bapu
Heh Heh. Pedro tapped that.
What's weird, is that one time, when I was living with Tom and Dave (brothers) his incredible Ludwig setup (Tom's) modeled after the Palmer setup, was a really cool place to sit and fiddle. And one day Tom was working on a new song, something about she's in love but not with him, and I was tapping away, and a part of what I did in the fooling around, ended up in the song. I think the suggestion and idea, clarified the bridge for his song, which was a quieter part.
I was able to always do that when directing on the stage as well ... I was always very good at blending the moments and very clean at the transitions, by smoothing them, when they needed to, and blasting them (music, lights and sounds), when they did not need to. All in all, it ended up making things "full", instead of it having empty spaces, which are always deadly on the stage and in a rock band ... the one thing that almost no one knows how to work with. The only drummer I have ever heard that could was Jaki Liebezeit (The Can) in his transitions in the albums "Future Days" and "Soon Over Babbalooma". The other drummer that is excellent on quiet transitions is Steve Gadd. Check him out on Kate Bush's magnificent "50 Words for Snow".