Otto I tend to agree, too much percussive stuff wears on the ears after a while. I've had the displeasure of jamming with some pretty bad percussionists. If I could make an analogy....if the song was a turkey dinner, it was like he dumped an entire pail of pepper on it. Then you had to eat it. Ugh. Lead percussion. With the most awful choices of tones. He had this one thing, it was like a metal guiro, played with an afro comb....it made the most god awful grating sound possible. It stressed me out. And the way he played it, it was basically fast and nonstop, forward and back strokes, and fills! My shuffles lost that little "lift" you get with every backbeat because his stuff was all one dynamic level. He totally negated all my hard work. It stepped on and dominated every aspect of the song, because he played it non stop. I really wanted to take that thing and step on it and bend it all to crap and tell him to never ever touch one again. I was really close to it once. He's such a nice guy though.
He used to ask me why no one gave him the time of day at the blues jams. I told him that first of all, blues doesn't have percussion in it, generally speaking. I told him that it detracts from the simplicity. I refrained from telling him what an awful musician he was. He had no sense of what was appropriate, when to lay out, what tones to use, and especially how much percussion a song should get, and how a song should be treated percussively.
It really makes me wonder just what the hell people are(n't) thinking....I mean, can't they hear how awful it sounds?
Off to my very first 2 drummer gig! No rehearsal with a new band! Trial by fire!. Not to worry. The Allman Brothers music is part of my DNA.