Sometimes the HARDest sonG is tHe eAsiEst bEaT, Huh?

I look at some of the most complex songs out there and think how could I ever play some of this stuff but you break it down and all of a sudden it starts to make sense and you learn the song in small increments (pending your level of playing of course). If you want to play something with double bass drum you need to know how to play your kicks first. OK, so let's take a few of my many fav drummers like Neil Peart (Rush), and Robb Reiner of Anvil. Both these guys like many of the drummers that I look up to have an amazing talent for being unique, great chops and have speed whenever they need it. These guys just smoke when it comes to playing and it is a real challenge just trying to keep up with what the hell they are actually doing on their kit.
So let's look at the opposite of those 2 types of drummers for a second and who are equally as good but in a very different way. Phil Rudd of ACDC and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones. These guys don't play buzz rolls and play drum fills wherever they can or see fit and that is not a slight against Neil or Robb. Their style of music in those bands fits how they play their fills.
What I am getting at here is when you watch a band like ACDC or The Rolling Stones, the rhythym section is incredibly solid, tight, they don't falter of laying down that back beat and just feeling the groove.
Now go out to a bar and check out some bands that cover this same material to see how they play those same songs. It amazes me to see these drummers adding in all types of drum fills and jazzing up a song when the rest of the band plays it the same as the original song. It is really hard to just sit there and play a song all the way through just holding down a back beat with no fills and just feeling the groove. At some point you itch to just throw in some fills here and there. Maybe it is because you get restless, bored, don't know what else to do, feel you need to contribute more to the song perhaps.
Have you ever just sat down with a click track, thrown on the headphones and laid down a back-beat and just listened to how you are playing it, how it sounds, feels, where is the groove. You will be amazed at what you hear and how it can be improved and in the end how good it will sound and it is just a beat, no fills. Remember it being "just a beat" can be as simple or as complex as you want but in the end if it is repetitive and no fills it is a beat. Try playing the beat for Rosanna by Toto over and over again with no fills. Here is the drum score to it. Once you click on the link choose Toto and then the song Rosanna to get the sheet music. Remember to feel and groove every beat that you play. Stay tuned or go phlat ........