Category Archives: Revisiting My Life in Music

Journey Through Sound with Charli Persip

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is post #2 of my life’s drumming milestones; revisiting drummers/recordings having a major impact on how I gauge drums, drummers, and drumming. Hearing these milestones appreciably broadened my drumming perspective. Drummer Charli Persip, in the early 1980s, … Continue reading →

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Exploring Drumming Milestones: A Journey Through Sound

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I think a lot about drummers and drumming. Often when driving, but most any time I’m in my own head: grocery shopping, savoring the day’s first cup of hot black coffee, gathering pinecones and sticks from the lawn, … Continue reading →

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Job Description-Modern Drummer Managing Editor (1983)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: The four pages below describe my duties as Modern Drummer‘s Managing Editor. My dim recollection is that I wrote this circa 1983. Had I written this job description in 1980, when I was first hired as MD Managing … Continue reading →

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Music I Will Never Hear Again

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: There isn’t enough time for me to listen again to all of the music I’ve collected in my life. At first, that was a sobering thought. All these boxes of music CDs? Father Time says I’m never going … Continue reading →

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Alternate Gigs Away From Bars

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: While playing/singing in Honest Tom Pomposello‘s trio, we band members grew tired of playing bars. The drunks, the smoke, the noise. My friend, drummer Chris Conrade, said, “The music business is a bunch of drunks saying, ‘Entertain me.’” … Continue reading →

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