steve Dunn

Bang the Drum Badly: They can't all be Neil Peart or Dave Grohl. For years, rock fans have made fun of bad drummers sticking out in good bands, and these five names have all come up in discussions of rock's worst big-time drummers. Try to keep pace with them.

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