Tag Archives: Clifton James

Fred Below: The Beatles Wouldn’t Have Been The Beatles

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This interview with Fred Below took place in 1982. I dated the typed transcript March 17, 1982 — so this interview happened on or near that date. My feature interview with Fred Below was published in Modern Drummer September … Continue reading →

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Willie Dixon: The Drummer Have a Lot to Do With Everything

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This interview with blues legend Willie Dixon is a backgrounder interview for a five-part feature series, The History of Rock Drumming, I wrote for Modern Drummer in the early 1980s. None of my backgrounder interviews were meant to … Continue reading →

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Clifton James: I Wanted My Own Style of Playing

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: If you have read any of my Modern Drummer History of Rock Drumming backgrounder interviews on this blog, you need only know that this interview with drummer Clifton James is another backgrounder interview. It, as with all the … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the Bo Diddley Beat

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is an interesting chronology of the Bo Diddley beat. Missing from this article is drummer Clifton James who recorded many of Bo Diddley’s great records, and deserves credit for popularizing that beat. Bo Diddley used a canny … Continue reading →

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