Paul Crosby is best known as drummer with Memphis rockers Saliva. He has been drumming since 1984.



In 2002 Saliva did a world tour, got a Grammy nomination, and received platinum sales of their 2001 debut 'Every Six Seconds', and saw vocalist Josey Scott singing co-lead with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger on Hero, the massive hit from Spiderman.



Paul Crosby has a simple answer for what separates Saliva both from nu-metal and mainstream hard rock bands: "We base our music on hard-rocking verses but melodic, pretty choruses. "Bands like Creed have got the good choruses, but they don't have the rocking verses. Korn's got the rocking verses but not the cool choruses. We fit in with all that, but we're a little bit different. I think we're a step above."



Paul Crosby names Buddy Rich, Mike Portnoy and John Bonham as favorite drummers.