Best Rock Drummers

Somehow I missed this thread. There have been many great drummers in the rock genre. Some are superb technically, and less interesting artistically, like Carl Palmer. Others are less technically adept, but are just born with what it takes to be great. Clive Bunker, Jethro Tull's first drummer comes to mind.
For me, the best combination of incredible technical mastery combined with superb artistic creativity was embodied in the late great Mitch Mitchell. As an example, I would cite his performance on "Straight Ahead", originally released on "Cry of Love". All these years later, and I am still amazed.

Zappa always snagged the very best drummers. Dunbar was one, Bozzio was another, and don't forget Ralph Humphries.

Dweller,
Aynsley Dunbar would surely be in my top ten. He is very inventive, and technically beyond reproach. Listen to him on Frank Zappa's great "The Grand Wazoo" and be wowed.

I am a fan of Cream and Ginger Baker since the beginning, but that said, he does not belong in the same rare and exalted place as Mitch Mitchell, Tony Williams and several others in my own personal hierarchy. Inventive and different he is and was. Top of the heap technically or artistically, I don't agree.

Chayro,
I completely agree about Ramatam. I had the album because he was on it, but poor Mitch must have needed a paycheck pretty bad to join those scrubs.

Just thought of another worth mention, Terry Bozio.

czarivey,
I understand that many rock drummers are originally influenced by jazz, but you must also realize that the moment that they start playing rock, they are rock drummers who have jazz influences.