The Most Influential Drummers of All Time

Jon Theodore (Queens of the Stone Age, the Mars Volta)

Fuser of Afro-Cuban, Latin American, and experimental metal drumming, there isn’t much that Jon Theodore can’t do. After drumming in the Mars Volta (one of the wildest bands of all time IMO), Theodore bounced around projects until he ended up in Queens of the Stone Age. For anyone who has listened to the Mars Volta, you know that the drumming is central, noisy, and extremely intricate to the point that they're kind of hard to follow. Theodore an abstract artist who uses drumming as his medium. 

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The More You Know

  • Metallica is the only band to perform on all seven continents.
  • Before they became (arguably) the biggest pop act of all time, The Beatles had a hard time convincing record labels to sign them. In 1962, they were rejected by Decca Records, whose boss said “guitar groups are on the way out.”
  • When Pixie’s drummer David Lovering wasn’t drumming, he performed as a professional magician.
  • Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez used to make YouTube videos together.
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