What can I say about Fritz Hinz? Fast! Dynamic! Powerfull! All that and more!
I barely got to know this guy before he left, but what he displayed was pure class.
When he sat behind the band, burning the skins and brass, adding vocals where needed, never missing a beat (that I ever noticed), his presence was felt everywhere.
(I hear the new guy is pretty hot, too... but there can be only one.)
My opinion may seem a bit biased -- Fritz Hinz taught me how to play Van Halen's 'Hot For Teacher,' which I could never seem to figure out on my own.