Category Archives: SKF Blog

Gary Chester: I Want to Live My Personal Life

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: The full Gary Chester Modern Drummer interview is available here. In my view, many Gary Chester words of wisdom, because of space considerations, were left out of the MD interview. Fortunately, I can share them here. Gary Chester: People … Continue reading →

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Mel Lewis on Frankie Dunlop

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Just now I was reading through my typed transcript of my 1977 interview with Mel Lewis. It is long! Forty single-spaced typewritten pages, which, of course, was heavily edited by about half for publication as my first or … Continue reading →

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Neil Peart on Max Roach’s M’BOOM

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is the last of my Trading Fours exchanges with Neil Peart. My friend and music writer par excellence, Chip Stern, had a very good, albeit short-lived, idea for a drummer’s magazine. I did some writing for Chip’s … Continue reading →

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Talking Drums with Buddy Rich in Dreamland

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Last night I dreamed I was sitting on a stool, in someone’s apartment, practicing with a pair of wire brushes on the bottom of a blue-and-while Apple clam shell iMac. At first, playing on the hard plastic, confined … Continue reading →

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Neil Peart on Tony Williams’s ‘Fred’

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: My friend and music writer par excellence, Chip Stern, had a very good, albeit short-lived, idea for a drummer’s magazine. I did some writing for Chip’s magazine, but I don’t know that any of it saw the light … Continue reading →

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