Don't be... I'm not a drummer, I know just about enough to get a good dynamic recording out of a drummer. Having said that, I agree almost entirely with Otto's assessment of the three drummers. I do feel that Matt gets way more flack than he deserves. I would actually prefer him over Adler (Frank as well, by the way). But then again, I was 11 years old when Adler was kicked out, so I've grown up with Sorum's drumming mostly.

That's much better! Maybe he was nervous in the live setting? Having said that, you can still hear what I was talking about in this video as well at one point (3:28-ish), when the songs goes into the coda, the fill he's playing is a bit inconsistent there on the seventh snare hit (it comes a fraction late). I know this might sound awfully nitpicky, and truth it really is not worthy of bringing up here in this video, but in the HOF videos he does this kind of thing many times over in each song (at least the two I've seen: PC and SCOM).

He still masters his snare hits though. That rimshot is bang on each time, which is the hallmark of a good rock drummer: you can only get a good fat rock sound when every 'regular' non-roll snare hit is a rimshot.

I just saw the HOF performance for the first time, and I gotta say I was unpleasantly surprised with Steven's performance. He's very inconsistent throughout any given song, which is very unfortunate. Props to him for being as good as he still is, given his medical problems, but it's nowhere near the level needed for a professional touring band in my opinion. I really hope they settle for Matt or Frank, and let Steven maybe do one or two special guest appearance on a song or two at most. Anything more would be... unfortunate.

I also don't buy the Coachella rumor, they could decide on a drummer on the day of the first show and there would still not be an issue, no reason for them to rush things if they haven't made up their minds (our brokered a deal) yet.