I dance
Art Blakey, Shannon Hoon, Carter Beauford, Abraham Lincoln, Bob Marley, Isabel Allende, Tom Waits and, less specifically, anyone who's making music with heart and happens to need a drummer!
Blind Melon, Sublime, Art Blakey,Dave Matthews Band, Bob Marley,Edwin McCain, Counting Crows,Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones,Pearl Jam, Jon Burr Quartet, John Coltrane, The Beatles,Freddie Hubbard, STP,Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Waits, Wynton Marsalis,Toots and the Maytals,Led Zeppelin, Dispatch, Old 97's, Hootie and the Blowfish, Booker T. and the M.G.'s, James Brown, Lucinda Williams, Rush, Better Than Ezra, Matchbox 20, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Max Roach, Chick Corea, Marshall Crenshaw, Pera Five One, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Nina Simone, Leon Russel, Bruce Hornsby and the Rangers, Tupac, The Roots, Cannonball Adderley, Thelonius Monk, A Tribe Called Quest, ABBA, Spin Doctors, Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Tom Waits, Tony Williams, Weather Report, The Who, Smashing Pumpkins, Sister Hazel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Of a Revolution (O.A.R.), Silverchair, The Verve, The Verve Pipe, Wilco, Fastball, Jane's Addiction, Alice in Chains, Granola Funk Express, John Hiatt, John Mayer, Frank Zappa, Dusty Springfield, Delbert McClinton, Chuck Berry, Charles Mingus, The Black Crowes, The Band, Baaba Seth, The Allman Brothers Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, 311, Rage Against the Machine, John Ellis, The Hackensaw Boys, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Cream
The Phantom Tollbooth,
Beautiful Swimmers,
The House of the Spirits
"The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars." (Flaubert 188)
Rick Allen- Def Leppard's drummer who lost an arm in an accident, continued drumming, and recovered with an even stronger self than before. That's real perseverence of the human spirit.
Also, anyone who goes against the grain in life; but those who do it for a passion or a purpose, not just for the sake of being different. (e.g. not voluntary high school dropouts, etc.)