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It's obviously greatest drummers in terms of popularity, not neccesarily skills or prowness. The list is pretty lame. There's a few jazz drummers on the list and I can understand leaving some off due to obscurity but to NOT include Dave Weckl is sinful. He's easily among top 5 in the world regardless of genre. A living legend as well as one of the greatest clinical teachers of drumming.
It's just a list, and offcourse it has everything to do with rock and popular, it's a list from Rolling Stone. Their readers are mostly not jazz listeners.
Every list like this is useless when you're looking for hierarchy, again, because it's simply too subjective (taste of the listener) and there are different things in drumming that one can find more of less important (technique, feel, etc. etc.).
Offcourse Dave Weckl beats the majority of names on this list, in most facets of drum playing. But he's not among top 5 in the world. The top 5 or 100 or 1000 of drummers are people you and I don't know probably, playing in small jazz clubs or a conservatoire/academy of music.
And in drumming it's always about genre. In this league there's no drummer who is 'among the best' in every genre, so there's no 'regardless of genre'.
Dave Weckl would have a (lack of power) problem in many metal bands. And offcourse, those metal drummers could never do the fantastic things Dave does.
It happens a lot that rock orientated people underestimate jazz/fusion/funk drummers. But it's also the other way around. People see jazz drummers do such fantastic things, that they can't imagine they also have limits. Same story in soul music. (I don't accuse anyone of that here, but that just happens a lot)
