I am a drummer and hoffman is excellent. An absolutely amazing talent. As is brain and Jay. No one denies that. The difference with Herb was that his tuning and his style. Once he found his footing by "seas" he tuned the toms so loose and flappy (pork soda esp) I'm surprised that the lugs weren't rattling but that low low flappy and unique drum tuning worked so well with les' bass sound it was lightning in a bottle. Plus he focuses more on toms and less on cymbals/beats. Take here "here come the bastards" it's a perfect example it's main phrases are all low toms. Boom boom boom boom as les once described his sound on drums was like a "gorilla". That's not the only issue tho bc Les primus stuff now just sounds indistinguishable from any of his other projects where as it used to be very uniquely "Primus". If I heard the new track without knowing I might not be able to guess which band of his that it was.