I wish I could. ;-)

None of us invented drumming. We -ALL- steal licks and grooves from other drummers. The nice part is, no matter whose licks you're using they will always come out sounding like you... not the other guy. Steal away, it's one way we all help to keep those guys and the art of drumming alive. :D

John

I don't steal anything from anybody, rather, I borrow an idea. They borrowed it from someone else and so on and so on, no one "Owns" a lick or idea.

I think most artists in any field use and borrow to some extent. You can generally tell one's influences. And what I meant wasn't so much taking a specific part. But rather the way of playing, the movement, the style. Now I know it sounds like me, but I can tell the variation while playing. Because it's a way that typically I wouldn't do it. If that makes any sense.

I find it a lot in my playing depending on what style of music I have been listening to more. Whether it is jazz, classic rock, metal, folk I seem to find my nuances of style shifting toward whatever I am "in to" at the time. Of course I have favorite drummers in just about every genre so naturally I pick up on fills and licks similar to how they play them.

Of course, it could all be in my head too.... Mind Blowi

Sure have.

Saw Michael Walden and Rayford Griffin and at the next rehearsal I'm trying to emulate their style.

Two very big influences in my playing at one point.

I agree, no one alive "owns" a lick. Bun E. puts on a great workshop about this very subject... how certain licks or fills can be traced back from song to song. Of course, there are early "trap" drummers who are long gone who could probably take credit for inventing or originating a lot of techniques. I'd like to know who was the Dixieland or Ragtime trap drummer to first "ride" on a cymbal.

Mike