Category Archives: SKF Blog

Mel Lewis’s Right Hand Grip

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Remembering my phone conversation with Mel Lewis when he was explaining to me his cancer diagnosis. Mel said the cancer was a result of his playing while holding his right stick wrong all those years. The butt of … Continue reading →

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Fact Checking Drummer Interviews

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is a photo of the envelope I used to send Mel Lewis his first Modern Drummer interview transcript. The glued postage stamp is long gone. It reminds me of when I started freelancing writing about drummers, before … 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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Download Peart Original Manuscript-MD 10th Anniversary Interview

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Writers of Modern Drummer‘s 10th Anniversary Issue all agreed our interviews, in MD founder/publisher Ron Spagnardi’s words, “would be to assess the current state of the art by looking back at how it was arrived at, and then … Continue reading →

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Dave Tough Drumming Advice

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: My friend and former Modern Drummer Features Editor, Rick Mattingly, long ago mailed me these photocopies of drummer Dave Tough advice columns. Tough briefly wrote columns for Metronome magazine. Tough’s columns are fun and instructive reading. Here’s my … Continue reading →

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