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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