It's really the best '80s movie innuendo. Anyway, the meme amongst musicians for as long as I have heard talks on time and musical relationships is that the drummer is the time keeper. Well, I'm here to tell you that's a smoldering heap of crap. Sure, drummers have a unique role with time, relative to the fact that our instrument is about as staccato as it gets, therefore time is most pronounced on percussion. But good timing and feeling in music comes from the band as a total unit. If a band wants to have great feel and time, it's not enough for the drummer to be a great time keeper. EVERYONE must be a great time keeper.