tough question. how does one compare the options? I'd have to second Neil Peart. Kreutzmann and Hart are okay, but they aren't syncopated enough for me to consider them the best. I dig Carter Beauford from DMB. He's one of my inspirations in my own drumming, with the offbeats and abstract rhythms. Fishman is nuts with speed; I don't know how he gets his notes so small with a tempo so fast.