Category Archives: Revisiting My Life in Music

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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How Does He Do That?

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I’ve been asked later this morning to take part in my friend Jason Carey‘s mini-documentary. My role is to talk on camera about how this blog, Life Beyond the Cymbals, came about. That is, I’m to talk about … Continue reading →

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Remembering Mentor Ed Mathews

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Scott K Fish

Around 1967, when I was in high school, age 16 or so, Ed Mathews and his family moved into their Huntington, NY home, directly across the street from our family home. My memory may be off, but I remember Mr. … Continue reading →

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Buddy Rich – Always There Until

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: One afternoon, in March 1987, my Oxford, MD apartment phone rang. Paul T. Riddle was calling from South Carolina. He and I remain friends after I interviewed him in 1980 for Modern Drummer magazine. Paul loves jazz drumming. … Continue reading →

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Remembering a Music Mentor

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Leo Feinstein knew a lot about jazz and classical music. For example, customers at Sam Goody’s Walt Whitman Shopping Center store wanting to know which conductor/orchestra recorded the best version of Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique would get a learned … Continue reading →

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