Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro
(April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992)
was an American
drummer and songwriter.
He is best known for being
the co-founder
and drummer
of the rock band
but he is also one
of the most
recorded session musicians
in history,
working on hundreds
of albums and
thousands of
sessions.
While already an established
studio player in the 1970s,
he came to prominence
in the US
as the drummer on
the Steely Dan album
Katy Lied
(1975).
AllMusic has characterized
Porcaro as
"arguably the most highly regarded
studio drummer in
rock from the mid-'70s
to the early '90s",
stating that
"it is no exaggeration to say
that the sound of
mainstream pop/rock drumming
in the 1980s was,
to a large extent,
the sound of
Jeff Porcaro."
He was posthumously
inducted into the
Modern Drummer
Hall of Fame
in 1993.
