SKF NOTE: This morning I started re-listening to an Andy Newmark interview drummer Max Weinberg and I did in NYC the early 1980s. My goal is to see what, if any part of that interview can be made available here.

Meanwhile, I came across this brilliant excerpt with John DeChristopher and Andy Newmark talking about Jim Gordon.

Why brilliant?

Well, Andy tells the story of being in the studio with Carly Simon’s road band to record her “No Secrets” album. The producer decides Jim Gordon is a better drummer for the song, “You’re So Vain.” Newmark’s reaction to that news is, to me, amazingly professional. He isn’t threatened, his feelings aren’t hurt.

Instead, Newmark introduces himself to Gordon, asks if Gordon is okay with Newmark watching him from the drum booth, and Gordon says okay.

And that experience, Newmark tells us, “opens the door” to his looking anew at his own drumming; at how, moving forward, he, Newmark, has to modify his NY/East Coast drumming style.

Thank you, to DeChristopher and Newmark for sharing this.