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Roy Haynes ‘Out of the Afternoon’ Photo

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: A favorite photo by Chuck Stewart of Roy Haynes from Haynes’s Out of the Afternoon CD booklet. Great album with Roland Kirk, Tommy Flanagan, and Henry Grimes.

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Barry Keane’s Onstage Drumset for Gordon Lightfoot

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I’ve known Barry Keane more than half my life — since 1980 or 1981 when we met for his feature interview with Modern Drummer. Last April we caught up after Gordon Lightfoot’s concert in Orono, Maine. I wrote … Continue reading →

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Gary Chester – Teaching as a Way of Life

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is an excerpt from my Sept. 18, 1982 with Gary Chester which I transcribed, edited, and published as a Modern Drummer feature interview. Other than a few of my Mm-hm‘s — useless mouth sounds I’ve since learned … Continue reading →

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Artimus Pyle: Copying Other Drummers’ Licks is the Hardest

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: In this excerpt from Artimus Pyle’s June 23, 1982 interview for Modern Drummer, Artimus talks about how hard it was having to learn Bob Burns‘s Lynyrd Skynyrd drum parts note for note. But it was also helpful. The … Continue reading →

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Buddy Rich Taking Care to Be Even More Precise (1978)

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: A March 28, 1978 Down Beat news item capturing one reporter’s eyewitness (and earwitness) account of Buddy Rich and his band at NYC’s The Bottom Line. Buddy packed the place with “patrons…young and old, …mostly drummers. “And Rich … Continue reading →

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