Tag Archives: Fred Gruber

SKF to Gruber – We Need Teachers Who Can Work With Kids

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is my letter, written the morning of July 13, 1983, to drummer/teacher Fred Gruber. This morning I am scanning a stack of papers. Interview transcripts, drum columns, old contracts, and letters. Letters to me from drummers. And … Continue reading →

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Bill Goodwin – Gruber’s Physical, Spiritual Knowledge of Drumming

Posted on September 16, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Drummer Bill Goodwin wrote an endorsement of drum teacher Freddy Gruber on April 1, 1983 and mailed it to Modern Drummer Publisher Ron Spagnardi. The “article” Goodwin refers to was my upcoming interview with Gruber. I was delighted … Continue reading →

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Tough Made Everybody Play

Posted on September 3, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I sent this story, these pages, to Modern Drummer. It was published in MD‘s January/February 1979 issue as a “From The Past” column profile. (Looking at these pages now I am appalled at the number of typos. I’m … Continue reading →

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My Drum Lesson with Fred Gruber (1982)

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Yesterday, while searching through a stack of my interview transcripts, I came upon this transcript from a long interview I did with Fred Gruber for Modern Drummer in 1982. We were sitting at the kitchen table in Buddy … Continue reading →

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