Which is fine--I'm not a big fan of the drumming either (BTFW excepted; that's great). Just yesterday I was listening to MP-era DT and kept thinking "Man, I miss these memorable fills." But should he be doing exercises on simple 12/8 riffs he could play in his sleep, or should he be prepping complex stuff just in case the band has some use for it? There's a lot of talk here on DTF about the band being closed-off to weird stuff (particularly from JR) in favor of the "DT sound." Just as we're not going to get a ragtime album, it seems odd to expect that we're going to get an album of crazy grooveless polyrhythms just because one member does some work on them in his spare time. Maybe one or two crop up somewhere, and they might work or might not, but MM's most extreme playing isn't suddenly going to be this dominating force in the DT sound.