Category Archives: Backgrounder Interviews

I have backgrounder interviews from the early 1980s for a five-part feature series I wrote for Modern Drummer magazine called, “The History of Rock Drumming.” These interviews were never published until now.

Jerry Allison: Keep Everything Relatively Simple

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Another backgrounder interview for my History of Rock Drumming series for Modern Drummer. This, too, was a phone interview — the only backgrounder transcript so far with a date on it: March 21, 1982. I describe the full … Continue reading →

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Willie Dixon: The Drummer Have a Lot to Do With Everything

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This interview with blues legend Willie Dixon is a backgrounder interview for a five-part feature series, The History of Rock Drumming, I wrote for Modern Drummer in the early 1980s. None of my backgrounder interviews were meant to … Continue reading →

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Clifton James: I Wanted My Own Style of Playing

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: If you have read any of my Modern Drummer History of Rock Drumming backgrounder interviews on this blog, you need only know that this interview with drummer Clifton James is another backgrounder interview. It, as with all the … Continue reading →

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Jack Clement: Letting Drummers Have the Tempo is B.S.

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This brief interview from the early 1980’s with legendary record producer and engineer, Jack Clement, is the verbatim transcript of a backgrounder interview for my Modern Drummer History of Rock Drumming series. It is published here for the … Continue reading →

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Tony Bongiovi: Motown Drummers Were Amazing

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: In my Life Beyond the Cymbals post interview with Motown songwriter Brian Holland, I tell the back story of how tough it was, in the early 1980’s, for me to find information — especially reliable information — for … Continue reading →

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