Category Archives: SKF Blog

John Bonham: There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF Note: Excerpt from a 1988 interview with 21-year old Jason Bonham. Jason Bonham: There’s a great story. You must print this. It’s fantastic. They had this huge, huge rubber plant in the Abba Studios in Stockholm. And they set … Continue reading →

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Gary Chester: Calfskin Heads, Vintage Drums, Studio Sounds

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I found the full transcript from my interview with Gary Chester, published in the April 1983 Modern Drummer. The transcript is 64 typed pages, using one-and-a-half spaces between sentences. On a manual typewriter! It is about twice as … Continue reading →

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Art Blakey on Chick Webb and Big Sid Catlett

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Scott K Fish

Leslie Gourse: Blakey had learned to play the drums by listening to recordings of [Chick] Webb and Big Sid Catlett, which prepared him to play with several big swing bands in the 1940s. Eventually.., Blakey met those drummers and got … Continue reading →

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Jason Bonham: The Last Time I Remember My Father Showing Me Anything

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: In January 1988 I did a phone interview with 21-year old Jason Bonham. Parts of this interview were published as a profile in a magazine whose name I’ve forgotten. Jason was in England. I was living in Maryland.  … Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes on the Power of Music

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: In Arthur Conan Doyle’s story The Cardboard Box, it transpires that Sherlock Holmes owns and plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivarius himself. Sherlock Holmes: “Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of … Continue reading →

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