What is it about drummers that make them, in many cases, even more interesting than their bands’ lead singers? In the musician gene pool, drummers are widely considered a species of their own, distinct from non-percussionists. Many drummers – at least the most memorable ones – have stories that make you wonder how they ever came out of it alive.
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Well, some didn’t. This list of disturbed drummers shows the dark side of percussionists’ lives – from painful pasts to wild lifestyles to tragic events that they just can’t seem to shake off.